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Uncle George is on Google+!

2012-01-24T17:14:00.000-08:00

He can't quite gain access to it yet. But I'm hopeful.

Hey now

2012-01-22T06:10:00.000-08:00

Hey now.

Kim Jung Eun strikes Saddam Hussein pose

2012-01-08T20:17:00.000-08:00

Click for link

Steppin' to the A.M.

2011-11-19T20:59:00.000-08:00

http://todeuso.tumblr.com/post/13047423575

Spinoza on Google AdWords!

2011-11-13T18:42:00.000-08:00

Everyone should read Spinoza's Ethics. Everyone, including me. I have yet to finish reading the last few pages. He foretells Google's key to success in this famous philosophical treatise: AdWords, or key words with which a company is associated online, and by which their company appears more or less frequently on unrelated web searches. Spinoza nails AdWords thusly:

Prop. XIII--The greater the number of other things with which any image is connected, the more frequently does it present itself.

Ethics, "Of The Power Of The Intellect"

This is per Baruch Spinoza, top hand 17th Century philosopher. Google's gigantic business success is probably due to reading some philosophy. That's what I'm saying here. Everyone should read. You could create the next Google.

GUARANTEED EARNING OPPORTUNITY

2011-11-05T11:05:00.000-07:00

This economy is tough. So I gave myself a raise. How? Just lowered my automatic savings withholdings from my paycheck. TWO PERCENT RETURN IN JUST THIRTY SECONDS!

The Wolf Puncher

2011-09-24T08:19:00.000-07:00

Last night K. and I went to see The Killer Elite, which was pretty enjoyable. Getting out to see a movie at all was really enjoyable, and the film was relatively good. Spoiler alert: the best part is when Jason Statham kicks two Special Air Service veterans' asses while tied to a chair. Impossible? Not for Statham. Interesting and actually topical story line, too.

The point of this blog, however, is about a preview of a Liam Neeson movie about people fighting off wolves. The greatest part is a still of the ole' Jedi, fists bristling with glass knuckles, ready to punch a wolf. The Wolf Puncher.

Toad lilly

2011-09-15T16:26:00.001-07:00

Digital books

2011-09-01T18:44:00.001-07:00

They are not working for me at this time. Trying to use my Droid 2 as an ereader with less than great results. More on this later.

Five percent

2011-08-08T18:08:00.001-07:00

Across the board pay cut-"temporary"- @ work due to tumbling publishing / print biz affecting same. That was the news greeting me the first day back to work. Like George Thorogood said, that don't confront me. (See previous post RE blissed out post-vacation mindset.)

Paid Vacation

2011-08-07T17:25:00.001-07:00

And so a vacation comes to a close. What a wonderful break, what a wonderful time with my family. This is my first vacation from my present job. I have been there for just over six months, the minimum amount of time needed to earn a week's worth of break. Paid time off. Capitalism's greatest triumph. Inducives to continue returning to work. Now I can't wait to get in harness. Well, yes, I could wait another day or week or two. Not actually psyched to get back to work. But willing enough, after this fanfuckingtastic vacation. What restorative ease, what pleasure in idleness. The time with my family has been amazing and fulfilling. I think the world of them.

Heat

2011-07-21T18:32:00.001-07:00

Testing SwiftKey typepad. Download it free today from the free application of the day @amazon. com!

All-Star Game

2011-07-12T18:19:00.001-07:00

Yeah I'm watching it. For a minute or two. This is what's so great about the internet era: the viewer is no longer captive to a single program. The viewer once just had television in their house. Personal movie watching technology followed. Different media (VHS/Beta/laser disc/DVD/Blu-Ray) has now given way to internet media. Not just Netflix and Hulu, but a world of shitty, seventeen part versions of every movie or TV series made. Then there's the freaking web itself. Anyone with a couple hundred bucks for a PC and monthly internet money can surf the web for viewing entertainment longer than their eyes will hold out. So Fox's meretricate advertismal chum box can do the other thing if it thinks I'll stare at the 65% non-baseball portion of its program while waiting to see Roy Halladay and Clifton Pheiffer (sic?) Lee open the game as the first and second best NL hurlers.

Awful G.O.P. presidential candidates.

2011-06-30T18:04:00.001-07:00

I mean, what. Awful. Come now. The President, Christian God Bless him, is doing some stuff where he openly says he doesn't care if he gets reelected. And the Right is just all over the place. Dem-like in their disorder and pathetitude.

So, is this thing on?

2011-06-23T19:34:00.001-07:00

Q: is writing on a phone keyboard for longer compositions feasible? Because this could be really cool in that sense. Wireless digital amanuensis. Make some ___-______ writing possible. That'd be fantastic. Greatest foreseeable challenges? Tiny buttons and auto-correct.

Test Droid post

2011-06-23T19:29:00.001-07:00

Test test test 1234567

Free being for myself

2010-08-20T06:55:00.000-07:00

Social Media. Twitter. Facebook. Tumblr. Not Blogger, really.

These are the free applications that employ your personal data to tailor advertisements. These are the seemingly superficial ego-outlets that are in fact the most advanced advertising models in the world. Very much like when Tom Cruise gets addressed directly by a video mannequin in that one future eyeball movie. "Hey, Tom, buy our shirts." This is the future, people.

I personally love twitter because it feeds all of my weaknesses: narcissism, self-regard, pithily zinging lame social engineers posing as political adherents. Phillies phandom. It's all there. An E-soapbox.

Also there's free swag. My book acquisition issues have been heartily encouraged by the numerous publishers seeking exposure for their products. Maybe 15% of these interest(ed) me, yet I have them all. Bibliomania? Acquisitiveness? Hoarding for some unforeseen lot-of-reading-time future? I don't know. Keep buying books, though. Twitter sends me some, too. Not pictured: free PDF versions of The Beekeeper's Apprentice and Let The Great World Spin. Ask & I'll send them to you.

Tee-rash

2010-07-14T07:18:00.000-07:00

I really have to delete some/most of these here posts. Keep the slams to the analog paper journals. I can burn those and they disappear forever. On the web, your writing never truly dies. This, as a software technician told me, is the true era of accountability.

2010-05-31T19:02:00.001-07:00

"(s)he who does not taste the sweetness of letters cannot know how great the glory is that letters so long preserve" Castiglione, 1.43

2010-03-21T07:25:00.001-07:00

It is snowing.

Spring is Here!

2010-02-24T20:13:00.000-08:00

For the Phillies, in Right Field, CAAAP-Tin CAAAAAAAVVEE MAN!

2010-02-16T11:25:00.001-08:00

Google Buzz. Anyone on there? I see 2010 Senatorial Candidate Marc on my list, unsure what follows that. wrote 1 or 2 notes.

2010-02-15T14:19:00.001-08:00

(while playing Catch with Max): "Max has tech-nique!"

