Saturday, October 9, 2021

“…tea for two”



I’m sleeping too much albeit in small installments. Times of stress are like that. In the old daze when I was a part time drug addict,…well okay maybe not addict.


When I got to know ‘real’ addictive comrades I found out what a total amateur I was.

These heroic pharmaceutical maniacs sucked down quantities of chemicals during a weekend binge that would have taken me two years to score, and do!

One pal described a gleeful cocaine angel dust speed whiskey cocktail that would have killed a dozen Cossacks, and the draft horses they rode in on.  …and then went back for seconds.

Where was I?

Right dreaming of dust buster parties past. I recall back in the fading 1980’s doing what we called “Biggles”. Named after someone in a Monty Python skit.

A Biggle is basically a quarter gram or more cocaine line. Eh back in the day the recording, film video, and general broadcast industry ran on speed, and coke. Hey it was another era different values gimme a break.

Anyway to prove your insanity one would snort down the whole thing in one quick zap! This to the demented applause of your pals. If you didn’t 'die’ you were rewarded with a vodka martini..extra dry.

Ah I gleefully recall the summer of '83. What me, and my old pals calls the “Martini Summer”. 

One of our TV/radio host comrades whom you’ve heard of, but for legal reasons goes somewhat nameless here was once a bartender in a Madrid dive. He remembered his skills well!

Anyway this suicidal “Biggles” thing was the custom among the engineers back then. Yeah I had a terrible drug problem,…I was always running out of the stuff, and it was terrible.

Flash forward near 30/40 years, and all the survivors are basically teetotalers. 

So like I sez now instead of snorting up Peru I attempt chemical-free sleep. I even succeed somewhat. 

Nutty dreams too. 

"...Col. Kohler"



Barbie Kohler born West Germany 1946.Heidelberg University of Science 1967.Qualified pilot Heer Luftwaffe 1969 Bundeswehr Intel Analyst 1972~1998. 

Retired a Colonel.

Current status Model  Actress Action Figure.


 

Wednesday, October 6, 2021


I was born in the wrong century.
Either hundreds of years too late or centuries too soon.
I think this may be a common problem.

 



"In my heart I seem to be waiting for something."

Comments:

So many need you and your many talents! You should audition for some Broadway shows; volunteer in your community!

Justin Belshe
While you're busy waiting for it, it's happening all around you.

Daryl Romain
You are the patriarch, reach out. What you have, we can all use, self included. Don't you know you are loved?

Sidney Smith
I hadn't thought of that. I'm the oldest living male of my family's boomer generation. Patriarch. Imagine. Do I get a cool hat or a cape? Loves ya Daryl. Btw you're next in line. ❤ ...I'll send you the handbook on protocols.

Daryl Romain
You get the cape. Second in line gets the hat. I already have the handbook. It's blank inside. Love you too.

Sylvia Lewis
Sidney Smith Yes! You’re it! You are on the family throne now! Yes. Get your cape, suits, uniforms, hats! But then again, lucky you, our family has long been a matriarchy!💕😆



 



I ran away from home when I was nine or so,...nobody noticed.

My note was where I left it unread.
There's a short story in that.
In the old days so long as you turned up alive for dinner no one paid much attention. It was an innocent time.

Comments:

Sylvia Lewis
Those were the day when kids were sent 'outside to play'! Bullying was the norm. We were all told to defend ourselves! Anyway, like you, I ran away too. I went a few doors down at a neighbor's house! I think you went to several neighbor's homes till dinner time.

Sidney Smith
I did or the park just past Utica Avenue. You, and I used to go on those long walking adventures all over Brooklyn. We always got back fine,...it was so different then.



From Alison Armstrong. ...4 years ago today.

 




Thoughts on Crime Punishment, and Jury Duty.

Part I

May 1, 2019

I was at Court yesterday for Jury selection.
This brought certain matters to mind.
Justice, and law very rarely meet. Both are multifaceted, and usually contradict. One the arbitrary rules of civilization built up over many generations. The other instinctive rightness. Which is intuitive, and eternal.
In it's more extreme circumstances matter, and anti-matter. Which has an inevitable reaction when they meet.

Part II

On this grey chilly May Day I went for Jury Duty. The Brooklyn downtown Supreme Court Building. No personal photos they took my camera while I was there. Met a bunch of nice folks.
It was like getting drafted. You meet the whole cross section.

There was a "pony show" where they explained our rule of law how it applied. The nature of our sort of democracy,...such as it is. Mostly we just sat, and waited.

It was a bit anti-climatic for me.
In the approval interview I was excused for medical reasons. Apparently health matters more now. Before if you were breathing you were in. My recent surgeries, and ongoing conditions were an issue.
So no Perry Mason event. I think this is my last call.
I may be too old in the next round-up. We'll see.

Btw: Back in about 1995 I was excused from a vicious murder case. I told the interviewers that I had a contempt about that sort of killer...I really could not be impartial...who could? Not just a killing,...a butchery. Defense really didn't want me. The prosecution did in they tried to get me to modify my statements. Such is the law.

Comment:

Cassady Smith

“It appears to me that, in this savage murder, there were fine people on both sides.”