MacDries says, "Thus it is with this WebLogging. It's rather addicting but progressively un-satisfying. So it will cease soon."

MacDries says, "Just TiVoed Treasure Of The Sierra Madre the other night and realized that Bogey set the whole thing up when he threw the water in little Bobby's face. Poor kid probably never got over being dissed by a guy named Humphrey. That's a bunch of Freudian crap but then along came OJ who got away with it and the rest is BS. The jury will not convict. You heard it here."
Beware! It's In The Book
If a man commits adultery with another man's wife - with the wife of his neighbor - both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death.
-Leviticus 20:10

MacDries says, "If we lived in Levi's world and the laws were enforced, there would be no over-population. I'll bet you'd even get a better deal from Scalia."
Welcome To The Internet, Jorge Luis
I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library.
Me figuraba el paraíso bajo la especie de una biblioteca.
-Jorge Luis Borges

MacDries says, "A library of a sort, with commercials."
HEADLINE: A Flush of Miramax Films Before a New Regime
Is that as in: Down The Toilet?
The CPU Pile-up
Just came across an iMac for Kate so one more working computer enters my pile. Here's the list of working units sitting in my studio unused: Macintosh SE, Macintosh IIsi, Macintosh 8500 (upgraded to a G3), Macintosh G3, plus some scsi peripherals; hard disks, CD drives, CD burners. An 8500 motherboard, a 15" Apple monitor, a 12" VGA monitor, a 9" VGA monitor. Also have a PowerBook 520 with a dead battery that works on power adapter. A few extra keyboards and various mice. Can't bring myself to throw them on the street so they sit there gathering dust. I've had a few hand-me-down PCs over the years but finally got sick of them and pitched them out. Didn't like having them around even working. If I had all this hardware up country, I'd have a tag sale and make 5-10 bucks. Ha!
My main ax is a 12" G4 PowerBook, SuperDrive, with an additional 15" Apple monitor. For scanning I have an 8500 upgraded to G3 with a 17" Viewsonic monitor and a Firewire CD burner. Emma's iMac has a faulty ethernet port and she's saving for the latest G5. Ann's iBook is virtually dead so she's shopping for a new one. Inside the dead iBook is an never-used Airport card and some memory.
Wanna talk about re-cycling?

MacDries says, "Have you ever read such crap? Wine as a metaphor for life? And besides, Paul Giamatti is the single Screwee of the whole Oscar Buzz. Jamie Foxx? Double Excuse Me!!!! As I said before, he ain't Ray Charles and Diana Ross was not Billie Holiday."
What Is Facismo?
Security guard: You'll have to sit up, there's no slouching allowed on these chairs.
Girl: What?
Security guard: If you don't stop slouching you'll have to leave.
-Time Warner Center, 3rd floor

MacDries says, "Give a guy minimum wage and a uniform with a badge and he's an authority (or perhaps, more charitably, it's just a conversation opener for a blighted dewd with too little to do). Just don't give him a pistol to go with the badge. Please?"
Today's Oddity
ANCHORAGE, Alaska Feb 22, 2005 - A woman upset about an impending breakup with her boyfriend, convinced him to have a finale, convinced him to let her tie him up, then cut off his penis and flushed it down a toilet. She then dropped the guy off at the emergency room and returned home to clean up the blood.
We're told that utility workers recovered the severed member and surgeons sucessfully reattached it.
Kim Tran, 35, was charged with first-degree assault, domestic violence and tampering with evidence.

MacDries says, "Huh? Tampering with evidence? Which part of this story is weirdest: The assault or the fact that utility workers actually retrieved it from the sewer or septic tank? Or that it was sucessfully reattached."
Well, I Never...!!!
"I really don't know any straight men who aren't in show business that have ever watched the Oscars.
- Chris Rock

MacDries says, "Well, Mr. Smarty Pants. I never miss the show so I guess I'm gay. To paraphrase Woody Allen, that should improve my chances for some action. And furthermore, how come Black folks always pull for the black nominees? Guess they're all prejudiced, eh?"
Raoul Duke Reprise
"Big Darkness Soon Come. Take my word for it,"
- Hunter Thompson
Tek-Serve
Just took Ann's iBook in for service. It's dead but Tek-Serve is a model of how all businesses should be run. So organized, honest, efficient. If the US Government was run as well America would be the greatest country in the world.
And I'm not even getting paid for that boost.

