Pounding The Keyboard

     Many years ago, I’d always start my day with a coffee and a newspaper (usually broadsheets). Every day, without fail, we’d have one in the house. I even wrote once to a broadsheet sports columnist about a certain sport controversy, and he put out my letter, the whole of it, to my shock, on his column, saying that he agreed with my opinion. Lol.      Now, for the past few years, I’d only buy a newspaper twice a year, to help prove that an older relative pensioner is still alive and revalidate her account.      Nowadays, you really don’t need to buy newspapers if you have social media.      And speaking of newspapers/news, three news reports subsequently rolled out of my social media feed yesterday: one is truly tragic, another one is tragicomic, and the last one, lots of people say, is, well, hopeful. The tragic news: A massive cross fell on a priest while he was delivering his sermon, killing him.     ...

       So, a few nights ago, I’ve finally finished watching The Office (9 seasons, 201 episodes). What can I say? It’s great and hilarious with weird, dysfunctional but lovable characters that made my life a little bearable and livable. Lol. And I’d definitely rewatch most of the episodes. Lists about someone’s favorite TV shows always come up on my social media, so here’s my own list, my five favorite TV shows so far:                       Game of Thrones              24              The Office            Breaking Bad            Prison Break      Honorable mentions: Better Call Saul, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Arrested Development, Family Guy, and Fargo.      Moving on to another subject, should artists be apolitical? I d...

  She comes back to tell me she’s gone As if I didn’t know that As if I didn’t know my own bed As if I’d never noticed The way she brushed her hair from her forehead She said, “Losing love is like a window in your heart Everybody sees you’re blown apart Everybody sees the wind blow…”          In an episode (season 9) of The Office , Andy Bernard, while his coworkers were accusing his ancestors of owning slaves, said in his defense that his ring tone was “Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes,” to prove that he had nothing against black people.      “Diamonds on the Sole of Her Shoes,” is of a course a song on Paul Simon’s 1986 incredible masterpiece Graceland, an album which incorporated South African music. I remember buying it on cassette and then on CD. It won the Grammy Album of the Year and Record of the Year (for the song “Graceland,” a song about trying to heal from a personal heartbreak) in 1987 and is often cited as ...

     So, the scary buzz about AI’s deadly threat to humanity isn’t stopping, that unrestrained AI growth in the next few years might mean an apocalypse, and it would come sooner than later, maybe within a decade, even without robots. So how would AI kill us without robots rampaging in the streets? They say that one, advanced AI computers could hack into computers that hold nuclear codes and launch them. Another way is AI could allegedly create an indestructible, fast-spreading, wide-spreading real deadly virus which a group of evil people could release into humanity.      AI could also attack and debilitate power grids, water system, communications, and financial services. I read somewhere that AI would soon be capable of removing oxygen from the atmosphere or block the sun.     Yikes.      The good news is that AI insiders are now reportedly trying to slow down the progress of AI. The bad news is, the President of the USA, th...

       Unbelievable, horrible information you actually don’t need and news you actually don’t want to hear:      A few days ago, a Bangkok man was arrested after raping a koi, yep, the fish. The 51-year-old man trespassed a property, went to the koi pond and reached for a fish and did the monstrous, unimaginable act.       And speaking of bestiality, FBI chief Kash Patel was questioned by US Senators on why the FBI now accepts FBI applicants accused/guilty/victims of bestiality. Mr. Patel explained that he didn’t want to punish perp/victims of bestiality; that they can still work for the agency despite being involved in the crime, drawing incredulous responses from the senators. Apparently, the FBI chief doesn’t understand the term “bestiality” as he thinks victims of bestiality can still work as FBI agents.      Imagine a goat barging into your house with a warrant and arresting you.      US Pr...

So this is Christmas And what have you done? Another year over And a new one just begun And so this is Christmas I hope you have fun The near and the dear ones The old and the young A very merry Christmas And a Happy New Year Let’s hope it’s a good one Without any fear And so this is Christmas (war is over) For weak and for strong (if you want it) The rich and the poor ones (war is over) The road is so long (now) And so happy Christmas (war is over) For black and for white (if you want it) For yellow and red ones (war is over) Let’s stop all the fight…                                                   “Happy Xmas (War Is Over),” John Lennon & Yoko Ono