tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41464832024-03-13T11:57:06.817-05:00Moblog909Male, 5'10, 180 lbs., hazel eyes, dark brown hair (slightly gray), Irish nose (potato), poet, dreamer, harmonica player, journalist (I get paid for this), book lover, movie fan, music lover; enjoy scented candles.mogaffblog9http://www.blogger.com/profile/03897612639237157641noreply@blogger.comBlogger102125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146483.post-8450279180661407632016-11-29T02:09:00.000-06:002016-12-23T20:44:38.014-06:00The Following Road
You ought not pursue me on the Following Road
It's a dark, risky journey and you might lose your load.
On the left lie's a bog that's hidden by mist,
it can swallow you whole, like you didn't exist.
On the right hangs a cliff with a bottomless fall
and it's kissed by a darkness that's 10 times as tall.
Up ahead there's a sharp, angled bend in the road
Where the dead nightmares wait
for those mogaffblog9http://www.blogger.com/profile/03897612639237157641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146483.post-33373924984525565252016-08-19T20:56:00.001-05:002016-08-19T20:56:14.157-05:00He's no joke; he moves like smoke
in a tornado.
He's got fire in his heart and thunder in his
soul.
He's lightening in a golden shoe! Usain Bolt
was unbeatable.
And running, he's the best
at the Rio Olympic Games.
mogaffblog9http://www.blogger.com/profile/03897612639237157641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146483.post-86880050826986511692016-02-24T00:28:00.001-06:002016-02-24T00:28:05.549-06:00Lunacy, laughter, long life, lovethe world is a crazy place inside the human bubble. Outside the manmade bubble, life goes on in all its grisly, brutal, beautiful, graceful unfolding.
Wild critters could care less about humans, so long as we leave them alone.
Domesticated critters, of course, depend on we bipedal freaks of nature to provide them everything they need to sustain life.
I look at the myriad "issues" being discussed mogaffblog9http://www.blogger.com/profile/03897612639237157641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146483.post-89729320486215645282016-01-25T00:34:00.000-06:002016-01-25T00:34:15.858-06:00AFC/NFC championshipI'm disappointed that the Patriots lost.
New England just couldn't overcome Denver's defense, which played an amazing game!
The Broncos D managed to stifle Brady and Co., holding them to one TD and a handful of FGs and, when it came down to converting a 2-point conversion, it wasn't even close.
Brady was under so much pressure that he barely had time to spot his primary receiver, let alone his mogaffblog9http://www.blogger.com/profile/03897612639237157641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146483.post-19070979421147142015-11-14T02:46:00.002-06:002021-08-25T19:38:50.856-05:00Death visited last Sunday!When someone you love dies, your heart becomes a desert, a wasteland of hollow echoes and weird, roiling voices that bubble in your mind like water boils in a pot.
Someone I love died on Sunday, Nov. 1, 2015, and I watched her disappear from this earth, and from the warm, gentle basket of love we shared.
Her eyes seemed to click off, like a light switch, and instantly she was not with me mogaffblog9http://www.blogger.com/profile/03897612639237157641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146483.post-64963161921223284952015-02-28T21:59:00.001-06:002015-02-28T21:59:15.295-06:00An unrequited day - or is it?Today is, as several people have reminded me, the anniversary of my birth. "Happy Birthday," they write or say, and I appropriately respond, "thank you so much. Sweet of you to remember."
But what I'm really thinking is, "what the f@$* business is it of yours? And why would anyone want that dubious (at best) anniversary remembered?
Oh sure, it's nice to think "well, I've lasted another year abovemogaffblog9http://www.blogger.com/profile/03897612639237157641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146483.post-20171341513473371802015-01-22T23:04:00.003-06:002015-01-22T23:10:33.836-06:00Another media-gone-rabid waste of time!Did Tom Brady cheat by releasing air from the footballs during the conference title game?
Did the NFL slip someone into the locker room (or wherever the game footballs are stored before the game) who surreptitiously bled air from the footballs to set up the Patriots so they would be plagued by a two-week media-fueled hell ride before the Super Bowl? Perhaps the intent was to distract the Pats so mogaffblog9http://www.blogger.com/profile/03897612639237157641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146483.post-56358133844823113902014-12-13T20:51:00.001-06:002014-12-13T20:51:20.141-06:00A long time since I posted on Moblog909.My how the time flies. Flies and flies
out past the horizon and into the boundless clouds.
