Grandma and Grandpa Land

The neighborhood south of my shitbox apartment is where I go for walks and rambles. I have a main route but go all over. I realized I have a fifteen year perspective on this couple of square miles. Most houses were built in the 1960-70s and almost all are two story (what I could call as a boy a rich people house two stories!) and so the neighborhood was solid grandma and grandpa land when I first looked around it. A neighborhood that was affluent to begin with and more important kept its trees.

In the 2012 election almost every yard had a Romney sign. One grandpa house had no sign but a yellow snake flag before the taller pole for Old Glory. (He had another pole for the state flag, but then eventually it was some weird Christian flag) The pole arrangment was perched in an immaculate yard, with yard art for the missus. In 2016, that old grandpa house had a Trump sign, one of only two houses in the neighborhood. The rest of the houses had no sign, or a smattering of Clinton signs. In 2020, a lot of Biden signs.

Stop there for a moment. The occupants changed, grandma and grandpa either dying off or downsizing or moving to Florida, a younger demographic of families moved in. Going about day to day I didn't notice, but from fifteen years altitude, yeah, all the play equipment in yards, not ot mention the kids who rarely were out of doors. The neighborhood got more electric vehicles. The old ICE rumble was replaced by the whine of the electric motor. Solar panels sprouted on roofs. Zero teardowns among the house sales, but quite a lot of additions. One house in particular insisted on looking like a hideous modern Jersey mob decor. Regardless, the neighborhood got bluer.

In 2020, not every house had a Biden sign, many had no sign. Immaculate Grandpa had a Trump sign and a Trump flag. In 2024, practically every house had a Harris sign. Two houses had Trump signs. Immaculate Grandpa was dead. They had an estate sale and sadly they bought cheap. Oh well. At least the lawn and garden always looked first rate.

Oh yeah I got accepted in a show. I got two pieces in.

Happy Family

While You Were Out

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The show is titled Chimera which is perfect for me as that is all I ever make. Chimeras. One person looked at my work and said there all just jokes aren't they? I said a joke is a chimera, starts out with a wolf head  or something and ends up the tail of a jackass.

Cardassian Dad

Star Trek geek time so stop reading if you ain't a geek. Star Trek Deep Space Nine had some of the best characters in the franchise.It also had some of the worst and most well written episodes. The series turned into a big smoking turd once they went to war, but that is to be expected. War confines stories.

Nevertheless there were some good war episodes and a two parter involved Cardassian former spy Garak hooking up with his dad, Enebran Tain. Paul Dooley (still alive, 97, yay) played Enebran Tain. Paul Dooley, if you look at his filmography played a preponderence of dad parts.

Of course Paul Dooley would be Cardassian Dad.