I confess that I’m not sure whom Bill Amend is poking fun at: Jason or Peter. But I’m with Jason on this one: this is scarier than Tim in fishnet stockings. What will you do on Wednesday, 8 November when the headlines scream: Republicans sweep House And Senate; Ohio Elects First African American Governor?
From The BBC: Every US president’s popularity among the American public is measured by approval ratings; opinion polls conducted weekly or monthly by a host of polling companies. Chart how George W Bush has fared over the last five years in relation to key events of his presidency. This data was collated by independent polling resource website PollingReport.
My name is Jeff Hess and I’m a biblioholic. I own hundreds of books. Not valuable books, mostly Science Fiction paperbacks and text books, tomes rescued by the bag from library book sales. A few years ago, in the interest of not burying myself, I began reading more books from the library and taking notes. My electronic chapbook was born.
This is a passage I copied from The Zen of Creativity: Cultivating Your Artistic Life by John Daido Loori.
A particularly challenging barrier can often be the attachment to our creations. If we are over invested in our art, we lose our sense of judgment. When selecting the work we would like to show an audience, we may be tempted to leave in a piece with no merit other than the pains we went through to create it. p. 118
I’ve never cared much for Cuyahoga County Democratic Party Chair Jimmy Dimora, but now I have a reason to vote no on Jimmy Dimora along with voting down Ohio’s stupidest idea since the lottery. Lie and Equivocate says Dimora thinks that dropping 31, 500 one-armed bandits into the state is a good idea. Hat tip to Brewed Fresh Daily.
[Update — 1332 — Add Cuyahoga County Commissioner Peter Lawson Jones to the growing list of politicians I can vote against because they’re short sighted enough to think that Issue No. 3 will be good for Ohio.
I just got a robocall from Jones telling how good it will be to have all those slot machines making money for the uber-wealthy people funding his campaign war chest. Feck! Have any of these people actually read the amendment? Have they no shame?]
From Sacrificial Lamb: I serve as an advisor to the Iraqi Army. These people don’t take the war seriously. It is all about what the U.S. can give them. The average soldier in their Army gets 13 days of leave a month — that is, if they come back on time, which they don’t. When they are here they only work half-days. All of this is approved by the Iraqi chain of command. That is…
My name is Jeff Hess and I’m a biblioholic. I own hundreds of books. Not valuable books, mostly Science Fiction paperbacks and text books, tomes rescued by the bag from library book sales. A few years ago, in the interest of not burying myself, I began reading more books from the library and taking notes. My electronic chapbook was born.
This is a passage I copied from The Zen of Creativity: Cultivating Your Artistic Life by John Daido Loori.
Originality is born of craftsmanship, skill and diligent practice, not from trying to standout in the crowd. p. 113
The Republican meltdown over Michael J. Fox’s frank and riveting appeal for scientific sanity continues as what might have been a minor ad in a fly-over-state has exploded into a national campaign getting more than 1.5 million views on YouTube. Fox is coming to Ohio to speak at a rally with Democratic senate candidate Sherrod Brown on Monday.
Plunderbund is on top of the local mouth frothing.
From CAPT Doug Traversa, USAF: Today was the usual half-day of a Thursday. Our interpreter Hamid and I spent a lot of time waiting for meetings, and we worked getting the ANA troops paid for their convoy duty. I was the approving officer for four convoys, so they had to write up the approval letters, Hamid had to translate, and then I signed them all so they…
Tim Ferris has decided that the scariest thing he can dress up as for Halloween this weekend would be lie-and- equivocate’s Issue 3. And he thinks that something in the tawdry old whore line is the best way to go. But Tim is satorially impaired in the costume area and needs our help to put things together. What do you think?
I have to figure out how to dress up as something REALLY SCARY, and I need your help, gentle readers.
Tonight, Gloria and I have to attend a Halloween costume party over at Dennis’ old haunted library at 55th and Broadway, and I woke up just now with a costume identity crisis. Yesterday, I did an informal poll of everybody I talked to, asking them what’s the scariest thing out there this year, and the answer was a standard “Issue 3.” So, my problem is, how do I dress up as Issue 3?
Should I be a tired old whore, all tricked out in my pathetic best, trolling for dollars?
How do I dress tonight to drive home the point that I’m not really what I would like to seem to be?
Anyway, I’m “sitting here wondering what dress to wear” (what song is that?) and putting my costume together all day today, and I need your help. I implore you, I beseech you, tell me how to dress. I have very little experience with this sort of thing. If need be, contribute to the cause–you can drop pieces of whore suits off at the Tower Press Building, suite 109, all day. If nobody’s there, just leave the tawdry things outside the door with a note. I will return all items that people want returned. I will then wear all that I can wear to the party tonight, and bring along what I can’t so others can play scary old whore dress-up, too. To help you gauge things, I’m probably about Jane Campbell’s size, but with nicer legs and a bigger chest (46-48″).
So, leave your comments here, leave the old-whore get-up gear at suite 109. Each contributor to my outrageous outfit will have a free ticket waiting at the door of the old library Halloween party at 6 PM tonight (catered by Massimo’s, by the way). The contributor of the most outrageous piece gets the last dance (last dance, not lap dance, silly).
