This is not a Raspootin type of video, but Raspootin admits it is ummm rather sweet...
Friday, February 27, 2009
Monday, February 16, 2009
post 400
HA I would have just executed it the first time around. Ya can't let them get the best of you by crawling up your leg. Heeehee
This video reminds me of an interview I had with Ned @ Pastiche. I was sitting there talking to this charming, very refined, gay interior decorator and he kept having this uncomfortable look on his face. I thought, well maybe it’s just me? Then with a shriek he pulls off his pants and runs to the bathroom - still screaming. I was like ummm Ned can I help you? I mean evidently something was wrong.
Needless to say it was a very special sort of first interview; luckily he was sporting boxers with little fish on them.
He came back minutes later and explained that one of our "special" New Orleans caterpillars had crawled up his pants leg and proceeded to bite him for all the little caterpillar was worth. I did not crack a smile, as I did not want bad karma. The caterpillars here make the flying cock roaches look like pussy cats. The frickin 'pillars will continue to sting and not die; though you feel like you might. I have been stung by wasps, yellow jackets and can find no comparison to the NOLA caterpillar bite.
Friday, February 13, 2009
Smokey
A couple of weeks ago a pregnant cat fell through the bathroom ceiling of my local bar; greatly surprising Uriah the bartender who just happened to be using the facilities at the time of said fall.
Anyway the cat ran under the beer cooler and refused to come out. She gave birth to 1 kitten and pushed it out away from her; then retired back to under the cooler, of course where no one could reach her.
Another Bartender, Brenda, picked up the little kitten and bottle fed him every 15 minutes for 4 days, saving its life. Brenda is a special person who has a way with animals. I was telling UNO that Brenda once saved little sparrows and would place them in her bra to keep them warm. He inquired about the bird poop; a question that I had never really thought about, but one that made me laugh.
Any how the sort of fuzzy pictures are of Smokey the miracle kitten. Brenda is teaching him how to walk with a leash…
She says that she can not keep Smokey as she already has a house full of animals including her boyfriend Cal. So hopefully I will be adopting Smokey when she is fully weaned from Brenda’s bottle.
I don’t know how I feel about the name Smokey as I’m trying to quit; I am partial to the name pit or little twit.
Just kidding, anyway the pictures were taken by my friend Stephanie so I will try to get some better ones during Mardi Gras.
Anyway the cat ran under the beer cooler and refused to come out. She gave birth to 1 kitten and pushed it out away from her; then retired back to under the cooler, of course where no one could reach her.
Another Bartender, Brenda, picked up the little kitten and bottle fed him every 15 minutes for 4 days, saving its life. Brenda is a special person who has a way with animals. I was telling UNO that Brenda once saved little sparrows and would place them in her bra to keep them warm. He inquired about the bird poop; a question that I had never really thought about, but one that made me laugh.
Any how the sort of fuzzy pictures are of Smokey the miracle kitten. Brenda is teaching him how to walk with a leash…
She says that she can not keep Smokey as she already has a house full of animals including her boyfriend Cal. So hopefully I will be adopting Smokey when she is fully weaned from Brenda’s bottle.
I don’t know how I feel about the name Smokey as I’m trying to quit; I am partial to the name pit or little twit.
Just kidding, anyway the pictures were taken by my friend Stephanie so I will try to get some better ones during Mardi Gras.
Oh the mother cat finally ran out from the cooler, startling another bartender - guess she did not want to leave anyone out and made her escape through the door.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Monday, February 09, 2009
Good to know we still have sensitive children...
Raspy:
Cal(my 7 yr old) has been viewing this clip on and off for the past few months. He always wants me to watch it with him and tell him what it means, but I usually tell him he has to figure it out by himself. Well, last night he finally figured it out and was almost inconsolable.
I spent an hour trying to cheer him up last night. Just wanted to share. The video's not too sad - or maybe I just don't have the same level of empathy
I think it is sad; but in a happy way because it showed that through diligence and hard work Kiwi was able to achieve his dream; even though it was some what of an illusion. If I win the lottery, I would help him have surgery to repair these little deformed wings. You know how I feel about my arms… so perhaps I read into it more than you; and side with your son’s level of empathy. The little tear of happiness or was it sadness was very touching.
See now you have to figure out if I am being empathic or down right sarcastic; I shall never tell :)
Cal(my 7 yr old) has been viewing this clip on and off for the past few months. He always wants me to watch it with him and tell him what it means, but I usually tell him he has to figure it out by himself. Well, last night he finally figured it out and was almost inconsolable.
