Ice Cold Mayonaise

Posted on September 17, 2025 by George C. Hartman

because of the cholesteral and fat I stopped eating mayonnaise 8.3 years ago. I never missed it. other condiments were not as good but I moved on in my life never looking back. life is too short I realized one day and I caved, in the middle of ACME and purchased a jar. placed it in my fridge, until about a week ago I made a sandwich and took a bite. it was so good. it was great. it was so cold. my refrigerator is set real low. it was ice cold mayonnaise. I don’t think I ever tasted anything as good as ice cold mayonaise.

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August 19, 2023

Posted on August 22, 2025 by George C. Hartman

Sent: Saturday, August 19, 2023 3:44 PM
To: George C. Hartman
Subject: Re: hi tim

Hi George! I was going to message you just asking if you could do me a small favour and then I realised I had an email stuck in drafts to you – I thought I had sent but obviously not. That makes me feel sad because I hate for you to have thought I’d have ignored you and your update.
I’m sad to hear about Krystyna – she seemed like a nice companion when I met her in England but I guess that’s life…we just never know what it throws at us next..

What’s news? Did you move to the Lake house? Are you still in NJ?

I often think about the Canvas4Life times – we had some great times and built a solid company but, in life’s somewhat random selection process, got a little unlucky. It could have all turned out very differently. Talking of luck and regrets, did I ever tell you my story with Ethereum (the second coin that came after Bitcoin)? Before anyone knew what they even were, back in 2015, I speculatively took a punt and bought just $2,000 worth. A year later they were worth $100,000. But I was desperate for funds for my business, so I had to sell out. Anyway, a few years later those coins were worth $100,000,000 (a hundred fucking million!)!

Anyway, back to reality. A quick update my end…
We moved out to Nicaragua last year!!
Life here is so pleasant and everything is easy. We have household staff and Henry loves it. Nice weather all year round and, did I mention(?!), life is just easy! We’re thinking of being here for at least a few years…probably not forever but we’re very happy in the moment. If you ever find yourself lost in Central America, you must give me a call. Sometimes I do think about where we might settle down for good as a family one day and NJ often comes to mind! Maybe Short Hills or the like…

Have you managed to keep the weight off? You always had a big belly! Too many Number 1’s at Wendy’s!!! Over the last few years, I put on soo much weight gradually – in January I was 290 pounds! Totally unhealthy and I didn’t feel good. A minor health scare (felt like I was having a heart attack one day – turned out I had Hypertension and they’ve put me on thinners) followed and so I went on a health kick this year and I’ve managed to shed 50 pounds – eating better and started up Tennis again. Hopefully, I’ll keep it going. Feel better already.

Hope to hear from you and hope all well,

With my best wishes,

Tim

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The Plague

Posted on August 4, 2025 by George C. Hartman

the plague came down like the snow that never did that winter
face-masks tumbled in the wind of empty parking lots
Lines of people wearing rubber gloves Going around
the buildings The lights were turned off in Times Square
I was Flourishing on cheap gas and abandoned streets.

con(tiued)

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wherever you are now

Posted on May 3, 2025 by George C. Hartman

C’om Ken the joke is over. You can come out now. April Fools. My brother… so many stories with you (who always had the tickets and dope) I had no idea….so very humble and brave. Remember Frank sang “We bid you goodnight” at the end of your wedding. Laura lifted up her wedding dress and grabbed her belly with both hands and shook baby ricky (not his first dance either) You are forever etched into the New York sidewalk (in front 0f RCMH} Remember when you rented that house in Pa on the river? Remember that outdoor DJ party you had? You rocked the hills brother!! You and Frank left one afternoon to go shad 🐠fishing. In twenty minuets you both slammed thru the front door soaking wet and screaming (the boat tipped over) Remember when you rented that funky looking Victoria in North Plainfield? One night I came over we got buzzed and you began experimenting with the stereo knobs trying to get it as loud + clear as it could. We passed out on the floor. Early that next morning morning the landlord knocked on the door, walked in and proceeded to kick you out of house right in front of me AWK. (kenny there is so much more I want to say.) The lights going down for the start of ANY concert, The crowd loudly approves that as the band members slowly take the stage and start to tune up (piano first cause he was already sitting) running into you in half lit parking lots, hotel lobbies and green fields and BBQs on the side of the New Jersey Turnpike. The first time I met you in the late seventies, you were using your (undercover) job wiping down cars at the Car Wash (Clinton Ave South Plainfield to wheel and deal with the inner circles of music, drugs and concert tickets, I wondered why people like you) always seem to be the leaders.
WHEREEVER YOU ARE NOW:
i hope its a long ticket line outside(remember TICKET LINES?? in front of the SEars building in Elizabeth New Jersey (exit 13)
in a blaring rain storm because THAT was heaven

