it's cool i can type , i actually took a typing class in high school in H.S . Probably mandated by the school , but actually don't think it stuck , in later yrs. i went to a technical school in Los Angeles when i was in my early thirties for computers. this is in reality where i learned to type, i got a application typing tutor and took about 15 minutes during my lunch in the computer room and practiced , this is very beneficial in me writing my "smart alek" things on twitter, my blogs and overall just a great thing to know how to do , however that's not the purpose of this blog (how i taught myself to get around on the computer) well i was employed as a data processor , for several yrs. that's why i have blockers on twitter , they don't really hate me, they just fear my computer skills (they really do)."--"

i just wanted to say a few thing's about me , hey learn about me , (wow big ego Kevin) no just releasing some thoughts for the world to know ,such a writer exhibitionist "--"

Like a mini -interview here it goes:

what's your fav color : blue

favorite season : fall (do i miss New Hampshire in the fall , damn right i do ) let me put some $ for next fall , although i went to Texas this fall , and had a awesome time, it was actually very affordable, more so than New England .. ( but i have  relatives in the Boston area ,so i can look em up on the eastern seaboard, for next Oct) ..but i  may very well just go right back to Texas next Oct.

are you L or R handed , well i am left handed but not a true lefty , i do thing s right handed like throw balls and bat right , but i eat lefty and write , i kind of look as my R is my strong arm , and my L is my creative side..(i have a L handed mouse on my desktop).

do you like Los Angeles?, some thing's i do ( the weather) i find it crowded, and the folks can be kind of shallow ( just being honest) .. super expensive out this way mainly in housing , unless you want to live in Bakersfield or something.

what professions interest you ? photographer , something in the creative industry , cause i am always thinking creative thoughts for some reason , maybe a writer , ? Disneyland tour guide ?maybe even stand up  comedy( i am kind of shy in my own way ) but maybe someday.

are you gay , straight , or bi-sexual , OK wasn't gonna go their , OK does it matter what my sexual preference is ? wish folks would be themselves and not put a label on their personal life , does it matter, it shouldn't .

favorite sport? Hockey

what type of car's do you like ? luxury and mini -vans, not big on small cars ...

do you like the city or suburbs? : suburbs but the city is nice to visit , just not big on living in a big Metropolitan area  , OK i live in Los Angeles , but i am out in the outskirts , kind of like the outskirts ..
city driving or the freeways ?, - freeways

long drives or short jaunts??long drives

are you a hill person or normal house on flat land - not a fan of the Hollywood hills put it that way , maybe to hike and check it out , don't think i would ever live up their , maybe down in the "flats" of Beverly Hills - that would suit me just fine . "--'

fav actor ?  Jospeph Gordon Levitt, Ed Norton of this generation , but i like mostly seventies actors, like Gene Hackman, William Defoe , Peter Falk was one of fav...oh and Gregory Peck of course..

fav actress, Faye Dunaway, Jamie Lee Curtis..

fav song well that's a tough call but i will say i like - a long long way from home , Foreigner ,and also Ride Captain ride by the blues image (this was a one hit wonder) and i was fortunate to meet Mike Pinera (actually had Thanksgiving dinner with him) he's a trip .. still so talented ... "--"



favorite movie : the warriors -1979

and food, well i like all types of food , maybe Italian from a really authentic one (hard to find in Los Angeles , unlike the Boston area).also like Chinese food quite a bit - again hard to find Chinese food like the Boston area , google Kowloon in Saugus Ma. 

fav music : classic rock and some things a little heavy (metal) remember i grew up in South . N.H.. , part of my upbringing , my biggest genre , but in reality i like all types of music , but i always gravitate towards the classic rock stations..

favorite place to vacation ? Fl, TX. HI, New England and Las Vegas and i keep procrastinating on  my passport... as you can see "--"

favorite part of the states, ? i like every state they have their own unique characteristics i just kind of ended up in Calif..long story not on this blog...

where is your hometown? Bedford NH

have you ever been arrested ? well since a potential employer could be reading this i would rather not say, let's just say i have a clean background check "--'

do you prefer the east coast or the west coast of the states?  well i like both and they each have different attributes , i miss the realism of the folks on the east coast, the food, the four season's all that...

what type of movies do you like ?, Documentaries , horror ( although i try to refraim from watching em ) for some reason, Horror that is , Drama , Action (like the Rambo movies, with Sly Stallone) love that ,

favorite newscaster or moderator , well, Bill Curtis and Peter Thomas ..

favorite American Holiday : Thanksgiving

that's all today hope you enjoyed my confession on this Wend , the 21st day of Dec. very close to Christmas ! Merry Christmas and Happy and safe New Year  to all my followers i love  all of you even the haters and blockers you rock!