I spent an hour trying to cheer him up last night. Just wanted to share. The video's not too sad - or maybe I just don't have the same level of empathy
I think it is sad; but in a happy way because it showed that through diligence and hard work Kiwi was able to achieve his dream; even though it was some what of an illusion. If I win the lottery, I would help him have surgery to repair these little deformed wings. You know how I feel about my arms… so perhaps I read into it more than you; and side with your son’s level of empathy. The little tear of happiness or was it sadness was very touching.
See now you have to figure out if I am being empathic or down right sarcastic; I shall never tell :)
Tuesday, February 03, 2009
Nasty business...
Speaking from the vantage point of someone who gets completely grossed out over a grisly bit or an icky unidentified bit in my food; this video is absolutely disgusting. Its only redemption was that they did not show the judges sampling the final results. I can not even bring myself to call it food.
I am surprised that PETA does not take offense at culinary competitions of this type.
Speaking of finding nasty bits in food; bar none I can order the same dish as everyone else at the table, they will all think their food is wonderful and I will find something that revolts me in mine. My friend Denise used to say when we ordered the same dish, just switch your plate with mine before you start, because I don’t want you ruining my meal when you find what you perceive to be an icky bit in your food.
Even with the exchange I still would be the blessed receiver of a bit of iron, a band-aid, a finger nail, a hair, a BUG; you name it and it has shown up in my food. Now I have to say that at least I have never found the food itself to be alive; so for that I can be thankful.
I am surprised that PETA does not take offense at culinary competitions of this type.
Speaking of finding nasty bits in food; bar none I can order the same dish as everyone else at the table, they will all think their food is wonderful and I will find something that revolts me in mine. My friend Denise used to say when we ordered the same dish, just switch your plate with mine before you start, because I don’t want you ruining my meal when you find what you perceive to be an icky bit in your food.
Even with the exchange I still would be the blessed receiver of a bit of iron, a band-aid, a finger nail, a hair, a BUG; you name it and it has shown up in my food. Now I have to say that at least I have never found the food itself to be alive; so for that I can be thankful.
Friday, January 30, 2009
Government issued chemical crap?
Yesterday evening I was having a conversation with a friend who served special opts in Vietnam. We were discussing; well mainly I was discussing, that it seemed like there was some sort of crap in the air because my nose burned, and a number of my co-workers were saying they too had respiratory and nasal problems. My friend said; well perhaps it’s something to do with all the Chemtrails over the city. Not being very up on chemtrails or contrails I asked him what he was talking about. He said that he has been seeing the criss cross patterns over the city for the past year or so. He said the planes were flying really high, and were definitely of military orientation. Apparently a local talk news person was recently fired for questioning on- air what these planes were doing and inquiring about what sort of chemicals they were dropping. The military adamantly denied that the trails are chemtrails saying that all people are seeing is the typical contrail associated with high altitude condensation.
Of course the conspiracy theorist in me is intrigued. The fact that I have been breathing some sort of shit that the government denies dropping not only intrigues, but scares me. My friend has 20+ years military experience and I think he is quite qualified to make an educated discretion between chemtrails and contrails.
I did a little research on the subject and these are some of the things that I found.
“Proponents of the chemtrail theories differentiate chemtrails from contrails by describing them as streams that sometimes persist in the sky for hours, and which sometimes trace criss-crossing, grid-like patterns, or parallel stripes which eventually blend to form large clouds. Another feature that proponents say distinguishes a chemtrail from a contrail is the presence of visible color prisms in the streams, unusual concentrations of sky tracks in a single area, or lingering tracks left by unmarked or military airplanes flying in atypical altitudes or locations.”
“What he was viewing were actually “chemtrails.��? Chemtrails refer to contrails that some citizens, such as Gross, believe may contain chemicals for the purposes of weather manipulation.”
So – does this mean that they are trying to save the people of New Orleans from the next big hurricane? If so, why are they spraying during the winter? Does this have something to do with our December 11th snow that stuck on the ground?
“From Louisiana, “Here in New Orleans we get sprayed weekly.” From Texas, “I have been noticing aircraft discharging trails in various patterns across the San Antonio sky.”
”Government agencies and other experts on contrail or atmospheric phenomena deny the existence of chemtrails, insisting that the characteristics attributed to them are simply features of contrails responding differently in diverse conditions in terms of the sunlight, temperature, horizontal and vertical wind shear, and humidity levels present at the aircraft's altitude”
I do not really know what to think, but there seems sufficient evidence from the above videos that there is something going on in the sky over New Orleans and other cities. I really do wonder what is going on. When the government adamantly denies anything it is a cause for great concern.
