More mediocre music I've written
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Zombie Prince
image borrowed from the vatican archives
Christ, is this really the reason
for the season?
Thank You, Jesus
image borrowed from bing
In honor of Palmer's rant, this image gives
us something else to consider.
Monday, December 19, 2011
Merry
Ah, the harvest is in and we can all be so grateful we once again have enough to survive another winter, unless we get found out by the christians and they come and burn us all crispy in a big bonfire in honor of their zombie prince.
Saturday, December 10, 2011
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
70 Years As Infamy
image borrowed from bing
We know that today, back on
a Sunday in 1941, became a
day that will live in infamy,
but as we are lucky enough to
age, we notice that the Pearl
Harbor survivors are dwindling,
like cheap gas, and B&W movies.
Monday, November 28, 2011
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Turkeys 'R Us
image borrowed from freakingnews
What we would worship, would genuflect to
if the turkey had been chosen for our national
bird.
Monday, November 21, 2011
D-Day as Expressionism
If Claude Monet
had been at D-Day,
these images would
have emerged.
Saturday, November 19, 2011
Monday, November 14, 2011
Time Train
image borrowed from freakingnews
Hear that train
a'ticking, rolling on
down the mainspring.
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Dark Side
image borrowed from bing
There is a dark side
to Veteran's Day; those
we lost except in dreams.
Friday, November 4, 2011
Counting Cattle
Painting by Ernest Martin Hennings
Counting Cattle
A cowboy named Bud was overseeing his herd in a remote mountainous pasture in Montana when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced toward him out of a cloud of dust. The driver, a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, RayBan sunglasses and YSL tie, leaned out the window and asked the cowboy, "If I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you have in your herd, will you give me a calf?"
Bud looks at the man, who obviously is a yuppie, then looks at his peacefully grazing herd and calmly answers, "Sure, why not?"
The yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell notebook computer, connects it to his Cingular RAZR V3 cell phone, and surfs to a NASA page on the internet, where he calls up a GPS satellite to get an exact fix on his location which he then feeds to another NASA satellite that scans the area in an ultra-high-resolution photo. The young man then opens the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop and exports it to an image processing facility in Hamburg, Germany. Within seconds, he receives an email on his Palm Pilot that the image has been processed and the data stored. He then accesses an MS-SQL database through an ODBC connected Excel spreadsheet with email on his Blackberry and, after a few minutes, receives a response. Finally, he prints out a full-color, 150-page report on his hi-tech, miniaturized HP LaserJet printer, turns to the cowboy and says, "You have exactly 1,586 cows and calves."
"That's right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves," says Bud. He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on with amusement as the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car.
Then Bud says to the young man, "Hey, if I can tell you exactly what your business is, will you give me back my calf?"
The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, "Okay, why not?"
"You're a Congressman for the U.S. Government", says Bud.
"Wow! That's correct," says the yuppie, "but how did you guess that?"
"Well," answered the cowboy, "you showed up here even though nobody called you, you want to get paid for information I already know, you answered a question I never asked, you used millions of dollars worth of equipment to do it, and you don't know a thing about cows. This is a herd of sheep. Now, give me back my dog."
Christ in Winter
image borrowed from freakingnews
Christ in winter;
pain frozen blue,
still ascending.
Sunday, October 30, 2011
Myer's Point
image borrowed from bing
Since 1978, this holiday has never been the same, as Michael Myers came into our lives.
Friday, October 28, 2011
Class War
image borrowed from bing
Class War
Through recent personal circumstances, I've been intensely made aware of how much privilege I enjoy. And while I certainly appreciate how that privilege is helping me, and am grateful for my long slog up the economic mountain, I am also reminded of how many folks do not have even a sliver of that privilege. As I read the coverage of last night's Republican Presidential debate, I am nauseated by how completely they've abandoned and vilified all middle and lower-class folks. And I'm even more nauseated to know that a majority of those middle and lower-class citizens will vote for the top Republican maniac in 2012.
Sherman Alexie
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
St. George at Home
image borrowed from bing
You, too, can have your own fabulous
painting of St. George. Here is the data:
St. George. Acrylic gouache with 23k gold on stretched canvas. 24 inches x 36 inches. This is a large icon, but rather lightweight. $800.00 + shipping.
The End of Days
Image borrowed from Freaking News
Halloween will become a national
holiday, and we will picnic in
cemeteries, and dance with
the dead.
Pablo's Contender
Image borrowed from Freaking News
October 25th was Picasso's birthday,
and I know for a fact he loved the
movies; this is proof.
Breaking Away (1979)
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
The Fourth Annual Willow Manor Ball
More later as the party experience deepens.
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Palmer's Folly
riding in a Prius is like
riding in a Rainier beer can,
but a ride with Doug the other
day changed my mind.
The New Arrival
Image borrowed from freakingnews
The new arrival had
some ideas to share with
the man in charge.
Monday, October 10, 2011
Heroes
image borrowed from freaking news
Jason, Michael, Leather,
and Freddy hailed as heroes;
what a world.
Sunday, October 9, 2011
Recreation
image borrowed from freakingnews
The middle east:
a mecca of sun, sand,
and intense fellowship.
Friday, October 7, 2011
Sherman's Day
image borrowed from bing
Happy birthday to Sherman Alexie, one of our favorite
homegrown poets; lives in Seattle.
Tax Reform
image borrowed from freakingnews
Maybe just giving in
to privateering will be
the only way to clear
up the national debt.
Liberty Ship
image borrowed from freakingnews
We must not let
our liberty diminish,
vanish, or be outfitted
with hyperdrive.
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Once a Rail Terminus
Image by Glenn Buttkus
Once a rail terminus,
now resigned to be
a federal hogan.
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