I wrote an article for a newsletter, we will see if it is accepted. The word limit was 500. I came in after my edit at 497. It took 30 minutes to write. 15 minutes to edit. I never knew I had this much to say… Let alone write… I will just say it is therapeutic to dissent, ramble, offer opinion, or rhapsodize about nothing…

We are going to reach 98 degrees (36.67 C) here in the North 40’s. What do my dogs want to do? Bask in the sun, like lizards…

My Neapolitan Mastiff, Bubbles, is currently melting into the floor right next to the air conditioning vent. She melts into everything…

I had a calzone from a local establishment yesterday. It was a vegetable calzone. It was excellent. I loved how the black olives dominated the flavor of the dish… No, I’m not a vegetarian, I just like vegetables…

The Iowa Independent Newspaper was delivered to our home this past week. The entire paper is devoted to how the Big Bad Beautiful Bill is hurting Iowa. Ummm… Duh… We were told by how many congressional objectors? Iowa voters like to shoot themselves in the foot with their blind loyalty to neoliberal capitalists. I wonder if they will wake up….

I found a recording at a Goodwill yesterday that my tuba professor from the University of Iowa appears in. When this recording came out we were both much younger men. I am older of the two of us. Non-traditional learning seems to be my cup of tea…

I wonder why I never hear the music of Gloria Estefan anymore? What did she do to be forgotten? Laura Branigan also has suffered a similar fate? Why????? Both are/were great artists of their time.

If I could go back in time… I would not exist in the present….

I have a mastiff named Mack. He knows how to open fence gates, open garbage cans with foot pedals, and collect peppers from the countertop without permission…..

I wonder when the Nationals are going to sign our young stars to extensions? Or are we going to let them get away to big market teams? I believe the MLB needs a salary cap and a salary floor to control the cost of tickets… but greed always has a way of ruining something good…

I wonder when Cher is going to release her next album. I’m not going to buy it, but she has this way of appearing popular whatever her age may be.

My wife knows what I want, before I do… I am beyond thankful to have her in my life… I wish I could predict myself as accurately as her…

I think I may be the only musician in the Quad Cities that does not participate in the Bix Beiderbecke Festival… I’m perfectly okay with that…

Iowa has a congressman that is against congressmen trading stocks…. ….but somehow their net worth has managed to double since being elected… …if it smells like shit… it must be shit…

Medicare fraud… is not created by the people who need it… it is created by for profit healthcare companies… primarily… so… Republicans need to shut up… Medicare for all could fix that for profit health care bullshit pretty quickly…

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson’s common sense always sounds selfish, self important, and frankly communist…

My wife wants a skunk… I would rather have a badger… One of them has a fighting chance against the mastiffs… Which one?

Max Scherzer’s hall of fame career is coming to an end. He is returning tonight (27-July-2026) to Nationals Park. He is scheduled to start the game for the Blue Jays. Scherzer will forever live as a Nationals legend. I hope the crowd gives him a standing ovation tonight when he takes the mound in the bottom of the first. He has earned it.

If my life were to be turned into a film… I have no idea who would be cast in my part… Brandon Fraser?? maybe…

I’m going to declare my piece of property as an independent republic, and secede from the state of Iowa, and the United States. I will call it the independent republic of Bresslerland. I’m going to stop paying taxes in the U.S. I will purchase electricity, natural gas, and water privately as I do already. I will form an alliance with NATO, and formalize a service/trading partnership with Canada, and pronounce a 1000% tariff on the bigly nation of 47. This piece of satire is completely impossible, but a soft secession by the blue states will force the red states to sustain themselves… That would be funny to see…

I wish more people knew what neoliberalism was…

Why is the literature of God called dogma? Wouldn’t that make the literature on dogs, Godma? Maybe the founders of faith confused their dog as a god and this entire worship thing is all derived by a bad case of dyslexia…

If I could remake one film from my lifetime it would be the Blues Brothers…. I will show myself out now… …so it goes…