“…and what rough beast, its hour come round at last, shuffles toward Bethlehem to be born?” — William Butler Yeats
Well, now we’ve seen it, and it’s plenty rough and beast-like, and it’s headed toward the battleground of Megidda Plains, so there’d be no mistake. I have a plan: Continue reading
That’s the idea! Remain calm at all times. Of course that means disregarding anything that happens to be happening at the time, but since that’s mostly bad, we lose nothing. Continue reading
Ah, the eternal question from the edge of the spiral arm—what are folks like us looking for today? Continue reading
I’m temporarily without my desktop computer, and everything is off-size for me tonight. Margins are wrong, type size is wrong, the whole thing is an inscrutable mess, so bear with me. Continue reading
“What happens here, stays here”. That’s what the sign reads on all the Las Vegas check-in/out counters at all the hotels, casinos, bars, cafes, art galleries, fast food joints, and houses of prostitution, of which there are many.
Mostly that sign saying “we won’t tell” is addressed to the many cheating husbands there for a convention, which they attend remotely from the local whorehouse. “What happens here, stays here” is the promise of Las Vegas and all its service people. Continue reading
Don’t just roll over and go into the fetal position when they come to get you. That having been said, don’t expect to live through this mess. Give the single-finger salute as you go down. Continue reading
🎺🎤 [JINGLE INTRO – UPBEAT MUSIC]
🎵 “From the makers of Gaslight Barbie and Insurrection Ken… it’s Donny 2 Doll!” 🎵 Continue reading
Back a few years ago, our band, “Insane Investors Club”, appeared on NBC’s squawk box for several hours, in front of 150 million viewers, and at the same time we had a dozen #1 hits on the then-new mp3.com music platform, plus dozens of top 40s. we also have sold over 1 million copies of my main book, “American Book of the Dead”, and I had ten youtube videos that got 1/3 million hits apiece.
Today, nothing like that happens for us. why? Continue reading
[Verse 1]
I don’t flinch when the thunder rolls,
Walk barefoot through fire and coals.
They duck and dodge, I rise and stand—
With the western realms in my hand. Continue reading
We have forty acres in the gold country of the foothills of the Sierra-Nevada, it’s a great place to camp, pan, and perhaps hang out until all this shit is over.
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