here's a pic of the Newport beach parade, my first time this Year! awesome , that be Newport beach Ca. i actually used to live in Newport beach and went to school their when i was in 8th grade , Corona del Mar ( i am such a affluent one ) ."---"

think i am running out of space on my blog , if you "like" write a comment or something or e-mail me or something.

what a playlist i found myself with, some of it is kind of dark, the religious folks that follow me, why do i listen too this?, well it's a losing battle , at one time i was really into church and all that, when i was in my early twenties down in Orange County Ca. , way back in what 1983, it's a losing battle , could never get away from classic or even harder rock , i like it, but i also listen to more mellow stuff anyway my list..

.April Wine - Sign Of The Gypsy Queen                      ----         The Byrds - Mr. Tambourine Man
                                                                                                      The Guess Who - Share The Land
(Marilyn Manson) - The Beautiful People  ------------------
05 A Parrot's Life For Me (how do i get these on my player, not sure)?'-----the pretenders - have yourself a merry little christmas                          
24 Yo Ho, A Pirates Life for Me      Pirates of the Caribbean             ----Toad the Wet Sprocket - Walk on the Ocean
Andy Kim - Rock Me Gently ----------------------TV Theme  - Coca-Cola Christmas Song
April Wine- Just Between You and Me  ---------------TV Themes - (Sammy Davis Jr) ---- Baretta`s Theme                                                        
Barry Manilow - Mandy                                 -----     Welcome Back Kotter
Bob Seger - No Man's Land (this is a good song, it really is) "--"
Bob Welch -  Sentimental Lady                                   ---White Christmas - 20 Beautiful Christmas Songs - Various Artists - Blue Christmas - The Platters -----------------XMAS - Disney's Very Merry Christmas Songs                                          ---Xmas-George Michael - Last_Christmas
CHRISTMAS SONGS - Eagles - Bells Will Be Ringing
Christmas Songs - Faith Hill- Winter Wonderland
Christmas songs - John Lennon - So This Is Christmas
Christmas Songs Celine Dion - O Holy Night
GEORGE HARRISON-DARK HORSE
gordon lightfoot - the wreck of the edmund fitzgerald
Grease - Theme
Jackson Five- Never Can Say Goodbye
Jay Ferguson - Thunder Island
joe walsh - a life of illusion
Krokus - Screamin' in the Night
Krokus - Stayed Awake All Night
Marylin Manson - The Dope Show
Molly Hatchet - Flirtin' With Disaster
Player - Baby Come Back
Poison- Give Me Something To Believe In
Slipknot - Heretic Song
Slipknot - Iowa - 08 - Left Behind(1)
Ted Nugent - The Great White Buffalo (live)

OK so i was kind of pressed for time yesterday and did take about a half hour or so  to take some photographs down in Hermosa Beach , CA, great community .. instead of driving to Santa Monica beach go a little south next time and check out one of my favorite communities .. if you like to have LIBATION 'S than Hermosa is the town, they have some great restaurants and bars and you can find a bar setting for whatever you mood is , meaning a surfer bar, a Irish bar, a American bar (American Junkie) bars with a Latino flavor.. you get the hint .. trust me i lived here for seven years.. now i live close by , just kind of got priced out.. but that's OK those landlords can keep raising the rent and we can take our  business to other communities isn't that the bottom line..:(


Anyway my hobbie runs into danger sometimes not danger i mean i  can carry myself , it's just that when i am in urban areas i am a photographer (OK Amateur) but one of these days i may turn pro.. have more than enough experience . So i was taking a few pictures and believe or not their are angry men (usually men ) however girls can give you some mean looks but they are usually docile  and don't get too too aggressive , this is where my blog is leading me,, so i non-Chantilly  took  a pic unaware there was a angry young man in the shot . after i took the pic, i walked away going towards the Hermosa pier , then i heard him " Are you going to delete that pic"? you have to ask permission to take my photograph! .. something to that effect .. i was in a confrontational position .. i explained i had no problem deleting the photograph so i walked up to him and showed him the LCD screen and did just that.  he is in the right, but it is a free society and i can take pictures of whoever i want .. but if you don't like your picture taken like this gentleman you should oblige it is a professional way to act as a photographer ...so i did , delete one pic , when i got home i noticed he was in another pic, but that 's not the one he asked me to delete hope obscene gesture;s don't offend y'all...  he was a piece of work , it's all good got some great pics .. and that's all that matter .. no i said i wouldn't post his pic well tell me too take it down now punk"---------"   (can be a little vindictive) i have gotten yelled at a few times for taking pics.. sometimes i can be sneaky and i don't ask , but i get great shots that way and that's fun for me.. so hope you like my pics i have a Flickr account.. and just opened a Instagram account (which is a awesome application) ... anyway have a nice day everyone, and i hope this angry one chills out maybe he needs a drink or something at one of the many drinking establishments in this small south bay beach community....one more thing wouldn't consider Hermosa a urban beach area, Venice ya, not Hermosa , guess i have to venture to more affluent

areas but Hermosa is such a cool town.. never really had a problem there .. anyway have a good day all.oh angry man just leave a comment and i will take pic off my blog "--" Kevin S. Brown

