Skip to main content

Inane Inanities

1. Google "existing in bfe" and you'll go to this site. How neat is that?

2. Recent quote I read from some T. Bogg "“When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag, carrying a cross, sitting in a lawn chair and eating a KFC Double Down.” No politics here, but just a call to all of us to fact-check our information and study the candidates.

3. Check out Shorpy's Photographic Archive blog (http://www.shorpy.com/) and you will be blown away by the pictures, some of which are 100 years old or more. Sometimes they are from the 70's but all are extremely fascinating.





Old picture (1947) of Washington DC street back when burning leaves was a ritual of Fall.




Beach scene c 1900






Neat picture taken in the '40's of a snowy Minnesota town.

What is striking is that most are crystal clear and crisp. To see photographs that are sharp from the 1800's is a wonder. They say that the glass negative process created the clarity. They certainly didn't have pixels back then so it is a worthwhile place to visit if you are surfing the web.

4. The brown tree snake has been so invasive in Guam the US government is going to bomb them with frozen mice.


http://news.mongabay.com/2010/0928-hance_micebombs.html


5. George Lucas beats dead horses. And he has been doing it for decades. Lucas you undoubtedly know created Star Wars back in 1977 and has been riding, and beating that horse ever since. He made 6 movies in the series and since then has been whoring his product as Collector's Editions, Director's Editions, Anniversary Editions, cartoons, and now converting them to 3-D.



Like a hack busily and enthusiastically working on Friday the 13th XXVI, Lucas recycles his lone creative epiphany endlessly hoping a new generation will fork over their recession dollars on an idea that has been blase since 1987.


Harper Lee wrote "To Kill A Mockingbird" then retired from writing. Her lone idea was good enough and it still stands as a classic. Imagine if Lucas had written it. We'd have TKAM 7: Boo Has a Yard Sale. Or TKAM 8 3-D: Atticus is Abducted By Jar Jar Binks.


Admittedly I am no Star Wars fan. I saw the first one and haven't seen any since. I was expecting cutting edge sci-fi, and what I got was OK Corral with hovercraft and annoying dildo-shaped robots. So I am the only one in the universe who didn't like it (or get it), but still, why not put that poor nag down and put us out of our misery.

6. I have finished watching 4 seasons of Dexter. It was astonishingly great.

7. The Post Office has been denied its 2 cent increase. Finally someone recognizes the PO is obsolete as presently constructed and it must change its business model. It lost $3.8 billion last year. Talk about TARP and the bailout! We have been bailing this 19th century relic out for decades.

8. Reported earlier, the panhandling bums have been removed from the street corners of St. Pete and many believed they had gone to Tampa to beg. However, in the catagory of unintended consequences, they actually stayed here and are walking the parking lots of Wal-Mart, and Target. When you get out of your car and before you enter the building they will approach you for money.

9. The Crazies is a good movie for people who like that kind of thing. HBO's Temple Grandin is an excellent story of a brilliant autistic lady whose affliction was misunderstood in the '50s. Both made for a satisfying weekend of movie viewing.


10. Poor stupid endless talking from football analysts bother me. This exchange between Al Michaels and Cris Collinwood on Thursday's opening Saints - Vikings game.

CC: "Last year after Meachum broke his femur he was writhing on the field wondering if he would ever play again."

Some bantering about the same incident and rehab, then this:

AM: "Meachum never doubted he would play again."

Poor stupid announcers can't even stand listening to each other. What are the rest of us to do?

11. There’s a park in Kentucky called Big Bone Lick State Park.

12.

Finally, it was voting day yesterday down here and in order to get to my voting place I had to walk a gauntlet of sign and people. If you look closely, on either side of the ladder there were two gentlemen. One to vote for him as school board member and a guy telling me to vote Democrat. Never seen anything like it.



As I went home there was a plane with a banner flying around town that read:

"Capitol Hill is flighty. Vote them all out."


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Flashback Friday

Class, Or Lack Thereof The Dwight Vice gravestone in Oquawka, Illinois. I bring this old chestnut out every so often just to remind me that class is classless.  Dwight Vice was killed in his home near Oquawka in 2001.  It was one of those things that can generate crime:  two guys thought Dwight had a lot of money stashed at home because of his pot-selling sideline to supplement his fishing job.   Not really one of those big drug deals gone-bad things.  Marijuana was, according to the trial, about the only stuff Dwight sold.   But these two guys barge into the house and killed Dwight and attempted to kill his 11 year old kid, Darryl, before they took off with what money they could find.   His son, now 23, was stabbed in the back and left for dead.  He survived and is wheelchair bound and has undergone several surgeries to repair his wounds.  He will be paralyzed for life.   None of this is pleasant.  Reading the f...
Post a Comment
Read more

Florida Air Museum - Part 3

Welcome back to a pretty neat tour of the Florida Air Museum in Lakeland Florida.  There's a lot to see and a couple of the old Geezer Gold Wing guys are already sitting down instead of walking around looking at the exhibits. That's John who is wore out and making a call to his wife.  In all honesty, John was pretty well bushed before the ride.  He told me his daughter's family was down from one of the Carolina's with the grand kids and he must have played with them too much.   He's about to take off on his own and head for home, but he's going to miss a couple of neat things out on Hangar A.   But, before we walk over there, we have lots yet to see here.  If you saw The Aviator with Leonardo DiCaprio playing Howard Hughes, you'll remember that he went up in a plane during the filming of one of his movies to prove a point about flying.  He crashed trying to execute a roll and this is a picture of the plane he crashed.  No...
1 comment
Read more

Summer Swim

It's Monday and the start of another work week.  Except for me.  I have the week off because the parents of my daycare charges are taking the week off, too. This is one of those wordless posts I love on Mondays so I can put my laziness in full view of loyal readers.  These pics need no words.  Why muddy the waters?   They were taken at the pool at Sinkhole Estates aka Death Valley.  The nice thing about this pool is it is heated in winter.  If one must find positives in one's situation, I suppose that is one.  But, please, no more.   
Post a Comment
Read more