Author: thebillypulpit

We have a house guest, visiting from Las Vegas.  Apparently, it’s very hot there this time of year, and she very much enjoyed sitting outside in the back yard in the hills of North San Diego County where the Marine Corps helicopters fly over every weekday evening between 5PM and 7PM, and tonight I thought … Continue reading Northgate →

Not like those times in the 90’s when you worked bare chested down the hillside in your 501’s and your Craftsman work boots trying to find satisfactory purchase in that dry, loose soil of your Big House on the Hill, and when you felt yourself going down, with no acacia whip to grab onto, you … Continue reading Weekends Before →

On the subject of road gigs, there was that time we went to Cambria in July to play for MagWest 2005, the Morgans’ annual meet and greet. The band that week was me, Mark, Marcy, Scott, and Karen, and Karen's Derek came with us because we liked him and because he booked the gig. Beautiful … Continue reading Cambria Gig →

Let me tell you about a road gig show in Sedona with Mark and Band #2 (also called Common Ground) and Mark’s second wife, Kari. I remember crossing the California desert on I-10 with Mark and Rory in a high-profile van in a windstorm, a van full of musical stage equipment where we just barely … Continue reading Sedona Gig →

The first segment that I paid attention to was “Conservatorships and Britney Spears”, with congressman Matt Gaetz and former governor Mike Huckabee as the commentors-with-no-skin-in-the-game-except-campaign-donations. There are two edges to this argument. Edge 1: Britney Spears needs to be protected from unscrupulous management people who would use her image and her skills to make themselves … Continue reading Fox News Tuesday 03-09-2021 →

I've seen posts today from Facebook friends sharing a picture of a farmer and his young son, and E.T. (actually, I think it is the dog), looking across a field of wheat at sunset. Overlaid on the picture is the text, “I MISS THE AMERICA I GREW UP IN.” The farmer is wearing overalls and … Continue reading The America I Grew Up In →

(From July 2019, Before the COVID) A near-historic game tonight! Perfect game broken up by a clean single through the shift in the 9th.  Too bad there weren’t 2 out, because that would’ve been even more historic. But there’s another story here that makes this game one we’ll talk about 20 years from now, if … Continue reading Beisbol! →

With the first winter storm in Southern California each year the past 10 years or so, residents with Facebook accounts and a good vantage point snap a photo of the snow on the mountains and post it on social media, and it made me think what a mind-blowing futuristic vision that must have seemed in … Continue reading 18 Luxuries →

We could smell smoke in San Dimas this evening as we raked leaves and uprighted potted plants.  We have a canvas sail in the backyard, a triangular piece of cloth tied in two places to the patio cover and in a third to a cord cleat on the fence like the cleats you might find … Continue reading A Sail in a Windstorm →

“Which hand do I hold the cane?” Mom ended her daily health update e-mail, which the family started doing about a month into the Pandemic, with this question this morning. She used her cane while walking to the mailbox today because her knee hurt, and she didn’t know if she was doing it right. I … Continue reading Tonight’s Trash Story, or “Which hand do I hold the cane?” →