May 27, 2009

This is the trailer from the 1970s film, The Night Porter, with Charlotte Rampling and Dirk Bogard, we watched Wednesday night:

May 25, 2009

This is a part of the Memorial Day Paseo Festival crowd early Monday afternoon at the South Stage

This is a part of the Memorial Day Paseo Festival crowd early Monday afternoon at the South Stage

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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May 22, 2009

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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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May 19,2009

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.

May 17, 2009 updated!

UPDATE!
Many of you know my friend, Rush Riddle. He’s FAMOUS. In all those years, I’ve been to one May Day party, back in 88, I think, and the parties are famous and rightly so. Ellis Island, wow.

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I didn’t go out Friday night, I didn’t go out last night, and now I’ve missed church on Sunday morning. I started to go out Friday night, but I was simply tired and a little bent out of shape by something silly that happened at my noon Friday AA meeting, so I made the decision to chill out at home. I turned the lights low, fired up some incense, put on some soothing jazz instrumental music and petted the cat until I “got my mind right”, as Cool Hand Luke’s Strother Martin character might say. Last night, I fully intended to go out and picked out a killer outfit of black and brown, but then I realized: where are you going, John? What do you think you are going to do?
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May 15, 2009

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Thank God It’s Friday! I am exhausted. Utterly spent. I’ve alternately cringed from my calamitous past and braced for the inevitable catastrophic future to the point I’m “glowing” from the effort. I give up, Lord. Uncle. You win. I think I’ve had all the lessons I want and I’m ready to move directly to blessings, thank you very much. I’m out of ideas, plans, schemes, dreams and steam. I’ll admit I’ve always had everything I need and a lot of what I want and you’ve never let me down before, but, Yahweh, old friend, I don’t see where you’re going with this thing right now, so I’m letting go of the wheel and trusting you to make it through the fog. I’m tired of this eddy and I’ll go back to the main current of the Tao any old time You’re ready. I don’t mean to be an ingrate because you’ve really been swell and I’ve probably already got it better than I deserve and all, but I sure could use a little encouragement right now, you know?
Pretty cheeky posting this in an electrical storm with lightning flashing across the sky, I guess, but, after all, I was looking for a sign.
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