Category Archives: Entertainment

Peripatetic blogging and the start of a novel 

Posted on April 23, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

  I’ve got a novel in my head. And I’m going to start discussing it in the general, even if I avoid the specifics. A while back, I wondered about the idea of sharing snippets of a novel on the blog. … Continue reading →

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My Amazon purchase: SOMEBODY! KILL IT WITH FIRE!

Posted on April 22, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

For the next little while, you will intermittently be hearing about my fascination with author Stant Litore’s  Zombie Bible Series.  And for a minute here, you’re going to hear about it again, although, not exactly the way I had intended … Continue reading →

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Concerning the reverse-psychology of homeliness

Posted on April 21, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

A few years ago, I started messing around with buying dime-store reading glasses.  I did this mainly because my eyes would intermittently have moments of focal-challenges.  But 95 % of the time, I didn’t really need them. A few years … Continue reading →

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Tuesday’s fodder and ennui

Posted on April 21, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

This week has been a torrential mish-mash of duties, work, caseloads and other bland-to-the-taste side orders of chronological revulsion. That also happens to be a convoluted, fibrous goiter of an excuse to explain why I’ve written almost nothing of consequence … Continue reading →

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I’m re-writing my local grocer’s policy manual

Posted on April 18, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

This is my local grocery store. It’s called Safeway. If you live near me, you know what it is. If not, it’s probably foreign to you. It doesn’t matter. They sell stuff, and I go and buy it. That’s all … Continue reading →

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Stephen Hawking is not always right (or, should I say, John Lennox is at UC Davis tonight)

Posted on April 15, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

John Lennox is speaking at UC Davis tonight. And I’m going to see him. Let me explain why this man is a bona-fide hero to me: A very popular meme–or I should say a “sub-meme” in the Facebook wars–the wars … Continue reading →

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Just pick the Kombucha.

Posted on April 13, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

File this in the Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus column.  There’s no way around it:  men and women are on completely different frequencies, when asked to perform the calculus of everyday decision-making conundrums. So I’m sitting in the living room the other … Continue reading →

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If you thought I was going to leave the Kanye West “Bible” subject alone, then you might also believe Tupac is at my house.

Posted on April 13, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

I have no idea why, over the years, I have this reflexive need to mention Kanye West.  But I do. I’ve mentioned him in ways that were in many levels—prescient—meaning “having my thumb on the pulse of a trend so … Continue reading →

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I’ve written stuff so good, I am forced to MENTION IT myself.

Posted on April 11, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

When magician Ricky Jay performs his playing card throwing act, in which two of the cards are thrown into the exact same spot–literally with no space between them, he berates the audience with that same line I use in my … Continue reading →

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Onward . . . and upward.

Posted on April 10, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

So . . . I managed to take some “decent” traffic over my ten-point screed about what kind of ne’er-do-well one has to be to get jettisoned from my Facebook brain trust. And by “decent” I mean “not as good … Continue reading →

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