6/23/25
6/22/25
THE UNITED STATES UNDER THE DICTATORSHIP OF PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP BOMBED IRAN'S NUCLEAR FACILITIES AS A FAVOR TO ISRAEL
That's my take.
I woke up in the middle of the night and checked the news - and was appalled. I'm worried sick this morning after not being able to fall back to sleep. Not only did Trump bypass Congress but ignored United Nations agreements when giving the military orders to bomb Iran's budding nuclear facilities. We are living under a Dictator who rules, not a President who leads.
I AM for a strong DEFENSE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA on our OWN LAND. We may now NEED IT.
So here is what we need to be prepared for:
Terrorist attacks on our own land which will likely kill, disable, or traumatize Americans.
Cyber attacks on all systems that run on computers including military installations, hospitals, energy grid, government, and all else.
Individuals and families who are here from Iran or come from Iranian heritage being targeted for bullying by individuals who favor war.
"Christians" who WANT World War 3 as a harbinger of the END TIMES and THE RAPTURE. (I've already encountered some of these blood thirsty "Christians" at the library.)
More Pro Palestinian versus Israel protesting here in the United States and in Europe. (I wonder if the vegetarian "Peaceniks" are celebrating this morning.)
More Anti-Semitism. In the United States this term is usally applied to Jewish people"The term "Semite" refers to people who speak or spoke a Semitic language, including Akkadians, Arabs, Arameans, Canaanites, and Habesha peoples. It is also used to describe people descended from Shem, one of Noah's sons in the Bible. The term is primarily associated with the Middle East and the Horn of Africa.
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Less than ONE SQUARE MILE of Los Angeles was WRONGLY REPORTED as AN ENTIRE CITY IN RIOT AND INSURRECTIONS very recently, and the Federal Government sent in thousands of National Guards and Marines ... Further the emptying of the country by CRIMINAL ILLEGAL OCCUPANTS of OUR COUNTRY - which we thought meant gang affiliated violent criminals who lost their souls - is now interpreted to mean just anyone.
Here is the truth about the size of (and relative peace) of Los Angeles:
"It is significantly larger, covering approximately 502.7 square miles. This area includes both land and water, with 468.7 square miles of land and 34 square miles of water. "
6/21/25
DEVALUED PENNIES : WHY THE REPORTAGE ON PENNIES IS ALL WRONG : CONSIDER YOUR PIGGY BANK : OPINION BY CHRISTINE TRZYNA
DEVALUED PENNIES : WHY THE REPORTAGE ON PENNIES IS ALL WRONG : CONSIDER YOUR PIGGY BANK
Ever buy an expensive coat and think "but it's a good investment because I'm going to get years of wear out of this?" You're not thinking about single use, you're thinking about REUSING the item.
Let's say the coat is a stretch for you, your budget, because it's a couple hundred dollars. You start thinking about the classic cut, the winters ahead, and that, so long as you don't get too fat or too thin, you can wear that coat hundreds of times. If you wear that $200 coat fifty times a winter, for five winters, you can see how little it costs PER WEAR. ($200 divided by 250 =?)
You might also do this when you thrift shop and are buying used clothing. You might think "Someone else shrunk these pants and they are not new off the rack, but at only $10, if I wear these pants ten times that's only a dollar a wear. (Jeans that fit are often a great value per wear. The designers changing the essential shape of them, the length, the width of the leg by year is the only thing that makes a purchase of jeans questionable value-wise.)
So what I'm getting at is THE COST OF MANUFACTURING A PENNY IS NOT THE POINT AT ALL. It's the FACT that pennies are reused thousands of times. If they were not, we would not have so many years of them STILL IN CIRCULATION. Pennies may cost more to make them than a penny, but if you consider REUSE they are a terrific value.
The devaluation of the dollar makes the value of pennies so devalued some people don't think we need them. But that is not the point.
We do. We do not need prices or taxes rounded up to a nickle.
