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Happy Halloween In Advance

Posted on October 25, 2020 by Mike Slickster

Fall is in full swing, at least for the vibrant colors. Temperature-wise, the area around Philly has been more like late-spring and early-summer, not that I’m complaining. A cold front is passing through now, which will reset the climate to … Continue reading →

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A Whole Lot About Nothing

Posted on August 15, 2020 by Mike Slickster

Here it is coming into week 23 of my writing about the pandemic. I’ll spare the details, but one way to disperse a crowd of unmasked, non-socially distanced people is to start coughing or sneezing. It’s amazing how fast they … Continue reading →

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The New Normal

Posted on May 3, 2020 by Mike Slickster

Scenes from the Delaware River at Lardner’s Point in Philadelphia, Pa. Got my stimulus check in the mail yesterday. Twelve hundred bucks is a nice chunk of change to use for whatever, but most who received it will be depositing … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged 12-string guitar, Andalusia, back rent, Bensalem, big-box stores, bills, bird-watching, birthday, Bloomberg, Bristol Borough, cats, christmas, clutch, complaining, congregations, contracted economy, cooper, COVID-19, daily walks, daydreaming, Delaware River, designer masks, diatribes, dressing rooms, engineer boots, entertainment, Epiphone, exercise, favorite charities, food, foreseeable future, gatherings, groceries, hand sanitizer, historians, housing expenses, internet, isolation, journalism, journals, lakes, Lardner's Point, large crowds, leather jacket, Living In A Ghost Town, lockdown, loss, mail, masses, May, memes, mentally insane, moisturizing lotion, music fesivals, musical instruments, neighborhood, new clothes, New Normal, newspapers, online, pandemic, parks, peachy-keen, Pen Ryn Estate, Pennsylvania, Pennypack Park on the Delaware River, philadelphia, photographer, photography, positive edge, puppy dogs, quarantine, rivers, rolling stones, sagging economy, self-imposed quarantine, share, snafu, sneakers, social media, socially distanced, stimulus check, stir crazy, subsidy, sunsets, supermarket, tirade, toilet paper, toilet-tissue aisle, TV, U.S., unemployment, unemployment compensation, wahing hands, waterways, Wharf | Leave a comment

Pandemic Isolation: Week Six

Posted on April 19, 2020 by Mike Slickster

The cloth masks arrived from Amazon last Wednesday. It’s a good thing they did. Pennsylvania’s Secretary of the Department of Health, Dr. Rachel Levine, signed an order on that day, requiring all workers and customers at essential businesses that are … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged aisles, Amazon, apartment complex, Bald Eagles, binge, bird-watcher, birds of prey, boundary, cloth masks, commonwealth, COVID-19, crazy people, Delaware River, destroyer, died, disease, Dr. Rachel Levine, e-mail, eaglets, enforcement, essential businesses, excuse, fair, fine-feathered friends, flat, food-shopping, Frank, groceries, gummy bears, hype, isolation, jerk, joking, Kinks, liberals, life, MAGA hat, management, media, mixed nuts, needed supplies, nesting pair, NJ, online, order, ospreys, pandemic, panicking, paranoia, Pat, Pennsylvania, Pennypack Park, philadelphia, political leanings, politics, potentially infected people, pound, reasoning, requirement to wear masks, Riverton, scope, Secretary of the Department of Health, social distancing, stranger, supermarket, tenants, tirade, toilet paper, treats, tripod, Trumpers, week six, weight gain, workers | 2 Comments

Strange Days Indeed

Posted on March 28, 2020 by Mike Slickster

Into week three of my self-induced isolation—now lawfully mandated here in Bucks County, PA—I don’t foresee an end to this COVID-19 crisis anytime soon in the U.S., nor anywhere else in the world; although, the tide of the coronavirus disease … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged 14th century, 2020, america, April 15, Asia, be safe, birding, Black Death, Bucks County, cartridges, catchphrase, China, Connecticut, Coronavirus, COVID-19, crisis, cubital fossa, deadline, Delaware River, disease, documents, downloading, drone, elbow, europe, exercise, exponential curve, facetious, forms, governors, Great Bubonic Plague, groceries, haircut, ink, inkjet, IRS, isolation, john lennon, July 15th, lawfully mandated, mandatory, mayors, monty python, neighborhood, New Jersey, new york, news, NJ, Nobody Told Me, office supplies, orders, ospreys, overly offended, pandemic, Pennsylvania Department of Revenue, photos, planet, President Trump, printer, procrastinate, quarantine, safe sex, sensitive, South Korea, Staples, stay at home, Strange Days Indeed, supermarket, survey, Tax Day, taxes, traffic, Turkey Vulture Shuffle, turkey vultures, U.S., wash hands, Website | Leave a comment

Today’s Tirade: Put a Sock in It!

