One of my favorite authors died of complications from a head injury he was 84. Slaughterhouse 5, Cat's Cradle, Welcome To The Monkey House and Breakfast of Champion's were among my favorites. R.I.P. Kurt, loved your stories ! more......
Thursday, April 12, 2007
Kurt Vonnegut, R.I.P. 1922-2007
One of my favorite authors died of complications from a head injury he was 84. Slaughterhouse 5, Cat's Cradle, Welcome To The Monkey House and Breakfast of Champion's were among my favorites. R.I.P. Kurt, loved your stories ! more......
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
What's on your DVR ??
It's a busy couple of weeks coming up. We have a snowstorm headed toward us this Thursday and another one looking very nasty next week. It's April !!
My posts may become less frequent over the next couple weeks as I am taking on some good sized painting jobs and I must finish up with the Database I've set up for the new Histology Lab I've been working on...Not only did I paint the lab, but I wrote the database to keep track of all the lab work...I'm AMAZING!! Yes, I have to say that to myself ever once in awhile as I'm not getting a lot of, "Positive Strokes" as management like to refer to them.
So I'll get home, tired but with the need to turn the TV on and look through my DVR Recordings and watch my shows...I'm wondering...What's Your Favorite Television Drama...If I haven't put it on the Poll mention it in the comment section.
You get ONLY ONE VOTE
In fact I want your comments any way..Maybe you don't watch TV and spend all your time drinking, gambling running around with nefarious characters...if so, I WANT IN...
My posts may become less frequent over the next couple weeks as I am taking on some good sized painting jobs and I must finish up with the Database I've set up for the new Histology Lab I've been working on...Not only did I paint the lab, but I wrote the database to keep track of all the lab work...I'm AMAZING!! Yes, I have to say that to myself ever once in awhile as I'm not getting a lot of, "Positive Strokes" as management like to refer to them.
So I'll get home, tired but with the need to turn the TV on and look through my DVR Recordings and watch my shows...I'm wondering...What's Your Favorite Television Drama...If I haven't put it on the Poll mention it in the comment section.
You get ONLY ONE VOTE
In fact I want your comments any way..Maybe you don't watch TV and spend all your time drinking, gambling running around with nefarious characters...if so, I WANT IN...
Monday, April 09, 2007
Where's Mimi Clark??
Okay, it's got to be said..I watch too much TV. There I said it.
Now I'm going to write about it, or more accurately, I'm going to write about a show that I've been watching loyally and I must say I'm getting tired of it.
Jericho, a show on CBS that airs on Wednesday nights. It's a post-apocalyptic drama set in Jericho, Kansas. I watch as they elected a total nitwit as Mayor, follow the life of an adulteress son and his booze peddling mistress. Watch as his jilted wife, the towns Doctor, dies with a baby inside her. The other brother who seems to have the tools to be successful in this post apocalyptic world but never seems to use them...Overall the characters in the show make me wish the Bomb had fallen on Jericho If the writing doesn't get any better it should get hit by the Ratings bomb and never be heard from again.
The one bright note is the character Mimi Clark, ironically she's my favorite and she plays a IRS agent. Comical in that I am not a fan of the IRS.
Alicia Copolla..aka Mimi Clark
Took me forever to find her on the Jericho Site, she's not listed with the cast members...I did later find her in the supporting cast members. CBS better wake up and write an episode for her. The character she portrays is funny and smart...something you cannot say about any of the other characters, apart from her love interest, Stanley Richmond who was recently sent off to another town to work off some debts.
If you wanna see more of Mimi tell CBS
If I've said anything that upsets you or makes you angry, or by some miracle you agree with please feel free to comment!!
Now I'm going to write about it, or more accurately, I'm going to write about a show that I've been watching loyally and I must say I'm getting tired of it.
Jericho, a show on CBS that airs on Wednesday nights. It's a post-apocalyptic drama set in Jericho, Kansas. I watch as they elected a total nitwit as Mayor, follow the life of an adulteress son and his booze peddling mistress. Watch as his jilted wife, the towns Doctor, dies with a baby inside her. The other brother who seems to have the tools to be successful in this post apocalyptic world but never seems to use them...Overall the characters in the show make me wish the Bomb had fallen on Jericho If the writing doesn't get any better it should get hit by the Ratings bomb and never be heard from again.
The one bright note is the character Mimi Clark, ironically she's my favorite and she plays a IRS agent. Comical in that I am not a fan of the IRS.