Once there are no more pennies, the nickles will be next to be exterminated.
Here is a true story.
When I got my dog, and had to watch for hazards such as broken glass, rotting meat on discarded chicken bones, and so on, while walking her, I began to find pennies. I stooped to pick up her poo. I stooped to pick up pennies.
I had a piggy bank in my closet and I threw the coins in there and forgot about them.
I was using a library further from home than most people would travel. The library closest to me had become scary, requiring constant security and visits by the police. I traveled to this other library which was quiet and underutilized until about three in the afternoon, when the school children came in. That branch was supporting seventeen schools!
One day the head librarian, anticipating a lack of funding for their summer reading program, told me that she was not going to be able to give participating children the things she had in the past. They usually got back packs, school supplies, even new shoes for gym. I said I would try to help. I called office supply stores and tried to get the school supplies, but was told they needed months to process such requests.
One day I walked into a 99 Cents Only Store on the way to that library. I asked for the manager and she was willing to give me things people had returned. However, while some of these things might work as prizes, there weren't school supplies.
I went home and while laying in bed, trying to figure out how to get what was needed, I remembered my piggy bank.
I'd never counted how many pennies I'd stooped to pick up while walking my dog. I opened the piggy bank and there was over $40 in it! (40 X 100 = ?)
I called the manager at that 99 Cents Only Store and asked her if she would be willing to take this amount to provide me the school supplies. She was. I warned her it was all pennies.
I turned over the piggy bank and she gave me so many boxes of crayons, pens and pencils, color markers, notebooks and diaries, and so on that, when I got this all to the library, I was told that it would be enough for several summers. Maybe even years.
That was the true value of pennies.
C 2025 Christine Trzyna
6/17/25
REAL PEACENIKS DON'T CHOOSE A SIDE
REAL PEACENIKS DON'T CHOOSE A SIDE
A while back a man I met, who was an important person in a Peace nonprofit, invited me to go along with him to one of their events. It was at a beach city rather far away and he promised he would provide transportation and get me back home on time, which was important to me because I'd agreed to pet sit for some other friends who were leaving town that evening.
He did come and get me and he did get lost on the way and he did drive through an area that posted that there was no parking, so security guards gave chase, but he got a space near their set up. ***
Soon I realized two things. One was that I was expected to volunteer rather than just sit there and listen to some speakers. And I was through volunteering. Second that it was assumed that, without really knowing anything about this Peace nonprofit, I was joining them. No, I was just checking them out. Along for the ride.
At one point they got a group to take hand made posters on a walk-around because they had heard media would be there. I kept sitting under a tent. I didn't like hearing that locals called them Anti-American, but that was not my beef with them.
It was that a woman speaker, who I'd known about from another setting, tied Peace into Vegetarianism (or as that Veganism?) and not eating beef.
Yet, as a chiropractor once told me, we have carnivore teeth and carnivore intestines.
Yet, hunger and starvation are so common on this earth that I can never put someone down if all they eat is what they can afford; five for a dollar instant noodles, 7/11 hot dogs, cat food without owning one, dandelions and mud. **
I hate it when I hear people talking The Liberal Mob but in this case it really as. What, I asked myself, was that walk-around actually doing to create Peace? Nothing! These people were calling attention to themselves as superior in knowledge and intelligence.
Since then the war between Israel and Iran broke out, on top of the war between Russia and Ukraine. And the man starting tucking a Palestinian flag into his hat just to become a walking advertisement and sided with them or, you could say, Iran. Yes, this broke our friendship.
This was followed by my sudden understanding that the small group of protesters that proudly gathered on a street corner every Friday night so cars going by them could honk had also sided with the Palestinians. And the above mentioned woman speaker who tied Peace into not eating beef was one of them and had also wrote a letter to the editor of a small liberal newspaper and he, a Jew, published it.
