pinchablog

Gun lobby ?

2009-04-20T08:01:00.000-07:00

Here it is, 2009 and we have a new president and a largely sympathetic congress. This whole new bunch of beurocrats are supposedly progressive and could take on the gun lobby but are afraid to do so citing past defeats of mega-proportions after doing battle with the N.R.A. and the like. Where are the folks that support getting assault rifles, automatic weapons and the like off the streets? Where the hell is the " People who don't want to get shot" Lobby ? There must be literally millions fo folks who would like to live thier lives without the fear of some insane person or criminal spraying them with bullets while they are just walking down the sidewalk. All of these folks saying that they need thier guns for hunting need not fear, they can keep hunting rifles , handguns, reloading equipment, whatever. None of these hunters need an AK-47, Uzi or any of these murder-specific firearms. Having such weapons in a neighborhood is pretty much saying to your neighbors : " I don't trust you, I don't want to trust you and I would just as soon gun your ass down before I give up my 20-shot clips". It's pretty obvious what happens when you get a totally unregulated supply of automatic firearms to a community.......you get Mexico, Richmond, Tons of places in the Moiddle East.....too many to name. A stance on keeping these assault weapons legal is undefensable and downright inhuman.

Seen on the road leaving St. Patrick's day parade

2009-03-27T21:03:00.000-07:00

The irony of this obviously hand-made tailgate sticker is that this truck was just leaving the scene of a huge drunken party that lined the street in the town of Montauk, Long Island during a St. Patrick's day parade. Everyone there was stumbling around with a large beer in hand, either looking for more beer or possibly a place to puke. This guy figured that he would beat the rush and get in his big-ass truck and hit the road. Needless to say, he didn't beat the rush and we were suck behind him in traffic for at least a half an hour reading his proclamation : " My 2 Son's are in Iraq so yours can party" . Bad grammar aside, the notion of his two sons in harms way to preserve the party lives of others dosen't speak well of this particular fathers grasp of what is really the reason, or reasons his sons are sadly stuck fighting in Iraq. Here's a few of the reasons we came up with while we were suck behind him. # 1, your sons are in Iraq so that you can keep filling the tank of your giant gas-guzzling v-8 behemoth.#2, your sons are in Iraq because you didn't save for their education, you spent the money on yourself and your stupid truck.#3, Your sons are in Iraq to fill the pockets of some of the people just down the road from Montauk. # 4, your sons are in Iraq to get the fuck away from you and your bad grammar. #5, Your sons are in Iraq because the weather in New York sucks. And finally # 6, your sons are in Iraq so that you can party, then drive home drunk in your big-ass truck .

Blame it on the poor....

2009-02-24T08:28:00.000-08:00

I get so tired of hearing right-wing pundits and even some friends say to the effect that the current economic downturn was caused by people at the bottom defaulting on home loans. This is absolutley rediculous to assert that now or in any time in civilized history that the poor have had control of any economic turbulence. The poor are hurt more by this current situation in the economy so why is it that right-wing pundits and well-to-do types assert that this is a product of the actions of carless lower classes living beyond their means ? Worse yet are the claims that the labor unions are to blame for the whole crisis in healthcare costs.....the heathcare business is just that, a business and the folks that control it are just as greedy as any other folks in any other CEO level position-it's just different that other buisnesses by and large do not effectively kill people who can't afford their products. The root cause of the economic downturn is greed at the highest levels of buisness and government , not the actions of the poor and certainly not the result of labor unions trying to protect thier members from getting the shaft by management, a tradition as old as civilzation itself. Labor unions may suffer from the same beurocratic corruption as government and buisness to some degree but the benefits of the unions far outweighs the problems that a few corrupt union officials might cause. The wages of working people has not kept up with the price of goods but the cut that the top of the food chain gets has increased dramatically, even in companies that are losing money and asking the government for aid in the form of taxpayer-funded bailouts. The greed at the top accounts for the billions lost in the two current wars, the billions lost on the stock market and the billions that we, the working class will have to pay for generations to come. Who got all of this money ? The poor ? -Get real, even the most reactionary facist zealot could go to any poor community across this great country and see that the money didn't go to those communites, the greed didn't help these folks at all.....pretty much the greed of a few folks at the top has ensured that the poor stay poor and that the working folks,the ones fortunate enough to have work at this time will not have much of a chance for advancement and more likely will have a good chance of any savings they may have scraped together get wiped out-wiped out to pay for the greed at the top, the corrupt politician , the bonus for the executives who shafted the workers, the stockholders and eventually, the taxpayers. Our only hope is that this new administraton will consider the outcome of the progression of this modern feudalism and turn it around so that we all do not wind up living in another dark age, especially after so many people have worked so long to get as far as we have to give a chance to the working class and the poor to be able to live a life worth living.