Of course the conspiracy theorist in me is intrigued. The fact that I have been breathing some sort of shit that the government denies dropping not only intrigues, but scares me. My friend has 20+ years military experience and I think he is quite qualified to make an educated discretion between chemtrails and contrails.
I did a little research on the subject and these are some of the things that I found.
“Proponents of the chemtrail theories differentiate chemtrails from contrails by describing them as streams that sometimes persist in the sky for hours, and which sometimes trace criss-crossing, grid-like patterns, or parallel stripes which eventually blend to form large clouds. Another feature that proponents say distinguishes a chemtrail from a contrail is the presence of visible color prisms in the streams, unusual concentrations of sky tracks in a single area, or lingering tracks left by unmarked or military airplanes flying in atypical altitudes or locations.”
“What he was viewing were actually “chemtrails.��? Chemtrails refer to contrails that some citizens, such as Gross, believe may contain chemicals for the purposes of weather manipulation.”
So – does this mean that they are trying to save the people of New Orleans from the next big hurricane? If so, why are they spraying during the winter? Does this have something to do with our December 11th snow that stuck on the ground?
“From Louisiana, “Here in New Orleans we get sprayed weekly.” From Texas, “I have been noticing aircraft discharging trails in various patterns across the San Antonio sky.”
”Government agencies and other experts on contrail or atmospheric phenomena deny the existence of chemtrails, insisting that the characteristics attributed to them are simply features of contrails responding differently in diverse conditions in terms of the sunlight, temperature, horizontal and vertical wind shear, and humidity levels present at the aircraft's altitude”
I do not really know what to think, but there seems sufficient evidence from the above videos that there is something going on in the sky over New Orleans and other cities. I really do wonder what is going on. When the government adamantly denies anything it is a cause for great concern.
Monday, January 26, 2009
I have bad luck; damn it!
I was reading a James Patterson book and one of the lines was “A bad wind this way blows”. The phrase reminds me of my Saturday Night.
All day Saturday it was like I was working myself into a state of complete mental retardation. I was moody; unfocused and generally just a misery to me and anyone that I came in contact with.
Nevertheless I felt the need to go meet friends for dinner. I left the gallery and I knew that I should go home first and drop off my work bag, containing all the postcards, labels and stamps that I had spent 5 hours on that afternoon compiling for my next opening. Also there was my “go to bag” were all my prescription drugs, a camera, ear rings, phone charger, makeup; you name it, is was in my “go to bag”; I even had a bottle of Crown for extreme situations stashed in there. Along with my “go to bag” I had a box of Birthday presents that my sister sent me; none of which had I even opened yet not my card or my presents.
So like the dumb dumb that I had worked myself up to during the day; I went to dinner and left all my stuff in the truck. After dinner we all went out for drinks and instead of dropping me off at my truck my friends dropped me at my house. I completely zoned that I had left everything in my truck until I woke up at 3:00 am. I woke with an abrupt start and just knew without a doubt that someone had broken into my car. I tried and tried to go back to sleep; as 3:00 am did not seem like a good time to walk 7 blocks by myself to go check on my car.
I eventually drifted into a fitful slumber and while there had the weirdest dream. I was in my bed and all around me things were moving by themselves. The drawers were opening and closing, a floor lamp (I don’t even have a floor lamp) was twisting and turning and all the while there was a low moaning sound. So in my dream I thought am I dreaming? This is kind of scary. I wished that someone else was there to verify that what I was seeing was real.
All of a sudden my co-worker showed up on the end of my bed. The humor in this is that my friend is a very petite beautiful woman who literally screams if a lizard, bug you name it crosses her path. I look at her in disappointment and say I must be dreaming because you can not be real. Surely “they” whoever they are would have sent someone other than you. She is just looking at me in disgust; so I reach out and touch her arm and she is solid.
Coworker: “Why did you conjure me? I told you that I did not want to see your Ghosts.”
Me: “Well I definitely did not ask for you to show up, but can you at least verify that you are seeing what I am seeing?”
Coworker “Make me go away now; I don’t want to be in your dream. Why didn’t you conjure up someone else?”
Me: “I don’t know, it wasn’t my choice”
Co Worker: “Make me go away now!!!”
Me: “NO now you’re here please don’t go away I don’t want to be left alone with it”
Co Worker: “I don’t care what you want. I am going to think of the ghost hunter woman and then I m going to leave you to your ghosts; I can’t believe you made me come here”
My co-worker is an impeccably dressed, intelligent woman; and the supercilious tone she used was the same one I have heard her use with her husband when she means: no negotiations I will have my way.