Ah... choosing sides and cheering for ANYONE committing war is NOT the ideology of a REAL PEACENIK! Destruction is evil. It doesn't matter who has started it or who is doing furthering it, or who is winning. It's a horror upon this earth. It wastes people's lives. I have no way to cause PEACE ON EARTH but I do wish for it. And there's that song that goes "Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me."
It's not easy to restart a homeland.
You do not have to be Jewish or even like Jewish individuals or culture to understand WHY there's an Israel. I understand the complications pointed out to me such as there are so far fewer Jews than Moslems, or biblical prophecy says God gave Jews their homeland back after centuries of wandering, but when it comes right down to it, people like me think who we're looking at when we see Pro Palestinian protesters on street corners is...
NEO NAZI'S
That makes us very uncomfortable.
We know there was a Holocaust in Europe in World War II. (And we do not look forward to World War III and do not believe in End Times and The Rapture.) We know Jews were blamed for a bad German economy and ours is failing. We know Adolph Hitler was a mesmerizing speaker and that at rallies people were excited by his message just like some are excited by President Trump's. We know dehuminization started with comparing Jews to rats, and people started believing they were not humans but needed to be exterminated. And we know that the murders started with people who were disabled in care homes, people who were gay, people who were dependent on the state for income being euthanized as undesirables for their weakness and expensive dependency; our homeless could be next. We know this one:"First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me."
According to AI, "This is a famous passage from a sermon by German pastor Martin Niemöller. It is a powerful statement about the dangers of indifference and apathy in the face of oppression and the moral interconnectedness of all people."
Am I saying that no Jew is at fault for furthering war? Hell no. But, a real PEACENIK doesn't cheer when buildings fall and innocents lay under them. They aren't watching the media and yelling "Kill them all!" If you're for PEACE, you'll suggest trying to come to an agreement or staying out of each other's way until another agreement can be reached.
The Friday corner protesters are especially horrible because that neighborhood is full of Italians who have Jewish roots. So in that way it becomes a small town spectacle designed to aggravate and since when does a protest for PEACE turn out to be so passive aggressive if not obviously violent?
Don't think I'm claiming to be a PEACENIK but I sure am trying to be. I'm reminded that there is no glory or beauty in what's going on in these wars. These wars are ecological disasters for the whole planet and have and will effect all participants negatively, especially the children, for generations forward. In those ways there is no winning.
Christine Trzyna
C 2025
Additions on June 22, 2025 First Day of Summer
*** No he did NOT get me home on time.
** It used to be said that it was less expensive to be vegetarian due to the price of meat but I don't think that's true anymore. My experience with vegetarians is that they have become a new elite due to the affordability of expensive supplements as well as the cost of organics and other "special" foods.
In Los Angeles one child in five goes to bed hungry. School lunches are sometimes a child's only meal.
6/9/25
TRIVIAL or SUPERFICIAL or LIGHTHEARTED ; THE LIST OF THE MOMENT
WHAT'S NEW?
I'm Curious :
Will the advent of the Olympics really inspire the Powers That Are to end Homelessness in Los Angeles, or will the city put up facades that lie, kind of like the peasants did in Austria, to hide their poverty, when King Franz Joseph and his entourage came through?
Who even wants to be President of the United States any more? (A CEO earns more.)
What happened to my high school friend's children who were such brats twenty-five years ago? Did they grow out of it or are they demanding adults?
I Might Just Be Done With : Going to any event that advertises that FOOD TRUCKS will be there.
So funny! : I went with a friend to an adult crafts class that was so childish (felt lady bug cut outs glued to magnets) that I told her I was going to have to start wearing a paper pinned to my shirt that said "If I'm lost please call my mother."
AM I WHO I KNOW? Impossible. I don't know anyone!
Celebrity I (once) met (just saying) : Marty Balin (Martyn Jerel Buchwald) singer/songwriter of the Jefferson Airplane who passed in 2018.
IF I COULD TRAVEL BACK IN TIME : Late spring/early summer 2023.
