Richard Dreyfuss The Actor

The movie Stand By Me produced in 1986 shows Richard Dreyfuss acting the part of a grown man writing about his youth and the ones he grew up with; he writes a diary or journal saying the ones he grew up with as a child and the friends he's made will be a short duration in his life and the chances he will grow apart not ever seeing his buddies as we go our own ways in this fast moving society in this industrialized world. For many of us this so very true. For decades for more than a quarter century the youths I had grown up with had gone their own ways never to be seen again until most recently. Call it an informal reunion call it what you will but I did the unusual and looked up some of my old buddies and not so much old buddies but mostly I confess it was good for linking up hooking up making contact even if only by phone or e-mail I was pleased to know an achievement had been accomplished by simply looking up these long ago friends. I did not have to do the Bill Gates thing and make a billion dollars to feel this well being but simply look up an old familiar friend even though it was for the first time in some thirty five or forty years later. Stand by me oh oh stand by me.

The News

If I were a newspaper columnist I'd be fired so fast my head would be swimming. I've eluded two topics so far wandered from the subject matter and got involved in my own personal malady. It's the earthquake Bobby boy. There I go again talking to myself in this cyber world. Some fifty thousand lives were lost most recently in Haiti. The local talk show hosts I know from my conversations on the air speak live on the air about this disaster and I cannot ignore this story totally just because I've never been to Haiti or have any personal or financial interest there an island to itself a third world country is only my guess make me President of The United States and a real national disaster would be in the making. Mind you I am not a reporter but a blogger where the news is of my opinion who likes relating to the common man on the streets because you see I am a common man of the streets. Aren't I? I've made three entries for one day and that is a record breaker.

Haiti

Get serious I say to myself. Yes I am guilty of talking to myself. One can do that when writing a blog or journal. That place in time is a real disaster not my chess game. Nobody cares about my chess game except me. I'm not in the limelight when chess is concern. No one idolizes me for my game as you see my ratings are so low and slipping lower that when I play I am an invisible man maybe like Ellison's book "The Invisible Man". His book was very known but I did not read it I haven't the patience to read books much and in this respect who has the patience to read my journal? Good God I'm coming off a series of chess loses and my self esteem has gone into the deepest depths of the ocean somewhere down there where the Titanic sunk I say wouldn't you think so? My experiences isn't playing chess so much as is my writing experiences writing journals. Tennis was/is another one of my pastimes or my now times come to think of it. Isn't my past time being a retired Postal worker? If I were a postal worker and my wife were a lady would she marry me anyway would should have my baby? Sorry about being in such a silly mood of course my wife already married me.

Worldwide Disaster

No it's not about my chess game. Or is it? It is a disaster so why don't I do like I did before and hang it up at least for awhile until I can regroup myself and get more serious instead of plowing into a game with which I have no weapons? Yes why don't I do that? It worked two times before when my opponents were beating me relentlessly and I hung it up for a time forgot about the game but God came to me and summon me to tell me, Robert a calling to you is being made. Play chess. But until that time comes if at all I will rest for when and if God calls for me to come back with a vengeance and play chess!

Gold Standard

I believe an artist can view a photograph look at it study it and from that image draw from it and produce an enhanced image worth a multitude times more in value be it monetary or personal worth I've seen the works and the drawings of the century greats namely yes say it all together Pablo Picasso and Van Gogh a few among the many great artists. Is this merely an opinion of mine or a fact? I've got news for you.

