sin sabor

Absolutely zero flavor. I don’t know how they did it.

the fruit in denny’s

Denny’s in Battleboro, North Carolina.

Denny’s has always had an adorable menu, but it’s especially cute now with their social media influencers.

Mind-blowingly good breakfast. Look at that fruit cup.

Denny’s always reminds me of a wonderful experience I had in one in Guadalajara, Mexico, early 1980s

I was still closeted, sad, and afraid of everything. Pre-Internet, it wasn’t easy to find out things. I was heading home and was eating alone in downtown Guadalajara Denny’s late on a weekend night.

A table of nice looking guys kept looking over at me. One of them finally said, “are you going to come over here and sit with us, or what?” They took me to a series of fabulous nightclubs that weekend, in effect, yanking me out of the closet. It really turned my life around.

39 years later and I still know some of the guys from that table and their families. ❤️

classical stream

Streaming some Tchaikovsky in a cheap hotel room.

adorable

What’s not to love?

so harshly judgemental

I’ll be reading a long, interesting, thoughtful article, and I’ll run across one swapped instance of bares/bears, they’re/their, or payed.

Me: This shit’s rubbish. Abandoning! 🤣

mother’s day

fast fan

Spinning so fast that the blades were invisible.

saturday marg

nada de nuevo

saratoga hotel explosion havana cuba

The hotel explosion yesterday in Havana was the Saratoga. In 2005, we spent an afternoon exploring that area.

Our 2005 pic shows the green Saratoga as seen from the steps of the Capitolio (Capitol Building). The other pic is a recent news one from granma.cu moments after the explosion.

When I heard of the explosion today, the first thing I thought was that Miami did it. Probably not true. It looks to have been a liquefied natural gas explosion.

I’ll be waiting to see what happens to the building. You know it will break hearts to see it come down.

strange thoughts at work – televangelists

Weird things that happen during the work day.

I use the term “minister” loosely below.

I’m minding my own business at work, and the name Creflo Dollar pops into my head. To me, a fairly boring televangelist.

It’s all beause I’m in a forum involving shortwave radio, and an earlier deceased minister named Bro Stair of Walterboro, South Carolina came up. His fondness was broadcasting by shortwave radio and satellite link.

Then I thought back to Reverend Ike (Frederick J. Eikerenkoetter II). As a child, I used to hear his wailing cadence coming out of AM radios everywhere. “You can’t lose with the stuff I use.” “Do you want pie in the sky when you die, or do you want your pie now with ice cream on top?” Absolutely unforgettable.

In my opinion, all swindlers.

As far as charisma, I would rank them like this:

— Reverend Ike

(big gap)

— Bro Stair

(another big gap)

— Creflo Dollar