I'M LISTENING TO : Coverage of the so called "riots" and "insurrection" which never happened in the last few days Los Angeles. (Someone get out a dictionary and show President Trump the true meaning of these words.)
INDULGENCE? I wish! A long deep soak in a pristine claw foot tub.
Book I Recently Read Cover To Cover : I've read no books from cover to cover in recent months, though I have skimmed. This question should be "What magazine article did you read in its entirety?
Book(s) I Keep Meaning To Re/read : Confessions of a Dangerous Mind by Chuck Barris,
Films I Recently Watched From Beginning to End : Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, A Rainy Day in New York (Woody Allen), The Hoax.
AM I WHAT I EAT?
I'm Drinking : black tea
I Just Overate : potato salad
I'm Craving : potato salad
I'M GETTING BETTER AT : threading a sewing machine and filling a bobbin
I FEAR : The Republican agenda to break Los Angeles.
C 2025 Christine Trzyna
6/5/25
THE JACARANDA TREES ARE BLOOMING as I WRITE OUTDOORS AT A PARK
Purple everywhere and flowers dropping, none that have perfume. Green grass. Cool out. Cloud cover. I can see the laptop screen.
The last several days, writing, printing, and snail mailing letters of protest and advocacy. Will any of them solicit response? Don't know. Have to get my anger out of my system.
In the works, one to the library, which has been taking a survey.
Fearless squirrels coming to see what I have in my lunch bag. Luckily this park has many pine trees with plenty of pine cones so they are not entirely addicted to processed and inappropriate people food out of garbage cans.
Be Productive.
Evenings with a friend, watching old films. Eating Reeses peanut butter cups every night, more than I ever ate in my entire life.
Later I hope to sew a carry bag for my friend, as a gift for him, for Father's Day.
Terrible worries about the economy, job loss, and the desperate need for more truly affordable housing. "It's going to get worse," he says, frequently, when I find articles about the excessive number of for sale houses on the market, how first time home buyers are backing out of buying, afraid their incomes will not support mortgages.
We've been watching the construction of a major, potentially community changing, housing project. Advertised as "From the low 600,000." These town homes are clustered together so that it appears that all that's between them is the car access. We see how their address clings to a single family home neighborhood rather than the busy street that some of them front. Will there be soundproofing? Two sets of them have been completed, and we think someone is living in one, perhaps a show-piece furnished, but we don't think a single one of them has been sold.
The front doors are narrow and painted the color that must be the color of the year, a yellow like a chunk of cheese or maybe a school bus. "How can you even get any furniture through that door?" "Maybe they think people are going to order their furniture from Ikea, assemble it indoors, and never get it back out again?" It looks like two rows of these town homes made of wood and plywood have been left standing and we see no workpersons continuing to work. Is the builder waiting for inspections? Moved crew to another site? Out of money?
Who wants a townhouse in this neighborhood?
What will happen to the government housing? The ma and pop stores with low rent?
I think of the seniors who have lived in their own single family home, purchased years ago for much less, inflation, the devaluation of the dollar, the horror that $40,000 a year is barely livable for one person. I think that if you have a house you can sell for a million, these town homes might be a sensible move. But... how many seniors want to do three stories of stairs? The promised electric car plug-ins suggest that these are targeted to attracted young people, techies, people with income of $100,000 a year or more. A way into housing, perhaps without expectation of ever making the pay off?
We muse over the economy between meals.
My friend and I go to eat fast food a lot these last few months. Neither of us were ever much into fast food but it works with a temporary lifestyle. McDonalds, Wendys, Popeyes, Kentucky Fried, Jack in and Box, even once Arby's. Too much fried. Too many fries.
We look to see who else is eating, what cars there are in lots or going through drive-throughs. We think indoor dining is empty.
We think Rite Aid. All those employees who have loyally held on.
If AI is going to take over so many jobs, how will all those people earn their living?
Another squirrel.
More purple flowers.
