Somehow, I feel that using an AI Content Generator to Write my Blog is Wrong. My Readers Deserve to Read My Own Words... I tried using a Blog writing program and YES... IT DID WORK... but I'm going to continue to Generate Text the Old Fashioned Way...

"Take Drugs and Type Like Crazy!" - That Technique worked for Philip K Dick, Edgar Allen Poe, Jack Kerouac and Lewis Carroll and... uh... Wait a Minute... I'll think of something to say in a minute... duh... OH YEAH! That's Good Enough for me!

The real trick for Blog Writing is to Post TEXT that is not published elsewhere on the web... ORIGINAL WORDS... and The Google Search Engine Defines Original Words as Text that it can't find ON THE WEBSITES IT HAS SEARCHED... Well... There is NO Evidence that it Searches FaceBorg... SO... Copying and Pasting Paragraphs that I Have FOUND HERE... is All Original Text... and WORTHY...

and always remember to include at least one Picture... Readers Love Pictures! and They have a Tendency to CLICK on Pictures... and TEXT that is Embedded in a Picture is NOT Read by the GoogleBot... so Plagiarism is Not Noticed! For Example: This Timothy Leary Quote...

and CSH Said: 

Be brave. Write on!

ALSO... It's interesting to read my words years later... and Modify the Blog Posts as I Learn and Conditions change... I wrote an Entire Novel that Quickly Became totally out of Date! It was all about Eco-Warriors that traveled Across the Country to Assassinate President Donald Trump... Well, Once he became "The Former Guy" That book Became Dated... So I Added a Disclaimer at the Beginning! https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/09/the-violet-overgrow-by-gregory.html

It was interesting to do research for that novel... I wanted to know IF a sniper could hit the President if he was in the Rose Garden and the Sniper was Standing on the Roof of a 15th Street Building... YES HE CAN! The Internet has Information about the RANGE of Sniper Rifles and Google Maps allow people to Measure Distances! [SPOILER ALERT] - In My Novel, The Assassin Was Unsuccessful because the Secret Service Guards standing on the Roof of the White House SHOT FIRST and Killed the Sniper before he made the shot... What an Excellent PLOT TWIST! 

Flip Flops With ART!

https://www.zazzle.com/store/gregvan/products?dp=252238577866256946

Some Guy on FaceBorg Posted: 

If it were up to me, Medicare Advantage plans would be illegal. They are part of a scheme to bankrupt the Medicare Trust Fund.

and I Replied: 

They are Intentionally Complex and It's Difficult to figure out which one is best for me... One REALLY Horrible thing is... IT'S ELDER ABUSE! Asking Old People to Make Complex decisions and providing a bewildering array of choices that are all cloaked in misinformation, disinformation and outright flim flam is a Horrible thing to do to people at any age... but truly evil to do to people on their 65th birthday! I made My Decision by selecting the Plan offered by My Labor Union at work... I figure that the best deal would be the one negotiated by SEIU... My Sister in Law Chose the Plan that was Endorsed by AARP... They are a Trusted Organization... None of US Were able to Figure out the Actual details of the Plans and so Made our decisions on "WHO DO YOU TRUST."

Here's another Example of Using FaceBorg to Help Writing a Blog Post... I Originally Uploaded this Photo... 

Andersen's Split Pea Restaurant... http://www.peasoupandersens.net/ We always stopped there when Traveling South from San Jose to Santa Barbara... Taking my Brother to UCSB...

and Someone Commented:

We always stopped there too. Love their pea soup. There is also an Andersen's on Highway 5 in Santa Nella, just south of Los Banos, but I hear it's not nearly as good as the original.

and I Replied:

When I visited their website I see that there is a second location (on 5) that I never knew about either... This is a Classic Example of Marketing By Billboards on the Road... It's pretty difficult to drive by without stopping after reading the advertisements for hundreds of miles... and In My Humble Opinion... Pea Soup is Pretty much the Same no matter WHO the cook is ...

and then I read:

About 75% of my fb feed is “Amazon Must Haves” articles and it’s become a bit of an issue. There hasn’t been one article I’ve seen and not opened (which would explain why fb has decided my feed should consist of nothing but these articles). And there isn’t one item on any of these lists that I can’t convince myself I don’t need. My “Amazon cart” is more like an “Amazon 18 wheeler” filled with the most ridiculous things that I will never actually purchase but can’t bring myself to delete from said 18 wheeler. Send help.

and I Replied: 

FREE YOURSELF from the Grips of Consumption!

