Web Log Archives, May 14th through May 27th, 2006
Saturday, May 27th, 2006
News?
I mean, if a guy is already known to believe that he is having at-will,
real-time conversations (in English) with God...?
"One of Pat's secrets to keeping his energy
high and his vitality soaring is his age-defying protein shake."
CBN
Friday, May 26th, 2006
But Who Asked?
I have never watched "American
Idol". I do not give a bright,
bloody stool about the
'interaction' between Simon and Paula.
I have not seen even one episode (or even ten seconds) of 'Lost'
or 'Survivor' or 'Desperate
Housewives'.
I did once suffer through fifteen minutes of 'Friends'
and, apart from getting to leer at Courtney Cox, I didn't get it.
I also once suffered through ten minutes of 'Seinfeld'.
But there was no one to leer at!
I think 'Law and Order'
is painful. The dialogue is self-conscious. The 'plots' are engineered for titillation...with
a maudlin preoccupation with sick sex.
Now: 'Elimi-date', 'Next' and 'Cheaters'. Good TV and just my speed! Deep!
Thursday, May 25th, 2006
"It
was wrong if there was a man suffering altitude problems and was huddled under a
rock, just to lift your hat, say 'good morning' and pass on by."
Sir Edmund
Hilary
Yeah! So what if it's a hundred below? OK, OK! So,
technically, it was 'afternoon'!
Wednesday, May 24th,
2006
Bob Dylan is 65.
'The Last Will and Testament of Frampton Isgar opens tonight at the Live Oak Theater. Eight PM through Saturday
Last night I was without Cable TV or Broadband Internet access for several hours. It wasn't half bad!
Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006 Happy Birthday, Robin!
Friends Like These...
"If
I heard the Lord right about 2006, the coasts of America will be lashed by
storms."
"And I says, 'There is no way that praying
with nuns is gonna cause you-- asthma.' And then I prayed. And I said, 'Lord,
what's wrong with her?' I just prayed silently. And the Lord said, 'Ask about
her sex life.' "
...from
an interview with CBS Reporter Rita Braver
"I
introduce to you, as the Lord Jesus has said, the next governor of the state of
Florida, Charlie Crist.
Rev.
O'Neal Dozier
Monday, May 22nd, 2006
"Now, a word about the nudes. I am
afraid they were, in every sense of the word, a disappointment. First of all,
they were the gloomiest group of nudes we had ever seen. (OK, granted, not a
wealth of experience there, but still.) Perhaps it was because of the constant
refrain of "ewwwwwww.'' For, as is almost always the case when someone does
something daring and risqué, it is never the someone you'd hoped."
C.W.Nevius
Sunday, May 21st, 2006
But
sadder news in Berkeley lore comes to us this morning in the form of the death
of 'The Naked Guy", Andrew
Martinez (at left, in photo, in front of Sproul Hall), who terrified students
and local residents alike in the early '90's by his insistent and persistent
travels to-and-from class...in his birthday suit.
Although an investigation is ongoing, Andrew's passing is listed, for
now, as a
suicide in his Santa Clara Count Jail cell where he had been held since
January...though not for public nudity.
Saturday, May 20th, 2006
Too Puerile To Ponder
The 50th anniversary
of an
ignominious event at the University of California at Berkeley has passed...with little attention from the MSM.
Now...we've all, doubtless, heard the term 'panty
raid'; but how many of us, in 2006, know (or can
imagine) what it is...or was? It sounds like an activity that might not be unexpected
at a pre-school! Popular attitudes toward sex in the America of the 1950's (when
Hugh Hefner was on Dexedrine) were quite unlike such attitudes now...in
the two-thousand-oughties:
“Ours has been one of the few institutions in the country that didn’t have panty raids or mob violence of any kind,” mourned Dean of Students Hurford Stone [in May of 1956]. “Deans all over the country have asked me how we did it, and I contended we have more mature students and a student government that actually worked. Now we have to say we are like all the rest.”
Friday, May 19th, 2006
Sobering, it is, when you read the obituary
of the last doctor with whom you had an office visit. I saw the guy a total of
twice over the last year. He wasn't my regular doctor. I saw him only because my
regular doctor ('primary care physician', in
today's parlance) was unavailable. The first time was last August and the last
time was in early February. On the first visit, I was impressed that he
seemed deeply depressed.
He hardly looked at me as he typed into his laptop (or is it now called a 'notebook'?)
with a wireless office connection. "Like it
already isn't impersonal enough!", says my son. I was, in fact, so
impressed by his (apparent) depression that I nearly commented on it to the
receptionist as I left the office. But I didn't comment. Perhaps the one
skill I've (almost) mastered during my now-long-life is that (skill) of keeping
my mouth shut....and my opinions to myself. "I don't
have to have an opinion!", is what I frequently remind
myself.
The second (and last) time I saw Dr. Mark, he seemed almost as subdued as
the first time...but not as depressed. He actually made eye
contact as he shook my hand and apologized for having kept me waiting.
Thursday, May 18th, 2006
OK.
That did it! It is now general
knowledge that Alfred likes to make fun of bald
people! Here's what he had to say about The Prime Minister of Australia, one of
his few remaining allies (who happens to be bald):
“He may not be the prettiest person on the block, but
when he tells you something you can take it to the bank.”
Lookie here George! What little hair I have left might look like it was transplanted from a corpse, but at least I still have (half) a brain (left)...and I speak English good!
Wednesday, May 17th, 2006
Mr. Smith and the other producers asked Mr.
Anderson if he could juggle. "No."
Dance? "No."
Magic tricks? "No."
What can you do? "Nothing."
"Perfect, you start tomorrow," Mr. Smith
said.
Tuesday, May 16th, 2006 Happy Birthday, Maggie!
"We
must never forget that the record on which we judge these defendants today is
the record on which history will judge us tomorrow. To pass these defendants a
poisoned chalice is to put it to our own lips as well. We must summon such
detachment and intellectual integrity that this trial will commend itself to
posterity as fulfilling humanity’s aspirations to do justice."
Chief Prosecutor Robert Jackson, in
his opening statement to the first Nuremberg war crimes trial, November 10, 1946
Monday, May 15th, 2006
"What especially concerned Mr.
Jackson...was that it was just five days before Christmas."
Sunday, May 14th
"Why should they ask me to put on
a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on Brown
people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like
dogs and denied simple human rights? No I'm not going 10,000 miles from home to
help murder and burn another poor nation simply to continue the domination of
white slave masters of the darker people the world over. This is the day when
such evils must come to an end. I have been warned that to take such a stand
would cost me millions of dollars. But I have said it once and I will say it
again. The real enemy of my people is here." Muhammad Ali, 1967
