Archive for July 2022
Pool Rant and Back to America?
It’s a good watch, not too long. And it’s from the pool, which always puts me in a good mood. Watch, you’ll see. There is an audio issue, again, but I was able to use iMovie to mostly fix it. I figured out the source, this time. It’s the inexpensive Redmi (or Xiaomi) Android phone.…Read More
Mistaken For Richard Gere
You’ll have to watch long enough into the video to get what the title is about. Funny. Two days ago when I made my last video, partially in that same pool, I met a Thai woman, Nina, and her family. Not just any Thai woman. What a life. World traveller, including 17 of the 50…Read More
Steak Lunch, Pool Time, and a Valid Rebuke From The Girl
I tried something new. Recording video from the phone and not my camera on the tripod while sitting at my desk, or the GoPro. Recorded on the phone, mashed and edited on the phone, uploaded to YouTube on the phone—all over the space of lunch and time in the pool. Getting it done happened in…Read More
The Banality of Good and Evil
In 1961 Hannah Arendt wrote for The New Yorker. Can one do evil without being evil? This was the puzzling question that the philosopher Hannah Arendt grappled with when she reported for The New Yorker in 1961 on the war crimes trial of Adolph Eichmann, the Nazi operative responsible for organising the transportation of millions of Jews and others to various...…Read More
Are You Worse Off With The Internet?
I tried something new today. For a couple of days I’ve been thinking about that theme. On the large, of course we’re better off with the Internet, but it’s not the right tool for the job for everything. Sometimes, you really do need to put down the damn phone, look people in the eye, and…Read More
Medium’s Partner Program and Idiocracy
This is my first post since since April of 2018. Recently, while traipsing around Thailand doing charity stuff, I got wind of Medium’s Partner Program where—unlike a direct subscription—it pays you based on a share of members’ reading time of your posts. Basically. That sounds cool to me. Somewhat like the YouTube monetization model, it puts the onus upon you to create stuff folks want to consume…early and often. There are requirements to apply for…Read More
Weird Sick, Withhold Food, Streaming Access Rant, Laughing At Starbucks’ Problems, and Stupid People
It actually starts off pretty gentle. The first bit is how I came down with a fever and huge body-ache at 11am and how I was done with it it under 24 hours—a new man. The rest gets rantier and rantier. The effort to monetize YouTube is seemingly going well. Thank you for your participation…Read More
A Rant About Whiners, Complainers, the Anonymous, and the “Hacked”
Just a quick Sunday evening post from me. I’m a bit beat and hungry. It’s to put up a video. And it’s sort, about 6 minutes. In case you wonder why I do a post for each video I publish, it’s because they get about 3 times the views, if not more. The monetization efforts…Read More
Villains Are The Kindest People
In the world of reality TV, there’s a particular series that’s the most successful of all time. Survivor. It premiered in 2000, 22 years ago. Season 43 will premier in September. It has 622 episodes under its belt. They run 2 seasons per year. I didn’t catch on until episode 7 of season 1. I…Read More
I Smell Like Pussy
This morning, my favorite sort of serendipity befell me and here I am, creating about it. Is it safe for work or kids? Not my decision. The video is a whopping 34 minutes but I think it’s worth the watch. The whole point of it is that last evening about 10pm, I got a call…Read More
Pork Schnitzel, Girl Calls, Be A Man, Helping Marc, and Helping You
I began, intending to do a clean short video about Marc, and it turned into quite a bit more. Personally, I really like this one. I hope you will too. I feel like I’m getting a bit better at it. But again, this is not to replace writing. It’s just another thing I can do…Read More
Closer To The Heart Update
If I take a gander back in my life, there’s a recognition that I learned a loving soul from my grandparents far more than from my parents. In that retrospect, it’s that my parents were busting ass on all the essentials to raise four boys—and guess what a handful I must have been. In the...…Read More
My Embarrassing Rant Caught On Video
For better or worse. That’s often how I think of this “creative” process in which I’m inexorably entwined. Over the years, it’s really rare that I write (or video) something I don’t publish. Even when it’s awful. The good, the bad, and the ugly. Warts and all. In this short, rather ridiculous video, I sit…Read More
The Pool Brings Out The Worst. It’s My Review Of [almost] Everything Thai Girl
I used that canned image because I like it in spite of the watermarks. In a past life, Getty Images came after me for $16K and I told them to fuck off. Didn’t pay the fucks a penny. “Don’t put your images on the open Internet then.” I have come to the notion that all…Read More
How To Do An Old-Man DicPic To a Young Thai Woman
Males have a pretty decent advantage over females in how our genitals age. It’s the brunt of jokes but, I always take pause because they are the bearers of children. Bearing children wreaks havoc on a pussy’s loveliness. A dude like me can fuck a thousand women over decades and his erect dick looks the...…Read More
Eating Papaya From My Backyard While Talking About the State of the World
This one has a lot in it, but I’m going to leave it as it is without a lot of commentary. I’m satisfied with my bit on the state of the world and how ridiculous it has become, but I’ll save it for the papaya fruit. Or, the durian fruit. That’s Yui, my girl, and...…Read More
Nice 4-Egg Runny Yolk Plate With Dry Whole Wheat Toast
Realizing that I did not snap a pic of the actual dish, I recalled that I did snap one of a cheddar cheese omelet and dry whole wheat toast from the same batch of eggs. They come in packages of 10 here, not a dozen. I hate it—though the eggs are uniformly fantastic. Free range…Read More
Mask Compliance And Dismissal And More
This is a video post. I’m still struggling with how to promote and publish them and my findings are that there’s no substitute for writing a blog post about each one. Not even close. It seems that my blog members are primarily about the written word and some will take in a video too. But…Read More
How About Daily Short Videos?
I both love and hate them. But I’m liking them more. For one, I see many YouTube creators with a shit ton of followers who do zero editing. No flashy stuff. It’s just get on and do the thing, publish easy. Usually, you don’t even need to thread two files together in an editor or…Read More
My Chance Meeting in Thailand With Russell Hantz Of Survivor Fame
Pretty much everything is covered in the roughly 50-minute uncensored, unedited, and uncut video Russell and I did over lunch today on Nai Harn beach on the very southern tip of Phuket island in Thailand, only 7 degrees north latitude. Texan Russell is no stranger to heat and humidity and this particular hot and humid…Read More