Metalheads

I wonder if there will be a day when everyone has everything pierced. What's the next big thing? Maybe it will go back to basics, like music briefly did in the early Ohs when the stripped down rock of The Strokes, Ben Harper, The Hives, The Killers, etc hit the scene. It would be nice for me if things went back to basics. I have no idea what my wife's natural hair looks like. I've never seen it without chemical enhancement. It would be nice if everyone, regardless of ancestry, cut their hair down with a #1 guard on the clippers. Also, take out the posts and laser off the tats. If a person wants to be noticed it should be on accomplishments, like how many hungry people did she feed, how many shoes did he make for the people with no shoes on their feet. And for every 100 then a person can get some ink or an earring.

It was weird to watch the NBA playoffs and see guys with all those tatoos missing freethrows. Instead of sitting in the parlor those mofos should be practicing hitting those easy shots and earn all that money. Shhiiiiiiiiiit. If I was paying those fellas I'd take $10,000 away for every free throw they miss and give it to Big Brothers & Sisters.

It will be nice when people don't feel the need to be recognized and noticed and go back to doing their jobs.

I Let the Days Go By

I was ironing clothes today. I get really, really sentimental when I iron my daughter's clothes. It's probably because I know she won't be wearing them for much longer. She'll outgrow them, outgrow this house, outgrow my advice. I had her when I was so old that I'll probably never get to see her as an old lady. I bet she'll be beautiful, like an Eartha Kitt or Katherine Hepburn.

It started out and ended up a nice day.

Cheney Lips

Why is he still talking? He'd pick Rush over Powell? He'd pick an over-fed, drug-addicted, fired sports commentator entertainer over a man who actually served in combat and was three steps away from the presidency? How many times does Cheney have to prove himself pure evil? He has nothing but destruction of this country's morale at heart.

My First Kid

Twenty years ago this week my then-girlfriend told me that she had had a miscarriage. It didn't bother me much then, because I was only 24 and hadn't known her for very long. But now, man, I'd have a nineteen-year-old kid. Probably very pretty or very handsome. Probably very smart. Probably very kind and giving.

I miss having the opportunity.

But, I realize that I probably wouldn't have my beautiful, smart, kind and giving eight-year-old daughter.

I'm very glad for that opportunity.

Specter of things to come

I'm happy happy happy! Another Republican jumped off the sinking ship. And it's not like it's a crazy party switcher, like Zell Miller or Joseph Lieberman. I've always thought Specter was a decent person. I don't always agree with him, which is fine with me, but he's always been rational. Welcome! Glad to have you! Come on in!

More of the Same?

I've read articles about how President Obama is adopting or adapting several of W's more controversial stances, like holding enemy combatants indefinitely, state's secret, etc. But is the president actually holding on to those ideologies or does he recognize that sweeping changes can cause catastrophe. Look at the sweeping change that happened in Iraq. Look at the sweeping change that happened in Russia, Yugoslavia, South Africa. Whether the longview is good or bad by Western standards, sudden change almost certainly spells disaster for any social structure. Tantamount to a hurricane or tornado.

Peace!

SURPRISE!

I found out Thursday that a guy I work with is sending distasteful anti-Obama emails to another guy I work with. The recipient told me that some of them cross the line and he asked the sender to stop sending them. Now, for a little context, the recipient has shares with me all kinds of off color jokes and videos, so if he says they're over the line, then I believe it. It's like Karl Rove saying McCain went too far, or Satan saying Rove went too far. Most of them aren't about his policies, but about his skin color. (I say skin color because I don't believe in race and I'm trying not to use it anymore. It's a word of convenience.)

Anyway, now I look at the sender with totally new eyes. I'm wondering who else he sees as less than.

I almost wish I didn't know about his political views, but I'm glad, because now I can fuck with him and he won't know why.