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Friday Fives

Friday Fives

1. Were you a good student in elementary school?
Yeah, I think so. First grade was troubling. I am pretty dyslexic and the teacher wanted to hold me back a year, but my mother vetoed the idea. I always had to go to special ed classes for hand writing but all of my other experiences I was a pretty good scholar.

2. What are some of the most overrated albums of all-time?
Milli Vanilli? Anything by Garth Brooks? And going back and relistening, The Doors, anything they recorded was over rated. Really. They just suck.

3. Discussion: What’s your weirdest or worst public-transit story?
Worst: Passing out on the train in Stuttgart and waking up at the end of the line at 2:30 am and not having a way at to get back to my Army barracks. I slept under a park bench and took the first morning train. My brush with hobo-dom. Weirdest – crazy bus guy on the 15 who kept asking us if we were leprechauns. He was convince our group of post Great American Beer Fest revelers had joined him in appreciating the wee people. He was such an odd guy.

4. What is the closest thing you’ve done to becoming a stalker
I used to know where Pat Schroeder’s house in Denver was. That is about it, really. And more of a joke than a stalking escapade.

5. If animals could talk, what would they say to you?
Whats the deal with the showers, man? Don’t you know that gets you all wet? And really, dude, you could feed me a little more and it wouldn’t kill ya.

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Text Messaging Tool

Text messaging is one of the cool things about all this fancy digital cell phone technology. But every seems to have a different carrier. How does one know how to page another? Have no fear, Yahoo is here with their super-duper all-in-one-text-messaging application. Just enter the phone number of your cell phone enabled pal, select the carrier if you know (or let Yahoo find it if you don’t) and voila, a cool little text page has been sent. I am fortunate to have unlimited text paging but some rate plans out there don’t and you may be sending a page to a friend, as well as a 10 or 15 cent charge, so I would ask first.
But hey, we all need yet another way to reach and touch each other, don’t we?

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Friday Fives

Friday Fives

1. Everyone’s got crazy relatives. Tell us about some of yours.
I come from a family of Kooks. The entire Vernal, Utah contingent of belligerent, hard livin’, hard drinkin’ Mormon’s mostly come to mind. Cousin “D” is the most prominent – a gun nut, right wing, misogynistic wack job who glares at women if they even think of speaking up in the company of men and is always asking “where you keep your guns?”
Seriously.
He is concerned that our family didn’t keep a gun or two out in the plain view and handy in case of an uprising. If there is a Utah Militia of Separatists, I am sure he is one of them.

2. Which television shows, recent or old, were you most disappointed
to see cancelled?
Micheal Moore’s the Awful Truth. And Match Game. I loved that game show as a kid.

3. Which deaths of famous people have made you the saddest?
Johnny Cash, Warren Zevon.

4.Make up your own church.
The church of Guinness. We shall worship at the alter of the dark stout ale. Rejoice in the darkness.

5.What have you killed with a spade or other blunt instrument? Extra
points awarded at my discretion for style, elan and sheer absurdity.
In my youthful lawn care and gardening days, back when I had the patience and ability to tend to living things I killed a lot of bugs with the back of a spade. I have no real serial killing “gonk” tales to regale you with, alas.

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A Rock And Roll War On The Radio

Little Steven is riled up. And if you watched the season end of the Sopranos, you know that you don’t want to get Little Steven riled up.
And he is declaring war on the radio. If you haven’t had a chance to listen to his show, do so. It is on Sunday nights at 9 p.m. on 99.5 in Denver or you can dial in on line at the Underground Garage. There is also huge rock festival featuring his genre deplume this weekend in New York, but I don’t expect you to be there for that. Unless you want to. You know. But it is all up to you.

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Vote!

So, I voted today. They moved our precinct. It used to be in some Methodist church in a Denver suburb. It has been relocated to a mosque on Parker road. That’s right, a mosque. For a voting precinct in little old Arapahoe County Colorado, a Republican stronghold on the southeast side of Denver. Very cool and in a very big way, a very patriotic and American thing. And whilst talking the little old voting ladies to accept my driver’s license as official ID to vote with, I overheard that it was the only mosque to host voting precinct in a three or four state region. Maybe even more than that.
So, I got that going for me. Which is nice.

