Pounding The Keyboard

       Halloween is just two days away (it’s on Saturday), so I thought of doing something scary. You see, in the last few days, countries in Europe, especially the UK, have been asking their people to prepare for something bad that might happen and telling them to stockpile foods and other necessary supplies that will help them survive for a few days without outside help. What this something is, they won’t tell. But rumors abound that Russia will soon attack UK. Russia hates that UK is sanctioning them and helping Ukraine (especially with the drones) with its war against Russia.      So, I asked ChatGPT: Is World War III forthcoming? Its answer: World War III is a real possibility, but there is no reliable evidence that it is inevitable or that a third world war is definitely about to begin.      To sum it up, ChatGPT says that World War III is not inevitable, and that people shouldn’t really worry or be scared that it would happen ...

     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 ...