Now is The Time

Now is the Time ©

By Michael Casey

Now is the Time

Now is the Time to set aside our past

Now is the Time to forget who came last

Now is the Time to forget our woes and dance towards our Future

Now is the Time to Remember We are best when we Invest

Now is the Time to Invest in each other sister and brother

Now is the Time for Hope and to get off the ropes

Now is the Time to Forgive one another for we are sister and brother

Now is the Time to Dream our dreams together

Now is the Time to Laugh and Sing and Dance

Now is the Time to Dare to Better than we ever hoped

Now is the Time to Rope a Dope any difficulties and rebuild our cities

Now is the Time to plan the route ahead to be positive and strong

Now is the Time to have Confidence that nothing will go wrong

Now is the Time to reach out to Sister and Brother and our Mothers

Now is the Time for the family that is the United States of America

For WE are family, the red, the white and the blue and stars too

Let us bring our shared Future into view

Let us not allow anything to dampen our Hopes no matter who won our votes

For it is only together that we can once again reach for the stars

Our aspirations show the world who we are

All our hopes and dreams unite this United States of America

Together we will sing together and wing our way back to the stars

Back to the Stars which prove we are one United States of America

Sing America Sing and Fear Not what the Future might bring

For we are family the family United, United States of America

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this is what Trump should have said 1 year ago, but better late than never. I stumbled over this on my PC, so I thought I'd share it.

Sounds like a boring old record with needle stuck in the groove but

Sounds like a boring old record with needle stuck in the groove but

its 2am I'm in so much pain I had to get up.

Left shoulder on front of body below shoulder "bone" really hurts and gives

frequent pain stabs.

Like a needle stuck inside me.

In the past I rung 999 (our 911) and one even went into hospital for similar pain

So they found nothing after a chest Xray that time

So I'll ride out the pain.

I'm due a Dr's appointment this week to discuss my stomach scan results+

So  I'll kill 2 birds with one stone while I am there.

Why am  I boring you with this?

Well I'll be up for a few hours, then when I'm falling over I'll go back to bed and sleep.

The position of lying down seems to aid the pain.

3 years since my quadruple heart bypass and now my  arthritis and whatever this pain is

does affect my life. But some days I have no pains at all , then other days I'm in pain.

Its the episodic nature of it that makes it worse.

Its as unpredictable as English weather.

I could file dump all my writing here, just in case the pain kills me off, but that would be so

melodramatic. And I doubt Blogger allows 1600 pieces to be published in one go.

So you can BUY my stuff instead

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And reading it all will be pain enough for all of you, if you like the graveyard humour.

Which reminds me read

The Graveyard Book

Sep 28, 2010

by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean

 

its on Amazon

 

 

 

and no this is no marketing ploy.

 

I'd delete everything I've ever written if I could delete this pain.

 

And yes some of you are on your hands and knees praying for that to happen.

 

That's not nice, its naughty. I'll send Boris and Lech and Gregorgi around to drink all your 

 

vodka

 

 

Now go to bed all of you, and make love to your Korean girlfriends.

 

 

Kpop Saves the World

K POP saves the World ©

By

Michael Casey

As I flagged yesterday I’ll write something about Pop Stars today, I’ve even changed my usual Font. I did think of one thing and then another, then I had a splat idea. Its the Jackson Pollock school of writing after all, as we lie in our beds the Angel of Death approaches, and the Dove of Peace is just a tiny tiny mustard seed in comparison. I am talking of the looming nuclear war in North Korea.

Read these two links before I resume, with a fresh coffee in my hand.

 http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/north-korea-threatens-to-sink-japan-reduce-us-to-ashes-and-darkness/ar-AArUtCD?li=BBoPWjQ&ocid=mailsignout 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzJvBgsFjvQ&list=RDEzJvBgsFjvQ&t=4 

The 1^st is a worrying news item,  the 2^nd is K Pop.

I’m listening to REM as they sing “Everybody Hurts” I’ve chosen their Automatic for the People album as the backdrop while I talk to you all. Sorry Justin and your Beavers I’m not going to mock you, you do a good enough job on your own. And Snoop you walk your own dog, Eminem go back to school, but Justin dear Justin, I taught you everything you know, now its time to use your 20/20 Vision.

Instead I want to talk about Music, if it be the food of love play on. I wish I could lip sinc the entire film Moulin Rouge as I love it so much. My favorite scene is where the black guy punches the count and save Nicole Kidman. But I digress as ever, but I have such great legs so I should be in a dress. So today’s idea is K Pop for Peace.