2010-02-15T12:39:00.001-08:00

The Burlington Free Press' online edition should really turn off their comments. People are crazy, & shouldn't be able to hoist nuts-flag at will.

2010-02-07T18:45:00.001-08:00

NOLA

2010-02-02T10:31:00.001-08:00

Does anyone blog anymore? Less interest than a bank CD.

2010-01-08T06:44:00.001-08:00

Wow...the tumult of Thanksgiving-Multiple Christmas-trip to Baton Rouge subsiding. Crazy as it sounds, it's nice to be back in the old routine.

2009-12-27T20:44:00.001-08:00

2nd day of Louisiana/ Baton Rouge visit complete. Temperatures around sixty degrees midday. New Orleans this Thursday.

A comment I made on the New York Times Online

2009-12-10T17:39:00.000-08:00

This article is tragic-an Iraqi compares his life and the seemingly inevitable deaths of his friends to the movie Final Destination. It's awful to contemplate. But then the comments--inevitably--pissed me off. So I made this comment:

Today President Obama spoke about the need for force in this world:

"The United States of America has helped underwrite global security for more than six decades with the blood of our citizens and the strength of our arms.”

An eloquent summary of President Bush's reason for the 2003 invasion. The mistakes of the Western World's Intelligence concerning Iraqi WMD is a tragedy-like the Iranian deaths at the hands of Saddam's WMD in the 80s. Saddam was a present threat in a post-9/11 world. Do not condemn President Bush for having the courage to act. Hindsight is for non-U.S. Presidents.

--This may even show up in the link at the bottom of the story. Requiescat all who die in war. I wish we had never gone to war--but I wish I was a millionaire too. I wish Saddam didn't feel the need to posture with WMD. I wish I wish I wish.

Bathroom size vs. house size

2009-12-08T16:54:00.001-08:00

Thank God we've moved to our wonderful new house. Fifty-plus years old means there are plenty of things to fix. But so what! We have so much room into which we can put stuff. Joy.

But--Alannis, isn't it ironic? Not bad luck masquerading as irony, as found in many of the examples in your song of the same name, but irony irony. In our less-than-700-sq.-foot one bedroom condo we had a hugeous bathroom. Vermont building specs demand every residence have wheelchair access to at least one bathroom in housing which caters to the lower-end of income types. People who get shit for free from people who work, is what I'm talking about. I bought a "market price" condo in a building where 30% of the units were partial giveaways.

Digression yes. The I-RONY is that this circa 1958 home was built with a miniature bathroom. I'm talking submarine-size small. Just smashed my head on the hanging shampoo/soap holder trying to squish a spider. So: irony is a house nearly three times the interior size with a bathroom which you could fit three of into the bathroom of our previous, mini condo.

A black fly in white wine is just bad luck. If it were a black fly in *bourbon*, you could just swirl it around and still drink it. Cuz spirits are antiseptic.

2009-11-26T17:40:00.001-08:00

Thank God for everything in the World, because within all of it is my wonderful family and my life with them.

Culture Wars, for real this time

2009-11-06T08:38:00.001-08:00

The 1990s were a different time: a tubby adulterer ignored the rise of Al-Qaeda overseas from the Oval Office; Republicans in elected office actually had concrete ideas; The Simpsons were funny and cutting-edge. And I, dear readers, was an English Major/ Religion Minor at the University of Vermont. English Departments, and studies of the Humanities in general, were finishing up The Culture Wars, in which U.S. History becomes the study of Colonial aggression, English Literature a phallocentric white man's means of mental control, and all things American are derided as snakes in the Paradise of the innocent rest-of-the-world.

Much of this is important work. Tacitly assumed beliefs must be constantly reexamined. Woman's Suffrage. Civil Rights for Black Americans. Child-labor laws. Momentous, culture-shifting movements have helped our great Republic grow into an ever-greater collocation of different people united by the first clause of Humanity: all people are created equal. Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness are ours.

Haterish, liberal, educated-in-the-90s people will say the Declaration and the Constitution were written by white slaveholders who just wanted to entrench power for their kind. So why include Checks and Balances, the chance to Amend this alleged Instrument of Oppression? The Founders created a living document that has grown with the country. Indians? Sucks-too bad they fought back. Slaves? REALLY sucks. Too bad Black African Kings on the Slave coast made it so easy for slave traders to buy them up in bunches. The Middle Passage was made possible wholly through black-on-black crime. Women? They can vote now. First thing they did was outlaw booze. :l

Through it all our society thrives. We come to the topics of today: gay marriage and Muslim extremism. My Two Dads first: as of right now I am against the legality of gay marriage. Sucks for me: I live in Vermont, which by popular vote legalized said unions just recently. Democracy proves me wrong, and I bow to history. However, Vermont is a miniature little Republic, unconcerned with industry, growth or sustainable life for humans. Maine recently voted down gay marriage, just like the gigantic state of California, causing much gnashing of teeth and name-calling on the part of the liberalati. I am "against Civil rights" for being against gay marriage, against freedom of choice, against EVOLUTION:

But wait! Gays can get bank loans, vote, be protected by police from violence, make movies, use roads and other infrastructure freely. Choices abound, and every road is open. Excepting marriage. Marriage is a State-building institution created early on in history to solidify, reconstitute and expand the societies concerned. A tool, like religion, cynics might rightly say, used to manipulate and pacify the populace. In his coherent early work "The Birth of Tragedy", Nietzsche writes about the masks (good cop/bad cop; Apollonian and Dionysian) humanity throws up against the chaos of our animal origins. Artificial constructions of the Second or Third Baudrillian Stage. Smart people, writes Nietzsche, see beyond these masks.

(Updated w/ twitter commentary herewith [lol]:)

Like Oliver Stone. Genius sees beyond these masks but come back to reaffirm them. Beyond is chaos. Sympathy for the downtrodden can quickly turn to getting trod upon. So marriage may be a fictive construct, but it's comprised of one man and one woman joining in matrimony. It's an etymological construct which won't allow Elton John or Rosie O'Donnel to redefine it through some Affect Disorderly need to join groups they eschew. Maine and California voters agree.

As for this Hellbound cocksucker shooting unarmed soldiers at Fort Hood: Texas can't get the plunger in his arm fast enough. A noose and a trapdoor are more appropriate for Treason, which this creature reifies. Suggesting stress or getting bullied for his Muslim origins is responsible for his cowardly murders is the sort of thinking that'll have a Muzzein echoing over every U.S. city by fiat; pre-1492 Europe all over again. The New Testament exhorts its followers to evangelize. The Koran does the same, characterizing the non-converted bits as the "world of war" or struggle. The battle is taking place. The choices you make create reality. Choose America.

2009-10-28T09:30:00.001-07:00

Oh, is the World Series today?

