President Agent Orange Julius Caesar Salad Dumpster Fire and Fuhrer Von Trumpenstein Von Trumplestillskin is touting his Ivy League education to rebuff the grieving widow’s recollection of his phone call. “My brain is the best brain. When God made my brain, he stood back and said, ‘Perfect’ and he was right. My brain is perfect. Just like my body. My body and my brain are both perfect. They both went to an Ivy League school. When my brain was at the Ivy League school it didn’t even have to think very hard, because it is so good. Look at these hands. See these hands? People say they are small, but they aren’t. They couldn’t fit in OJ Simpson’s gloves because they are so big. If my hands look small, it is because your eyes are not as good as my eyes. My eyes are perfect too. I can see a mouse in a field of wheat from a hot air ballon three hundred feet in the air. When Arnold Schwarzenegger felt my bicep he said, ‘That is the perfect bicep.’ So, when you hear that lady lie about what I said, I hope you realize how perfect I am and how everything else is broken. Drain the swamp. Lock her up. Make America Great Again.” If Von Trumpenstein knew how to play the violin, he’d be fiddling away as the USA burns…
Wonder why 100% of the country isn’t upset? Spend ten minutes watching Faux Newz and it will become clear. They spent hours and hours covering the Weinstein sexual harassment case because he was a democratic donor. During that coverage, Sean “Graying DEVO hair” Hannity had Bill “I Just Paid A $32 Million Harassment Claim Out Of My Pocket” O’Reilly on the air. O’Reilly is saying that he is mad at God because O’Reilly didn’t do anything wrong, and he is the victim. This is the guy who over the course of 20 years yelled at people about personal responsibility about 32 million times. Yep, I regularly pay millions of dollars when I’m completely innocent. They have no shame, no memory, and no moral compass.
If I’m spending $32 million, I’m spending it on souvlaki.
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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