23 million people in North Korea are being led by somebody who could be a fat rapper, who has spent everybody’s 50cents on Nuclear Bling, who could poison his own country’s water supply when the mountain where the testing is done collapses around him. In the South everybody has everything, they even have FOOD. So what are we to do to avoid the 1^st Strike from USA, or a very close 2^nd strike if the Panzi, which is a Chinese word for Fat or Pig, tries to get in first. The Logic Of Madness, this is actually a simple concept if you put yourself in the shoes of the madman. This is where the madman kills everything he loves, such as his own family, and then everybody just cannot understand why. Sadly we see such cases in the newspaper from time to time.

The Dear Leader loves nobody, he is corrupt and just loves his own position. So why will he listen to say a fat guy with silver hair in shades from Birmingham? He has not looked in the mirror and changed, he has not had a road to Damascus experience, he has no Soul. He hacked our NHS, it was only saved by a young guy who is now in Jail in USA for something, its due in court soon. A comedy about North Korea, not very funny in the artistic sense resulted in Sony being hacked. People forget Koreans are very clever, even if just in the Military sense in the North.

So what are we to do?

Pack up all your troubles in your all kit bag and sing, yes sing. All you Rappers and hard men out there, why not sing for Peace. I dare you to have a Dream, like King and yes like Abba. Pop stars always say in answer to what is their one dream, world peace, that was until one DJ punched the pop star, be realistic the interviewer shouted.

So Snoop follow your dog’s lead, 50 Cents lend us a penny, no not for a pee, just show us your sparkle, and all the rest of you out there in Hard Man Wrapper Land. Your time has come. Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country. And the answer is sing Take me Home Country Roads and all the John Denver hits. Yes, all you hard rappers out there, Sing Country. And may Buddy Rich rock and roll in his grave. As for all you gyrating girl singers there is room for you too, as I sit here talking to you Love Hurts plays again, so you Ladies can sing that and shake as only you can shake, while I finish my Lemonade.

Then here’s the clever bit track back from Sony to North Korea and let them hear the music. Let them have a Soul, let them dance. All of North Korea’s public address system is taken over by music. First the rappers singing country, they will be the storm troopers of love. Then Let the music sing let the music take over. Surround North Korea with K POP the only language they understand. From South Korea, from Japan and from China too, not forgetting a few Russians.

Constant K pop, the music of fun and laughter and very pretty girls, not forgetting Gangham Style. Broadcast at them on every radio frequency, on every IP address, take over the North Korean nuclear program with K Pop Music, and not forgetting Abba. The Dear Leader presses a button and all he gets is every tv and computer coming to life with K Pop, and then the population have something to really cry about.

Cry with happiness because K-Pop has saved them from the starvation of the spirit. This should be a cue for a Rapper to sing something good, but are any of you good enough? I’ll have a sip of lemonade while you reach for your dictionary. But I’m sure King would know what to say. Or do we just ask the King, Elvis to say a word now. Yes maybe Mr Gangham Style himself should start singing in the Ghetto. North Korea needs to leave  the Ghetto and enter the sunshine. Sing Rappers sing, Take me Home Country Roads, in Korean.

Having a lazy day or two

I'm having a lazy day today as the pain has come out to play.  Sunday was a 2nd day of pain too.

Arthritis is no fun etc etc etc

It was in The King and I that Yul Brenner used to say etc etc etc.

I've noticed I've gone through the 1600 individual pieces of writing mark, including repeats on this site, so if you've been following me for 10 years here and 8 years on Wordpress you will have had plenty to read and you'll have gained a little insight into my Birmingham England family life.

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the link above goes to my first ever book.  click on the writer's page after you click on that link.

Or https://www.amazon.co.uk/Michael-Casey/e/B00571G0YC

to get the full list of 15 books straight away.

Anybody can upload a book via KDP to Amazon.

Writing is easy.

Getting people to spare a dime or two to buy a book that is the HARD part.

perhaps I should say I fell in love with words 50 years ago, and spent 20 years LISTENING

before I picked up a pen. So for me Writing is easy now, 50 years on.

In my head I'm still 20, though you can make your own mind up.

I have a Writing style that has evolved and I also use a few other styles with my writing as the story

spills out on the paper.

I hope everybody sees I want everybody to be happy and never to be overlooked, that's why I favour

the underdog. Because I am that dog too.

I want to make you all laugh and leave a legacy of laugher behind. I've reached 1.25Million WORDS

now or about 3600 pages.  Which is an awful lot of toilet paper, but mainly its all in ebooks, and an

ebook is no use to wipe your bum with. Though my invisible friends Boris, Lech and Gregorgi may

know better. For some reason too Poland and Ukraine seem to like my words the most, though 25

places and more do read my words. Though they could all be bored night shift Hotel Workers.