C 2025 Christine Trzyna
5/9/25
5/6/25
I DEEPLY REGRET EVER HAVING A PHOTOBUCKET ACCOUNT
I DEEPLY REGRET EVER HAVING A PHOTOBUCKET ACCOUNT
Years ago, I, like thousands of other people, were lured into having a FREE PHOTOBUCKET ACCOUNT. I used it to upload photos from cell phones, and well, some time ago - perhaps more than a couple years ago - I STARTED GETTING THREATENING EMAILS from Photobucket. Though Photobucket did say it would charge if someone went over a certain limit, when I did go over the photos were not BLOCKED from uploading to prevent me from going over though I had selected FREE ACCOUNT. I'VE RECEIVED HUNDREDS OF VARIOUS TYPES OF THREATENING EMAILS FROM PHOTOBUCKET ABOUT THE LOSS OF MY PHOTOS and LOSS OF THE ACCOUNT WHICH HAVE BEEN A TIME WASTING PAIN IN THE ASS TO DELETE. THE DESPERATION ON THEIR PART WAS AND IS SHOWING.
ABSOLUTELY NO ONE WANTS TO BE PESTERED INTO FORKING OVER FEES.
At one point I contacted them and said I could not know if I did or did not want to save these photos when I was BLOCKED FROM SEEING WHAT I UPLOADED.
Someone from their CUSTOMER SERVICE DID CONTACT ME and I SAID THE SAME.
TO REITERATE
I DID NOT KNOW IF or WHEN I WENT OVER IN UPLOADS. (It could be that uploading did not go smoothly, resulting in repetitions of the same photo.) I SELECTED FREE ACCOUNT and THEY DID NOT BLOCK UPLOADS PAST THE ALLOTTED NUMBER.
MY PHOTOS ARE BEING HELD FOR RANSOM.,
The customer service person said he would tell his higher-ups how I felt about it.
In truth I don't think I uploaded many personal photos of value to me. I did photograph art projects and such.
And these days, I upload to Google Photos and do a lot of deleting once done with an image.
I'M POSTING THIS TO SAY "DON'T DO BUSINESS WITH PHOTOBUCKET."
4/6/25
4/3/25
THE MUSE IS A CHARACTER I'M WRITING
THE MUSE IS A CHARACTER I'M WRITING
Shamefully or understandably, one of my writing projects is a novel that is not on hold but that I've revisited after months away. I don't have writer's block. It's that Life demands too much survival from me and too much time including long commutes, in this long moment, to focus. The author Erica Jong said, and was quoted saying, that the time to write cannot be replaced. I know!
The novel is set in the realizable past but is a historical novel. The research for it, which I also enjoy, frankly takes far more time than the writing. That's because I know that a knowledgeable reader will crash into any inaccuracies and not be able to go with the reading flow and the reader who just wants to suspend all belief is someone I don't want to mislead.
It's my aim to enter that time and place and know it as well as my characters.
I'm not complaining. Researching is not just about finding the right information to read. My research has included photographing historical photos on walls in various locations as well as walking certain neighborhoods to photograph buildings. I have a list of buildings I want to go into just to see the lobbies; some of the places in my novel are long gone or have been repurposed or are up for refurbishing. I often listen to music from the era I've placed characters in, because they listen to that music. I've paged through books about the history of the era and photographed just what I'm focused upon and eventually print that out. Clothing and haircuts and perfume are included in my work.
Recently, when I revisited my novel, I started by reading what I've already written. Time away is an excellent way to discover that what you wrote months or years earlier still stands, that it's valid, that it's good or even great. I continued to write a chapter that furthers the story the other day. I'd printed out what I wrote previously and I knew what I wanted this chapter to accomplish as the story moves forward.
It seems to me that my main character, the one my readers will get to know the best, is my muse. This character is continuing to tell me her story so I can write it.
C 2025 Christine Trzyna All Rights Reserved
4/1/25
CARLOS SANTANA TOUR CONCERT IS EXCELLENT!
check out the bass solo Benny Rietveld
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One of my favorites...