2009-10-26T18:58:00.001-07:00

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2009-10-26T18:55:00.001-07:00

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2009-10-22T20:18:00.001-07:00

Anyone else notice that the writer's room office door number is 666E? Could swear I saw that 2nite. #30rock

2009-10-13T09:53:00.001-07:00

Tweet-less Tuesday update: 1 word-wow. This is exhilarating, yet terrifying. Like jumping off a tall place & swinging an ax at a dragon just as it's flying @ u.

Brad Lidge

2009-10-13T07:35:00.002-07:00

Two saves in the NLDS. Phillies vs. Dodgers, this Thursday.

2009-10-13T07:35:00.001-07:00

... Storm of twitpendipity. But. Moderation in all things is the key to enjoying them. Hence Twitter-free Tuesday. Make it a hash tag Trending Topic, ppl.

2009-10-13T07:33:00.001-07:00

FWD: Even though this is old news to my readers, I love the twitter. Tweet tweet tweet, all day. My job is computer-based and undemanding: a virtual Perfect...

2009-10-13T07:18:00.001-07:00

Today is no-tweet Tuesday! After examining metrics of my twitter activity the conclusion is obvious: the necessity of dialing back on the twitter button is high

2009-10-09T08:04:00.001-07:00

I'll just chill here while all the data transfers from the Cave Mac to the sweet new super computer (Mac Pro).

2009-10-06T06:09:00.001-07:00

Back behind the Bitch Curtain. AKA "work".

2009-10-02T14:40:00.001-07:00

Q: Can I add @tumblr posts to an @Blogger account?

Collecting vs. OCD

2009-09-19T09:34:00.001-07:00

Well, as some of you may know I like a the books; comic books, novels, historical tracts--that kind of stuff. But at what point does collecting drift into Obsessive Compulsive Disorder? Like those Collyer brothers :

I mean, I love simply looking at my bookshelves. Just reading or scanning the spines of the books gives me some idiot pleasure. The prospect of the warmth and quiet implied by an unopened book. Similarly, I go through phases of comic-stacking. "Collecting" isn't quite the right word. Cousin Chris collects comics, occasionally making actual money from their resale. You can take that to the bank--the money bank! Whereas I just stack up my subscriptions in a pile somewhere. Greasy pages, cut-out panels, beer stains -- the comics are not what I'd call collectible. The one possible redeeming quality is that Max may leaf through them with enjoyment some day. Until then, I'ma Collyer on . . .

2009-09-15T14:15:00.001-07:00

Strange to return to a familiar place after moving away. Wandered around this parking lot a million times living at the apt.s & the condo

2009-09-14T19:46:00.001-07:00

twittering to Gmail

2009-09-14T19:32:00.001-07:00

I can't believe I read comic books. "Amazing Spider Man #603". Pfft. Outrageous. It's enjoyable, though.

Stay on target...: "Do I dazzle you?"

2009-09-08T12:47:00.000-07:00

Stay on target...: "Do I dazzle you?"

2009-09-08T07:27:00.001-07:00

Customer: "I recieved a bill but not my order. What gives?" Boss: "Oh, I didn't get to it Friday. Tell em I'll deliver it today." Failure. Grand.

2009-09-05T19:18:00.000-07:00

Costco is a bewildering nightmarescape.

2009-08-26T19:03:00.001-07:00

Feeling pretty down after troll attack on me in twitter. I guess that's karma, though. Karma, dude. Karma.

2009-08-21T14:27:00.001-07:00

Any1 else seeing a mass bot assault on their Followers list? All from the same "camgirl" template, naughty profile pics & all. Dozens of em!

On Michael Vick

2009-08-14T06:05:00.000-07:00

The Philadelphia Eagles signed disgraced convicted criminal Michael Vick to a 1-year contract yesterday, with an option for a second year. My feelings about this are pretty mixed. Dog-fighting, barbarous as it is, does share popular status among certain subcultures in the USA. This doesn't alter the specifics surrounding Vick's dog-fighting ring, which are truly awful. I'm far from a PETA supporter, but the facts are appalling.

That said, he's lost between forty and sixty million in salary, become an international pariah, and spent over a year locked up in Leavenworth Prison. Those are serious penalties the man's paid. Roger Godell, the NFL Commissioner, reinstated the guy, and now the Eagles have signed him. Reading twitter updates seem to break down racial lines: blacks seem ready for forgiveness, whites are in a tizzy that seems a trifle overblown.

Professional sports present these difficulties frequently. O.J. Simpson was one of the all-time great Running Backs in the NFL--ehhh let's leave it at that. Ty Cobb was one of the greatest hitters in baseball history--just so. Pete Rose, of the 1980 World Champion Philadelphia Phillies, should be in the Hall of Fame! You have to partition the players' obvious personal failings from their undeniable success as athletes. To stand in judgement of a person's personal failings is more for Judges and God.

So, look for some crazy backfield sets using Vick and McNabb this season! Try to think of his past like about how your plumbing works--don't think about it. A wishbone/ I-back type offense run by one of the greatest Quarterbacks in the League utilizing one of the best pure athletes to play in the League, ever. This signing could put the Eagles back in the Superbowl, and the Patriots aren't getting away with their video cheating like they were in 2004.

E-A-G-L-E-S Eagles!

2009-08-12T20:51:00.001-07:00

Backing up some of my mobile phone pix to Gmail. Slow work. There are so many great images; I want to keep them all! Gmail is really great.

2009-08-11T07:14:00.001-07:00

. @blogger @ev why is my Verizon mobile only able 2 send 140 characters'-worth of blog to my blog? It's quite limiting. Still love your work!

Let's just say it moved me--TO A NEW HOUSE

2009-08-05T11:47:00.000-07:00

Oh, I said the loud part quiet and the quiet part loud--Krusty the Klown. We are in the new casa-whoo hoo! Stealing wireless as I type--may lose it at any minit. Whichever neighbor who's I don't want to say dumb enough to not protect their signal is still only online intermittently. Very sad for me. Where the f. is Comcast, wiring us for cable, you ask? Where the f. indeed, dear readers. Where the f. indeed.

Yesterday saw Cousins C. and N. doing Augean labor with my wife at the homestead, hauling demolition waste and cutting brush. Amazing and so helpful. Ohh so much. We are really rich in family and friends. Cash money millionaires. And it's K.'s birthday--my folks' Anniversary--and K. and my true Anniversary as well! Four years ago today she called me up as I dozed fitfully from my night shift labors and told me I should come down and visit. It was her birthday. I did, and we've been together ever since. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

2009-07-28T06:18:00.001-07:00

Of all the books in which twitter puts me in the way I am most looking forward to "Elegant Complexity", on Dave Wallace's novel "IJ".

2009-07-28T06:09:00.001-07:00

Just under 73 hours until we sell the condo. Holy heck! That makes about 75 hours til we close on the new house. Oh man oh man oh man. :)

2009-07-22T18:59:00.001-07:00

Dear OED: twitter mentiond in TheAtlantisRevelation (Greanias). How many appearncs of the word since 06 in books?

