Had to write fast because I was on post number 666 for too many days...I am going to pot a David Sedaris excerpt for your entertainment. I hope to catch up on many things during the next few nights as the PC is MINE ALL MINE (evil laugh) due to some new writing work I will be doing. In heaven once, again, writing for some cash is something that makes me smile. I don't need the money but it's nice to be recognized for something one loves to do.
Here is a passage from Sedaris essay titled "Put a lid on it" in which he visits a rather odd sister of his who is perfectly fine being who she is...but he always tries to change her.
"I am reminded of a conversation I hold annually with my friend Ken Shorr.
ME: Did you get your tree yet?
KEN: I'm a Jew, I don't decorate Christmas trees.
ME: So you're going witwh a wreath instead?
KEN: I just told you, I'm a Jew.
ME: Oh, I get it. You're looking for a cheap wreath.
KEN: I'm not looking for a wreath at all. Leave me alone, will you.
ME:You're probably just tense because you haven't finished your Christmas shopping.
KEN: I don't Christmas shop.
ME:What are you telling me? That you make all your presents?
KEN: i don't give Christmas presents period.Goddamit, i told you, I'm a Jew.
ME: Well, don't you at least need to buy something for your parents?
KEN: They're Jews too, idiot. That's what makes me one. It's hereditary.Do you understand?
ME: Sure.
KEN: Say the words 'I understand.'
ME: I understand. So where are you going to hang your stocking ?
I can't seem to fathom that the things important to me are not important to other people as well, and so I come off as sounding like a missionary, someone whose job it is to convert rather than listen...Yes, your Tiki god is handsome, but we're here to talk about Jesus... It's no wonder Tiffany dreads my visits. Even when silent I seem to broadcast my prissy disapproval...."
Thank you David Sedaris for writing characters and stories we can recognize and laugh at too!
Monday, February 13, 2012
Friday, February 3, 2012
"F" is for "Friday" and "Fitness", kids.
Again, the clock is racing against me as I fit in as many chores, errands and other life stuff into a time crunch until I have to hit the road again. These things happen when you become a stay at home parent- the clock is your little she-devil- tapping you on the shoulders saying "see that nice couch over there? haha you can't sit on it today..must get more life stuff done..onward you lazy lass". and so it goes.
I am very excited about a kickboxing class that begins soon for me, will let you know what I think and if I recommend it to you. Like most exercise choices, people need different levels and styles of activity that suits them. I see people here paddleboarding, and I know it would bore me to tears, but some others may enjoy it immensely. Who knows, maybe I'll try it. I need much more stimulation than that, I predict...and i'm good at predicting myself ;)
What is your active lifestyle choice? Swimming, tennis, running, walking, jet skiing ala Kenny Powers? (good for the upper thighs, like horseback riding, and wrestling in oil!) My number #1 choice is always swimming, I mean long laps in the Gulf but don't mind large pools either. Swimming makes me feel strong and relaxed. When a large body of salt water isn't handy or it's full of sharks, BP oil or red tide, I love to mix walking with running, love playing tennis (not great at it but I find it suits my mind), and I enjoy using weights. I also love to dance for hours when possible. This does not happen much right now, but I am looking to work it in somehow soon. Perhaps pour a slab in the backyard, hang some lights in the magnolias and go to Downtown Julie Brown land real soon.
What are your goals for fitness? Maybe working in more meat, cigarettes, and dairy into your daily diet? Perhaps walking less than 10 steps per day? Whatever your goals are, they are just that- yours. No one else's business how you treat your body but your own. If I see mine as a temple, you may see yours as a Jersey Shore, waiting to be exploited and Spring Breaked upon. Whatever the case, here's to goals, our wonderfully weird bodies, our mixed up minds, and our life's path to our own perfection.
Ta ta for now, cats and dogs.
I am very excited about a kickboxing class that begins soon for me, will let you know what I think and if I recommend it to you. Like most exercise choices, people need different levels and styles of activity that suits them. I see people here paddleboarding, and I know it would bore me to tears, but some others may enjoy it immensely. Who knows, maybe I'll try it. I need much more stimulation than that, I predict...and i'm good at predicting myself ;)
What is your active lifestyle choice? Swimming, tennis, running, walking, jet skiing ala Kenny Powers? (good for the upper thighs, like horseback riding, and wrestling in oil!) My number #1 choice is always swimming, I mean long laps in the Gulf but don't mind large pools either. Swimming makes me feel strong and relaxed. When a large body of salt water isn't handy or it's full of sharks, BP oil or red tide, I love to mix walking with running, love playing tennis (not great at it but I find it suits my mind), and I enjoy using weights. I also love to dance for hours when possible. This does not happen much right now, but I am looking to work it in somehow soon. Perhaps pour a slab in the backyard, hang some lights in the magnolias and go to Downtown Julie Brown land real soon.
