Andre had to send me an email telling me I called Senator Biden a Congressman, and renamed him George. (He obviously doesn’t understand creative writing.) Seriously that is pretty sad, but I do tend to write everything at three in the morning and was probably writing three or four things at once. Of course that is not excuse it’s just a symptom of something. Maybe I need to stop writing completely for a time. Dre is from My Blog Log.
Now I know that you can get overwhelmed with spam there if you are not careful and when I originally signed up I never went back. I am finding it useful however and am figuring out how to use it to find like minds. The reason I actually started using it is because Pro Blogger dude said to “work your blog log” — whatever that means — and the only reason I read ProBlogger now is that I found out that he was Australian. You know how that goes. All my non biological relatives are Australian. 
Is that like six degrees of separation.….…. naw
I should maybe just post a bunch of silly anecdotes for a few weeks, until I get out of here.
Politics is a rehash nothing new or exciting, no one really talking about getting out of Iraq …maybe some day. Everyone laughing at Gonzales’s failed memory.
Admittedly videos of him repeating “I can’t remember” or “I don’t recall” a hundred times are funny for a second or two but it should really be causing a much larger outrage than it has.
More outrage less comedy.
We are a funny people, we who use humor in place of action.
Did we really need to hear Alec Baldwin call his daughter a pig? I’m not a psychologist, and although I’m sure there are a lot of people out there yapping on about how this is going to hurt her self esteem, and it did sounded pretty awful, who in their right mind would release that to the media? I don’t really care what he says to his daughter.
Thank God McClatchy Newspapers reported that the death rate for American troops over the past six months was at its all-time high for this war.
I have been in and out on this beautiful day. I planted a flower and I purchased some flowers.
Briefly took a nap between ins and outs – fell asleep to a man discovering how to live with wolves and woke to a man leaning how to live with monkeys. This is all well and good but what about a show on man learning to live with man?
That’s a hard one.
I’m know I’m getting old when I read things like A Look at Chicks that Suck, at one of the most popular sites on the web for fourteen to twenty-one year old males, and though still think “this is what you are raising your sons to be America read it an weep” I don’t get angry anymore. I just think “poor thing he can’t get a date”.
Frank Rich’s op-ed –Times Select Iraq Is the Ultimate Aphrodisiac a good read so if you can take a look see.
Social Networks are the new porn. I read this and thought “god I hope so”. I’d much rather have eleven year old boys addicted to some real eleven year old girls online at least that way they may, and it is only wishful thinking, be able to figure out what real girls are before they immerse themselves in a degrading unreal world. It’s hard to distinguish what is real and what is not if you happen upon what is not real first. So social network yourself into oblivion kiddies.
Funny things said to me this weekend.
“When you go out into the working world that belly button bar may have to go.”
My thought is:
Why is that? Do people in the “working world” walk around with their shirts and jackets pulled up and tied around their heads?
Please replace at least one light bulb; it is really not that difficult.
I should have picked up on that but haven’t been around for a few days.
You can take a chill for a few weeks until you get out of there.
This was fun. Well done old chum.
I always liked knight ridder network, some of the best coverage on Iraq out there.
As for “Sadly No”, you said it.
My second thought is, people are always fascinated by that bb bar, fascinated or have something to say about it. I wonder why that is?
Kurt Vonnegut approved of humor in place of outrage. You would be surprised how many people go through the working world with their shirts over their heads. Funny line, though,
John: What good are you I say?
Doug: Well he’s dead. ;0
There are just some things we can’t laugh our way out of.
I can only aspire to work somewhere where it is so .
Admit it, it is funny to see how stupid he really is.
I didn’t get all that Baldwin stuff anyway.
I’ve never read that site, maybe I have I forget.
I think sometimes people do walk around with their shirts pulled up, at least I’ve heard rumors.
Life is one big faculty meeting. Two minutes spent on critical matters like the collapse of the curriculum, five hours spent wrangling over parking. Or talking about American Idol.
That bit about people walking around with shirts pulled up over their heads? Sounds like a rumor that Scott Adams started …
I read that monkeys will pay to see pictures of the butts of high-ranking females. So much for intelligent design. Maybe evolution too. We are such a superior species …
Belly button bar? Say what? Guess I really don’t get out much. Maybe you can send me a picture.