3/19/25
HUMILIATION : EXPERIENCE FORTY-SIX : CHRISTINE TRZYNA WRITING WORKSHOP
Remember a time when you were humiliated. How old were you? What happened? Are you ashamed to this day? Have you made it into a secret? Or is the experience now laughable?
Christine Trzyna
This exercise is part of a series of writing exercises and to bring up the whole series use the tag Christine Trzyna Writing Workshop.
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3/17/25
3/10/25
THE BRYAN KOHBERGER - IDAHO FOUR TRIAL IS SET TO BE ABOUT EVERYTHING NOW
THE BRYAN KOHBERGER - IDAHO FOUR TRIAL IS SET TO BE
ABOUT EVERYTHING NOW
by Christine Trzyna
If the Idaho Four murders had happened not so long ago - let's say two decades ago - Bryan Kohberger would probably not have been arrested as an "innocent until proven guilty" suspect. As there has been no confession, no knife found, but a whole lot of this and that, the murder of four innocent college students living off campus at the University of Idaho is still a crime of circumstantial evidence. There are many who believe the man is innocent, including, she says, his attorney and his defense team. And thousands of news articles and other media, including many True Crime YouTube stations with authoritative guests, speak of him as the killer. Of late is the exploration of how he might be executed by firing squad.
Though not much of a true crime aficionado - compared to the very many who follow outstanding crimes and criminal justice case by case - I love a good mystery and have occasionally participated in the sleuth game over the years. After all, as a ten year old, Nancy Drew books were far more interesting to me than books I was forced to read, such as the English classics. With so many crime and forensics television series giving viewers lessons of discovery, there's a temptation to be just like Nancy, the heroine whose investigative ways lead her to follow the clues and solve the mystery.
The upcoming trial will have everything now. DNA evidence, video evidence, door camera and sound, cell phone pinging, social media and networking, texting, and Internet purchasing... That's why the Bryan Kohberger - Idaho Four Trial may just be the Trial of the Century. Frankly many people I've talked to about it mention how different the O.J. Simpson trial would have been if this technology had been available.
One thing for sure: If Bryan Kohberger is not the killer, then someone who has or may go on to kill again is out there.
As mentioned in a previous post, I find that the constant use of Internet social media as a display of good times, good looks, and in some cases teasing sexiness, by the students, particularly, the two girls who, as childhood friends, slept and died in the same bed together, not worthy of being murdered, but stupidity. (It could be argued that it was also show-offy and competitive.)
As well there is reason to think some of these students were alcoholic and we all know that drunk people loose their inhibitions and under the influence do all sorts of things they may regret later. I associate membership in Frats and Sororities to be indicative of alcoholism as well. Allowing their rental house to be a party house so notorious that some students partied there when not one renter was home, was also just plain stupid. I do not think all college students party as a way of life so excusing the way these activities opened these students up to privacy invasion and being targeted as just what college students do is in error.
I marvel at how a student could work, ace classes with a full time class load, and party too. Maybe I don't personally have that level of genius or guts.
I'm not excusing murder of course, just encountering facts.
I also still find it irksome when I hear true crime authority figures not understand what being a grad student and a TA means or even what a Criminal Justice candidate studies. Finally someone spoke up and said that thousands of people who major in Criminal Justice - bachelor, masters, or PhD's, do not go on to commit murders. The analysis is interesting to be sure, but has not lead to more than speculations.
These last few days more information, such as the redacted texting between surviving housemates, which aids the time-line, has been released. ... As if tantalizing advertising for the upcoming trial.
Of all the "evidence" it is the cell phone pings that I find to be ridiculous. This is because of my own experience with cell phones.
My first cell phone was a gift, along with what proved to be very limited service. (I appreciated it, at a time when I could not afford to buy one myself.) However, while living on a block full of apartment buildings, I had to go outside and walk up the street to make and take calls and there were significant delays when it came to receiving text messages.