Me “Please don’t leave me”
Co worker” You even made scary sounds along with everything else, I am leaving now; I may never forgive you for this. Then as parting comment she said YOU HAVE a lava Lamp? Eweweee – ”
Then in a blink a woman who is dressed in a safari outfit with a large butterfly net shows up. She informs me that she will prove that the ghosts are all in my imagination; by addressing each piece of furniture individually that is moving. So she goes through my bedroom and backroom with a little posse of small creatures and touches everything with her butterfly net… I dunno what she found out as she never told me.
Then I woke up. Then I got dressed and hiked down to my Truck. Sure enough someone had completely broken out the window; and stole my presents and my “Go to Bag”. They must have used a dirty white hat to cover their hand as there was one sitting on my front seat. Next to the hat was guess what? My bottle of Crown Royal; evidently the burglar must have had a sense of humor; even though I am still having a hard time seeing it. “Guess this sucker’s going to need a stiff one after this”.
The police made me feel like it was all my fault for leaving stuff in my car. I guess it was my fault; but I did not see the point in them making me feel worse than I already do. Please keep your fingers crossed that it does not rain until Safelite Glass can fix my window; and I found out the hard way, almost, why you can not cover your broke out window with a garbage bag… it makes seeing the traffic to the right rather difficult. On the way to work I had to get out of the truck at an intersection and pull the plastic off so I could see; once again feeling like an idiot as the guy in the truck behind me leaned on his horn for 20 seconds. I was good and refrained from calling him a name. (s)
Lesson learned? When a wind is blowing bad, go home, lock the doors and order take out. My co worker inquired what I had to eat to make me dream the dream; so if you get food; make it bland/ I still am under the assumption that her assumption is that I take drugs before bed. Maybe the key is actually taking a lot of drugs before bed :)
All day Saturday it was like I was working myself into a state of complete mental retardation. I was moody; unfocused and generally just a misery to me and anyone that I came in contact with.
Nevertheless I felt the need to go meet friends for dinner. I left the gallery and I knew that I should go home first and drop off my work bag, containing all the postcards, labels and stamps that I had spent 5 hours on that afternoon compiling for my next opening. Also there was my “go to bag” were all my prescription drugs, a camera, ear rings, phone charger, makeup; you name it, is was in my “go to bag”; I even had a bottle of Crown for extreme situations stashed in there. Along with my “go to bag” I had a box of Birthday presents that my sister sent me; none of which had I even opened yet not my card or my presents.
So like the dumb dumb that I had worked myself up to during the day; I went to dinner and left all my stuff in the truck. After dinner we all went out for drinks and instead of dropping me off at my truck my friends dropped me at my house. I completely zoned that I had left everything in my truck until I woke up at 3:00 am. I woke with an abrupt start and just knew without a doubt that someone had broken into my car. I tried and tried to go back to sleep; as 3:00 am did not seem like a good time to walk 7 blocks by myself to go check on my car.
I eventually drifted into a fitful slumber and while there had the weirdest dream. I was in my bed and all around me things were moving by themselves. The drawers were opening and closing, a floor lamp (I don’t even have a floor lamp) was twisting and turning and all the while there was a low moaning sound. So in my dream I thought am I dreaming? This is kind of scary. I wished that someone else was there to verify that what I was seeing was real.
All of a sudden my co-worker showed up on the end of my bed. The humor in this is that my friend is a very petite beautiful woman who literally screams if a lizard, bug you name it crosses her path. I look at her in disappointment and say I must be dreaming because you can not be real. Surely “they” whoever they are would have sent someone other than you. She is just looking at me in disgust; so I reach out and touch her arm and she is solid.
Coworker: “Why did you conjure me? I told you that I did not want to see your Ghosts.”
Me: “Well I definitely did not ask for you to show up, but can you at least verify that you are seeing what I am seeing?”
Coworker “Make me go away now; I don’t want to be in your dream. Why didn’t you conjure up someone else?”
Me: “I don’t know, it wasn’t my choice”
Co Worker: “Make me go away now!!!”
Me: “NO now you’re here please don’t go away I don’t want to be left alone with it”
Co Worker: “I don’t care what you want. I am going to think of the ghost hunter woman and then I m going to leave you to your ghosts; I can’t believe you made me come here”
My co-worker is an impeccably dressed, intelligent woman; and the supercilious tone she used was the same one I have heard her use with her husband when she means: no negotiations I will have my way.
