scrubbing bubbles

Tonight I found myself at the scene of an unwritten play -- staring Rescue Rangers in a pedestal sink with bubbles. They pitched each other into the water, then "bad guys", then went searching for tutrles and fish. Sadly, Orange Guy always had the misfortune of the torrent of conical rain dashed upon him when he tried to resurface. A reounding laughter of the contoller shook the basin itself.

"No! Wait til he gets to his feet, then drop the rock on him!" -- Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

Bubbles ... outside ... in 25 degree weather ... yes! Also, thankfully, the short term of this as the cold cement was nasty on the tookas.

This was followed by Stooges ... and attempted squashings.

For dinner --- 4 different stops ... KFC, McDonalds, Taco Bell, and Coffee shop

There are some things in life that you can't buy --- like your time, for everything else ... there's your salary.

"I love you, Marcus" -- can't be bought --- thankfully, I earned it!

Max

As in maximum. Max Payne ... in loading, in waiting, in unskippable movies ... in keeping settings (re-setting POV when on stairs). Max (imum) Payne in the ___.

Darn you Cerpicio!!!!

I've a song in my head all day because you! It's a very funny one, mind you, but I hoped other thoughts might enter my mind as well!

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5430343841227974645&q=what+internet+is+for

Extremely funny the first time!

funny child quote

The game actually exists:

http://www.addictinggames.com/monkey.html

His quote while on the internet was, "Spank the monkey! That's my favorite game!"

Looking for Lenny Bruce

If anyone has Mask Man aka Thank you Mask Man, please let me know. I have been looking for it for a while to put on DVD. I found no legitimate seller -- only those selling a dupicated (rough) copy thrown onto DVD for $15 not including shipping.
“Bull____ man! That was the deal! You said I could have anything I want … that’s what I want!”

...

Mind you, moose bites can be quite painful.


The parties responsible for using fewer quotations have been sacked. Those responsible for sacking those people, have also been sacked.

the term, "Fathering"

is usually wrongly used. Too often people view fathers as those that contribute genetic material.

In my previous entry I mentioned -- insulted, Lost, for it's shortcomings. I read a blurb on Naveen Andrews "
'Lost' star admits fathering child while separated from Barbara Hershey". That is more urban vernacular. Lions sire cubs, often killing other cubs either his own or others to get the lioness into estris. That guy doesn't smell like my spermazoa [mauling of cub]. This concept of siring as many his-scented youth as possible is urban fathering.

If only America could wake up a bit and turn on the "mental gears". I could throw money at a situation or I could involve myself in it and help it. Siring and then paying some money to the "mother" for the child (ren) is much like throwing money at a so-called problem. Invest yourself in it -- be the solution -- or the father, bringing to it your values, your input, your goals to make life what it should be.

Male lions in a pride generally don't hunt (not providers), take their share first, and (aforementioned) with cubs. They serve a protective role at times, but are generally not integral to the life of the pride. I was very fortunate in having a father who raised me. I am also from a family of non-divorced parents. This didn't prevent me from divorcing, but I "sired" no children and had I done so -- a difficult life they would have had no matter how much effort I put forth -- save being granted full and sole custody. Even that would have had its consequences.

Think, before you sire. A pack of your gene-filled people shouldn't fill you with pride if you have done nothing to bring them to be who they could be -- raising and fathering.

--please end--

Lost in Complaining

I have a limited interest in the show, Lost. I asked a friend about it to find out that they don't have a new episode yet -- 4 weeks, no new show. Gosh! That's gotta be hard, working there in uncomfortable Hawaii with nothing to do. I can see why it would be difficult to get the cast back to Hawaii to do more shooting.
"Hey, no! I'm staying here in Flint, Michigan, pushing out snow, thanks. Later this week I'm going to ultra-rural Saskatewan* and start building a house."

