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AUTHOR PHOTOS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS? Pt.2

March 17, 2018 by David Gillaspie

Exercise your laser beam eyes? Nothing says “buy snake oil” either in print or bottle, than an expression that includes laser beam eyes. This author looks like a button downed English professor forced to read WR121 funnel essays year after year. With that in mind does he have laser beam eyes, […]

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AUTHOR PHOTOS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS? Pt.1

March 16, 2018 by David Gillaspie

Do Not Make Direct Eye Contact? This man looks like he might be blind, which explains the eye contact part. The other part is what an author looks like from different time periods. There’s little difference in the region under a beard from any period. If Mt. Rushmore for writers needs […]

Filed Under: BOOMER YEARS Tagged With: author, author photos, famous authors, photos, write, writers, writing

SELF CONTROL INTERVIEW BEFORE ASSAULT RIFLE PURCHASE

March 5, 2018 by David Gillaspie

What do we need to know before another assault rifle purchase? In the short days before the next mass shooting, gun shops need to start an interview process for those making their first assault rifle purchase. Besides the usual questions on the background check and ATF Form 4473, add a short interview […]

Filed Under: BOOMER YEARS Tagged With: AK-47, AR-15, AR-15 owners, armed forces, assault rifle, assault rifle purchase. self control interview, drill instructors, Drill Sergeants, full automatic, M16, self defense, self-control

MOTORCYCLE HOODLUM GRANDPA, EARLY WWII ANGEL

February 10, 2018 by David Gillaspie

One enchanted evening the man on the hog met a woman at a USO dance. He saw her across a crowded room. They married just before he shipped out to the Pacific Theater of Operations, PTO. Score for a motorcycle hoodlum, but he was the least motorcycle hoodlum on the road. He […]

Filed Under: BOOMER YEARS Tagged With: generals, grandpa, greatest generation, harley, harley davidson, leadership, motorcycle, motorcycle hoodlum, president trump, south pacific, trump, Vietnam, Vietnam War, Vietnam-era, WWII, WWII vet

GIRLFRIEND BREAK UP AFTERMATH WITH DIRK FERGUSON

February 8, 2018 by David Gillaspie

Girlfriend break up? It’s one way to learn how to stay married later. A bad break up then makes a better husband now. Dirk Ferguson witnessed the aftermath of a girlfriend break up that served as a guide to any break up wing man for the whole sad affair. Play Hall and […]

Filed Under: BOOMER YEARS Tagged With: break up, college, college roommates, dui, emotions, girlfriend, girlfriend break up, hall and oates, police, roommates, she's gone

COMFORT ZONE AND BIG SNAKES? GET. OUT.

December 8, 2017 by David Gillaspie

If you’ve ever seen a snake wrangler in their comfort zone, they probably don’t look like this. There I was in a lovely Santa Monica apartment with nice people in Los Angeles. They seemed like nice people, then I saw the snake in a cage. “Do you like snakes?” someone […]

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ROLLING STONE AND PLAYBOY BOTH DIED IN 1980. WHO NOTICED?

November 20, 2017 by David Gillaspie

Growing up in the shadow of the sixties, I turned sixteen in 1970, two magazines ruled the media rack: Rolling Stone and Playboy. Ten years later in 1980 two icons from each were murdered. John Lennon and Dorothy Stratten were both shot down in tragic style. Rolling Stone and Playboy did a […]

Filed Under: BOOMER YEARS Tagged With: british invasion, dorothy stratten, Hollywood, john lennon, new york, playboy, pop music, rolling stone, the Beatles

Man Married At Age Thirty One Sees Image Thirty One Years Later

November 6, 2017 by David Gillaspie

The saying ‘Like a deer in the headlights’ must have been coined at a wedding. My wedding. Things changed that day. We’re going through a phase, call it the non-hoarding phase, and this came up in an album.

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Way Back When Turning Thirty Was Old Age

November 4, 2017 by David Gillaspie

I asked a fifty year old man what turning thirty really meant. I was twenty nine at the time. He said, “It’s easier wearing a shirt and tie without feeling like a fraud.” Fraud? That’s it? Shirt and tie? Way back when turning thirty was old age I asked old […]

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Men’s Poll Question: Your Wife’s Old ‘Friend’ Calls To Catch Up?

October 30, 2017 by David Gillaspie

What’s the best approach is the question of the boomerpdx Men’s Poll Question? When one of your wife’s college day boyfriends calls to catch up after a couple of decades, and she tells you about it, then what? MAN #1 I wouldn’t think the question would ever come up since my wife […]

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AUTHOR PHOTOS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS? Pt.2

AUTHOR PHOTOS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS? Pt.1

SELF CONTROL INTERVIEW BEFORE ASSAULT RIFLE PURCHASE

MOTORCYCLE HOODLUM GRANDPA, EARLY WWII ANGEL

GIRLFRIEND BREAK UP AFTERMATH WITH DIRK FERGUSON

COMFORT ZONE AND BIG SNAKES? GET. OUT.

ROLLING STONE AND PLAYBOY BOTH DIED IN 1980. WHO NOTICED?

Man Married At Age Thirty One Sees Image Thirty One Years Later

Way Back When Turning Thirty Was Old Age

Men’s Poll Question: Your Wife’s Old ‘Friend’ Calls To Catch Up?

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