E-Book Gee-Book! Gimmie a Real-Book!

E-Book Gee Book! Gimmie a Real-Book!

By Glenn Peppers                                9-24-13

E-Book-Gee-Book! Hey guys, I don't know about you, but I still like the look and feel of a Real Book in my Hands! I still dig turning the pages. I like the smell of ink in a freshly published work, as well as the feel, and aroma of great Bonding or Antique paper, and Leather Bound Covers. I still like highlighting the various lines and passages and verses in Real Books. 

I like highlighting all the many points of interest in a book with all my various color highlighter! I'm one of those strange people who still like using goofy Book Markers! The 3D book markers are still admittedly cool to me! Books make great decorations, and cabinet ornaments when they aren't being used on rainy evenings when nothings on TV; or when Facebook becomes passe', and Netfix continues to show all those really bad movies, playing them off as classic "B" movies!

There's nothing like finding one of your old, middle school english study books from grade school, and seeing all the makings you and other folks made in it, year ago! Sure the pictures fade, and the pages crumble after many years in books. Well, one day, when and if the Power Grid ever goes down again. All our beautiful high-tech colorful little E-Books will cease to work. It will be then that "To Kill a Mocking Bird" would sound inviting to re-read... or become aquatinted with if you've never read it!

Seems we're doing away with most everything that meant fine reading, and true enjoyment in the way of physical/realtime literary recreation! We've forfeited our newspapers. We've scaled down those wonderful Album Covers to all those great records, down to fold out leaflets in CD cases. Remember laying on the floor, reading the Sunday Funnies, and sharing the many sections of the newspaper with family members? 

There are barely any bookstores in some malls anymore! High-Tech has phased out so many things, in a matter of a few short years. Things like, Video Stores, to Video Arcades, to being locked in ones home, and plugging ones self into On-Demand, ordering a pizza on-line, and vegging on the couch in our own private little Matrix... All Plugged in! High-Tech is fine, but where will it end? How much will we sacrifice for the sake of convenience? 

A few short decades ago, we had to get our big butts up of the couch and turn the TV channel, and adjust the antennae for a clear crisp picture. Now days we have command control center style remote controls right at our fingertips. The world is waiting right there for us, resting on our grubby little infrared index fingers! Clicking and surfing, and texting, and poking; and all the while, a good book is resting on the shelf, screaming to be read, and even bookmarked "For Real!" And enjoyed!

Yes, give me a book! I can tangibly feel its sleeves, its jacket, its crisp pages, and its heaviness! I am in effect feeling what the author and publisher wants me to feel! Its a production package deal. Its not just the writing! Its called, compartmental presentation! The colors, the fonts and yet the simplicity of it all! 

Books denote an era, and a time of expression, much like art! Books immortalizes an author! Over time they become collectors items, and appreciate in value, depending upon the book, and the author. An electronic download is worthless, and may even become corrupted, or accidentally get erased!

Sure nothing is indestructible! Books burn, and are destroyed by water damage, and misuse, etc! That's a chance we have to take. 

Yet just like any precious thing. Books are something to cherish, past down, salvage, and again, enjoy! 

There are great old vintage and secondhand bookstores all around. Get out and visit them! Make a day of it! There's a whole world of imagination and learning between the covers of a good book! 

Admit it... There's nothing like a real book! Embrace it! Fold it, Bend its pages! Draw little smily faces at the top of the page, and highlight to your hearts content!... Its physically, and actually your book. Not some phantom download that only shows itself when your E-Reader or computer is turned on! Remember, when the E-reader is shut off, your newly purchased book disappears, and goes away into electronic La La land! And you know that we as readers all deserve much better than that!

Glenn Peppers

Run George Zimmerman... RUN

Run George Zimmerman... Run!

(The Invincible One)

By Glenn Peppers                                                                     9-9-13

Ah yes yes yes! And so it goes!... Mr. George Michael Zimmerman is at it again folks! Seems this so called innocent man can't seem to stay out of ear and eye shot of the law for very long at all! And it also seems that he, and only he alone has the right to brandish a gun, and draw down on even more innocent people with a loaded weapon as well; AND GET AWAY WITH IT... AGAIN! With no police intervention! WOW! 

So far, to date there has been no arrest or questioning of this man’s threats or actions, against his wife and his father in law. So, how is it this man can go about doing virtually anything he wants to people, with impunity and administer justice (even up to killing folks if he deems it necessary) as he see’s fit, upon any and all American citizens, completely and totally unchallenged? My goodness, James Bond, 007 doesn't even have that kind of License to Kill!

So now because of his new found immunity status, ole’ George "Z" thinks that he is impervious to, and totally invincible to the law of the land! Hell, he’s already blown away an innocent/unarmed child, and gotten away with it! Which was sadly unprecedented by the way! Then just days afterwards, Zimmerman faked an auto-wreck-rescue scene, on a public highway, and has since been pulled over by the police for speeding through Texas (and no ticket I might add). 

Now George (Fake out Superhero) Zimmerman has just assaulted his father in law, and threatened to pull a handgun on both his father in law, and his wife. Awe hell, maybe I had ole’ George Zimmerman wrong! Gall dang-it, George Zimmerman is Gall-Durn Superman!... Well, I won’t go quite that far by insulting my childhood superhero idol from Krypton, yet it appears that one George Zimmerman has better diplomatic Immunity than a billionaire Sheik in Miami! 

Still, Mr. Zimmerman, the trouble you attract, and the attitude that you are showing in these; 'your oh so recent days of freedom,' reveals a lot about you! Apparently, you have been, and truly are the hellion and bully that people have described you to be! Its news that your wife is divorcing you, and maybe its because she "is" deathly afraid of you! Maybe her fear of you is justified, and is probably one of many reasons she wants to get far far away from you! Why is this Mr. Zimmerman/hero/Mr. Invincible? Please tell us! From my arm chair corner of the world, all I can say to you Mr. Zimmerman is, Run George Zimmerman... Run! 

Even though there is no place on this earth you can effectively hide! You now have become what you’ve hated so much. Just like the African American males you've hated and targeted with vigor, you have now yourself become a target! Even though, I wish you no harm, you will find that most everyone you’ll meet along your rocky path will profile you! They'll judge you! Distrust you! They'll even throw slurs and insults at you! And most of all, because of who and what you have revealed yourself to be, people more than ever will Fear You! 

Some of them may have even liked you at the outset of all this. Some of them may have even supported you... at first! Now many people are beginning to see you for the gun toting/trigger happy/misogynistic bullying lunatic that you are! 

Run George Zimmerman!... That’s right! Aimlessly drive the highways and byways in search of your next adventure in terror. Your next confrontation, and drama! Run George Zimmerman. Run until your feet bleed! Run until you eventually come across that one wrong person to cross! That one certain someone who will not fear you at all! That person will not hold back on you, as those innocent people you’ve intimidated and terrorized once did! 

Pray that you never meet this person who see’s you as the self-made media Teflon Clown you’ve made yourself out to be! Run, run disillusioned fake out Invincible hero wannabe! Try and run from yourself, George Zimmerman. Yet try as you may, whenever you close your eyes to go to sleep, the specter of what you did will always be there, in your restless dreams, and will chase you in circles, right back to yourself. 

Night after night, you will drag along a giant ball and chain of guilt and shame as you try and slumber! For seemingly an eternity, you'll bare the heavy weight of that one dirty deed you’ve done that will haunt you forever on!... Run George Zimmerman!... Run!... RUN!

Glenn Peppers