I’ve been boxing on-and-off for the last twenty-five years, and very regularly for the last five as I’ve entered middle age and have committed more-and-more to fighting the only truly unwinable fight… the one against time and mother nature.
The first draft of this essay had a Hollywood story in it about the first time I heard that phrase but I wound up editing it out because I realized it was only in there to make me look cool and wasn't making the essay better. :-)
I’ve been calling it that for years! Shame too, the Santa Monica you see in 1970’s tv series “Rockford Files” doesn’t exist anymore. Back then it was still kind of a sleepy, semi-homespun, laid back place. Now it’s uptight, overcrowded, overbuilt, traffic-choked, & run by woke wannabe communists.
I wonder if the people at the gym have a moral grounding, or is their reaction to things more of a reflex. Kind of environmental. Here on the construction site I think it's reflex. There are good guys but I wonder if they know why. Is it residual from our past religious culture?
I have a theory that a shooter or something like that on the job site wouldn't get too far because the guys would stop it fast. They too don't like bullies or injustice I supppse. Who knows?
“People’s Republic of Santa Monica” - that’s the truth man! Always try to stay the hell outta’ there. Parking’s THE WORST!
Still have an apt in Studio City. ;<)
The first draft of this essay had a Hollywood story in it about the first time I heard that phrase but I wound up editing it out because I realized it was only in there to make me look cool and wasn't making the essay better. :-)
I’ve been calling it that for years! Shame too, the Santa Monica you see in 1970’s tv series “Rockford Files” doesn’t exist anymore. Back then it was still kind of a sleepy, semi-homespun, laid back place. Now it’s uptight, overcrowded, overbuilt, traffic-choked, & run by woke wannabe communists.
I wonder if the people at the gym have a moral grounding, or is their reaction to things more of a reflex. Kind of environmental. Here on the construction site I think it's reflex. There are good guys but I wonder if they know why. Is it residual from our past religious culture?
I have a theory that a shooter or something like that on the job site wouldn't get too far because the guys would stop it fast. They too don't like bullies or injustice I supppse. Who knows?