In recent years I had a cell phone in a residential area where calls and texts seem to go through with more ease. However, I was amazed to see the information on the phone that "locates" a person and their phone, for it identified me as pinging in Las Vegas, especially in the middle of the night, and Vegas is about 270 miles away! (I also had not ever called anyone or any place in Vegas.) Up the road from my place was a quarter mile stretch in which the locals warned me that even ATT had no service. Was it the ocean? The hill?
Currently, I'm sometimes startled to see that my phone knows exactly were I am, as it switches one town- one block - to the next. Other times my location is all over the place.
Of all the "evidence" I find to be most controversial (and frightening) is the DNA - touch DNA - evidence. This DNA on the metal button of a leather knife sheaf is not even a fingerprint.
In fact, I haven't heard anything about fingerprinting at the crime scene.
Is the information that has made the rounds of YouTube and other True Crime podcasts even true? Such as that despite inspections of Bryan Kohberger's apartment on campus, office on campus, and car, which was taken away by the FBI, there is NO blood from any of the students? I ask, "How can a murder scene so bloody that some may have seeped out of the house foundation" NOT result in student blood - DNA being found?
Friends say that likely the murderer suited up for murder and quickly got rid of the clothing. How masterful that might have been, even if wearing overhauls or the like. No time for a shower, in this case....
Most worrisome is that thousands of people who entered their DNA results into genealogy databases, who DID NOT GIVE PERMISSION FOR THESE TO BE USED FOR ANY OTHER PURPOSE SUCH AS BY PRIVATE INVESTIGATORS, POLICE, FBI, learned - what the hell - they did so. This did not just violate Bryan Kohberger's privacy but also ALL THOSE PEOPLE'S privacy.
I learned that your garbage is no longer yours or private once you throw it out. Something I have done - put my garbage is someone else's garbage bin - is suspicious behavior. So is wearing gloves to deal with garbage...
I, like very many, are eager to get the blow by blow of the trial. I believe Kohberger's defense attorneys will try everything to reduce his sentence or get him off. We will learn much.
Do I think Bryan Kohberger is innocent?
I am open to that idea.
C2025 Christine Trzyna
My favorite True Crime podcast, and I listen only to the Bryan Kohberger coverage, is Surviving the Survivor.
2/24/25
SNL 50TH ANNIVERSARY SKITS DESPERATE - UNFUNNY - GUTTERAL and GROSS
I really wanted to be amused - especially by the UFO abductee skit that featured some so called "A List" actors, but it seems the SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE 50th ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL featured comedic desperation which resorted to dirty shock value !
I always appreciated that SNL was on. It was so New York City and one of the few television shows on networks that featured creative skits and guests - but over 50 years I was not ever a chronic viewer.
In recent years, on a Sunday, I would watch the YouTube redux of the previous night's skits. I and some friends loved the Donald Trump parodies especially.
I enjoyed the fairly recent dog park skit, in which the actors ran the gambit of dog behaviors from scooting butts on the floor to the zooms, but one of my dog-lover friends saw it and said, "No! No! They didn't!
The skits I saw for the 50th anniversary - sorry!
It's kind like when Joan Rivers was funny for national television standards but she (and her daughter) became known for filthy language outrageousness and crass putdowns instead.
If you want to laugh without all the sexual references, watch DRYBAR Comedy on YOUTUBE!
2/16/25
DESTRUCTION : EXPERIENCE FORTY-FIVE : CHRISTINE TRZYNA WRITING WORKSHOP
So much DESTRUCTION from fires, floods, hurricanes, tornados. Natural Disasters.
Write about an experience of loss from some event that you had no control over.
Christine Trzyna
This exercise is part of a series of writing exercises and to bring up the whole series use the tag Christine Trzyna Writing Workshop.
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2/10/25
2/5/25
TRIVIAL or SUPERFICIAL or LIGHTHEARTED ; THE LIST OF THE MOMENT
WHAT'S NEW?