Is this in bad taste? Surely. But what is Issue 3? Please, be offended. I’ll even strap something on to show what Issue 3 really intends to do to Ohio. Think of Aubrey Beardsley’s Lysistrata illustrations. Take it from there.
Wanna see something really scary? Help me today. Be there tonight.
You can let Tim know at TAFerris AT gmail DOT com
I think the costume would work really well if Tim could find a Jane Campbell or Frank Jackson mask.
My name is Jeff Hess and I’m a biblioholic. I own hundreds of books. Not valuable books, mostly Science Fiction paperbacks and text books, tomes rescued by the bag from library book sales. A few years ago, in the interest of not burying myself, I began reading more books from the library and taking notes. My electronic chapbook was born.
This is a passage I copied from The Zen of Creativity: Cultivating Your Artistic Life by John Daido Loori.
“If you aim to dispense with method, learn method… if you aim at facility, word hard. If you aim for simplicity, master complexity.” Wang Anjie, author and compiler of the Mustard Seed Garden Manual. p. 113
The Rush Limbaugh vs. Michale Fox lovefest continues with Slate’s Timothy Noah throwing in his two-cents on how Rush isn’t a buffon, he just plays one on radio. Also, a second Fox ad, this one is in Maryland for Ben Cardin, is up. (Richard might have jumped the gun a bit, but now the question is: how did Cardin vote? I’ll let you know.) But first, Noah:
…it’s considered legitimate for that liberal to formulate a judgment as to the candidates’ intelligence. If a liberal is deciding whom to vote for in a presidential election, it is not. Merely to raise the issue is seen as conclusive evidence that one is snobbish and effete, and that the subject of one’s skeptical inquiry is an authentic man of the people.
Nobody knows this better than Rush Limbaugh, who has said so many idiotic things on his radio show over the years that Al Franken, a famous liberal comedian/talk-radio host, walked right into the trap by penning a book titled Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot. Which of course made Limbaugh an even bigger hero to the dittohead faithful.
I’m not saying Limbaugh isn’t a little bit stupid. I’ll give him that. But give me a break. On the subject of Fox’s Parkinson’s, he’s just all over the place making one asinine comment after another! He can barely control himself! But you’ll notice Rush can still cut to a commercial when his engineer tells him to. I’m telling you: Limbaugh’s moronic blowhard routine is purely an act. Limbaugh is exaggerating his stupidity to advance political ends, and I find that despicable.
You think Rush Limbaugh is dumb enough to lay into a person for exhibiting symptoms of a debilitating disease? Come on. Nobody’s that dumb. You think Rush doesn’t know that over time the medications that a person takes for Parkinson’s can reduce motor control rather than increase it? Oh, please. You just have to read the papers to know that when he sets his mind to it, Limbaugh can navigate his way around the PDR very adeptly, thank you very much.
Take it from me. Rush Limbaugh wants you to think he’s a dumbass, a pea-brain, an absolute yutz. It’s a con job. Don’t fall for it.
Stupid people have an excuse for doing stupid things: they’re stupid. We can’t hold that against them. This is the reason I raise my hand every time someone suggests that any Republican in office is an idiot. That lets them off the hook. We need to stop doing that. Noah has a good point. The aw-shucks routine does play well. Frank Capra and Jimmy Stewart proved that time and time again.
[Update — 1607 — OK, I’ve had a chance to look at who voted for what.
Here’s the statement as it appears on Steele’s website:
Ben Cardin had a chance to support stem cell research that would not destroy human embryos, and he voted against it.
Cardin voted yes on HR 810, the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2005, the only bill vetoed by President George Bush in nearly six years.
Here’s what Cardin had to say the day after that veto:
After several years of debate, Congress finally passed a bill that would give researchers the tools they need to continue using embryonic stem cell research to find cures and treatments for debilitating diseases and injuries.
Yesterday, President Bush chose to use the veto pen for the first time in his presidency. This veto is nothing short of a tragedy.
With his signature, the President has told America”s best scientists not to try to cure some of our worst diseases. This is a major blow to the millions of Americans who suffer from diseases like Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, multiple sclerosis and from spinal cord injuries.
So Richard, you lose. If I could cast a vote, I’d cast it to the plain-speaking Ben Cardin and not the double-talking Michael Steele.]
The sun is setting
Leisurely strolling along
To my sweet trailer
——
Barbed wire and dirt
Tanks and armored vehicles
Wear your safety belt
——
Who will be in charge?
Six bosses for each worker
An army of one
——
Pictures of rainbows
Covering the concrete wall
Damn hippie chow hall
——
What’s this chow hall food?
Thirty dollars, KBR?
Powdered milk and eggs
——
Feeling faint, dizzy
Luckily the sign tells
Me to drink water
——
I sit on my ass
On this very secure FOB
A bronze star I’ll get
From Haiku by Jeff (No, not me).
