A page from the "The Sandstorm",the yearbook of Hobbs (New Mexico) High School, 1968.
(Click to enlarge.)
Web Log Archive, October 30th through November 12th
Saturday, November 12th, 2005
These last two days I have done almost nothing but play,
record and mix tracks. Thursday, Sandy
and I had a good session working with a DC Papke
track (DC who?). I'm waiting for his (DC's) permission to post the track,
called Dark Side of Eden, featuring Sandy's sparkling five-string banjo.
This is part of the Transcontinental Musical Collaboration (TMC) I have
mentioned before.
Last night I put together a very rough first edition of a newly-exhumed
song of mine from the '70's (yes, the 1970's).
I'm having a learning surge.
So I've been almost-too-busy to Blog!
Friday, November 11th, 2005 Armistice Day: World War I ended 87 years ago. Happy Birthday, Rhoda!
A page from the "The Sandstorm",
the yearbook of Hobbs
(New Mexico) High School, 1968.
(Click to enlarge.)
"Diligently
sewing, this student displays pleasure in her work."
Thursday, November 10th, 2005
"A man who sued Home Depot claiming a prank left him glued to a toilet seat in a bathroom said Tuesday he's willing to take a lie detector test to dispel any doubts about his story."
Wednesday, November 9th, 2005
"I just ate an MRE and crapped in the hallway of the Superdome along with 30,000 other close friends, so I understand her concern about busy restaurants." Marty Bahamonde
So...is the Garden State (State Bird, you ask? The mosquito!) big enough for both of 'em? "...both campaigns ended up consumed by vitriol and inundated the airwaves with spiteful commercials attacking each other, including one in which Mr. Corzine's former wife was quoted as warning that Mr. Corzine would let down New Jersey voters just as he had let down his family." GeeZuss!
From CNN: "White House officials are determined to reverse President Bush's poor poll showings on the topics of Iraq and 'honesty and trustworthiness.' "
OK...so I'm corny, but I have long believed that the best way to get a reputation for being honest and trustworthy is to be honest and trustworthy.
Tuesday, November 8th, 2005 Special Election Day
Some decisions are easy! If he be fer it, then I be agin it!
Monday, November 7th, 2005
"I have these nightmares every night where I am locked in this dark room, with no windows, no doors, no fresh air, no route for escape. I wake up in these cold sweats," said Bob Dougherty.
Sunday, November 6th, 2005 Happy Birthday, Newpeep! Happy Birthday, Vinnie Woods!
"...a nurse handed a pre-filled syringe to a doctor, who injected the
drug into [the patient's] spine without checking the label.
The drug, which is supposed to be injected into a vein, is usually
fatal when injected into the spine."
Saturday, November 5th, 2005 Happy Birthday, K!
'Two days after Katrina hit, Marty Bahamonde, one of the only FEMA employees in New Orleans, wrote to Brown that "the situation is past critical" and listed problems including many people near death and food and water running out at the Superdome. 'Robert Fenton, a FEMA regional response official, predicted "serious riots" if insufficient supplies arrive. 'Brown's entire response was: "Thanks for the update. Anything specific I need to do or tweak?" "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job! "
"Washington feels a bit like the last days of the ancien régime. Bush's plight leads me to thoughts of Louis XV and his royal court in the eighteenth century. Politics may not have changed as much as modern pretensions assume. The French king was quite popular until he was scorned, stubbornly self-certain in his exercise of power yet strangely submissive to manipulation by his courtiers. Certain influential cliques openly jeer the leader they not so long ago extolled; others gossip about royal tantrums and other symptoms of lost direction. The accusations stalking his important counselors and assembly leaders might even send some of them to jail. These political upsets might matter less if the government were not so inept at fulfilling its routine obligations, like storm relief. The king's sorry war drags on without resolution, with people still arguing over why exactly he started it. The staff of life--oil, not bread--has become punishingly expensive. The government is broke, borrowing formidable sums from rival nations. The king pretends nothing has changed." William Greider
Friday, November 4th, 2005
Gore
Vidal put it as well as I've ever heard...about panhandlers
he said, "I feel bad when I give 'em money and I
feel bad when I don't!"
The sketch on the left (click to enlarge) was drawn for me yesterday
afternoon in the local Safeway parking lot. I was approached by a woman, no
older than 35 who seemed quite accustomed to being rudely 'dismissed'. She
carried a clipboard with several sheets of glossy white paper and before I could
climb into my wreck she said, "Look, I'll draw
Marilyn Monroe's face for you!"
Then, before I could say, "Marilyn Who?"
the woman was at her art...telling me that she was "almost finished".
And despite my resolve to be cold to her (born of thousands of such encounters),
I could not but be dazzled (even) by what she
created before my eyes. I gave her a buck.
Now...having been around the block (once or twice by now), I was prepared for
her (to attempt) to shame me into giving more. But she merely launched into
a perfunctory and apologetic tale of how she needed to 'buy gas' and
something else and (oh yeah) how she's pregnant!
Thursday, November 3rd, 2005
Backing up Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi's account [that the Italian government had nothing to do with it], "the White House said earlier this week that U.S. officials who attended the September 9, 2002, meeting do not remember any discussion of the Niger claim or any exchange of documents." So the White House is offering, as proof that it had no hand in the production or receipt of these phony documents, the fact that it says it had no hand in the production or receipt of them! Or...if it did, it doesn't remember! But somebody knows who produced them! Oh! But maybe he forgot!
Wednesday, November 2nd, 2005
Robin was up late last night putting together the first draft/mix of his new song, The Man I Am.
From the "You Can't Say They Don't Have Balls" Department:
Former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (forced to resign his leadership post in 2002 after publicly wishing that Strom Thurmond, who ran on a segregationist platform, had been elected President in1948) said the Democratic Minority Leader Harry Reid was making "some sort of stink about Scooter Libby and the CIA leak."
Current Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (now the target of a formal SEC investigation for possible insider trading) said, "The United States Senate has been hijacked by the Democratic leadership."
Tuesday, November 1st, 2005 All Soul's Day
This just in from Waco ("We Ain't Comin' Out!"), Texas: "He was grabbing the microphone so everyone could hear!"
Give a man a fish and you feed him for
a day;
teach him to use the Internet and he won't bother you for weeks!
Monday, October 31st, 2005 Happy Halloween!
Harry Houdini was a mere fifty-two years old when he died seventy-nine years ago tonight.
Sunday, October 30th, 2005
Not-making-this-up Department:
"...supervisors will begin collecting weekly data on the amount of time
workers spend on bathroom breaks and 'respond appropriately'."