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Post by godotwaits on Oct 31, 2016 22:18:40 GMT -5
"Just walk right in, it's around the back, just a half a mile from the railroad track..." Love that song. Almost just in time for Thanksgiving. I gotta listen to it every year. Oh, and speaking of "walking back" look tomorrow for the lead article in the NYTimes on Donald Trump's taxes background. A little bombshell in the other direction. You're right Peter! The system's rigged!!It's like storming the walls of the citadel of power with catapults. One more ball of tar to clean up.
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Post by godotwaits on Oct 30, 2016 13:00:35 GMT -5
Truly nice to look at something beautiful for a change.
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Post by godotwaits on Oct 22, 2016 7:40:17 GMT -5
"Hark! Who goes there..?"
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Post by godotwaits on Oct 5, 2016 23:41:47 GMT -5
Haven't listened to the music of this...but damn that original photo reminds me of the schematic to some diabolical pc board after multiple 'jumps and cuts.'
Send it to the freakin' repair department and let them figure it out!
I'll wash my hands sooner than tangle with that dichotomy...
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Post by godotwaits on Oct 5, 2016 23:30:39 GMT -5
It was the grease paint that did them in. Every occupation has its hazards. But there was a long tradition of folks who used a lot of the medium of clowning. Red Skelton, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy and finally Emmett Kelly who did, indeed, use the greasepaint approach. The mask.
The mask has been a convention of the Greek Theater origins and probably not the oldest tradition in the history of man. Circus work is the culmination of the greasepaint style. But the mask is known as an "organic" symbol in theatricality, bordering almost on cliche. The inevitable implication is 'something hidden.'
So once our cultural evolution introduced us to the 'slasher' - 'slice and dice' horror genre the connotation was too deeply changed. (Glad I didn't buy any stock in the "Clown College" in Fla)
Not only do I hate the horror genre, I hate the f**king clowns too.
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Post by godotwaits on Oct 5, 2016 20:53:43 GMT -5
We've come a long way from the days of Emmett Kelly with his sad existential broom sweeping up his spotlight.
I have to credit Gacy with turning a significant corner. Too bad.
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Post by godotwaits on Oct 5, 2016 12:22:02 GMT -5
Yes to patrick. It was a pretty darn good audition for future R debate concerns. Pretty darn good at swatting any fly out of the room.
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Post by godotwaits on Oct 4, 2016 22:26:46 GMT -5
Probably won't register too high in speed by the time it arrives. Although it will traverse the Gulf Stream and pick up some warm sea momentum. But still, as a walking talkin' tropical depression it can pack a lot of water and external damage.
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Post by godotwaits on Oct 2, 2016 9:07:49 GMT -5
His more recent "Vagrant Stanzas" is quite a nice cd. Celtic/bluegrass themed.
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Debate?
Sept 26, 2016 11:37:49 GMT -5
Post by godotwaits on Sept 26, 2016 11:37:49 GMT -5
Nope. Past my beddy time.
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Post by godotwaits on Sept 26, 2016 0:26:09 GMT -5
Jesus and the devil were playing a round of 18, when Jesus sliced one right into a water trap. So as Jesus was walking on water. lookin' for his ball...someone in the gallery said: "Who the hell does he think he is...Jesus Christ...?" And the devil said: "No, at the moment, I think he thinks he's Arnold Palmer.."
my favorite Arnold Palmer joke.
Hope no one is offended. Or as Robert Frost was wont to say: "Forgive, oh Lord, my little jokes on thee...And I'll forgive thy great big one on me!"
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Post by godotwaits on Sept 26, 2016 0:18:29 GMT -5
"we'll both wear out about the same time..." There you go. No use leavin' it to some wannabe.
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Post by godotwaits on Sept 12, 2016 8:47:48 GMT -5
Sure looks like a sexy little thang!
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Post by godotwaits on Sept 12, 2016 4:44:01 GMT -5
MarkTen works for me. Flavor is anonymous sorta and it puts out almost no vapors. You can take a quick hit on the sly and no one even notices.
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Post by godotwaits on Sept 11, 2016 21:00:26 GMT -5
God bless all youse guys.
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Post by godotwaits on Sept 10, 2016 19:45:37 GMT -5
Glasses, hearing aids, dental procedures, buying a new car....you stand there with a desperate look of dread on your face as you watch...as you watch that high speed dance of fingers on the calculator. You'd think you were watching a CPA calculate the annual 'profit/loss' statement for a monolithic company. That's when you know you're about about to be assaulted with the wicked 'spiral flute reamers' of greed. You thought you had negotiated the purchase of a 25K car, with discounts, and when you finish you got a great big bill cause of the the ancillary charges that never get mentioned in the sales pitch. "Now lemme see here...destination charges, storage charges, dealer prep charges, gratuities to the driver who delivered the vehicle, licensing and registration charges, gratuities for the sucker who had to stand in line at the DMV charges....yadayadayada....it goes on forever. Bottom line: you just bought a seriously overpriced car for 30K something that'll only be worth 20K the minute you drive it off the lot. And you discover they were perfectly willing to let you drive it off the lot just as you notice....you ain't got no floor mats...."OH dear, well that's and additional $300." Or this one I love....$500K new homes! that don't come with storm doors!!! Doh!! , and I was showed ferinstance... I got a brand new crown in my head. It's really cool. My tongue loves exploring the thing. And it's such a welcome change for the sharp edge of the previously broken tooth. I mean really a relief....well when the calculator was in operation... I was shown in the nifty computer imaging that unfortunately I was gonna have to have a root canal for this wreckage of a tooth... so the price was crown plus root canal....then after 'drilling that tooth down, the dentist finishes and says..."Hey you're one lucky guy, I got enough to tooth to work with here, you don't need the root canal.." And, of course, you're so damn relieved to hear that, you can't express your gratitude... but after awhile, you begin to think..."Hey wait a minute, I just paid this dude $2000 for a crown..!!!" And the dude comes out with a new set of custom matching wheels for his boat trailer!!!
Needless to say, I got an attitude here...
It's called the "Gross Greed Factor."
And don't even let me get going on medical..! I said to a friend, "you know how many years we been paying Rent/Mortgage to live some place? Well, when your old you start have to pay the same thing just to keep living in your body."
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Post by godotwaits on Sept 10, 2016 7:39:42 GMT -5
Kinda lonesome around here. Now all the bacon barbarians have descended upon the corn fields of Iowa.
Meeting my brother today. He's the family genealogy expert. Going up to Middletown, Ct to inspect the historical records of a great great grandfather's nefarious roots.
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Post by godotwaits on Sept 9, 2016 10:14:14 GMT -5
I can almost hear 'em from here. Local farmers running around crying "SUIIIII. Pig Pig Pig"
And I think I can almost hear all those poor pigs running around in the corn patch sayin' "Oh my God here come those bacon barbarians again! Feet don't fail me now!"
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Post by godotwaits on Sept 9, 2016 4:07:10 GMT -5
Well. There goes the neighborhood! Both in IA. and here on the forum.
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Post by godotwaits on Sept 8, 2016 20:18:12 GMT -5
think bone
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