The last couple of evenings have been interesting to say the least. I've seen some old familiar faces and it's been good and enlightening in many ways. I won't go into too much detail, but i can say that i am NOT disappointed.
Cheers to you all and a happy Thanksgiving! May you all be as thankful as i am now.
Till next time,
oSLo
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
"Where is my mind?"
It's been a while. Been busy so lay off of me. Okay, that's not completely true. It takes a lot of effort to get up the courage to write this thing and even more to get the creative juices flowing. Not really courage i don't guess. It's not that i'm afraid of sharing. It's that i'm afraid i won't be able to tap into what i'm really thinking or feeling.
All that being said, welcome back to my mind! Bonus points to anyone who knows the artist who wrote the song "Where is my mind." There's probably more than one answer so i won't hold it against you if you don't get the exact one i'm referring to. Check out The 4400 though if you want to know for sure. If it helps, i don't even know the answer but i'm looking it up riiiight.... Well Barney should get that one. Don't know that that is a real good hint, but it may help someone. Great song, though.
I went to the 'sel (my nickname for the Carousel) by myself for the first time this past Friday. Not the most enjoyable experience. I had planned on going to Club XYZ. I walked in there, but didn't have cash for the cover so i decided to get cash and go to the Carousel instead.
Why was i so shocked that there were gays there? I guess it wasn't shock. I guess it was more dismay than anything else. There were a few guys there who got my attention, but apparently i didn't get theirs. I did have this one dude hit on me pretty hardcore. He wasn't my type and i made that clear. Still it was nice to get noticed and get some attention. Now if i could only parler that into attention-getting from someone who's attention i want. Call me crazy!
All right, all right enough of all that. I'm going to see Iron and Wine on Friday at the Bijou. I'm excited about this experience because he is one of my favorite artists. If you aren't familiar, might i recommend you start with "Our Endless Numbered Days" and then take your time from there. Or if you want, you can jump all in like Cinnamon! Whatever gets your goat as long as it gets got! Cinnamon posted this quote to his blog "He is no fool who gives that which he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose."- Jim Elliot. I thought this was a great quote although i'm still figuring out its meaning. If you'd like, put it into context for me in the form of a comment to this post. Put some thought into though, but don't over do it. As the spades quote goes "think long, think wrong!"
Here is an absolutely great article about recycling i found on the internet. Please read it and pass it along. I will also include it on my "links."
http://www.popularmechanics.com/home_journal/how_your_house_works/4291566.html
How about that Barack Obama! There's a lot of work to get done so let's help him out!
For those of you who didn't know, i am and have been a big supporter of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF). I am a member of it's East Tennessee Branch BoD. It is a wonderful charity who's mission it is to fund research to find a cure for type 1 diabetes. Researchers may be on the right track. Check out this article.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081118092250.htm
Okay, there's my mind. I hope y'all are doing well enough.
Be good, y'all
oSLo
All that being said, welcome back to my mind! Bonus points to anyone who knows the artist who wrote the song "Where is my mind." There's probably more than one answer so i won't hold it against you if you don't get the exact one i'm referring to. Check out The 4400 though if you want to know for sure. If it helps, i don't even know the answer but i'm looking it up riiiight.... Well Barney should get that one. Don't know that that is a real good hint, but it may help someone. Great song, though.
I went to the 'sel (my nickname for the Carousel) by myself for the first time this past Friday. Not the most enjoyable experience. I had planned on going to Club XYZ. I walked in there, but didn't have cash for the cover so i decided to get cash and go to the Carousel instead.
Why was i so shocked that there were gays there? I guess it wasn't shock. I guess it was more dismay than anything else. There were a few guys there who got my attention, but apparently i didn't get theirs. I did have this one dude hit on me pretty hardcore. He wasn't my type and i made that clear. Still it was nice to get noticed and get some attention. Now if i could only parler that into attention-getting from someone who's attention i want. Call me crazy!
All right, all right enough of all that. I'm going to see Iron and Wine on Friday at the Bijou. I'm excited about this experience because he is one of my favorite artists. If you aren't familiar, might i recommend you start with "Our Endless Numbered Days" and then take your time from there. Or if you want, you can jump all in like Cinnamon! Whatever gets your goat as long as it gets got! Cinnamon posted this quote to his blog "He is no fool who gives that which he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose."- Jim Elliot. I thought this was a great quote although i'm still figuring out its meaning. If you'd like, put it into context for me in the form of a comment to this post. Put some thought into though, but don't over do it. As the spades quote goes "think long, think wrong!"
