Monday, May 25, 2015
Friday, May 22, 2015
Monday, May 11, 2015
Friday, April 24, 2015
Monday, April 20, 2015
Monday, April 13, 2015
Friday, April 03, 2015
Tuesday, March 31, 2015
Monday, March 16, 2015
Monday, March 09, 2015
Sunday, March 08, 2015
Friday, March 06, 2015
Monday, February 23, 2015
Monday, February 16, 2015
Friday, February 13, 2015
Thursday, February 12, 2015
Tuesday, February 10, 2015
Wednesday, January 28, 2015
Monday, January 26, 2015
Sunday, December 21, 2014
Wednesday, December 17, 2014
Tuesday, December 16, 2014
Monday, December 15, 2014
Monday, December 08, 2014
Sunday, November 23, 2014
The Wrong Magic is coming soon...
Don't forget to order your paperback copy early for just $12.70!
http://widopublishing.com/the-wrong-magic-by-ken-la-salle/
http://widopublishing.com/the-wrong-magic-by-ken-la-salle/
Saturday, November 22, 2014
Friday, November 21, 2014
Monday, November 17, 2014
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Monday, November 10, 2014
Friday, November 07, 2014
It gives me the creeps...
It disturbs me greatly that there is a large group of Americans out there who think electing politicians who hate government is okay. They think allowing foreign corporations to funnel billions into our political system to get what they want is okay. They think letting politicians lie and cheat and deceive America to get votes is okay. They think that politicians rigging voting machines so they register the votes as theirs is okay. They're fine with politicians giving away the country to the uber-rich and they think the country would be just fine if they could just test the poor for drug use, keep starving children from eating, let corporations pollute all they want and make as many children as sick as they want, fill our jails with innocent people, and put just one more black man out of a job. If it wasn't for that, the country would be just fine.
I find that truly disturbing.
I find that truly disturbing.
Monday, November 03, 2014
Saturday, November 01, 2014
Friday, October 31, 2014
Monday, October 27, 2014
Sunday, October 26, 2014
Saturday, October 25, 2014
Friday, October 24, 2014
Thursday, October 23, 2014
Thursday, October 09, 2014
Monday, October 06, 2014
Monday, September 29, 2014
It's the Monday Morning Show for September 29, 2014...
It's the Monday Morning Show for September 29th, 2014! Join me as I talk about young people changing the world and the old people who are trying to stop them. Young people are on the streets in Honk Kong and in Colorado while we're busy wondering if our iPhone's going to bend.
Monday, September 22, 2014
Saturday, September 20, 2014
Thursday, September 18, 2014
Just another sign of corporations having too much power…
So, I was out on my morning jog this morning when I passed
by a local concrete foundry pumping out tons of toxic smoke. The smoke was so
bad, I had to stop jogging because I was coughing so hard. I was coughing so
hard, I nearly threw up!
The smell was pretty bad where I lived, a couple of miles
away, too.
Vicky suggested I call the AQMD (the Air Quality Management
District) to register a complaint, which I did. What I didn’t expect, though,
was the lesson I received in just how powerful corporations are in relation to
how much they can pollute.
Here’s what I found out.
In order for the AQMD to even speak with the foundry and ask
them to please cut down on their smog, they need to have six different homes on
the same block all register complaints within the same hour. Then, they have to
remain at their home for an AQMD representative to come to their home and
verify the smell. This AQMD could take as much as three hours to get there, by
which time the wind could shift and the smell could move on.
Can you imagine how difficult that would be to pull off? Six
residents from six different homes all have to call at about the same time.
Then, they can’t leave their home. They have to wait there – not go to work –
and hope everyone else stays put as well. They have to wait for hours, all in
the hopes that the wind doesn’t shift!
And this won’t even get them definite action. The foundry
could ignore the request. When I asked the AQMD rep what the requirements were
for them to take definite action, such as a fine or a court order or anything,
she just shook her head and said, “Well, let’s try to get this first. This is
hard enough.”
Meanwhile, the foundry owners sit back and laugh at us
little people. They’ve made us powerless.
And the sad truth is, so many of us defend our corporate
overlords despite all that. And, in the grand scheme of things, this is
nothing.