I love candy

2009-07-22T17:11:00.000-07:00

Everybody's blogging, Facebooking, and tweeting up a storm. So why bother adding to the din? Why anything? Why your face? Well, it is a Sisyphean task.
But not really. I can stop any time! And really, every generation thinks up some frivolous activity to exasperate the older folks. Rock n' Roll shocked and appalled the elders, now Rock n' Roll is FOR elders. Same with hippie culture: it starts out (thinking it's) subverting the dominant paradigm and ending up being subsumed into the dominant paradigm.

So this is another self-referential post about Social Media. Hey, different people blog about different things. Thanks for showing up! Click on the ads, please! Nice. We need caish for renovating the house into which we're moving at the end of next week. This is an exciting time. PS Vermont State Title transfer tax sucks ____. South Burlington residents already pay triple tax (State, Federal and Act 60) on their earnings BEFORE they get the privilege of PAYING PROPERTY TAX. The all caps means I'm yelling.

Por me ahora

2009-07-14T09:43:00.001-07:00

Free book?

Why am I interested in reading The Adderall Diaries? Adderall is funny-sounding.

And why should I be one of the lucky few to get a copy of this amazing new book a full two months in advance of its release date? Because of my greatness. :)

2009-07-02T08:46:00.001-07:00

I made one cent on AdSense! @Google will enbiggen my bank account yet!

2009-07-01T19:01:00.001-07:00

Girl you know we been together such a long long time / & now I'm ready to lay it on the line/ well you know it's Xmas & my heart is open wide/gonna give you something so u know what's on my mind/ a gift real special, so take off the top/ take a look inside, it's my d___ in a box

2009-06-16T16:05:00.001-07:00

I am playing Catch w. my son on the grass this warm June evening. I love America.

2009-06-15T11:03:00.001-07:00

(test)

2009-06-15T11:01:00.001-07:00

Big protests apparently going on in Iran. The election of their figurehead President seems 2 b subject to tampering. Freaking Persians.

Famous people talk to me

2009-06-04T16:47:00.000-07:00

ON TWITTER. (cf. the Chinese food fortune cookie reading-out-loud formula in which you add "IN BED" to the end of every fortune.)

This Social Media bolshie is quite trendy. Say what you will about it--and people are saying a lot--I enjoy using the service. "Micro-blogging" is an adjectival attempt at describing it. I prefer to call it inside-out email. Or an Open Email. Open Instant Messaging. Whatever. Many tweeters use the service as a free appendage to their online and physical businesses. Good for them! I use it to feed my narcissism. And call Mets fans gay. As tweeters might say--LOL.

Seriously, though--just today @mattbucher gave me some great advice about font substitution in response to a tweet in which I asked the twitterverse at large a question. Also: I've nabbed a few free books. So that's nice. And it's sometimes easier to reach Cousin Christian if I want some info, but it's too late to call his house, and I don't feel like composing an email.

Whatever whatever. The point of twitter's coolness is its openness. Anyone can address celebrities directly. Now, the celebrity may just be a personal assistant or ghost-tweeter writing in their place, but one supposes that some of them are the real twideal. And I am basically a celebrity, because they talk back to me! Like I was worthy of response! Such interaction would literally be impossible, even laughable, to contemplate a few years ago. So, for your perusing pleasure:
This is from my previous handle, @20208wsc (a 208 with two 2s; World Series Champions; I began tweeting soon after the WFC put the Rays down. Mary Russell is the name of the protagonist in Laurie R. King's mysteries, which I highly recommend. I'd made some play on 'hive' or something)

(Longtime Burlington, Vermont-area DJ Mike Luoma knows me.)

(DeLaSoul, 1990s-era rap group that I loved. I told PlugWon I wore out his tape and he said this. You could call HIM a fan of ME.)

(Greg Nice of Nice & Smooth, a hilarious rap group Landmark College in 1991 heard a lot, thanks to yours bloggly. Greg N.I.C.E. knows I'm a playa. He tweeted so.)

(The Fat Boys! I am the Human Beat Box!)

(MC Hammer. He and I talk baseball. He was a bat boy for the Oakland A's, and an Oaktown phenomenon. Phillies' Short stop Jimmy Rollins is also an Oakland native. So we're all tight up in here.)

(B-Real, of Cypress Hill, started the whole weed-smoking rapper thing, again, back in the early 1990s when I was at Landmark College. You could say I went to college with B-Real. What's good, B-Real? Talking to the famous and they respond! FIYAH.)

(And, finally, one of the creators of twitter, Evan Williams and I talk business. Call me a consultant to one of the mediaverse's hottest celebrities. Because he's asking me questions about business. He's got questions. I've got tweets.)

All this is really amusing to me. I hope it cracked a smile through your jaded, Internet-overloaded carapace.

The News

2009-05-18T11:24:00.000-07:00

The family Ipod Classic has, among other movies, “Back to the Future”. All-time great 80s movie in a world awash with claims of 80s-era greatness. The plotting, dialog, action and humor are spot-on despite dated style(s).

This picture shows Michael J. Fox standing in front of the left-hand speaker of a 1980’s style “boom box”. He’s a very short man.

The movie’s song, “The Power of Love”—actually just the guitar break—has dominated the undercurrent of my consciousness for over a week now. It’s superseded the break from Sir Mix-A-Lot’s “My Posse’s on Broadway”. Oh, it’s back now. (chicka chicka chaw chaw) MY POSSE’S ON BROADWAY.

Happy Mother's Day to all Mothers! Love & Hugs!

2009-05-10T11:35:00.000-07:00

I'd like to say Happy Mother's Day to all of the Mothers out there! Without you the we would not exist. You are all wonderful wonderful people!

2009-05-07T08:14:00.001-07:00

Love the concept of txt updates to my @blogger account. But a 140 character limit =same message length as @twitter with EVEN FEWER readers.

2009-05-06T15:16:00.001-07:00

--slew of social media applications. Guess I go back & forth on this subject a lot. And rendering myself a hypocrit by blogging about it! Oy

2009-05-06T15:14:00.001-07:00

which may be my favorite of them all) are like Facebook is to Chris-a complete waste of time. Feeling that maybe he's right about the whole-

2009-05-06T15:12:00.001-07:00

What is the purpose of this again? All of a sudden I'm struck with this feeling that all Social Media-Blogger, Twitter, maybe even Tumblr ..

How one spells Success

2009-04-28T18:34:00.001-07:00

Thusly! Verizon store guy told me about the one year warranty. Mint! Also nice: Taco Bell at the Mall while we were checking. Another condo viewing happened earlier; yet another scheduled for tomorrow. Neighbor asked me how the process was going. Besides wanting to say "me still being here is your first clue", it was interesting, as she has a 1-BR a bit down the hall, and is perhaps feeling the same squeeze. Imagine being a single person occupying an entire condominium to oneself. Whoah.

