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Sometimes you just have to grab life by the horns, lose your grip and get trampled. Reply

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This is my web log. But it's not a log, as in "journal," it's a log as in "turd."

the little one
360 is sucking more than normal and I can't get any embedded sounds to work, so here is a link to the audio

Pipsy, Pipsy,
Little dog that runs around and
licks me, licks me
like a frog she jumps and her snout
hits me, hits me
in the mouth or sometimes in my eye

Mold me, mold me,
If I make you angry then you
scold me, scold me,
All I want to do is what you
told me, told me
All I'll ever want to do's for you

They said to be sensible with your small dog.
Be sure to assert you're on higher ground,
but they never stood and watched her run 'round
while she excitedly circles the room
with her feet never touching the ground

Pipsy, Pipsy,
when I leave for work I know you'll
miss me, miss me
Sometimes I'm home late, too,
so Pispy, Pipsy
Every night I'll say, "this walk's for you."

Ah, but they never stood in the house with you, love
when you blaze through all of the rooms with your tail faster than your behind!
Pipsy, Pipsy,
Little dog that runs around and licks me, licks me,
Someday I will outlive you so lick me, lick me
and every night I'll say, "this walk's for you!"

Thursday April 9, 2009 - 05:15am (PDT) Permanent Link | 0 Comments
Bill Gates, you jackass!
Didn't the E.U. and 48 states in the U.S. win lawsuits against you and your company, forcing IE to be separated from the O.S., and STILL your piece of shit IE software lost my blog comments responding to Arti and Tess? Your damn browser sucks criminally!
Wednesday March 4, 2009 - 03:43am (PST) Permanent Link | 1 Comment
unearthing every hideous corner

Abraham Bomba described his experience as a barber in Treblinka:

"We worked inside the gas chamber for about a week or ten days. After that they decided that we will cut their hair in the undressing barrack. [The gas chamber] was not a big room, around twelve feet by twelve feet. But in that room they pushed in a lot of women, almost one on top of another. But like I mentioned before, when we came in, we didn’t know what we were going to do. And then one of the kapos came in and said: ‘Barbers, you have to do a job to make all those women coming in believe that they are just taking a haircut and going in to take a shower, and from there they go out from this place.’ We know already that there is no way of going out from this room, because this room was the last place they went in alive, and they will never go out alive. . . We were waiting there until the transport came in. Women with children pushed in to that place. We the barbers started to cut their hair, and some of them—I would say all of them—some of them knew already what was going to happen to them. We tried to do the best we could—to be the most human we could. . ."

"[The women] were undressed, naked, without clothes, without anything else—completely naked. All the women and all the children, because they came from the undressing barrack—the barrack before going into the gas chamber—where they had undressed themselves. . . .I felt that. . . I got to do what they told be, to cut their hair in a way that it looked like the barber was doing his job for a woman, and I set out to give them both, to take off as much hair as I could, because they needed women’s hair to be transported to Germany. We didn’t [shave them]. We just cut their hair and made believe they were getting a nice haircut. . . In one day there was about, I would say, going into that place between sixty and seventy women in the same room at one time. After we were finished with this party, another party came in, and there were about 140, 150 women. They were all already taken care of, and they told us to leave the gas chamber for a few minutes, about five minutes, when they put in the gas and chocked them to death. . . ."

"We waited outside the gas chamber and on the other side. On this side the women went in and on the other side was a group of working people who took out the dead bodies—some of them not exactly dead. They took them out, and in two minutes—in one minute—everything was clear. It was clean to take in the other party of women and do the same thing they did to the first one. Most of them had long hair—some had short hair. What we had to do was chop off the hair; like I mentioned, the Germans needed the hair for their purposes."

"A friend of mine worked as a barber—he was a good barber in my hometown—when his wife and his sister came into the gas chamber. . . I can’t. It’s too horrible. Please."

[At Lanzmann’s urging he continues, and the translators relates what Bomba said:] "They tried to talk to him . . . . [He] could not tell them this was the last time they stay alive, because behind them was the German Nazis, SS men, and [he] knew that if [he] said a word, not only the wife and the woman, who were dead already, but also [he] would share the same thing with them. In a way, [he] tried to do the best for them, with a second longer, a minute longer, just to hug them and kiss them, because [he] knew they would never see them again."

(from http://www.uiowa.edu/~c032150/shoah.html)

Wednesday March 4, 2009 - 03:43am (PST) Permanent Link | 0 Comments
Kristi, You and Addie Left Me for a Weekend in San Diego
Click here or here for the astonishingly beautiful midi.

A winter's day
in a rainy February
I am alone,
looking through the kitchen, heating up some pho (white man's pronunciation)
With some frozen veggies that I thought would go.
Where is our wok?!
Where is our frying pan?!

We bought a house--
Signed documents a'mighty!
Then you flew south of L.A.
We've bought hazard insurance, the title deed's arranged.
Its finding things and cooking I disdain!
Where is our wok?!
Where is our frying pan?!