I get it.....sorta

2009-01-05T20:41:00.000-08:00

What is the American dream ? What is the nightmare? Maybe it depends where you live. The American dream is just that-a dream that we all have regarding how it will all turn out for us when we are grownups.......house with a picket fence, a perfect marrige, beautiful kids that are destined to change the world and realize our dreams just like we did......or not. What if it turned out that our dreams were fed to us like injections of heroine , making us think that all of our imagination efforts and aspirations were amounting to something, something for ourselves and our immediate community. In the last few years I have begun to think that maybe we all have been junkies on the dream-trip and missed what was really happening.....our efforts and aspirations were not effecting out lives as much as they were used to prop up something that resembles a hunger with no end, a bottomless pit of greed, an ambition that cannot be satisfied. It's not our ambition but we serve it daily just by living like ordinary folk, going shopping, going to work, filling the tank and emptying the garbage. We all feed the beast - I am doing it right now by using the electricity and internet to write this piece. I have been feeding this beast since I was born as were all of my ancestors...it's unavoidable. Right now the death of innocent people around the world is feeding the beast and we have a hand in that , even if we find it unthinkable. The wars, the killing of innocent civilians is the by-product of the appetite of this beast and it would like to have us believe that we can dream and be anything in this life.......anything ? Telling us what we can be is another form of telling us what we need......we need to go to war, we need a flat-sceen t.v. , we need a larger house , we need new everything all the time , we need to not question those that we entrust with our lives...........we need to not feel good about ourselves until we spend , work , pray or do something that we are told we need to do. This really flies in the face of reason- needs are obvious and we need not be told what they are...we need to eat, sleep , have shelter and some community. We need to express ourselves, not some catchphrase or rote nonsense fed to us. We lose sight of this and the result is that we are manipulated into serving the needs of someone else, someone we do not know, someone who cares not at all about us other than what use we can be to the enrichment of an already grotesquely bloated being. Maybe waking from the dream is what we need to do......perhaps this dream is one that was never supposed to come true , it was only there to fool us.

Warren Buffet just took my retirement...kind of.

2008-12-17T20:25:00.000-08:00

I guess the fact is that the shit may flow downstream but the money flows the opposite way. Case in point: When I was much younger my grandfather died and left my sister and I some stocks. Being in our twenties much of the money went to paying overdue bills and some really serious partying but we did make a few good choices and even saved some of it. I saved one stock in particular, baltimore gas & electric. I figured that if I sold it I would no doubt be broke so I kept it....and kept it...and kept it, through splits, mergers, recessions and whatever came along. I was confident that this company was a good bunch of folks that had been around since long before I was born and they wanted to continue on long after I'm dead. That formula was good until this year when a certain Lehman brothers went belly up. It turns out that my company had certain financial ties with Lehman and as goes Lehman, so goes the other unfortunates that had ties with them........my company was almost in bankruptcy after all these years. Along comes Warren Buffet......I assume he saw what I saw in the company, a good bunch of folks who want to continue doing what they do for the forseeable future. I'm sure that Mr. Buffet felt that if it weren't for Lehman bro's , this stock would be worth three times what it was currently selling for . This was an opportunity to purchase a company and save it from financial ruin and possibly make a major killing in the process. There was only one sticking point - the shareholders. People like me who wanted to continue owning the stock with the thought that it might some day recover from the current crisis and be worth what it was before Lehman took it down. Maybe folks like myself could also benefit from mr. buffet's investment.........this was not to be the case. With his purchase of the company mr. Buffet ( or his advisors ) decided to make the company private.....this means that all of the shareholders got a check for the current value of the stock, no option to keep the stock and the price was essentially 1/3 of the stock's value as of nine months ago. Want my retirement, mr, Buffet ? Well, now you have it....mine and everyone else that had much or all of their savings with the former Baltimore gas& electric. Yes, there are risks in the stock market and yeas, I did come out with some money instead of none but what angers me is that Lehman bro's downfall was a result of wreckless speculation and human failing, the likes we haven't seen in decades-not only that but the people who are at the root cause of this financial meltdown are probably untouchable by any court of law and have made damn sure that they didn't go broke when the shit went down. The same people who are causing this mess are the ones most likely to financially benefit from it...ironic indeed. And inbetween the worlds of the working stiffs and the corporate crooks there is mr. Buffet , who merely sees an opportunity and takes it. If the money I lost had been money I had personally physically worked for I would be much angrier....but it was money that my grandfather worked physically for and now twenty six years after his death it has been taken. I'm glad he wasn't alive to witness it.