MacDries says, "Finally artists are getting a little monetary respect. I sold a series of 14 paintings in the 70s to Security Pacific Bank in LA for $1100. Also sold another painting in the 80s."
Power Corrupts
Absolute power corrupts, absolutely. Witness the buddy buddy going on with Bush Pere (41) and Bubba (42). The Shrub (43) calls them the Odd Couple.

MacDries says, "I call them a couple of guys with nothing left to do and don't know how to do it. Gerald Ford (38) (and Agnew) went to the country club, Nixon (37) did his venting in a few books, LBJ (36) went home to die, (Kissinger went the cocktail party circuit) Reagan (40) went to LaLa LaDiDa Land. Only Carter (39) knew how to extend his life in a meaningful way."
Overheard In NY
Son: I thought you were looking for Danielle Steele?
Mom: I am.
Boy: But isn't that fiction? Why are we in literature?
Mom: Fiction is literature.
Boy: Oh. I thought literature was good writing.
--Barnes & Noble, 5th Avenue
Sammi Smith
This is a crying shame: Since Sammi died I have been scrounging around trying to find CDs of her music. There is one to be found on Amazon; Best Of Sammi Smith but I have most of those tracks. I have at least three great LPs but they are packed in boxes upcountry and I never got around to digitizing them.
Anybody with digital copies of anything, let me know and we'll work out a deal.
Something Else To Look At

23rd Psalm Revisited
Bush is my shepherd; I shall dwell in want.
He maketh logs to be felled in our national forests.
He leadeth trucks into the still wilderness.
He restoreth my fears.
He leadeth me in the paths of international disgrace for his ego's sake.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of pollution and war,
I will find no solution, for thou art in office.
Thy tax cuts for the rich and thy media control, they discomfort me.
Thou preparest an agenda of deception in the presence of thy religion.
Thou anointest my head with foreign oil.
My health insurance runneth out.
Surely megalomania and false patriotism shall follow me all the days of thy term,
And my jobless child shall dwell in my basement forever.

MacDries says, " I owe a lot to this woman; Solveig is 93 (sorry, 92, Carl informs me) and starting to pay a lot for her long life. She fed a whole bunch of us on weekends for all those art school years and sent us back to our shabby apartments with Care packages of bread and rolls and leftovers and always needed us to call her when we safely made the perilous 20 mile journey. They don't make humans any better than her. Yet another occasion when I regret not knowing how to pray."
Another Actual Paid Day
Sorry but money comes first, last and always.

MacDries says, "Tomorrow, I'm gonna have an all day session of Sammi. Wish I still drank, I'd get real drunk and start listening and drinking tonight."
Best Joke Making The Rounds
General Clark is thinking of making another shot in Y2K8. That's Liberman in the background in case he falters at the gate.

MacDries says, "Yeah, and the second best joke is that Hillary actually has a chance."
Republican Dictionary
ACCOUNTABILITY, n. Buck? What buck? (Martin Richard, Belgrade, Mont.)

BI-PARTISANSHIP, adj. When Democrats compromise. (Justin Rezzonico, Keene, N.H.)

CHECKS & BALANCES, pl. n. An antiquated concept of the Founding Fathers that impedes autocratic efficiency; see also REFORM. (Robert B. Fuld, Unionville, Conn.)

FOX NEWS, n. Faux news. (Justin Rezzonico, Keene, N.H.)

GOD, n. Senior presidential advisor. (Martin Richard, Belgrade, Mont.)

NONPARTISAN JUDICIAL NOMINEE, n. An active member of the Federalist Society. (Mark Hatch-Miller, Brooklyn, N.Y.)

OWNERSHIP SOCIETY, n. 1) A society where you're on your own. (John Read, Ownings Mills, Md.); 2) A society where one-half of society owns the other half. (Anne Galvan Klousia, Corvallis, Ore.); 3) The euphemism used by robber barons and their political lackeys to promote or justify the extreme concentration of wealth into the hands of a powerful few
Synonyms: PLUTOCRACY, CORPORATE FEUDALISM. (Ken Stump, Seattle, Wash.)

SOCIAL SECURITY, n. Broker security. (Bruce Clendenin, Dallas, Texas)

SPREADING PEACE, v. Pre-emptive war. (Bruce Hawkins, Silver Spring, Md.)

STAY THE COURSE, v. To relentlessly pursue a disastrous policy regardless of how far conditions deteriorate. Antonym: "To cut and run." (Aja Starke, New York, N.Y.)

TORTURER, n. 1) White House Counsel. 2) Attorney General. (Martin Richard, Belgrade, Mont.)

Paid Work Day
Really.