"Get on with it!" -- M Python
"Of course, I could be wrong you know." -- Bugs, WB
"Wrong? Wrong?! You ain't never been right!" -- Platoon

Anyway. I got this idea for a show about a mysterious torpical island. On it there are polar bears, company controlled / made sharks, hidden research bunkers, supposedly-derranged inhabitants, grayish invisibeats. There are hints to other mysteries and the Pennsylvania-sized island can't be found by any known technological means.

Okay... sounds good. What do you have so far. I have two scenes with a bear, four scenes with the invisibeast, 4 seconds of the shark.

What else?

I have great stories about people on the island, before they were there, including stories about characters of the 40 some that I just kill off anyway.

ummm ... okay. Anything else?

They now play golf on the untamed and dangerous island and heroin is available.

Uh, okay. So, [a sourness in his face, he directs attention to another person at the table], you had a new version of Three's Company in mind?

* Sassparilla, sassafras, Sesame? Hasann chop!

Kari Byron -- again

What I could find was that she is a sculpter -- apparently a good (or renown) one from Frisco and a vegetarian. So far, that's not a lot of info.

comedy of vocation

Education is a great resource for humor. Yesterday I was asked if they could do, individual work together. My answer was no, but I was reminded of, "Let's be independant together". Thanks Herbie!

watching TV

I'm not known for my love of movies or TV. I haven't liked sit-coms in a llllllloooooooooonnnnnnnnnnggggggg time. That being the case, I sometimes find a show that I do like. I used to like Discovery Channel, until it and it's compadre's: History, TLC, Animal Planet, etc. decided that everyone would love to have a program they are watching blocked out -- sometimes up to 25% by USELESS animations of their other shows. I thought the corner label on the programs were bad -- thanks T Turner for starting that! Coupled with that are the commercial break so long that I often change the channel, forgetting that I was once watching Discovery or whatever. My criping aside.

I got to see Mythbusters, which can be entertaining. Sometimes it is more like idea ADHD -- are you planning on completing any ideas here? I like the ideas. I have become captivated by Kari Byron, about whom little information seems available.

She seems practical, comical and clever. When I saw her smile, that's what captured my attention. [drone on here concerning interest]

The same channel that does this includes a show with Jessie James something, who contributes to building various one-time things. I couldn't bear to watch the show anymore, as his personality is grating and his happy recalling of childhood violence towards others including a neighbor boy whom he claimed to have happily choked (implying to a painful degree). This guy has a son. I would hestitate to call him a father as that is a person who raises their child to be an adult capable of existing in the world -- hopefully, sans prison/jail.

What's another really bad idea from this group ... Growing Uo Gotti. Hey! Let's focus on a family whose criminal activity, either theirs or other family memebers who have a lot of money. Let's help those watching become complacent with the mafia and criminals. Yes! Let's copy HBO with their ideas of Sopranos and OZ with violence, evil, raping, killing, drugs, abuse (of many forms). Now that's entertainment. I guess if Eninem is still popular with songs of putting GHB into drinks to rape women and his lyrics stating his desire for a woman to do whatever, whenever, in perpetuity -- these will be the standard.

Not to me.

Returning to Mythbusters ... violence is either to Buster -- a disintigrating dummy with variable insturment chasis, Black Adder, or to the two would-be investigators who welcome their own doom on some occasions.

Fargen Bastages!

[please note that some of the bantering gets windy and verb tenses do not conform to standard English]

A couple of weeks ago I heard that phrase. It's from a movie either you saw or didn't see. I doubt that you would forget some of the memorable lines from Johnny Dangerously. That being the case, let me explain my mild dis-satisfaction.
Who are the fargen bastages? They are the winds that direct your kite to the ground, thirty people at the gas station who all enter the store buying cigarettes and chatting with people rather than move their cars, people calling not knowing who you are, people who drive SUVs who couldn't park a paper airplane in a parking spot much less their wide vehicle like their wide butts. Also, I dispise notices that you'll get more notices (much like someone calling to let you know that they are going to call).