Or it could be Trump and Murdoch reading my stuff. Or even Mark from FB, or the Press Corps

locked in the basement   at the WH or Mara Largo. Though more than likely its the Dear Leader from

North Korea, he reads my stuff to improve his English.

Whatever reason you read my stuff, or why my cursor moves all over the place methodically ,

perhaps Bill Gates is reading me first as I write this. Whatever reason you read my words can I just

say THANKS. Even if you never buy a book.

I have to go now there is a knock on the door, the North Korean Cheerleaders are coming around for

Kebab and chips. So long as they leave a smile on my lips I will be happy. And yes SURREAL is my

favourite word in the English language. It'll take years to get all the 350 North Korean Cheerleaders

to pronounce it properly.

But if you look on my sites you can find something I have prepared for them.


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p.s. Trump and the Dear Leader should come to Birmingham and Sky tv could sponsor it. they can have tea and cake at Druckers behind Saint Philips cathedral, they could both even step inside and light a candle in the cathedral.

Lady Gaga and Me

I had to get up in the night for an hour due to pain.  I've just read about Gaga  having to cancel shows due to her pain, so I can really relate to that. I hope she can still be Creative from her home studio even if she cannot tour.

So now it's 10.30am and I've had breakfast and my morning meds and Totoro the cat has returned from her night out. So I'm reading the news on the computer. Only in America can the Police be harassed by the person being investigated. It is all very worrying, I stayed up all night when I was a kid to watch Nixon resign on tv. I can remember Nixon's over exaggerated wave goodbye. Now it seems  Trump can do anything and get away with it. You don't have a King in USA but he acts like one. From Over here in UK he looks like a child that nobody wants to discipline, nobody wants to say you are acting like a playground bully. And it needs to be said. In Shakespeare a Fool can tell the King the truth. Who has that role or duty in USA now?

We await the disaster that will come before anybody says we should have done something. Michael Moore said he would win and he did. Moore also said he'd resign out of boredom or there would be a  Constitutional Crisis, if I remember correctly.

This is not me saying USA is bad, I think the opposite. USA is Great, but God is greater still. But all these "Religious Right" people seem to  have forgotten their Bible. Jesus is meek and mild, because he has so much Power. Einstein did not go around telling everybody HE was a genius, and they say HE was 50 years ahead of the game.

Now we have somebody who exaggerates just as a Fisherman does about the size of his catch, though with Trump it's the size of his hands. Please grown up Donald. Be a Fisher of Men, grow the Talent of the USA and of the world. Grow and Sow that's what you should be doing.  Not boasting and boasting. The widow's mite shows up Humility, just as the  Sadducees standing at the front of Temple boasting just how great they are and really they are the best of the best. When in reality who will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven first, or if at all.

Donald you can be the President you want to be and should be. But to do that you have to remember you are a servant, and a little humility can go a long long way. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. History already shows you as a blundering buffoon, no IQ test needed to prove that. I'm just a child pointing out that the Emperor is naked and wearing no clothes. How long do WE THE PEOPLE have to wait before you the Emperor looks in mirror and notices that you are naked totally naked.

At that moment Donald you have the chance to Look in the Mirror and Change, but will you? Or is your Pride preventing you from becoming the Lion that led USA into the new future. A future of Hope and Infrastructure Renewal, not just of roads but of People. You should be reaching for the stars Donald, but instead you are in the gutter. No amount of money can make you rich Donald, its the  Richness of Spirit and Love  which makes USA great, or any nation great.

The stock market will fall Donald, and soon, then the real test will begin. The Stock of the People is in their Hearts, you cannot buy Shares in Hearts Donald. A heart has to be freely given Donald, and as Valentine approaches Donald are you man enough to heal a broken heart. The broken heart of America, the divided heart of America.  In Citizen Kane we hear Rosebud, this refers to the sledge the billionaire had as a child. It was the most important thing in Citizen Kane's life, but he only realised it as he lay on his death bed. Nobel read his own obituary and instituted the Prize.

Donald you have 3 more years or even 7,  or less if you decide to go home and play more golf with Barron. Its time to step up to the plate and bat for everybody, not just for your own ego. Humility is absence of ego. It is about putting other's first. Yes put America first, but that should mean putting your ego last. Would Jesus wear a T shirt saying I'm the Almighty?

Gay Dad and other expressions

Gay Dad and other expressions will be something I write in the morning, I'm off to bed now.

For  Lech, Boris and Gregorgi a Gay Dad is a dad who knows so much about fashion.

