Category Archives: Entertainment

I had a song come to me in my sleep, and Adele isn’t going to get away with stealing it

Posted on December 20, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

  So it’s a well-known fact that the majority of my creative inertia comes during the night. I’ve had moments of epiphany that are unrivaled right after a good night’s rest. It is common knowledge that I wrote the song … Continue reading →

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“Back to the Future,” and the one thing it TRULY DID get right

Posted on October 28, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

The October 21st, 2015 rubicon crossed by Marty McFly and company was almost completely muted by the faked, gaffed, and photoshopped “pre-hoaxes” that routinely swept FaceBook over the years. When the day finally arrived, I figured something was up, based … Continue reading →

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Dear Mountain Dew: Would YOU PLEASE–make up your mind?

Posted on July 30, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

We’ve all got our own calibrating benchmarks. You know the ones that literally gives the final clarion call–the ones where we just KNOW God’s gonna finally pull the rip-cord on the Great Anthropological Freak Show down here. Even I thought … Continue reading →

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At the Crossroads of common literary decency with Acoustic Guitar Magazine

Posted on July 3, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

There is a common literary technique accompanied by a lesser-known phrase, known as the In medias res—a latin phrase for “in the middle of things.” The tactic is used to suck a reader in to the main vortex of a … Continue reading →

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Oficina G3, Petra, and getting viewed 30,000 times

Posted on June 26, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

In case the backstory here is a bit muddy, let me give you a bit of my history. When I was a teenager, growing up in a church, and a Christian school, this was my favorite record: Not of This … Continue reading →

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On the tracks

Posted on June 24, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

Many years ago, I used to perform card tricks on the now-defunct Sunset Dinner Train. It was based out of McCloud, and would head through the mountainous areas, and give people the “fine dining” experience. Yesterday, sitting in the cafe … Continue reading →

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VLOG: Loitering Around McCloud

Posted on June 24, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

At the outset, I’d like to apologize for the over modulated music at the beginning. I’m too lazy to fix it.

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Guitar Center, Boise ID.

Posted on June 11, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

 nuff said.  

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Traveling with the not-so-innocents abroad

Posted on June 11, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

It amazes me, just how integrally weak the modern first-world traveller really is. When Mark Twain traveled past these alkalai lakes, traversing Mormon territory and negotiating the vast expanses of sprawling, quasi-volcanic spreads  that sometimes remind one of the Badlands, … Continue reading →

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Vlog: ahhh, latitude. . .

Posted on June 10, 2015 by Ron Giesecke
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