Remember: There are Two Ways to Get Everything You Want... Get More or Want Less!

QUESTION CONSUMPTION: Coronavirus Has Taught Us That Buying More More More Plastic Crap is Totally Optional! Ecstatic Dancing is Possible Without Buying Chinese Junk from WAYFAIR!

 and then I Read:

We're nearing the end of our journeys here on planet earth.

Sharing our losses publicly makes us more human and in turn, more humane . It is weird how we can share disease, but not the preventative solutions that could ease our lifetimes.

My own family has what I term poor people's diseases:hbp, diabetes, arthritis, dental disease,heart disease; to date I've avoided many because I chose a different path to maintain health.

All roads lead somewhere, right?Eventually we come to our road's end bruised and in need of a place to rest.

So many of us with no one to hold our hand. No one with whom to share a memory.

and I Replied:

You can Share Your Memories With Me... I'll Listen... I find that typing on FaceBorg is an Excellent way to Fill Up My Time now that I'm Retired... There are People Here that I Enjoy Talking to... and Experiencing Their Journey Thru Life With...

and she replied: 

Thank you so much Gregory! I, for one, am not afraid to show my scars to the world. Especially if it means I improve my humanity.

and then I Read:

What does "from scratch" mean on a working farm? My mom's chores for her family of 10 meant early rising for her and her sister, Alma. Bring in 2 loads of firewood, and start the fire in the kitchen cook stove and the pot-bellied heating stove...Go out to the barn and gather the eggs. Run out the kittens or king snake sometimes, too...(It is real, guys. I had a king snake while visiting 1 summer, and had egg gathering as my chore.) Then, time to milk the cow...Mama hated the smell of milk till the day she died because of this. But, I was never bothered by it. I loved milking the cow...

Then, the mules had to be fed because Grandpa was up by now and getting ready for the fields. It was around 5 am. Roosters were crowing, and life was awake. Bacon and ham were gathered from one of the 2 smokehouses. The grocery store was in your yard...Gather the coldest water in the world straight from a hand-pump beside the long, wooden porch...The day Grandpa modernized that pump I was there, and it broke my heart. I haven't seen one since then. It was easy enough to use..By 4 pumps, water was on its way, so WHY ?? (If it AINT broke, don't fix it !!)

The breakfast was sausage, ham, bacon, eggs, grits, toast, homemade biscuits, jelly, jam, apple butter and fresh water or milk...The part bought here would've been the flour and grits. All else was farm supplied...including that "frigging" butter and cheese...(Granny tricked me into churning it one time. I ran from then on if she had the churn out. Your arms will fall off and you can NOT stop or it ruins the process.) Sometimes, the lard was homemade too.. When the hogs were killed, nothing was wasted. Huge black cauldrons were fired up, and the hides were boiled. The scraping off the insides of these hides made "country lard."

One son, my uncle Charles, would finish his breakfast and head to the hitching barn. A team of the best country mules around the area were about to head into a sunrise to begin their day on the 104 acre George Hammond farm in Belton, South Carolina.

(My family is gone now, but these memories will never die of an AMERICA that is dying herself now... I am gonna share my mom's chicken and dumplings here today, and how they cooked them on that farm from "scratch." If anyone can get it more country than that----then, have at it !!) Be patient...i gotta work first awhile...keep watching...and thanks for reading, and allowing me to share these memories.

and I Replied:

We all just worked until everything that needed to be done, was done... We had Four Apricot Trees... and Wanted to Dry the Fruit to eat in the Winter. So we went over to a Neighbor's that had a Smoker and We were free to use it any time as long as we worked cutting their Cots...

and I Wrote:

My Sister in Law Asked: "Why did they tear down Winterland?" - a Concert Hall in San Francisco... and I said: So they Could Build Condominiums on that Land... But That's not the Entire Answer... That Rock Concert Hall only Sat 5,000 people... and the Audiences became so large that Bill Graham started Holding his Concerts at A Basketball Arena in Oakland (seating 19,000) or at the Football Stadium (60,000) - and That allowed Everyone that wanted to Go easy access to a ticket... and Some of those Day on the Green Shows Were EPIC... Kezar Was Excellent Too... SNACK and Led Zeppelin with the TUBES!

