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Monday, June 8, 2020

Repair . . .

https://www.amazon.com/EZTool-Watch-Repair-Wrench-Tool/dp/B01DU47EEM

First thing there's protocol.
Then there's this thing they call compassion.
Throw in empathy and a little consideration.

Can't you see behind the curtain;
Through the cloud of rancid air?
There's a needy child for certain
And the damage that's done requires repair.

The ordinary things
You can expect from ordinary men.
There's no option for "extra."
"Sub" is the best that he possibly can.

Vain attempts at saving face.
Rationalization from those who thought
He was a savior.
He is their savior.

Just call your handyman
To estimate what this will cost.
Calculate long-term effects.
Inventory the loss.

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Monday, June 1, 2020

To Mask . . .

https://www.reverbnation.com/theshakespeareanthespiangcrew

. . . or NOT to mask . . .

(from https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/trump-vs-biden-coronavirus-mask-photo-may-be-2020-s-ncna1217646)

". . . Tara Setmayer . . . (said) the mask really is symbolic of a man who is secure in his manhood, “not a petulant man-child driven by faux bravado and malignant narcissism.”. . . commentator Matt Lewis, made the observation that “one man creates the illusion of masculinity by projecting invulnerability. The other lives the virtues of manliness by protecting others.” Perhaps former Missouri senator and NBC/MSNBC contributor Claire McCaskill said it best: “Real men wear masks.”. . . "

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Tuesday, May 23, 2017

Like . . .

. . . a child. . .

(from https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/15/opinion/trump-classified-data.html?smid=fb-share)
". . . There are three tasks that most mature adults have sort of figured out by the time they hit 25. Trump has mastered none of them. Immaturity is becoming the dominant note of his presidency. . . First, most adults have learned to sit still. But mentally, Trump is still a 7-year-old boy who is bouncing around the classroom. Trump’s answers in these interviews are not very long — 200 words at the high end — but he will typically flit through four or five topics before ending up with how unfair the press is to him. . . He is ill informed about his own policies and tramples his own talking points. . . most people of drinking age have achieved some accurate sense of themselves, some internal criteria to measure their own merits and demerits. But Trump seems to need perpetual outside approval to stabilize his sense of self, so he is perpetually desperate for approval, telling heroic fabulist tales about himself. . . “In a short period of time I understood everything there was to know about health care,” he told Time. “A lot of the people have said that, some people said it was the single best speech ever made in that chamber,” he told The Associated Press, referring to his joint session speech. . . By Trump’s own account, he knows more about aircraft carrier technology than the Navy. . .He is thus the all-time record-holder of the Dunning-Kruger effect, the phenomenon in which the incompetent person is too incompetent to understand his own incompetence. . . "

. . . "ay, there's the rub!"

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Friday, March 11, 2016

It's OK . . .

. . . to change your mind. . .

(from http://wallstreetonparade.com/2016/02/new-york-times-rethinks-hillary-clinton-for-president/)
". . . One month ago, the Old Gray Lady (the New York Times) said that Democratic primary voters “have the chance to nominate one of the most broadly and deeply qualified presidential candidates in modern history.” . . . Last Friday, the same editorial board at the New York Times that had endorsed Hillary Clinton less than a month earlier, compared her to a “mischievous child.” The Times wrote: “ ‘Everybody does it,’ is an excuse expected from a mischievous child, not a presidential candidate. But that is Hillary Clinton’s latest defense for making closed-door, richly paid speeches to big banks, which many middle-class Americans still blame for their economic pain, and then refusing to release the transcripts.” . . ."

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Friday, April 24, 2015

Puzzled . . .

. . . about what I should learn from this . . .

(from http://riyadhconnect.com/african-girl-receives-thousands-of-riyals-in-donations-after-man-in-saudi-posts-selfie-with-her/)
An African child has received thousands of riyals in donations after a man posted a selfie with her picking through trash in the background on Twitter in the Saudi city of Jeddah.

The photo sparked outrage on Twitter and prompted a huge outpouring of kindness online.

Local newspaper Al Marsad reported that the man who came under heavy criticism for taking the selfie, roamed Jeddah until he found the girl so he can apologise and offer her gifts.

Since the selfie was posted, generous Twitter users have donated money and gifts to the girl. Famous Saudi rally driver Yazeed Al-Rajhi donated SR50,000 to the little girl.

Other supporters have also donated huge amounts and a businessman pledged to give the girl a monthly allowance for life.

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Thursday, December 18, 2014

Catch . . .

She said it was almost time

For me to go

I said I was feeling fine

And waxing so poetic

I was the silver-tongued devil

At least in my own eyes

How I lied

Oh how I tried

I want to catch the brass ring

Before it passes me by

I want to catch the brass ring

It's something that I just

Have to try

Please don't ask me why

I said I'm not gonna whine

Because I know

About the way they operate

And where they go for breakfast

In this exclusive and privileged world

You will find me

Sometime soon

I want to catch the brass ring

Before it passes me by

I want to catch the brass ring

It's something that I just

Have to try

Please don't ask me why

Would you ask a child

What he likes about candy

Would you ask a dog not to bite

Would you ask the sun not to shine

Or the stars not to

Twinkle from their heights

Everybody's not the same

You ought to know

Whether they strictly be mundane

Are they the life of the party

In the confusion

I'm easily forced to my corner

Of the room

In the gloom

I want to catch the brass ring

Before it passes me by

I want to catch the brass ring

It's something that I just

Have to try

Please don't ask me why

The Brass Ring
©2004 by Ray Jozwiak

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My latest solo release, '2014' of original, instrumental piano music, can be downloaded digitally at:

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Wednesday, August 6, 2014

The Letter . . .

