On The Road With Al and Ivy: Blog

"With an old and tried swordsman like myself, knowledge of the use of his weapon is everything; but with a young Hotspur of your temper, strength and energy go for much." - Arthur Conan Doyle (Micah Clarke) Internet experts state that in the early prehistoric days of mankind, when men were men, and women could have as many boyfriends as they felt like having, climate change created an extinction event that wiped out all of the man eating dinosaurs and saber tooth tigers, who in their hungry heyday made sure that no human being lived longer than, say, ten years. This removed one of the biggest reasons that cavemen and cavewomen didn’t last very long; leaving only disease, starvation, minor injuries, warfare, and marriage. The longer life spans created new social phenomena, such as villages, condos, Kings and Emperors, celebrities famous for being famous, organized warfare, government, poor people, and of course, reality shows.  However, the most pervasive sociological innovat...

"We look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen, for the things which are seen is temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal" - The Bible (2 Cor. 4:18) as quoted in John Bunyan's Pilgrims's Progress I'll be debuting a serial novel called "The Quitters" in the first week of January 2022. It's a fictional account of a punk rocker who played in 1977 at the nightclub and restaurant, Mabuhay Gardens, which was located on Broadway in San Francisco, and was the center of the city's punk rock scene. The first part will cover a time period from the fall of 1977 to January 14th, 1978, the date of the Sex Pistols last performance at Winterland, which I saw and afterwards felt that the first wave in SF had begun to peak and to make way for the more successful second. After this, the story moves down to Southern California.  The chapters are tentatively set to be uploaded bi-weekly, and there are other details whic...