Here is an absolutely great article about recycling i found on the internet. Please read it and pass it along. I will also include it on my "links."
http://www.popularmechanics.com/home_journal/how_your_house_works/4291566.html
How about that Barack Obama! There's a lot of work to get done so let's help him out!
For those of you who didn't know, i am and have been a big supporter of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF). I am a member of it's East Tennessee Branch BoD. It is a wonderful charity who's mission it is to fund research to find a cure for type 1 diabetes. Researchers may be on the right track. Check out this article.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081118092250.htm
Okay, there's my mind. I hope y'all are doing well enough.
Be good, y'all
oSLo
Monday, November 3, 2008
One day left...
I had to publish this. This was written by Alexis's dad. Really well done.
Wake me up, I must be dreaming, Obama still leads and it's November
by Don Williams
My God, can it be true? Barack Obama, person of color, is about to be president.
Barack Obama, of the radical sounding cartoon name.
Barack Obama, eloquent and thoughtful author.
Barack Obama, Constitutional Law professor.
Barack Obama, champion of bottom-up economics and government--waters to lift all boats.
Barack Obama, who says out loud that global warming is real, that we play a role!
Obama, who argued against bombing, invading and occupying Iraq.
Obama, who would talk to enemies.
Obama, who told Wolf Blizter that energy independence would be his second priority, behind financial solvency, followed by universal healthcare and dealing with the war in Iraq.
Obama, who ran the cleanest campaign in ages yet won again and again.
Obama, who reached across aisles to pass landmark legislation, such as a bill to get control of leftover Cold War nukes.
Obama, who honors community integrity.
Obama, who honors both science and spiritual yearning.
Obama, who eschews racial bashing.
Obama, who stands up against "swift-boating," radical sermonizing and calls people out for character smears.
Obama, who inspires a song in the heart of America and the world.
Yes I gush. I ignore some hard realities. So do we all—possibly every moment of every day--in order to maintain sanity.
So, before tearing the patriotic bunting off this dream of ours, try to remember a time when you’ve yearned for leaders and messengers who speak to your hopes and not to your fears. Leaders who inspire the part of your heart that yearns to fly rather than the part that crouches in darkness.
Here you have such leadership, if you’re willing to seize it... at your fingertips....
Celebrate your vote.
Enjoy our victory.
Savor tthis moment in history.
Above all, work to make it happen.
Come 2009 we can back-fill, revise, hold Obama’s feet to the fire, return to old habits of thought.
If. We. Must.
Something tells me we won’t have to, not completely anyway. For once, we’ll have a unified government under an articulate administrator who is equal parts prophet, poet, policy wonk and, yes, warrior, should push comes to shove.
No need to remind me it’s not a done deal.
People who supported all the bad policy that led to nationalizing our banks on the way to racking up a $10-trillion! national debt are telling us Obama’s a socialist. Absurd as that sounds, who knows, this latest in a series of low, dishonest tactics could work.
The suspense is killing me.
After all, I’ve been skeptical of our chances for success. I’m the one who chided a starry-eyed friend at a party last winter just after Obama won the Iowa caucuses, for dreaming this could become a reality. That a man of color with the subversive sounding cartoon name Barack Hussein Obama, could be our next president.
"Honey, why set yourself up?" I asked. "This country won’t let that happen." I still hear the condescension dripping from my lips. And yet, miracle of miracles. I was wrong! It’s happening!
Wake me up. I must be dreaming!
And yet… and yet….
Exit polls on Election Day told us John Kerry would win in 2004. And in 2000, Gore recorded more than half-a-million votes over u-no-hoo and was still denied his presidency.
Had all votes been honored, it's likely 9/11 would've been prevented, that thousands of Americans and a million innocent Iraqis would be alive, that the battle against global warming would have an eight-year head start, energy independence would be more than a pipedream, our banks just might be solvent, we'd likely be on our way to universal healthcare, old-growth forests would still be intact and mountaintop removal would be passe.
Heaven help us. We can’t let what happened to Gore happen again.
We need a theft-proof, Electoral College-proof, Supreme Court-proof, hanging-chad-proof margin of victory.
