I went back to the Paseo festival again Monday afternoon to hear one of my favorite people play in one of my favorite local bands; Howard Brady often fronts The Rexall Rangers on their stolen credit card honeymoon tour of OKC.
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PASEO FESTIVAL THIS WEEKEND

The street musician above said her name was Meghan and she was much more cute than she was a really great musician, but it was Paseo Festival and that means colorful and musical.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
There were two birthdays in my family this week, joyous events for me. My son, God bless the good lookin’ man he’s grown to be, has his father’s prematurely grey hair for a man of such youth, vigor, vitality, and health. I’m sad to say that at 20 years younger, he’s the more grown up between the two of us. Many happy returns of the day, son.
Which brings me to his sister’s daughter, who, it seems, may be wearing a bikini at the tender year of seven, but ’twill be a sad day for us adults since her mother will be killed. At least that’s what I understand her twitter/blog entries to mean. My grand-daughter is a handful. That’s just the way.
I got this whole DNA pride going on, I’m sentimental about my family this week. I miss them. They really are outstanding and I’m proud to be their friend, they are the kind of people I really like.
I’m not sure that I should get much credit for how they turned out. They all seem to have grown up quite on their own. Very strong personalities from very young ages. Thank the ancestors for good genes. Every encore seems better than the last.
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The View’s Eliz. Hasselback takes on Jesse Ventura on the topic of torture and waterboarding. Ohhh. Big Mistake, Liz, he handed you your right wing head.

If you dump a girlfriend, you’ve burned your bridges with one woman, but if you get married, you’ve burned your bridges with 3.5 billion women. Not that I am ever going to have a chance with Ilsa, the billionaire supermodel with the Ph.D., but I’m just sayin’ that the numbers are the numbers.

happy mother’s day from SNL!

Happy birthday, Sis!
This sister ate spiders and led riots as a child, which explains a lot.

I don’t claim to be any big time economist or politician or anything like that, but I think that if I were trying to get unemployment to go down and re-energize the country, I’d do the following three things:
1. Standard work week of 32 hours, overtime afterwards;
2. Four weeks standard vacation for everyone; and,
3. Apply child labor laws to fast food chains, requiring their employees to be at least 18 years of age.
Since the 40 hour week was instituted, American workers have become many many times more productive, but haven’t shared in the cash — at least give them liesure and it will create some new jobs. Not only that, but think of all the poor schmucks who already have 32 hour part time jobs that will instantly be eligible for the benefits of health insurance, etc., that they’ve deserved all along.
The French — most Europeans — have the month of August off. The Russians have a month off. We work more hours per week and more weeks per year than all the other industrialized nations.
Fast food joints would be required to pay better if they hired only adults, among other reasons.
How much would this cost the taxpayer? I’ll get back to you, but I’m not sure it would cost a nickle.
When you have no social life, you think about these things.
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