friends – Robert Raymond’s Blogtorium

August 13, 2020

The Robby Awards (DOG EAR)

he heat was sheeting off the three eastbound lanes running towards Bithlo, Florida. I was in the right lane behind a massive pickup truck with all its proudly stickered vulgarities. Suddenly the trunk swerved its massive tires left, cutting into the center lane. In horror, I saw a guy on a hog (with no helmet) making an equally uncleared and unsignaled shift from the far left lane. Both spotted each other and locked up (I had to stop because the wide back end of the pickup was still in my lane). Then, like pitbulls, they screamed at each other, unmasked […]

June 29, 2023

Bragging Rights (DOG EAR)

‘ve recently begun to notice how much I hate braggarts .Look, I didn’t ask and didn’t care, but some people feel the need to tell you how good they’ve got it (which implies how bad I’ve got it). All of these I’ve recently endured… Tech – Yes, nothing is more idiotic than someone bragging about their Tech, be it a car, a computer, a phone, a bike. You didn’t build it so all you are doing is taking credit for clever teams of designers and assemblers. You? You did nothing. For my own life, my model railroad interlocking tower is […]

September 28, 2025

My Friends (Review)

o this is for you Ove fans (for you “Otto” fans, shush, the grownups are talking). My Friends is (as hinted at) is written by Fredrik Bachman, author of A Man Called Ove (a personal favorite). And in it, the author hits another one out of the park. My Friends begins with a troubled young girl moving through an art show, moving slowly towards a certain painting, a massively expensive one. With cans of spray paint in her backpack and determination in her eye, she slips past the rich people, ducks under the rope and …. See how this one […]