Steve Perry
@steveperrywriter.bsky.social
Father, grandfather, widower, old hippie, writer, martial artist, ukulele player, liberal/radical -- NOT the former lead singer of Journey. Got a Cardigan Corgi. USA, Pacific Northwest.
So, at the In-N-Out burger shooting in Idaho, a good guy with a handgun apparently engaged the killer. His name hasn’t been released officially, but he’s been IDed as Jordan Salinas, a local. What I wonder is, did Salinas hit the killer? Cops say the murderer died from a self-inflicted wound.
BlueSky is the least useful of my social media platforms. It's X, with fewer bots and Nazis. Brevity might be the soul of wit, but here, we just meme at each other. My workaround is to post on my blog and put a link here. If you don't click on the links? We won't talk much to each other.
This week's short story, Ghost Lighter Than Aluminum, has a ghost, bicycles, and a love story. books2read.com/u/388a5w
If a country is not taking care of all of its people — the poor, sick, children, elderly, handicapped? It’s not civilized . If there are billionaires and people who are starving? Then that country is run by savages. If it doesn’t change, it will not last. Now and again, the sheep will look up.
V3 Castrado, why don’t you lose all those tariffs?/ Get rid of the clown-suit, that tricycle bell/ Oh, it’s time, it’s time to leave the party/ You need to check into the rest home/ You need to check into the rest home, or else go straight to hell.
Chorus 2 Won’t your brain stall out when the light goes on?/ And prattle makes no sense at all/ Better dead silence than shown a total fool/ The end is comin’ soon, it’s time to leave the hall/ Not funny how you look like such a tool.
V2 Castrado, better keep your fat head down/ The pedo files are waitin’, waitin’ to be be seen/ Those you molested still hunger for some justice/ For the worst human that has ever been.
Chorus1: Better change your huge Depends boy/ That odor’s so vile/ Those burgers gurgle just like hot brown goo/ You can’t stop it comin’, you’re gonna leave a big pile/ Of fries with Heinz ketchup poo.
Castrado V1: Castrado, why don’t you cover your yap up?/ Use that Maga red-cap to cut off the flow/ Oh, you’re an orange one who’s got no sane reason/ This treason you’re spewing hurts us all anyhow.
I think these two woman are way cool and with more common sense and no-bullshit knowledge than a room full of gym rats. www.tacticworksout.com Speaking here as an old gym rat.
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“There are submarines in the Great Lakes.” Huh. Which led me to find to this: www.msn.com/en-us/news/u... In 1947, the USS Silversides, was transported through the St. Lawrence Seaway, into the Great Lakes to Chicago, to be a training vessel. Now a museum in the Muskegon Lake Channel.
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"Bombed" is too kind. Just the same old ugly insults & self-pitying drivel he's been spewing forever. "Fat Pig Chris Christie/Watermelon Head Pencil Neck Shifty Schiff/Pocahontas Elizabeth Warren" etc. from a deranged sociopath who can't understand humor. 🤢 #Pathetic shorturl.at/eEX8A
Trump bombed at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner — and proved its point | CNN Business
President Donald Trump bombed at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner Friday night. He knew he was bombing, too, and he even tried to meta-joke his way out of it.
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New songs I'm learning now to add to the repertoire. Some I used to play on guitar that didn't make it across to the ukulele, some new ones, albeit they are from the 20th Century but one.
Of all the Choriok Master videos, this is my favorite. I mean, the deadly effectiveness of the art in the first half is, um, wow ... But: If you engage your opponent in a tug-of-war? To force him to hold onto the rope? Man, that is some serious silk-reeling beyond any I have ever seen. (Sound on.)
Covid is heating up; if it follows the usual trend, it'll continue to rise until mid-September, dip again in November, then shoot up to its highest in January. It is Very High in East Texas, Louisiana, Eastern Idaho, and climbing in Northern Nevada. Mask, booster, wash your hands. pmc19.com
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Why won’t BlueSky accept HEIC-formatted photographs? Nine years the standard for iPhones or iPads. For Bluesky, I have to convert image to a jpeg or PNG or GIF, another hoop I to jump through to use a meh-platform with idiotic word-limits -- X, but with fewer bots and Nazis. So far, at least.
DiL made me a new shirt -- using fabric she bought on vacation in Hawaii. She is a seriously-good seamstress, lines everything up properly, makes suits for my son.
#Writers, read the comment from C.E. Petit on Dean Wesley Smith’s blog about traditional publishing. C.E is a a lawyer who has seen a lot of publishing practices. He explains, even better than Dean, why a career in trad publishing only is impossible these days. deanwesleysmith.com/publishing-i...
Publishing Is Always Changing…
It Always Has and It Always Will… And sadly, the road is littered with the writers who could not make the changes happening at the time. Often, not always, but often the major changes come in how read...
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