Thursday, September 11, 2014
Consistency...
"Remember the Maine!"... 1890's Spanish/American War
"Remember the Gulf of Tonkin!"... 1960's War in Vietnam
"Remember 9/11!"... 2000's War in Iraq
"Remember... some people who were killed by some scary brown people with weird beliefs..."... Next Week.
"Remember the Gulf of Tonkin!"... 1960's War in Vietnam
"Remember 9/11!"... 2000's War in Iraq
"Remember... some people who were killed by some scary brown people with weird beliefs..."... Next Week.
Monday, August 25, 2014
Friday, August 22, 2014
Tuesday, July 22, 2014
Thursday, July 17, 2014
Wednesday, July 16, 2014
Thursday, July 10, 2014
Thursday, July 03, 2014
Thursday, June 26, 2014
Wednesday, June 25, 2014
Saturday, June 21, 2014
Friday, June 20, 2014
Saturday, June 07, 2014
Saturday, May 24, 2014
Friday, May 23, 2014
Saturday, May 10, 2014
Friday, May 09, 2014
Saturday, April 26, 2014
Thursday, April 10, 2014
Saturday, March 29, 2014
Saturday, March 22, 2014
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
Monday, February 17, 2014
Married Once Before…
For the first time ever, I’m not really sure where to post a
blog entry. Does this have to do with my writing and is, therefore, eligible
for the Ken La Salle blog?... Yes, but… Does this have to do with Vicky and
should, therefore, go on the One Path blog?... Yes, but…
So, with this in mind, welcome to My Side.
Here’s the thing. I’m starting work on my next book, which
is a book on the 1970’s. I decided to use this opportunity to clean out my
steamer trunk, which I packed full of goodies until sometime around 1990. I
thought this trunk would be full of things from my childhood…
Then, I found it was mostly full of stuff from high school,
which means I may have to write a book about the 80’s at some point.
I also found it was full of stuff from she who must remain
nameless, from my first wedding, from my first marriage. Crap. I thought I’d
gotten rid of that stuff years ago.
But no.
And I was faced with a definite quandary.
One thing you may not know about me is that I have picked up
the fragments of my life so many times it gets annoying. Hell, most people
these days think I fell to the Earth sometime in 2004. After picking up the
fragments of my life so many times… I’m kind of tired of it. I’m tired of not
having a history, of not knowing people from before 1995 or so, of that lack of
continuity that comes from constantly restarting my life.
I was thinking about this when I looked down at all this
stuff from my past life, from my past marriage. My wedding album. A photo album
from when the girl and I were first together. Random photographs.
I didn’t want to lose all of that again. Hell, I lost it
once already.
So, as strange as it might sound, I decided to preserve it.
I decided that as I was throwing things away – and, believe me, I threw away a
LOT – there would be some photos that remained. Some that wouldn’t be gone
forever. There would be some continuity.
Yes, I’m married to Vicky now and I love her very much. But
I’m a little tired of denying who I was prior to 2004. I’m tired of playing up
my first wife as a fluke, as a tragic mistake.
We loved each other. I have pictures to prove it. Yes, it
ended tragically, but that doesn’t mean that’s all it was. There was more to it
than that. And I’ve decided to remember that. That’s the least I can do.
Perhaps I’ll post a few of those pictures in the coming
days.
Maybe it’s time I go public with some of the history I’ve
been so quick to write about but so reticent to share.
History shouldn’t be forgotten. And that doesn’t make me a
bad husband to Vicky.
It just makes me honest.
Saturday, February 15, 2014
So Dream Something, featuring DV Berkom...
This month's episode of So Dream Something features spy thriller sensation, DV Berkom.
DV speaks about her writing career and managing in the midst of a changing market. I hope you enjoy it. I know I did.
DV speaks about her writing career and managing in the midst of a changing market. I hope you enjoy it. I know I did.
Saturday, February 08, 2014
My Side: Advertising...
A look at the 2014 Coca Cola Super Bowl ad - and more about advertising - in this month's My Side...
Saturday, February 01, 2014
Saturday, January 25, 2014
As an atheist, I sometimes wonder...
