Theme Week’s End

And that does it for another theme week. I honestly never realized how many of my heroes had been murdered. (All of them except for Lydon and, frankly, he’d be the first overboard.) And most of them didn’t even deserve it. So this week failed in one of its goals. [...]

Theme Week: Malcolm X

Malcolm X didn’t hate white people. And that frankly amazes me. Not only because he had every right to but because it’s a lot better than I do on most days. He did, however, understand that it was ridiculous to ask people who had stolen your freedom to give it back. [...]

Theme Week: Julius Caesar

Last year, as a birthday present to myself, I bought a replica of Julius Caesar’s sword. It was to serve as a reminder to me. When Caesar was 38, he had nothing except a lot of debt and was head-man in a tiny little shit-hole somewhere in Spain. Although he had said [...]

Theme Week: Oscar Wilde

I thought it may be amusing to write about Wilde without quoting him. But that would be impossible. So let’s start off with one: “If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.” Sometimes they’ll kill you anyway. They certainly killed him.
He’s a complicated [...]

Theme Week: Marcus Tullius Cicero

Make no mistake, although some people still hate the fellow, and however HBO’s Rome chose to portray him, Cicero was a great man. He was a very rare thing: an attorney and politician with integrity. As a lawyer, he thought that no lawyer should ever turn down a just case on the [...]

Theme Week: John Lydon aka Johnny Rotten

Let’s get this fucker out the way first.
I said some time ago that there’s two things that relax me when I’m miserable. Owls and John Lydon. The owls are easy enough to explain. Owls are great. But what is it that I like about John Lydon? It’s certainly [...]

Theme Week: Heroes (Not the Show and I am Not Going to Watch That No Matter How Many Times People Tell me It’s Good. Just Don’t Care. Sorry)

It’s been a really long time since my last theme week. So long, in fact, that I forgot I even did theme weeks. (One of these days I need to figure out how to organize all of those into the side-bar.) So I’m doing another one. About my heroes. There’s [...]