Ponyo
The S.O. and I went to the movies this evening. We went to see the English version of the Hayao Miyazaki film, Gake no ue no Ponyo. (Ponyo of above the cliff (by the sea)). The Disney title is simpler:...
View ArticleThere goes the neighborhood…….
You ran for Vice President-that did not quite work out the way you had hoped. After that, you became bored running America’s largest, most homogeneous, and easiest to run state. It’s still a month or...
View ArticleMr. Will votes no.
Not that anyone will listen to him-but from a purely American interests standpoint-he may be right: U.S. forces are being increased by 21,000 to 68,000, bringing the coalition total to 110,000. About...
View ArticleThat did not take long……
For the usual suspects to hammer back at George Will The Fat Boy put down his cheeseburger long enough to weigh in. Bozo the Clown and William the Bloody are also heard from too. I take that as the...
View ArticleSoul food.
Last Saturday the S.O. and I drove up to Fayatteville Tennessee. What is it about the south and the name Fayatteville? Arkansas has one. North Carolina does, I think South Carolina does too....
View ArticleRoad trip
Long day and an evening flight out to the left coast. Early day tomorrow. Hotel bed beckons……….
View ArticleCruising…..
My apologies about the lack of posts. I was out here in California for business and brought the S.O. with me. She wanted to see the "left coast" since it had been over twenty years since she had seen...
View ArticlePeople watching
Home at last-LAX to Chicago, thence to Shopping Mall. Plane to Shopping mall was 1 hour late departing. Go figure. In a normal world-no big deal. Just start drinking beer. S.O. in tow-that’s not such...
View ArticleSick…
Not really-but I do feel really tired. Plus-the current political cycle has me just plum tuckered out. I don’t think either side is winning anymore-its just the beginning of the long circular slide to...
View Article9-11
I am over my crankiness of earlier ( well sort of….). So I spent some time with the S.O. tonight, because she deserved some attention and kindness. We watched the movie Sideways, so we could see where...
View ArticleWorth repeating………
For the record, I absolutely LOATHE Glenn Beck. Whenever he is on TV I make it a point to change the channel-even at the gym. Which is why this article from Time, struck a nerve with me today:...
View ArticleWine Country
Maya: No, I- I like to think about the life of wine. Miles Raymond: Yeah. Maya: How it’s a living thing. I like to think about what was going on the year the grapes were growing; how the sun was...
View ArticleSo that is the guy who is at fault!
My Canadian counterpart has figured out who is to blame for the lousy economy. Some asshole named Grover Norquist: There was a point in the late 1970s when American conservative politics became...
View ArticleDoes size matter?
Evidently it does when you talking about douche teabaggers: But yesterday, someone told a real whopper. ABC News, citing the DC fire department, reported that between 60,000 and 70,000 people had...
View ArticleWaking up and smelling the coffee….
In Japan, that is. Earlier this week, Phibian went high order because the new leadership in Japan had threatened to cancel Japan’s support of re-fueling ships in the Indian Ocean in support of the war...
View ArticleWays to know you are a gaijin
Repeated from Invisible Gaijin. Ones that apply to me-or that I have done (or used to before I was exiled to the land of fat women) are in bold: You call yourself gaijin because you know it pisses off...
View ArticleHoly cow! -Bush was right!
About douche tea baggers: Commenting on an upcoming book my Canadian counterpart comes up with a gold nugget. Much of the professionally stupid Republican blogosphere is going absolutely insane over...
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