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February 6, 2009 (UPDATED)

John Long — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 01:52:08 +0000

Wind Song 402-08

Joy Reed Belt’s gallery will be showing the work of Michi Susan Friday evening at the Art at the Elms First Friday gallery opening on the Paseo. The thumbnail photo here is of a 40″X30″ mixed media piece, “Wind Song 402-08″, that was in the online invitation to the event. With the weather expected to be very mild for February, I hope to see you all there. I don’t know what else is going on Friday night, but if I stumble upon who is playing at VZDs, Red Cup, Galileo’s or some other place I’m likely to go, I’ll update. I’m too lazy to search their sites right now. If someone else already knows, leave a comment with a link, will ya?

TWITTER

OK, if you are already on Twitter, as I am, then you’ll understand this video and I hope you’ll look up Blogblah and follow me or something. If you aren’t on Twitter, you won’t understand that it can be fun but it’s also annoying as hell. Anyway, here’s this tech blogger ranting:

TODAY’S THOUGHT

Enjoy what you can, endure what you must

Goethe

I READ THE NEWS TODAY, OH BOY

Galactic Intelligent Life Abounds?

(Maybe just not here, you think? Ed.)

MORE TWITTER HATE

January 30, 2009

John Long — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 05:02:27 +0000

A lonely blogger types his fingers to the bone

I’m still thawing out and look forward to Friday’s expected high temperature around 60. I don’t have a lot to talk about except that I hope you noticed that I learned to “jump” my posts so that the page loads faster and you can scroll down to previous posts more quickly. You are clicking the “read the rest of the entry” thingy at the end of the posts, aren’t you? In other exciting blog news, I’ll be updating and revising my blogroll at the right — the sites that I link to. I’ve let them get seriously out of date. Before I do that, however, I want to hear from my readers whether they ever use the blogroll at all. Do you ever use my page to jump to another site by hitting one of the links on the right? I suspect many of you do not, for whatever reason. What can I do to be helpful and useful? Do you want links to Google, Yahoo, MSNBC, memeorandum, reddit, Digg, FARK or some other news aggregator? Should my personal blogroll of MCARP, Flibbi, Mary or my daughter be first and foremost? Does anybody care? Am I shouting in the wind to no one?

I’m also struggling not to get too involved with politics, but today’s House vote on the stimulus bill requires that I ask what the hell Republicans are thinking? Vote against massive tax cuts for the middle class? I don’t care what anyone says about the spending side of the bill (and it’s probably chock full of crazy shit), I just don’t think that’s a very smart vote for GOP officeholders who want to come back in 2010. Speaking of potential moments of extra special stupid, what the hell is up with billions in Wall Street bonuses when the financial world is in extra special meltdown? No wonder Obama called it “shameful”! Remaining on political extra special stupid, now former governor Blagojevich’s Nixonian “I’m Not A Crook” plea got what it deserved in the Illinois legislature: a unanimous vote for impeachment. Bipartisan revulsion is exactly what was called for in that situation.

SINATRA SPEAKS

Chariman of the Bored

He finally got out of my house for awhile today, Muffy. Thank God! I was so tired of his interference, waking me up from a good nap just to talk and pet, smelling up the house with his little tobacco fires, refusing to feed me when there are perfectly good cans of wet food in the pantry, all the petty little annoyances of having a human in your house. If it weren’t for their opposable thumbs, there’d be a bounty on them, I swear.
It’s a good thing cats rule the world.

I READ THE NEWS TODAY, OH BOY

Heave Ho! “Unfriending” on Facebook

Hacked Sign Warns “Zombies Ahead” in TX

Former OKC Councilman Rev. Goree James died yesterday. James represented Ward 7 and served from 1973 to 1977 and again from 1981 to 1993. He was my friend. I covered him when he was on the council for the newspaper and he always remembered me and spoke to me when he saw me out in public. He was a guy who also liked jazz music and I would see him at places like Junior’s, the old Bianca’s and (that restaurant that used to be the north end of NorthPark Mall).

