Sorry I've been away. I was coping with this crisis and that crisis and one or two others, plus my power was out again. All should be well soon.
Hey, here's a real early heads up! for those of you in the L.A. area who yearn to see my fave musical group, Big Daddy. They're the guys I wrote about here and here and other places on this blog. They'll be playing at Vitello's Restaurant in Studio City the evening of Saturday, September 22. Yeah, I know that's a long way away but you can reserve a good table now and apparently a number of readers of this blog are doing so. It's a fun, inexpensive evening in a good restaurant and you might want to get tickets now. Yes, I will be there.
I am still working on my piece on the late Steve Ditko. There's so much to say that it's taking a while to chop it down to a proper size.
I tweeted the other day that there was a time when Rudy Giuliani seemed like an admirable man. I was deluged with denials of this, some even from my pro-Trump acquaintances. One of them thinks Trump is an innocent man but with Rudy as his lawyer, he'll likely get the chair. Anyway, I abhor a lot of the things Mr. Giuliani did as Mayor of New York and more since but I stand by my belief that during and after 9/11, he did some very good things and that he reminded a lot of people (who needed the reminder) what courage looked like. Which may make his current behavior even less forgivable than it already is.
Today, we seem to be up to "Trump absolutely, positively did not collude with Russia…and when there's no wiggle room left in that denial, it won't matter because it was perfectly fine that he did."
And by the way: If we ever had a prominent male Democrat who was known to dress in drag, there would not be single prominent Republican who would not denounce the guy as a moral degenerate who was unfit to serve in government in any capacity other than maybe as a decoy to ensnare rapists in public parks. And that's without all the baggage of Giuliani's marital escapades. But I still think he was a leader on 9/11, certainly more than some other prominent folks.
In California, work has commenced on the $100 billion Los Angeles-to-San Francisco bullet train. This is the same project that used to be the $75 billion Los Angeles-to-San Francisco bullet train and before that, it was the $60 billion Los Angeles-to-San Francisco bullet train and started life as the $40 billion Los Angeles-to-San Francisco bullet train. This article asks if it'll ever be completed and I can answer that. The answer is, obviously, no…but by the time it's abandoned, it may become the $150 billion Los Angeles-to-San Francisco bullet train and then the $200 billion Los Angeles-to-San Francisco bullet train and then the $300 billion Los Angeles…