Well, bloggers and bloggets, that is all that I have. Good evening to you all. Take solace in the fact that Chase Utley (twice!) AND Rauuuuuuuulllll Ibanez homered in tonight's defeat of the hapless Nationals. On top of last night's thrill ride win featuring Grand Slams by both Ryan Howard and Ibanez! Fiyah! Boom! The fact that Cole "Fragile" Hamels turned his ankle (mis-)playing a ground ball right back at him should be ignored. Phils pitching has done less than an exemplary job. Tonight puts the team in at least a tie for first place in the National League East. Fiyah.

2009-04-26T19:17:00.001-07:00

. . . will be cool and hook a typer up with a replacement EnV?

2009-04-26T19:15:00.001-07:00

I can't believe I broke the mobile phone today. Typing abc button style like a schlub. Such is life, eh? What are the chances Verizon . . .

2009-04-22T19:00:00.000-07:00

I wrote "Lee's twittverse" in my last blog. Really?

G_D__ Google Adsense

2009-04-15T17:22:00.000-07:00

I thought I could pick a few coins up 'monetizing' my blog, so I added Google Adsense. All I'm doing is helping Google data-mine my genius musings! Plus, the content-specific ads keep putting up gay marriage-related ads because I wrote about gay marriage. There's two gay dudes getting married in a f.ing ad on my blog!

Anyhoo, I now can post blogs from my mobile phone, as if I needed to do more typing on my miniature keyboard. It IS QWERTY, though, so that makes things a lot better. Look out for further test-type blogs to see if I can exceed the 140/160 character limit that makes all of my tweets read like I'm a f.ing preteen girl ("R U" doing something, "lol", etc.) I hate such adumbrations but they're necessary in my maintenance of Lee's twitterverse.

S! Now I have to write other keywords to get those ads changed. Hm: the Philadelphia Phillies are doing well after a poor first few games. That's cool. I bought MLB.TV.com's season package, enabling self to watch Phils games all season! Yes!

Spring is here--K., M. and I all went for a walk down the bike path both yesterday and today, stopping at the George Aiken Forestry Center's huge lawn on Swift street for some sitting- and walking-on-grass action. Grass=spring! Grass, man.

Also: today is Tax Day. Every f.ing day is tax day, really, if you work for a living, but you all know what I mean. A bunch of liberal cheesenobs are belittling National Tea Party protests (citizens protesting high taxes); CNN & CNBC are jumping in. I don't recall reporters pestering anti-war protesters with combative questions, but maybe that's just my Conservative opinion. (It is not.)

Anyhow, I saw Jon Faverau's Twitter page mentioning Iron Man 2, which is cool. K. and I rented the BluRay version of Iron Man, and it rock-ed. Part Deux should be very cool.

Thanks for staying with me as I try to mix up the topics and trick Google's Adsense into posting more palatable ads on my blog! I will look into removing them, but they MAY get me some money. And I am a man who picks up pennies off the street, face up or down. So . . . There you go.

2009-04-15T08:43:00.001-07:00

Good afternoon blogocitizens!

2009-04-14T14:54:00.001-07:00

testing testing one two one two testing one two. In the place to be.

Broadcasting news, sad

2009-04-13T19:47:00.000-07:00

Harry Kalas, longtime Phillies broadcaster, passed away today. He collapsed in the broadcasting booth before the Washington Nationals' home opener against the Phillies. His is a voice familiar to all PA-area sports fans, even those who moved away decades ago. Kalas called Phillies games for 44 years and one day, if I'm reading my internet correctly.

His last Phillies Home Run call was Matt Stairs' pinch hit blow to fell the Colorado Rockies, 7-5.
"Long drive . . . outta here!"

Housing developments

2009-04-10T11:04:00.000-07:00

Well, I didn't really think we'd just put in a bid and get a sweet house for way under its market value. And we haven't--yet. Received a call from our realtor telling us that another, better bid has come across the wire for the place K. and I are hoping to buy. Per said Realtor, we have an advantage because were in their bank's "system", whatever the heck that means. Even without a competing bid there are weeks and perhaps months (?) to go before finalizing the deal. Unfortunately, this new bid throws a monkey wrench in the whole dealy.

Should things develop Southward we'll have to put in a final bid offer--Kathie D. our Realtor used some term like "final and last offer" or some such terminology. I am guessing this bid process can only go so far, like raising and re-raising in poker. I'm already game-planning potential bid numbers. This is all, of course, under a self-imposed cloak of secrecy and lowered expectations, as I'm paranoid that some chimp mf'er will read this blog and run out and buy our potential house out from under us-- "I bid one BILLION dollars'.--with a bid we cannot match. So this is all a rich tapestry of excitement and learning. Meanwhile we've got to clean the condo up proper after K and M's sick days have messed up our domicile, showing-wise. Realtor (different one) will call today and let us know if she want to bring her buyer by tomorrow. I told her when she called that there was no way we'd have it ready (read: disinfected) by this afternoon.

Blogger-out.

Old paperbook care-a waste of time?

2009-03-28T06:35:00.001-07:00

This is the spine of my copy of Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks. The tape with which I've tried to repair the cracked binding looks kind of like cobwebs. I tape in a page that's cracked itself off from the spine with a long band of packing tape going from the intact part of the book onto the errant page, reconnecting them. The thing is, every time I turn another page with too much force (it's a ten-year old paperback that was old when I bought it at the Stevenson Hall Book Sale back at Illinois State University during my Sutherland Fellowship studying creative writing).

As a deeply cheap man, I enjoy few things more than reading an old used copy of a literary classic that I probably didn't spend a hundred cents on ten years ago. The value added enjoyment factor is off the chizzel. This is the young, Nobel Prize-winning novelist Mann, not the old, dissipated, going after young boys Mann of Death In Venice (which is still a good read despite the mild pederasty). I'm enjoying the novel so far, maybe seventy pages in, but the yellowed old copy (once owned by my Professor, the novelist Curtis Wright) keeps falling apart!
(picture of airplane ticket wedged in the used book when I bought it. Curt looked bemused when I pointed out that I'd bought one of his books.)
My question, dear readers, is this: am I wasting my time by taping up this old, pre-acid-free paged relic in the hopes of keeping it in one piece for long enough to read its nearly 600 pages? Does that set me up for 555 tape repairs? Because that'd drive me crazy, and that's not a drive I enjoy taking. Then again, it's probably the only chance I'll have to read the novel, as there's no way I'm dropping twenty or thirty bucks on some poofy faux-reverently-bound reissue. So I find myself in a quandary. Let me know what you think!

"What's all this? It looks like Darth Vader's bathroom."

2009-03-25T20:32:00.000-07:00

This is the first appearance of KITT, the Knight Rider car, on the television show of the same name. I find it funny, and so should you.

