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  I got into a fight with my first publisher, Peter Workman. He objected to ‘R. F. Laird’,  thought it sounded too F. Scott Fitzgerald for his taste. So I laid down the law. Not the first time. I told him I was the third R. F. Laird in my family, and I was honoring all of them, Senior, Junior, and the Third. Should I have signed my work Robert Fisher Laird, III? He conceded.  Croce died ar 30. Good God. If I’d have died at 30, there would be no Boomer Bible. All that would be left is The Reckless Twenties, finally released last week. What’s the other name here? Arthur Waldron. The real luminary I knew at Harvard. He was a graduating senior when I was a freshman. He has his own wiki page. Horse Puckey. (Took me three tries to get past Autocorrect on that one) Why life is like what life has become. I don’t know who the wiki picture is a picture of. It’s not Arthur Waldron. Who looked then, without a total head rebuild, like Lincoln without the beard. Arresting for sure but ...

Anything in here about gas prices? Got gas three weeks ago at $2.65.9 per gallon. Got gas today at $2.93.9 per gallon. The Biden Administration cares about average Americans? Can you find gas prices on today’s Newsmax headlines? No. Actually, their idea of news hopeful and helpful to conservatives is boasting how much better they are doing in traffic than other so-called conservative websites, none of which has been conservative for a long long time. The great news is, they’re a winner since inauguration (unlike the rest of us), along with the lame deadsoft Parler and WhoMe (WhyMe?) or whatever that usufruct of FB skirmishers calls itself. Fox News and National Review have plunged in popularity (24-46 percent). Do tell. Newsmax actually thinks National Review became anti-Trump after the election. (Huh?) They don’t mention Breitbart. Rivals, you know. But I can assure them Breitbart is now spelling and punctuating better than a 5th grader, or some of them anyway, and they’re  as o...

  Amazingly this actually got coverage in the mass media . Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) told New York Times podcast "The Ezra Klein Show" Tuesday he doesn't feel "particularly comfortable" with Twitter permanently banning former President Trump from the platform. Driving the news: In the interview, Sanders was asked about criticisms from some conservatives that liberals had become "too censorious." Sanders responded by saying Trump "is a racist, a sexist, a homophobe, a xenophobe, a pathological liar, an authoritarian, somebody who doesn't believe in the rule of law." [blah blah Trump blah… blah Trump blah] But, but, but: He added, "if you're asking me, do I feel particularly comfortable that the president, the then-president of the United States, could not express his views on Twitter? I don’t feel comfortable about it." Sanders noted that social media sites shouldn't allow "hate speech and conspiracy theories"...

  More lefty propaganda. Since when do the undead breathe?

A post from our friends at Quantum 19: BAM: Builders of the Ancient Mysteries An excellent chance to learn from others who were intent on leaving a record for those who would have to start over in the future.

Every English major (of my day, anyway) knows Nathanael West. Miss Lonelyhearts is probably the most famous 60-page novel ever written.  Day of the Locust,  his other remembered work, has been made into a movie most actors would like to have starred in or at least been in. I read his other, less famous books. ‘The Dream Life of Balso Snell.’ ‘The Dismantling of Lemuel Pitkin.’ ‘Cool Million.’ I identified with him somehow. Why? We weren’t very much alike. He hated his birth name, which was Nathan Weinstein. I loved my birth name. He desperately wanted to be some other person, maybe F. Scott Fitzgerald. I didn’t want to be Fitzgerald; I was already better by birth. I just wanted to be as good a writer as FSF was, which was a mountain I wanted to climb Nathan never could. So why would I bond with the poseur called “Nathanael West”? Three reasons. When I read his stuff I could see myself. He was floundering. He wanted to be different. New. I was floundering. Wanted to be differe...

   Still waiting for my first invitation to do a commencement address .

  Because despite some concerns  they basically agree with Biden on all the political, character, and competency issues.

I have a book underway. I can explain everything that’s happening right now and it’s very dark. It’s called Death of the Republic. A foreign publisher is interested and awaiting my manuscript after the hundred days are up. Personally, I think they’re just amused. Thing is, we could win this war if we weren’t all lazy selfish idiots. But we are. Been asking my wife is it worth hundreds of hours of publishing efforts. She thinks so. I’m not so sure. I tend to think people are no damn good.  In the old days I was the fastest gun . Now the gun has been consigned to the trunk . What do you think? Oh. That’s right. You don’t. Since I got squeeeeezed out of Facebook haven’t heard anything from any of you. Question answered. But think about this. My book is smarter than anything you’ve ever figured you were smart about f***ing anything.

  In case you doubted it, there are more titles offered in the same vein . In other news. Amazon.com has announced it will be withdrawing from sale all book titles that offend the LGBTQ community. 

 

Well, there’s this ... More than a hundred audio/video files. Always told you I was Multi-Media. Always was. I’m not funny. You are. It’s called the Johnny Dodge Channel. Find the Leopard. Follow the Leopard.    

  A Squad Fighting Evil Spirits? Sure.  Kicking Ass is Fun too. Some of us they can’t quite kill. Some of us aren’t quite mortal.

Photo 6 months old. I’m 67 years old. What’s your excuse ? Even when I was young, they used to kid me about being Dorian Gray. “How can you drink and think so much and still not be a physical wreck?” Here’s the thing. I do have a secret portrait I check on, which registers all my most venal and despicable sins. I look at it every damn day. How mortified do you think I am?   The painting’s only 101 years old. Hurts, y’know.

Really weird stuff going on at the Rasmussen polling site. Since inauguration he has had Biden at a dead-consistent 49 to 50 percent approval rating among “likely voters,” including 50 percent approval for the first full month of the Biden presidency. And yet... the issues and confidence polling is all way underwater for Democrats. 55 percent oppose DC statehood, 54 percent oppose transgender participation in women’s sports, his “Immigration Index”whatever that is, is suddenly falling quickly, suggesting that voters want Biden control of illegals increased, consumer confidence in the economy has been falling steadily since December, and less than 40 percent of voters believe the country is on the right track. More than half of voters disapprove of AOC, and only 70+ percent think Biden is setting the administration agenda, with the media in second place (!) and Congress in third. But Joe is doing a good enough job... right. Other Rasmussen Reports (RR) are just strange. More than 50 per...