Bad Poetry for a Good Friend

Hey all.  It's been a while.  Sorry, I'm not so sure I love blogging as much as other people do.  Anyway, here' the first post of the year!




A friend of mine went in for open-heart surgery today.  This poem is for him.  

Mechanics

The heart, that is,  

The literal,

Not that, 

The figurative

Is complex

And multi-

Functional

The heart, however

Miraculous,

Is not

Perfect

They break

And need

Fixing

How I wish

That I 

Were a 

Mechanic

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Christmas in Connecticut- 1945

"Never Forget." Until Now.

This just has be wondering, are Congressional Republicans more evil or more stupid?  For the party that pretty much created the 9/11-started-it-all-terror-is-lurking-everywhere (no matter how dubious, disrespectful, or manipulative) message, this is pretty low.  Denying coverage to 9/11 first responders because you're afraid of taxes on the richest 2% of Americans going up 3%?  That's well, just awful.  If this is how terrible Republicans behave while in the minority, I'm horrified to see how they'll behave in the majority.  When I learn of their positions on pressing policy issues, and hear their rhetoric, I'm usually taken aback and can only ask myself, are all Republicans petulant children?

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Moment of "Gawah?!"

This bumps Bea Arthur up a few notches on the "Alright, That's Pretty Cool" list.

Brighten Your Day

I came across these clips of Julie Andrews appearing on The Muppet Show and they turned my day around.  After a rough, and somewhat depressing (I feel like a small piece of my soul dies each time I walk in), night at work these clips brought a much needed smile to my face.  They make me pine for the old days of television, though; variety shows were incredibly well done.  The Muppets are also all kinds of amazing.  It's fun to see Julie Andrews playing along, too.  It makes me wonder how many "serious" actors and actresses from the current bunch- excluding Katy Perry- would do something like this and have such an obviously fun time; celebrities used to be so much more cool.  

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File This Under...

File this under "things that need to die."  


Disney has ordered two more Pirates of the Caribbean installments.  The fourth in the franchise, On Stranger Tides, will be released next summer.  Penelope Cruz will be starring in it alongside Johnny Depp who is reprising his role as Captain Jack Sparrow.  


I'm wondering if Ms. Cruz will get another Oscar nomination for this.  It seems like she's the Academy's new pet and they'll just nominate her for whatever movie she stars in(Nine, anyone?)

Thought For The Day

It should be no secret that I abhor Sarah Palin.  The mere mention of her name sends shivers down my spine and causes me to convulse.  (In fact, I think I just threw up a little typing her name.)  The sound of her voice calls to mind the screeching wraiths of Hell.  She is, it could be said, a dementor straight out of the world of Harry Potter.  She's a single-minded, thoughtless, soul-sucking creature whose only intention is sucking all the good out of the world.  Well, the world that rational intelligent people inhabit at least.  She dismisses facts that don't congeal with her demented and small world-view out of hand, blaming them on lib'ral distortion and bias.  She seeks to remake the world in her image, and in Sarah's world everything  is Sarah.

The media's (well mostly Fox News') juvenile obsession with her is embarrassing.  It's like an 8th grade boy fawning over his unattainable crush.  Here we have a woman with no thoughts on actual policy, who speaks in platitudes, panders to the public, and stoops to the lowest common denominator at every chance, who dominates media attention for no good reason.  Memo to the media: Grow up and stop taking her seriously.

In short, Sarah Palin is what happens when the most obnoxious kid in class gets all the teacher's attention.

Good Question, Sir

Lewis Black is one of the best comics in the business.  He's also a very astute political commentator.  His comments here particularly resonate with me.  His question toward the end, why can't we have the best government in the world if we're supposed to be the best country in the world, is notably relevant given the results of the elections.  The coming surge of tea partiers into Congress who seek to dismantle and destroy it are dangerous and do not have the nation's best interest in mind.  

Warning: Strong language.