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Cream OR jelly?

Posted on January 8, 2025 by George C. Hartman

What a blend of creativity from both ends audio and video. This is what it should be ---FUN___ Once I discovered that Zoom slider hidden on the bottom of the interface my precision and productivity at least doubled. Movavi is incredible editing software with NO LAG TIME on previews. Kind note here...remember that everything you place in the hold box before editing is linked (they never warn you) so be very careful with file placement and especially movement that will break a link or two. Take my word for it. Sucks.
When finally put together as one, Cream OR jelly? 200 megs over a gig as a .MOV file! Handled it like a charm and Movavi even has a smooth launching pad directly to YouTube.
I get into alot of conversations about family of course and "nine siblings" has rarely been beat nor the joke: "That's how I learned to dance.
Waiting for the bathroom."
And the classic: We grew up screaming and choking each other but now that we're all in separate states, we all get along great.
Ha Ha Ha
Me: That's it folks. Thats all I got. The jokes are over (now shut the fuck up and let me..........)
Later on that evening....
Me: You notice how the top of the trees turn orange and the birds stop singing?
The Others: {shrugging playfully} What the fuck you talking about?
The Wizard of Oz scene was recorded July 2, 2008, as was the strike out scene.
The Can Can scene was un-mailable, & was even too big for the drop box. So I recorded it from Barbs phone to my phone huddled in a corner of Belindas kitchen. This was the last time we would ever be in this kitchen. This backyard. This house. I guess what Im trying to say is where does the time go?
This is what the End Crawls says:
END
Concept and Creation
Neon Dusk Productions
Music: During the almost 14 year rein of THE MILLION DOLLAR MOVIE the opening musical number "Tara's Theme" by Max Steiner.
The second part of movie- The Art Installation 121 Whitman Street featured "The Blimp" by Captain Beefheart with Frank Zappa.
The Forest Clip with Gary used a Dead & Company "Space" from Saratoga Springs New York, the Summer of COVID after the vaccine. I think.
"Can Can" The song is from the final act of Offenbach"s 1858 operetta Orpheus In The Underworld. The operrtta is a satire about Greek mythology and "Galop Inferral" is set during a wild party with the gods.
I almost forgot, the multi-screen collage in the beginning I used the opening scene to The Grateful Dead Movie 1976 (?) and of course the audio to 10 different movie clips at the same time.
The closing theme: "Rumble" by the genius Jack Nitzche 1963.
Most of the photos were just randomly selected so if I missed anybody (turns out Gene Kaufmann)too f'in bad. There's so many of you.
Carol Dooley once told me a very long time ago; You're mother and father really knew what they were doing when they had so many kids"----I had no idea what she was talking about then but now to see it all play out is pretty amazing.
ALSO: when chimming HAPPY NEW YEARS at the end we ask that you please try to stay awake. Blake.
The release date/time for this movie was five hours and thirty minuets to the year 2025.
Peace and Love
to everyone
everywhere
Over and Out!
neon dusk

