President Agent Orange Julius Caesar Trumpster-Fire and Fuhrer-The Mango Madman-Von Trumplestillskin will visit Texas tomorrow. Hasn’t the state suffered enough? First it was the Alamo, then all those years where the Cowboys looked like they might be good, and now this double punch of Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Trumplestillskin.
Texas is tough, not as tough as they think they are, but they are tough. (Do I still have a chip on my shoulder when it comes to Texas? Yes. Why? I’m not sure, but they seem like they are the frat boy of the fifty states and I’m not a frat boy fan.) The good news is that there are parts of Texas that aren’t a big frat party. Austin (a dirty hippie city if there ever was one) has a petition to change a street named Robert E Lee to: “Keep Austin Weird, Not Racist.” This is the best idea of renaming since San Francisco was batting around the idea of naming their water treatment plant The George Bush Waste Treatment Plant. The only problem I see with the street name is that it is going to be hard to fit all that on a postcard. Maybe, since everything is bigger in Texas, the postcards have space for Keep Austin Weird, Not Racist on the address line.
Kim “Don’t Call Me Kimberly” Jung Un shot off another rocket. This time he flew it over Japan. Did he do this because Trump-roast is distracted with Texas? Probably. Un needs to realize that Trumpster-fire can multitask. Every morning Donnie Johnnie Trumpie gets up, sits on a toilet, watches Faux and Friendz, and tweets. So, the Presidential National Embarrassment might be heading off to Texas, but that doesn’t mean he can’t push a red button or two. Its times like this that it is reassuring that Obama is still controlling the world through his global Illuminati Star Council thingy. (I wish.)
Trumplestillskin business associate, Michael Cohen, worked on directly contacting Vlad “The Election Impaler” Putin during the election. Apparently, the building of a Trump Tower in Moscow had stalled, and Cohen was tasked with getting things back on track. Anyone for a lunch of Quid Pro Quo? Why does everything we find out about Trumplestillskin always lead back to the idea that he was running for president so he could increase his brand recognition…and then he accidentally got elected. If that is the case, can we all just promise to subscribe to Trump Steaks and have an adult take over the country? I’d even give up my addiction to souvlaki if he stepped down.
Why is my page titled South of the Strait? Well I live in a far corner of the United States. I live in a small town south of the Strait of Juan de Fuca. If I was going to throw a rock across the strait it would land in Canada. I used to be an English teacher. I have worked in Westport, Port Angeles, and Sequim, Washington... and I did two years of substitute teaching in Coalinga, California.
I've moved around a lot, living in: Sterling,Kansas; Chicago; Jordan, Montana; Lemoore, California; Auckland, New Zealand; Spokane, Washington; Gambier, Ohio.
What do I write? For WordPress I used to print once a week for general comments. I wrote reviews of music concerts my daughter made me attend. (Each month she would want us to drive to Seattle to see a music group. I usually stood in the back watching weird stuff.) I also wrote about trips I have taken in Europe where I liked getting lost. I also wrote during the few months when my son was treated for cancer. (He is officially free of cancer of five years.) About three years ago I decided to stop writing blogs so I could concentrate on writing a few books. I have completed three books...or maybe four. I have now compiled my short stories poems and memoirs on Amazon. You can get it at Amazon now..."A Work In Progress"--Jon Eekhoff. I have been very close to getting a printed book called "Lost Summer" but I was never offered $1,000,000.00. (It's set in Paris, 1920's, with baseball, writers, artist, and actually true stuff.) I wrote a book about college basketball called "Laidlaw." It's kind of a mix of "Moby Dick" and a coach who is about to get fired so he takes his team out for a free drive around the West. My most recent book is "California Tales." These are connected stories about the missionary churches in California. They are sad, funny, inspiring, and odd. I had the entire book done in my head and had just one section to finish the next day...and that is when I fell 20 feet from my roof and landed on the cement. (Like a lot of men, I thought I could maintain my own roof instead of leaving it to the professionals.) I don't remember anything about my accident but I am told I was flown to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. Though conscious and responsive after surgery to remove part of my skull, I don't remember anything from my first month there. I spent another month of Harborview working on walking, speaking, and writing. That was two years ago. As a TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury) survivor, I could have quit writing, but I am not going to quit. I work with the University of Washington Speech and Hearing Clinic.
So, here I am. I am married and live here in Sequim with my wife Cheryl. Our kids live in nearby cities. Writing is now an exhausting exercise, but something I plan to keep working on.
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