This Is Not The Rockettes

This inanimate alter ego of the fabled dancers from Radio City Music Hall is formally known as the Tubular Aluminum Rockettes.
But you can call them...
THE TUBETTES

Two Singers //Two Generations

In the nineteen fifties, Frankie Avalon made beach blanket movies with Annette Funicello. He was very good-looking and clean-cut. Frankie reeked unlimited innocence and boy-next-door charm. The kids loved him. Every mother would have been proud to have her daughter bring home a boy like him. The media of the nineteen fifties made Frankie Avalon a perfect fit for the decade. He was profitably successful, as were his producers.

Flash forward fifty years: in the 00’s, Snoop Dogg is a different type of performer. His forte is gangster rap. Snoop’s persona exudes danger and menace but the current media made him a perfect fit for a decade that featured 9/11. The kids love him but if a daughter brought home a boy like Snoop Dogg, a mother might be tempted to commit suicide, unless–of course–the boy was willing to sign away half his wealth.




Danger is the reciprocal of innocence but both are eminently capable of selling product.

RECIPROCULTURE happens when two seemingly unrelated cultural entities
have an uncommon denominator.

Rockingham County, Virginia

Rockingham County
is distinguished
by two things:

churches & slaughterhouses


If I were a turkey,
that sign would
translate to

Auschwitz
0.1 mile

From Anger to Art

G. FatMat recently played in a Master Racquetball tournament, a/k/a, the Geezer Tournament. Some of the players were older than seventy but were talented enough that they could have worn blindfolds and still beaten most twenty-five year olds. I was not one of those players. The only facet of the game in which G. FatMat excelled was anger. I smashed my racket but salvaged the remains.

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Jean Paul Sartre's TROUBLED SLEEP

TROUBLED SLEEP is set in 1940,
after France was invaded
by Germany.

French soldiers were commanded
to "fire as they see fit."

Then their commanding officers
disappeared.

They had counted on this war to make men of them, to give them their rights as heads of families and as war veterans. It was to have been a solemn initiation, a means of freeing them from the shackles of the other, the Great War, the World War, which had stifled their youth with memories of splendor. This war of theirs was to have been greater and still more world-wide. By firing on the Heinies they were to have accomplished that ritual massacre of fathers which marks the entry of each new generation into life. But as things turned out, they fired on nobody, they indulged in massacre, the whole thing had gone wrong. They had remained minors and their fathers were still leading the procession, very much alive, hated, envied, adored, and feared. While the sons, twenty thousand warriors, remained bog down in a rancorous childhoood.

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In my youth, I had a Profounder-than-thou attitude until I attempted to read Sartre's
"Being and Nothingness." I might as well have been reading Sanskrit.

But I have to credit Mr. Sartre for the best definition ever of the word freedom.

Freedom is the ability to say the word NO.

...................... 37 Bullets (±x) ......................

Presently, x = 12


The more you write, the more you need a weedwhacker

When the creative process is ten percent excellent and ninety percent excrement, 

all you have to do is tip the scale

A run-on sentence is the literary equivalent of a drum roll

If they gave Mona Lisa a makeover, she could look 

a whole lot younger but what’s the point?

If you never look back, you won't fall on your past

We all need something to believe in even if it’s just disbelief

Anyone who only believes in the absolute truth is better off being an atheist

Everybody needs their moment in the sun but we can 

just as well sparkle under a silver moon

Castles made of sand are not subject to housing codes

A trauma a day keeps your sanity away

If you take too many shortcuts, you will never survive the long haul

 Why do we need two hands to put on one glove?

Statistics reveal as much as they conceal

Just because a man wears a three-piece suit does not mean he has a four-star brain

Just because a book is "non-fiction" does not mean everything in it is true

Freedom of Speech is dangerous if you do not know when not to speak

To forget and to lie both reside in the same zip code

Every politician is honest; some of them are honest for as long as five minutes

If trust was measurable by cleavage, the divorce rate would plummet

An elephant never forgets because he has nothing to remember

Complete undivided attention died the day texting was born...

Paranoia is vanity through the  looking glass

If there were no injustice, you could never have a sense of justice

There would be no repetition if things were not done a first time

Carnal knowledge is often learned in the backseat of a car

There  is always an easier way than the hardest solution

Bad impulses out-wrestle good intentions

Never try to sell fire insurance to a fish

Caution: my middle name has legally been changed to "Copyright"

The way we mistreat Mother Nature, we might all become orphans

Honesty is not something that you should have to manufacture

When you have something important to say 

don’t let words get in the way

The devil can sell you aluminum siding 

when all you really wanted was a cup of coffee

Agnosticism is ignorance with a doctoral degree

Atheism is lacking in imagination but my alma mater 

has more  than a surplus of the latter

Organized religion was invented because people need

an organized sense of hypocrisy

For the Talented Tenth nothing is more revolting

than universal equality.

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Blogger's Notes

"Agnosticism is..." was inspired by
Zelda Fitzgerald's SAVE ME THE WALTZ.

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