I can only imagine the chortling around the new room when the editor emailed the desk of the new guy and told him, "your gonna have to go get a picture of a burning pile of shit in Nebraska".
The copy editor pretty much had a blast with it also "Herculean attempts to douse it."
Slow News Day!
Friday, January 28, 2005
Thursday, January 27, 2005
Shout out to the REAPER
this is too damn funny. I've seen calenders like these my entire life in construction offices and Automechanics shops, but now my dear Undertaker Friend will not have to be left out.
Yuk, Yuk, Yuk - these women look so excited to be working on the project.
Yuk, Yuk, Yuk - these women look so excited to be working on the project.
OH _ MY_ GA
My hits have gone through the roof today. I normally get 10-15 hits per day but now I'm up to almost 50. It's like I got listed on a new search engine or something, which btw, if you've never done. Try goggling your blog if you really want to get depressed.
I've have tons of work that the world will never see, yet my paragraph mentioning Avocado's comes up all the time. Who knew?
I've have tons of work that the world will never see, yet my paragraph mentioning Avocado's comes up all the time. Who knew?
New CD's Rock Balls
I've just jumped into a new group of 5 CDs and 3 out of 5 are totally wonderful. They are:
1. Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days - very quite acoustic bass one or two very soft vocals and either a Mandolin, Guitar or Banjo for a lead. This guy is from Florida and writes some really catchy tunes.
2. Ambulance, LTD. Brooklyn band - not cutting edge or anything to prog but very solid alt. rock with a shoe-gazer sense of how songs get put together.
3. A.C. Newman - The Slow Wonder - This is the front man for my favorite release in 2004, the New Pornographers, doing the solo thing. This is full-bodied Indie- pop but has the controlled dry synth piano and organ as the lynch pin to some solid fluffy music. Think the Canadian, XTC.
4. Comets on Fire - I don't know, maybe this will grow on me or maybe I'm finally getting musically to old for loud music. I haven't really processed this because the first track annoys the shit out of me.
5. The Black Keys - Rubber Factory- OK, I bought into the hype. Two kids from Akron don't totally "get" the blues. Although this is not a bad album, it's like the music you hear in record stores - you get it home and its just not so much fun to live with. Although this album is on many critics top 10 lists - its only makes my top 25. This sounds a lot like the White Strips although these kids are uglier than Jack or Meg White and can actually sing.
Wednesday, January 26, 2005
RIP PJ
Well, I thought he was immortal but Mr. Johnson has finally succumbed to time. For those of you who live in Houston, Dallas or Ft. Worth, you might want to read this.
"Toward the end of his life, Johnson went public with some private matters -- his homosexuality and his past as a disciple of Hitler-style fascism. On the latter, he said he spent much time in Berlin in the 1930s and became "fascinated with power," but added he did not consider that an excuse.
""I have no excuse (for) such utter, unbelievable stupidity. ... I don't know how you expiate guilt," he says.
"He blamed his homosexuality for causing a nervous breakdown while he was a student at Harvard and said that in 1977 he asked the New Yorker magazine to omit references to it in a profile, fearing he might lose the AT&T commission, which he called "the job of my life."
"In the 1950s, Johnson reflected on his career and what he hoped to achieve.
""I like the thought that what we are to do on this earth is embellish it for its greater beauty," he said, "so that oncoming generations can look back to the shapes we leave here and get the same thrill that I get in looking back at theirs -- at the Parthenon, at Chartres Cathedral."
On his dismissal from the New England Life Insurance Co in 1985
"Architects are pretty much high-class whores. We can turn down projects the way they can turn down some clients, but we've both got to say yes to someone if we want to stay in business."
"All architects want to live beyond their deaths."
I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?
I'm about four skyscrapers behind.
"Architecture is the art of how to waste space."
"Toward the end of his life, Johnson went public with some private matters -- his homosexuality and his past as a disciple of Hitler-style fascism. On the latter, he said he spent much time in Berlin in the 1930s and became "fascinated with power," but added he did not consider that an excuse.
""I have no excuse (for) such utter, unbelievable stupidity. ... I don't know how you expiate guilt," he says.
"He blamed his homosexuality for causing a nervous breakdown while he was a student at Harvard and said that in 1977 he asked the New Yorker magazine to omit references to it in a profile, fearing he might lose the AT&T commission, which he called "the job of my life."
"In the 1950s, Johnson reflected on his career and what he hoped to achieve.
""I like the thought that what we are to do on this earth is embellish it for its greater beauty," he said, "so that oncoming generations can look back to the shapes we leave here and get the same thrill that I get in looking back at theirs -- at the Parthenon, at Chartres Cathedral."
On his dismissal from the New England Life Insurance Co in 1985
"Architects are pretty much high-class whores. We can turn down projects the way they can turn down some clients, but we've both got to say yes to someone if we want to stay in business."
"All architects want to live beyond their deaths."
I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?
I'm about four skyscrapers behind.
"Architecture is the art of how to waste space."
THE BOAT IS SOLD
I got the first installment of cash today and will be giving the new owner the title in April when he pays the last half and when City Island is thawed out and boats start going into the water. Its been a wild and strange ride but I think I’m now officially a land lubber again. Well, expect for the other boat I still have in TX ……grrrr. One at a time!
Monday, January 24, 2005
Whats with the weather this year?
Everywhere I go, the weather seems to be imploding. In CA there were mudslides and rain like they'd never seen. Now in NYC, it is the Blizzard of '05. I can't help but laugh at the title, even if I feel very sorry for the homeless.
Maybe, just maybe - it's me that’s causing the fierce weather. Does anyone want to fly me somewhere to find out? Please make it somewhere warm, but lets see if we can't give Turks and Caicos a freak ice storm, I take donations at dcudd@paypal.com.
To all those interested, my surgery/procedure has been postponed until March. Also, anyone wishing to the get my ass drunk one more time before March may also donate at dcudd@paypal.com or at your local liquor store.
Maybe, just maybe - it's me that’s causing the fierce weather. Does anyone want to fly me somewhere to find out? Please make it somewhere warm, but lets see if we can't give Turks and Caicos a freak ice storm, I take donations at dcudd@paypal.com.
To all those interested, my surgery/procedure has been postponed until March. Also, anyone wishing to the get my ass drunk one more time before March may also donate at dcudd@paypal.com or at your local liquor store.
Monday, January 10, 2005
Where did he go?
I appologize for those of you who are missing the blog, but I am out in Cali - working for the Man. Its rained a ton, over 24" in the last 4 days. Still raining today. I'm getting a little punchy from being locked in this place and really hope my boss gets my laptop soon.
The move to SF is coming along. T got a soft offer that should become firm this week. Last week, when I spoke to the owner of my company about the topic, he stated that she should take the job and we would work it out on Monday. So, it looks like SF is finally going to happen and it only took a year.
I'll let you know if I see any mud slides or the tornado that we are watching for in Ventura.
The move to SF is coming along. T got a soft offer that should become firm this week. Last week, when I spoke to the owner of my company about the topic, he stated that she should take the job and we would work it out on Monday. So, it looks like SF is finally going to happen and it only took a year.
I'll let you know if I see any mud slides or the tornado that we are watching for in Ventura.
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