Sometimes it seems that the only thing Christians and
Muslims can agree on is how much they hate anyone who won’t pick a side in
their hatred of each other…
Saturday, January 11, 2014
Kids Today...
This month, My Side looks at those damned kids today... and the people who endlessly complain about them...
Saturday, December 28, 2013
Saturday, December 21, 2013
Monday, December 16, 2013
Saturday, December 14, 2013
Saturday, December 07, 2013
Saturday, November 16, 2013
Thursday, November 14, 2013
Just a note on ObamaCare...
So, let's see...
The Repugs got mad at Obama because the Affordable Care Act forced insurance companies to stop selling junk policies.
Then, Obama said insurers could continue to sell junk policies for a year.
And now, the Repugs are mad at him for that.
Clearly, the Repugs don't know the meaning of the word "unreasonable"...
The Repugs got mad at Obama because the Affordable Care Act forced insurance companies to stop selling junk policies.
Then, Obama said insurers could continue to sell junk policies for a year.
And now, the Repugs are mad at him for that.
Clearly, the Repugs don't know the meaning of the word "unreasonable"...
Sunday, November 10, 2013
Radio de'Olde Episode -4(3)...
Here, then, is Radio de'Olde, Episode -4(3): "ASMR not. ASMR too."
This, of course, is my way of taking the recent artform of ASMR (Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response)... and adding absolutely nothing to it.
This, of course, is my way of taking the recent artform of ASMR (Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response)... and adding absolutely nothing to it.
Friday, November 08, 2013
Saturday, November 02, 2013
Saturday, October 26, 2013
Sunday, October 20, 2013
Atrocity 1897342573.0...
Have you heard the recent atrocity?
Apparently, a boy scout leader destroyed a natural rock
monument in Utah that was thousands of years old.
No. Seriously. Here’s a link to the video.
The whole thing went viral with a kind of chorus of “How
terrible! What kind of person destroys such natural beauty? What a monster!”
Because, certainly nobody else ever does anything like that, right? Nobody else
ever destroys natural beauty, right?
Wrong.
We all do.
We’re no better than said scout leader because we all gobble
up natural resources in our constant consumeristic dream of more more more!
We allow death on a wide scale for a little oil.
We permit slave labor for a nicer phone.
We enjoy our sweet, fruity drinks that destroy entire
ecosystems.
And we drive our cars and enjoy all the conveniences of
plastic bags and disposable everything and wonder what kind of person fucks up
a rock.
You do.
I do.
We all do.
We’re no better.
So, if you thought that was the case… just stop.
Saturday, October 12, 2013
Saturday, October 05, 2013
In Somnia...
October brings another new My Side. This time, we tackle an issue near and dear to my complete inability to sleep...
Sunday, September 01, 2013
"Aww" at the ballpark...
My Side returns this month with a look at compassion and sports, two things that probably don't go together in any context but I'll shoehorn them if it maims me!
Friday, August 09, 2013
Thursday, August 01, 2013
Wednesday, July 17, 2013
What should happen to George Zimmerman?...
Though this is not a scheduled post, I felt this would fit well here.
What should happen to George Zimmerman now that he's gotten away with killing a child?
Here are just a few of my thoughts...
http://borderlessnewsandviews.com/2013/07/what-should-happen-to-george-zimmerman/
What should happen to George Zimmerman now that he's gotten away with killing a child?
Here are just a few of my thoughts...
http://borderlessnewsandviews.com/2013/07/what-should-happen-to-george-zimmerman/
Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Only about a month away!
Launching
on my YouTube channel on August 1st is the return of one of my
oldest IPs: MY SIDE. My Side was a column I wrote in high school
and college where I would often flex my creative muscles in making an opinion
piece that was funny as well as informative... sometimes. At its best, My
Side combined surrealism with whatever the hell I wanted to say that week.
Now that a few years… okay, a few lifetimes have passed, it’s time for My
Side once again. Look for Episode 1: The Sound of Obsolescence,
coming in August.
Saturday, June 01, 2013
.... big news...
……………………… hello?
……………………. Sure is quiet around here.
Time to dust off the counters. Check the lightbulbs.
Things are going to get busy around here…
My Side is returning! August 2013!
http://www.youtube.com/user/theKenLaSalle
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