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Friday Fives

Friday Fives

1. Tell us a good bar story!
This involves Reverend Ed. (don’t they all – I am leaving him two of three of the best ones). We were at Guv’s Park on a hot Saturday afternoon in the fall, as I remember it. We had been on a bit of binge already and hunkered down into another bar that day and ordered a round of beers and some scotch. We were on a real scotch kick back then and all totalled we had about six glasses of scotch and about four beers. The good waitress was getting concerned because we hadn’t had any food (she didn’t know we had eaten earlier) and she decided to cut us off. She said she would go call us cab to get us home (it was 4 o’ clock in the afternoon. We were just getting started!) As she left, we threw a bunch of money on the table and snuck out of the place and back to our car and headed to Ed’s place to keep up some epic drinking. We are both still proud of the day we were kicked out of Guv’s Park.

2. What are your favorite album covers of all time?
The iconic pose of Travolta on the cover of the Saturday Night Fever Album. The Police Syncronicity album (There were three different covers with alternating stripes, very ahead of its time, I suppose), The Beatles “White Album” – genius. The original album cover to The Beatles Revolver – the one with the bloody dolls. The Who – Who’s Next.

3. List your favorite insult!
Fuck you!
Are you done?
Wow, you thought of that yourself?
It’s important when telling a story to have a point (thanks to Ed!)

4. You’ve got to “go away” for a while and you’re only allowed to
bring 5 movies on DVD. What would they be?
I think this ground has been covered in the Friday Fives, but they would be
1. Casablanca – A great story of hope and friendship.
2. Creator – A great debate on the meaning of life.
3. Say Anything – A Lloyd meets girl story.
4. The Blues Brothers – You can use your time away to learn the songs and dances.
5. Apocoplyse Now! Redux – If you are going away for a while, why not a movie that takes a while to watch.

5. What are some of the worst lyrics (lines or entire songs) in music
history? Please cite examples.
1. Hungry Heart – Springsteen (Got a wife and kids in Baltimore, Jack.) ps, I love this song.
2. I think I’m Turning Japanese – The Vapors (’nuff said)
3. I Gave Her a Ring (She gave me the finger) – – Steven Fromholz (Oh, do listen and sing along.)
4. Baby I’m-A Want You – Bread (It makes no kind of sense)
5. All The Young Dudes – Mott The Hoople (I have no earthly idea what this song is really about.)

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Berger To Be Exonorated

According to the Wall Street Journal, former Clinton National Security Advisor Sandy Berger does not have in his possession any originals of any classified documents relating to his 9/11 commission testomony. This was huge news a week ago, during the convention, when it was proposed that Burger was the next Alger Hiss, a spy of the nth magnitude. But quietly, buried inside the journal, we learn that National Archives representatives are confident all is well and no major compromise to security has occured.
But we have yet to hear any apologiesfrom any of the GOP naysayers and conservative radio, television or newspaper pundits who were completely willing to write off this career diplomat and politician as a traitor and a crook. There is still a pending investigation, mostly concerning the photo copied documents that Berger admits to removing during his archive visit. Berger claims the documents have been destroyed and the archives and FBI seem satisified with that. However there still seems to be a right wing storm brewing to have Berger’s head. However that is sticky ground as most high level folks with access to sensitive and classified documents have been known to do exactly what Berger has done. If the GOP lawmakers push for an investigation there could be widespread embarrassment going all the way back to President Bush the senior and congressional staffers, congress members and senators. So I don’t expect to hear any more of this again, including any apologies.
Politics keeps getting uglier and uglier

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Picasa Photo Organizer

I have been spending my morning messing around with Picasa. Yet another Google product (I think slowly but surely they are going to take over the world!), Picasa organizes and helps size and adjust digital photo collections to make them easier to share, either via the web, email, as print outs or on a photo cd. I have only installed it and messed with it for about an hour or so, but it seems pretty cool. I’ll let you know.

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More Font Fun

I dig fonts and the ability to play with them in word processing, desktop publishing, photo manipulation or other computer graphic art programs is just plain fun. I talked about Point Central last year, but recently I stumbled on this: Pfont dispenser, a fun little page of freeware/share ware and pay fonts to play with.