Oh, yeah, I (repeat) also have 2 Running Fence and 1 Valley Curtain posters personally* signed by Christo (pre-Christo/Jeanne-Claude) FOR SALE CHEAP. Make an offer.

*In my struggling artist phase, I once painted The Master's loft. Christo, beaming, pointed out the worst copper water piping job I'd ever seen supplying the water-heater to his bathroom. "Know who did the plumbing in this closet? Phillip Glass!" Jeanne-Claude quickly ushered him away, saying, "Come Dahling, these boys are not interested in such things. We all have work to do."

MacDries wants to know if there is a recording contract in the offing.
The Robot Soldier Is Coming
Just what we need at $$$$Millions per we can kill with inpunity and no danger to American flesh.
Sorry- Nothing Here
Doing my taxes today.

MacDries says, "I agree (to a degree), but bedsheets? I'd like to see this cop's boudoir. I'm thinking black light and velvet paintings of Elvis. Whaddy you see?
What Is Delusion Anyway?
"I went from being a kid who lost her father [at age 8] and who lived in the South Bronx to almost going to live in the White House. That just tells you what this country is all about."
Geraldine Ferraro

MacDries says, "Wrong and wrong again, Gerri. First of all, you didn't even get close; no where near the ballpark. As much as I loved Mondale, Reagan stomped his and your ass. And second, the VP doesn't live in the White House unless he (she) assassinates the Prez. (As some flakes still think LBJ did.)"
Give 'em Hell Howie (Harry?)
"The Republicans know the America they want, and they are not afraid to use any means to get there. But there is something that this administration and the Republican Party are very afraid of. It is that we may actually begin fighting for what we believe."
Howard Dean, accepting the chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee.

MacDries says, "Trouble is, lots of Democrats are afraid of that too."
Don't Bother Complaining
Dear Electric Customer,
Just a little note to let you know we understand your anger in the recent price hike. But it should be noted that you have no choice. We are a big company and you will pay what we tell you. We have the power, you need the power. So sad, too bad. Sucks to be you.
We have enclosed a little picture to help outline our response. Have a nice day and keep those checks coming, loser!
Sincerely,
Your Local Power Co.

MasterCard
Jack wakes up at home with a huge hangover he can't believe. He forces himself to open his eyes, and the first thing he sees is a couple of aspirins next to a glass of water on the side table. And, next to them, a single red rose!
Jack sits up and sees his clothing in front of him, all clean and pressed. Jack looks around the room and sees that it is in perfect order, spotlessly clean. So is the rest of the house. He takes the aspirins, cringes when he sees a huge black eye staring back at him in the bathroom mirror, and notices a note on the table: "Honey, breakfast is on the stove, I left early to go shopping--Love you!"
He stumbles to the kitchen and sure enough, there is hot breakfast and the morning newspaper. His son is also at the table, eating. Jack asks, "Son... what happened last night?"
"Well, you came home after 3 A.M., drunk and out of your mind. You broke some furniture, threw up in the hallway, and got that black eye when you ran into the door."
"So, why is everything in such perfect order, so clean, I have a rose, and breakfast is on the table waiting for me?"
His son replies, "Oh, THAT!... Mom dragged you to the bedroom, and when she tried to take your pants off, you screamed, "Leave me alone, lady, I'm married!"
Broken furniture -- $85.26
Hot breakfast -- $4.20
Red rose bud -- $3.00
Two aspirins -- $.38
Saying the right thing, at the right time -- Priceless.
Doh! Of The Decade
Scientist says brains of men and women are different.
It all boils down to genes, according to Dr. Marianne Legato Partnership for Gender Specific Medicine Columbia University.
Women are born with two X chromosomes, and men with an X and a Y.
"And on that Y chromosome are at least 21 unique genes unique to males which control many of the body's operations down to the level of the cells," Dr Legato said.
She also said those genetic differences explain other differences, like why men can drink more alcohol than women without becoming intoxicated.
"Women do not have the enzyme in their stomach that degrades alcohol which men have," she said.

MacDries says, "I don't think men really need that go ahead to make them drink more."

