Starting a Band at Age 68
Our newest member of our as yet-unnamed band is a guy named Paul who showed up and meshed with our lead guitarist, and we were basically on the same page.
We’ll get better.
Much better.
I can tell from talking with these two very cool people that all we need is a good drummer to complete the band. Hopefully he can carry a tune or two on vocals, or at least be able to do back-up vocals and harmonies.
Fronting a band at age sixty-eight is a bit different than fronting a rock and roll band when I was eighteen.
Only fifty years.
After practice I went by a local brewery with a great outdoor stage for better weather, and talked to the owners about booking our band when we’re ready.
Very positive.
Speaking of the state of state justice in this country, it was nice to see Idaho join the likes of Utah (don’t let those Mormons fool you), South Carolina, Mississippi, and Oklahoma, in making death by firing squad an option for the death penalty.
Where does that leave the remaining forty-five states of the union?
They already have the death-by-firing squad in place.
They are called the police.
That crazy bastard Kim Jong-un is performing “war exercises and national defense measures” as he performs mock nuclear attacks against the United States and South Korea.
Right.
It’s called practice.
The other crazy bastard, Trump, staged a rally today in Waco, Texas, where he is famous for being a deadbeat loser who doesn’t pay his bills.
He is a welch of the lowest order.
And he was president.
That old buzzard Jojo fucking up again, pulling a Steve Harvey and confusing Canada with Japan. If it were ANYONE ELSE on the planet, it would be ignored and that would be the end of it.
How many fucking cameras did they have on the Titanic? Every day they seem to discover another one.
You know I couldn’t forget that bald little lawn gnome Putin as he sends Russian nuclear missiles into Belarus.
This too, is not an exercise.
It’s a prelude to war on a global scale.
Did you know that “the minutes following a nuclear blast are vital to your survival.”
No shit.
Brilliant.
If you have ever seen any pictures of nuclear blast survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, you know that is definitely not the way you want to check out.
What are a few minutes going to do for you except maybe keep you alive long enough to get deathly sick, suffer from starvation and dehydration, and start to contemplate cannibalism?
If I have a couple minutes, I will try spending them embracing my wife and pets.
I am not speaking from experience, but it is my firm belief that if we encounter a nuclear blast in southern Ohio, it won’t be the only bomb dropped.
So we’re on a collision course with ourselves as we fight greed, ignorance, and disease.
Stay well.
