The Gates Await

All the news that gives you fits.Tomorrow, my bride and I will head into Central Park to experience The Gates. So much has been said about them and their being so close forces me to action. When my California and Maryland friends send me notes of "Gate Envy"I feel compelled to experience this transient adventure for one and all and all for one. So those of you out there in cyber land, do not get your hopes set up for a posting until the end of this week as the trek is far but I feel worth the inconvenience. On other news--what is up with this right wing backlash on Clint Eastwood's "Million Dollar Baby" flick? This promulgation by the Rush Limbaugh Right tying in with thr RCC is "Ludikris." Make my day--they don't come any more conservative than "Dirty Harry" do they? Yet all this pre oscar jitter buzz will only guarantee increased box office sales for a great movie (not a feel good movie BTW--I'm not gonna reveal the ending here so you'll have to go see it yourself and draw your own conclusions) and thrust it over the top to win in all categories. Yes, this right wing backlash will backfire and send this flick to the top of all categories. Anyway--snow calls--it's time to remove those heaven sent six new inches of crystaldom that appeared this morning like manna from heaven. Happy President's day.

Soft Ball Questions Hard Core sex site

All the news that gives you fits.--What's this we hear about the man with two names who has press presidential credentials yet works for no press but has a gay porno site??? Jeff Gannon AKA James Guckert was recently seen at a Bushian press conference lobbing softball questions to Mr. Bush about "those democrats with no concept of reality." Strangely enough Mr. Gannon/Guckert has no AP/UPI creds, nor is he affiliated with any other news agency except for some Carl Rove type website which regurgitates the official GOP line. The question that begs to be asked is how did Mr. Gannon/Guckert obtain these coveted and very difficult to obtain press credentials to be able to be called upon by Mr. Bush himself so that Mr. Bush could answer Mr. Gannon's/Guckert's guided softball question to make Mr. Bush look smart and astute (a task seemingly impossible in itself)? Notwithstanding a closer inspection of Mr. Guckert's/Gannon's website which clearly shows photos of Mr. Guckert/Gannon au naturel with the caption "eights inches and cut" as proof of Mr. Guckert's/Gannon's credibility. Is Mr. Bush coming out of the closet by currying favor with this professed follower of Mr. Oscar Wilde's "sin that cannot be named?" At the very least this action leaks of mendacity and obscuration in obtaining bona fide credentials for a persona non grata. Let the hubris begin. If Mr. Clinton can be impeached for a deception concerning a sexual indiscretion, one can only hope that bigger things are yet to follow. Happy President's Day.

Skewed Views

Skewed Views

All the news that gives you fits. Find out more about these strange days that have found us and offer your skewed views on the news that is often confused with reality. Wait a minute...whose reality are we talking about here? Some say reality is just the intersection of the past and the future. Others say there is a distinction between relative reality and absolute reality, but wait... isn't absolut a vodka? Nevertheless, this blog attempts to see the world through purple colored glasses. What color is your reality?

Stupor Bowl

Well-you have to admit-last night's game was kinda exciting--especially for a Super Bowl. Being an anybody BUT Boston fan I was a tad disappointed with the outcome. However, it was a little bit too sedate. Even the commercials were toned down. I would have loved to had seen the beer commercial (that was censored and deemed inappropriate by the Fox censors-here's two words I thought I would never expect to see in the same sentence, but I digress) that gave a possible reason for last year's "wardrobe malfunction." Sir Paul looked exceptionally grand in HDTV, though my favorite half time show has still got to be U2 from a few years ago-with Aerosmith trying to get Brittany Spears to sing "down on the muffin" a close second. I have the dubious honor of watching every super bowl. My favorite is still Super Bowl III, where the upstart Jets with Joe Willie White Shoes upset the establishment Baltimore Colts. I made a lotta money during Freshman year at Tabler Quad, Toscanini College at SUNY SUSB. My does that bring back future memories of Tom Wolfe's I Am Charlotte Simmons. These are the daze. Oh well-living on the East Coast makes one groggy getting up and going to work the next day. Starting Monday a little crispy makes the whole week drag, I can hardly wait to do it again next week for the Grammies and then the Oscars next month--but that's another blog in the making.

Happy Fat Tuesday tomorrow.

Distaste for the Union Address

Well, get your TiVo ready you cyberborgs out there. Tonight is the night we have all been waiting for with baited (pun intended) breath. Mr. Bush will categorize

SSDs

as the new

WMDs.

The emperor will put on his new clothes and try to fool most of the people some of the time again. What I don't get is that at the same time CBS was cleaning house and firing all of those in Rathergate for not checking their facts on Mr. Bush's non-service in the National Guard, Ms. Conned-and Liar Rice was being appointed secretary of state?!?! Obviously she did not check her facts, but oh well, thousands of US Soldiers' and innocent Iraqi citizens' deaths are not nearly as important as whether or not Mr. Bush actually showed up for national guard duty. What is wrong with you liberals out there? Can't you get your priorities straight.

Nevertheless, I predict tonight's canned teleprompted feed will be chock full of "freedom" and "liberty" ad nauseum so the smoke and mirror show can go on to build up His Greatness. He will feed the red staters the "BIG LIE" about Social Security Deficits and this Nation of Sheep will say "Duh-we gotta do sumthin, ya'll." How soon do they forget about the WMD prevarication!?The same big lie is being presented to us in a brand new bottle.

Perhaps, Mr. Bush will slip up and reveal his plans to attack Iran this summer. After all since the Shah was deposed, the protectors of democracy have been dying (literally) to get their claws back into the cradle of civilization. All of you draft age boyz and girlz out there had better get friends in Canada or start "Telling"because it is going to get awfully "drafty" in the fall. Let's face it, Mr. Bush does not have enough troops to fight for freedom in Iraq, so when he opens up another front, those new body bags will have to come from a town near you.

So, as we wait in anxious anticipation for tonight's address (count the number of times "freedom" and "liberty" are weaseled in) it should warm the very cockles of our collective hearts to know that Mr. Bush has our best interests at heart and that our president would NEVER, EVER lie to us.

P.S. In these here parts it was so sunny that even a groundhog as blind to reason and reality as Mr.Bush would have had to have seen his shadow--so we are in for six more weeks of winter--as if things weren't bad enough.