Dear friends in the USA,
Your congress pulled the trigger... again. The Orlando shooter was on the FBI watch list and was still able to buy a gun because of outrageously lax gun regulations forced on your country by politicians bought by gun manufacturers. This is about dirty money costing innocent lives over and over and over again. Get big money OUT of your political system and INSIST on reasonable gun regulations. No one outside the military needs an assault rifle






Not written by me it was written from our neighbor's to the North, why today you posting that was  weeks ago?, yes well innocent lives matter... today or  a few weeks ago...



 Kevin B. -06-27-16



Meanwhile in Canada .... WAS THE AUTHOR ON  this one.... 

OK tonight i had a flashback when i worked in the grocery industry , well it actually didn't occur to me till i got home. Here it goes.. 

So i thought i would pick up a few things at the market this evening due to it being slow today at work. Picked up a few items and when i came across a food i had never seen before .Thought why not give it a try... Had never seen this product before and in the late nineties, early 2000's i used to process data for a gourmet grocery store. You have probably seen my post's on twitter regarding my super techie computer skills. not that i have a big ego , but believe me i can get around a database ( i have to watch myself i get cocky occasionally and sometimes i offend corporations). It's not really my intent on twitter i just express my thought's as they happen , kind of like spur of the moment post's. The corporation may look at it as i am bashing their business . However that is usually not my intention.. not to be spiteful with them.However i have a inquisitive nature  and my computer skills get out of hand, i will admit. Have a addiction to the net like most of us.Try to refrain sometimes and if it is to spiteful or it offends sometimes . Will give my post a second thought and take it down (delete my tweet) so to speak. Anyway back to the Grocery story . 

          When i went to pay for my item the cashier had trouble, only with the item i had never tried or seen in a store before ( it was like a pastry dessert  w/ blueberries) Come to find out it was European. *..Bingo ...* the ever important UPC has a meaning... and European foods have one extra digit than  domestic products.. this is why the cashier did not have a price from the scanner.. someone who put the code in messed up or  not messed  up : just put it in the database the wrong way.Confusing to a American data processor ( like i used to be).  It is a new store, to the south bay of Los Angeles just opened a few weeks ago.. These kind of things will happen till the store get's on track .It's the same when a new restaurant or any small business first open's up ... My philosophy is to stay away for a few months till they work out the kinks... however i had been to this grocery store last week, and i liked the ambiance and the way the store was set up.. even drove a bit out of my way. ( i mean there was a Ralph's closer). However thought i would give the new guy in town a run for my money.( Ralph's, probably has a down payment for a small house in the mid-west from me, for the $ i have spent with them over the years). So no hard feeling's mr. Ralph's grocery(there's a example of me playing w/ corporate America , just my nature :) .. anyway that's my blog, about the ever and so important Universal Product Code   :)      signed X Data base price integrity

 for Bristol farms in So.Cal :) over and out - Kevin B. 

OK so i came up on a roadblock last night and i put a little SAD smiley face on my twitter feed post .. why did i do that ? Well i'll  tell you why... Because even though i am on the road more than most of you... and i even put a twitter feed last week about what i do when i see drunk drivers late at night on the various freeway's i drive on.. just get defensive and keep my distance (very far away) i can tell their  drunk , they tell us to call 911 however i don't do that.. ( i leave that to someone ,else) ...Yes, drunk drivers scare the Jabezee (that's a made up word) out of me..and they annoy me ..cause even though i rarely drink anymore, when i did , i would just make a alternative to get around ... whether taking the bus , a taxi, uber .... a hotel whatever.. just the penalties in the state i live in are astronautical for  a DUI ,, OUI , there's different things you would call it..depends on what state .. oh and one of the reason's i don't call 911 ( i mean if they crashed i would), try to give the benefit of the doubt .. like there just a idiot driver or playing on the cell phone .... but most of the time they are drunk..  well i am not a law officer, so it's not my job to call 911 (feel free to comment if you disagree) .