Blinded by the lord

2008-12-09T20:56:00.000-08:00

Talking to a friend tonight I got a big whiff of the good word, or at least what some people call it. I don't have anything against whatever makes people feel better about themselves , be it religeon , Thier job, circle of friends or whatever. Everybody needs someone to lean on, right ? Maybe some of us are leaning a little harder than others......maybe a lot harder in some cases. A lot of us have things in our past that we would sooner wish to forget....painful stuff-failings of a most personal nature . It is a common thing for a lot of folks to not just try to forget these painful episodes but to smother them with a declaration of faith. Let the lord into ones life and all the bad stuff is forgiven...not just forgiven, maybe it wasn't really bad at all, just the path that led you to the lord. If my asked my firend :"How did you find the lord ?"he could reply:" Well , I did crack for about 15 years and praise be, he showed up and changed my life ! " I find it kind of odd, I guess-all those years of drugs, staying out all night buying the shit while the wife and kid are at home wondering where the rent money went, not to mention the food money.... then Shabang ! Here comes the lord letting you off the hook and giving you another chance. How the hell did that happen ? Was it the lord or did it finally register that the 'path' was going directly to a grave and a very dismal future for his family....maybe it's better to pretend that a lot of the past is non-existant and that the future is the only thing to look at from now on. The same patterns of anger, abuse and misunderstandings are still there....living on the edge and always being ready for a confrontation with anyone who might bring up the past. Praise the lord and pass the blinders. A painful past cannot be changed but if it is dismissed then it is likely to be repeated . One can pray all they want but the lord cannot save you from yourself.......you have to do that on your own-make the decision to deal with whatever darkness lies inside you . The way I see it is that the 'lord' isn't some guy with a beard up in heaven giving us all another chance , the lord is like a handbook on how to not fuck up. Go by the book and your less likely to kill someone, cheat on your wife , steal some stuff or get mixed up in a number of temptations that could cause your undoing. I think its completely weak for people to say that the positive changes they might have had in their life came about because of some devine intervention......rather than steps that they took themselves after realizing that nobody else would do it for them.

how much dumberer can we get ?

2008-10-04T08:52:00.000-07:00

Nice to know that whatever lows we have gone to in regards to our policy makers and leaders, there are always new lows that can be acheived by the rapidly advancing wave of stupidity-speak on the political arena. Vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is working the 'common man' angle to tap into Americas working class voting block, a justifiably very disenchanted group. The working and middle classes of the country will no doubt be paying for the excesses of government spending and corporate greed for many years to come. These are not stupid people-they are for the most part educated, skilled, hard working and honest.......utterly the opposite of how Palin is characterizing them with the moniker 'Joe Sixpack". This 'Joe Sixpack' blanket generalized dumbed-down catchphrase pretty much takes working and middle class america and dumps them onto a couch in a living room with no identifying feature other than a sixpack,assumably of some cheap beer from a convenience store . There is no recognition of skills, dedication , resilience or even some sort of identity....only the picture of some guy with some beer, probably looking at a television screen waiting for some sort of pat on the back message from a supposedly understanding political candidate , but in this case the candidate isn't showing any understanding of the plight of the american worker......she is painting a picture of a uniform , static featureless entity listlessly sitting on a couch with no apperant value other than being a consumer of cheap beer . If I follow Palin's logic here, Joe Sixpack will find an ally in the Republican candidates , a true friend that will not raise taxes and help revitalize the working class....the problem is that the Republican party has been pillaging everything the middle and working class have been working for......jobs, savings, education , retirement , medical care ,property....even thier children ( being sent off to war ). If we are to fall for this fairy tale we will indeed all be reduced to Joe Sixpacks, working at Walmart if we are lucky, unisured, eating chemical laden crap and staring at a T.V. screen, wondering what happened to our identity, not to mention dignity.