I’m so out of it I missed Alec Baldwin calling his daughter a pig
Good point about Kurt Vonnegut being dead. But I think humor is used in addition to outrage or when you’re actually powerless in a situation and it’s your only way to vent
Also then people begin to call you earnest and other things, and write posts about how you lack a sense of humor in addition to being a ding bat or whatever. Oh right this isn’t about me
I still don’t get blogalog
if you stop writing for awhile I will miss you
Every time somebody, not me, links to Frank Rich I feel a bit too happy
Cooper, try the World Bank.
I’m trying to think of what we can outrage our way out of.
I like humor but get your point.
It may be that you just have to stop caring about anything except yourself for a couple of weeks.
The Baldwin thing is ridiculous, the Gonzales situation bad for most of us and sadly humorous at the same time.
If that’s what fourteen twenty-year olds are writing you are right, we have a problem.
All pictures of belly button bars are appreciated and I can tell you for a fact — some people do walk around the workplace with their shirts and jackets pulled up to their neck.
I love those Discovery/Scientific America Shows. Good question though.
My working will will be comprised only of people walking around with their shirts pulled up around their necks. I wouldn’t have it any other way.
You’re right on, he can’t get a date. The miserable always try to make others feel bad, it’s more about their misery then anything else.
I’m not graduating till next December and I can’t find time this time of year. I think you could easily get away with posting crap for a couple of weeks.
Or pictures of you belly button bar.
Exactly on the Baldwin thing… does it serve the little girl to have that released? No. I don’t care how big a prick AB is, or KimB is. My interest is in fairness and privacy for a little girl.
Dannielynn, or Ireland, or Suri, or whoever.
As for repeating “I don’t recall”, Alberto has a long list of politicos to fall back on: Clinton, Reagan, Ollie North, Clarence Thomas.… “I don’t recall/remember/recollect” is the new “it” response to every question that needs answering.
I could show my belly button bar at work — I just choose not to.
I loafed around there today too.
I just can’t keep up with all the politics or the bad things happening to us so I ignore it. I know it’s sad but it keeps me sane.
I’m all for showing belly button bars at work too, but only when asked.
You so know he can’t get a date.
casey: I admitted it was funny for a couple of seconds.
OC: “Life is one big faculty meeting.“
Always making me think.
I think monkeys will pay to see the butts of almost any female. .…
I had one here once, way before you time. I guess it’s time to take some belly photos.
pia: Yeah, I don’t think humor is all that em powering though there should be another way.
I really liked Rich’s column yesterday.
Doug: Maybe the proper term was action provoked my outrage. They can only hope we keep laughing and ignore the true implications.
jacob: you just keep your eye on you son.
The more I read the more the regular old workplace sounds like fun.
G: well if you are planning on surfing and painting on the side of the ocean that makes sense G.
Dan: You show me yours and I’ll.….…..
kait: fat chance, poor thing.
OK, what is a belly button bar and how do I stop my 14 year old from obtaining one? She’s dangerous enough as it is.
You ended with the belly button bar and I lost my train of thought.
I wish everyone would concentrate more on what is going on in Iraq.
I say any workplace that doesn’t allow belly button bars is not a place you should work at, Miss Cooper. Damn the Man!
Keeping her shirt pulled over her head is probably how anna nicole ended up with two concurrent loser boyfriends. Nice tats, but she got what she attracted.
As for Alberto Gonzales, that little pip pisses me off to the point I created an entirely new blogsite (http://firealbertogonzales.wordpress.com) solely to express my distain for him. Too bad I’ve not got nearly enough time to do it properly. I haven’t even had the time to find a transcript of his testimony. I really want to make fun of that dunce. Him and his own brand of Monica. Monica Goodling, that is.
meow!
Danny: Word on the street is that most fourteen year olds are dangerous.
I think most places require parental permission in order to pierce a belly button. At least I imagine so.
joe: I know, it’s easier to post leaked phone conversations and probably get them higher ratings.
MoJo: one would think.
sauerkraut: I have greater disdain for the administration which appointed and now defends him.
I’m sorry, I’ve not been with it lately — too busy building robots. I missed this one earlier.
Come to Southern California in a couple of months, we’ll have a regular old pow wow.
I’ll plant something.
These last two post were good for me. Made me laugh.
I don’t want too think too much the last few weeks here.
I particularly liked this turn of phrase: “..fell asleep to a man discovering how to live with wolves and woke to a man leaning how to live with monkeys. This is all well and good but what about a show on man learning to live with man?”
And the sentiment even more…