Alicia Copolla..aka Mimi Clark
Took me forever to find her on the Jericho Site, she's not listed with the cast members...I did later find her in the supporting cast members. CBS better wake up and write an episode for her. The character she portrays is funny and smart...something you cannot say about any of the other characters, apart from her love interest, Stanley Richmond who was recently sent off to another town to work off some debts.
If you wanna see more of Mimi tell CBS
If I've said anything that upsets you or makes you angry, or by some miracle you agree with please feel free to comment!!
Saturday, April 07, 2007
Easter Bunny Spotted, Not Where You'd Expect
The Easter Bunnies car was spotted early this morning outside of a local watering hole. The Bunny was nowhere to be seen. "A person who was there" last night said the Bunny was stumbling around and making lewd comments to some of the female patrons and waitstaff. The Bar Manager called him a cab and he and his cohorts left the bar at 1:30 am..One only hopes he can sober up in time to get the baskets delivered!!
Friday, April 06, 2007
It's the big day
Happy Birthday to ME!
My horoscope today:
On one hand, you are vitalized by the Moon's entry into fiery Sagittarius and are inspired to think big. On the other hand, however, your key planet Mars slips into the dreamy world of Pisces where reality can mysteriously blend with fantasy. Nevertheless you remain enthusiastic, even if you don't know exactly where you are going. Patience will serve you better than blindly pushing forward now.
Not very specific, but it seems ok. I like the whole reality/fantasy blend. I am still jumping for joy that my ruling planet isn't PLUTO...Imagine being ruled by a Dwarf!!
Zamfir and I share a birthday so I am gonna imagine him on one of his infomercials playing Happy Birthday on his funny looking flute thingy.
My horoscope today:
On one hand, you are vitalized by the Moon's entry into fiery Sagittarius and are inspired to think big. On the other hand, however, your key planet Mars slips into the dreamy world of Pisces where reality can mysteriously blend with fantasy. Nevertheless you remain enthusiastic, even if you don't know exactly where you are going. Patience will serve you better than blindly pushing forward now.
Not very specific, but it seems ok. I like the whole reality/fantasy blend. I am still jumping for joy that my ruling planet isn't PLUTO...Imagine being ruled by a Dwarf!!
Zamfir and I share a birthday so I am gonna imagine him on one of his infomercials playing Happy Birthday on his funny looking flute thingy.
Tuesday, April 03, 2007
PJ's Birthday and a little on Voodoo
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO PATRICK, He's 16 today and next thing I know he'll be driving a car!!!
My sister has recently been given a Voodoo Doll as a gift from a friend, I received one once from my son. My sister's friend and my son both knew when they were giving these dolls away that they would help to direct our intense feelings toward a particular person, in my sister's case a former Boss, in mine a former Girlfriend, toward the doll and not the actual person. In my case it was great therapy.
www.vudutuu.com
After dressing my doll up a bit and naming it I followed the directions on stabbing the doll in different ways and wishing intense stomach disorders upon "her". I tired of this rather quickly and finally positioned "her" under the leg of my couch...Each day when I entered my living room I saw "her" gut being driven into the floor and "her little arms and legs"pointing up and it made me laugh...
I needed that laugh!!
Years later I threw her into the ocean just off my porch and watched her sink..It was a beautiful summer day .
I don't think about her much anymore...except when I read the Boston Globe Obituaries...Just on the slight chance that she might make the list!!
So now my sister has one and I hope she finds a place where she can impale her doll so that it helps her to laugh and makes her feel better.
What would you do to your Voodoo Doll, if you had one?
Thursday, March 29, 2007
Birthday Coming Up
So my Birthday is coming up on April 6 and I thought I'd start researching the day and as it turns out lots of things have happened on that particular day. The most important to me is of course Easter Sunday, 1958....I touched down in the great state of Mississippi!! So I thought I'd spend some time listing some of the other "Earth Shattering events that have taken place on that 96th day of the year or 97th in Leap Years.
In the Year "0" Religious scholars tend to agree that Jesus was born on this day...WOW and I was born on Easter Sunday, 1958....that's quite a coincidence. I never knew there was a 0 Year I Always thought it was either B.C. or A.D. Other's with same Birthday include Merle Haggard, Henry Kissinger, Anton Fokker , Andre Previn, James Watson, Billy Dee Williams , Michelle Phillips, Butch Cassidy and still I'm thinking JESUS!!
