A chronicle of all things Geek.
September 4, 2015
The strangest thing about being a pacifist is violent fantasies. Yes I imagine beating people up. I would even go as far as punching the air imagining the person I want to beat up. I will make noise and have other people in the house will ask what I am doing. I have to calm down or I am going to break something.
August 29, 2015
In 2008 I lost 3 people that I hold dear: my father, my Aunt Marge, and my personal hero George Carlin. My dad was 60 years old and died of a heart attack. His father died of a heart attack at 62 when I was 2 months old. Both of them were very obese men, and so was I. That’s why I lost weight. I didn’t want to follow them.
My Aunt Marge was my mom’s sister and she was very obese with type 2 diabetes. I do have fond memories of her. She was my crazy aunt. Never married and had no kids. She would take me and my brother out to the movies, the park, or the dinner. As I got older she started losing it. Making up stories about me, my brother, or cousins. It was sad.
George Carlin I was a fan when I was young catching his shows on HBO. I love his take on the world. His clever use of language was part of his humor. I saw him in concert once and I was laughing so hard I had my head between my legs. I miss him.
August 16, 2015
Some podcasts are doing the Dog Days of Podcasting where people post an episode for a day throughout August. My fellow podcaster Nutty Nuchtchas from the Nutty Bites podcast is doing that with interviews of other interesting people. She put out a call and I volunteered to be a guest. We talked about podcasting and other things. You can listen on the link below.
August 16, 2015
When I was 11 my 6th grade class took a trip to a amusement near Buffalo, NY called Darien Lake. This is the only time I shoplifted. This was back in 1985 where there wasn’t the restriction on backpacks. I had money but I spent it on food and the arcade with nothing for a souvenir. All my classmates talked about getting something and I wanted to but couldn’t. I grab a toy pop gun and put it in my backpack. When I left the shop I took the gun out and threw away the wrapping. Also I didn’t get caught, and promised myself that I wouldn’t do it again. Yes I knew better, but I will say that I haven’t broken my promise, and I didn’t shoplifted again.
August 9, 2015
When I was a kid I collected comic books, and was a fan of Marvel back into the 80’s. I guess every kid that buys them hopes that one day some of them would be worth something. I held on to them until recently and take them to a comic shop only to find them not worth anything. I kinda figured that they might not be worth it, so I gave them away.
My late father was a hoarder and we could never have a car in the garage because of the junk he accumulated. I would joke about it being my inheritance, and it was. The line he always used was, “It could be worth something, someday.” I hated when he said that. Some of the things were like the scrap metal, but most of it was junk.
What little I know of my dad growing up and the events that would cause it. He was in an iron lung for polio when he was a kid. Couldn’t see his family or his friends from school. Next traumatic was serving in the army during the Vietnam war and saw friends and squad mates die. He did his tour and came back home. Then his parents died: first his mom and then his dad.
What I have to say it I didn’t follow him. I didn’t hoard things.
July 20, 2015
I have said that I will be wrapping up the Radical Geek and talked about doing another podcast after this is done. Target Acquired where I make fun of telemarketers, but a lot of them are robocalls, so there is no reaction. I decided to go back to an old idea where I review self published genre fiction. Call it Literary Wasteland.
June 28, 2015
One of my hobbies is that of playing table top games. I have tried to make games up but never succeeded. I do have an idea of a board game called Mental Meltdown. It is a trivia game where 7 cards are dealt face down and the categories are on the backs. The player would choose the card he or she wants and the opposing player would read the question that corresponds to the spot on the board. Some of the question are worth 3 points while the rest are worth 1 and a reset mechanism that would flush the cards and deal a new set. Long game would be until 21 points. Shorter games would be 11 or 15.
June 27, 2015
I want to tell my readers more about myself. I attempted suicide twice in my life. When I was 19 I was in college I tried hanging myself of the loft in my dorm room with my karate belt. I had it round my neck and was standing on a chair. I slowing lean forward and the chair comes out under me. My toes touch on the floor and being partially strangled. I took the crude noose off and promised not to do that again. Years latter in my mid-20’s and I was struggling with the working world. I tried a garbage bag and rubber band over my head when I was asleep. I took the bag off my head told myself it was stupid. The issue was my ADHD wasn’t treated and made my mind go to dark places. Once I went on medication that train of thought was gone.
June 27, 2015
I am wrapping up the video podcast but I am going to try a blog more. Be more out going and turn this into a Vlog maybe. Look for more posts in the future.
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