I remember him when........

2008-02-02T12:37:00.000-08:00

Ever read online biographies of noted deceased pop stars ? Ever read the recent ones? Dang, I'm glad I'm not famous.....here' why: Chances are that whoever is writing about you on the internet is not a writer, just an ardent fan. While it's nice to have fans-some sort of following as a result of affecting many people with whatever you did , the things that come with it while one is alive are bad enough.....lack of privacy, stalkers of all kinds, many things you say will be taken out of context by the press and/or fan club to make you sound like an idiot......general harrassment and the inability to have peace and quiet at any time. As if this weren't bad enough, some well meaning devotee will carry on the madness after your passing, so there really isn't the peace in death that people talk about. This madness I write about is the online tributes in the form of ersatz historical profiles of the recently departed whoever wrote that song that you now live your whole life by. I have looked online to find accurate and impartial accounts of my favorite deceased recording artists online only to find stuff written by utter morons.....sincere and devoted morons, but morons just the same. Sure, my first mistake was to look for real facts and/or literature online....that alone qualifies me as a moron, too. At least I haven't written two or three paragraphs of utter garbage to sum up the life of someone who might have had a fascinating life story. Online, these fan/biographers reduce their idol's lives to a few sentences of hearsay.....badly written and downright embarrasing. Yep, It's good to be anonymous after all.....

have you had your eyes checked lately ?

2007-11-02T09:01:00.000-07:00

What do you see when you look at someone.... do you see what they are wearing , their face,their body? Do you focus on all the stuff they have around them....thier car, their house, a watch,job,shoes....whatever ? And what does someone see when they look at you? Are they just scanning the surface of what you present....are they looking at what they might project from their own mind about who you are? Is anyone getting close to knowing the real person behind the stuff...the image.....the percieved persona. I hate to be a pessimist but I really don't think many people have a clue who they are looking at for months and when the months are up, it is likely they will not really be able to come to terms with the actual true identity of the person they are seeing. Perhaps this is why so many relationships die after 6-10 weeks or less. People see what they want to see more than the real thing. So much of what we see is advertising,projected images depicting something fictional while trying to sell you something that may have no real similarity to the advertised image. Increasingly, people have taken on this ploy from both sides....selling themselves and buying into a projected image. What about people with no projected image? Certain people have a "take me as I am,I don't care what anyone thinks" attitude. While this may be a refreshingly honest approach it is likely to isolate such a person from society at large as all of us have gotten so conditioned to advertising and the roles we take in this whole shell game of self image. Clothes make the man? No......clothes hide the man.....clothes make the image.

an open letter to my father

2007-09-05T21:13:00.000-07:00

Being a dad must be really difficult. I don't know from experience personally but I see a lot of stressed-out dads having trouble coping with the role , flinging hatred at their kids thinly veiled as 'dicipline". I know as well as the next person that kids need limits and dicipline, otherwise a lot,but not all of them will go out willy-nilly into the world and cause all sorts of misery for themselves and others. This said, kids do not need hate-they will only pass it on to the next generation and/or be confused as to thier self worth. A parent hating a kid usually yeilds a rebel or a coward. The rebel will be a problem as whatever the parent asks of the kid/rebel , he/she will most certainly do the opposite. The coward is even more dangerous as being beaten down results in a kid wanting revenge, ugly revenge if needed. A kid who grows up hated by the father never quite gets the concept of acceptance and will have a hard time getting past the idea of personal worthlessness. My dad died of a brain tumor in 1993. I never really felt like we had a friendship -all I could think about when I was a kid was the day I could leave him and his hate behind and begin to live my own life. I think the problem my father had was that as soon as he was a father, and later a single parent he must have felt that the life he was living was strictly for his children. I believe he really resented this and let My sister and I know on a daily basis. He said: " Don't get yourself into the trap of raising children." The result is the fact that niether I nor my sister have elected to have offspring, perhaps to say to dad: " Hey, you told us it was a trap." So growing up I really felt that almost everything I did was something that was being directed by my father-I was being steered,manipulated rather than taught or supported to find my own way and expression in life. Self worth and any individuality was to be ebaten out of me so I could grow up in such a way that my father could protect his reputation and image as being a successful parent. All I could think about was the day, the minute I could leave and say to dear old dad: : this is my life now...it's not all about you any more." I never got to say this to him as my father raised a coward. Part of me has never stopped being that coward , that person waiting to escape a confining and abusive environment but there is no escape, much as there was no escape for my father except in death. When I die I really hope we don't meet ! It would be anti-climatic to escape personal torment only to run dead on into the original tormentor.

