FourthOfJuly—Part4

Happy Fourth, y’all!

Watched 1776 and Yankee Doodle Dandy on Turner Classics to uphold my observation of this tradition.

Also, plenty of TV fireworks courtesy of Macy’s, PBS and others. 

Meanwhile, my neighborhood sounds like a war zone tonight as many neighbors work out their COVID frustrations with pyrotechnics. Can’t help feeling sorry for all the terrified dogs and others tonight.

Reflecting on the meaning of this holiday in this most unusual year, I remember other 4th of July observations in the 50s,60s,70s,80s,90s as well as in this century. Lots of flags, hot dogs, baseball, and laughs. Joey Chestnut won his 13th consecutive Nathan’s Coney Island hot dog eating contest with a record 75 dogs and buns!

Tomorrow we return to our reality living with COVID and a madman as President with no baseball.

With thanks for every blessing, this too shall pass!

Amen.

FourthOfJuly—Part 3

Covid summer continues apace as Trump goes to Mt Rushmore in the tradition of General George Custer!

No social distancing or required masks with thousands of true believers hailing their hero.

What could go wrong?

Add today’s transgression to his latest greatest hits of lies, outrages and treasonous escapades. 

The NY Times exposed the criminal disloyalty of the 45th President to American and Allied military combatants by allowing Russia to pay bounties to Taliban soldiers for killing our soldiers!

Like so many other instances, Trump tried to hide the truth to protect his role model Putin!

When Joe Biden is elected President in November, our long national nightmare will be over, leaving just the biggest clean up in American history,

Looking forward to the spectacle of Trump family members in shackles!

HappyFourth!

FourthOfJuly 2020—Part 2

Today is Thursday, July 2 and I had delicious sweet watermelon to celebrate.

A heatwave seems right for this time of year, however uncomfortable it becomes.

HappyAnniversaryNegroBaseballLeague!

Fourth of July—Part 1 (129,545 dead Americans from Covid-19)

Today is Tuesday, but I am making it Day One of my 4th of July celebration 2020!

Happy Land of the Free! Home of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness!

This year has been unlike any other in my 70 years.

The reality of life with this pandemic as my frame of reference is far from my wildest previous expectations of how life might change from any community or societal disaster like earthquake or tornado or flood.

The Great 2020 COVID-19 disaster brings with it suffering and death in horrific proportions, including the end of life at this point for 129,545 in this country alone! 

In the world more than 500,000 have died so far from 10,000,000 COVID cases. 

God help us.

119,000 dead Americans courtesy of Trump!

Friday update...

Bad week for Trump due to Supreme Court decision favoring Dreamers

RIP June 6

June 6 marks the anniversary of the 1944 D-Day invasion of France by America and her allies to begin the overthrow of Hitlers’s madness.
My Dad was part of that invasion as a 22 year old draftee soldiering as a member of the infantry inserted into the battle by Army gliders, known for high mortality. He was one of the few survivors after the glider crashed into pine trees to land. Virgil Warn fought for three days before being wounded by artillery shrapnel that left him disabled the rest of his life.
I tell my story, which is my Dad’s story, to illustrate the importance of June 6 in my life
Other reasons why my life history makes notable June 6:
June 6 is the birthday of my show biz mentor Gil Cates. From 1981 until his death in 2011, he and I became goombas, as he described it. For me, he enabled me to become chief PR guy for the Directors Guild of America, hired me to be his PR guy while he became the all time leader in producing Academy Awards Oscar shows and also hired me to be his PR consultant on retainer to UCLA School of Theater, Film and TV when he became its new Dean. I owe Gil a lot.
June 6 is also the anniversary of the last time I had sex. It was 1991 and she was my third and final wife. Debbie was also an only child and had been married a couple of times when our strong sexual chemistry in the fall of 1988 led us to get married in Palm Springs early in 1989. Debbie told me she was pregnant and since I was 39 with two ex-wives, I was happy about the idea of finally starting a family. I have vivid memories from the day we married, as it turned out to be my third and last wedding. Debbie lied to me about being pregnant then faked a miscarriage when her father died in September. She lied about getting rid of my favorite dog while I was out of town. She lied about much more over the years we remained together until she left me on July 31, 2000. No sex was just one of the reasons she left. Last year, I googled her out of curiosity because we had not talked since before 911. I was truly shocked to discover her obit from early in 2006. RIP Deborah Hunt of Pitman, New Jersey.
June 6 is also the anniversary of the death of Robert Kennedy in 1968. Bobby was my personal political hero. When he was killed, it changed everything. And it changed nothing....

This year June 6 adds the murder of George Floyd to my life’s reasons to remember the date.
#BlackLivesMatter

Welcome to June Gloom 2020!

June Gloom this year has a whole new meaning!
I have always been a fan of June Gloom in the past. Cloud cover before afternoon burn off is a welcome time of year because I don’t like the heat.
2020 has redefined June Gloom to include Covid-19 deaths and racist cops exposed and protests with thugs co-opting the outrage in the finest American criminal tradition of exploiting opportunities while hiding in plain sight amongst real protestors.
The straw that stirs our national toxic cocktail is none other than the guy who got elected to unite us but has never even tried to embrace that mandate; instead, substituting his innate instinct to divide and conquer.
 For the past five years, that man has displayed his very public attempt at the destruction of American values, ideals and core objectives through intentional malfeasance as well as  stupid actions and words!
I have evolved from a Celebity Apprentice watching voyeur of his unbridled egomania as a kind of rubber necker to his outrageous statements into a wide eyed concerned citizen witnessing mental illness harnessed to Presidential power.
With the world crumbling around him, our modern day Nero this morning fiddles through an hour long TV defense of his policies on all of it.
Clearly, as a world master salesman his Willi Loman pitch fashions a hyperbolic pile of word salad filled with his rose colored economic analysis. Today’s unexpectedly strong employment numbers have given him all the fuel he needs to tout his positive narrative of the great job he has done keeping American deaths to ONLY 110,000 plus!

Just the thought of President Joe Biden makes me smile away my June Gloom!

#Biden2020