What are your goals for fitness? Maybe working in more meat, cigarettes, and dairy into your daily diet? Perhaps walking less than 10 steps per day? Whatever your goals are, they are just that- yours. No one else's business how you treat your body but your own. If I see mine as a temple, you may see yours as a Jersey Shore, waiting to be exploited and Spring Breaked upon. Whatever the case, here's to goals, our wonderfully weird bodies, our mixed up minds, and our life's path to our own perfection.
Ta ta for now, cats and dogs.
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Pearl Jam with toast please...click link below post.
Today, I found a cassette tape in some boxes i am downsizing. On this tape, i heard sounds of the past. The Cure, Pearl Jam and Peter Gabriel on one tape. Oh, and a little Alan Jackson thrown in .
I got lost for a brief second in those moments when upon entering a huge house party in Panama City Beach, one would hear the exciting sounds of Nirvana and Pearl Jam. At that time, the bands from the PNW were a world apart from the 80's hair bands that radio fed us daily. By the summer of 1993 (many of us graduating in 92 so therefor we were out of parent's home)...ahem.. many of us would venture out for festivals that would include the best sounds of the decade, such as Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, Primus (loved them live), Ministry, Nine Inch Nails, and many others. The thump of their darker more edgy bass and their multi- layered guitars made many in journalism dub some of those rock bands "grunge" but most of those bands were only one word- Awesome.
Many of those bands survived in different forms (Foo Fighters) and Pearl Jam is still with us. I tired of them early on, simply due to the repetitious playing of them at every single party and car I would enter for about 5 years.
My ears needed a rest, and like most of us, I kept searching for new sounds my ears would thank me for, like Fiona Apple. Thank God, there was always my Tori Amos to check up on too..her new album is just as incredible as her first. But we always can fall back in love with our favorite singer songwriters and bands. They are like our favorite childhood backyard climbing trees, waiting for us to remember them when we need a moment alone with our thoughts.
In the end, music doesn't define our life moments like some cute indie movie. Rather it is like a fine cold morning brew- bringing the low notes of distant riffs, the misty reminders that we are getting older, and the thrill of resurrecting a favorite habit, whenever we want.
Thanks old cassette tape!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMRKveopdHQ&feature=related
Today, I found a cassette tape in some boxes i am downsizing. On this tape, i heard sounds of the past. The Cure, Pearl Jam and Peter Gabriel on one tape. Oh, and a little Alan Jackson thrown in .
I got lost for a brief second in those moments when upon entering a huge house party in Panama City Beach, one would hear the exciting sounds of Nirvana and Pearl Jam. At that time, the bands from the PNW were a world apart from the 80's hair bands that radio fed us daily. By the summer of 1993 (many of us graduating in 92 so therefor we were out of parent's home)...ahem.. many of us would venture out for festivals that would include the best sounds of the decade, such as Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, Primus (loved them live), Ministry, Nine Inch Nails, and many others. The thump of their darker more edgy bass and their multi- layered guitars made many in journalism dub some of those rock bands "grunge" but most of those bands were only one word- Awesome.
Many of those bands survived in different forms (Foo Fighters) and Pearl Jam is still with us. I tired of them early on, simply due to the repetitious playing of them at every single party and car I would enter for about 5 years.
My ears needed a rest, and like most of us, I kept searching for new sounds my ears would thank me for, like Fiona Apple. Thank God, there was always my Tori Amos to check up on too..her new album is just as incredible as her first. But we always can fall back in love with our favorite singer songwriters and bands. They are like our favorite childhood backyard climbing trees, waiting for us to remember them when we need a moment alone with our thoughts.
In the end, music doesn't define our life moments like some cute indie movie. Rather it is like a fine cold morning brew- bringing the low notes of distant riffs, the misty reminders that we are getting older, and the thrill of resurrecting a favorite habit, whenever we want.
Thanks old cassette tape!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMRKveopdHQ&feature=related
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Please make Kenny Powers likable again. Or I will quit you.
