Erratum

Please overlook the terrible editing of the previous set of random ramblings. As a parting thought remember:

"It is the Law of Inverse Relevance: the less you intend to do about something, the more you have to keep talking about it."

From The Complete "Yes Minister," by Jonathan Lynn and Antony Jay (BBC Worldwide Americas, 1989)Log.

Thanks

Nice Day To think

Saturday has arrived and I can put aside all of the crap that you carry around during the week. Be for I leave last week I thought at some time during that week that most management practices a type of management style not taught in the Business Schools. This Style of management is called "Shock and Awe" and with this style all those that labor of a given manager and usually are SHOCK at the impact of the decision and stand in AWE of how monumentally STUPID it really is. There I got that rant out of the way and chased the work demons away. (I know they will return Monday).

I sit here writing this thinking what a beautiful day it is. The wretched heat that plagues the desert has pass for the year like some bad kidney stone. I can finally get into the garage and start working of trying to remeber all those woodworking skill that Frank Cummings taught me in Crafts (Don't laugh I was an Art Major with specialization the Ceramics). By the way you might want to Google "Frank Cummings" and look up his work. I understand that he took a years sabbatical to design and make the furniture for the movie "How Stella Got Her Groove". (We all have to have one and need to take care of it. It makes us human). But I digress. The tools sit there calling out to me and the my dreams of making beautiful objects for no other reason than to do it. (Given the press of work, alas I cannot answer that call until I decide that making money is a bore which we all know it is)

Enough of that. I read this week an article in the New York Review of Books (you do remember books, They seem to be an anachronism in these days of blogdom). The article is called "Victory?" by Peter W. Galbraith, a former ambassador. I give you a view of the "ship of Fools" that we call this current administration. (Am I giving away my political orientation of declaring the truth? I get so confused between the two) You can read it at this site if you are interested http://www.nybooks.com/articles/20651

And now for something completely different! (Early 20th Century Porn) Damm I seem to wish for those days of innocence. Just keep in mind what they will be thinking about us in the 22nd Century (If you all can survive this century. ( I know I won't and that is how it should be)

I think that thought should close out this episode of "How the World Squirms"

Just remember that as the naughty picture says, "I am alive and kicking!" (at least for know)

See you next time

DennyG

Damm it gets old!

Just finished reading about the "progress" in Iraq (is that a new kind of IPod?), and wonder if the stage managing will ever come to a stop. I think not. The folks that gave us WWII got it right.

"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”

- Joseph Goebbels

It appears that I am more cynical. I don't believe in an Easter Bunny anymore and sometimes in my solitude, wonder who stole my country and why. I guess it is like I tell my son when we discuss current affairs and the state of the state, "The one thing that I know of that is a positive, is at my age, IT IS NOT MY PROBLEM. Good luck son"

God its good to be old (If I cannot be King. "Ohhh Piss boy, come here!")

Be good to yourself and to those you love! See you next time.


Denny

Family Values ( Mayor Goodman version)

Looking at the NY Times (the radical mouthpiece for the terminally human), I discovered an article by Bob Herbert about Las Vegas. "The City-as-Predator". ( Link Below)

It is the only thing I have seen that sets out the consequences of "What Happen Here Stays Here" (the not so subtle slogan of the avaricious). Now, don't misunderstand where I am going with this. Certainly, like all of us, I have some well cultivated "Hobbies", but I also understand that I like my decadence a little less casual and by far more cheaper then what's available in "Vegas". Anyway I thought it would be of interest to all. Remember "What happens here may not stay here" (or see your Doctor soon)

See you next time.

Denny

http://greenpagan.blogspot.com/2007/09/city-as-predator.html

Thought I would try this blog thing

The name of this blog is "Ain't nothing to it but to do it". I hope to entertain as well as inform as this thing develops (Christ, that sounds like a promo for Entertainment Tonight). Anyway I will be bringing you my insights (delusional or cogent depending on how much Irish Whiskey I have had or if My day was occupied with "Self Medication, but I digress)

Here it is labor day and still in my "jams" George bush is still the president (not my doing) and end of Western civilization has ended and we are just faking it. This is ,my Sunday night so in the morning I make that trek to work. I get the pleasure of the conspiracy or the middle class. (I love denigrating the class that I have managed to join, not bad for a devout Marxist, Groucho that is). See you next time

Denny