LIVE FANTASY DRAFT SUNDAY 3/22/09

2009-03-21T19:58:00.000-07:00

Gotta remember to log on for this.

work-in-progress two

2009-03-18T17:05:00.001-07:00

So, the Publisher of the Burlington Free Press invited me to lunch to pick my brain about Social Media (sounds like something you catch, in a bad way) and how it relates to his paper. A very nice and funny guy, he went to Northern Illinois State, sister school to my Master's Degree granting institution ISU. Go Redbirds!
(Pharaonic-scale Milner Library to the left. Dorm highrises middle-screen.)

Well, during a pleasant and interesting lunch at the Scuffer he dangled the possibility that I might get some space on the BFP's website--unpaid, of course--to write on subjects concerning the community. He said I "obviously had the writing chops" to do so, which was a very welcome statement indeed. (I've since altered my twitter handle to LT_VT to look less like a spam bot, BTW.)
Excitement! But before I could put fingers to keypad he sent me an email telling me about a great subscription offer for home delivery of said Free Press. D'oh! said I. Data mined and subscription-solicited, all for the cost of a half-price special Scuffer burger, I thought. But. Who am I to discount his offer? I've sketched out a rough draft of what I guess would be an editorial/blog/opinion piece below. It's in progress, so any comments or suggestions are highly welcome. Its organization, cohesion and clarity are all up for grabs. As an example, Kate said I should leave out the part calling the Mets gay. Noted!

Gay marriage is very Gay.

Gay marriage is in the local news these days, and I find it very gay. I mean, what is this, the Queen City? . . . Oh. It is. Riiight.

Well, anyway. This subject is an important one. Words like "equal rights" and "tolerance" are being thrown around, and who doesn't support equal rights and tolerance of others? Allow me to give an example: I love baseball. Since I grew up in Philadelphia before moving back to Vermont, the Phillies are my team, but I support the New York Mets' right to exist, and THEY'RE gay. So I consider myself pretty tolerant. As for the comparison with the right of gay couples to get married and Civil Rights for Black Americans, gays please. Nobody's trying to deny gays the right to vote, or threatening death by hanging! Again, as a kid who grew up taking field trips to Independence Hall and learning about our Founding Fathers' originary intent, I strongly support the Bill of Rights. That addendum to the Constitution guarantees life liberty and the pursuit of happiness to every U.S. citizen--even the gays! In countries like Turkey and Egypt they'll straight up arrest out-in-the-open homosexuals just for being what they are. Lock them up! None of that going on in our Purple-Mountained Majesty. See? "Purple". Gay-friendly color!

You see a lot of "Take Back Vermont" signs, a semiotic marker whose day this writer thought long past, in front of the Statehouse in today's (3/18/09) media coverage. Ownership is something which I support strongly. I own a marriage certificate, having married my wonderful wife in July of 2007. We were married to affirm our love for each other and cement our bond in the eyes of the State and all who might ask. Our son recently turned one year old, and the joy he brings us is a life-changing experience that words cannot capture. This "Right to Marry" bill for gay Vermonters seems odd. Holding Bachelor's and Master's degrees in English, I can asservate that Marriage is a heterosexual union by definition. No bigotry here--simple linguistic reality. I might want to rename my mortgage as "Joe Smith's mortgage", thereby sidestepping the reality of my home debt, but despite Hamlet's assertion thinking does not make it so. As a supporter of Equal Rights for all--it's a simple fact of being on U.S. soil--I feel gay couples should have all the rights that married couples do. Get a Civil Union and stop trying to remake language to suit your needs, I say.

In discussing this point with Burlington Free Press Publisher Brad Robertson he mentioned the fact that Civil Unions do NOT grant the same rights as I don't want to say normal married couples. What? So what the heck was all that brouhaha RE Civil Unions about in 2000? What's a Civil Union if it doesn't offer a parallel alternative to marriage to those whom the term cannot apply? A gay conceit, if you want to know my opinion. They're always appropriating words for their own use--synonyms for happy, kindling, odd--the list goes on like Nathan Lane presenting at an Awards Ceremony. States have a right to pass which laws they choose--the Tenth Amendment says so. But the Jim Crow laws of the deep (Democratic) South were all 10th-Amendment darlings of the non-KKK-terrorized populace. And what's with gay couples adopting or raising one of their kids together? As I've said to my wife myriad times, it takes a mother and a father to raise a well-rounded child! She counters by asking what is wrong with two loving people dedicated to each other and desirous of raising a child in a caring and supportive household?

And this, dear readers, is the crux, the crisis point of my argument. Some +/- FIFTY PERCENT of kids grow up in broken homes as it is. Divorce rates are higher than Paula Abdul and Bobby Brown put together! Jails are chock-full of single-parent-raised children; schools suffer from picking up the slack with which incomplete households saddle their children. I'm beginning to think that getting married and having a child has ruined my hyper-conservative world view. Everything I thought of as for me/RE me/Dough me skews righty right right. Cohabitating with my amazing wife, whose views differ widely on a few major issues, has exposed me to points of view which I find difficult to discount. I am a man who can admit he is wrong when presented with empirically verifiable evidence. And I'm thinking that if any two people on Earth could feel just some high-double-digit percent of my love of wife and son than G___ D___ it let them get married.

So that's that. Thanks for reading if anybody actually struggled through the whole thing. If not, here's a picture of me at work!

(NB I don't really support it.)

The Freemans & Mayor Kiss

2009-03-16T16:40:00.000-07:00

In which I review a movie I haven't seen based on a graphic novel I haven't read

2009-03-05T16:26:00.000-08:00

So, in all fairness, who am I to talk about Watchmen? Two decades have passed since the much-lauded launch of the wordy graphic novel---originally a mini-series from DC Comics. The gist of this book has trickled into my consciousness in the intervening years. Grim alternate reality infused with hyper-realism. Superheros undercover. Nixon still POTUS after winning Vietnam. That last one is AWESOME! I often think that if it weren't for a bungled burglary Nixon would be remembered as a heavy-handed Cold War victor as opposed to a foul-mouthed, paranoid disgrace to American politics.

Well, dear readers, I am Lee Tristram Freeman. I enjoy comic books very much, in my own dilettante, dip my hand into them every year or three, way. I enjoy movies as well, so Watchmen it is. This blog took flight from an email I wrote to my Cousin Chris (@cmock127), who is the comic authority without peer, and a matchless blogger of his own right.

It all started with my reading a review of the film by the Grey Lady herself, The New York Times.Now, leave to one side the NYT's own dabbling in alternate realities (just a few whopping examples hotlinked herewith). The newspaper is the best in the U.S.A., and perhaps the World; this I believe without question. Newspaper reporting, this blogger has always maintained, is the lowest form of writing, and they do it better than any. It's erudite, well-informed and exhaustive coverage is a constant source for me. Just keep the filters up, and it's Top Hand at reporting.