Posted on December 14, 2019 by Mike Slickster

Why do small dogs have such annoying barks? Not only does the shrill of their yapping grind my nerves like someone’s shifting the gears of a standard transmission without applying the clutch, but the sheer intensity of the mongrel’s yipping, … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged animal, annoyance, annoying, apartment, asylum, authorities, butt, caricature, chores, christmas, cleaners, complaint, complex, composing, crescendo, critter, cur, diatribe, diet, dog, dog excrement, dogs, Fitbit, gifts, gloomy, goodies, google, habitual barking, hallway, help, holidays, intensity, lady, life, love, mainspring, mall, memes, mongrel, move out, mutt, mysteries, neighbors, nemeses, nerves, Net, next door, nuisance, Oh my God, pain, photos, Pink Floyd, politely, pounds, raining, rainy, raveled, repeatedly, sanity, Seamus the Dog, shrieking, shut, siren, small dogs, sock, sorted, steps, supermarket, tenants, terrified, tirade, today's tirade, trap, twenty-four years, window, woman, yapping, yipping | 4 Comments

My Final Tirade for 2017

Posted on December 30, 2017 by Mike Slickster

Pick any New Year’s resolutions yet? Oh, you say you’re perfect and don’t need to? Well, bless your little heart. Wish I could feel the same way with my being far from it. Although, every year it’s the same thing: … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged aisle, annoyance, asses, bellyache, bitch, cigars, complain, computer, cooper, crap, derelicts, drivers, good luck, Happy New Year, January, jerk, key-scratching, locking valve-stem caps, marauder, Merriam-Webster, motorists, neighbor, New Year's resolutions, Pearls Before Swine, perfection, petty, profanity, realistic goals, seagulls, shopping carts, smart-ass, smart-phone zombies, social media, Stephan Pastis, supermarket, tirade, turn signals, twitter, unrealistic resolutions, vulgarity, weisenheimer, wise-ass, zapped | 3 Comments

Time to Air Out the Dirty Laundry

Posted on December 23, 2017 by Mike Slickster

Here we are on Festivus, a day for us to air our grievances, my kind of day by golly! Although, everyday is a day like that for me. Why should today be any different? For instance, when I’m counting calories … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged bananas, calories, christmas, congressmen, cucumbers, dairy aisle, dirty laundry, ditty, fat butt, festivus, food-shopping, Give Peace a Chance, grievances, guesstimate, investment portfolio, john lennon, mayonnaise, Mediterranean salad bar, new year, paper plates, political aisle, poor, procrastinators, produce, rich, scale, senators, servings, Steampunk Boogie Band, supermarket, washing dishes | Leave a comment

Things That Make Me Go, “Hmmmmmm!”

Posted on October 14, 2017 by Mike Slickster

Why are the crowns of North Korean military hats so large in circumference? Are openly carrying pencils and small notepads while in Kim Jong-un’s presence part of the North Korean military protocol? What is it exactly that all those old … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged AARP, bald, cars, cheap, click-bait headlines, cover song, cube, diatribe, door, drivers, e-mail, Hmmmmmm, Kim Jong-un, Looney Tunes, Mr. Clean, Murphy, nonsense, North Korean Military, novel, politics, Porky Pig, Prize Patrol, Publisher's Clearing House, religion, Sarobia: Sanctuary for Humans, shipping carts, shit, shoppers, shopping carts, social media, supermarket, talk, thanks, tirade, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, traffic, tribute, turn signals, writer's block, You Don't Know How It Feels, you're welcome, zip-lock package | 2 Comments

New Moon Rantings

Posted on June 24, 2017 by Mike Slickster

Looking at the grocery store’s magazine rack yesterday made me think, what kind of sick world are we living in? Last week a judge at a trial found a teenager guilty of involuntary manslaughter for the latter’s repeatedly urging and … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged acoustic guitar, American student, Barry McGuire, Bensalem Police Department, boyfriend, buck moon, carbon monoxide, cellphone, cigars, cold war, coma, complaining, death, Democrats, diatribe, dying, earworm, essay, europe, Eve of Destruction, facebook, followers, frocery store, frustrations, full moon, girlfriend, grocery store, Gun Violence Archive, health care, homeland, idiot neighbors, internet, involuntary manslaughter, Kris Kristofferson, madman, magazines, Mass shootings, Me and Bobby McGee, melee, melle, middle east, nefarious ideology, new moon, North Korea, noxious fumes, poisoning, political hatred, politicians, postal, president, radical extremists, radical idealism, rags, rant, rantings, refugees, Republican, Robin Hood, Sheriffs of Nottingham, sick world, social media, strike three, supermarket, teens, terrorism, texted, texting, tirade, toxic fumes, twitter, unfollow, vindictiveness, vitriolic speech, World War III | Leave a comment

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