I'm Curious :
Could I really get dual citizenship based on heritage and live in the European Union?
Can I find the pattern free and on line to 3d print a new cell phone case?
How will I feel when my gentleman friend moves away?
I Might Just Be Done With : My "friend" who I just blocked after she called me 24 (twenty-four) times in one day. (I felt like she was like a rat in a maze after the cheese that's not there.)
So funny! : (Lately my sense of humor has been dark, very dark; if I'm the next to die, do not have a memorial service for me. Too many people just show up to eat free food.)
AM I WHO I KNOW?
My Favorite Person Is : My gentleman friend ; come what may.
The Person(s) I'm curious about : My gentleman friend ; his romantic history.
Celebrity I (once) met (just saying) : Robert Smith from The Cure (off stage, no make-up)
IF I COULD TRAVEL BACK IN TIME : Art School age 17.
I'M LISTENING TO : Tedeschi Trucks Band, Graham Nash, Luther Vandross
AM I WHAT I INDULGE?
Book I Recently Read Cover To Cover : None: I can't concentrate. (But I still do order books in at the library.)
Book(s) I Keep Meaning To Reread : The Only Girl: My Life and Times On the Masthead of Rolling Stone by Robin Green
UNDERSTANDING
Person(s) I Get and Nobody I Know Understands : A couple, who have been together for nine years, and celibate the entire time.
AM I WHAT I EAT?
Cheese Of The Moment : Cream (on scrambled eggs)
Bread : Hawaiian
Condiment : Mayo
Sweet/Snack : Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, plain popcorn, pistachios
Spice : Traders Joe's 21 Seasonings Salute (It's getting expensive.)
I'm Drinking : Lipton black tea (Still have not acquired the taste for green.)
I Just Overate : Kidney Bean and Turkey Chili
I'm Craving : Homemade mashed potatoes with lots of real butter, and sprinkled with Traders Joe's 21 Seasonings Salute
AM I WHAT I BUY? Clogs with colorful vinyl dog print, bright, cheap acrylic yellow sweater with big faux snowflake across the chest (I was in the mood), nail polish in neutrals (I know, I know), eye-shadow in neutrals (I know, I know).
I WANT TO BUY: Giant lightweight durable carry bag with a zipper. Earrings (It's been a while).
AM I WHAT I MISS? Quietude, Solitude, Laziness, Fantasy.
I'M GETTING BETTER AT : Realizing that someone I'm talking with is mentally ill or addled - suffering from memory loss or disorganized thinking.
I FEAR? Liars.
C 2025 Christine Trzyna
Ask yourself the same questions.
Don't let me influence you.
2/2/25
1/31/25
FIREAID LA BENEFIT CONCERT
Alannis Morrisette, Anderson Paak and the Free Nationals, Dr. Dre (Sheila E too!) Joni Mitchell, Dawes, Steven Stills .... six hours of fantastic performances - music!
Once upon a time I hiked Eaton Canyon all the way to the box canyon and waterfall...
The Annenberg Foundation will oversee distribution.
Billy Crystal announced that U2 donated $1 million, while Connie and Steve Ballmer pledged to match donations made during the event.
Viewers were encouraged to contribute online through FireAidLA.org or by text.
Proceeds will support affected families and fire mitigation efforts in Los Angeles County.
1/30/25
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1/24/25
1/21/25
NEW YORK DOLLS : YOU CAN'T PUT YOUR ARMS AROUND A MEMORY
Note March 31, 2025
David Roger Johansen (January 9, 1950 – February 28, 2025)
Hoping he and Arthur "to tell ya the truth" have met up and are having a wonderful time.
1/18/25
1/16/25
1/15/25
WILDFIRES EVERYWHERE : NO ALLAH IS NOT PUNISHING THE WICKED !
Spiritually sick people are
posting YouTube videos
with this sensational religious bigotry.
1/10/25
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