July 31st, 2007 by Max
I heard a commercial for the drug that keeps you from having ‘Restless Legs Syndrome” today. A new commercial.
Does anyone but me notice how they subtley change commericals? Sometimes just one awkward word will be changed. Sometimes, like with this one, they use the same actor and the same camera angles and the same theme, but substantially change the monologue.
The actress in this commerical said, today, that you should notify your doctor if you’ve become overly interested (Did she use the word ‘obsessed’?) in gambling or sex! These could be side effects of Requip.
These could be consider negative side effects of this medication – for some people maybe worse than the disease – but on the other hand ….
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July 26th, 2007 by Max
So. Arlen Spector the Republican ranking member, and Pat Leahy the Chairman pretty much came out today and said that the US Attorney General lied under oath. Spector said Gonzalez’ testimory was “actionable”. Leahy said he’d give Gonzalez a chance to make it “truthful”.
Side note: They subpoenaed Karl Rove re US attorney firings.
Can the US Congress impeach the US Attorney General for lying to Congress? I would guess so.
The problem is, who would arrest him? Do they have to? Can they just vote him out of office? What if they do and he won’t leave?
If he’s still there, and he Congress holds Rove in contempt of Congress – who will arrest him?
The executive is the executive. So Bush’s White House will have to send someone to arrest Rove and Gonzalez. But Bush can’t ‘execute’ anything – well except maybe the mentally impaired.
Lucky for them – Cheney isn’t a member of the Executive branch. Cheney could execute anything!
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July 26th, 2007 by Max
Just a note, vis a vis conversation in the woods.
http://goldennumber.net/life.htm
http://goldennumber.net/face.htm
http://www.summum.us/philosophy/phi.shtml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio
I don’t know about the science. I prefer to look at this as an artist, and in that mode just feel it. Does this fit? It made me think of it.
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July 24th, 2007 by Max
I’m just askin’
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July 23rd, 2007 by Max
Here’s my best picture. But it needs to be rescanned and photoshoped. Here’s the basic image first go round.
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July 22nd, 2007 by Max
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July 17th, 2007 by Max
Cheney first. Pick your reason. Abu Ghriab. Giving up a CIA agent. Haliburton no bid contracts. You know. I know. If you give the Congress subpoena power and they use it, they’ll find criminal wrongdoing. Probably piles of it. I’ve waited to do my research for this and so waiting for this blog entry. No time to do the research. Congress has the time.
Then Bush. I’m convinced that Cheney has run the country for the first six years. Cheney and Karl Rove. Doesn’t matter though. George is in charge. Its his blame to take. And the case against him is even easier. Lets forget torture for a minute. Just Habeas Corpus would get him impeached or should.
But lets face it. His own man Paul O’Neil wrote that he planned on attacking Iraq right from the start. Too bad if it was Cheney’s idea. Rummies idea. Wolfies idea. Bush is the blametakerer. He is the decider.
A woman whom I can’t name wrote a book called the US vs Bush. She’s a DA. She spells out an actual legal case against Bush complete with a smoking gun. Signed documents that prove we were bombing Iraq. Knowingly killing civilians a year before the “war” started.
They planned this war back in 1996. “You could look it up” – Casey Stengel. But its true. You can. Check out the Project for the New American Century.
Knowing it would be a mess was not only possible – this clown’s Dad knew it. Must have told him.
Read “The Dunce” in Slate.
This guy just didn’t have the character to hold this office. That’s it in a nut shell. (A little accidental double meaning).
But here’s the thing. He lied the country into a war. There is no higher crime!
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July 12th, 2007 by Max
So today, Harriet Myers just refused to even show up to answer her Congressional Subpoena. This lying, stonewalling administration has upped the anti – but then isn’t that what they always do?
The American people are either too busy, too stupid or too disinterested to recognize what this administration is doing to them.
This Administration has cynically recognized that the stunningly outrageous behavior they engage in on a regular basis appears to too many Americans to belong to the “They wouldn’t do THAT!” group of political actions.
This is bad for America.
But then George W Bush is the worst thing to happen to America… well since slavery anyway!
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July 12th, 2007 by Max
Really?
Come on. Doesn’t executive privilege require some kind of national security issue?
This is the straight defense of the indefensible political firing of meritorious US Attorneys, for partisan political reasons.
In Arkansas, it was to get Karl Rove’s buddy a job.
In New Mexico it was worse. Because the US Attorney there wouldn’t indite a political opponent of Senator DiMinici.
Awful.
This group just stone walls or attacks for personal or partisan purposes repeatedly.
I believe they’ve made the political calculation that by the time this goes through the system, their time will be almost up. And even then, their new Conservative Court, will give them what they want.
Despite the fact that an earlier court ruled against Nixon.
