I am not 44 years old. Though I had been for a good 20 years.  I recently decided to retire that line which had served its purpose of pointi...

Came across this the other day on social media. It's a still photo of Juaqin Phoenix (SP) from the movie Her.  It was shot at night so I...

"Geez, it's Monday morning, is Rich really starting off the week with another hamfisted political post?" Yes. Yes. I am. There...

In the past several weeks I've had the fortune/misfortune of visiting three of LA's iconic outdoor venues, including last night'...

Did something I haven't done since George Bush (the 2nd one) was in office and bumbling his way through two unnecessary wars and a monum...

Like my friend George, I've been plugging away at this blog thing for a very long time. Since 2009, I've regularly put out 4 blogs a...

If you were to read the last 8 months of R17, and mind you I'm not sadistically suggesting you do, you would no doubt pickup on my griev...

Not long ago, I wrote posts about the sad state of the industry as it operates in today's sad state of the country. Since a certain schm...

How do you pay your bills?  Me, I'm old school. I always have some semblance of an idea of how much I have in my checking account. And w...

Let's talk Mara- Lago.  Why not, everybody else is. Admittedly, I'm not up to date on all the details of this rapidly unfolding stor...

This is the scenic 15 mile Ojai to Ventura bike trail. It's quite different than the Ballona Creek Bike Path I have ridden regularly for...

When this ignorant sociopathic monster was elected president in November 2016, I knew things were going to get bad. I think most of us did. ...

As of late, I've had a renewed interest in etymology. Perhaps it's because I'm writing more these days and I'm actively seek...

I love the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. I loved the book by Arthur Clark even more because the book doesn't leave much in the way of amb...

  It takes a special kind of person to put the welfare of others above the welfare of oneself. We see it in first responders all the time. C...

  Many times I don't know what I'm going to write on these pages until I actually start writing. And meandering. And re-ordering to ...

I hope I never have to spend a night in a hospital.  If I do, I'm hoping one of you good people will bring me some decent food, like a s...

Last Thursday I told the tale of how I began my adventures as a fledgling writer working on the IBM Selectric II that my father bought for m...

Since the advent of the Internet there have been a panoply (I intend to overuse this word until I have successfully made it part of the regu...