Me “Please don’t leave me”
Co worker” You even made scary sounds along with everything else, I am leaving now; I may never forgive you for this. Then as parting comment she said YOU HAVE a lava Lamp? Eweweee – ”
Then in a blink a woman who is dressed in a safari outfit with a large butterfly net shows up. She informs me that she will prove that the ghosts are all in my imagination; by addressing each piece of furniture individually that is moving. So she goes through my bedroom and backroom with a little posse of small creatures and touches everything with her butterfly net… I dunno what she found out as she never told me.
Then I woke up. Then I got dressed and hiked down to my Truck. Sure enough someone had completely broken out the window; and stole my presents and my “Go to Bag”. They must have used a dirty white hat to cover their hand as there was one sitting on my front seat. Next to the hat was guess what? My bottle of Crown Royal; evidently the burglar must have had a sense of humor; even though I am still having a hard time seeing it. “Guess this sucker’s going to need a stiff one after this”.
The police made me feel like it was all my fault for leaving stuff in my car. I guess it was my fault; but I did not see the point in them making me feel worse than I already do. Please keep your fingers crossed that it does not rain until Safelite Glass can fix my window; and I found out the hard way, almost, why you can not cover your broke out window with a garbage bag… it makes seeing the traffic to the right rather difficult. On the way to work I had to get out of the truck at an intersection and pull the plastic off so I could see; once again feeling like an idiot as the guy in the truck behind me leaned on his horn for 20 seconds. I was good and refrained from calling him a name. (s)
Lesson learned? When a wind is blowing bad, go home, lock the doors and order take out. My co worker inquired what I had to eat to make me dream the dream; so if you get food; make it bland/ I still am under the assumption that her assumption is that I take drugs before bed. Maybe the key is actually taking a lot of drugs before bed :)
Friday, January 23, 2009
old, over the hill, senior wtf?
OMG; even cartoons depress me today
Did I mention depression and cartoons?
Jeez I don't know about this getting old business...
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
creature of the night?
| Which creature of the night are you? Your Result: Sorceror Control is the name of your game. You are a studied tactician and scientist and you seek a kingdom where things make sense, damn the morals, even if you have to create it. You are cold, calm and calculating. | |
| Vampire | |
| Incubus/Succubus | |
| Cthulu Spawn | |
| Ghost | |
| Demon | |
| Werewolf | |
| Which creature of the night are you? Quiz Created on GoToQuiz | |
Raspootin was a good name; given to me by my friend Jack. Who would have known how accurate he was...
This is a quiz of Great interest :) what are you?
Friday, January 16, 2009
Happy Friday
This is somewhat nostalgic. Friday night now typically mean just that; however I have noticed that if I am going to misbehave Friday night is when I will do it. Why Friday? I have to work on Saturdays… Saturday Knights would be much better days to let my hair down on :)
Here’s to your Friday Night / Saturday Morning.
Here’s to your Friday Night / Saturday Morning.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
I want to smoke a cig or "something" NOW
When the Beatles sort of, in a way, met Joe at Woodstock or something to that effect/ affected the lyrics of this song or pehaps the editors just have a good imagination or perhaps my Chantex is really starting to get to me ;)
Enjoy
Enjoy
Thursday, January 08, 2009
clearing the airwaves
This post just made me think of "the horror" should Americans ever be forced to do as the rest of the world and change over to the metric system :)
I just picked up 2 converter boxes for the gallery, why I need 2 in a space that is only 2 rooms and 600 sq ft is a good question, guess the answer is: because I can??? because I wanted two (too)
The coupons are $40 off, so each box is only $20.00. Apparently the box works really well and you can get 12 "crystal" clear channels. I say "apparently" as I was not the one to hook up the boxes and have not seen the clarity yet. I want to add that I, unlike the lady in the video, am sure that I could have hooked them up without assistance.
Well that is debatable as I have an allergy to instructions of all kinds… anyway I would advise everyone to get one; it’s almost FREE hehee and that is a good enough reason for me.
Quite frankly I think our government could have supplied a $20 digital TV to anyone with an analog TV cheaper than the billions they spent on advertising, mailing coupons, printing the credit card like coupons and supplying the boxes...but why would we want the government to do anything that might actually save money and make sense?
You can get a $40 coupon Here
Wednesday, January 07, 2009
Ann's Guilty perverse pleasure
She’s BACK with another hate mongering book…”Guilty”. I say hate mongering as I really think Ann Coulter intends to offend with her writing and tone.