And so I’m urging all my friends and relations, be they Republican, Democrat or Independent, be they black, red, white, blue, orange or green…
Vote this once with the hopeful part of your heart--for peace, reconciliation, diplomacy, sane energy and environmental and health policies, for research and development and action on global warming--and NOT with the crouching, distrustful part that advocates bankrupting our children to build nukes we don't need, to fight more wars we don't need, to give fossil fuel companies tax breaks they don’t need, to embrace torture and other affronts to civil liberties. Please help reclaim our nation.
There's a new day coming. Be part of it by casting a vote for Barack Obama.
And wake me when it's over.
Wake me up, I must be dreaming, Obama still leads and it's November
by Don Williams
My God, can it be true? Barack Obama, person of color, is about to be president.
Barack Obama, of the radical sounding cartoon name.
Barack Obama, eloquent and thoughtful author.
Barack Obama, Constitutional Law professor.
Barack Obama, champion of bottom-up economics and government--waters to lift all boats.
Barack Obama, who says out loud that global warming is real, that we play a role!
Obama, who argued against bombing, invading and occupying Iraq.
Obama, who would talk to enemies.
Obama, who told Wolf Blizter that energy independence would be his second priority, behind financial solvency, followed by universal healthcare and dealing with the war in Iraq.
Obama, who ran the cleanest campaign in ages yet won again and again.
Obama, who reached across aisles to pass landmark legislation, such as a bill to get control of leftover Cold War nukes.
Obama, who honors community integrity.
Obama, who honors both science and spiritual yearning.
Obama, who eschews racial bashing.
Obama, who stands up against "swift-boating," radical sermonizing and calls people out for character smears.
Obama, who inspires a song in the heart of America and the world.
Yes I gush. I ignore some hard realities. So do we all—possibly every moment of every day--in order to maintain sanity.
So, before tearing the patriotic bunting off this dream of ours, try to remember a time when you’ve yearned for leaders and messengers who speak to your hopes and not to your fears. Leaders who inspire the part of your heart that yearns to fly rather than the part that crouches in darkness.
Here you have such leadership, if you’re willing to seize it... at your fingertips....
Celebrate your vote.
Enjoy our victory.
Savor tthis moment in history.
Above all, work to make it happen.
Come 2009 we can back-fill, revise, hold Obama’s feet to the fire, return to old habits of thought.
If. We. Must.
Something tells me we won’t have to, not completely anyway. For once, we’ll have a unified government under an articulate administrator who is equal parts prophet, poet, policy wonk and, yes, warrior, should push comes to shove.
No need to remind me it’s not a done deal.
People who supported all the bad policy that led to nationalizing our banks on the way to racking up a $10-trillion! national debt are telling us Obama’s a socialist. Absurd as that sounds, who knows, this latest in a series of low, dishonest tactics could work.
The suspense is killing me.
After all, I’ve been skeptical of our chances for success. I’m the one who chided a starry-eyed friend at a party last winter just after Obama won the Iowa caucuses, for dreaming this could become a reality. That a man of color with the subversive sounding cartoon name Barack Hussein Obama, could be our next president.
"Honey, why set yourself up?" I asked. "This country won’t let that happen." I still hear the condescension dripping from my lips. And yet, miracle of miracles. I was wrong! It’s happening!
Wake me up. I must be dreaming!
And yet… and yet….
Exit polls on Election Day told us John Kerry would win in 2004. And in 2000, Gore recorded more than half-a-million votes over u-no-hoo and was still denied his presidency.
Had all votes been honored, it's likely 9/11 would've been prevented, that thousands of Americans and a million innocent Iraqis would be alive, that the battle against global warming would have an eight-year head start, energy independence would be more than a pipedream, our banks just might be solvent, we'd likely be on our way to universal healthcare, old-growth forests would still be intact and mountaintop removal would be passe.
Heaven help us. We can’t let what happened to Gore happen again.
We need a theft-proof, Electoral College-proof, Supreme Court-proof, hanging-chad-proof margin of victory.
And so I’m urging all my friends and relations, be they Republican, Democrat or Independent, be they black, red, white, blue, orange or green…
Vote this once with the hopeful part of your heart--for peace, reconciliation, diplomacy, sane energy and environmental and health policies, for research and development and action on global warming--and NOT with the crouching, distrustful part that advocates bankrupting our children to build nukes we don't need, to fight more wars we don't need, to give fossil fuel companies tax breaks they don’t need, to embrace torture and other affronts to civil liberties. Please help reclaim our nation.
There's a new day coming. Be part of it by casting a vote for Barack Obama.
And wake me when it's over.
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