So I am Michael Casey the fat silver haired writer in shades from Birmingham the one in England

and I am a Gay Dad, BECAUSE I KNOW ABOUT FASHION, as I have a very beautiful Shanghai wife who stops traffic because she is such a beauty after 20 years with her I know a lot about fashion.

I was wondering would some of you think I am just a weak gay guy, well it should not matter at all if I were gay, weak or not.  Do I buy you all a drink when we are all dressed in women's clothing, suspenders and a bra after we have finished cutting down trees, you do know the Lumberjack Song by Monty Python after all.

So that's the first expression I will teach you. But if Lech or Boris and Gregorgi are gay it does not matter, its as un-important as the colour of my eyes. Which are beautiful, especially when Lech and Boris and Gregorgi do my makeup, because I can reveal the Trio are all in fact Gay Dads too. They have 17 children between them, and no tv set, hence all the children. And 13 of their children are girls, so Lec and Boris and Gregorgi know everything there is to know about eye makeup and rouge and Fashion.

So as Lec and Boris and Gregorgi put their broods to bed I will sing the Lumberjack Song from Monty Python, its under the Martial Arts for Toddlers by  Putin book and the Bible. Being a Gay Dad also means you teach your children Right from Wrong, and how to defend yourself from Anybody.

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What Makes Good Food Good

What Makes Good Food Good ? ©

By

Michael Casey

I grew up next to Off ye Goes, which is a phrase Bruce Forsyth used to use to. The old lady used to say Off ye Go when we left the shop. It was a sweet shop as far as we were concerned but it was also a bakery. A small man forever in a white coat lived there with his wife and her sister who was much taller and seemed much fiercer. I think one of ten must have lived till they were 100. I know this because I spotted one of them in a bakery by my own house 30 years later. When she left I told the baker she was highly praised, because the little old lady came to her shop for the bread.

My wife went to a Tapas bar in our Jewelry Quarter today, very very nice place and the food was great. I told her I spent a week in a Tapas bar in Barcelona back in 1999, luckily I had relearnt my Spanish by 15 mins a day practice every day for 3 months prior to my trip. The Spanish book is in the bookcase behind me. It was the book I had at grammar school. And my wife cannot speak Spanish I told her, she can speak Chinese. I was going to remind her I speak French too, but she just gave me an inscrutable look, Shanghai girls do that you know.

So that brings us to food. What makes food great? The taste obviously. I worked at CPNEC Birmingham 2002 to 2005 and the food was always great. Chefs really do know their onions and knives, so never needle a chef. When you taste haut cuisine for the first time it really is something. Nice food really does melt on the tongue. And they really do beat their meat so that when you taste it you are in Heaven.

The decor there was really nice with a view over the lake, so what more do you want? When you go out somewhere else the food has to be great too, or else why bother. If you are visiting a burger and chips place just rub your finger on the table, and if your finger is greasy just get up and walk out. Yes one nameless place I visited really was that bad. Also watch the staff and their personal hygiene, do they wipe their nose and then serve you? I know this sounds ridiculous in today’s Customer Service world. But basic things matter. I was in a very high end place once, abroad, and the place stunk because of the drains. Obviously we did not eat there. To be honest I could not have afforded to either.

So the menu is nice and its printed on nice paper, so what else matters? It’s the atmosphere, and I don’t mean has the waiter got too  much Brut on, or has the girl got really cheap and nasty overpowering perfume on. I mean do you feel welcomed, do they give you a nod when you arrive before coming with a menu once you have settled into you seats. Your local kebab shop guy always says hello and smiles so if you are going to a fancy place they should be even more welcoming.

If there is music it should not overpower the conversation, you are not going to a disco, nor your local kebab shop. You may be asking the girl to marry you.Or you are doing a business you need to be able to discuss calmly while you have your business lunch. Now all this compliments the food. The venue and the atmosphere really add or subtract from the food. If the food is thrown down on paper plates no matter how good the food is you won’t like it as much as if it is on proper uncracked plates. You can get really fancy plates if you are lucky enough to be taken to a fancy place. Then the rest of performance as food is delivered to your table. And it is a performance, Sawgrass Mills Florida was really nice and it was a performance when we were there 10 years and more.

The food has to be delivered on time and hot, with no delays in between courses, sometime the waiter will forget, or the chef will burn your sea bass. So hopefully your Host who is treating you has plenty of conversation to fill the gaps should the need arise. As the food is so good, you may forgive some errors depending on where you are. But best of all when food and the drink is so good and the conversation with tour Host or family is of such a high order time flies. And the waiter gets a really good tip.

Good food and nice conversation in a great place is worth the extra pennies, because you’ll have a full belly and a head full of happy memories. Or you could just go to Subway, and why not?

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