Are these people antagonists or speed bumps? Perhaps they are neither, but actors who are unaware that their are others in the play. They are so focussed on completing their goals that all others be damned! I see this at all ages and in most places. How many times have you appraoched a door, following someone within 8 feet and yet they close the door behind them. Are they truly that unaware that there is some one behind them?

Emoticons: when you really, really, really can't just type a nice word or phrase. Is that wasteful or laziness? I think both. It is one thing to use it in messaging when you are typing slower to several people than you could possibly talk to them, but in letters that you are already typing? What's the point?

I find anger venting is helpful. I like to play games where I can perpetrate fictional violence, especially with guns. I don't and won't own a gun, but it's great relief to exterminate a bad egg on a game. There are a few games that are designed for track motion and you hit "evil men". Concluding one game, I gave stats on targets hit and shots fired. The disperarity prompted, "Are you angry?" I wasn't a poor shot, but rather emptied at least one clip or series of six shots into each target when possible. 80%+ were face / head shots. Giving six shots in the head before the target falls is impossible, so the fictional part is great.

"... may they all get lead poisoning", Eddie Valiant, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

What the day held

promise of a new day! It kept dreaming of waking, doing something, realizing it was 10 minutes early then resting again. I was never right on the time. My teaching went fairly well and there were no real problems.

A growing concern I have is for the random "unavailable number" calls I'm getting. As I put my cell phone number on the no-call list, I should think that I would not get pestered. I didn't donate to anyone last year -- no money to do so, so I hope to get fewer calls this year.

A charity, Paralyzed Hoosier Veterans Association is a nice cause, but they are misinforming those whom they solicit, in that their chapter hasn't donated to Spinal Cord Research for 20 some years -- their claim to fame. I got some interesting runaround from the man who called me this year. He called me days after the local paper reported their misinforming.

"We don't control everything that every chapter says."

Really? Don't they read a prompt? I hardly believe that they have all the figures, dates, times in their heads -- highly unlikely. I also thought that they ought to at least make a sound retraction about how much and when they donated to the spinal cord research center. This center tried an experimental procedure for connecting nerve tissue, and pocesses for neural growth. Christopher Reeve was the first volunteer. The surgery showed some success. It's original idea was for use within 24 hours of injury. To this date, I don't know of any other successful attempts.

That being said, there is a local group -- not a charity, that does work for the community -- Citizens' Action Coalition. They spend much of their money under-paying people to gather money for the cause. Some -- doubtful much, gets to lawyers to lobby for improvements and protections for citizens from energy industries and the like from unreasonable price hikes and gouging.

Too bad we don't have a federal one to punish the gas companies -- not just oil, but natural gas. If they keep it up, I think the way to go would be Nuclear Power Plants and electric heat. I think Hammond and Gary, IN could be flattened and the Power Plants go there. If you've seen --hopefully at a distance, either city. I think you'll agree.

More names, less informaiton

Sex Offenders databases

https://secure.in.gov/serv/cji_sor

http://www.sexoffender.com/vcinorder.html

http://www.nsopr.gov/

I saw a photo where a neighbor put up a handmade sign on their property pointing to next door with "Child Molester", clearly printed on the sign. That's great! Keep up the good work!

Nice dog

It will be a while before I will forget Sampson entering the van and relegating me to the far back seat. This german shepherd sat in a second row seat as comfortable as he could. Silly boy!

Where some are

http://jordan.fortwayne.com/ns/news/sexoffenders/?send=Search+database

These only show those that are registered. I think the law should read that any non-registered may be shot on sight -- no questions asked. If I were on the jury in the case of a person slaying a known and convicted child molester, I might heavily scrutinize the facts in his/her favor. Okay, okay ... I'd vote not guilty. I cannot condone vigilantism, but would offer lesser punishment for those convicted.

Taxes

MR is historically earlier than I am in filing his taxes. I got a form Saturday and have begun filing. Man, oh, man! I hope to beat in this year. It's my own little race.