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Possum ‘N Pepper

Posted on March 10, 2024 by George C. Hartman

27 views Dec 22, 2023
12 percent Rotten Tomates. The Full Review: Thanks to sluggish direction by Neon Dusk and a screenplay by three entire people who fail to display the focused writing talent of even one, this is a slogfest from beginning to end. This quiet and slow-paced drama won't appeal to everyone or...actually ANYbody. However, viewers who have the patience to watch the entire movie will see an interesting awakening in the protagonist, who has to learn to get out of her head and experience more of life.
I have seen high school productions with better (and more professional) acting.It's mind-numbingly brilliant in its overwhelming, soul-destroying badness.
Next full moon Have a picnic with me?
Music: In order of appearance:
-Grateful Dead - "Not Fade Away" May 15, 1981 Rutgers Athletic Center - Piscataway, NJ for Grant
-David Bowie - "Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)" (2017 Remaster) for neon dusk intro and slide-show ending
-David Bowie -"Fashion" for N & J
-Jack Nitzsche - "Charmaine" from One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest. For Gabby who was also winner of THE BEST DIVE competetion.
-Gregor Quendel__rachmaninoff-polka-italienne-italian-polka-tn-ii-21-arranged-for-strings-Da Boss Joe

Dusk: Using a Hero 4 GoPro and iPhone. Movavi, Photoshop and Adobe Premiere Pro. Aug. 27 2023 an attempted family reunion. Too much cheap filter exploitation but I had to get it out of my system.
This movie was a journey into digital art where I learned how dark my eye is. The screenshots are framable. 'nuff said.

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Jonny Boy

Posted on August 16, 2023 by George C. Hartman


In more ways than ever you were like the family pet- huge, noisy,slept on the floor and kinda hairy. We gave you our mom and she accepted you and your brothers with open arms. We gave you our Beverly and for many years we thought you were married, actually you were but it was to getting high.
My greatest adventure ever was with you walking home, trying to hitch hike on the New Jersey Turnpike from Giants stadium.
Crossing a field to get there we came across a swamp. We sank in- up to our belts. It was a processed slime of chemicals, Hackensack river water, oil and fermenting mush. A smell I, nor the state trooper that picked us up on the side of the road will ever forget.
He had us. Nailed. “”It’s a 500 dollar fine for hitchhiking on the turnpike boys, you know that? Right?” And then he added “Each!”
Is Guess he was taking us in and then..until… “Whats that fucking smell!!!”
So he dropped us off outside exit 13 in Elizabeth and said get the fuck outta my car. If you want to hitchhike do it before the toll and not on the highway.

This was November 4, 1979. Roger Staubach rallied the Cowboys past the Giants with just two minuets left. It hurt. This game went thru our hearts like a pear. Giants were winning the entire game until the last seconds.
We were so drunk, disappointed and bewildered that we couldn’t find the car we came in in the parking lot. We were with several other dudes and now they were gone.
So I said Lets just walk home. It’s only four exits.
On November 4th 2019, exactly 40 years later I was sitting in the same seats, same two teams on the field, except my son Jonathan was sitting next to me. In the tailgate after the game I told him about getting stuck in the mud with Jonny-Boy. Exactly 40 years later…how life had changed.

Jonny Boy was a good man. Not just because he laughed at all my bad jokes but because he had a huge heart. He was a giant friendly black bear. Sure he liked to party but that was all everyone did back then. The last time I ever saw him he was living in Elizabeth right after 9/11. He told me that tons of people gathered on a dock in front of Newark Bay and they could see the catastrophic developments taking place on the New York City skyline. He told me the skies were filled with smoke and there were F-14’s zooming up and down the bay.

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Snowie The Most Beautiful Dog

Posted on November 11, 2020 by George C. Hartman

Initial filming began in Botany Village June 2020. There were two scenes that involved police investigations. The "Train scene" in which "The Running Dude" runs across the railroad tracks before a train came had the train engineer call the police. Also the entire "Beach scene" where The Running Dude emerges from beneath the ocean and runs across the beach had the lifeguards called because the beach was supposed to be closed.
These two scenes and all the drone footage ended up on the editing room floor in Mount Tabor.
The major costume malfunction of The Running Dudes pants sliding down at every run scene was reluctantly left in. Trying to hide that by speeding up the scene on Premiere Pro didn't work.
Technical diffficulties with Movavi Video Editor plus was fixed by setting up an external scratch disk for the long rendering times. (it crashed three times) A spec of dust on the GoPro at the Palisades hiking trail called for a total redo. (which involved over one hour each way traveling time)

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Rascal (the rerelease 2020)

Posted on August 8, 2020 by George C. Hartman

YouTube banned and removed this movie in 2009. This is the new release. 2020.
Try to stay awake for the POST-CREDITS SCENE.

