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Tuesday, April 26, 2005

tHE gREAT hAPPYWEASEL sMOKE oUT

ok, this coming Monday I'm gonna quit smoking for the 7th or 8th time. NO aids or pills or replacements... cOld TuRKey. I can see 3months ahead, that's my goal. 1 Month is first, though. If you are a regular smoker, please join me in pain, severe mood swings, anguish, and paranoia... JOIN!
tHE gREAT hAPPYWEASEL sMOKE oUT
monDay5/2/05 - wednesDay6/1/05 NO CIGARETTES, NO NICOTENE, NO TOBACCO

My lungs have made it clear they are are not happy with me. Goddamn asthma getting in the way of me living a life with tobacco.

Sunday, April 17, 2005

Please Meet, JayHawk


JayHawk introduced me to Modest Mouse, Will Oldham, and The French Press. He has a antique stovetop Vesuviana espresso maker, it makes fantastic espresso. Maybe he+Teeth should go to Baja too.
I think JayHawk should see/ hear the following:
1. Akira Kurosawa ... Ikiru (To Live), and about a million others
2. Curb Your Enthusiasm ... you know the Sci-Fi Nerd sorts? Well I just may be a CYE kinda Geek.
3. On The Air ... the first episode is +++++ Kathy and I are almost done watching the entire Twin Peaks (all free video from library)
4. The Fiery Furnaces ... see them live, that's all there is to it
5. Modern Bob Dylan ... he's real good now... '97on

Leaving for France today, Sunday, around noon. Sea

Tuesday, April 12, 2005

Man Dates in the NYTimes

Thanks to Ugly for raising this great article, on an aspect of the insecure mores that structure male friendship, from the paaages of The New York Times.
"Simply defined a man date is two heterosexual men socializing without the crutch of business or sports. It is two guys meeting for the kind of outing a straight man might reasonably arrange with a woman. Dining together across a table without the aid of a television is a man date; eating at a bar is not. Taking a walk in the park together is a man date; going for a jog is not. Attending the movie "Friday Night Lights" is a man date, but going to see the Jets play is definitely not."

Monday, April 11, 2005

Slices Of The Weekend

There I am, near Deception Pass, practicing my champion stone skipping toss. Later, some 8yr/old challenged me to a skip off... I said only for a dollar. Her mom later refused to pay me, bitch. Also, those jeans there, Levis 501 Shrink to Fits, best jeans in the world. The full expirience. They are a year and a half old and are still becoming more comfortable... yet they wear like iron.

The green tea is free, drink as much as you can.

Tulips in motion, Skagit Valley

Yes, It'za Sunday, that's my fun day.

Last September I resolved to swim at least once a month in the Puget Sound for an entire year. Well, I wasn't too successful in that endeavor as this is my first splash since then. This photo is a perfect illistration of how to enter mind-numbingly cold water... haul ass straight plow tumble swim in. I had between 2 and 4 swim strokes; the exact number, I don't know, it was brief flailing then out. Definitely a swim, though, I was horizontal, floating, and self propelling... even felt a breathing wave carry me up and lower me down. Just 11 more months to go.

Thursday, April 07, 2005

The Muppet Show

Is coming my way via the Seattle Public Library. Gonzo, that nose, those chickens, the horn and the motorcycle stunts... Pigs In Space... The giant shaggy monster that was a common sight in one-a those big musical numbers. hee... Can almost see one-a those songs right now. Looking forward to the episode that guest stars Peter Sellers. He's been in many more good movies than what I'd be able list offa the top-o my head, so I'll lay one out on the proverbial "plate", but with some "real" bread and cheese... one you may've not seen, Being There. His character is Chauncey Gardener... er, that's what people think his name is. The basic story, though adapted and changed for film, was a short book written by one of my top- top-favorite authors, Jerzy Kosinski.
A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television. After a run in with a limousine, he ends up a guest of a woman (Eve) and her husband Ben, an influential but sickly businessman. Now called Chauncey Gardner, Chance becomes friend and confidante to Ben, and an unlikely political insider. -scott renshaw

Also while stumbling through the library catalog, I came across a compilation of classic Muppet music.

*Mahna Mahna Video*
(right click, save target as... if you want a copy or want to see it FULL SCREEN)
Ugly (CookieMonster Diet Tipster) owned a cd very similar to this hits collection. He gave it to Mr. Angad. Mr. Angad, under spurious circumstances, put many of his posssessions in my guardianship for months and months and months. This cd was in with all of his things... i was given permission to play with his tech gadgetry and listen to his cds... somehow, I lost this muppets disc, but now it's coming back and is almost the same... very nearly, close
So, Mr. Angad, I'll be sending you a copy here pretty soon. It is classic music, can be wildly entertaining.
mahnama-nu doo dee da doot doo mahnamana....

IN HONOR OF AN OLD CONTROVERSY(sp?):
"Why are there... so many... songs about rainbows... and what's on the other side?" You know the song, er, I guess you know it or not. I bet you do, "The Rainbow Connection". There is only one rainbow song that comes to my mind "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" made famous by Judy Garland in a movie called The Wizard of Oz. Every Thanksgiving that thing would come on network television. I don't know about you, but every single year I looked forward to seeing that thing. I guess someone like Michael Jackson or Ted Turner bought the rights to it and now I never see it. I mean, is Matt's son (ie Matt's property), Luca, to grow up in a world without Wizard of Oz? I liked it with Thanksgiving, that's all.
Regardless, 1 RainBow song does not qualify as "so many" to me or many of you, I presume. So today's challenge is to come up with songs that even have a passing reference to RainbowS. I Kermit a Liar? Only you can vindicate him, only you.

*Now thinking about those Muppets singing and dancing I simply can't not highlight my favorite non-human dancers. Those nutball Peanuts characters. Super chin-in-the-air, waggin' your tail, funnest(!) dancin' around
**And so you know, Aqua Teen Hunger Force is a cartoon, and very funny
***The original The Office is that much better after seeing the American version... I'm giving the new one a chance.
****If you loved Seinfeld, why have you not hunted down the dvds of Curb Your Enthusiasm? 3 seasons are out on dvd, lucky the library had'm all. Larry David = Funnier
*****Remember, rainbOw Songs

Monday, April 04, 2005

Matt, Debora, & Luca

I was notified on Saturday, March 19, 2005 at 3:55 PM



Welcome to Earth

His name is Luca Galaz Mariola, he weighed 6 lbs 12 ounces, measured 20 inches, and has more thick, black hair than his father. -MJM
Congratulations. Debora is Chilean, Matt is French and Italian. The guy has pretty good chances.-CCS