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business park

As I was driving through the business park in Greensboro today that contains an Amazon fulfillment center, I was thinking, “there’s not a business out here that’s paying a cent in taxes.” Like so many of those parks, it had that look about it.

All buildings new, pristine. Not a one ever rented a shabby warehouse then worked up to something nicer.

I’ve seen many that were one-item companies that made such things as an anti-static wipe or a plastic injector pen. My guess is that they burn through the “incentives,” drain assets, then vanish.

But what do I know. Not a thing.

brian francis pretorius – my opera

The late My Opera Community friend and blogger Brian Francis Pretorius from South Africa. I miss him so much. He died a few years ago. Quite the marvelous friend.

https://brianfrances.wordpress.com/

After Opera Software killed off the online community, Brian and I moved to G+ (Google Plus) where we continued to have a good time. Then Google killed that off.

We continued on on Facebook, but the online fun was doomed. This WordPress has been kind of an archive.

I also archived my G+ activity on MeWe. MeWe is a closed community meaning you have to log in to see anything. These days I’m OK with that.

Brian Francis was fond of conventional telephone and used to call me a lot. I also called him. He was a heck of an ambassador for human beings.

wine to go

I didn’t know that Vito’s (Cornwallis/Golden Gate) had bottles of wine to go. There were bunches of these up front by the door for 10 bucks. 🍷

Olive Garden also has wine to go. I didn’t know these places did. Maybe everybody does.

celltower

It’s amazing how beautiful they are.

People travel great distances to look at this one.

There is a chemtrail branching off to the right. Government spraying.

fairy soap

Pure, white, and so high she’s been sitting on that soap for a week afraid to move.

ouch!

I remember when somebody looked at me wide-eyed and said, “you mean you don’t believe the assessment of ALL of the intelligence agencies?”

From today’s reading:

“Why would anyone give the lying, torturing, propagandizing, drug trafficking, coup-staging, warmongering, psychopathic Central Intelligence Agency the benefit of the doubt”

😁

https://consortiumnews.com/2021/02/14/government-secrecy-causes-conspiracy-theories/

columbo 1971 – lee grant starring, HUAC, plus host airport services

I was watching an episode of Columbo on DVD tonight. “Ransom for a Dead Man” 1971.

In the scene below, the company name “Host” on the cocktail lounge in LAX airport caught my eye. Brian and I both worked for Host a long long time ago. We knew a lot of people who did. Host ran a lot of those expensive businesses in airports all over the place.

In the picture below, actors Lee Grant and Peter Falk are going into the Host cocktail lounge where he will shortly charge her with murder.

Well prior to this television drama, Lee Grant was put out of work for a long time due to being charged under the McCarthy HUAC communist thing. She was blacklisted for twelve years, I think.

Will probably start having those type hearings again pretty soon.

columbo pilot

Watching a favorite old TV series, in this case Columbo, the pilot from 1968.

I like to notice trivial details, like the preponderance of IBM Selectric typewriters and the make and model of the telephones.

In this scene I was flinching because the actor was dialing a telephone with a pencil, which is bad form. In another scene, somebody was dialing the phone with their finger but turning the dial back rather than releasing it at the finger stop. Bad, bad, bad. lol

I also noticed the thick blanket of smog over Los Angeles in other scenes.

i was barely 21

This really happened. I was barely 21. I should have been barely 18 but was too scared to go sooner.

The first time I ever walked into a gay nightclub (Wham! 1011 Arnold Street, Greensboro), the DJ, Bobby “DJ” Smith, leaned out of the booth and said, “oh baby, fresh meat in the club, you’re so hot!” That scared the hell out of me yet I felt so validated.

italo disco

It took awhile for me to discover that a genre of dance music I loved in the 80’s (and currently under revival) had the name of Italo Disco.

I also knew the name of the genre hi-NRG and loved it, too. hi-NRG was big-time cardio and would send you out the door wringing wet and sometimes stinkin’. It was a good stank as long as it was from the recently showered.

A few hours of this dancing would send one home, or wherever, able to go on for another week. I spent a lot of money chasing the music in 12″ vinyl. Some woman on Lee Street near the Biff Burger had the best store for it.

There was a older Lumbee guy named Doug who was one of the best to watch on the dance floor. He had it down. He liked to tell Lumbee stories.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italo_disco
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hi-NRG