Nada or Just a Small Segment

Nothing exciting happened in my life today, so this will probably be a experiment in writing about Nothing. Perhaps I will end up doing a James Joyce mental streaming segment in which whatever is in my mind will emerge in print. We will see. I did finally watch The Big Bang Theory on CBS. Funny, but not a show that will be remembered in the History of Creative Television. The actors are working their nuts off bring their nerd characters to life, but it is a throw-away show. The big news in the heartland is that Oprah is coming to Des Moines on Dec. 8 to campaign for Obama. It will probably be the high point of the local political season. Maybe she will get a motorcade through downtown. The local Walmart today had a widescreen tube showing Shrek 3 in HD; Very bright sharp picture quality, but the local cable company will probably raise rates next winter when we have to go to HD. I could use the extra bucks monthly put into my nestegg instead of having super sharp picture. We will have to see what happens. I found a copy of Charles Peters' book on the 1940 campaign between FDR and Wilkie. Interesting account of a topic I knew very little about. An interesting angle of the history is that Wilkie was an alchoholic. That leads to some interesting speculation on what would have happened to the course of WW2 if he had beaten Roosevelt in '40, with a booze problem. I know--Churchill had the same problem as Wilkie. Last night I wrote some stuff about the goofy video I bought called Sonny Boy. I should mention that the bad people in the movie cut out Sonny's tongue. Now I wil reveal that a good doctor gave Sonny a monkey's tongue, and he was able to talk then. I did rent the other night a video of 7 Brides for 7 Brothers--which I have never seen, except in little clips of the dancing. I was very disappointed in 7... Yes, it had Howard Keel and Jane Powell--but the music was not really very good, the Michael Kidd dancing segments were not all that impressive, and the ending was not done very well. I just have never been as impressed with most of the MGM musicals I have watched over the years that film buffs think are great cinema art. My critical opinion! This is going to be all for right now. This is not going to be looked upon as one of the great bloggings of all time, but eventually I will create a total masterpiece. Till then, you take care. Di di mau!

Sunday Night Victory

The Bears pulled off a 3 point win over the Broncos in a Sudden death overtime game this evening. Great game that had me on the edge of the chair all the last half. Hester and Rex the Great did it. So, now it is time to calm down and wait for next week. Life does go on. Fires have broken out in the Malibu area again and are burning more houses. Drudge has a bit that the London Times is claiming that Hilary and the woman working as her assistant are lovers. Victory, tragedy, and trash are all the stuff in the news. And there is supposed to be an Israeli-Palistinian peace conference in Annapolis, with a lot of Mid East diplomats coming to the thing. The score of the Bears-Broncos game was 37-33. I found a tape at a thrift store of a goofy movie called Sonny Boy--about a kid who was raised by a trash couple to be a criminal (they cut out his tongue) but he is redeemed by the love of a girl. The main reason to watch this thing is to see David Carradine play a transvestite, whose death scene is actually very moving. Sonny Boy is actually listed by a number of bloggers as one of their favorite movies. I am typing this entry with no paragraph breaks. I did have a good Thanksgiving with my family Thursday, which was the day of the first snow in the heartland. Not a major snow, but at least five people in Iowa were killed in car wrecks on the slick roads. I am going to wind up this blogging, and let my fans and devotees get back to what you are doing. It will be time for bed in a little while. So, you all take care. Di di mau!

Thanksgiving

Here we are blogging again after almost 3 weeks, and it is now almost 2 a.m on November 22. At about 9 a.m on Nov. 21 the first snow of the season hit the heartland, and it is nasty outside. Not really cold, but icy and windy. So, we have normal winter season weather upon us. Yes, years ago in the winter we went out in it to get to school and to do chores and needed farm work and unless there was a blizzard that can still be remembered 50 years later(and there are a few of them) you did what you had to do whether it was awful cold and snowy or not. The animals had to be cared for. But in an urban setting bad weather means traffic misadventures--so I look forward to a warm globe in a few months.
This thanksgiving day is also Kennedy Murder Day. Nov 22 '63. And it was 44 years ago.
I will try to think now of some things I am Thankful for. I am thankful that my Ma is in fairly good body and mental health in her late 80s. I am thankful that my 2 nephews are getting along good in east Africa working in relief projects. I am thankful that I am still functioning after my diabetic heart attack 5 years ago. I am thankful that a couple of guys I know returned home uninjured from their tours in Iraq. I am thankful that the internet was created, because the thing gives me access to news and info that I would never be able to get otherwise. Sometime I hope to do a whold blog essay on websites I have found that I find interesting. And there are actually some very interesting videos on youtube--especially foreign singers, history-related videos, and other such clips. I will not let anyone disparage the Web, even though it seems to be popular to do so in some 'educated" circles.
I am going to let all you devoted fans of my blog go back to bed now. I am up after a long nap earlier in the evening. You all have a good holiday, and I will return soon. Di di mau!

Return to True Time

Daylight savings time ended just a little while ago, and we are now back on "God's Time." I have not done much productive for the world all of this day. I slept a lot today to try to get rid of the cold and sore back I have had for much of the week, and woke up and functioned for a while in the afternoon, and watched Fox News, which was generally divided between Mushareff declaring martial law in Pakistan and the search for the woman in Chicago whose husband may have killed at least one other of his three previous wives. And Hurricane Noel is causing havoc along the coast of Massachusetts. And I have been reading some interesting political thought blogs, especially one from the Hoover Institute of August '02 on Al Qaeda as a political fantasy. And I found a blog called The Jacksonian Party, which has a long essay trashing Woodrow Wilson and all he stood for. An ususual way to spend a Saturday night, but I kinda enjoy it. Ozzy Osbourne was in town last night for a concert, but I have not yet read the local paper's review of what he did. Nothing on local tv news about him biting a bat, like he did 20+ years ago here, so he must have come and gone from town with no incident. There was really very little local news that was covered tonight, so it must have been a no-news Saturday, except that Iowa and Iowa State both finally won their games. I need to get into the Cornhusker website to see how bad Gobigred got pounded. I think this is going to be all for right now. Next time I may have something really deep and profound to report, but this a.m I ain't got nothin' much. So, you take care for now. Di di mau!