…Joe Pantoliano too, sitting in those dentist chairs having someone plug a humongous cable into the back of their necks.

Why? Starting this blog has made me feel that I have a conduit for all of the thoughts, feelings, and dumb ideas that come to my brain every day.  I used to blab all of them to my wife Carol, until she became so saturated with them that I had to limit myself, a painful experience for a born ham.  Now I can go the next step from Facebook (which has been very nice to me) and write about these things in a more coherent (hopefully) and lasting way.

By the way, I’m giving you all an assignment.  Send a Facebook friend request to Robert Meyerholz and tell him to start a blog!  He is retired New Haven policeman who is bursting with short stories about his experiences as a cop.  I don’t think Facebook has the bandwidth to support him any more (joke) and I think a blog would suit him even better.  Read some of his stories first, and see if you agree with me.