A feast of pigeons floats above, teasing and tantalizing the red-tailed hawk, which creaches and screams and circles confidently, knowing it will soon sink its claws into the fat body of a grayish-purple pigeon. That curved, razor-sharp beak will soon crunch through the breast bone and mogaffblog9http://www.blogger.com/profile/03897612639237157641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146483.post-83718571818535255202013-10-30T00:21:00.002-05:002013-10-30T00:21:47.781-05:00Just want to say "thanks" to President ObamaThank you, Mr. President, for being courageous enough to take on the HUGE interests arrayed against ANY KIND of national healthcare program, even one that holds promise for MOST interests in the long run. Thank you for fighting to pass the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, instead of fighting for higher approval ratings.
The law is not perfect, not by a long shot!
But it is, for me, an mogaffblog9http://www.blogger.com/profile/03897612639237157641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146483.post-51663881515022298912013-02-17T01:22:00.000-06:002013-02-17T01:22:41.852-06:00To my children grownWhat is there to say when it has been years since we've laid eyes upon one another?
What is there to do when the clock keeps ticking forward - never backward - and the muteness inside the space between us reigns supreme?
I, too, came from a broken family, a divorced mother and father, and a screwy world to run through, so I have a sense of what you might feel, what you may have been through, whatmogaffblog9http://www.blogger.com/profile/03897612639237157641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146483.post-415386372363602582012-12-12T20:48:00.001-06:002012-12-12T20:48:42.135-06:00121212 Concert - Magical music!
Holy smokes! Just listened to Eric Clapton play a beautiful rendition of "Crossroads!" His licks just get better and slicker with time's passing. And his band, a kickin drummer and a funky, deep rumbling bass player, kept the string of pearls dripping like cool, clear, water.
Sometimes an event occurs that arouses the soul of the world and connects with the widest range of people from all mogaffblog9http://www.blogger.com/profile/03897612639237157641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146483.post-47500746322785145042012-07-12T00:08:00.002-05:002012-07-12T00:08:41.675-05:00Nothing to say
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mogaffblog9http://www.blogger.com/profile/03897612639237157641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146483.post-37096378377188414832012-07-12T00:07:00.000-05:002012-07-12T00:07:12.154-05:00Hot Summer WanderingsFreedom to watch life from the balconymogaffblog9http://www.blogger.com/profile/03897612639237157641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146483.post-38984623727383125132012-01-09T23:25:00.001-06:002012-01-09T23:25:53.447-06:00'Bama buries LSU in upset for bookies nationwide!Wow, what a performance the Alabama Crimson Tide turned in tonight against its nemesis, No.1-ranked LSU! Must have been a satisfying feeling for the Tide, especially since the defense skunked LSU's vaunted "high-powered" offense. The Tide's defense produced the first shutout in BCS bowl history! And yet, it was predictable!
Too much pre-game hype was laid on the LSU players and as the clockmogaffblog9http://www.blogger.com/profile/03897612639237157641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146483.post-31803185941753503902011-10-25T03:17:00.000-05:002011-10-25T03:17:47.984-05:00Procrastination is plaguing me these days. I'm facing my last semester on an associate's degree track and I cannot get my brain to engage with the work. I usually love to explore and learn new things, but this past month has been a drag in that department. I'm distracted and feeling somewhat depressed (I recognize the symptoms), though not so much as to cause alarm. But it's bugging me that I'm mogaffblog9http://www.blogger.com/profile/03897612639237157641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146483.post-54686931633446285802011-07-23T00:32:00.000-05:002011-07-23T00:32:31.067-05:00Such a shame that we've allowed dipwads like Alan Greenspan to ruin the American economy. And the GOP, shamelessly, is still pushing the notion that deregulation of the stock market and banking interests in this country should be unfettered and unregulated, despite the horrible state of our economy today – a direct result of deregulation and greed on a gargantuan scale. And that greed mogaffblog9http://www.blogger.com/profile/03897612639237157641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146483.post-16741425205311675612011-05-14T02:42:00.003-05:002011-05-14T02:42:12.309-05:00Macs RULE!mogaffblog9http://www.blogger.com/profile/03897612639237157641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146483.post-62077278621867610332010-12-20T01:15:00.000-06:002010-12-20T01:15:00.320-06:00Well, hello Christmas!