After three months of back and forth arguments YouTube decided that my use of The Beatles song "GoodNight" was against feverous copyright laws and they removed the video from my account.
Technically if I was "making money" with my upload then it was illegal. At the time of the removal the video had 17 views and had produced zero dollars income for me.

This clip was made a long time ago, shortly after Brenda's death. It was Jonathans birthday and we had found a back parking lot in an industrial section of Perth Amboy to launch Estes rockets.
After YouTube played Big Bully and Dumb Ass and stole my fucking video )before I could download it) I had lost the original edits and files that I used to make this.
10 years later I randomly came across a DVD in storage titled "Rascal Stuff"
I invited everyone who starred in this movie and everyone responsible for filming it to a huge RERELEASE PARTY on a yacht off the coast of Costa Rico, complete with barbequed pig, steamed lobsters and a live set by the Dave Mathews Band but nobody, including myself showed up.

My first upload attempt August 6 2020 was once again BLOCKED by YouTube because of the Beatles song. I surrendered. I cut out "GoodNight" and put in a clip from the movie Vanilla Sky, the infamous rooftop ending scene. Penélope Cruz and Tom Cruise meet in a lucid dream and say goodbye.
The song titled The Nothing Song (Njosnavelin)
(2001)
by Orri P. Dyrason, Kjartan Sveinsson, Jon Thor Birgisson and Georg Holm
Performed by Sigur Rós.
The story revolves around the main character not knowing whether he's in a state of reality, a dream or a nightmare, so I really related to this movie. Actually I loved it but hid it from the person I saw it with who thought it was a total waste of time.
The song has haunted me ever since I saw the movie and told myself I would use it perfectly one day. Today was that day. Fuck you Beatles and Fuck you YouTube.

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Patricia Ann Moon (Aunt Pat) Brothers Wife

Posted on August 2, 2020 by George C. Hartman

Patricia Anne Moon, of Akron, passed away peacefully, surrounded by her family on June 14, 2020 at Danbury of Hudson.

Patti was a graduate of Cuyahoga Falls High School and Akron University, going on to retire as CFO of Allied-Baltic Rubber.

She will be remembered for her great love of animals, her kindness, and her love of family and friends. Her love of travel to all parts of the world and the years spent living in Mexico were some of her most enjoyable experiences. Patti was also a master bridge player and an excellent cook.

Patti was preceded in death by parents Bruce and Anne Myers of Silver Lake, OH.She is survived by her children, Deborah (Terry) Denmark of Akron, OH, James (Tammy Hackenberg) Gill of Doylestown, OH, and Melinda (James Johnston) Smith of Akron, OH; siblings, Larry (Elaine) Myers of Bluffton, SC and Al (Sharon) Myers of Naples, FL; grandchildren, Trisha (Greg) , Jeffrey, Krystal (Jesse) , Nicholle and Taylor; great-grandchildren, Kaylynn, Aubrey, Reed, Airyanna, AJ, Josef, and Teri; partner of 30 years, Lynda Barth, and many extended family members and friends.

The family wishes to extend special thanks to Marquetta (Pebbles) Corn, Scott Claypoole, Mandy Gerber, and Jeanette Scott for their love and dedication to Patti. In addition, the family would like to thank Danbury of Hudson and Hospice of Laurel Lake for their loving care.

Per her wishes, cremation has taken place and no services will be held. Memorial contributions, if desired, may be made in Patti’s honor to The Gill Family Scholarship in care of the Cuyahoga Falls Schools Foundation, 431 Stow Ave., Cuyahoga Falls, OH 44221, or Valley Animal Hospital, 1830 Merriman Rd., Akron, OH 44313.

And your life will be brighter than the noonday; it’s darkness will be like the morning. And you will feel secure because there is hope; you will look around and take your rest in that security. Job 11

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