Gunshots rang out like a bell

If there’s one thing I can’t stand, it’s gunshots at 3am! Who’s with me?? Last night I was sleeping (not very soundly, I’ll admit) when I was awakened by ne’er-do-wells in the middle of the night. I just so happen to have the moment I woke up on camera. Take a look at who was aware of the situation before I was…


Needless to say, I didn’t sleep well the rest of the night as proved by my sleep stats, recorded thanks to Garmin Vivoactive HR. My heart rate also spiked around 310am.


Listen, if you’re going to be shooting off your guns at 3am and zipping around town like you’ve got somewhere to be, do it somewhere else. This guy needs his beauty sleep! All joking aside, this really ticks me off. Thankfully, it’s very rare that I hear any gunshots but when I got out of bed to see what was going on, I felt extremely judgmental and justified in being that way. There were 3 cars in this little encounter and I don’t know if there was animosity or if they were just shooting for the fun of it. I can’t decide which I’d rather it be. But hopefully they won’t come back this way again. Just grow up…. and also… go to bed! It’s 3am!

Nothing good happens after midnight.

-Out of the Wilderness

Meghan Trainor “Nice To Meet Ya” video… a vampire dancer and a pricey printer

Meghan Trainor has a new video for “Nice To Meet Ya” (I know what you’re thinking, but no, it’s not Niall Horan “Nice To Meet Ya”), and the video seems to be a hit with Megatronz. Take a look…


Meghan Trainor and Nicki Minaj are obviously the stars of the song/video, but how about that printer! Am I right? It’s the Sharp MX-M623N and it’s featured in a whopping 10 different clips throughout the video.

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This laster printer will set you back a few bucks, but it boasts 62 b&w pages per minute! So for the length of this video (3 min, 17 sec), Meghan could’ve also printed off 203.5 pages. In other words, the average length of a best-selling novel! Or about 6 of my children’s books, which you can conveniently find by clicking here or message me for signed copies 🙂

Actually, based on the screen grab below from the video, maybe she DID print out a novel, but she’s sitting on it till she gets a good publishing deal.

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The office desks are blue and you’ll notice throughout the video, many scenes show blue items in front or on top of pink items.

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This might represent the viewpoint that society (and business, in general) is a male-dominated space. This fits the theme of the song, too, which puts into lyrics the idea that women are no longer going to conform to what they think they should be for a man’s sake. Women are equal, hear them roar.

Quite possibly the most dramatic part of the video is the woman in pastel blue (right side of image below). SHE MIGHT BE VAMPIRE!!! Notice how she is not visible in the mirror reflection of the women. This also fits the theme of the song that women can be whatever they want, EVEN VAMPIRES!

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Meghan wears 5 different wardrobe ensembles but she and Nicki Minaj are the only ones who don’t wear any pastel colors (excluding Nicki’s pink hair and Meghan’s handkerchief-type things at the tail end of the video). All the other men and women– excuse me– women and men, are wearing bright colors. Meghan sticks to black, white, and gray.

By the end of the video, pink is the dominate color scheme. No doubt this was on purpose, as shown with Meghan sitting in a blue chair holding up a large pink newspaper, and her heavy pink eye shadow.

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Thanks for stopping by! If you have any comments, feel free to chime in below.

-Out of the Wilderness

I suck at relationships

This is kind of just a reminder to myself that I’m terrible at relationships. You, kind reader, think about a few of the worst things a man can do to sabotage a relationship and I’ve probably done it. I mean, I’ve never cheated or done any physical harm, but I’ve been a bully. I’ve said things that were mean. I didn’t care. I was selfish.

It’s why a lot of my posts are about failed relationships or terrible dates. Had I got it right, even once, these things I write and post would be a lot different. My life would be a lot different. I wouldn’t be 41 and single. I may not even have 2 dogs. Hell, I may not even live in Nashville if I did even one less selfish thing in the handful of meaningful relationships I’ve been in.

Who knows! Ya know? We’ll never know what might have been… and while that is a Debby Downer kind of thought, I guess my story, and yours, too, is still being written. Let’s not give up quite yet, OK? I have a feeling we’re somewhere in the middle but the rest of the story is about to get really good.

-Out of the Wilderness

And the Grammy goes to… Michelle Obama?

My thoughts keep coming back to the recent Grammy Awards that aired live Sunday night. I’ll preface this post by saying that I absolutely love music. I was pretty pumped to celebrate the great music from 2019, because there was a lot of it! The show was hosted by ultra-feminist Alecia Keys and, well, she said one thing I agreed with… music is a language we all can understand (or something similar to that). Outside of that, I was so turned off by the political overtones, the controversies, etc… so the show just isn’t sitting well in my memory. 

Before writing this post, I read the entire list of nominees and winners for the entire show. I was surprised to see a former First Lady on the list… Michelle Obama! She won for Best Spoken Word Album. 

The day after the Awards show, I thought about who WAS there, and who WASN’T there… wondering, “Where was Kanye West?” From the research I did on the nomination process, I think the artists/management submit their work for possible inclusion as a nominee in any of the categories, so it’s entirely possible that Kanye just didn’t care to be part of the show at all. It’s not like he has a good relationship with the Grammy’s anyway. But if that’s not the case, though, let’s say he DID want to be part of the show, wouldn’t they want to include him after his very successful launch of “Jesus Is King”? Not to even mention or highlight this in the show seems a bit shady and quite possibly very much on purpose. It goes back to the agenda from the Hollywood elite, or the liberal media, or progressive celebrities, however you want to categorize them… they’re all about inclusion except for those who disagree with them. For instance, where was NF? He has 2 albums in the top hundred of Billboard’s Top 200 Albums of 2019. 

So much for celebrating diverse music! 

Other notable artists who had a huge year in 2019 include Imagine Dragons, Luke Combs, Lauren Daigle, Ava Max, and Panic! at the Disco, all who were nowhere to be found on Grammy night. Something’s up with this so if you know more about it than I do, please comment below… 

Thanks for stopping by! 

-Out of the Wilderness

This post is brought to you by… Michael Bloomberg’s tie!

This post is brought to you by Michael Bloomberg’s tie. Taking on a life of its own during last night’s interview on the Tonight Show, his blue tie wants you to know, “I’ll distract everyone from the nonsense you speak about. And no one will notice how weird it looks when you laugh.”

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More interview clips can be found on the Tonight Show YouTube page. To be honest, I want to get in an inner tube and ride down his tie. I want to climb to the top of it and plant a flag that says, “I conquered the tie.” I want to flick it back into place. I want to submit it to Guinness as the the tallest roller coaster on someone’s chest. I want to jump off of it like a motorcycle ramp to the future.

-Out of the Wilderness