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Top Three Things That Annoyed Me Today, In No Particular Order And For No Particular Reason

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:07:00 -0600

I - Come on, seat Roland Burris already, it is after all going to happen anyway and probably rightly so but I'm sick of listening to him politically masturbating his own ego proclaiming himself the Illinois junior senator, his wet dream job apparently. II - Really? After ten years of your kid gone missing you decide maybe the time is right now that you might call that in to the authorities, since that eleven-year-old boy disappeared missing person is now of age at twenty-one the time is right to worry finally? III - Condi Rice totally gung-ho now behind the ceasing of fire thing betwixt Israel and Palestine over that whole mess of the Mideast tussle, a plan offered up by France and Egypt by the way, who really cared enough to actually step up to the plate and put out some sort of maybe option for consideration.

Bots Bitch Post

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:19:00 -0600

Things that pissed me off today, belated from yesterday. I'm slow to anger sometimes, but it eventually kicks in sooner or later.

Israel v. Palestine, Whodathunkit?

Fri, 02 Jan 2009 23:45:00 -0600

There will be no peace while Hamas controls Gaza. Holy shit, that I learned from some editorial headline I read today. Yeah, stupid me for not remembering how peaceful that neck of the woods before Hamas was handed over the reigns. Democracy in action which, again proving my lunkhead self, I thought was a good thing we were trying to spread around.

Obama's Plate Not Already Full Enough

Mon, 29 Dec 2008 23:13:00 -0600

It's open season again betwixt Israelis and Palestinians, just a matter of time it was bound to happen. No new tale to tell there, never will there be. Just one more heated up side dish on Obama's already full plate of less-than-savory leftovers to nosh on come next month, I'd reckon he should come to the table with a hearty appetite. Best of luck.

I Hate Walmart, So I Love This Story

Thu, 25 Dec 2008 23:08:00 -0600

I detest Walmart anyway, utterly reprehensible in my opinion for so many considerations. That's why I find such delight in stories such as this, one more item on my list of whys and wherefores my boycotting. From some Walmart Supercenter in Connecticut, a local guy there bought a buttload of $1300 worth of gift cards to pass out arbitrarily to the store's Christmas shoppers as they came in, his way of putting into practice random acts of kindness. Cool idea, until he was ordered by management to stop doing that. Scary the concept of wanton holiday gifting apparently.

Wrong of Me I Know, My Cynicism Showing

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 23:22:00 -0600

Britain’s Court of Appeal overturned a lower court's ruling already having decided that a certain guy, Stephen English, was not entitled to file a homophobic harassment charge against his former employer because he is in fact married, ipso facto totally straight. Now he's good to go on legally pleading his beef, so to speak.

Baby, It's Cold Inside

Sat, 20 Dec 2008 22:19:00 -0600

Right now it's about 4 degrees here, windy and the feel-like temp down already to minus 15, and it's only just after 10pm. Predicted to dip to around zero or below later on with wind chills down in the negative 25 degree ballpark. Colder still tomorrow, and I have no heat. Stay warm, and no bitching if you too are suffering through this arctic blast taking over nearly everywhere it seems. It may be cold, but I'd bet dollars to donuts that you can't carve out your name in ice on any window from the inside at your house. So just bundle up, try to enjoy yourselves, and hope you all have a great weekend, and be glad you're not me! Blog video here, Cry of Love - Too Cold In The Winter, so very true.

No Rick Warren, But Not For Why You Think

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 23:32:00 -0600

Here's my point, and a novel concept that just occurred to me. I just came up with this after all my own waffling back and forth on anti-gay preacher Rick Warren being invited by Obama to deliver the inaugural invocation. I think it just might be a common sense solution quashing the noise from both sides of this issue (which I've admittedly in this episode flipped and flopped about) ... hang on and bear with me, but what about separating Church from State? I know! Radical me, but that's how my mind rolls. Me and my far-out ideas!

Enough Guilt To Go Around

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 04:14:00 -0600

Local story, but pissed me off. Badged county mounties on the scene along with the ambulance guys there standing around and letting a boy bleed to death while doing nothing at all whatsoever concluding that he wasn't worth the troubling over apparently. Decided his condition was not worth even assessing to bother trying to staunch whatever hemorrhaging and to get his conditon maybe under control after being run over by a drunk driver. Cop cam caught them even laughing and one saying, "They're like roaches man, they don't die." While no one even bothered to help the boy bleeding out, wondering aloud instead what was taking him so long to kick the bucket. He only an innocent victim out for a bike ride to an unfortunate end.

"Seal up your lips, and give no words but mum." - Shakespeare

Sat, 13 Dec 2008 23:31:00 -0600

I have become way too wordy lately, I realize that. So here's the deal, I've conducted a personal intervention with me, myself and I, and we have decided on shutting up completely for the time being, quitting everything cold turkey. I'm done I think with both the blogging and the podcasting thing for now, I've spiralled way out of control. My opinions don't account for anything much at the end of the day anyway, I understand that.

Dedication to Myself and Certain Others

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:37:00 -0600

That was then, this is now, tomorrow may never come, blah blah blah, and like the song says best to simply live, laugh, love just for today. God, I'm getting sappy. I'll be bitchy again tomorrow to make up for all this, I promise. I do have a reputation to uphold after all. Check out the video here anyway, for myself and certain others.