TODAY’S THOUGHT

I have a new philosophy; I’m only going to dread one day at a time.

Charles M. Schultz

FOR NO REASON EXCEPT I THOUGHT THIS WAS COOL

January 16, 2009

John Long — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 05:37:40 +0000

I READ THE NEWS TODAY, OH BOY

The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema

A psychotherapist analyzes Hitchcock and David Lynch.

Dead Cats in a Bag

More proof that Salvadore Dali was a photorealist, NOT a surrealist.

Bushies Burrow into Bureaucracy

Bush incompetence gets Civil Service protections

TODAY’S THOUGHT

Stop trying to control.
Let go of fixed plans and concepts,
And the world will govern itself.

Stephen Mitchell translation of Tao te Ching
No. 57

GRANDCHILD CUTENESS ALERT

GK sews on a Daisy patch wearing rose colored glasses

My daughter has a whole series of pictures of my grand-daughter, GK, in her post today over on Mom-A-Tron
The two of them take on a project that involves sewing patches on Daisy uniform shirts and putting an orange (?) stitch into the hat she’s wearing. Why she’s wearing rose colored glasses is a mystery, but I find them quite becoming. Fetching, even. If I’ve done this correctly, you can click on the picture of GK and some kind of internet computer magic stuff will happen. Or not.

SEX SEX SEX SEX SEX (and humor)

January 10, 2009

John Long — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 05:21:31 +0000

MOM-A-TRON BEETS HER FATHER

Mom-A-Tron

Just when I think I’m getting the hang of this 21st Century technology, somebody comes along and really gives me some perspective about how much there is. Today, Mom-A-Tron has a power point presentation she made herself — about beets of all things — and put to music and presents on her blog as a video. Damn. Pretty impressive, I must say. I personally loathe beets in all forms and fashions, but she seems to have acquired a fondness for them that escapes me.

EVERYBODY TALKS ABOUT THE WEATHER, BUT NOBODY DOES ANYTHING ABOUT IT

BECAUSE I SAID SO!

What a fine example of Oklahoma weather! It was top-down, sunny and in the mid-70s this afternoon and not long after dark, the wind was out of the North and it was freezing. I guess I should be grateful for any January day in which I can have the top down, and I am, believe me I am. Nevertheless this back and forth under a full moon is messing with my mammal midbrain and warm bloodedness.
Had a plenty good time at Paseo this afternoon with a good fraction of the usual suspects and we had India food from the buffet at 50th and May and I have the predictable aftereffects of curry to prove it.
We missed MCARP when we had the name of the artist playing on the Musak right on the tip of our tongue, but couldn’t quite place him/her and we just KNEW he’d have the cut on his iPod/iPhone playlists. Oh, well.
By the way, the line: “Everybody talks about the weather … .” That’s by Oklahoma’s own Will Rogers, who had a lot to say about our weather. I suppose it’s always been like this.

SINATRA SPEAKS

A cool cat with blue eyes. Call him Sinatra

Muffy, you are such a naughty girl. Such language! I know what you mean because this full moon is making me a little quirky, too. Today, I got my head stuck in one of the heating vents and if I had been like that when he got home! That wasn’t the only thing. I was up in my tree, minding my own business, when this bluejay I’ve been chasing for two years lands on the same limb I’m on about 2 feet away! I couldn’t believe it! He said: “Boo!” and flashed away and by the time I was springing at him, my back feet fell off the branch and I was hanging on for dear life. Muffy! That was SO embarrassing. So, I acted like I meant to do that and just continued to climb back down the tree. Memsahib and her Thugee would never let me forget it if they had been there. So, tomorrow, I’ve decided to practice murderous pounces from perches on the living room furniture. I’ve already put all three of my mouses there. I hear wet food! Bye!

I READ THE NEWS TODAY, OH BOY!

Belgians Know How to Take Sick Days

Confess to Barkeep, then Priest, Finally at AA

Women Really CAN smell desperation!

TODAY’S THOUGHT

Those who know don’t talk
Those who talk don’t know

Stephen Mitchell translation of Tao te Ching
No. 56