Basketball.....

I trully intended to watch WI vs Il on the tube today. Really. I was. But the damn weather is sooooooo nice.... and there are real, like, genuine puddles to splash in. Now how can BB on da tube compete with fresh puddles? Nope. I mean....

a puddle a day keeps my ex-wife away.
A puddle in time saves nine.
Don't count your puddles before they are hatched.
A fool and his puddle is soon parted.
Make puddles, not war.
Four score and seven puddles ago



.... Boy& howdy I could go on, and in most circumstances, I would. But I have to go do Laundry.

Wowsers!

Boy&Howdy.... This unemployment stuff is the Nutz! I think I need to post my resume here. It could be fun. Right now I am concentrating on jobs that are a five minute walk from my house and less that ten minutes from Oblio's. I may need to expand.

HA!

I have been economized. My last day of work was Wednesday past. I really don't like being out of w

ork, but there are worst things,,,,,,, like being dead. I don't do dead well.

But all in all.... it's not a bad thing. It was getting very tense at the old place. There was a prevailing mode of doing business.... "We've always done things like this and we will continue to do it like this".... that just wasn't working. So instead of changing the paradigm.... they have thrown folks under the bus. HO.... you should see the tread marks up my back!

So.... for only the second time in 32 years I am reinventing myself. ( ...and I can't wait to see what I come up with this time.!!!)

But the blogging will be more irregular.... the commenting will be sporadic..... I haven' t gone away.... and I was never all that regular anyways. Perhaps I will get back to really trying to write something as opposed to just 'whipping' something up.

Anyways.... I think there is a gee mail account listed somewheres and I will welcome notes.....

.... Youse guys are the best.

jimm

Aw, Soup

On Febrewery 22, 1987 Andy Warhol died during gall bladder surgery. It must have been the soup.

Sweet Tea and Old Habits

Sixty-five years ago this week 1,300 heavy bombers of the British Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Force dropped more that 3,900 tons of heavy explosive bombs and incendiary devices on Dresden, , the Baroque capital of the German state of Saxony. The resulting firestorm destroyed 15 sq mi of the city centre and killed between 50,000 and 150,00 civilians. Bombing cities was popular in WWII. The Germans did it, the Japanese did it, the Allies did it...... nominally it was all to destroy 'military targets'..... like old men, women and children. Some of the cities destroyed or partially destroyed during the war are well known, like Coventry, London, Hamburg, Tokyo and Dresden. There were others.

Aomori · Augsburg · Baedeker Raids · Bahrain · Barrow-in-Furness · Belfast · Belgrade · Berlin · Birmingham · Braunschweig · Bremen · Breslau · Brighton · Bristol · Bucharest · Budapest · Caen · Calcutta · Cardiff · Chemnitz · Chişinău · Chongqing · Clydebank · Cologne · Coventry · Danzig · Darmstadt · Darwin · Dresden · Dublin · Duisburg · Düsseldorf · Essen · Frampol · Frankfurt · Frascati · Fukui · Fukuoka · Fukuyama · Gelsenkirchen · Gibraltar · Gifu · Greenock · Guangzhou · Haifa · Hamamatsu · Hamburg · Hamm · Hanau · Heilbronn · Helsinki · Hildesheim · Hiratsuka · Hiroshima · Hull · Innsbruck · Kaiserslautern · Kassel · Kobe · Königsberg · Kure · Liverpool · London · Lübeck · Mainz · Malta · Manchester · Manila · Mannheim · Minsk · Mito · Munich · Nagaoka · Nagasaki · Nagoya · Naha · Nanjing · Naples · Narva · Nottingham · Numazu · Nuremberg · Omuta · Osaka · Pforzheim · Ploiesti · Plymouth · Podgorica · Prague · Rabaul · Remscheid · Rome · Rothenburg ob der Tauber · Rotterdam · Saarbrücken · Salzburg · Schaffhausen · Schwäbisch Hall · Schweinfurt · Sendai · Shanghai · Sheffield · Shizuoka · Sofia · Southampton · Stalingrad · Stettin · Stuttgart · Swansea · Taipei · Tallinn · Tel Aviv · Thessaloníki · Tokyo · Toyama · Treviso · Tsu · Ujiyamada · Ulm · Vienna · Warsaw · Wesel · Wieluń · Wuppertal · Würzburg · Yokohama · Zadar · Zagreb

Which just goes to show that blowing things up is a very popular thing. Lately, or not so lately if you are a purist, America blew up stuff in Iraq.

Now I am sure that the only things bombed were military targets.... Military old men, military women and no doubt some military children.

"We should invade their countries, kill their leaders, and convert them to Christianity." Ann Coulter

I mentioned the civilian casualties to a guy in the car pool the other day... how deplorable it was. His reply was

"if they were that stupid as to live next to a military target...it's their own fault"

"You know, we all have our inner demons. I, for one – I can't speak for you, but I'm on the verge of moral collapse at any time. It can happen by the end of the show."

–"The Glenn Beck Program"

I am kinda worried about the tea-baggers.

An acquaintence of mine was very dismissive of them; that they were merely scared, confused, and upset people and the whole movement should dissolve in the near future.

"The only way to reduce the number of nuclear weapons is to use them." Rush Limbaugh

Klingers birthday !

ooops.... wrong Klinger !

Max Klinger, 1857.

just a thought

Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness.

And they live by what they hear.

Such people become crazy... or they become legend.

Jim Harrison