                    So why was i annoyed when i approached the DUI checkpoint? i mean i had a valid driver's license and was in a nice newer model car, it's just that we live in a free society... and being stopped for a driver license check is not what are forefather's fought for in the Constitution ...unreasonable search and seizure.. don't agree , don't think drunks should be on the roads, but this is not acceptable in our society.. it' s just a opinion, and some of you actually might agree with these borderline Gestapo spectacle's.  Believe me  i know that law enforcement has probably seen the dark side of drunk driver's . Well if you disagree ,your welcome to leave a comment.  Anyway my eye's are out there in So.Cal so if i see one being set up like i did last night, in Malibu, You can bet your bottom dollar i will be on social media posting w / a little help from Mr. Checkpoint :)  ...

 Posted on twitter and  mr. checkpoint(he's a twitter user).  Helped me get over 5,483 impressions, and 14 engagements...that's techie talk to a computer nerd like me .. but it's a big impression from my twitter post... on the post on the checkpoint ..even though i lost like 5 followers -who know's why that stuff happens? shouldn't  Take it personal , just kind of sensitive sometimes .Well that's my opinion, of my thinking , We all have are different opinions, but this is the way i think ... actually i am fortunate, because i grew up in a very conservative area in my teenage years that being New England. now i live in liberal Southern California.and there's a reason .. i am more liberal than conservative, so southern NH- as beautiful as it is  , i am OK in a suburb of Los Angeles for the moment :) i bid you a goodnight and remember the good weather is upon us and there will be a lot of these up until the labor day weekend , and they will make a comeback for the holiday season you can guarantee that.. so make alternatives if you drink and drive ... uber is cheap enough, get a hotel , designate a driver, be responsible  be safe and don't make a bad mistake .. over and out ... .Kevin B.

Haven't blogged for awhile ,how about a little about me , OK , here it goes:

                     Grew up in the far Northeast (like way back east) in between VT. and ME. ( that would be the state of NH ). However grew up in Southern NH , Northern NH is a whole different Venue. unless your from the Northeast .. you might not understand , it's like the mountain folks(hillbillies)  live up past Concord ( the state's capitol). Where i was working when Christa McAuliffe -had the space disaster , on Jan . 28, 1986 -  I was a waiter at a restaurant across the street from the state capitol  it was called the Millstone... Now i live in Southern Ca . , Find growing up where i did was really fortunate .. i mean who grows up in So. NH . ?It was a great time from like oh 1979 - thru 1986   - my teenage years... wouldn't take it back (growing up there) for any where else. However my dad was a traveling salesman so i went to three different high schools, that being , my Hometown which is Bedford,NH ,Clear Lake City TX. and Lexington MA.  However they didn't have a high school in Bedford at the time ( they do now), so they bused us affluent bratty kids from the suburb, into the big city of Manchester .. (which i am being a bit sarcastic) Manchester is not a very large city and not a very small city .. it's kind of like Sacramento (about the same size) ..Manchester NH is kind of Republican country and a bit conservative .. well i'll  give you a example of how NH is conservative .. well i grew up before the internet and being on wi-fi and all that. So we had the Union leader which was our newspaper.. it was the only way to get information (news) we didn't have,  i pads, smart phones, internet .. So the newspaper were king back then , They choose who they would put in their paper, the editorials and such.. remember if  they didn't like a horror movie playing at the local movie theater - they didn't like the content or whatever so they just chose not to run the ad ... (they basically refused to advertise the horror movie). This is what i mean by NH was a bit conservative.. Newspaper's were the boss back than and they wrote whatever they wanted.Regardless if you agreed with them, and they choose who they published in their editorials . Unlike today where anyone can be  a writer, a critic, a editor , a movie critic , a restaurant critic .. problem these days there is just to much free stuff online, and it is hard to get paid for your work. Whether it be videos you make, things you write , pictures you take,   all those i just mentioned i have never made a dime selling a photograph.. i plaster everything on Flick and some of my photo's are damn good.But when it comes to getting compensated it just ain't happening.. anyway back to NH , great place to grow up, The folks are genuine, the food is great , and the weather is unpredictable.They have a airport ( i can't fly direct from where i am in Ca.) would have to stop in Chicago or something. So for me, i just fly into Boston and take the bus up to Manchester , that's just me , there's a lot of way's to get to the Northeast . My favorite time of year is late Sept , early Oct. can't beat the foliage.. so if you haven't been to the state of NH , put it on your list to vacation .. it's also nice in the summer, bit muggy and crowded , but a good time of year too. Anyway hope you enjoyed my blog about my home state,  feel free to follow me, or leave a comment ... the sign greets you welcome as you enter (french) -(welcome) (Bienvenue) :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christa_McAuliffe