I am not a single parent, but on behalf of any single parent; especially single moms who Ann singles out, I am saying unequivocally she has stepped over the bounds of acceptability. She states in her new book: “If you are a victim of crime, thank a single mom” “Single mothers are victimizing children by raising them without Fathers”
What I would like to ask her, and am surprised that none of the interviewers to my knowledge has asked: What about the mother who was married and loses her husband through death? Is she polluting her child by not having a Father Figure in the Child’s life? The broadness of her assertion is crap. If she is going to say something she should just say, in a bigoted entailment racist way what she means:
Who Ann is really talking about but is not saying; are single women who have illegitimate children. I hate the word illegitimate as it implies that the child is less than a child of married parents. And I think Ms Coulter is embracing this point, making her a more Evil Cow than I previously thought.
Anyway Matt Lauer does a pretty good job fending off her foul smell in this interview :)
I am not a single parent, but on behalf of any single parent; especially single moms who Ann singles out, I am saying unequivocally she has stepped over the bounds of acceptability. She states in her new book: “If you are a victim of crime, thank a single mom” “Single mothers are victimizing children by raising them without Fathers”
What I would like to ask her, and am surprised that none of the interviewers to my knowledge has asked: What about the mother who was married and loses her husband through death? Is she polluting her child by not having a Father Figure in the Child’s life? The broadness of her assertion is crap. If she is going to say something she should just say, in a bigoted entailment racist way what she means:
Who Ann is really talking about but is not saying; are single women who have illegitimate children. I hate the word illegitimate as it implies that the child is less than a child of married parents. And I think Ms Coulter is embracing this point, making her a more Evil Cow than I previously thought.
Anyway Matt Lauer does a pretty good job fending off her foul smell in this interview :)
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
Tuesday, January 06, 2009
Rat Ttrap: and you've been caught
There was a “lotta rotten” going on that night: when Boom Town Rats came out with this song.
There is a ton of Rat Trap going on now and it scares me. Bob Geldof is brilliant:
See what he did for all causes humane: and he put his career as a musician behind to pursue such lofty ideas as Live Aid and so very much more: No wonder he was the least likely to be a Knight, but now is. Bob Knight.
"France and Egypt announced an initiative to stop the fighting in Gaza late Tuesday, hours after Israeli mortar shells exploded near a U.N. school sheltering hundreds of people displaced by the onslaught on Hamas militants. At least 30 Palestinians died, staining streets with blood."
"They said they were awaiting a response from Israel. Israeli officials in Jerusalem declined immediate comment on the announcement, which came amid diplomatic efforts by the U.S. and other nations to resolve a conflict that has seen 600 people killed in 11 days."
"Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice weclomed the initiative, but cautioned that no agreement would succeed unless it halted Hamas rocket attacks on Israel and arms smuggling into Gaza.
Earlier in the day, President-elect Barack Obama broke his silence on the crisis, saying that "the loss of civilian life in Gaza and in Israel is a source of deep concern for me." He declined to go further, reiterating his stance that the U.S. has only one president at a time
Only one at a time (presidents that is- unless you concider the trilagy of GW, Dick and Carl- I always thought threesomes were alway a problem with men...) Let us hope that our new President has the intelligence, the wisdom and the heart with a cetain amount of dipolmacy and integrity thrown in to end this; and end it now.
There is a ton of Rat Trap going on now and it scares me. Bob Geldof is brilliant:
See what he did for all causes humane: and he put his career as a musician behind to pursue such lofty ideas as Live Aid and so very much more: No wonder he was the least likely to be a Knight, but now is. Bob Knight.
"France and Egypt announced an initiative to stop the fighting in Gaza late Tuesday, hours after Israeli mortar shells exploded near a U.N. school sheltering hundreds of people displaced by the onslaught on Hamas militants. At least 30 Palestinians died, staining streets with blood."
"They said they were awaiting a response from Israel. Israeli officials in Jerusalem declined immediate comment on the announcement, which came amid diplomatic efforts by the U.S. and other nations to resolve a conflict that has seen 600 people killed in 11 days."
"Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice weclomed the initiative, but cautioned that no agreement would succeed unless it halted Hamas rocket attacks on Israel and arms smuggling into Gaza.
Earlier in the day, President-elect Barack Obama broke his silence on the crisis, saying that "the loss of civilian life in Gaza and in Israel is a source of deep concern for me." He declined to go further, reiterating his stance that the U.S. has only one president at a time
Only one at a time (presidents that is- unless you concider the trilagy of GW, Dick and Carl- I always thought threesomes were alway a problem with men...) Let us hope that our new President has the intelligence, the wisdom and the heart with a cetain amount of dipolmacy and integrity thrown in to end this; and end it now.
