Cleaning out the drawer of the blog mind....a concept I shamelessly steal from time to time from Bob Ryan of the Boston Globe...


Let's start overseas, in merry olde England. Some big party is going on regarding Her Majesty. Of course the pomp and circumstance is interesting, but as Americans, we fought a war so we didn't have to give a fuck.

70 years is a long time. Think about it, she became queen at age 25, back in 1952. My mother was a mere ten years old at the time. For nearly everyone, there has been no other British Monarch.

But....she's been notably absent from many of the festivities. I've got to go back to our own Massachusetts "royalty". In July of 2009, Senator Kennedy refused a visit from then President Obama, and was too ill to attend his own sister's funeral. Three weeks later, he was dead himself. Methinks this doesn't bode well.

But moving on, let's stay British.



Of course, the intro to the charming Mary Poppins. Here Mr. Banks is smug and in control, little knowing what is about to happen to his tiny little world. This was me three years ago, when I returned from Florida on February 11, 2020. Since then, it's been nothing but disappointment and heartbreak.

"The life I lead" now is very similar to the way we lived through the Great Recession. Fortunately, the lessons we learned are still valid and we're surviving, but it took nearly eight years to recover from that fiasco. I'm hoping it won't take that long to dig out this time.

There has been a little joy in the TriSec compound recently - the new Disney series Obi-Wan is brooding, cerebral, and a bit "emo". I've found it worthy of pondering and debating with the other force-sensitive in my home. I regret that I made the mistake of skimming a couple of news stories about the "fan-boy" backlash.

In my mind, any Star Wars is better than no Star Wars. While it may not be true of the genre itself, all of the websites are dominated by white, racist, males. It's horrible out there, so I don't play.