Another frigging blog?

No! Not another idiot regaling you with his opinion on “the craft of writing,” bragging about his vacation, or espousing political beliefs.* Vomit.

As Bill Clinton said, I feel your vomit. Welcome, traveler of the dangerous Internet lands to a blog that is less frigging and more fun to read. I don’t want to waste your time while you’re here. That is to say, I hope to waste your time in a positive way.

For instance, there will be reviews of movies and books. Such as, Moby Dick – too long! I read it in high school but could not finish it again. The cetology chapters are boring (and wrong). Screw it, I lost patience there and skipped ahead to (Spoiler!) where the white whale wins. Good, of course the whale will fight if they’re trying to kill it. It’s not a demon, Ahab, it’s an innocent whale. You’re an asshole.

[Truth be told, I retained almost nothing from high school. And this time around, I got sick of all the Old Testament God crap. Maybe there’s something about humans being punished for their arrogance against nature here. And that Moby Dick is a messenger of God. That’s cool, but if you’re reading it for high school or college, I’d suggest skipping all the cetology crap. Your teacher isn’t going to test you on incorrect taxonomy anyway. And there are pages and pages on the Leviathan and whaling ships. Skim those. Although as I write this, I have to admit maybe I’d have read more if my younger son weren’t about six months old at the time.]

Time is precious! Don’t waste it on blamed fools going on and on about nonsense, and especially beware of bracketed text!

There will be poetry too. Maybe music. I’m sorry, but at least poetry is short.

And I’m not going to do all that fawning over a product to earn money, otherwise known as “monetizing.” Already I’m annoyed at “blog at wordpress.com” at the bottom of the page. But I had to start somewhere, and at least I paid for a subscription so there are no other ads on the page.

There is a crazy idea that keeps circulating in my head that I can earn a living the Peace Pilgrim (https://www.peacepilgrim.org) way: “Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return. The way of peace is the way of love.” Dream on, hippie! See picture below.

Are you ready for the ride? Some of this blog will suck, and some will be good.

Lastly, get off the computer or phone and go outside. Metaphorically, if you’re already outside. As my Mom used to say, “It’s too nice a day to be inside.”

However, if you want to look around a little first, select one of the following topics (also available in the menu at the top):

Poetry, Fiction, Interviews, Life in California, COVID-19, Mental Health (or lack thereof), Written by Cliff Bernzweig, Written by goonholio, Written by Amos Young, or All Posts (if you want to see it all on one long page full of words).

*This stance about staying away from the political worked until Covid-19 appeared on the scene.