Author Archives: Ron Giesecke

Okay, so the Facebook barn-burner is going to wait until tomorrow

So here’s the deal.  I’m as needy, cloying, wheedling, annoying and beholden to a swift undercurrent of interpersonal histrionics as the next guy. Also, I want be seen. But really. This article is part of my crude attempt to get … Continue reading

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Messing with the iPhone 6, and my fly-tying stuff

Just testing to see how well the iPhone 6 and Filmic Pro works to film a horribly-laid-out tutorial. Also, my nails look HORRIBLE.

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So . . . It appears FaceBook wins the poll.

And,  as promised,  a ten-point tirade on getting defriended from this platform. A littler later today.

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Laughter

Meteorology Professor: I want you you describe for me, a cumulonimbus cloud. Student: Yes, cirrus.

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Cold

Glenn Hughes has a way of singing . . . there’s a reason I wanted to meet him this year. I just had no idea that listening to Cold, by his former group, Black Country Communion, would seem so much … Continue reading

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Flannery O’Connor can wreck a perfectly good ape-suit caper

Leave it to my friend Steve to start me down Flannery Avenue this late in the game.  Officially, this is my first story of hers I have ever read.  I’m sure that is appalling to some, and I simply can’t … Continue reading

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Locking one’s keys in the car

  Is like a lot of things. Unanswered emails, one-sided echoes . . . Non adhesive tape. But it’s always good for ridicule.

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I’m posting a poll. PLEASE make it look like this place is overrun

So I was sitting at dinner tonight, after the Easter play, and I started listening to our waiter reference his Zodiac sign in some kind of context. “I’m going to wrIte about that subject,” I said.  Everyone sitting there knew … Continue reading

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Update on my “fireside chats with successful people” idea.

   I Actually don’t intend to call it that–I mean why would I want to dump Franklin D. Out of his originality chair?  I unexpectedly got my first hit the other day–an email from an author whose work I am … Continue reading

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In defense of cockiness 

In one of the most memorable scenes from Star Wars, intergalactic pirate and semi-affable roustabout, Han Solo, is running on the fumes of gravitas, testosterone, and sheer, cinematic intensity, navigating the Millennium Falcon through the Hoth Asteroid Belt.  Attempting to evade the Imperial … Continue reading

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