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April 16, 2017 What kind of car do you drive?
2008 Kia Spectra EX, deep sea blue, aka The Little Blue Car™
I love The Little Blue Car™. It has a 5-speed manual transmission, fits into any parking space, there is plenty of room in the backseat for the kids, it's paid for, and the list just goes on.
April 15, 2017 - Take the third line of the last song you heard and make it your post title.
You Can't Be Twenty on Sugar Mountain
This evening, my sister invited me to her home for dinner, it was our Easter Celebration, since everyone has obligations tomorrow, but was free tonight. Remind me later to tell you about the newest member of our family, Miles, who was born in January. He's a keeper!
Anyway, on my drive home, Sugar Mountain was playing on the radio. I've always known this song, Neal released it in 1969 -- if you're counting, that's 48 years ago.
Tonight, I got it. Even though I'm not old, I'm no longer young.
My great nieces and nephews are in their twenties, just beginning their lives. I remember doing that, but I have nothing in common with them, nothing to say that they can relate to. I'm on the outside looking in.
It stung for a few seconds, but I got over it. When I arrived home, Leslie and the wiener kids had arrived a few minutes ahead of me, with new clothes to wear to church tomorrow morning. We had a fashion show, discussed accessories, hair styles, nail polish, etc., and I decided that even though I can't be twenty on Sugar Mountain, being the Mema is a really good head space.
April 14, 2017 - The Artist's Eye - is there a painting or sculpture you're drawn to?
The Stolen Kiss by Jean-Honore Fragonard. Cathy and I were fortunate enough to see this painting at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1990, when they had a HUGE collection of paintings on loan from the Leningrad Museum. We saw Matisse, Manet, Monet, Picasso, Gauguin, but we kept going back to this one. It was mesmerizing. Are the lovers engaged? Is this a clandestine tryst? Is he a servant? Is he married? Is she? I can and do make up stories in my head about what's going on and why they have to hide their love.
April 13, 2017 - Tourist Trap - what's your dream tourist destination, what about it speaks to you?
The Taj Mahal. Now, I'm completely aware that the woman who is entombed there, Mumtaz Mahal, died in childbirth, delivering her 14th child. I know that it is a monument to the sub-human subjugation and mistreatment of women. I get that, truly I do. But..every time I see a photo in a magazine or on television, the sheer beauty makes me catch my breath.
Honestly, I try to imagine visiting the slave trade / auction sites in the American Southern States and trying to find beauty there, and it makes me feel nauseous and sweaty. However, the Taj Mahal... I long to see it, it sings a sweet siren song to my soul, 'come, come to me and you'll find peace'.
April 12, 2017 - The Zone
What is your favorite way to get lost in simple activity, what's it like when you're in "the zone"?
I've written about this before, but it something I truly enjoy and don't mind talking about it again. I call my activity Wandering Aimlessly.
This began back in the late 90's, after I became fully "netified". I'd be watching a movie or television show, hear something that piqued my interest, and do a web search. Then, I'd just start clicking on random links, going wherever they took me.
I've wasted entire afternoons, truthfully, just wandering from page to page with no real destination. It's simply amazing the knowledge one can gain by reading things that others feel is pertinent enough to post on a website... the validity and usefulness is strictly up to the wanderer, but it just about my favorite pastime that does not include other people.
April 11, 2017 - Puddles The Sad Clown again
It's been busy ag mo theach so I'm playing catch up.
Puddles aka Mike Geier doing 'Royals' by Lorde, released on my birthday in 2013.
April 10, 2017 - Puddles The Sad Clown again
It's been busy ag mo theach so I'm playing catch up.
Puddles aka Mike Geier doing 'Reflections of My Life' by Marmalade, released in 1969.
April 9, 2017 - Puddles The Sad Clown again
It's been busy ag mo theach so I'm playing catch up.
Puddles aka Mike Geier doing 'I Who Have Nothing', originally recorded in 1963 by Ben E. King, but the version most will remember is Tom Jones version in 1970.
April 8, 2017 - Puddles The Sad Clown again
It's been busy ag mo theach so I'm playing catch up.
Puddles aka Mike Geier doing an old Bee Gees cover, 'I Started A Joke'
April 7, 2017 - Puddles The Sad Clown With The Golden Voice
It's been busy ag mo theach so I'm playing catch up.
Puddles alter ego is Mike Geier and he's absolutely amazing, but he can't seem to get time in the spotlight unless he's Puddles... I'll start with an old one, the original was released in 1977, when I was a senior in high school.
April 6, 2017 -- Say it again
♫ say it, say it, say it again! Someday, we'll be together!♫
April 5, 2017 -- Five Things No One Warned Me About
- At eighteen, having a job, having money in my pocket, hanging out with friends, and meeting boys was great fun. However, staying in college and getting a degree really is more important.
- After a (very) brief stint working retail in the late 1970's, I learned that some people are animals. If there are no witnesses to hold them accountable, people do things in stores that can make you vomit.
- When I went to work on the night shift at a hospital, I quickly learned that stuff... weird stuff happens. The night tribe is a completely different breed, and they are beacons, if you will, to the other things/beings that come out after the sun goes down.
- Working with the night tribe is addictive. I met people and learned things about myself that I really like.
- Don't get too comfortable where you are in life or you'll stop taking chances.
April 4, 2017 - Joaquin Castro tells Wolf Blitzer, "I wouldn't be surprised after all of this is said and done that some people end up in jail."
This makes my heart sing -- please to be noting my screen name and icon!
Castro predicts Trump aides will go to jail in Russia investigation.
April 3, 2017 - What is Unmasking and Did Susan Rice Do Anything Wrong?
Requesting that is a routine thing for national security advisers to do, according to former senior officials, including Keith Alexander, who directed the National Security Agency.
Rice didn't and couldn't "order" the unmasking of any American, current and former officials say. The agencies that hold the raw surveillance transcripts — usually the NSA or the FBI — make that decision. It's a process subject to rules and reviewed by lawyers, and it has to be justified by an intelligence purpose.
April 2, 2017 Rep. Devin Nunes' credibility questioned as Russia Investigation goes on.
"...Now it is the odor of apparent complicity that the White House is smelling. For days, no one at the White House would answer the easily answerable question of who had cleared Nunes into the White House compound to view sensitive intelligence information. Then on Thursday, shortly before Spicer’s briefing, the New York Times reported that two White House officials have been involved in helping to provide Nunes with the information. The Washington Post later named a third person who was involved in handling the material."
Russia Investigation has a few front: Inside the White House
April 1, 2017 Who the Hell is Evelyn Farkas?
I don't know her personally, we've never met. However, if I ever have the opportunity to meet her, I'd greet her with a hug and a kiss!
This is a great article - go have a look.
March 31, 2017
Still sick, but better. Plus, I'm totally swept up with the train wreck going on in Washington right now. I have a sad feeling that the only person who will face any real heat is Mike Flynn, and we'll still be stuck with #45.
Oh well, listen to these lovely ladies sing this wonderful song.
Still sick, but better. Plus, I'm totally swept up with the train wreck going on in Washington right now. I have a sad feeling that the only person who will face any real heat is Mike Flynn, and we'll still be stuck with #45.
Oh well, listen to these lovely ladies sing this wonderful song.
March 30, 2017
Playing catch up - I've been sick with the plague (upper respiratory / sinus).
Playing catch up - I've been sick with the plague (upper respiratory / sinus).
March 29, 2017
Playing catch up - I've been sick with the plague (upper respiratory / sinus).
Playing catch up - I've been sick with the plague (upper respiratory / sinus).