The last ride

2007-08-28T07:35:00.000-07:00

Last night I had a dream, not unlike most dreams that I have had my whole life- they seem to have a theme of getting ready for some task or event and the preparation going on and on but things not coming together, things missing, all sorts of stuff getting in the way and I wind up missing the event. This morning I woke up from one of those dreams: The scene was a house not far from a crossroads out in the northern Mojave desert. For some reason or other my sister, wife and a number of people were emptying the house of all the posessions . At the same time I was getting ready to do a big bicycle ride out into the desert with a bunch of folks and was in the house looking for the stuff I needed to take along on the ride, namely my helmet, sunglasses,map and some water. I was scouring the house but just when I though I had found my glasss they would turn out to be the wrong ones-somebody elses. Meanwhile, the group of riders was waiting at the crossroads for the light to change....it was taking a long time, at least a half an hour so I figured I had a few minutes to look for my stuff. Later on, not finding anything except for my reglular prescription glasses I went out to the corner to see I had missed the light change and the group had left without me. I want back in the house and looked for the map as I figured that if I was to be alone in the desert I would not want to get lost. After another futile search I didn't find the map so I went out by myself to the corner to ride by myself, frustrated and now alone. The light was taking a long time to change again and I was wondering why I needed to wait when there wasn't a car in sight and hadn't been for a long time. At this point I woke up and tried to figure out what the dream was about. The way I see it the dream represents death : One is alone, none of the worldy posessions are available as they are not needed, except the glasses as they won't work for anyone else. Frustration and a feeling of not completing enough experiences are how a lot of lot people must go out of this life. Is anyone really ready to go when it is their time ? According to this dream it really does not matter.

death of a cyclist

2007-08-08T20:56:00.001-07:00

where are the real republicans?

2007-07-12T21:19:00.000-07:00

That's my question. Actually, true republicans aren't all that bad.....they want some really basic things that most of us progressives would like as well: #1 Republicans don't want wasteful spending by their government.#2,Republicans don't want to be over-taxed to fund #1.#3, Republicans want to hold on to what they have-thier homes, their savings,retirement, etc. #4, republicans want a high moral standard in their government.#5, Republicans by and large want to be left alone by thier government except when it comes to social security and medical . #6, republicans enjoy privacy.#7, Republicans want freedon of religeon. This brings me to the ultimate question : Why did Republicans elect the present bunch to the executive office? #1, The Bush bunch is unbelieveably wasteful on starting a war that seemingly has no goal or end. #2, even if it seems that we have low taxes now, the deficit that the Bush bunch will leave us has the potential of saddling several generations with higher taxes to pay for the excesses of this administration. #3, good luck holding onto anything. The Bush administration wants your savings, your retirement,your social security, your land and they are coming for your children. Don't think that they are really protecting you from extremisits while sending your progeny off to die. I don't call that protection, I call that reptiles eating your young. #4, High moral standard? This bunch of criminals? -Please, these creeps are setting the bar ever higher in the corruption and arrogance departments while pretty much crushing any sence of morality under thier boots. #5&6, Being lef alone isn't in the program for this government. They want to have their fingers in everything,ignoring your right to privacy with warrantless wiretaps and a comprehensive dismantling of the constitution. #7, The Bush regime wants freedom of one religeon and most likely it isn't yours.The moral of the story? Dear Republican friends....if you are going to vote for politicains for Gods sake vote for real Republicans and not fascists dressed up to look like Republicans.

oh say can you smell

2007-07-08T17:19:00.000-07:00

I don't want to sound like a killjoy but this fourth of July I didn't go outside and check out the fireworks. Maybe I'm a little odd, but my though is this: With so many real bombs going off all around the world ( some of them being dropped by us directly or indirectly ) I can't stomach watching all of the fake bombs going off around here. I know full well this is a celebration of American independance and I fully and whole-heartedly endorse American independance and our great country but I don't want it at the expence of people elsewhere. When I heard fireworks going off on the fourth all I could think of was innocent people being blown to shreds in far away places caught inbetween two warring factions. Most wars start with rhetoric about this or that but they mostly boil down to economics-the economics of greed and slaughter. Our leaders say that it is necessary for us to sacrifice in order to preserve our way of life......necessary for us, not them. When was a member of a presidents family ever put in harms way? When was a major CEO's family member sent to fight in the infantry? When did any member of congress ever let his or her son join the military for active service in time of war ? Never. No, I don't want to go out and look at the symbol of " Bring it on !" because I don't want to bring it on and the hypocrites who say " Bring it on" are sitting on couches in living rooms across this big country watching the war on T.V. , not serving in it or being blown apart in it, either.