Can you believe it? We’re back to Nixon.
Except this guy is an idiot.
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July 11th, 2007 by Max
Far be it from me to engage in hypberbole, but I heard a kid recently, who’s voice harkened my mind back to the haunted wispers of Jim Morrison. A drummer whom I cannot name, provided this recognition, this fleeting association as I listened to him sing “Gasoline Feat”. Not as smooth or rich perhaps as Morrison, but it drifted through my mind so I’m passing it on.
Where did I hear such a kid?
At a party at the home of a recent graduate of SV High School. A soft soaked sware’ that I was honored to attend.
What really got my attention that night as I listened to the Trip Wilsons was the kid on lead guitar. Raucus, hammering, machine gun, driving, power strains fail to adequately define the sound this kid and his guitar produced.
Again – hyperbole – maybe. But here goes. He made me think of Jimmy Page. Yes. I said it. I mean it. Loud. Scratchy. Pulsing screams of rock. With the blues underneath. But definately the blues were there.
I don’t know these kids names. I don’t know the name of the bassist who completed the trio. I thought they lacked a little something where I usually like to hear melody and occaisionally I thought about all the other young rock bands who play screaming machine gun rock without any soul. Still this was much more than your basic garage band.
I couldn’t understand all of the lyrics. Hell I couldn’t understand most of the lyrics, but they were there and from what I could gather potentially poetic.
On the whole, this uninformed reviewer thinks they could use a little production help and a little more attention to beauty, or poetry or melody or whatever it is that makes a song a song and differentiates it from screaming angry art. So much of what I see on MTV (when I watch MTV) these days seems to me to be someone shouting at me. This was not shouting. This was energy. I don’t know anything about music but I have some feelings about art, and this was art.
Still they need something. Something that makes a song a song; or maybe just makes it more memorable. just a nudge more flow or … or … something.
Right now though, in Rock and Roll (and this IS rock and roll) I think I’ve heard the next great sound.
They haven’t found their groove yet but there’s something here, and I want to hear more of it.
http://www.myspace.com/thetripwilsons
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July 8th, 2007 by Max
Scared the hell out of me. A fishing lure caught under the rocks in the river, came flying up and hit me in the face. Something similar happened a hundred times before with a different result. This time … I pulled it. It snapped free. It stuck in my eye.
More preciesely in my eyelid. I drove to the Critical Care Unit of THE Hospital. They didn’t want to deal with it. Asked where I wanted to go … I went to Lourdes. My friend Linda met me there with her daughter. The estimable Dr Meehan did a rather good job of de-barbing my eyelid. Appologizing every time he hurt me as he cut the hook in half and pushed the pointy end out of my eyelid. Yay Dr Meehan. I’m not blind and it was far more scary than painful.
There’s a lesson here, but I don’t want to dig for the deeper meaning. I don’t have to “point” “out” the obvious.
It was a long and pretty scary day, and my friends were there.
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July 7th, 2007 by Max
Geeze. All I hear from Yankee fans is that its over. Come on people. Dice K got you scared?
This Yankee team has players who have been to the All-Star Game at every position (I know, first base but count Giambi and I’m right!)
The leagues MVP for the season will come from this team. The longest lineup in the Majors even without Giambi (Good riddance, now lets get rid of Brian Cashman!)
Wang, Petitte, Mussina, Clemens and young Phil Hughes represent #1 starters at each stop in the rotation.
What? Hughes is broken? He’s coming back. Each of these guys could win three in a row, in a row. (Yes I meant that!) So after a 15 game winning streak and the Red Sox win 10 of 15 (Not bad) the Yankees close the gap by 5. Was 11. Now its six! Still ready to give up?
We’re Yankee fans. We expect to win. Now stop all this whining and start believing!
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July 7th, 2007 by Max
How does someone make their mark. What do you do if you’re used to going home and talking to people; roommates, friends, whomever and that’s over. You still have things to say.
I believe that at some point in their lives, everyone wants to make a mark. I believe that for most people that happens when they have kids.
Well I don’t have kids. But I still want to put something out there into the world. Perhaps its a last act of desperation. Perhaps its wildly optimistic that I’ll put something in here that will endure. But I’m going to put something out here and I’m going to hope that some how it endures.
Meantime I hope it entertains, informs, enrages, encourages, delights or maybe sparkles something in someone that inspires or encourages them.
See I think that the only thing, well one of the more powerful, enduring things that a person can leave on this earth is an idea. Don’t believe me? Check Jesus, Jefferson and Josuha for example. Buildings? Yes. There’s the pyramids, the Acropolis, Stonehenge that have been around for a while. But with mankind’s penchant for war, any building is vulnerable to some wild eye’d idiot with a grudge.
However, a unique thought, once it is out there, once it has gained traction, might just endure.
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