Get off my lawn!
I went for dinner Friday with Soartstar and ran into all my old buds: Oz, Debster, The Gary, John X, Bob O and Bookemdano. I really like those people and it was great to see the whole crew. They were headed to Red Dot at IAO and I’d given much to be able to go with them, but by the time we caught up with each other at Lido, I was redlined and headed home to get horizontal. Getting off opiates has been very physically challenging for me — the three worst days of this whole ordeal. Don’t ever take opiates for a long time, kids. Don’t try this at home. On top of withdrawals, my pain levels are back up in the stratosphere. I’ll survive, one prayer at a time.
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Both my Oklahoma teams won this Saturday and nothing is more satisfying than OSU drubbing the Longhorns to take the undisputed lead in the Big 12 South. Go Pokes! (for a couple more weeks, anyway)
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I watched a couple of really good movies this week. Last Tango in Paris and Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid for two. Both hang together and hold up really well, even after all these years. I tried one more time to tolerate Tom Cruise as the vampire Lestat in Interview with the Vampire, but failed again.
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Rep. Eric Cantor, R-batshit crazy, crossed a line this week to the detriment of the entire nation, in my opinion. Americans have respected the shoreline barrier to partisan bickering for two centuries — we don’t let our differences cross our borders and the president is the nation’s ONLY spokesman in matters of foreign policy. Unfortunately, Rep. Cantor not only held a private meeting with the PM of Israel, not only PROMISED to oppose our president’s policies, but BRAGGED about it to the press. Just as I believe the Republican Party support for torture is treasonous, I believe this behavior is treasonous. Feel free to disagree, but this seems unacceptable to me, wrong on many levels. I believe this behavior by Rep. Cantor is unprecedented in American politics and history. Consider that our Secretary of State and other diplomats were, at the time, in the field working towards a Palestinian accord and that Rep. Cantor interfered directly. I’m nonplussed. I guess I could understand if it had been some wild Tea Party back bencher, but Cantor is House Republican Party #2 behind almost-Speaker John Boehner. It’s an outrage!
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I bought one of those outdoor “firepits”. Big circle of metal with legs and a domed screen on top, you know what I mean? Well, I smell — perhaps stink is the better word — of wood smoke from head to toe. A foolish and expensive indulgence for a man who isn’t working and has no income, but what the hell. I’m home all the time and have to do something.
Get off my lawn
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Geez, you should have called me. I have one of those metal fire pits in my backyard that I would have sold or traded to you cheap. Heck, I might even have just driven it down there to get it out of my life.