Allllll of which brings me to this hilarious (click this hotlink and then the "laugh 3" button) quote RE Watchmen which opens the review. It concerns one of the comics' main characters, Dr. Manhattan (like the Manhattan Project, get it?):

"Dr. Manhattan’s existence is busy and fairly melancholy, but I do envy him his ability to perceive every moment of past and future time as a part of a continuous present. If I had that power, the 2 hours 40 minutes of Zack Snyder’s grim and grisly excursion into comic-book mythology might not have felt quite so interminable. (“It will never end,” says Dr. Manhattan. “Nothing ever ends.” No indeed.) Also, an enhanced temporal perspective would make it possible to watch “Watchmen” not in 2009 but back in 1985, when the story takes place, and when the movie might have made at least a little more sense."

POW! Hehehe. Pretty funny. The entire review can be read here.

This whole fanboy delectation in the genius of Moore's story, the idea that comic books are art in the same way as real art is annoying. (Defining what real art is is another immensely long blog of its own. Comic books aren't in it.) Comics have their place, are artful , can be visually exciting/engaging/arresting, but are toy sales prep for kids and fanboy adults and nothing else, man. Head over to Wal-Mart and see if Watchmen's genre-exploding genius includes toys for sale. And video games. The 'unfilmable' line repeated ad nauseam regarding this comic book from the 1980s is conceited to the extreme. It's TOO CLEVER AND GENIUS to render filmicly. Bullshit.

Addendum: All that said, Kate and I still want to see the movie.

Is my profile pic really anamorphically distorted?

2009-03-02T17:48:00.001-08:00

Well, well well. Well-ity well-itty well-itty. K. and I signed our bid contract on an amazing house in Bristol, VT about an hour and a half ago. Another buyer beat us to a first offer, so we have to bid on said property 'blind', without knowing what the intial bid is. This house is CHERRY (no Cherry actually used in construction to my knowledge). I'd link le blog up to a listing but am in such a paranoid state that others will swoop down and chuck in a big bid to grab this choicest of cuts that I think that I will not.

Our Realtor came to our house with the papers ("I'm going to get the papers, get the papers") to sign; tomorrow our loan officer at New England Federal Credit Union will decide if they'll front me the money given our earnings, savings and so on. That may be a stumbling block rendering the viability of our bid null--our lady Jeanne Boucher has our homeowning fate in her capable hands. By the way, congratulations on your recent marriage, Jeanne! Today was consumed by printing material for sale at work and blowing up my cell and gmail trying to nail down the myriad particulars of this G___ D___d complicated process.

Thanks all for the words of support, both on selling the present condo and landing the new home. Some place will certianly come along, but this one is as large as Chuffnell Regis, from our family's favorite Jeeves novels. Commute be darned--this is a case of opportunity knocking louder than the curses in my brain when I read AIG lost like 60 F____ BILLION dollars after the U.S. Government gave them thirty. Billion. Pretty soon you're talking about real money. Such as we are, in regards to a house on which we put a bid.

Condo for sale!

2009-02-23T18:29:00.000-08:00

Wow--we finally did it. We really, really did it. K. and I just proofread and confirmed our listing with our Realtor to place the old (less than four years old) 1BR. The cleaning job Kate and I did made for some good looking pictures, considering what the place has looked like in the past:

Wowwowwow. All the uncertainty about the economy, my job, the freaking world cannot eke any more room out of this less than 700 square feet of sweet, unbeatably-located living space. I wish I could keep it as an off site office, a getaway pad from the domesticity that can consume every moment of waking and even creep into sleeping time.

A busy and eventful and tiring weekend was had by all. Man. Meanwhile, I tweeted about this
And posted an unrevealing exterior on said Tumblog--

Same log of Tumblin' received its most hits ever--ten in one day. :)

What with picking up the Subaru after its expensive bodywork post-UVM student driving lesson (use your BLINKER) and running back and forth to the storage with a stunning amount of . . . things . . . and the cleaning and the child-raising this blogger is beat.

And things couldn't be better. Snowfall outdoors blankets the city in a quiet temporary cleanliness. Good evening,

The Fickleness of Freeman

2009-02-18T07:57:00.000-08:00

I hardened my conservative beliefs during Clinton I, when Bubba and his apologists held sway.

I held onto them during Bush 43 b.c. he was my man, despite OBVIOUS problems. Enormous debt spending. Incompetent execution of two wars. Additional Cabinet-level positions added to Federal Government. And so on.

But now all these #tcot tweeps are following me on Twitter and I'm all "don't label me". #tcot= "top conservatives on twitter". The # mark, or hash tag, is a twit-specific way of marking posts so they show up on group-specific boards. So you tweet "I hate Obama #tcot" and it shows up on the "#tcot" message board, and all your fellow agreers agree. But I'm not on any bandwagons, and am highly unhappy with the State of the Union post-Bush 43. Hating per se is not my modus operandi, as I have to really care about something to hate it, and dislike granting enough of my brainspace to something to really hate on it. Plus hating is for losers (do not hate the player, but rather the game).

So I don't want anyone to think I'm a red-eyed Rush Limbaugh lover who thinks Obama is a secret suicide bomber. I am EXCITED about the change he represents and GLAD the U.S. polity can act upon its wishes. The fact that he's devaluing our currency like its beanie babies is something to dwell on in the future.

"The future, Conan?"

"Yes, the future. All the way . . . to the Year 2000."

Happy Valentine's Day indeed

2009-02-14T07:00:00.000-08:00

Well, Happy Valentine's Day to all. It is a peculiar time of year for many reasons not least of which is the reason for the season. I got RIF'd from Lane Press on Valentine's Day in 2006, and personally have had more than a few unhappy memories associated with the day, not least of which is the anniversary of the advent of my Cousin Meredith's brain tumor. She is, God willing, on the road to recovery and has many and many friends, family and well-wishers sending their best thoughts and prayers to her every day.

That said, it's another day, and this a Saturday to enjoy with family. We've exchanged our presents. Max received his first Valentine's Card that he could hold and read by himself (he was only 48 hours old on his first Valentine's Day):
I would like to say Happy Valentine's Day indeed to each and every one of you!

I love egg rolls!

2009-02-05T16:32:00.000-08:00

Which Kate brought home from el shopperia this evening. This writer highly recommends your buying Chung's pork egg rolls from the cooler section, cooking them on a cookie sheet and consuming them once they've reached 160 degrees of temperature.

The above is an attempt to avoid writing honestly about the old work situation, which is less than fun. My Own Private Michael Scott is the title of the song. Thanks to Chris for pointing out that this picture I posted on my Tumblog and Flickr featured a less than flattering caption--I'd originally captioned it "I appear to be a *&^$# up dude", remembering the inverse happy mindset said workplace occasioned upon my self-portrait.

