Ended up in Maine these past few days, stayed in York and noticed some interesting things, one being that when driving down main roads in this area of the country, pet groomers outnumber licquor stores 5:1 – an estimation, as I never actually saw a place to pull over for a bottle of whiskey, so it was near beer and lots of laughs with family, the most fulfilling moments of the trip were spent with Heather, Sam and Max, walking the streets of Kennebunkport. One moment in particular I’d like to share…we were crossing a street and came upon two old ladies holding up anti-war signs, I said ‘thank you’ as we approached, Max began claping his hands, which gave me the feeling that I was really making a difference in the world, that one day my boys are going to teach the world to sing…
Or at least not oversee the deaths of hundreds of thousands like that dipshit Dubya, who was across town, probably asking a youngin’ to pull his finger around the time we made it back to the spot where those old ladies were, but they were gone, probably in cuffs down at the station, booked for ‘hurting rich folks feelings’, a charge that’s worth a $10 fine on most days, but when Big Daddy Evil and his offspring are in the area it’s a felony.
I saw the Kennebunkport stories on the news tonight. Never knew you had relatives that lived there.
Don’t take McCarthy’s for granted.
Hey S.R..said you were there..the old lady protesters are great!There were 700 of them in Kennebunkport according to news reports.
I don’t have family up there, Heather’s father rented a place up there for the week…there’s old money all over the place up there, just walking around you realize how much distance there is between ’round here and those parts…
Never cared much for snooty, though the ability to size someone up like that is one I’d rather not have at all, but it’s obvious sometimes, like something radiating from the faces, how they understand with one glance that I’m just visiting, though the same can be said for a good portion of everyone walking around.
I don’t know why I’m thinking about ‘this’ part of it right now…probably has to do with the Deadwood I’ve been watching, when the show deals with tragedy and how the cluster of folks involved just seem to become a community all at once, an ‘all for one’ vibe rarely found in America outside of sports and religion…except for political heavies I suppose, the ones venturing out to rallies and conventions and making a living off of the game itself, turning it into something, more and more every day to their liking so the message we’re to understand loud and clear is that THERE IS NO COMMUNITY…
I’ve felt this for a long time now, and it started when I was a year or two into my Army stint, how communications with friends grew more and more infrequent, as lives grow away from one another like weeds in a garden, and when one is ripped out of the ground the others don’t even notice.
The protesters had signs that read something like, “enough death has taken place already, US out of Iraq”
Resonated in my heart in a powerfull way, much more powerfull than if the signs had read something like ‘bush and cheney are criminals’…that message hitting the eyes of a GOP man like Ann Coulter’s voice does to my ears…whereas the signs they were holding weren’t about specific people, but instead about everyone.
Not about weeds being weeds, but leaves speaking to other leaves, just in time for a color change and then death…
Trees have been speaking to me lately, especially when I’m out walking sam and max in the wagon, and I try to explain to them that people showed up after the trees, and in spite of the cycle they all go through each year up where autumn turns them from green to red and yellow…making them different from one another, just like people as they grow older, and then just like people again, they all fall to the ground, get swept up, to make way for a new batch come springtime.
God may have a purpose for each of us, or maybe we’ve screwed up the entire concept, completely missed the point in all this.
We all fear death, load ourselves up with chemicals and run our asses down to the gym, eat cereal with fiber even though it tastes like nothing most days, millions made in minutes with the invention of some new diet that will fix what’s wrong with so many of us, so we can all live to be 100…
As obsesed as we are about our OWN lives and how to stretch them out as long as possible, the notion of cluster bombs killing people who never deserved it somehow gives us pride, somehow makes us sleep better at night.
God is the trees, and when someone says “God is all around you”, that’s what they mean, even though they’ve missed the point. God isn’t in the eyes of a child…it’s much more simple than that.
We all fear death and then a piece of The Dig falls on someone. Shit, I should go back to cigarettes, there is no rhyme or reason to it.
I only fear death when I’m about to hear test results of some kind at the doctor. Aside from that, I’m pretty good about accepting the fact that when it’s time for you to go, there’s little that YOU can do about it…with faith in the progress of medicine over the years, I assume that by living in a home with my family, when something happens, they’ll be able to call 911 for me, and after that it’s up to someone else.
The Army had a way of conditioning me in this way, to where a character played by Woody Allen, hypochondriac, I appreciate such madness as a spectator.
With my kids and Heather and Cleo though it’s different…I fear their deaths much more than my own I think.
Don’t go back to smoking! Pick up a package of sunflower seeds instead, convince yourself you’ve got an oral fixation…it works really well for me sometimes.
Your know Al, one of the progresses in medicine we are sure to see as we age is in the area of lung cancer.
Big tobacco should be pushing that research…find a way to heal the lung, people can smoke more!
They’d never have to quit tobacco, and can enjoy that sweet nicotine!
hey..with the crappola I got going on..I would all “jihad” on someone if I quit..seriously..I know I need to quick but the toll on my psyche would be crushing with everything else going on.
Al, what did ya think of the last deadwood? I love that friggin show.
Dusty don’t spoil it! I haven’t seen it.
Pay for this shit already you cheap bastard! I typed out a reply and held off because I didn\’t want to ruin it.
Buy it for a week – catch up on the season w/ ondemand, then cancel the shit. Do SOMETHING – – – – it sucks not being able to write about it. When you\’re at work, download the episodes from mininova.org. You can pick up any episode of anything from that site…Snakes on a Plane is beign downloaded right now! I want to get the HBO talk going! Wire Season 4 is a week away!!!
Talk about it all you want. Just put a spoiler warning before the post.
SPOILER!
In the finale of Deadwood, Al Swearingen and Seth Bullock make an appearance on American Bandstand where they sing the early 90’s classic Motownphilly.
I haven’t watched Wire but I plan to this season Al. SR you see it yet? Jeebus dude, its 10 bucks a month..you waste that on lunch I bet ;p
He can get it for a week, load up on ondemand, cancel it. If I wasn’t addicted to just about every show on there (except tourgasm, luckie louie…), that’s what I do. Van Helsing posts here every now and then – that’s what he does.
The Wire is the best one out of all of them…this season is going to be great…makes me nervous though, because in some of the clips I’m pretty sure what I’m seeing is Omar in the pokie…he’s got some folks in there who are dying to see him again. My favorite character, hands down…I don’t want to see him dead.
It’ll be tough jumping in on season 3, but the new storylines will keep you into it throughout…the background is what you’ll crave initially, but by the 4th episode it’ll be fine. They’re known for having characters that show up and disappear (Brother Mouzone is one that comes to mind), and that could get confusing at times. I can’t wait to see Colvin do his thing in the schools.
Can’t wait to see if Bodie can carve out a piece for himself.
Can’t wait to see if McNulty and Bunk have serosis of the liver.
Can’t wait to see if Cuddy’s gym is thriving.
Can’t wait to see how ruthless Marlo is this time around.
the list goes on and on and on forever
Is HBO only $10/month? I thought it more like $30-40. That, and the hidden costs which I am sure there are (installation, deposit, cable box).