Here's a Song about America's Love for the Land... and The People That have Left the City to enjoy the Rural Lifestyle... I always think of Remote Humboldt County Marijuana Farmers when They Play this Song... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAFZF9EfZMs - Listen to the Thunder Cry "I Am!"

Grateful Dead ~ Weather Report Suite ~ 07.19.1974

http://artsites.ucsc.edu/gdead/agdl/grow.html

The Annotated "Weather Report Suite: Part II (Let It Grow)"

An installment in The Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics.
By David Dodd

Someone asked WHAT ERA was best for the Grateful Dead Concerts...

and I Replied:

The era where they Played Giant Football Stadiums Was EPIC... Being in a Crowd Of 60,000 people was Special... But MY PERSONAL FAVORITE was Winterland 1974 when they Filmed the Movie. The Guys in the Band Were REALLY TRYING HARD to make a Great Movie... The Wall of Sound Worked Perfectly... and The LSD was Excellent!

On FaceBorg: I typed my Name into the Search Box in the Upper Left Hand Corner and Found a FaceBorg Account with NO PICTURES and NO WORDS... So I requested It Become My Friend!

BIFF ROSE Wrote:

yahoo blurb in the meddle of the night..

"Elon Musk Joins Anti-LGBTQ+ Libs of TikTok to Mock Fired Employee'

BIFF: They SHOULD mock everything and everyone. We live in a Mockracacy........if you wanna live in a DEmocracy....then.....but who wants THAT? To DEmockratize mean you have to stop mocking and what will the birdies do den de poor tings...they'll fly to the South with a vurm in dare mouth...und tuck dear head unter dare vings de poor tings.......it's going to be a lon-n-n-n-n-n-n-ng Vinter

I replied:

I always use the letters GBLT+Q to refer to the Great Bacon Lettuce and Tomato Sandwiches... PLUS CHEESE! (Queso) ... Remember the AIDS QUILT when Promoting "Pride" - Being Gay is Not Just Parades and Riots, It's also Spending Countless Hours in the Hospital with Dying Lovers... https://www.aidsmemorial.org/quilt-history

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/jeopardy-champ-amy-schneider-testifies-ohio-transgender-care-ban-rcna57488

This Sad Man is Speaking in Favor of Puberty Preventing Medicine and Sex Changes for Teenagers... ABSURD!

"I truly believe that all of us here have the same goal: to keep Ohio’s children safe and healthy," she said.

But, she added, the “Save Adolescents From Experimentation (SAFE) Act" — which seeks to restrict doctors' ability to provide puberty blockers, hormone replacement therapy and gender-affirming surgery to minors — would put some children "in grave danger, and a danger that not all of them would survive."

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I feel that It is Unfair That Julia Collins

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Collins_(Jeopardy!_contestant) 

is No Longer the Best Woman JEOPARDY! Player... "They" Say Amy Schneider is the Best BUT SHE'S NOT A WOMAN! She's a Man that Had a Sex Change and That's Different! 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Schneider

How to Do the "Bait and Switch" EMAIL Marketing... Remember: If the Person Getting your email deletes it unread... your words of wisdom are pointless... SO... I Include Something that They are Likely to be interested in as the Subject Line... and then Deliver What I Promised as the First Sentence of the Body of the Email... Most people will continue reading down to see what I want to say! and maybe they will even Scroll down further! For Example: I believe most of the people in my family ignore all my emails... WhatEVER! So Today's Email Subject was: AI Generated Portrait of Grandpa Vanderlaan. EXCELLENT! and Then I Included the Picture and a Link so they could do their own... Then I Wrote what I wanted to Write About...

and Then SE Said on FaceBorg:

I don't know what it takes to find lasting friendships in this world. I can occasionally find someone to hang out with for a day, but then they always seem to disappear. Other people seem to have friends who stay in their lives. I wonder why that is so elusive to me? If I hang out with someone and we have a nice time together, why can't we hang out again? Where do they disappear to?

