March 28, 2009 (updated)

laocoon — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 21:24:02 +0000

WHAT OKC’S SNOW LOOKED LIKE TO ME

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BLOGBLAH’S BEEN AWOL?

shut up, he explained

I suppose that it hasn’t come up on your Google News feed that I’ve been absent without explanation for a few days; at least I haven’t seen any of the headlines you might expect when an important person like me disappears for several days. I wish I could explain myself, but I can’t. Even with my meds, there are times when I have an irresistable NEED to isolate. It’s not that I feel in despair, as I sometimes have with depression, and, in fact, I’m not sad at all. I just could not face the world of gray skies and the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune the past few days. Maybe it’s something I’ve caught from MCARP, as The Gary implies in today’s email. There’s just been nothing I wanted to say or hear, no place I wanted to go or could afford, and the chance that I would scream at someone for nothing more than existing in the same world as me was sky high. This is one of those times I hate people, civilization, capitalism, democracy, truth, justice and the American way. If you haven’t seen me, count yourself lucky.

THE WOMEN, A BLOGROLL

In the blog links, you’ll see I’ve added a couple, and both are blogs by women I’ve run across at random. Megan Barry started following me on Twitter because I “tweeted” that I’d turned misanthropic. Any woman that young living near Seattle who is already misanthropic is good enough for me. Also randomly, I noticed a comment by a woman named Maggie May on my daughter’s blog and went to see who she is; well, it turns out she’s “Flux Capacitor” and she’s a married mom and writer and lots more. Blog love to both, although I hate them along with everyone else. You go to their sites and decide for yourself, even though I hate you, too. Since there has to be three (Right, Skip?), I also want to recommend you go see someone’s site who has long been on my blogroll, deShan. She recently sold out a show in Australia she called “100 days, 100 drawings.” Gee, don’t you miss her fairy wings? Well, don’t you miss her walking her pussy around Paseo? Well, I don’t like you, either.

Chairman of the Bored

TODAY’S THOUGHT

I think I speak for all cats when I say that what we most want to know about humans is: Do they have tail envy?

Sinatra

January 27, 2009 (updated)

laocoon — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:25:55 +0000

My yucca plants covered with ice and snow

THERE’S SNOW BUSINESS IN OKC

Since the courthouse is closed today due to the weather “emergency”, I thought I’d take time from being bored at the house and maybe do a little blogging since I’ve not really written anything since the Inauguration on the 20th, a week ago. Before he tells you all about it, I’ve got to admit to a tiny bit of cruelty: I laughed and laughed and could not make myself come to the rescue of Sinatra late yesterday afternoon when he found himself in the middle of an icy driveway and couldn’t get any traction. Have you ever seen a cat lose its footing? I don’t think that happens often, or at least I don’t see it often, and watching my “snow cat” floundering just struck me funny. So funny, as it happens, I couldn’t keep my own footing well enough to go rescue him. When I finally got to him to pick him up and carry him back inside, he was PISSED. Fortunately for me, it was nothing a good petting and a little canned food wouldn’t assuage.

LongRydeHome's Earth/Sky/Water sculpture at my house, now improved and new with SNOW added!

While I was outside taking pictures, I snapped a shot of the sculpture that is installed in my front yard. This work is by my blog buddie, LongRydeHome, who graciously commends and refers to my Jan. 20 post, and I thought I’d plug her work. It’s not really set at such an angle, by the way, that’s just my bad picture taking. The small ball represents the earth and the semi-circle around it is the sky; the dangling piece is obviously waves of water if you ever get a chance to look at the piece. Now, of course, it’s new and improved with not just earth, not just sky and more than water — introducing the new and improved WITH SNOW version of KO’s work! I love the way the sculpture works with the arc of a wall just behind it and the rocks that provide the setting.

The view down 61st Street, looking east from my house

Just so that Nojackla, Mom-A-Tron and MindOverMary, living in New Orleans, Tucson and Charleston respectively, can remember what Oklahoma winter weather is like, I thought I’d let ‘em see down my street why their hometown is shut down. As I write this at midday, just about 11:30 a.m., the weather report says it’s 20 degrees (F) and snowing on top of the ice we got on the streets last night. A few good and brave folks, including Muffy, are out on the streets, but an old guy like me knows better than to even try.

New Avatar?

When I run out of cigarets, I’ll either stop or put on a lot of warm clothes because it’s pretty toasty here in my little studio and it just looks miserable outside with it snowing/sleeting hard enough for me to hear it hit the bushes even through my closed window.
John X was wearing a hat at the RC the other day when I tried to take a snapshot of him, but he turned the tables and took a picture of me wearing his hat. What do you think? Better or worse than the black and white “GQ” picture? Does this look like the sort of man who’s blog you’d like to read? Better yet, does this look like the kind of lawyer that could get you divorced? Yeah, that’s what I thought, too.

A lonely blogger types his fingers to the bone

I’ve been playing with my computer and i-Phone during this bad weather and picked up some nice free “apps” for the phone: Shazam, which will listen to a few notes of any music and then tell you what the song is, who sings it and refers you to the YouTube where you can see the video or refers you to the i-Pod/i-Tunes download; Stanza, which lets you download free books from the public domain and read them on your phone; and also Google Earth, with which most of you are familiar from your laptop or desktop. Does the thumbnail on the right look more “bloggish”? I think this is the best picture Sinatra has ever taken of me, but that may be a matter of taste.

TODAY’S THOUGHT

Just because you’re in the driver’s seat doesn’t mean you have to run over people.

The Last Lecture
Randy Pausch

I READ THE NEWS TODAY, OH BOY!

$100 Civil Fine for Pot Debated

Top 10 Ways to Destroy Earth

SINATRA SPEAKS

Chairman of the Bored

Muffy, he laughed at me. I am the most fearsome hunter in the territory and a ruler of the universe and he laughed at me. I’m humiliated. When he sees the heating bill from opening and closing the door and window to let me in and out 50 times today, he won’t be laughing then, oh, no. He’s been extra careful to keep his closet shut so I can’t get to his shoes and poo in them, but I’m watching and waiting and he’ll forget one of these days and then!…shoe poo!
Muffy, you just wait and see if I don’t.

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