Say, who was that VP candidate anywayz?

Well, gees.  I am not the artiest guy around, nor do I claim to be.

And.... I am not much of a poet....though at random moments, I try to be.

With that in mind.... I offer, with no apologies, an ode to Sarah Palin... the best goddam ex-VP candidate who ever quit public office..... cause it was "gosh too much work."


I call it "an ode to an Ex-Governor"

There once was a young lass from Poughkeepsie
Who sang and danced and drank like a Gypsy
The words she sang were perverse
The steps never would she rehearse
And always she said, “Sailor do you miss me?”

But one moonlit night in Duluth
She imbibed copious amounts of Vermouth
“I miss the olives and gin
To complete my sin”
And all agreed she spoke the truth.

See, she had screwed her way from here to Manila
Every sailor, every ship in all the flotilla
“But my honor is noble and intact
though I make a honest  living on my back
unlike that dumb whore from Wasilla”

Might have been the weather, or something I ate....but...

...but I got the blues. The Bluest Blues.... the rocks in my shoes and holes in my socks blues.  I feel like my dog just died, and I ain't got a dog.  If I had a canary, it wouldn't sing...which is no never mind cause I couldn't afford to feed it anyways.

Now, mostly I could say it was the weather.  The weather has been flat out nasty.  Unchangingly.  If it hasn't been snow, it's been cold.  If it was cold, it was raining.  And then it was cold, snowing, raining, sleeting,  only good thing about the weather is it kept the birdw perched in the trees, otherwise I am sure I would have bird shit on my should as well as the whole weight of everything else.
Now there just isn't any getting into what is really bothering me, that would be boring as well as redundant.  I hate redundancy.  I really hate redundancy.  Redundancy is just the same old shit over and over and over and over.

But.... I have a cure.  Or at least a temporary antidote.  I call Boy Wonder.  Or, as most call him, Max.

Now the thing is, these days, is you never know where he is.  Nominally, I could say he is in Austin, TX, but he really hasn't been there since he has been there.
See, he was in Los Angeles and before that, Portland...but he wasn't finding the work he wanted to do...which is sound editing, which just didn't happen.  So he got a call from some buddies that have found film/video production work in Texas....and off he went.  And as soon as he got there.... off he went.  First it was to El Paso...and I got a nice text message and a phone call.  Then a quick note....New Orleans.  Seems he has hooked up with a TV crew that is filming some kind of reality TV show and they travel across the US ...well filming.  And I get these notes.  "found this great bar in Salinas" " Just got into Oakland, flying back to Texas tomorrow" " Had some good BBQ outside of Memphis"  And Chattanoga. Daytona, Atlanta. Richmond.  Orlando.  Yesterday he was flying into Iowa.  "Where?" I said.  " Not sure, lemmee go look at the ticket."  Now I do not know all the incidentals about this gig, other than what he will tell me and he said he can't tell me much cause he signed a confidentiality thingee, but it will air on A&E in October and he is getting paid.  I guess that works.  plus...the photo's he sends from time to time are funny.

Now, there is nothing like a phone call from the Kid to chase the blues away.  He always has been amusing.....

When he was in college he help produce a 'college sit-com' on the U's tv channel.  They called it, "Casual Socks". Now as TV show's go, it will never be classic and it won no
Emmy's, but it was amusing.  I even got to be an 'Extra' in some shots.  One thing they did on the show, though, that I thought was really funny was the 'Where's Waldo" blanket.  During production he had gone to his mother's house and resurrected his childhood bed blanket.  Every week it would show up in a scene on the show.  It would be on a chair, or someone would be sitting next to it.  I remember on scene where a character was getting a beer from the Fridge and there it was, right next to the Miller Lite.  Like I said....it was a college show.  But I would watch it on the local cable channel pretty religiously just to see if I could find the Waldo blanket.

Ya know, if I recall correctly, Max never was very good at finding Waldo when we would look for him in those books.  He always seemed to get distracted by all the other things in the pictures.  It could amuse him for hours.  I think he still has that blanket stashed somewhere.

Ain't no never mind, see, it is what it is..... but these days, when the blues hit me.... I just have to close my eyes and think of Where's Bubba.

I taught him well.  I am sure  he is still finiding a good cold beer  at the end of the day....wherever he is.

Cold Dead Hand...... hat tip to bloggy buddy Libs!

There is a very funny skit by Jim Carrey out on the net called Cold Dead Hand that clearly expresses his point of view about gun violence.  I guess it has, ah, upset some folkx on Fox.... and elsewhere.  Well, too bad.  I am not especially a big fan of Jim's, but this is down right brilliant.  Please follow the above link.  

WISCO dipshit Senator votes against background checks.....

hhhhhmmmmmmmmm........ it has been a tough week to breathe.   First they try to blow up Boston, whoever they are, and then 48 dipshits decide that killing anyone you want with any weapon you want would curtail 'American's Rights'.

Course, one of those dipshits was the esteemed Senator from Wisconsin, Ron-Fuck-Johnson.

I would call for background checks for Senators..... but that would be construed by Johnson as an attempt to arm bears....and only bears can prevent forest fires.  Or some such shit.  Back when he was merely running for Senator, the esteemed asshole spoke up in denial of weather.
"The science of global warming is unproven," he said. "It just is," Johnson told The Associated Press. "I'm not even sure if, if it were a fact, whether we could do anything about it anyway," Johnson said.

ANow Johnson is not a man to be taken lightly....to paraphrase Dorothy Parker, he should be taken away with great force.   This week, in response to the allegations that he doesn't get along with his staff... he said: 

"The only true part of the story is they called me impatient," Johnson said. "I'm impatient because we're bankrupting this nation and the political class in Washington is not owning up to that fact."

Yupperz... Ron is just really busy bankrupting the country.   What is more hilarious is that Johnson is running a video project called 'Victims of Government' which is kind of funny.... saying that 'government with it's rules and regs is victimizing citizens........ but gees, those Sandy Hook kids were just in the way of someone exercising their 2nd amendment rights.  Read THE CHIEF  

I guess some victims are more worthy than others.
 

Short Monday Movie

No one wants to take away guns....

I often feel the same way

 

“I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.” ~ Ignatius J. Reilly