Saturday
Sep232006
more randomness
Saturday, September 23, 2006 at 11:57PM
Since last night's post didn't have quite enough random tidbits, I have a few more...
You know that bird that's been waking us up early every morning? Alison thinks she saw a chipmunk making the noise. In which case we need some sort of bionic cat who transforms into a shotgun. Unless, of course, the chipmunk's bleat has secured it a mate, then it will be eaten by its Sheol-spawn children.
Paul Simon's latest record, Surprise, is the best record of the year. If you haven't bought it you need to.
Who's going to love you when your looks are gone?
God will, like he waters the flowers on your windowsill...
Don Chaffer sat in on the Square Peg show last week. He's long been one of my heroes, and in the past few years, become a friend as well. That's one of the greatest honors of my life, to call a hero a friend. Here's a photo of us from last week, with Joe and Jess, who just recently moved to Nashville. They said if I posted this photo they'd buy me a drink at next week's show...
(Don't worry, I won't hold you to it, just come out to the show and tell your friends to come with you, and we'll call it even.)
On a serious note, something I've never understood, isn't pornography just prostitution in front of a camera? Someone's paying someone else for a sexual service. Why is that not illegal? The way I see it, porno is evidence.
Ella sang an actual bit of a song tonight for the first time. She sang the first three notes of that lullabye song (lullabye and good night...). It was very high and cute and made us very happy.
My sweet wife and daughter(s) excited to show you the joys of jumping on the couch.
If Allan is reading this, we're a few episodes into season two of Grey's Anatomy. Can't wait for your episodes.
Saw this article on the news today. Apparently, attacking countries because some people in them attacked ours isn't helping make people not like us. I'm no politician, but I wish fighting didn't always lead to more fighting. Somebody has to give; to apologize, admit wrongs and work on cleaning up the mess.
All right, I think that's about it for me today. I'm about to go to bed and read a bit of ridiculious science fiction.
Oh, Clay and I tore down the broken sections of our fence today, got a few post-holes dug and piled most of the old fence onto a neighbor's borrowed trailer. It started raining really hard and we had to abandon ship, but I (and hopefully Mrs. Sharp) am pleased with getting it going.
Ok, now I really am done. Thanks for reading the ramblings. Hope you're having a great weekend.
You know that bird that's been waking us up early every morning? Alison thinks she saw a chipmunk making the noise. In which case we need some sort of bionic cat who transforms into a shotgun. Unless, of course, the chipmunk's bleat has secured it a mate, then it will be eaten by its Sheol-spawn children.
Paul Simon's latest record, Surprise, is the best record of the year. If you haven't bought it you need to.
Who's going to love you when your looks are gone?
God will, like he waters the flowers on your windowsill...
Don Chaffer sat in on the Square Peg show last week. He's long been one of my heroes, and in the past few years, become a friend as well. That's one of the greatest honors of my life, to call a hero a friend. Here's a photo of us from last week, with Joe and Jess, who just recently moved to Nashville. They said if I posted this photo they'd buy me a drink at next week's show...
(Don't worry, I won't hold you to it, just come out to the show and tell your friends to come with you, and we'll call it even.)
On a serious note, something I've never understood, isn't pornography just prostitution in front of a camera? Someone's paying someone else for a sexual service. Why is that not illegal? The way I see it, porno is evidence.
Ella sang an actual bit of a song tonight for the first time. She sang the first three notes of that lullabye song (lullabye and good night...). It was very high and cute and made us very happy.
My sweet wife and daughter(s) excited to show you the joys of jumping on the couch.
If Allan is reading this, we're a few episodes into season two of Grey's Anatomy. Can't wait for your episodes.
Saw this article on the news today. Apparently, attacking countries because some people in them attacked ours isn't helping make people not like us. I'm no politician, but I wish fighting didn't always lead to more fighting. Somebody has to give; to apologize, admit wrongs and work on cleaning up the mess.
All right, I think that's about it for me today. I'm about to go to bed and read a bit of ridiculious science fiction.
Oh, Clay and I tore down the broken sections of our fence today, got a few post-holes dug and piled most of the old fence onto a neighbor's borrowed trailer. It started raining really hard and we had to abandon ship, but I (and hopefully Mrs. Sharp) am pleased with getting it going.
Ok, now I really am done. Thanks for reading the ramblings. Hope you're having a great weekend.
Reader Comments (10)
Ever since I read Tom Clancy's The Sum of All Fears---which was about the point that he started riding the crazy train, but anyway---I have long believed that the smartest thing that the Palestinians could ever do to win world favor is to march on their holy sites under Israeli occupation and stage a sit-in. The first person to break into violence, at that point, absolutely and utterly loses face.
King and Ghandi got this. I can't believe that resistance leaders don't continue to get it. Remember the grainy images of the hoses being turned on folks in Selma? Can you imagine what that would be like today, with CNN there with 19 camera angles?
I'm with you on the Paul Simon CD. Brian Eno is a friggin' genius. And the guitar tones and songwriting! Can you believe he wrote Graceland 20 years ago and defined a generation 20 years before that. Man, where's the bottom of the well?
However, The Raconteur's record is no slouch either. Like I've been saying, I love it when Jack gets bored with Meg.
I third your response on Paul Simon's CD. Although, I think it should have been billed as a Simon/Eno collaboration because Eno's all over that album. The only one that comes close to topping it is Bruce Springsteen's "We shall Overcome", but the Paul Simon record still gets more plays in my stereo.
Mmmm...tidbits~ And another great read I highly recommend if you haven't read it already is: Bruchko-a story about Bruce Olson a missionary in South America. It's real intense and a page turner. I promise you WILL NOT be able to put it down. It's my favourite book!
random tidbits of life remind me that there are other human beings out there... ella should be on the next record, kinda like the end of AP's "The Theme of My Song" or the like...
Dude... I've always wondered that about porno. And another messed up thing is that most of the people involved in that are of poor-Eastern European countries... which are, coincidentally often sold into sex slavery. I wonder how much of the porn in the world is a product of the sex slave industry. There was an article in Relavant magazine a month or two that discussed the number of people brought into the US for slavery. It's staggering...
Andy,
here is an interesting podcast concerning "Surprise."
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=160876284&s=143441&i=10395605
I love Surprise, too, but I have always taken that line to be cynical. Like he's saying the answer is that no one will love you, except God, but God loves everybody. Like he's saying God's love is nothing special, because it's indisciminate. That would seem to gel more with his ruminations on God and love throughout the rest of the album.
Of course, you can take the line however you want, since you paid $9.99 on iTunes to do so.
"Every one of those who contributed to this report should not have graduated from college. They flunk history, plain and simple. They are fourteen hundred years late in their assessment of the causation of Islamic terrorism. The dead Jews of the Qurayza oasis, the dead Christians and Jews of various Byzantine provinces, North Africa, the Iberian Peninsula, Southern France, Southern Italy, Sicily, Greece, the Balkaks, Southeastern Europe, Asia Minor, the Persians, the Hindus and Buddhists, and the various other peoples who have fallen under the Sword of the Prophet - all can testify to where it comes from and what amplifies it.
Send these idiots back to a college or university that has not improperly revised history."
from http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/008130.php by way of michellemalkin.com
The Foundation trilogy is a monumental work of science fiction; one of the best I've ever read (and being something of a sci-fi geek, that's saying quite a bit).