You perhaps recall that last Thursday, when I had my first lunch date with the eHarmony guy, it rained.
Not just rain, but a torrential downpour from pretty much the moment I stepped out of my car!
Today will be our second lunch date and the weather is gorgeous!! Yay!
Before lunch, we’re going to go over to Geller Park, because he’s never been there before:
And the park is literally only 2 minutes from where we’re having lunch:
And we might even stop in at my favorite health food store, because I need to pick up some stuff and he’s interested in checking out their CBD products:
You literally have to pass the health food store to get to Geller Park, so we shall see! And I warned my new friend that since all the gals who work at the store are good friends of mine, they will ALL be checking him out….
He was actually okay with it.
(BTW, he has given me permission to write about him now, but only sparingly and I can’t post any photos he sends me without asking him first. Yay.)
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So!
Yesterday, I thought I was texting my (birth) mom an update on my new eHarmony friend.
Unbeknownst to me, though, my brother (younger half-brother, Ronnie, that is) was sitting next to our mom’s phone and he texted me back!
It took me a while to figure out that I was texting my brother and not my mom– and he, of course, was “very concerned” that I was getting involved with a guy from an online dating site…
So that was fun — meaning, a little disturbing: Why is my mom suddenly getting freaked out about this? –until I figured out it was my brother I was texting and not my mom. (Ronnie has always been very protective of me.)
My brother Ronnie with Wayne, in Jackson, Ohio, over 30 years ago:
So far, gang, this new friend of mine has not done a single solitary suspicious thing. And even though I hadn’t used eHarmony in about 10 years or so, I have had a perfect track record with that dating site — I have always met nice people through it. And I believe it is continuing,
We shall see!
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Oh, and this is what I’m wearing today:
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Okay!!
Today is the 40th anniversary of the release of Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash, by The Pogues!!
Wow, what a great album, gang. After I bought that record and got blown away by it, I bought everything Shane MacGowan and The Pogues did after that. (And I cried for about a solid week after Shane Macgowan died back in 2023.)
What a great year for music in my little hellhole apartment on E.12th Street (in NYC). Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds. The Pogues. Iggy Pop. Tom Waits. And then early in 1986 — Gun-Shy by the Screaming Blue Messiahs — along with a lot of other great stuff!!
The Pogues’ fantastic cover of “Dirty Old Town”, 1985. Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash:
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Okay!!
Here’s this!!!
This was such a great novel!! I devoured it in just under 2 days — and it only took me 2 days because on the first day, my eyes finally gave out and I had to go to sleep.
The Death of Bunny Munro by Nick Cave. Here’s my copy of it just now:

And I bring this up, because of this from Sky TV! Yay!!
And also, here’s this. Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, apparently while composing the above-mentioned score:
And tomorrow — Nick Cave’s Solo Tour of Europe, with Colin Greenwood on bass, continues in Bergen Norway, for 3 sold out shows.
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Oh, and here’s something interesting!
Last night (yes, while talking to my new friend for another 3 hours on the phone), we discovered that we were at the very same Rolling Stones concert in Cleveland, in 1978 (the “Some Girls” tour). HE brought this up — I didn’t!
AND we were both kinda close to the stage.
AND we were both really kinda disgusted with the crowd that day. Aggressive, hostile. A really bad vibe. I rarely even think of that concert, even though the Stones were great. But the crowd ruined it that day.
AND —
When I mentioned something last night about loving Keith and Ronnie, my new friend said (I swear he said this): “Keith Richards was my favorite. I loved that guy. I wanted to be like him.”
I refrained from what I could have said about loving Keith Richards. I figure if the friendship pans out, he will find out soon enough how I really feel about Keith Richards!!
Keith in Cleveland, 1978:
So. Kinda ironic, right? We were both in the same vicinity of the stage, in Cleveland on July 6th 1978. Me, loving Keith Richards, and my future friend wanting to BE Keith Richards!
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All righty!
I better scoot!! I gotta get to town to meet my new friend for lunch! And a walk in the park. And possibly a stop for health supplements!
Have a terrific Tuesday, wherever you are in the world!
Thanks for visiting!
I love you guys. See ya!
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I leave you with this!
One of the many great songs from the Stones’ Some Girls album, summer 1978. (I received the album as a graduation gift from a couple of girlfriends, since I graduated high school on June 10th 1978.)
A mere 2 years later, I was living in NYC and discovering how absolutely TRUE this song really was!!! It totally captured NYC back then.
“Shattered”, 1978. The Rolling Stones. Enjoy, gang!
“Shattered”
Uh huh shattered, uh huh shattered
Love and hope and sex and dreams
Are still surviving on the street
Look at me, I’m in tatters
I been shattered
Shattered
Friends are so alarming
And my lover’s never charming
Life’s just a cocktail party on the street
Big Apple, people dressed in plastic bags, directing traffic
(Shadoobie, shattered)
Some kind of fashion
(Shadoobie, shattered)
Laughter, joy, and loneliness and sex and sex and sex and sex
Look at me, I’m in tatters
I been shattered
Shattered
All this chitter-chatter, chitter-chatter, chitter-chatter about
Shmatta, shmatta, shmatta, I can’t give it away on 7th Avenue
This town’s been wearing tatters, uh huh (Shadoobie, shattered)
Work and work for love and sex
Ain’t you hungry for success, success, success, success
Does it matter? (Shattered)
Does it matter?
Ahhh, look at me, I’m a shattered
I’m a shattered
Look at me, I’m a shattered, yeah
Pride and joy and greed and sex
That’s what makes that town the best
Pride and joy and dirty dreams and still surviving on the street (shattered)
And look at me, I’m in tatters, yeah (shattered)
I’m in tatters, what does it matter (shattered)
Does it matter, uh-huh (shattered)
Does it matter? Uh-huh
I’m shattered
Mm-mm, I’m shattered
Huh shadoobie, shattered
Huh shadoobie, shattered
Shadoobie, shattered, shattered
Don’t you know the crime rate’s going up, up, up, up, up? (Shadoobie, shattered)
To live in this town you must be tough, tough, tough, tough, tough, tough, tough (Shadoobie, shattered) (Shadoobie, shattered, shattered)
We’ve got rats on the west side, bed bugs uptown (Shadoobie, shattered)
What a mess, this town’s in tatters, I’ve been shattered (Shadoobie, shattered)
My brain’s been battered, splattered all over Manhattan (Shadoobie, shattered)
Shadoobie, shattered, shattered
What I say?
Shadoobie, shattered
Shadoobie, shattered
Shadoobie, shattered
This town’s full of money grabbers (Shadoobie, shattered)
Go ahead, bite the Big Apple, don’t mind the maggots, uh-huh (Shadoobie, shattered) (Shadoobie, shattered)
Shadoobie, my brain’s been battered
(Shadoobie, shattered, shattered)
My friends they come around, they flatter, flatter, flatter, flatter, flatter, flatter, flatter
(Shadoobie, shattered) (Shadoobie, shattered)
Pile it up, pile it up, pile it high on the platter
(Shadoobie, shattered, shattered)
c- 1978 Mick Jagger, Keith Richards











