April 6, 1789 1st U.S. Congress begins regular sessions, Federal Hall, New York City. Hopefully I won't emulate their development and just suck off the teat of American Taxpayers..Man they have the best Medical Insurance Plan..oh that's right I'm paying for theirs and I don't have one!
April 6, 1830 Joseph Smith and 5 others organizes Mormon church in Seneca Co, New York. That's all we needed another religion!!
April 6, 1869 1st plastic, Celluloid, patented , Later the Kinks would write the song
"A fantasy world of celluloid villains and heroes"
"Because celluloid heroes never feel any pain"
"And celluloid heroes never really die
April 6, 1909 North Pole reached by Americans Robert Peary and Matthew Henson later on April 6, 1988 Black pole explorer M Henson buried next to Robert Peary in Arlington Cemetary
It has been an explosive day, in 1917 the US Declared War on Germany and entered WWI, There were at least 3 Nuclear tests 1 on the Bikini Islands by US in 1954, The USSR not to be outdone performed Nuclear testing in 1957 and finally US again in Nevada 1n 1985. Countless other battles , really too many to mention it seems War and Religion really get busy on April 6.
April 6, 1980 Gordie Howe completes a record 26th season !! I'll bet you could add all the money he made over that period and not come close to what an athlete gets signed for today..There were a lot of Baseball happenings on April 6 but I'm not a big fan.Well I guess there is one more thing I have to mention and that's a resolution in congress that was introduced on March 20th' 2007:
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In the Year "0" Religious scholars tend to agree that Jesus was born on this day...WOW and I was born on Easter Sunday, 1958....that's quite a coincidence. I never knew there was a 0 Year I Always thought it was either B.C. or A.D. Other's with same Birthday include Merle Haggard, Henry Kissinger, Anton Fokker , Andre Previn, James Watson, Billy Dee Williams , Michelle Phillips, Butch Cassidy and still I'm thinking JESUS!!
April 6, 1789 1st U.S. Congress begins regular sessions, Federal Hall, New York City. Hopefully I won't emulate their development and just suck off the teat of American Taxpayers..Man they have the best Medical Insurance Plan..oh that's right I'm paying for theirs and I don't have one!
April 6, 1830 Joseph Smith and 5 others organizes Mormon church in Seneca Co, New York. That's all we needed another religion!!
April 6, 1869 1st plastic, Celluloid, patented , Later the Kinks would write the song
CELLULOID HEROES
"I wish my life was a non-stop Hollywood movie show""A fantasy world of celluloid villains and heroes"
"Because celluloid heroes never feel any pain"
"And celluloid heroes never really die
April 6, 1889 George Eastman places Kodak Camera on sale for 1st time, other inventions that made there debut on My birthday were Hostess Twinkies, Post - It Notes and the first electric starter for cars
April 6, 1906 1st animated cartoon copyrighted
April 6, 1909 North Pole reached by Americans Robert Peary and Matthew Henson later on April 6, 1988 Black pole explorer M Henson buried next to Robert Peary in Arlington Cemetary
It has been an explosive day, in 1917 the US Declared War on Germany and entered WWI, There were at least 3 Nuclear tests 1 on the Bikini Islands by US in 1954, The USSR not to be outdone performed Nuclear testing in 1957 and finally US again in Nevada 1n 1985. Countless other battles , really too many to mention it seems War and Religion really get busy on April 6.
In 1974 The California Jam Rock Concert drew 500,000 fans to southern CA, I was too young to go, but I made to the Cal Jam 2 in 1978 but it wasn't my Birthday.
April 6, 1980 Gordie Howe completes a record 26th season !! I'll bet you could add all the money he made over that period and not come close to what an athlete gets signed for today..There were a lot of Baseball happenings on April 6 but I'm not a big fan.Well I guess there is one more thing I have to mention and that's a resolution in congress that was introduced on March 20th' 2007:
S. Res. 112: A resolution designating April 6, 2007, as
"National Missing Persons Day"
Sen. Michael Crapo [R-ID]
That's a tough name there Senator CRAPO...
Well I guess this year April 6th will be: Happy Missing Persons Day Tom!!
One Last thing, The Best thing to ever happen in April was on the the 3rd when my son Patrick was Born in 1991 !!
That's a tough name there Senator CRAPO...
Well I guess this year April 6th will be: Happy Missing Persons Day Tom!!
One Last thing, The Best thing to ever happen in April was on the the 3rd when my son Patrick was Born in 1991 !!
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