Chris said that no I wasn't, and I appreciate that man. I just look very--something--here. Kate agrees--says I look older. There is a kind of Dorthea Lange: Migrant Mother, 1936 quality to it. You know, this broad:
Well, as Kate is saying there are not as many people headed to work these mornings in the old morning commute. I would suggest that we're not in a Depression yet, but there have been something like half a MILLION jobs lost recently in the U.S. labor pool in just the past couple of weeks. Pretty soon you're talking about real numbers. What's funny is that depressed is the furthest thing from which my emotions would be if this particular bee-logger lost his day job.

Egg rolls and tax problems for Dem appointees. Four words: sat is fact tion. There was a big house tax credit passed today, and this colossal stimulus package that might go through the Dem-controlled House to The President could include 4% - 4.5% FIXED mortgages to help out homeowners. Maybe we'll buy a new house regardless!

Governor Schwarzenegger on the economy

2009-01-27T19:00:00.001-08:00

Recently, as many as 70,ooo (!) workers were laid off from work in one day. Tonight on cable True Lies is playing, which features one of my favorite action movie lines: "You're fired." Spoken just before the Gov. literally fires the terrorist strapt to a missile into a terrorist helicopter. He speaks, and the thing occurs. Good luck with that budget, Governor!

Where the guy goes "Heh lalalala!"

2009-01-26T19:13:00.000-08:00

Looks like I've been doing this wrong:

Inauguration Day 2009

2009-01-20T16:43:00.000-08:00

Big day--much excitement all over the world for our 44th President. Perhaps more exciting is the fact that UPS delivered my newest free Twitter book, This Year You Write Your Novel by Walter Mosely. You may know Mosely from the Black Raymond Chandler novels he's written (The Black Sleep, The Blacktese Falcon, oh forgive me--one more: Casablacka). A slim volume promising to tell me all I need to write my novel, which, btw, isn't that difficult, is just the thing this non-writing writer needs! THIS IS THE YEAR! Mutant Croc Wars! (or) Nazi War Novel! (or) Whatever The ^%$! Here I come!

Oh and the First Black President of the United States of America took the oath of office, a few minutes after actually BECOMING president at noon, before hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of fellow humans beings. There is only one race, only one U.S.A., and this writer is only one immensely proud Citizen. That I did not vote for the man diminishes my pleasure not one whit--I'm a Philadelphia Sports team fan and used to my team not winning.

My GOP has veered off-course, making Rocco's Presidency possible. W. put Rocco in office far more surely than all those 69 million voters, just as Bubba weakened Gore's candidacy so much that his Blandness totally punted and lost, yes lost in 2000. Forget Florida--Gore should have taken the country in a landslide. And President Obama's speech made mention of words like "science" which have unfortunately been less than fully stressed over the past eight years.

Sunday, Sunday, Sunday!

2009-01-18T10:57:00.000-08:00

Hello, dear internet skimmers.

I am typing to you from my couch, thanks to the wireless keyboard K. got me for Christmas. After magnifying the screen display approximately one million percent the type on the screen is actually readable from here and so here we are.

Max is chilling out next to me in his high chair, enjoying some 90% water/10% prune juice from his sweet Avent (made in England ooohoo) bottle. OK now he is chewing the bottom of the bottle, but he has the bottle in his chubby little fingers. He's laughing and looking at me since I'm telling him that I am writing about him so little else could be better in the world. If Kate were home, that'd be best of all. But she is a couple of miles North of here at Chocoworld, dishing the yum factor twelve snacky foods to generally rude or out-of-touch shoppers; at a certain level local ^$$^%bags who step out of their Land Rover with spoilt chilluns in tow are nearly the same as ^^$@$#bag tourists who slough off a tour bus expecting to be entertained by the Natives like it was a ^%%@#ing 19th century Colonial tour.

So, I guess this blog will be about nothing because Maxwell is crossing the line into fidgit, -y. Take note that the Eagles-Cardinals game is in about an hour and we'll both be listening to it on ESPN radio, and sneaking looks at the Fox telecast at the right moment.

OK, peace to all, everything is going to be fine once Obama takes the Oath Tuesday morning. I kid, but that is going to be VERY exciting, no joke. This historic moment brought to you care of my man W., whose two terms in office paved the way for the type of apparently radical change Rocco represents. I write "apparently" because of the shadow Clinton Cabinet forming in Rocco's new Administration, his political opacity as of this point in history, and just because that is how I blog roll.

Max says "Ha ha". Sweet. Validation. PEACE OUT!

Happy Birthday, Reverend

2009-01-15T19:15:00.000-08:00

Click on http://www.bartleby.com/73/922.html

to read "Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart." --Martin Luther King, Jr., on joy.

As addictive and inwardly-projecting/self-fulfilling web activity can be, the pureness of love exists outside of HTML and words' power to represent it! Peace, love and justice to all!

!!!Extreme Action Alert!!!

2009-01-12T19:23:00.000-08:00

Enclosed is a hilarious clip from someone whom for legal reasons I'll refer to as "Shlim Fleazel" in the flick "Blabalong Lady". Check out how the action is not only exciting, but includes an Xtreme AXion stunt as necessary for survival. Who's prepared for anything who can't do a snowmobile flip-under-missile then shootey the bad robotsey?

Notandum, Too

Uncle George is on Google+!

Hey now

Kim Jung Eun strikes Saddam Hussein pose

Steppin' to the A.M.

Spinoza on Google AdWords!

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The Wolf Puncher

Toad lilly

Digital books

Five percent

Paid Vacation

Heat

All-Star Game

Awful G.O.P. presidential candidates.

So, is this thing on?

Test Droid post

Free being for myself

Tee-rash

Spring is Here!

A comment I made on the New York Times Online

Bathroom size vs. house size

Culture Wars, for real this time

Brad Lidge

Collecting vs. OCD

Stay on target...: "Do I dazzle you?"

On Michael Vick

Let's just say it moved me--TO A NEW HOUSE

I love candy

Por me ahora

Famous people talk to me

The News

Happy Mother's Day to all Mothers! Love & Hugs!

How one spells Success

G___D____ Google Adsense

Broadcasting news, sad

Housing developments

Old paperbook care-a waste of time?

"What's all this? It looks like Darth Vader's bathroom."

LIVE FANTASY DRAFT SUNDAY 3/22/09

work-in-progress two

The Freemans & Mayor Kiss

In which I review a movie I haven't seen based on a graphic novel I haven't read

Is my profile pic really anamorphically distorted?

Condo for sale!

The Fickleness of Freeman

Happy Valentine's Day indeed

I love egg rolls!

Governor Schwarzenegger on the economy

Where the guy goes "Heh lalalala!"

Inauguration Day 2009

Sunday, Sunday, Sunday!

Happy Birthday, Reverend

!!!Extreme Action Alert!!!

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