mazebuffalo.bsky.social
Retired, husband, father, voter, dog walker, writer, photographer, pastoral care volunteer (all denominations) nam vet, storyteller and blessed with a sense of humor. and yes, we have a couple of cats that mostly ignore me.
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I do that all the time too
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I was in the Army when Otis died in that plane crash in Dec '67... Soul music was at its peak...nice mellow times
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*amused
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we are at her bedside...a little improvement from yesterday...a long slow process
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Yeah, like a complete unknown
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my sister Sue is in the hospital an hour away...critical, day to day they say...anyway, I'm working through this...in the best dumb way I know how
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Funny, I just got new glasses from the VA last month and while I was getting my exam the technician said, your cataracts haven't changed. & I said, I never knew I had cataracts & she said, what you have, is nothing to worry about. (whatever that means)
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and the trash can is only ten steps away
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about 10 years ago we had a 50 year schoolyard reunion and my best friend couldn't attend. He asked how it was and who was there and then started asking, how did so and so look etc. after a while I just said, Tom everybody there was in their mid 60's, how the fuck do you think they're gonna look
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this looks fun
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for some reason he (JJ) reminds me of Lee Trevino and I guess that's good, because generally, I'm not a big fan of golf.
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Kyla knocked this one out of the park..I'm glad you posted it.
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That's better than cutting zz's on the couch for 150 days
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you startled me
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I should have given credit to Walt for the first line..
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We used to drive up to the Air Force base in Pleiku every so often just so we could use a flush toilet
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There was a nightclub in Buffalo that I used to talk about all the time while I was in nam , The Inferno. one day a fellow soldier showed me an article in the Stars & Stripes,with the headline, The Inferno lives up to its name. It burned down. my friend said, I guess you'll have to stay in the Army.
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on my brunch walk I meet up with a friend ...and my dog thinks she's kinda cool too
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that is an ideal situation...
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I also picked up a record with Tennessee Williams reading Crane's poetry. i would put the record on before going to bed and Tennessee would lull me to sleep. Funny though, my professor loved that I chose Crane..he actually did his dissertation on him. My God, this was so long ago, it was fun though.
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*actually ..this reminded me of when I took a modern poetry course and each of us students had to do a class presentation of a poet on a list the professor passed out. I chose Hart Crane because all the poets I knew were already taken. so I went to the library and picked up stuff on Hart Crane and
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I was given a ticket to see Streetcar Named Desire here at the Studio Arena in Buffalo, NY. Jon Voight played Stanley Kowalski & Betsy Palmer played Blanche DuBois. the seat was so close to the stage that I felt like I was intruding in their arguments. Acrually scary.
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& they flower to boot
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on a dime
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I was thinking about Jerome the other day...
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Walter,Charlotte mom & dad Jerome and Karen children
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Buffalo, NY
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When I was growing up (first 8 yrs of my life) I lived next to the Jakubowski family. They owned the saloon Jackie's Grill & on Friday's you could buy a fish fry for a buck. My parents owned the paint store next door, DuSelf Supplies...how funny. your name reminded me of this stuff. circa early 50s