President Agent Orange Julius Caesar Salad Dumpster Fire and Fuhrer Von Trumplestillskin Von Trumpenstein might need to watch his step when it comes to LaVar Ball. If you don’t know who LaVar Ball is then let me give you two simple sentences to describe LaVar: He is the only person in the world who thinks more highly of himself than Trumplestillskin. He’s the father of some pretty good basketball players and he is a professional troll. Donnie is taking credit for getting LaVar’s son released from a Chinese jail. Donnie is now saying he should have left him there because LaVar didn’t thank him. Careful Mr. Trumpenstein. This guy is one person who wants attention more than you.
Because Trumplestillskin is such a focused leader, he is now calling for Marshawn Lynch to be fired because he stood for the Mexican National Anthem and sat for the US anthem. Doesn’t the president have more important things to do? Like supporting a child predator for Alabama Senate?
The only thing that has fallen further than Trump’s approval rating are his room rates at Trump Hotels… down 63%. At this rate, his tax reform fixes aren’t going to benefit his kids because he’ll be leaving them nothing. Maybe some jail time will clear his art of the deal business mind.
Steve “Grandma Glasses” Mnuchin took some pictures with his wife and sheets of money. His response this weekend was precious, “I didn’t know the pictures would go public. And being compared to Bond Villains is a compliment.” This is the brilliant mind behind our economy?
Donnie is reconsidering allowing elephant trophies into the US. Why he needs to reconsider this at all is a mystery to me. Is he waiting for Don-Fredo to get his elephant trunk trophy back from the cleaners? What type of garbage kills an elephant in the first place? (Trump garbage is the answer.)
One thing you’ll never find in my garbage is a half-eaten 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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