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January 18, 2025 7:44 AM / Leave a comment

I’ve begun and stopped a couple blog posts since Trump was re-elected: We’re in that twilight time, that time when the thought of a man like Trump being president sounds reasonable. Before he becomes the news again and everyone is reminded about exactly how fucked up and stupid he is. Seriously, Trump people, what the fuck was so great about his handling of Covid the first time he was president? Is Anthony Fauci still the bad guy? We’ll get all caught up in the insanity real soon, kiddies, and I apologize for the f-bombs but all bets are off now that he’s (gulp) president (again*). The last time Trump was elected, I compared him to Benito Mussolini, so this time around, let’s go with Napoleon, so we begin our voyage in the remotest place on Earth: Saint Helena Island. Not really, but when the English stuck the dictator there after his Waterloo, at least that was the most remote place in the British Empire. Do you know anything else about St. Helena Island? Perhaps you know about the nearly 10,000 remains of enslaved persons unfortunately discovered while constructing the new airport road? BTW, if I can fly to St. Helena now in 4 hours, can it even be called remote anymore? The new airport is a hellacious landing for pilots, the black basalt island jutting up from an old volcano on the floor of the south Atlantic Ocean is a nice place to visit, but very few Australian and Dutch emigres actually want to live there.

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Kenneth, What is the Frequency?

September 30, 2019 6:28 PM / 2 Comments on Kenneth, What is the Frequency?

In a strange incident in 1986, Dan Rather was roughed up by a couple of well-dressed goons as he walked home near the corner of 88th Street and Park in New York, with one of them repeatedly asking, “Kenneth, what is the frequency?” The newsman made news himself because the louts, instead of calling the celebrity CBS reporter by his given name, Dan or even Daniel, referred to him as ‘Kenneth.’ This was just weird enough to make the national news. The brouhaha died down and the incident was quickly forgotten until 1994 when a band by the name of R.E.M. out of Athens, Georgia recorded the hit song, “What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?” off their album Monster, which is why anyone remembers the story. The reason Rather came to be asked the strange question by the nutty duo is quite weird and stupid and tragic, and I’ll get into that later in the post, but it’s when we hit the ‘stupidity curve’ as a culture, where schizophrenic news cycles and the weird shit that we see today has hit the fan every day, week and month since.

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