Part of being a good citizen of the blogosphere is visiting, reading and, most importantly, taking the time to leave a comment on other’s blogs. It’s all about the conversation. In the interest of setting an example I’ve decided to link to those blog posts that have compelled me to leave a comment.
From Brandon White: Some events have transpired within the past 24 hours that I feel compelled to blog about. Yesterday evening an SF (Special Forces) guy comes into our building, all huffy-like, and explains to us that a local warlord has just been slain, and warns that we should be in a heightened-alert status and expect some sort of attack on our FOB. This local warlord’s…
Normally I just leave it open for readers to go to The Sandbox and read the rest of what our citizens in uniform have to say. But I found this paragraph about half way down this post and had to play it here for you.
Do read the whole thing, because until you realize where White goes with this, you’ll not fully appreciate what he has to say.
“The Taliban is a system… That system is our enemy. But when you’re inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it.”
Do you recognize the quote?
Feck
In the nearly two years I’ve been blogging I’ve posted around a double handful of images from the Photoshoped art website Worth1000. This morning I surfed over from MetaFilter and found something new, a copyright warning I’d never noticed before. And to make it even stranger, it seems to be there only when you come from the MetaFilter link.
NOTE: This gallery is copyright protected. You may NOT repost any of the entries inside this gallery on external sites (including messageboards and non-profit sites) without Worth1000’s express permission.
But if I go directly to Worth1000 and click on the contest, there’s no warning. What’s up with that?
My name is Jeff Hess and I’m a biblioholic. I own hundreds of books. Not valuable books, mostly Science Fiction paperbacks and text books, tomes rescued by the bag from library book sales. A few years ago, in the interest of not burying myself, I began reading more books from the library and taking notes. My electronic chapbook was born.
This is a passage I copied from The Zen of Creativity: Cultivating Your Artistic Life by John Daido Loori.
“No muse appears when invoked, dire need will not rouse her pity.” May Sarton. p. 86
Part of being a good citizen of the blogosphere is visiting, reading and, most importantly, taking the time to leave a comment on other’s blogs. It’s all about the conversation. In the interest of setting an example I’ve decided to link to those blog posts that have compelled me to leave a comment.
2144 I”m voting No on Issue 4 and Yes on Issue 5.
1644 A Market-Based Solution to Basic Healthcare For the Poor
This list of The 101 Most Influential People Who Never Lived comes from the book with an even longer title: 101 Most Influential People Who Never Lived: How Characters of Fiction, Myth, Legends, Television, and Movies Have Shaped Our Society, Changed Our Behavior, and Set the Course of History by Dan Karlan, Allan Lazar and Jeremy Salter.
1. The Marlboro Man
2. Big Brother
3. King Arthur
4. Santa Claus (St. Nick)
5. Hamlet
6. Dr. Frankenstein’s Monster
7. Siegfried
8. Sherlock Holmes
9. Romeo and Juliet
10. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
11. Uncle Tom
12. Robin Hood
13. Jim Crow
14. Oedipus
15. Lady Chatterly
16. Ebenezer Scrooge
17. Don Quixote
18. Mickey Mouse
19. The American Cowboy
20. Prince Charming
21. Smokey Bear
22. Robinson Crusoe
23. Apollo and Dionysus
24. Odysseus
25. Nora Helmer
26. Cinderella
27. Shylock
28. Rosie the Riveter
29. Midas
30. Hester Prynne
31. The Little Engine That Could
32. Archie Bunker
33. Dracula
34. Alice in Wonderland
35. Citizen Kane
36. Faust
37. Figaro
38. Godzilla
39. Mary Richards
40. Don Juan
41. Bambi
42. William Tell
43. Barbie
44. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
45. Venus and Cupid
46. Prometheus
47. Pandora
48. G.I. Joe
49. Tarzan
50. Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock
51. James Bond
52. Hansel and Gretel
53. Captain Ahab
54. Richard Blaine
55. The Ugly Duckling
56. Loch Ness Monster (Nessie)
57. Atticus Finch
58. Saint Valentine
59. Helen of Troy
60. Batman
61. Uncle Sam
62. Nancy Drew
63. J.R. Ewing
64. Superman
65. Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
66. HAL 9000
67. Kermit the Frog
68. Sam Spade
69. The Pied Piper
70. Peter Pan
71. Hiawatha
72. Othello
73. The Little Tramp
74. King Kong
75. Norman Bates
76. Hercules (Herakles)
77. Dick Tracy
78. Joe Camel
79. The Cat in the Hat
80. Icarus
81. Mammy
82. Sindbad
83. Amos ‘n’ Andy
84. Buck Rogers
85. Luke Skywalker
86. Perry Mason
87. Dr. Strangelove
88. Pygmalion
89. Madame Butterfly
90. Hans Beckert
91. Dorothy Gale
92. The Wandering Jew
93. The Great Gatsby
94. Buck (Jack London, The Call of the Wild)
95. Willy Loman
96. Betty Boop
97. Ivanhoe
98. Elmer Gantry
99. Lilith
100. John Doe
101. Paul Bunyan
Obviously, without Frodo on the list, the whole work is rendered useless.
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