. . . no, it'd not Sesame Street . . .

That "A" word, atheist, always scared me as a child. I always felt sorry for people who did not believe in my 'God'. But I guess I have to accept that if you don't believe in a 'theistic' invasive god, you MUST be an "A-THEIST". So be it. Maybe that's what I am. So where do these type-"A" people find hope? . . . many places . . .

(from http://ragingrev.com/2010/03/regarding-hope-the-atheists-view/)
". . . People give me hope daily. Sometimes people take some of my hope away, but when we make progress toward a brighter future it is renewed. When we do good things to one another or fight for causes we deem just, I am overwhelmed by hope. When one of us spends his or her life’s work on developing cures for diseases and cancers it gives me hope that we care about one another, and that if we keep doing so eventually we’ll get to our next step toward a society that can be considered appropriate.

I have a hope that one day our species will find a way to cope with the problems of life without a need for religion and that also one day there will be social justice for all people. I have hope that at some point in the near future that technology will be developed that can provide nutritious food for all people and that we will use that technology to actually feed people. In the idea that our prejudices and our failures will one day be forgotten. . . "

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My latest solo release, '2014' of original, instrumental piano music, can be downloaded digitally at:

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Also, be sure to visit:
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Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Go Figure. . .

I watched WAAAYYYY too much television than is healthy when I was a child. Now I barely have time to watch ANY! And I don't feel like I'm missing much. Yes, there are some clever, cutting edge television programs on these days. Matter of fact, the sheer number of choices of television entertainment available today is mind boggling compared with that of my youth, yet I watched it like a hawk then, but avoid it like the plague now.

Go figure. . .
BTW- the photo above is Rose Marie, co-star of the Dick Van Dyke Show (one among MANY other shows of the era) which ran from 1961 through 1966 and which, one of my good friends and musical OHO compatriots feels, sounds (or at least formerly sounded) very much like the lead vocalist in this legendary prog-rock ensemble, theory with which I can hardly argue . . .

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Coming April 8, 2014 - '2014' by Ray Jozwiak
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Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Friends . . .

NO, not the television show. . .

Many have sung of the great value of friends. I now realize how differently I value friends from a more mature perspective than I did as a child but I'm not really sure I can say with accuracy that I valued them any less as a child. I only valued them differently without the wisdom these many years have bestowed upon me.

Of course, as you well know, this has everything to do with music. Many websites list their 'top friendship songs' which vary but contain many common titles. So here's a list, based upon several sites but compiled by me of some of them:

You've Got To Have Friends by Buzzy Linhart and Mark 'Moogy' Klingman
You've Got A Friend In Me by Randy Newman
You've Got A Friends by Carole King
A Little Help From My Friends by John Lennon and Paul McCartney
Stand By Me by Ben E. King
Lean On Me by Bill Withers
You're My Best Friend by John Deacon (Queen)
Waiting On A Friend by Mick Jagger

Well. I gotta' run. Gonna meet some friends. . .

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'2014' available April 8, 2014 at http://www.cdbaby.com/Artist/RayJozwiak
Pre-order your copy of "2014" at the iTunes Store NOW

My latest solo release, Black & White Then Back,
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Thursday, March 6, 2014

Not. . .

. . . like me

I know a man who tries too hard
Cause he wants to be liked both near and far
But it's not all that simple a story to tell
And I'm sure it all started way back when
He was only a child
The whole world laying ahead of him
He couldn't get what he craved
An uphill battle awaited
Then something clicked inside

Maybe he's okay
Not quite as bad as he seems
Am I expecting too much
It's not intentionally
Maybe it isn't polite
Looking so critically
Maybe I do it because
He's just not like me

I know a man who talks so much
He's got nothing to say but it's never enough
And it's like second nature he's as social can be
But the topic is always strictly 'me'
From his self-centered view
His egoist perspective
Subject of interest he's found
His world revolving around him
The real one beyond his touch
Along with people there too

Please won't you understand
I don't want every man
Doing just what I would do
Or moving the way that I move
Or the way that I sit or stand

Maybe he's okay
Not quite as bad as he seems
Am I expecting too much
It's not intentionally
Maybe it isn't polite
Looking so critically
Maybe I do it because
He's just not like me

Not Like Me
(instrumental) ©2013 Raymond M. Jozwiak
from '2014'
available April 8, 2014 at http://www.cdbaby.com/Artist/RayJozwiak

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OHO's "Ocean City Ditty," the CD single is now available at http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/oho4 (and, if you're in town, at Trax On Wax on Frederick Rd. in Catonsville, MD).

My latest solo release, Black & White Then Back,
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(or you can copy-and-paste this URL directly to
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Also, be sure to visit:
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