living larger

2006-09-18T20:06:00.000-07:00

after a year's layoff my wife and I decided to go to Costco and do a little shopping. Costco is by far the biggest store of any kind in the city of Sata Cruz and the theme of bigness permeates every corner of the building. The first thin one notices is the size of the shopping carts....they are more than twice the size of even the largest supermarket type. For some the carts, even with their impressive capacity are insufficient. For those megashoppers there are rolling pallets with a load capacity of a half a ton. All of the products offered on the towering rows of shelves are sized for enormous families. Massive gallon jugs of hot sauce, mayonnaise,salad dressing,shampoo, window cleaner line the aisles. Ten lb. cans of Mexican rice , green beans , applesauce , etc. are pretty much the size available. Prices are low so there isn't a worry about wasting half or more of the contents of the goods....no wonder the rest of the world is starving-we have everything here ! The other thing one sees are people that match what they are purchasing, i.e., a huge cart full of microwave dinners and frozen desserts is pushed by a person who probably weighs 300 plus lbs. . So there it is....the huge store, the gigantic items necessitating the equally huge cart creating a race of super-sized people. It isn't just Mc Donalds that is fattening America. The Big-box store demands that people buy more than they need so that they will get used to overconsuming , thus becoming dependant on that whole industry. MY purchase was a few bottles of wine ( one of the only normal size items offered ) and five pair of pants that although they were marked with my size were relaxed fit, seeming to becon me to putting on a few more pounds-hey, why not? The pants have room for them.

on the verge of nothing

2006-09-10T10:42:00.000-07:00

Haven't I been here before? Maybe it's just that the place looks familiar......the same worn out pathetic dance floor-no different than any other restaurant-bar that tries to have live music with sporadic dancing. This particular bar is one I have never been to but it could have been anywhere-dark, old carpets and furniture, a t.v. in a corner playing a college football game with the sound turned off, a few people at the bar with a $20 bill sitting on the bar infornt of them ( drinks are cheap here so a $20 will do the trick) and a solitary bartender working franticlally even though it isn't a particularly busy night. Tonight I am playing in a band that was so abysimal in it's last performance that some patrons actually asked for thier money back as the left during the second song. This band has the ability to clear a room with surprising speed. The lead singer doesn't seem to connect with the audience, it's more like she is waging a personal battle with the human race at large. She vocally hurls herself at the audience with not a " let me entertain you, maybe brighten your day " approach but more like a " love me, listen to my beautiful voice,i'm a big star and you are seeing something very special-give me your all and undevided attention!) Sadly, the singer tends to get so absorbed in her performance that at the end of some songs her singing morphs into a primal screaming session. It is during these screamathons that I try to fade into the background and with I could dissappear. As I look out to the audience I can see the smiles and assume that a lot of people are finding this singer to be entertaining, although not in the way she would like-not like a big rock star but more like a sideshow attraction. All of my firends, musician and non-musician alike have told me in no uncertain terms that I was completely insane for staying in this band for any length of time, let alone the year and a half I have logged so far. The drummer, a likeable guy has told me that if I can hang in there with the band that soon the corporate gigs will start and the big money will happen, as if the band were on the verge of success. My picture of things isn't quite as optomistic. My opinion is based on performance quality and audience reactions, both of which spell doom for this band. The intense audio assault and pretentious bombastic nature of the music has no appeal for bar patrons and employees alike. I have determined that this band is poised on the verge of nothing and after the next performance I must ask them to find another guitarist as I would rather stay home than contribute to the promotion of really awful music in the world.

scarface

2006-07-15T20:29:00.000-07:00

What a time it was...the drinks were loaded and so were the broads. -Not really....it was a trail ride. Simon, A.K. and I went out for a jaunt. They rode easily while I caughed blood and basically gimped my way along. I figured that nobody was knowing the pain like me , that is until A.K. took a header directly in front of me courtesy of a large branch in the front wheel. You though he looked tough before..........just call him scarface.