Romantic relationships are a joke at this point. I should have been more focused on that when I was younger. That ship sailed years ago. I untied the rope myself and pushed the ship away from the dock, thinking another ship would come along shortly. I didn't understand that that was the only ship. Once it sails, it's gone forever.

The main thing I care about now is just having someone to spend time with who cares about me. A friend would be fine. Yes, I know I do have friends, but most of them aren't local, or they aren't available to spend time with me because they have their own relationships that take priority, and there's nothing wrong with that. But you'd think it would be easier to connect with other single people in my area. You'd think other single women would be looking for a single friend like me to go out and have fun with every once in a while. There is so much I want to do, but I don't want to do it alone. I've got a good job now, and I can afford stuff. Can I buy a friend? Just kidding...but really, I would if I could. I've tried going out alone hoping to make friends, but that's impossible when nobody else is alone. Everyone else is always with other people, so I go out alone and remain alone the entire time. Meetup groups in my area aren't very good either. I've tried a few, but they tend to be cliquey. Hard to make friends in groups of people who have already formed a clique.

and I Replied:

That's always been a mystery to me too... I DID meet many friends in Alcoholics Anonymous... but That's a Club that you Might Not Qualify to Join... In order to Join you have to have a Drinking PROBLEM... and from what you have written... you don't have a PROBLEM...

We will be leaving for Texas in a few days for Thanksgiving. We are driving there. I've been really looking forward to that part, because the time I drove to Texas in 1994 was one of the coolest experiences I've ever had. I've never been able to afford to do much interstate traveling, and I remember how cool it was to be out on the open road, and to be able to stop and see all kinds of interesting things along the way. I also remember the miles and miles of saguaro cacti in Arizona with the beautiful red rock formations in the background. This trip will be a lot speedier, though, so there won't be time to stop very many places along the way. I'm a little worried about what to pack (I tend to get anxiety about packing for trips), and I'm also a little worried about spending time in a red state with COVID still out there. Probably should get a booster before we go, although I hate the fact that it might give me side effects and slow me down for a few days, but I feel like it wouldn't be smart to travel to a red state without getting boosted first because right-wingers have made COVID into a political issue instead of a health issue, which is still so bizarre to me. But I know there is a much higher likelihood of encountering unvaccinated people in Texas than there is in CA, and that does make me a bit uneasy.

and I Replied:

It IS a Beautiful Drive. Have Fun. Wear a Mask... and Be Grateful That Right Wingers were More Likely to Get Sick and Die... We Certainly Don't Need People Like That in the Future.

Water Ceremony - Group Meditation... Take a Full Glass of Water and Hold it Between your Eyes and The Sun... Say the Sun Prayer... Drink Half the Water...

"Great spirits of the sun we call to you this day, we thank you for the blessings of our lives, the lives of our children, and all of our relations we are thankful for our life."

and Then... Say a Prayer for the Dirt... and Dump the other Half of the Water on a Plant...

"Great Spirits of The Earth. We Call to You On This Day. WE Thank You for your Nurturing and Your Sustenance. and the Ground on Which We Stand. We are Grateful to Be Alive."

https://www.facebook.com/730553453/videos/501506571938863?idorvanity=68795145991

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and then I asked a ChatBot to:

Write an Article entitled "How Can I Make money on the Stock Market using AI?" 

It Said:

Many people believe that artificial intelligence (AI) could be the key to making money on the stock market. After all, AI has the ability to process vast amounts of data and make predictions based on that data.

So, how can you use AI to make money on the stock market?

There are a few ways to do this:

1. Use an AI-based stock trading platform: There are a number of AI-based stock trading platforms available. These platforms use AI to help you make money on the stock market.

2. Use an AI stock market advisor: Another way to make money on the stock market with AI is to use an AI stock market advisor. These advisors use AI to help you make investment decisions.

3. Use an AI stock market simulator: If you want to try your hand at making money on the stock market, but don't want to risk any real money, you can use an AI stock market simulator. These simulators use AI to help you make trades.