Friday, January 02, 2009
New Years Eve & Birthday
Appetizers made by yours truely humus with feta, olives with basil and red bell pepper; quite festive all wrapped in phylo dough/
Wait let me take off my glasses; I look better with my son & his g-friend that way
I don't do newyears hats
oops dont worry I have you both anchored; dont lean any futher though, the floor is dirty
didI say I was ready to have my picture taken?
Ok now I am ready
Famous Ms Gertie Owner of the establishment with Norman
Uriah and his very cute girl friend Amy, who has agreed to let me represent her work. I really do not try and pick my artists for their good looks...
Ms Gertie looking splendid; she is tiny so raspootin wisely stood behind her.
Liz and Thomas the newly weds.
My favorite birthday present: "Casa Raspootin" by Robert Sutton
my favorite b-day card the thing stickin out is GW' head so you can give it a thump as its attached to a spring
Fav b-day card
what was on the inside
doodles got the newyear spirit... not to say that her daddy looks a bit possessed of a spirit ???
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Modigliani & Verdun
Amedeo Modigliani
1884-1920
"During the early 1900s in Paris, the Italian painter and sculptor Amedeo Modigliani, b. July 12, 1884, d. Jan. 24, 1920, developed a unique style. Today his graceful portraits and lush nudes at once evoke his name, but during his brief career few apart from his fellow artists were aware of his gifts. Modigliani had to struggle against poverty and chronic ill health, dying of tuberculosis and excesses of drink and drugs at the age of 35. "
A quote from Modigliani’s writings…
1919
“ ....The man that cannot leave behind everything that is old and rotten is not a man, but a bourgeois. You suffer, you are right, but can't suffering serve to find yourself and to make your dream stronger than your desire?......always let your aesthetic needs prevail over your social obligations.”
This is an insight to the artist that some claim is unquestionably the finest painter of nudes that ever lived.
I represent Artist, Quincy Verdun, who I have had quite a few disagreements with gallery sight seers about. The sight seers and I call them that, as they have no intention of purchasing, they would prefer to just criticize, say that Quincy’s work is almost copy cattish. I contend that Quincy is an extremely talented artist whose work is influenced by Modigliani. I am going to include several of Quincy’s pieces and several of Modigliani’s for your review.
I personally think that Quincy captures the “lusciousness” of the female form better than Modigliani. Of course, I don’t think that was Amedeo’s focus when painting nudes, so there again is a factor that separates the two artists. The difficulty as a gallery owner with such critisizm is that the sight seers are basically accusing me of selling knock –off pieces which definitely would then make them not fine art and not collectable. The reputation thing could be a potential problem; however I stand by all the Artists I represent; these are all fine original pieces of art. Yes I do see a simularity, but that is a good thing not something bad.
Now I just need to find someone who wants to purchase beautiful nudes. An interesting aside; I usually send out post cards announcing upcoming shows; I did not even think about it, but Quincy was questioned whether the postal service would deliver postcards with a Nude on the front. I asked the postman, he asked the Postmaster and No the US Postal System will not deliver them. I need to ascertain exactly why as I am sure if I purchased a bunch of Ruben's or Modigliani postcards from a museum that they would allow me to post them... Maybe it's an odd Louisiana thing, but I do intend to find out.
Modigliani
1884-1920
"During the early 1900s in Paris, the Italian painter and sculptor Amedeo Modigliani, b. July 12, 1884, d. Jan. 24, 1920, developed a unique style. Today his graceful portraits and lush nudes at once evoke his name, but during his brief career few apart from his fellow artists were aware of his gifts. Modigliani had to struggle against poverty and chronic ill health, dying of tuberculosis and excesses of drink and drugs at the age of 35. "
A quote from Modigliani’s writings…
1919
“ ....The man that cannot leave behind everything that is old and rotten is not a man, but a bourgeois. You suffer, you are right, but can't suffering serve to find yourself and to make your dream stronger than your desire?......always let your aesthetic needs prevail over your social obligations.”
This is an insight to the artist that some claim is unquestionably the finest painter of nudes that ever lived.
I represent Artist, Quincy Verdun, who I have had quite a few disagreements with gallery sight seers about. The sight seers and I call them that, as they have no intention of purchasing, they would prefer to just criticize, say that Quincy’s work is almost copy cattish. I contend that Quincy is an extremely talented artist whose work is influenced by Modigliani. I am going to include several of Quincy’s pieces and several of Modigliani’s for your review.
