eye candy watch

Not "butt ugly" but pretty pleasant were these two hunters, taking Sunday respite for an ice cream cone at a "hillbilly Golf Course" in the eastern Adirondacks.
     Had to watch while asking just about any question I could about the local area. Then it was off to continue on a camping trip up in the upper reaches of the east coast mountain chain that still bears some sembalance to wilderness.     Had to deal with black flies and "noseeums".
Would much rather have been bitten by these two.
     All in all it was a pretty pleasant camping trip. Few people to run into and no talk radio able to creep down into those upper reaching valleys. That cool pond on the left is part of the view not far from where I pitched tent for a few days.

pirates and public figures

I wouldn't mind doing unspeakable things with Mr. Johnny Depp. I look foward to his next summer blockbuster, Pirates II, especially since his performance makes his producers nervous. Playing a fey swashbuckler, exuding ambigious sexual messages, but what else can one reasonably expect from a character who likely spent months at sea away from women? Are we to really believe that sex never happened on those long stormy excursions? I sure don't.
     While I will get bored really quick with the publicity hype, I'm comfortable expecting Mr. Depp to perform with high standards, no matter how low his character is seem on the social totem pole.
     Pirates actually held a curious role in early colonial American history, being both heroes [as "privateers"] and villans [scurrilous pirates, yo, ho ho]. While reviled for sometimes brutal ~ even probably sadistic ~ practices, pirates are also to be lauded for establishing collective shared risk pools amongs crews. The quirky [and possibly by now irrelevant] injury charts ["loss of left eye and right leg"] that come with accident insurance policies had their origins in pirate concerns for their fellow crewmen who may have been injured in sea battles.
     Can't say the same is true of todays captains of the corporate world's pirate "ships". They feigned innocent while taking the treasure chest contents entirely for themselves.
     I say put my lot with the pirates of yore, rather than those of present day. That said, I'm equally willing to bask in the fantasy piratedom of Mr. Depp when he comes to a theatre near me this summer.

road work

This across from my front door last summer. I covet the truck. The driver wasn't bad either. Played around with the pix in Photoshop to give it a grainy watercolor effect.
     Roadwork at the corner can be a real pain. Means taking alternate routes a couple of miles out of the way just to go to the post office down the road. I suppose I could walk, but then I wouldn't be showing proper fealty to the oil company execs. And if I'm not shelling out 50 bucks every time I fill the tank in the truck, how are those guys gonna get the money to send their kids to private school and shelter them from the likes of you and me?
     Alright, enough ranting. Enjoy the picture. By the way, I've added some new stuff to my Flickr entries [check on the box in the right side cloumn]

summertime ~ eye candy watch

Oh, its that time of year when even if I try to drive defensively, I keep getting distracted. Here's an example.

Nero's fiddlers diddle poorly

The millionaires fighting to save their grand- children from ever working and honest day in their life [unless they's homos, and then... well, fuck 'em! They can support themselves selling their bodies to strangers] thoughtfully sandwiched eliminating the rich man's estate tax refund between a crassly obvious anti-gay marriage vote and a wrap theysves with the anti-flag-burning amendment proposal.
     Pam Spaulding helpfully identifed this group:

Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., right, with, from left, Rep. Katherine Harris, R-Fla., Pastor Rev. William Owens Founder and President of the Coalition of African American, and Family Research Council President Tony Perkins, speaks in a news conference on Capitol Hill to support the Marriage Protection Amendment, Tuesday, June 6, 2006, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta).

Pam's always good for up-to-date news items. She rightfully hellps me get my dander up on important issues.
     Oh, and you can always go to True Majority, register and find out how to express your disgust at this kind of garbage.

Sometimes you can't make this stuff up. Fellow blogger Tom Bacchus saw this on the tv set and wrote "...Arkansas Razorback players Clarke Moore, Brett Goode and Casey Dick love hanging out on the sidelines. This was actually on TV. The commentators paused ... and didn't say a word."
     So... what else ought they have said?