MacDries says, "Who else? Jamie Foxx? I don't think so. Some of us prefer the real thing. I've heard more than one person rave about the movie. Then I ask them which album by Ray they like best and get a blank, 'uhhh, I don't actually have any...'. Yeah, right."
Happy Valentine's Day

MacDries says, "Damn, I hope he doesn't get his head blown off. Bring 'em all home now George!"
The Old Art School (MCAD) Crew
Some of them: L-to-R. The Donut Man (sculptor, printmaker, curmudgeon, poet, Merle Haggard impersonator), Greg Howard (painter), Judith Jones Leo (painter), Katie Phillips Howard (painter), Carl Grupp (painter, printmaker, draughtsman extraordinaire, ringleader, raconteur, rogue, jazz archivist), Jackie Kielkopf (painter), Jim Kielkopf (painter). Carol Wright (artist, in mirror, honorary MCAD chum).
The Godfather Of Juice
This guy makes OJ look like a roll model. Hey kids, get juiced on steroids and be a top athlete. Canseco wrote that he was a scholarly and careful drug user who first used steroids in 1984, then introduced other major leaguers to them a year later.

MacDries says, "And he's still on the streets, preachin' instead of in jail."
Poor Fiorina
She gets fired and only gets $42 million. Hardly worth getting up and going to work anymore.
And this after H/P stock fell 50% since she took over. No gratitude in the corporate life.
Nap
Need one. Stuffed up head, this cold won't leave me alone.

Dear Sir,
I am a member of the Board of Directors of the Department of Petroleum Resources of Nigeria. May I please seek your personal help to transfer the sum of 25 million USD quietly into an account you will nominate.
This fund is an over-invoiced value of an Oil Contract which I was the mastermind,This amount is now due for claim. Considering my official position I cannot consign this fund to myself nor retain such huge sum of money in a local bank here in Nigeria.
My colleague and I have agreed that a 20% of the total fund will go to you. We will further take care of any expenses incurred by you from our share of the total fund.
I assure you that the source of this money is authoritative and all aspects of this transaction will be conducted with absolute trust and confidentiality.
There is no risk involved.
I will give you further information when I have received your response.Thank you again for your attention.
Yours Truly
MR.FRANK UCHE
2348-033-749-735.
EMAIL:mrfrankuche33@yahoo.com
BUSINESS INTRODUCTION/INVESTMENT

MacDries says, "Them are what you call Weapons Of Mass Destruction (WMD). NO? Guess we gotta do a little regime change on the peninsula. Go George. We're all behind you. You got the mandate."
I'm Gonna Be So Rich
Dear  Sir/Madam,
I am making this contact with you in good faith. I got your mail address from the Foreign Department in our Ministry of Foreign Affairs Office. I am working with the Standard Trust Bank Limited,Apapa  Branch Lagos.
My purpose of writing you is to ask for your assistance  to provide your bank account where we can successfully secure the  sum of  $10.5 million (ten million five hundred thousand united states  dollars).
For your information, there is one Japanese businessn merchant based  here in Nigeria and his name is Mr.Toshio Kuzito. He was the owner of  kuzito fisheries Nig. Ltd, located at No.125 industrial zone, Oshodi expressway, Isolo here in Lagos now have been taken over by Government of Nigeria because nobody came for this company after the death of Mr. toshio.
This man died in a plane crash in 1999 together with his wife here in Nigeria. He was banking with my bank and I m his accounting officer.However, since the death of Mr. Toshio, I have been trying to contact any of his relative in the city of Osaka, his home country Japan through his address with me, to let his people know about his money  in our bank but I did not receive any response.I later remembered  that Mr. Toshio came to my country out of shame he was receiving  from his country because he was impotent.
This secret he revealed  to me when he was alive because I pestered him to introduce his  children to me. Now I have decided to link anybody to stand as Mr.Toshio next of kin in order to claim the money he deposited here as Fixed Solid Investment since nobody knew about it.
Government of my country will pay it to Federal Reserve if I should declare to them about this fund. Note that there is no risk involved in this transaction, as I will give you all information you may need about Mr. Toshio and his banking relationship with my branch to enable you stand as his next of kin  to receive this money in your account.
This transaction will go  through normal banking process only that you have to stand firm as the next of kin to Mr. Toshio just to claim this money. I will direct you on how to apply for the claims of this money.
  Please  if you are interested and capable to carry out this deal with  me, contact me by email me back on drmusa_abu2002@yahoo.com I will require the following information from you for procession of the fund in your favour.
1. Your private phone and fax number.
2. Your account information where this fund will be paid into.
3. Your home address. I personally need your home address because I do not know you too well before now only that I decided to work with you on trust believing God that you will not cheat on me.
Note that we can conclude this transaction within 2 weeks upon your compliance in applying for the claims to our Head Office, as I will  direct you.
I will give you $3.5million after we conclude this transaction. Be duly informed that I will be resigning from this banking work  to come over to your country after the transfer of this fund to your account. I will then engage myself in international business  since I will have enough money for any kind of business after this transaction. You need not to be afraid because in as much as I would want my reputation protected, I would also want yours to also be protected.
Reply to my alternative E-mail address drmusa_abu2002@yahoo.com
I m waiting for your urgent response.
Best regards,
Mr Musa Abubakar.

