Monthly Archives: September 2005

23 Sept '05

Friday morning

My friend Mike Higgins just got me all excited by telling me that the wife of the U.S. Solicitor General, Ted Olsen, was NOT killed in the plane that went down on 9/11 when it crashed into the Pentagon, but was found alive along the Polish border in possession of millions of dollars in counterfeit Italian Lira and was to be charged with obstruction of justice in the deaths of 3,000 Americans. “Look it up on the internet,” he told me, “it’ll be all over the news.” I looked and found nothing whatsoever. But all those slugs at the Red Cup will walk away believing the story and another urban myth will spread.

women

My daughter tells me that the attitude I express about women in an earlier post is all wrong and that all the women in my life — mother, 3 sisters, daughter, grand-daughter — and any “nice” woman who reads this blog will be offended. She asks if I want my grand-daughter to be told that I’m a “womanizing pig”. Bring it, child.

My bad attitude is not about women. My bad attitude is about dating. It’s a Quixotic quest at my age (56). It’s not like being in school where you are exposed to a lot of people who are your approximate intelligence and social and economic class and with whom you are having a common experience. It’s meeting other people my age who have been through marriages, child rearing, rehab, and who knows what else. At my age, people have baggage and that’s just a fact of life. As a result, there’s not only the issues that come up between any two people about politics, religion and sex and so forth, there’s also issues of single parenting, 12 Step programs, and a lot of getting frozen into habits of living that might not be as easily changed at my age as they are at age 18-25.

22 Sept. 05

quick musings while at work

Everyone in this town is telling the same joke: They asked President Bush what he thinks of Roe versus Wade and he said he didn’t care how they got out of New Orleans.

Have we ever had such incompetent governance?

I’m sure that the Repubs will tell me how great things are under this “wartime” president, but think about it… have they done anything other than say the things that the furthest right Republicans want to hear? I mean, they do ONE thing really well, and that’s run for office. Scientists resign from positions at the EPA, FDA and even Treasury because the Bush White House cooks the books and doesn’t respect facts when the facts are inconsistent with their theory. We went to war to find the weapons of mass destruction WE GAVE THEM and then we can’t find them. We invaded Iraq despite the fact that 19 of the 20 WTC terrorists were from Saudi Arabia. Why didn’t we invade Canada? It’s closer! And, what have we accomplished in Iraq besides 2,000 U.S. deaths, 15,000 casualties for us alone and tens of thousands of Iraqi dead and wounded? Does it look like we’re winning the war against terrorism or that we’ve stirred up a hornet’s nest that will plague us with a thousand stings for generations to come? Heard from Afghanistan recently? Well, they had elections and millions voted and millions didn’t and Osama bin Laudin is still walking around somewhere. My x-wife and I helped get our son out of the French Quarter, but thanks to no help from the feds, who left him there in a freefire zone without food, water, electricity or telephone service along with thousands who were sweltering in the convention center and Superdome. That whole thing was FUBAR from start to finish and now the Republicans want to have an “investigation” composed entirely of Bush’s cronies from the right wing of the House Republican Party. Whoosh!!! I can feel the heat of the supercharged whitewash flying overhead as I write. Wanna guess how things would be if Clinton were in the White House? Anyway, have they gotten anything right in six years? The stock market is just about exactly where it was when Bush took office and that’s only because we’ve inflated the hell out of our dollar with more debt than in the entire history before these guys took office (they started with a surplus, but that didn’t last long). I just find myself humming “Everybody Knows” by Leonard Cohen all the time.

musical note

G Sharp. Heard this great protest song by a guy I think is named “Babyface”. It’s about wondering what it’s like when the President talks to God. Check it out.

saw the son this a.m.

My son, Jack, met me for coffee this a.m. at the Red Cup, but I didn’t have time to spend much time with him because I had to get to the office for God knows what reason. He’s looking good and my friends say he made them laugh by regaling them with stories of waiting tables at Flip’s in the 1980s.

My first post

I’m at the home of Dennis W., meta-super-uber-web-master learning how to do this crap and he tells me that after I go through all the business of writing this, we’re just going to erase it. Blogblahblogb lahblogblah!!!

9:18 p.m., back at home…

Never got to the part where we erased the above. Couldn’t figure out how to embed my picture, either. At least we got me online and started.

random thought about my personal life

Since I know no one will read this with the possible exception of Dennis, I’ve had women on my mind lately, and I’m pretty sick of ‘em. I have a date with a new woman Friday and if something really spectacular doesn’t happen, I think that’ll be my last date for the foreseeable future. Oddly, dating isn’t worth it even to get laid. Never thought I’d have that thought. Inconceivable. (Interesting word choice for a discussion of sexual abstinence, don’t you think?).

In the “Things that make you go Hmmmm” category and Journalism subcategory

Watched a plane make an emergency landing at LAX tonight and the front wheels went fiery and the plane skidded to a halt and all 140 passengers got off like nothing happened. Watching the CNN video at Flip’s made me think that this was a kind of benign cross between the slow chase of O.J. and watching those planes fly into the towers. The wierd thing about it is that I wonder why we’re seeing that and not combat footage out of Baghdad. I mean, there must be some big plane making an emergency landing every single day someplace in the world. This one gets on TV just because it’s in L.A. WTF???? OK, but it doesn’t help us have a better understanding of our world. It’s easy to see how some media conspiracy theorists can get whacko ideas about the news biz.

calendar item

I’ll be up on the Oklahoma City Museum of Art roof tomorrow (Thurs., 22 Sept. ’05) about 6-7 p.m., and then going to dinner afterward. Seems like something came after that, but I can’t think of it right now.

Thanks, Dennis!!!

Thanks, old friend, for getting me started on this … I think … yeah…maybe… . Well, thanks for all the attention you paid me during your “vacation” in all events.