Pablo Picasso

He is the gold standard the God of art in the Western World among Van Gogh and Rembrandt I don't know enough about art but I am learning and studying art work and those who can command sums of money for what I think is over priced since so many other artists are as good if not better. True just because someone doesn't like Van Gogh and his drawings doesn't mean his works isn't any good but the dollar amount for his drawings do speak in volume. You'd think maybe the likes of any other artist or maybe even me(I'm not an artist) would qualify to be the next one in line for a pay day but no unfortunately it doesn't work out this way but only in our dreams. My name in Wikipedia with the first and last name spelled correctly or whatever my pen name happens to be then would just maybe identify me as being an artist. What matters is that most of the drawings I draw I like as well as others who have come to view what I have drawn. Isn't this the important part of art? That it is appreciated? I myself must be fascinated with the subject matter at hand before I can draw any picture with heart and soul and design. A marble chess board and marble chess pieces I possess is a work of art but not a picture I would draw. The feeling just has to be there for me to do a drawing. Can I do it? That is the question. I cruise my mind for what is good for me to draw.

Keeping A Journal

Call it a diary or a journal but read it years from the time you wrote it and the memories will glide you down through a splendid memory lane. It is the same as going back in time in a time machine it is just a matter what kind or type of machine you are using to get there. The Chinese have been doing it for thousands of years when they invented ink and paper. Now it's time to step it up a notch or even light years ahead of our time with these high tech machines most which elude me but I will look at them and try to understand them with the aid of this engine search if I can it can answer my questions and teach me new things in response to my statements as well. The world is all around me it is mine for the taking. I'm not the only one living in the dark ages when I asked a former coworker I had looked up who didn't know what a GPS was or is. Keeping a journal can be wonderful of all the things I said is like taking a favorite photograph preserving it for years and then examining it in the future the old news of the past becomes the new since much of what we knew have become the forgotten. It is very simple there is no need or reason for confusion. Listen up.

The Chase

They were playing up to the story Bonnie and Clyde dressing up the part but alcohol and the drugs put them steps too far into tragedy they could not tell the real world from their fantasy. They went too far when they "pretended" to rob a bank they had gone too far and led the cops in hot pursuit firing back with their Browning automatic in rapid fire. SWAT was already on to them returning automatic fire filling their get away vehicle with Swiss holes like slicing cheese with a machine. Their chances of getting away were slim as the light around them grew dim their last stand was their final moments as gun fire blazed in and around them like a Chinese fireworks show during Chinese New Year. The end had come despite their efforts to run there they lied cold and stiff they had finally met their match for that day they had become the catch.

Survivial of The Fittest

Rosy Allen retires. We will survive. She shall sorely be missed. They come and they go and this is her time. She's our local news person who speaks of the news the personality for many of decades on this news talk station KGO radio 810 a station I have come to know and listen to at work as a machine operator for eighteen years a rather tedious hum drum boring job when we weren't fighting and punching each other out. The radio station was in to ponder and think about we had our opinions to the ramifications of the news. And now you have it here in this blog to read and wonder where the hell I am coming from regarding the news.

Taking A Cruise

No I'm not going any time soon if at all. But be my guest go ahead and cruise the ships are twice the size of the Titanic and the fear of sinking is miles away it's not going to happen in my mind or yours knock on wood God don't let it happen. Anyhow they looks like shopping malls inside that is how large they are. Besides I'm already on a cruise just hanging around this house of mine what with the earth spinning around and revolving around the earth I can go for a free ride. Man travels on the cheap I ought to write a book or keep a blog.

My Best Blog

This is my best blog and why so you might ask me? It's so easy that is why. Anyone but anyone has and loves to express themselves when it comes to the news. Even my wife talks to me when a news breaking story arrives and I pick up on it and I'm so willing to tell it to the world. Certainly my wife can listen to me and relate to my opinion and me me hers. Don't you have one oh dear reader? You see I am thinking of you all the time and when you are in time of need you can read me please me even try to tease me. Oh....sorry about that. I've been spending alot of time talking to this engine search and it talks back to me! Now you think I really must be nuts. You must know my opinion needs to be based on the facts. The computer can give it to me. What do I think about China rising to the top of the rankings in world superpower status? I have no ideal. Is it? Surely such a backward nation could never achieve what the great nation of America has achieved (I love to display reverse psychology it's good for the gander).