Whichever method you choose, if you're looking to make money on the stock market with AI, there are a few things you should keep in mind.

Firstly, remember that AI is not a magic solution that will guarantee profits. The stock market can be unpredictable and there will always be risks involved. However, AI can help you make more informed decisions and potentially increase your chances of success.

Secondly, make sure you do your research and choose a reputable AI-based platform or advisor. Look for reviews and testimonials from other users and make sure the platform has a track record of successful investments.

Lastly, don't rely solely on AI. Use it as a tool to supplement your own knowledge and research. Keep up with industry news and trends, and always be willing to adapt and change your investment strategy as needed.

In conclusion, while there is no foolproof way to make money on the stock market, AI can certainly be a valuable tool in your investment arsenal. Whether you choose to use an AI-based trading platform, advisor, or simulator, be sure to do your research and use it to supplement your own expertise. With patience, discipline and the right approach, you can potentially use AI to boost your investment portfolio.

Rather Insightful Article!

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• and Then I Asked the AI Chatbot:
• How can I Increase Sales on My Zazzle Giftshop?
• 
  
  1. Optimize your product listings: Make sure your product titles, descriptions, tags, and images are clear, informative, and professional. Use keywords relevant to your products to improve their visibility in Zazzle's search results.
  
  
  2. Promote your products: Share links to your Zazzle shop and individual product listings on social media, email newsletters, and other marketing channels. Consider creating targeted ads to reach your ideal audience.
  
  
  3. Offer promotions and discounts: Run special promotions, coupon codes, and sales to attract customers and encourage them to make a purchase.
  
  
  4. Improve your customer service: Respond promptly to customer inquiries and concerns, provide helpful and friendly support, and consider offering a satisfaction guarantee to build customer loyalty.
  
  
  5. Expand your product range: Create new designs, add new product types, and explore new niches to attract more customers and increase sales opportunities.
  
  
  6. Participate in Zazzle promotions: Participate in Zazzle's promotional events like holiday sales, site-wide discounts, and themed collections to increase visibility and drive more traffic to your gift shop.

So, That's what an AI Chatbot Sounds Like... and to tell the truth, No Epic Revelations! 

I Didn't Actually Learn Anything of Value... It was NOT WORTHY!

My Experience Using the Ram Dass Artificial Intelligence Program - IT WAS WORTHY! They Had the AI Machine Read All of His Books and Transcripts of Lectures in Order to Learn What He Thought...

https://ramdass.ai/

For Example: I Asked...
What should I do with my Life?

Answer: Ah, the question of what to do with one's life. It's a question that has been asked by many, and the answer is as unique as each individual who asks it.

You see, life is not a series of tasks to be completed, but rather a journey to be experienced. It's not about reaching a destination, but about the journey itself. It's about the process of becoming, of growing, of evolving.

Imagine that you have died and your life is about to be reviewed. What would you want to see? What would you want to have accomplished? What would you want to have experienced? This is your chance to do what others have failed to do. Look at the unloved one, the miserable one. This is your chance to do an act of love toward one who has had no love. This is your chance to do justice where intentional or unintentional injustice has been committed. This is your chance to give warmth and courage to one who feels only coldness, loneliness and death.

Now gently come back to your living body. With this feeling of respect and love, come back to your living body, and let this feeling remain with you, inside of you. Let it spread to each nerve, to each muscle, along every vein and artery. Let this feeling of respect and love spread inside you, throughout your entire organism, and then let it spread out into the world.

So, what should you do with your life? You should live it. You should experience it. You should love it. You should respect it. You should honor it. And most importantly, you should be true to yourself.

In the words of the Indian greeting, Namasta, "I honor the light within you." So, honor the light within yourself, and let it guide you on your journey through life.


SO... I Guess there was Some Wisdom in the Answer... But Will I go Back and ask more Questions? Not Today... but Maybe Later!