2006-05-12T07:40:00.000-07:00

hammered

2006-05-04T19:25:00.001-07:00

Every day the news comes in about roadside bombs going off in Iraq. Every day we are hammered with automobile ads on t.v. and in the newspapers. I was at my bank today and there is an exhibit of sculpture and paintings entitled " The art of the automobile" . It seems to me that the exhibit is lacking in some of the most important artistic contributions of the automobile, most notably the bomb craters and dead bodies in the middle east. Lets not forget the magnificent tinting of the sky around every metropolitan area of the world. The four horsemen of the apocalypse wouldn't be on horses in today's version -they would be in Escalades. The grill, or rather, cow-catcher on the front of the Escalade says to the pedestrian: " Out of my way or ye will be a corpse". The art of the automobile will ensure that we will all wind up as corpses under it's wheels...all of us except the drivers, the ceo's and board of directors of the corporate war machine that will surely consume us all. It will consume us because we feed it willingly and faithfully, as if we are in a state of hypnosis brought on by t.v. ads showing us what freedom we would gain by the ownership of a new powerful conveyance. The joke is that it is the car that owns us.

special sober report

2006-04-18T08:31:00.000-07:00

O.k., now I'm really pissed off. I'm so pissed off that I have to write without the influence of alcohol-something I swore I wouldn't do on pinchablog. The wright-wing junk-email mill has forced me to do it. I have received an email from a realative stating that Oliver North was some sort of visionary about 9-11 and the modern-day terrorsists. This email was replete with lies and inaccuracies. This email is probably being sent to millions of people around the country. Some not-so-well informed people will be suckered into believing this shit.....the result will be more years of right-wing fscism in America. The ruling party pundits have gone too far this time. I hate these mutherfuckers and really want them all to be sweeping floors at their beloved Walmart a.s.a.p. There is as much mis-information and bigotry coming out of the right-wing as in late 1930's Germany. It's sickening.......it will be hard for me not to vomit in thier general direction next time I get the urge.

choking on someone else's vomit

2006-04-10T22:26:00.000-07:00

Now I really am feelin it. I have deep hatred for fast food conglomerates. I am not a kid anymore and they have no use to me, those cloggers of arteries,those chubbifying temples of trans fatty high fructose effluent. I'm not lovin' it. The impact on society is 100% negative, right down to the garbage strewn in the street in front of my house. Fuck them, I want to put my own trash out there, not clean up some fucking mc dognall's cups of unfinished-because -the -cup- is- too- damn big -nobody-needs-to-drink-that-much-soda-and the drink was shit anyway,besides, some old dick will pick it up anyway...that's me-mr. old dick and this old dick is going to piss all over mc donalds any chance I get. Who the fuck benefits from these mega-murderers ??? about 50-100 people who don't even need any more money.Slaves work at these places for virtually no money and less hope. What would happen if all of the fast food chains ceased to exist? Holy fuck, people would have to cook!...or at least make sandwitches, some sort of vaguely real food, not some d.n.a. of a factory raised animal re-arranged and processed to smell and look like something good to eat when it isn't remotely nourishing or even unharmful. Fast food is the crystal meth of the food chain and this land has more than it's share of addicts. The legacy of this is the rise of dietary suicide...intended or accidental-on the verge of becoming the leading cause of death. You bet I'm not lovin it........

for this I don't pay?

2006-03-20T21:04:00.000-08:00

Yer, buddy. Pinchablog....where the sun don't shine...where there is no sun. Where there is no life,just blog. I get to pinch one for you and you get to read it,wipe it, flush it-whatever. It's the effluent that is coursing it's way into the bay of the big ocean of shit that is the e-world. Bring what you want and just drop it and let it fester here. The steam is risin' off of this freshly pinched blog and the stink is noticeable through your monitor screen. All that makes us what we are is here to be digested....all that sickness inside can live and thrive on these pages. Even death won't stop the words....only a purging of the e-space can make this pile of crap disappear. What's this? I feel the first pinch-a-thought. Seems to me that a little bit of car exhaust is coming through the mail slot by my front door. It kind of makes me a little sick. How appropriate for this little bit of sickness that I am putting through the mailslot of humanity,at least that part of humanity that is logged on and bored enough to stop here. Let me vomit in your general direction,at least rhetorically. Pinchablog is all about what comes out. Cheers.