MacDries is wondering. "I'm puzzled." he says, "Why does it seem more like a favor when an older woman seduces a young boy than when an older man seduces a young girl, or an older man, (like Michael Jackson) seduces a young man? Or, God forbid, an older woman seduces a younger girl.
Is this the same as when an older guy has a young babe on his arm and we say, "Wayda go dewd," compared to when an older woman is seen with a young dewd and we say, "Gigilo"?"
Rice On A Roll
And I don't mean wrapped in seaweed with some Yellowtail. The "media" just loves her these days and dig those threats she's throwing around about Iran. Think she's trying to out-macho her wimpy mentor Colin?

MacDries says, "Hell, she could cut a fart and out-macho him after what The Shrub's team did to him."
Preaching To The Converted
"As I said in my inaugural address, we cannot carry the message of freedom and the baggage of bigotry at the same time."
- George Bush, speaking to a group of black leaders.

MacDries says, "Yo! I think they know that Bro. Perhaps you ought to give that speech to your white Christian brethren. Nome sain, Bro? Tell the black leaders what you're gonna do about education, feeding the hungry, getting the job market on track beside enlisting in the coilition of the poor Army."
Artist Of The Day
An old friend, Andrea Callard has a site called The Avocet Portfolio, showing numerous prints by many artists from the old CoLab group. Go HERE to check it out.
Enlightened Legislation
Virginia's house of Delegates passed a bill Tuesday authorizing a $50 fine for anyone who displays his or her underpants in a "lewd or indecent manner."

MacDries is thankful, "What we've always needed is someone to lead the Fashion Police. Next we need someone for the Art Police and Music Police and the Perfume Police. See that horrible painting over there? Arrest that guy. Boom the latest Snoop Dogg out your SUV window; big ticket!!! If I can smell your scent, you are too close. Oh, yeah, and Pond's Cold Cream is not perfume."
Faking It!
An old pal, Bill Miller, has a brilliant new book out. Everything you might want to know about vanity, hypocrisy, insecurity, self-hatred and all your other great character traits. Miller previously did the job on other subjects such as The Mystery of Courage and The Anatomy of Disgust.
It opens thus:
"IT HAPPENED AGAIN TODAY: I was bluffing my way through some material in my Property class about which I knew no more than what the teaching manual told me, it being the extent of my researches on the topic..."
Find it on Amazon HERE.
Find it at Barnes & Noble HERE.
And Don't Forget Jeanne-Claude
This just in from RomDog. Hope you got permission from Jesu Christo, Fred.

(©Fred Krughoff)
I also have 2 Running Fence and 1 Valley Curtain posters, personally* signed by Christo FOR SALE CHEAP. Make an offer.

*In my struggling artist phase, I once painted The Master's loft. Christo, beaming, pointed out the worst copper water piping job I'd ever seen supplying the water-heater to his bathroom. "Know who did the plumbing in this closet? Phillip Glass!" Jeanne-Claude quickly ushered him away, saying, "Come Dahling, these boys are not interested in such things. We all have work to do."

MacDries says, "Just took one of those tickler tests online. It got a little boring so I fudged a couple questions just to get to the end to see what their sales pitch was. Answer: Money. They want some money to tell me more about how intelligent I am (relative to others). So, now I don't know if they are flattering me or not. Anyhoo, last time I took an IQ test in college I was 142 so I guess I'm slipping. But hey! "Insightful Liguist". That's not bad."
Two New Tondos

Factum1 & Factum2 - 13" diam. each
This Is Not Ray Charles
This is a guy named Foxx lip-syncing Ray Charles.
And just for the record, Diana Ross was (is) not Billie Holiday.
Celebrity: Jonathan Franzen
I was working at a very upscale place in The Meatpacking District. One night Jonathan Franzen walked in alone and ordered a whole pie and requested four plates. I found this a little odd as he was alone but brought him the pie and the plates. Mr. Franzen then proceeded to cut four tiny slices of pie and put them on each of the plates. He then said to me, as he pointed to each of the plates: "This one is for Dave Eggers, this one is for Michael Chabon, this one is for Rick Moody, and this one is for David Foster Wallace." He then pointed to the rest of the pie, which was most of it, and said:"And this is mine, all mine".
He tipped really well, about 100% of the bill.

