I opened a Google+ account to improve my search-engine optimization (SEO). It’s completely insane. Nothing makes sense. You put something in place, and then it changes. Why? No idea. After I made a Ghosts and Ballyhoo photo album, the order of the photos changed. Photo Number One became Number Nine, Number Seven became Number Eighteen,…
The cow must die
March 3, 2014
This is a sad video, but it isn’t graphic. And it makes a broader point, so please watch it. “Awww, ya dumb fucker.” No, the cow doesn’t deserve its fate, but the engineer did all he could. The cow had the entire world to stand in. For whatever reason it chose to position itself on…
The rot goes too deep
February 28, 2014
Today I stop trying to hold Mike Albee and Lura Dold accountable for defrauding me of $40,000 by exploiting the suicides of my parents in 2013. The rot goes too deep. What convinced me was this story, which the global media picked up. Nasty LinkedIn rejection goes viral (CNN) — When you’re a city’s “Communicator…
Mike Albee outs himself as a fraud
February 28, 2014
A con artist relies on people not checking too deeply into his background. I was guilty of that when I hired Mike Albee and Lura Dold of Sandpiper Publicity on July 5, 2013. In my defense, I’d just fired another ripoff PR firm—one that has a stellar reputation, by the way—that same day, and the…
Mike Albee was warned
February 25, 2014
When I found out on January 7, 2014, that Mike Albe and Lura Dold of the fake agency Sandpiper Publicity had defrauded me of $40,000 by exploiting the suicides of my parents in 2013, I offered Mike the opportunity to reimburse me. He never responded. PayPal refunded me $9000 after I provided them with incontrovertible…
Awed and humbled
February 24, 2014
We in the United States can easily lose perspective and forget that compared to most of the world, we have no problems. Watch as unarmed Ukrainian protestors are shot down by police and military snipers. But they don’t give up. It’s heartbreaking, ghastly footage. Unbelievable. Could you do that? I couldn’t. And they did it…
The joys of having a nonfunctional brain
February 22, 2014
The last coherent thing my father said to me was, “It’s hell when your brain doesn’t work.” Since I’d been knocked for a loop by the knowledge that we’d come to the end of the road, and now he’d have to go into hospice, I spoke without thinking. “Well, think of it as a vacation,”…
Watch for patterns
February 20, 2014
In Ghosts and Ballyhoo, one of the Lessons Learned is “Watch for Patterns,” pages 273-274. Watch for the patterns. They might help you perceive your destiny, make the right decisions, dodge a lot of grief, and endure that which you thought you couldn’t. A month ago, my cardiologist told me that I’d lost all the…