I personally think that Quincy captures the “lusciousness” of the female form better than Modigliani. Of course, I don’t think that was Amedeo’s focus when painting nudes, so there again is a factor that separates the two artists. The difficulty as a gallery owner with such critisizm is that the sight seers are basically accusing me of selling knock –off pieces which definitely would then make them not fine art and not collectable. The reputation thing could be a potential problem; however I stand by all the Artists I represent; these are all fine original pieces of art. Yes I do see a simularity, but that is a good thing not something bad.
Now I just need to find someone who wants to purchase beautiful nudes. An interesting aside; I usually send out post cards announcing upcoming shows; I did not even think about it, but Quincy was questioned whether the postal service would deliver postcards with a Nude on the front. I asked the postman, he asked the Postmaster and No the US Postal System will not deliver them. I need to ascertain exactly why as I am sure if I purchased a bunch of Ruben's or Modigliani postcards from a museum that they would allow me to post them... Maybe it's an odd Louisiana thing, but I do intend to find out.
Modigliani
Verdun
Monday, December 29, 2008
Odd numbers rule @ SW
This shows the different dates
This shows the same number
My pictures of the airline boarding passes are less than good; so I think I will avoid posting pictures, but as I alluded to them I shall say the following: ( hello who am I kidding I am going to post them so you don’t think Im loony toony)
On Southwest you do a crap shoot for seating. You get on line and the number on your boarding pass appears based on the folks who did it first or the slowness of your computer; it's a worse crap shoot than being in a bidding war of 360 people on Ebay. One just has to try and get there first.
On Southwest one must get into boarding group A. If one does not, it means torture of having no place to place carry on luggage and then the worst: OMG sitting in the middle. So when I went to Houston for Christmas I tried really hard to remember to check in on line as soon as it was 24 hours before.
I was working and forgot: 2 hours later I checked in and got 39A – not bad but not good as that is the second boarding party. So on my way back Iam like:" yeah" I am at my brother and his wife’s house and I am so going to go for 1A because I knew it was a connecting flight, meaning those bastards on the plane already had my baggage thought process screwed because theirs was where mine wanted to be, but I was focused so I had a plan to get in early.
Well, because my priorities are so great, when the 24 hour prime time:" lets get on line and be first in line" came around, I was so much more interested in watching “Dark Knight” with surround sound and 70” monitor that I forgot. My sister in law reminded me; as I don’t quite think it was her type of movie… anyway she said let’s pause you go downstairs and do it now; get that boarding pass!!!
I went down to the Haunty Kitty cat room and printed my boarding pass and low and behold: 39 A again. I think I might have mentioned that I have a thing about numbers. But I have been doing this SW on line boarding for years and I can say; with certainty that I have never, not even once in 25 years; got the same boarding number 2 xs.
This may be a bit boring. But it leads towards Kitty story tomorrow.
All is feeling grand in Raspootin land tonight! I have not slept the night for like 2 weeks and unless there is a natural disaster, tonight is all mine”
Friday, December 26, 2008
Boxing Beatles Day
Happy Boxing Day to all!!!
Enjoy my favorite Beatles song.
I’m going to be posting about the Haunted “kitty” the cat room I am staying in while in Houston this weekend.
Kitty + the possessed shredder make for an interesting sleeping situation. Add the sounds of , no doubt surrounding neighbors and it is actually quite chilling :)
I have an odd number coincidence to share, but anyone who has ever flown South West and got their boarding tickets on line will not believe me unless I take a picture of them…
Enjoy my favorite Beatles song.
I’m going to be posting about the Haunted “kitty” the cat room I am staying in while in Houston this weekend.
Kitty + the possessed shredder make for an interesting sleeping situation. Add the sounds of , no doubt surrounding neighbors and it is actually quite chilling :)
I have an odd number coincidence to share, but anyone who has ever flown South West and got their boarding tickets on line will not believe me unless I take a picture of them…
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Coincidence or angel ?
Whether it was an angel of a trick of the light; what I like about this interview is the discussion of being Open to things unseen. Is it about coincidence or actuality? I doubt this would have been news worthy story if there the mother said: I think I saw an angel who saved my child; as opposed to a mother who said look you can see the image of the angel who saved my child. I am a big one for saying; “Seeing is believing”. Is it the child’s smile that made you feel happy or is it in the realm of possibility that a supernatural occurrence happened and the child was merely a catalyst; for an angelic act.
A friend of mine and I both agree that coincidence is maybe more than just that; especially if the coincidences are abundant; odd and tangible. Of course some might just call us paranoid; personally I embrace the hope that there is something out there interacting with me.
Being just paranoid is hardly a thing of epic proportion to ones ego, so much better to believe in angels :)
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