Finished the Disc 1 from Season 2 of Eastdown and Bound with Danny McBride as Kenny Motherf'in Powers. The first season was fun and as someone who appreciates crude adult humor along with a soundtrack of appropriately nostalgic music the show has, enjoyed it without any part of me getting offended. The second season, though---makes me feel like I got hit with a dummy stick once too much.
Will Ferrell, Adam McKay and his co-producer, co-writing co-horts have done what alot of mentally ill great comedians do (i'm talking to you Jim Carrey)- they leapt the ledge, jumped the shark, shook the baby too hard, went too far. Not in offensive material, I can handle that - but just with the overload of comedic writing that is outrageous, but not funny. I said- we sat through several epis and I was thinking- this isn't as funny as season 1.
But aren't alot of shows like that? The novelty wears off, the character driven shows of adult comedy are hard to keep on the likability train, and Kenny Motherf'in Powers was never supposed to be likable, but he with the help of his annoying annoying sidekick Stevie, are so over the top unlikable it makes the show harder to get through. We'll see. At episode's end last night, Don Johnson showed up as Kenny's long lost father. I thought here's a fun turn...we'll see what happens.
Comedy- it's just as hard to write as tragedy. But this isn't Shakespeare. This is Kenny Powers- don't mess the White Lightning up- keep him light, make him funny again. Bring back the suburbs, jet skis and coked up prom chaperones. And even April- her the character of curves and 80's hair. If not then leave Kenny to suffer in the barrios to live alone among his retro racist thoughts and pink bongs.
Will Ferrell, Adam McKay and his co-producer, co-writing co-horts have done what alot of mentally ill great comedians do (i'm talking to you Jim Carrey)- they leapt the ledge, jumped the shark, shook the baby too hard, went too far. Not in offensive material, I can handle that - but just with the overload of comedic writing that is outrageous, but not funny. I said- we sat through several epis and I was thinking- this isn't as funny as season 1.
But aren't alot of shows like that? The novelty wears off, the character driven shows of adult comedy are hard to keep on the likability train, and Kenny Motherf'in Powers was never supposed to be likable, but he with the help of his annoying annoying sidekick Stevie, are so over the top unlikable it makes the show harder to get through. We'll see. At episode's end last night, Don Johnson showed up as Kenny's long lost father. I thought here's a fun turn...we'll see what happens.
Comedy- it's just as hard to write as tragedy. But this isn't Shakespeare. This is Kenny Powers- don't mess the White Lightning up- keep him light, make him funny again. Bring back the suburbs, jet skis and coked up prom chaperones. And even April- her the character of curves and 80's hair. If not then leave Kenny to suffer in the barrios to live alone among his retro racist thoughts and pink bongs.
Friday, January 27, 2012
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Greetings and Salutations
3 more 5K's on the schedule for the spring and a husband who is doing a half marathon in April...seems like we finally moved to a city that is very very proud of it's running clubs thanks to a progressive and hip mayor, council and companies like Running Wild who (and this is a quote from a man who works there) has a very good relationship with the mayor and council. Cities need to incorporate wonderful public parks and fitness trails like our does. Panama City has a few nice playground parks, but they are isolated in far reaching neighborhoods. The town we left last year had a good fitness trail and like most cities had nice sidewalks and bike lanes too. I have to admit, i missed the hills and bluffs of upper FL. - good for the calves! Happy day to you my friends, I am watching old faithful (the clock, my other best friend) for the next event of the day. I am very excited about more events coming up, and am going to start writing specifically about the incredibly unique places to eat, things to do, and what to see around these parts, and incorporate more movie reviews and info as my film viewing has gone up alot the past few weeks due to awards season. Keep in touch, in tune with yourself, and keep the spirit positive.
Monday, January 23, 2012
Click on the green youtube link below and enjoy some comedy. I am enjoying about two minutes of quiet before my kids wake up. Dominick had his first dentist appointment today- no cavities! He is 5 years old. I cannot believe it. And...there's our garbage truck waking up the kids. Looking forward to a busy calendar two months with 4 5k's planned and a Mardis Gras ball thrown in for good measure. I highly recommend the Navy Museum here in Pcola- not a big military buff but the WWII stuff was amazing and children can sit in real cockpits from years gone by and learn about our country's involvement with other nations the past 100 years (the good and the bad!). A great time for our birthday boy, along with a large family gathering after all these years- both grandparents together for him, now that we all live so close. We are so happy to be back here- have I said that before?
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