Gay Hooky Day

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 23:40:00 -0600

Sorry to disappoint my fellow homos, some of which will no doubt be on board with this "call in gay day" thing, but I think it's a stupid ass idea achieving nothing. The most that perhaps might be expected is possibly a next day of well-rested less bitchy than usual ten percent workforce. Comments? Leave them here.

Incredible Chile Dog

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:36:00 -0600

A surveillance video from some highway in Santiago, Chile, shows what is apparently a not uncommon plight on that city's roadways with an overpopulation of stray dogs getting regularly run over. Sad, because I'm a big time dog person. What makes the video well worth watching, though, is seeing then a canine buddy putting his own life at risk in a final attempt at rescuing a pal, dodging traffic himself and then dragging his amigo across the way off to the side of the road.

Dog Paddling in a Sea of Glaring Inanity

Sat, 06 Dec 2008 23:27:00 -0600

I'm no economist, and I've tried to make sense of all of these things going on lately with the bailouts and the Big Three front and center now, so I have listened up to both sides of the arguments from either one slant or the other. Basically though, and I will admit to perhaps being totally wrong and even ignorant, but it seems to me the bottom line is that on we-the-people's dime, greed and failure are being rewarded while ourselves continue spiralling downward.

Just Shut Up Already

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:41:00 -0600

Miley Cyrus, Jonas Brothers, John Legend, will.i.am, Beyonce, Pussycat Dolls, Taylor Swift, Rihanna, T.I., Rascal Flatts, Lady GaGa, Alicia Keys. They all annoy me. Finally my aunt and my grandmother, shut up. Really, I think they should both maybe pay a bit more attention to their own business, but neither having much of any probably lends itself to nosing into mine. Blog VIDEO: None of Your Business.

See You In Hell

Sat, 29 Nov 2008 23:22:00 -0600

This most reverend Roman Catholic asshole priest guy in California, Joseph Illo, has highly recommended to his culpable parishioners that they most likely should pay a visit to the confessional for their souls' sakes if they happened to have voted for Barack Obama.

Jackpot, Girls, Big Boner and Family - Happy Thanksgiving!

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 23:26:00 -0600

What I'm thankful for this Thanksgiving Day 2008 ...

Journaling, The Good The Bad The Ugly

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:27:00 -0600

I have just spent the last couple of hours browsing through random pages and various entries out of the many hundreds from the journals I kept between 1976 and 1981, and all I have to say about that is ... "Sweet Fancy Moses!"

Book 'em, Danno!

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 23:45:00 -0600

Police arrests of students in Hartford, Connecticut schools are on the upswing, particularly the kids of the colored varieties. Blacks, Hispanics ... mostly anyone not one of the white sort basically.

Splinters in Others' Eyes, Beam Maybe in my Own

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:39:00 -0600

A college student, Abraham Biggs, committed suicide last Wednesday by taking a drug overdose in front of his live webcam while some of his viewers were cheering him on. The police didn't come until 12 hours later, people still watching and doing nothing. Pathetic. But would I have done anything?

A Night to Remember

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:44:00 -0600

This is me passed out at nineteen years of age back in 1982, poolstick still in hand, awaiting my next shot. I appear dead. Things I remember about that particular night.

Birthday Surprises

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:29:00 -0600

Okay, so back to my birthday, I expected nothing yesterday. Not that I enjoy the birthdays anymore, particularly at my age, and I usually don't wish for any sort of acknowledgement. People know that. But late last night I did sign online to catch up on stuff and my inbox made my day. Kind of happy birthday after all.

The Apocalypse and Dead Babies

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:34:00 -0600

His Eminence James Francis Cardinal Stafford, some typical archetypal pointy hatted really old Catholic dude in a dress, last Thursday commented that by electing Barack Obama as our next president, America has "suffered a cultural earthquake."

Wayward Son

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 23:36:00 -0600

I heard this song played today for the first time in a coon's age. Always a special one on my reminiscing playlist, it's what happened to be playing on the radio when I smoked my first ever joint. Tomorrow my birthday, probably the reason for such flashbacks. A new day maybe, but I'll no doubt still be the same wayward mess as I am today, only just older.

Prop 8 Blurb

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:14:00 -0600

I always have an opinion. It's just that on some issues I have so many thoughts rattling around in my head all at the same time that I'm unable to coherently spew. Such it is with the Cali Prop 8 thing. Now what about the lucky few who managed in that brief time of it being okay?

Not So Proud

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 03:34:00 -0600

This kind of crap makes me embarrassed to be human, embarrassed to be an American, and mostly just embarrassed to be white.

Kerry Magaña and the Higher Powers

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 20:52:00 -0600

This past July, I recall watching about this story on the local news. It kind of pissed me off then, the red tape and bureaucracy for this family to have to deal with. There's a video here on my blog of the local news coverage from last July with Kerry. She died today, by the way.

Hump Day Every Day

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:32:00 -0600

It's Wednesday, hump day so it's all downhill from here on out. But just wait until next week, an entire week of humping in the Lone Star state! People will be walking funny probably by Friday.

Unedited Anti-War Rant

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:00:00 -0600

Maybe I just don't understand collateral damage so much. But rather than destroying a country and every regional commoner on constant alert to maybe be smattered at any moment, I just think there should be a better way.

Feeling Good This Time Around

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 01:56:00 -0600

After my Election Day political orgasm I'll confess that right after, almost like a whack to the head, I started then wondering despite my Obama mania, how things might possibly play out looking forward. Lots of messes to deal with, after all.