Who WAS Ram Dass? In the Sixties, He was a Psychedelics Researcher and Promoter at Harvard with Dr. Timothy Leary. (LSD, Magic Mushrooms and Peyote) Then He went to India Looking for Enlightenment and Met a Guru. Changed His Name and Published a Great Book... "Remember: Be Here Now" - It Has His Autobiography and then Many ART Drawings Explaining Eastern Religion. Real Name: Dr. Richard Alpert... Read More at:
https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2021/05/ram-dass-was-psychedelics-researcher.html

A clown, a guru, and a doctor walk into a cabin. The clown says, “What I have in mind is eye care for 400,000.” The guru says “See here now.” The doctor says, “Brilliant. We can do that.” What actually transpired in 1978 was the start of Seva led by Dr. Brilliant with an eclectic group including Ram Dass, Wavy Gravy, Dr. "V", and Dr. Nicole Grasset. What came next was the landmark Nepal Blindness Survey using an Apple 2+ computer donated by Steve Jobs and a helicopter funded by a Grateful Dead concert. The story of Seva’s beginning is colorful and quirky, but the results are miraculous. Science, art, and spirituality are a potent blend that can transform lives! Witness for yourself the promise of ending avoidable blindness in Nepal and around the world.

https://www.facebook.com/seva.foundation



I Had a Dream: We were walking towards the Entrance of the Los Gatos Library and there was a Thin Old Man dressed in a Small Bathing Suit ahead of Us. He pulled on the entrance to the Children's room and It was Locked... Disappointed, he turned around and I asked: "Are You Looking for the Man Who Works There?" He Said: "NO" and I Motioned towards the Main Entrance. We all Entered. He seemed lost so I asked: "Do you Need Help?" as I would ask any Lost Old Man... He Said: "NO" and then I asked again: "Can I Help You?" He said: "No. I'm Fine." and then we went on Our Own Ways. By That time it was Obvious to Me That he was Ram Dass and That it was a Rather "Heavy" encounter to Ask Ram Dass If I Could Help Him... a Meaningful Event... and I was Shaking... So we went downstairs and I went searching for a Book that I Has Started reading before (about Philosophy) - and on the same shelf was a large picture book of the Grateful Dead's Fare Ye Well Tour with four CDs (that were missing) and My friend asked me why I would want to check out that book and I said: "Too Look for Pictures of Myself." and then I woke up and Typed this Document... It's Best to Type it Up before I forget it... For Certain, I would have tried to help any Lost Old Man but It seems Important that I Offered Ram Dass Help in my dream. That's One Of His Main Teachings...

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Gimme an 'F'- and the Crowd Shouts 'F' - Gimme a 'U' - and they Shout 'U' - Gimme an 'N' - and they Shout 'N' --- What's That Spell? 'FUN' - What's That Spell? 'FUN' - What's That Spell? 'FUN' - Quotation of Wavy Gravy at the Ram Dass Funeral...

Of Course, To Understand This Chant It Would Be Handy To Know Who Ram Dass Was and To Have Seen the Country Joe and the Fish Performance of Fixing to Die Rag at Woodstock...








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and THIS is What Wavy Gravy is Doing NOW...
https://www.campwinnarainbow.org/


What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy.
As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny "failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions."
"In 1984", Huxley added, "people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure."
In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us. ~Neil Postman

Actors and Writers ON STRIKE! - They'll Have a Difficult Time because of the Millions of Hours of Reruns Available... I'd Like to See DALLAS Again or SNL the Early Years... Recent TV and Movies Actually SUCK!

I Wish the Actors and Writers the Best of Luck... What IF They are On Strike for a Year? Would Anyone Notice? or Care? Here at Home We Watch a Lot of TV and Almost ALL of it is Reruns... Ancient Aliens, Andy Griffith, Beverly Hillbillies, Addams Family, M*A*S*H, Green Acres, Hogan's Heroes, Gilligan's Island, Bones, House, Sons of Anarchy, but NOT Mayans... 

And My TV Gets 10,000 Movies... I Just watched ARRIVAL starring Amy Adams, Lifeforce, Meeting the Beatles in India, Blade Runner,  Total Recall, Men in Black 1, 2, 3 but not 4... Ghostbusters 1,2 and 3... Everything, Everywhere, All at Once 

(a Great Movie That Had Zero Hollywood Actors - Except Jamie Lee Curtis) and Now I'm Enjoying Monty Python's Meaning of Life... With the Song "Every Sperm is Sacred" - You Certainly Can't Write Jokes Like THAT Anymore!