Wanna see more of what some people think is interesting because it happened to them? Visit BitterWaitress.com. Go HERE. There is also a "Bad Tipper" database with "horror stories" about cheapskates.

As MacDries's teenagers say, "Ohmagod!"

MacDries is so relieved and thanks Fred and Fred RomDog for the tip. "I've been sitting in a chair for the past several hours and was beginning to worry that I was dead."
More On Bush's Budget
Bush's budget will reduce subsidies paid to farmers, cut health programs for poor people and veterans and trim spending on the environment and education.
"It is a budget that sets priorities," Bush said after a meeting with his Cabinet.

MacDries says, "It sure does. Lots of bombs and few books. This is a wise and humane man. America should be proud they elected him."
Howie Takes Over
He ain't dead yet, even if the Dems lack plenty of clues. Nothing wrong with losing if you're right.

MacDries says, "Emma and I still admire you, dewd. Go kick some fat Republican ass; we all know there are tons of it around."
The Good News Is...
The Dickster will not run.

MacDries says, "At this point I'll accept any good news I can get."
Patriotism
Angry Guy: Fuck New England. Fuck people from Boston. Fuck Pats fans, Fuck Red Sox fans, Fuck Ben Affleck, Fuck Denis Leary, Fuck Harvard, Fuck MIT, Fuck Aerosmith, Fuck the Pixies, Fuck David Foster Wallace, Fuck Boston Cream pie and clam chowder and Sam Adams, Fuck Dr. Spock, Fuck pahking your cah in Hahvahd Yahd, Fuck Sacco and Vanzetti, Fuck Paul Revere, Fuck 'em all.
-- Borough Park
Overheard In New York
Go HERE.

MacDries says, "I think he forgot John Kerry, Teddy Kennedy..."
Rice & Abbas
Laugh all you like but who's that little gremlin looking over your shoulder Condi.
The Rooster Crows
Time to wake up!
President Bush's budget would more than double the co-payment charged to many veterans for prescription drugs and would require some to pay a new fee of $250 a year for the privilege of using government health care.

MacDries says, "Anyone surprised? Can't fire him now."

MacDries says, "Lee Konitz is one of the music geniuses of the recent past and present era and Connie Crothers, in addition to being a warm soul, is Kate's piano teacher, extending the line from Lennie Tristano. You'd be stupid if you missed this concert, unless you don't like great music or don't have $10."
Just Found This
A great site for interviews etc. about Jazz. Go HERE. Don't know who Mel martin is but...
Ossie Davis RIP
A class act is over @87.
Girls Night Out

Emotionally Deprived...
and a couple bricks short of a full load.
The General Bullet-head Philosophy
"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil. You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them."
-- Lt. Gen. James Mattis, Commander of Marine expeditions in Afghanistan and Iraq
Pope Is Eating Regularly
Wonder if he's eating pasta or kielbasa?
Groundhog Day
"Yesterday was Groundhog Day and the State of the Union Address. As Air America Radio pointed out, it is an ironic juxtaposition: one involves a meaningless ritual in which we look to a creature of little intelligence for prognostication and the other involves a rodent."

MacDries says, "And the upshot is: 6 more weeks of winter and 4 more years of stupid venality."
Layla's Had A Face Lift
Harrison's and Clapton's ex, Patti Boyd, has that tell-tale fish face. Not a bad job though.

Three days a week.  Begin by standing straight, with a 5-LB.  potato sack in each hand.  Extend your arms straight out from your sides and hold them there as long as you can-try to reach a full minute.  Relax.  After a few weeks, move up to 10-LB.  potato sacks, and then 50-LB.  potato sacks, and eventually try to get to where you can lift a100-LB.  potato sack in each hand and hold your arms straight out for more than a full minute.
  After you feel confident at that level, start putting a couple of potatoes in the bags.
Finishing Up
A few chores up here today and the apartment is finished. Ready to rent. Here's the blurb if you know any homeless people.
It's on Craig's List:
Charming Country Apartment
1 bedroom apartment, rent plus utilities. Newly built -- we're looking for the first tenant. Beautiful - yet accessible - country location 20 acres -- pond, woods, sorry- no pets
Lots of privacy -- main house occupied by owners on weekends, appliances, heated garage, close to supermarket and other shopping. 10 mins from Chatham, NY. 25 mins from Hudson, NY.

Back at'cha Shrub. You little twerp!
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