Only if you're mad!

One movie that really struck me was Robocop. Yes ... undoubtedly a stupid, yet enjoyable film. The director later went on to make similar-imagry movies like Starship Troopers, Total Recall, and Basic Instict (?). Anyway ... I just thought this morning of a scene from Robocop when he is beating the _____ out of Clarence Boddicker (Kurtwood Smith of That 70s Show -- more funny as a cop-killing drug dealer turns dad). As he's being thrown through 6' tall windows in office spaces he blurts out to Robocop that he works for Dick Jones. I quickly replaced some of the dialogue in my head.

[crash] [slump] [Robocop picks up Clarence by the throat] "I work for Dick Chaney. Dick Chaney! Dick Chaney works for Bush. Bush runs the country!"

[shocked look over Clarence's face as he's being killed]
[Rococop stops choking him]

If you haven't seen this brutal movie, which apparently was edited to get it to "R", it's quotable. The director apparently had the concept of making it so violent that it was comical. I'd like to see the original!

quotes:

"It's a sophisticated bang bang."
"I'd buy that for a dollar!"
"Can you fly, Bobby?"
"I want a really fast car that gets really ____y gas mileage!"
"Nuke 'em! The family game."
"Do you have any advice to kids?" "Stay out of trouble"
"Don't _____ with Jones man! He'll make sushi out of ya."
"I'm sure it's just a glitch." (after ED 209 pumped 100 rounds of 50 calibur bullets into an executive) "A glitch?"
"Somebody call an ambulance!" (same scene, where a rag of a torso lies over a model of "New" Detroit)
"Look at my face DICK!"
"Looks like we'll be partners afterall, Richard."
"You want a cigarette?" "No. Ya know? Those things will kill ya." (shotgun-armed bank robber)

(requires the visual)
"We don't have a safe." "There's your safe!" (kicking down a tower of cans)
(desk sergent talks to officer as she kicks and beats suspect into submission) "When you're done ______ with your suspect, I have something for you."
(strip mall building explodes after being shot with "sophisticated bang bang") Paul McCrane of ER states excitedly, "I like it!"
"You burned the money! You burned the _________ money!" (incinerated bills from bank heist)

VD XP, thankfully not for me!

Mum and I were discussing he-who-shall-not-be-named and his known V.D. With his wonderful choice of "partners", he apparently is collecting them. I know only, through the folks and his mother which one he already had. The new ones are unknown to me. One way to stop getting them would be to say:
use protection or better still
choose different person and use protection
Will he-who-shall-not-be-named do either?

[Eight ball shaking]

My sources say no.

On the lighter side, perhaps they will terminate him faster than the time-traveling terminator I ordered. I got a notice oddly post-dated ... on back order

Game

Charlie got me a game for Christmas -- technically, many games. One of them was Wild Gun Man, which was made by Nintendo like Hogan's Alley. Why does any of that matter?

First: I thought that it was difficult in the arcade. It was, but not because of the limited time that it gave, but rather in that the cord for the light gun was too short. Even in this game, which is infinately better than the older NES & SNES games, it has problems with angular screens. Flat screens -- most new TVs, should be perfect.

Second: I believe that Back to the Future III made mention of either of these games as to why Marty was so fast on the '80s theme restaraunt arcade game. The kid in the movie was, unimpressed. I can think of few home light gun games now. If you had them they would have to be either, static or track driven -- offering no movement with the loose controller.

[blam] [blam] [blam] ... I'll be shootin' for ya! On Wild Gun Man ... some fall back dead, others down, and a couple lose hats and pants during gun battles.

Rip and Tear!

Charlie loves to sword battle and battle evil robots, sometimes those with cloaking / invisibiity technologies.

picture c/o Lucasfilms

stolen from Monkeyjack

In the course of that great battle, my demins suffered a great fatality. They were old and were torn at the groin.
"A hit! A very powerful hit" (blood spurts and shoots from a throat wound)