Things That Are Choice

If you know Mike Landau, or just wish you did, here is his website/blog with some choice pictures. One problem, don't see any of me?!?! What's going on with that?

www.mikelandau.blogspot.com

...But, he's gay

Too funny. Thanks to Andrew Sullivan and The Plank.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1Y6PchDYfw&eurl=

Reader Email

This comes from an old high school friend named Meghan who was unable to post this as a comment. I graciously agreed to post it for her and will even include my reaction free of charge.


"So I watched this a while back and I think he was rude to go after the very people who invited him to speak (AP) although if he had gone up there and delivered a speech that wasn't humorous and didn't attack any of the political figures in the room with him, he would have been cowardly. As an entertainer, a satirist, he took advantage of the situation to poke fun at everyone. The video started out wonderfully and then lost it's creativity the moment after he falls on the White House lawn, trying to get away from Helen. The speech portion was pretty funny. Most of what he said was right. Any president who says things like "I'm the decider" should be publicly mocked and ridiculed (although Bush's painfully weak grasp of the English language is actually the least of his problems). I don't think I've ever seen Barbara Bush be so pissed off that she deliberately didn't acknowledge Colbert when he left. Yes, his speech was rude and amusing :-) " -Meghan

I don't think it was rude to go after the "very people who invited him to speak." They knew very well what his schtick was, and making fun of the people at the dinner is what comedians are supposed to do. Now, I can see why the audience was surprised into silence that Colbert would have the BALLS to mock the Decider while he sat a mere ten feet away. But that certainly doesn't make his speech any less funny. His satire was right on, perhaps we could all laugh more if our country wasn't being lead by such a pathetic group of people. -Brendan

I Too Support Steven Colbert

For those who missed it, you can catch Steven Colbert's speech at the White House Correspondents dinner here. Judging by the blogosphere reaction, if you're at all liberal or have a sense of humor you'll find it hilarious. If you're conservative, you think he bombed. Judge for yourself.

A Productive Saturday Morning

Here's a few things I never thought would happen. That I'd have work on Saturday. That I'd wake up four hours before work to get things done around the house. That I'd really want to clean up my room on a Saturday morning before work. But all of these things came true.

But I did more than that. I finished reading "Blindness," by Jose Saramago. I paid my bills. I organized by receipts. Having finished a first draft of a story yesterday, I got back to work on another story today. And I even did some quick emailing. A good morning for sure.

Now its off to work. I have a big day ahead of me. After the junior clinic, the Waldwick April-May Open will begin with me, Brendan Lynaugh, as director. Yesterday I was busy setting up. I made the draw, called the players with their start times, ordered the food, moved the big table in that will hold the food. So things should run smoothly, here's hoping.

Last night I saw "Thank You For Smoking." Its good, for a movie these days. Plenty of funny parts and the satire rings true. Tonight, a friend from Ohio is in town, here's hoping I get to meet up with him.

My Morning Manifesto

Getting late into the month and what was once a cycle of the moon, now artificially means its time to dispense with my money for my needs. My roof requires a certain amount of money, for my vehicle which takes me to work so I can earn the money which allows me to pay for my vehicle. Well, I earn a little bit more which allows to pay for my cell phone which is simply needed this day and age and for my car insurance which by federal law is required to allow me to drive, so I can earn money so I can pay for health insurance incase something terrible happens I’ll be able to pay only a small amount of money and doctors can treat me and heal me and keep me healthy so I can continue earning money to pay them. That is what comes at the end of each month. And of course I take out a little bit for my fun money. So I can drink alcohol and laugh with my friends or a take a cute girl out for coffee or if I really like her perhaps even dinner, but then of course in this day and age she’ll often pay her own way, which I don’t mind, in fact I like it like that, not because I’m cheap, but because she’s her own person, doesn’t want to be treated like a blonde trophy to be place in my bedroom. I am a feminist. That’s my fun money, and I also put money aside for quarterly payments to my government, and even though I didn’t vote for most of the people that claim to represent me, I still feel it is good and right to give them approximately a quarter of what people pay me for my services, so that they can provide me with good roads, and good schools for my children when I have them and a ton of other things like spreading freedom and democracy and torturing enemy combatants and bombing villages that house terrorist training camps because we don’t want our planes hitting our own buildings. And that is what the end of the month means, and perhaps I’ll save up just a little bit of money for a new laptop, a better one than the one I am currently using so I can play music, and surf the web and send pictures to my friends, pictures of myself drinking alcohol and laughing and I can even write creatively on this new computer. Or, if I may be do bold, perhaps I’ll take a trip across an ocean, to another continent and see some sights. Meet some people that have a totally different perspective on the world and heck even speak another language, but luckily they speak English too. That is what I’d do if I had enough money left over after paying for all these services that I’m so grateful to do as I am a citizen and a human being.

Is That Really News?

One of the news headlines on Yahoo this morning read, "Fox Host to Become White House Spokesman." Isn't that a bit like saying "Michael Jordan Named Great Basketball Player," or "Palestinians Planning to Bomb Israel?" I suppose all of these things could be reported as "news," but do they mark any sort of change?

Ok, to be fair, Tony Snow the Fox Host has been critical of the Bush adminstation. Its not like they hired Fred Barnes, but of course why pay Fred when he's already licking your a--hole for free. I'm sorry. That was inappropriate.