Not in the stove!
But I've seen the wok before.
It's sleeping in my memory.
It's not that I've forgotten, the knowledge simply died.
I never learn, my spouse often has cried!
Where is our wok?!
Where is our frying pan?!

I have a cold,
and no remedies to protect me.
I am shielded from society,
Hiding in my room, orgizationally doomed
I stress no one but no one cooks for me.
Where is our wok?!
Where is our frying pan?!

And my clothes have new stains,
And no baby ever cries.

Saturday February 21, 2009 - 08:53pm (PST) Permanent Link | 2 Comments
What we saw in St. Clair, MO

This year Kristi and I decided to drive across the country for our holiday travels. On December 23rd we found ourselves hoping that God would provide an adequate vehicle capable of transporting our family unit, after Satan claimed the Vanagon camper.

We performed initial testing with the Saturn wagon, cramming me, Kristi, Addie (in her car seat with all her associated baby paraphernalia), Pipsy and Skooch into the car with more junk piled on top. We ran this test configuration (sorry, no photos) to Sacramento and then down to Fresno, and it proved traumatizing for Skooch, who was displeased by not having sufficient space to move his legs or turn around. We didn't want to deprive Skooch of the basic rights that even chickens are legislated to have in California, and we didn't want to get arrested upon re-entering the state during 2009. The Saturn would not be adequate, but we were still planning to leave California Dec. 26 in order to arrive in Chicago by Dec. 30 to visit our nephews during their vacation time.

As often seems to happen, fate intervened amidst the chaos of our growing transportational disaster, and we swapped our Saturn for my father's pickup truck in Fresno. The pickup truck is less snow-worthy but provides majestic comfort. I lined the camper-shell-covered bed with 3 layers--luggage, blankets and dogs--and filled the cab with baby, spouse, snacks and vital stuff. Then we hit the road! Happy To Be On the Road

We are now safely in Chicago, and I am happy to report the following critically important stuff from along the way:


1. Our family Christmas in Sacramento this year had a Mexican theme with tamales (and enchiladas) for the meal. My mother brought stick-on mustaches for everyone to wear, like banditos. Sacramento Christmas
2. My cousin Monte also made a real, wooden t-shirt (really, made from finished 1/4" and 1/2" plywood). We got a phone call around noon because Uncle Frank had gotten lost in a field and fired off a flare gun for assistance. A sheriff's deputy had seen the flare, and a cruiser was escorting him in. That is how it came to pass that at about 1pm on Christmas day, the police performed their perfunctory duty of guiding a lost, flare-gun shooting citizen to the greeting of his his mustache-toting, beer holding, wooden t-shirt-wearing family. (photo availability pending upload by procrastinating family member)
3. 100 miles in, the trip started to wear on... 100 Miles Later
...the trip wears on....
4. Somewhere in New Mexico I got bored and struck up a conversation, mentioning that helium tends to bubble up to the outer atmosphere and escape into space rather than staying confined within Earth's gravitational pull. This brought up the question of whether the Earth's mass is decreasing as time passes. I felt that the mass of the futons coming off the Sun is so small that it doesn't compensate for the lost gases, but Kristi--who catches every slip of the tongue I make--pointed out that futons can be quite massive and that she used to have to move them when she managed apartments and residents would abandon them. Anyway, always remember to wear sunscreen because, even on overcast days, the sun continues to bombard the earth with futons and you wouldn't want to get hit by one unprotected.
5. I took this photo of an enormous windmill, but an oncoming truck passed by just when I clicked the shutter. Spactacular Shot of a Enormous Windmill
6. If anyone spots a gas cap on top of a pump at the Quicktrip station in Tulsa, Oklahoma, please grab it for us. After donating it, we later decided that we want it back.
7. We saw this in St. Clair, Missouri. On our return trip, I plan to stop and shower for as long as I please.St. Clair water towers
8. In Illinois we found this strange sign. The only way into or out of the freeway rest area was via the freeway. How does one park in a rest area without being a patron?An Interesting Sign


added later:



I nearly left out something from along the way: I listened carefully to "Daydream Believer" and analyzed the lyrics. Clearly the song is about the the United States' attempt to stop the proliferation of communism at Vietnam during the 1960s.


Oh, I could hide 'neath the wings
Of the bluebird as she sings.
The six o'clock alarm would never ring.
Enjoying peace
while nothing threatens liberty

But it rings and I rise,
Wipe the sleep out of my eyes.
My shavin' razor's cold and it stings.

Advancing communist threat
Preparing for war
A fight in Vietnam is politically painful

Cheer up, Sleepy Jean.
Oh, what can it mean.
To a daydream believer
And a homecoming queen.

Sleepy Jean = South Vietnamese govt.

Believing in continued U.S. support
homecoming queen = Jane Fonda

You once thought of me
As a white knight on a steed.
Now you know how happy I can be.
Oh, and our good times start and end
Without dollar one to spend.
But how much, baby, do we really need?

white night = U.S.
Describes prosperity in U.S.

support can't cost U.S. citizens anything
Oh, maybe the communists aren't really a priority

Wednesday December 31, 2008 - 12:27pm (PST) Permanent Link | 6 Comments

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