Friday, November 24, 2006
Parks and Caves
I guess weird stuff is everywhere. I only seem to notice it when traveling. So fine, since I have a few days off, and no yard work, I thought I’d give Burbank the old Berlin walking tour. Here’s what I found:
Right, I guess Popeye does have a pipe. He'd have to get tobacco somewhere. I wonder where his pipe figures into the banned tobacco cartoons. If we were to follow the example set by AOL Time Warner we'd have to ban all Popeye cartoons. Because he's always smoking.
There don’t seem to be a lot of walkers in Burbank. But there are a lot of sitters. The parks are full of people sitting talking to each other. I don’t remember seeing that before. It’s a real Euro thing to use the parks for something other that sleeping off a drunk. The Euros go out and play checkers and cards and sit around and play with the pigeons. Mostly, in the US, we use the parks for sports. Get on, play, and get out. There are a few who use remote areas in the parks to do the potty thing.
Have you ever been in a cave?
Out in the desert there are all kinds of abandon mines and natural caves. Along the ocean, when the tide is low there are openings in the rock that form shallow caves. But no matter where the cave is, they all have one thing in common. Some joker has taken a dump in the corner. What is it about caves that make some people want to drop one off? This is a rhetorical question, I don’t really expect this to be answered in this blog. …Just something to think about next time you go into a cave.
So, now I have been in this one bedroom apartment with a one channel TV (ABC) and sporadic Internet access since the 27th of October. And there is one thing that I keep thinking about; what’s up with TV? Has it always been this stupid or did my head just clear up?
I was doing a little emailing and the TV was on good morning America. I don’t know if you people know this but that show is made for, and possibly by, retards. I also had a chance to watch Dr. Phil. Is he a real doctor or just some bald dope that someone carved out of an old door? The advice he was giving was probably the worst advice I’ve ever heard. There was a woman with a problem and he had her husband sitting next to her giving her shit, as the audience laughed. It was pathetic! And desperate housewives!! That’s just General hospital with cleavage folks! Cripes! I believe I have been spoiled by HBO. How long has this been going on? No wonder Bush won. Put him up next to a CSI script and he sounds like some kind of genius!
Right, I guess Popeye does have a pipe. He'd have to get tobacco somewhere. I wonder where his pipe figures into the banned tobacco cartoons. If we were to follow the example set by AOL Time Warner we'd have to ban all Popeye cartoons. Because he's always smoking.There don’t seem to be a lot of walkers in Burbank. But there are a lot of sitters. The parks are full of people sitting talking to each other. I don’t remember seeing that before. It’s a real Euro thing to use the parks for something other that sleeping off a drunk. The Euros go out and play checkers and cards and sit around and play with the pigeons. Mostly, in the US, we use the parks for sports. Get on, play, and get out. There are a few who use remote areas in the parks to do the potty thing.
Have you ever been in a cave?
Out in the desert there are all kinds of abandon mines and natural caves. Along the ocean, when the tide is low there are openings in the rock that form shallow caves. But no matter where the cave is, they all have one thing in common. Some joker has taken a dump in the corner. What is it about caves that make some people want to drop one off? This is a rhetorical question, I don’t really expect this to be answered in this blog. …Just something to think about next time you go into a cave.
So, now I have been in this one bedroom apartment with a one channel TV (ABC) and sporadic Internet access since the 27th of October. And there is one thing that I keep thinking about; what’s up with TV? Has it always been this stupid or did my head just clear up?
I was doing a little emailing and the TV was on good morning America. I don’t know if you people know this but that show is made for, and possibly by, retards. I also had a chance to watch Dr. Phil. Is he a real doctor or just some bald dope that someone carved out of an old door? The advice he was giving was probably the worst advice I’ve ever heard. There was a woman with a problem and he had her husband sitting next to her giving her shit, as the audience laughed. It was pathetic! And desperate housewives!! That’s just General hospital with cleavage folks! Cripes! I believe I have been spoiled by HBO. How long has this been going on? No wonder Bush won. Put him up next to a CSI script and he sounds like some kind of genius!
Saturday, November 18, 2006
hoo-ray for... Where are we?
OK, so who’s tired of looking at the same name tag and dwarf building? Now you ask me one.
Ask me if I’ve been busy. Ask me if I’m doing twice as much work as I do when left to my own pace. Why are you asking me so many questions? What did I ever do to you?
So what’s new? A huge political turn Washington! That’s what’s new. Finally. Now maybe the whole “world is flat” crowd will sit down and shut up and we can try to squeeze common sense back into the American way of life.
Thank you visitors for visiting me here. Now the whole world will really know what I came out here to do.
Ben and Sam came in from Singapore and Joe from TC and we had a really full Sunday. So full, we forgot to eat lunch.
We covered everything north of Watt’s tower except for Venice beach… and Watt’s Tower.
Of corse I had to work during the day, so we had to do as much as we could on one very long Sunday. Everything that was left over was viewed during the evening hours. I believe that my friends from Singapore had a pretty good time.
Some people didn't need to do any adjusting at all.
Ask me if I’ve been busy. Ask me if I’m doing twice as much work as I do when left to my own pace. Why are you asking me so many questions? What did I ever do to you?So what’s new? A huge political turn Washington! That’s what’s new. Finally. Now maybe the whole “world is flat” crowd will sit down and shut up and we can try to squeeze common sense back into the American way of life.
Thank you visitors for visiting me here. Now the whole world will really know what I came out here to do.
Ben and Sam came in from Singapore and Joe from TC and we had a really full Sunday. So full, we forgot to eat lunch.
We covered everything north of Watt’s tower except for Venice beach… and Watt’s Tower.
Of corse I had to work during the day, so we had to do as much as we could on one very long Sunday. Everything that was left over was viewed during the evening hours. I believe that my friends from Singapore had a pretty good time.
Some people didn't need to do any adjusting at all.
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