Remember: Current Writers Produced the Movie AVATAR the Way of Water... Basically the Exact Same Movie as AVATAR but Wet... I Hope The Writers Stay on Strike for at Least a Year... Right Now They are Just Rewriting the Same thing Again and Again and Again and Again!  

I Hope AI Will be able to Write Better Stories...

Buy this Hat!

STRIKE! 

Embroidered Slogan Hat for sale at Zazzle Gregvan

Link to All My Hats!

The Last time I went to the Movie Theater was for Lord of the Rings... and We went to All Three Movies... SO... If the Hollywood Actors and Writers are Depending on ME to Finance their Lifestyle... they are Out of Luck... 

I DID Watch the Steven Colbert Show Last Night and It was a Rerun... The Monologue was Dated (2/1/2023) but Really Funny Anyway... I Guess He's Not Making New Shows Because the Writers are on Strike... BUT SO WHAT???

One Silver Lining to the Actor/Writer Strike is: after a Year of Unemployment they might have some Real Life Adventures to Make Shows About!

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Here's a Whole Buncha Memes to Share on Social Media... Mocking Republicriminals, QuackAnon FREAKS and TrumpNiks®

Those People Need to Wake The F*CK UP!

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and then I Read on FaceBorg:

Summer 1967, Los Gatos, CA, 50 Miles South of San Francisco...

As summer came to an end in 1967 so did the summer job, summer girlfriend, summer innocence and the Summer spirit that one has transitioning from 8th grade to high school. Not knowing what really lies ahead at high school, some kids with siblings would have heard stories, but my brother was 9 years ahead and well, not to interested in what I was doing or thought. End of summer end of going to Santa Cruz on the Greyhound bus for 35 cents and if there was no money at the end of the day, just get in the pick up (hitchhike) line at the Dennys at the Hwy 1 and 17 junction and try not to get into a car with a drunk.

Still walking and biking and getting parents to drive us to and fro, a driver license still a year or so away. If we knew some older kids with a car, who would want to be seen with a “younger Kid” we might get a ride…

All this makes me happy.... in many ways it was a small town. Yup... A Small town…now that has its ups and downs too there were a lot cultures in town, families from here and there, great folk, everyone was family, Lazzano, Malatesta, Yablonski, Craddock, if we did do something stupid we got in trouble right then, and again when we got home..…

Bocce ball courts at the top of Oak Meadow park were full on Saturday morning with the old guys telling stories in some language that we kids were not supposed to understand. Times they were a changing…..a fellow named Max Walden bought the old University Ave Middle School in 1966 and was slowly converting it into a Bohemian Shopping/Craft center. Max would throw lavish parties to woo investors and gain favor with the town folk as the “Hippies” were moving in he need to stay ahead of the rumors. Max Gave me my first job and For 2 summers (66 and 67) I worked cleaning up the construction debris and cleaning up after the parties. All the while seeing the transformation begin and getting to know the new commers. I had found a home! These artist and shop keepers were not the old guard, not the clicks and groups that exclude all but their own, they were friendly, open and loving. The stage was set for the summer of love just 48 miles northeast…SF. In 1968 after a stint working at Poly Prim Bakery after school cleaning the “kitchen”.. I Got a job at the Los Gatos Theater, gladly trading sticky messy aprons and jeans for slacks, shirt and tie. Yup..usher, ticket taker, candy sales and all the popcorn you could eat.

The Theater was an independent, so we never got the block busters but every once in a while an independent would make it big and we were the center of it all, Butch Cassidy, True Grit, Z, at the end of a 6 week run we knew every word and could recite the movies by heart.

Once again I was the youngest of the crew and was welcomed by all the others. This was the big time… working down town for over 3 1/2 years from 5:30 to midnight, and weekends you get to know the all the merchants, barmen, restauranters and of course the local cops and more. The fights, the make ups, the pranks and the odd. The Guys returning from Vietnam were starting to mix back in with the ones who managed to not go and the stories they all had started to make an extended Canada move, seem like a possibility.