We've arrived on the doorstep of the Yuletide season 2010 and time spins ever faster each year.
I hope that you're with someone you love and who loves you. Or at least with a community of people of who care about you. Christmastime can be so depressing if you have to spend it alone. I know. I spent a lonely Christmas/New Year season in an empty house (no furniture – no mogaffblog9http://www.blogger.com/profile/03897612639237157641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146483.post-38804888845693588032010-11-06T02:42:00.000-05:002010-11-06T02:42:53.615-05:00Life sometimes can be a huge disappointment. The drab, colorless drudgery of day-to-day living, punching a clock to establish that you're in the race toward the conventional dream of retirement.
Death sometimes can be a boring, uneventful slog through the sameness of nothingness. People making wills and buying grave plots, or signing contracts for burning the corpse to ash, "I'll take that $5,000mogaffblog9http://www.blogger.com/profile/03897612639237157641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146483.post-74557306881375824312010-07-29T02:24:00.000-05:002010-07-29T02:24:05.729-05:00I've been told that my mother fell and injured her head earlier today and that she's bleeding into her brain, so she's in the intensive care unit at the hospital. My dear, sweet old mom (she's 92 – that's another thing I learned today, I thought she was 84) is 2,000 miles away and I've no means with which to get to her side. I'm struggling with a feeling of helplessness now. It sucks!
I'm mogaffblog9http://www.blogger.com/profile/03897612639237157641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146483.post-16703808336328970852010-06-27T02:26:00.000-05:002010-06-27T02:26:28.969-05:00Sometimes life becomes a tiresome drudgery that seems to crush my soul. When that moment imposes upon my mind, I have learned to allow myself to drift aimlessly through an imaginary island of sweet, colorful, timelessness, where ocean waves roll onto the white sands with a rhythm that soothes me, and the laughter of unseen children tinkles through the banana trees and the swaying, tall palms, andmogaffblog9http://www.blogger.com/profile/03897612639237157641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146483.post-46992366381841825662010-03-21T16:51:00.002-05:002010-03-21T16:54:33.719-05:00So here it is, Sunday, the day the Earth stood still (if one believes the rhetoric coming out of the nation's Capitol), the day the Democrats either grew a spine and passed a healthcare bill that will alter the course of this nation's economy and healthcare system, although not as dramatically as the GOP frames it.
I'm sick of the politicians whose view of political reality is about tracking mogaffblog9http://www.blogger.com/profile/03897612639237157641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146483.post-45517497601744120902009-11-24T01:40:00.002-06:002009-11-24T01:51:21.063-06:00Just completed the run from Lubbock to Fort Worth and back again. Whew! That's a long time in the "saddle" and, therefore, my butt hurts (along with my spine, my liver, my shoulders and my head). This monthly trip eastward can be a terribly wearing experience. At the same time, I enjoy long journeys, especially when they're taken on days like today, blue skies, easy breeze and gentle temperature.mogaffblog9http://www.blogger.com/profile/03897612639237157641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146483.post-54164806234542806332009-10-13T12:52:00.002-05:002009-10-13T13:03:23.454-05:00It's a rainy, gray -- no, wait. It's a sunny, blue-sky day, hooray! Things change. That's the rule of living in this galaxy. There's no way around that simple fact, although many try to push through to another "reality," but it's just an exercise in futility, if you ask me.Georgia, now that's a nice font. I've never tried it before today but I think I'll make note of it for further mogaffblog9http://www.blogger.com/profile/03897612639237157641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146483.post-58886868373322236452009-08-30T12:52:00.004-05:002009-08-30T13:25:56.989-05:00Interesting how Rush Limbaugh designs his attacks on the Democratic Party and its members.His simple-minded technique of shoveling as much rhetorical crap as he's capable of spewing in his radio time slot and chortling up his sleeve at the "sheep" who call themselves "ditto-heads" as they lap it up with both fists. Ummm-ummm, GOOD CRAP! Slurp. This morning, the Fat One babbled for 10 minutes mogaffblog9http://www.blogger.com/profile/03897612639237157641noreply@blogger.com0