Where are all the good men dead, in the heart or in the head?
-Anonymous
Monday, August 28, 2006
Tuesday, August 22, 2006
Union City: the intersection of nowhere that is somewhere apparently.
Yesterday I had business with the school down in Union City.
Don’t know where that is? Well the 2,000 people that live there like to keep it that way. The instructions to get down to this southern Michigan town which rests just north of Coldwater included such lines as “a stones throw past Harry’s barn” and “turn at the field of cows”. Everyone is related and no one is a stranger and the actual strangers are pretty much run out of town.
I made it out alive but I have a feeling this is the kind of place that would be featured in a spooky Hawthorne or Poe novel. This is a place which on the surface looks like an inconsequential small town with nothing remarkable going on but behind the cute cafe on the corner and the friendly smile of the old store keeper who smokes his pipe on the back stoop, there is this dark secret that rears its head every now and then….maybe I have too active of an imagination. If you had been there you’d see what I mean though.
I thought about this the whole way back to civilization and forgot about it until this morning when I found out the dark secret of this small intersection of a town. While our secretary was pulling information on the largest tax payers she found out that there is a nudist colony (the largest in the Mid-West) right outside of town. Ah ha!
I made it out alive but I have a feeling this is the kind of place that would be featured in a spooky Hawthorne or Poe novel. This is a place which on the surface looks like an inconsequential small town with nothing remarkable going on but behind the cute cafe on the corner and the friendly smile of the old store keeper who smokes his pipe on the back stoop, there is this dark secret that rears its head every now and then….maybe I have too active of an imagination. If you had been there you’d see what I mean though.
I thought about this the whole way back to civilization and forgot about it until this morning when I found out the dark secret of this small intersection of a town. While our secretary was pulling information on the largest tax payers she found out that there is a nudist colony (the largest in the Mid-West) right outside of town. Ah ha!
Friday, August 18, 2006
Appartitions: Explanation Please
This is from the article on MSN about how they can see the Virgin Mary in this "melt off" from a candy machine. A few years ago people also saw the Virgin Mary in a grill cheese sandwhich, which ended up being auctioned off on E-Bay. (Nothing like profitting from a religious phenomenon.) Now I'm not saying that this isn't her or it is her. That is for your own personal insight. I'm just wondering, it seems like she would have a bigger budget. Alls I'm saying.
Thursday, August 10, 2006
Its an "Emer'gen-C"
Has anyone ever heard of this so called cure for the common cold or flu. Today I had the pleasure. I am heading out of town tonight for a long weekend surviving the wilds of northern Michigan and woke up this morning with a head cold!!! Anyway, a co-worker swears by this stuff called “Emer’gen-C” so I decided at lunch to get some and see if it will kill whatever I got.
“Emer’gen-C” is a fizzy drink mix that boasts about being “an incredible energy booster”. Topping the supplement fact list is 1,000mg of Vitamin C and about every other vitamin or mineral I have ever heard of…yeah they don’t mess around. I mixed my first drink at 1pm and drank it down. My cold/sore throat symptoms have now subsided a little and now I feel, for lack of a better term, kind of high. The rush of nutrients literally shocks your system. It’s 3pm now and I just got over the rapid heart palpitations and nausea and my hands quit shaking, so I can now type. Next I think I may do yoga to find some equilibrium…I ran into my desk three times already!
While dealing with the crazy side effects I was at a firm wide meeting that involved about fifty people. Ever try explaining to your boss that you have the shakes because of a natural dietary supplement? Yeah, didn’t go over well. He shook his head and walked away. Perhaps I can coast through the rest of my afternoon though without interruptions.
Not sure if I am going to try another treatment. I imagine this stuff could get addictive if I’m not careful! I’m compare it to Jolt or Red Bull or that is contains natural supplements instead of pure caffeine.
Just breathe……
Monday, August 07, 2006
What Mel Said and What Mel Did...
I just read on MSN that Patrick Swayze is the latest celebrity to jump on the “Save Mel Gibson” band wagon. The public is getting off track when it comes to this guy. There are two issues at hand. First one is that the Mel broke the law. The second is that Mel said some loaded Anti-Semitic phrases while in custody. Now the press is having a field day and the issues are getting blurred.
I have a theory that it is actually people in Mel’s camp that are playing this up. Why? Because, they want people to be thinking about Mel. Any press is good press in Mel’s case since he has been pretty low profile since the “Passion of the Christ” came out. Next we will hear that newly Jewish-educated Mel is going to do a film about the Holocaust. The other reason Mel’s people are firing all engines on this “Save Mel” crusade is to drum up local sympathy from the community and possibly sway public opinion to give him a slap on the wrist instead of some deserved real punishment. I know people who have driven drunk and every time I hear them tell a story of how they once drove drunk …I think of the people in the other cars on the road that would have to reap the repercussions of that irresponsibility. What about causing injuries or deaths? Note to stupid, what the heck is cool about getting loaded and doing something totally reckless and then think that other people will find that "so awesome"?
Right now Mel faces six months in jail if convicted. Please California, convict him. Yeah, put him in rehab, but just because he’s a celebrity doesn’t mean community service is going to be enough. For all those who say, “He’s been through so much. Having to face this angered community is punishment enough.” Hell no. Why are we coddling him? If he was Joe Shmo we wouldn't have thought twice about what kind of punishment to give him. I’m sure you haven’t forgotten he said some pretty messed up things. Leave it to the Jewish community to decide what he should do to be pardoned for that. (Though we do enjoy your opinions Mr. Swayze, we get the impression you are riding coat tails on this one.)
The last issue: are we responsible for what we say when we are drunk? Yes. Our friends never let us forget the stupid things we do. In Mel’s case, the right to judge him belongs to the people he offended. This is true in less serious cases as well, here are a few examples from my life.
My friend Sam once slurred over a bucket-o-beer at Crunchy’s, “man, I wish I was a woman. They have it made.” That is why he is still taunted to this day as 'sex change-Sam'. My friend Jane would still be staring at a map trying to prove that the Netherlands are not real and National Geographic has a typo because they are part of the Peter-Pan story. (Never-Never Land) My friend Jessie would be the lead singer to a hair metal cover band that tours in the area because I remember screaming that she sounded just like the singer when a mike was thrown in her face at Rick’s and she began singing “Talk Dirty To Me” for the whole bar. For the record though she did rock it!
So is Mel subject to the same standard as my friends? Is he Anti-Semitic? Is what he said a bigger deal than what he did? As the rest of us, he should be accountable for what he says and does at all times. Now let get on with it!
I have a theory that it is actually people in Mel’s camp that are playing this up. Why? Because, they want people to be thinking about Mel. Any press is good press in Mel’s case since he has been pretty low profile since the “Passion of the Christ” came out. Next we will hear that newly Jewish-educated Mel is going to do a film about the Holocaust. The other reason Mel’s people are firing all engines on this “Save Mel” crusade is to drum up local sympathy from the community and possibly sway public opinion to give him a slap on the wrist instead of some deserved real punishment. I know people who have driven drunk and every time I hear them tell a story of how they once drove drunk …I think of the people in the other cars on the road that would have to reap the repercussions of that irresponsibility. What about causing injuries or deaths? Note to stupid, what the heck is cool about getting loaded and doing something totally reckless and then think that other people will find that "so awesome"?
Right now Mel faces six months in jail if convicted. Please California, convict him. Yeah, put him in rehab, but just because he’s a celebrity doesn’t mean community service is going to be enough. For all those who say, “He’s been through so much. Having to face this angered community is punishment enough.” Hell no. Why are we coddling him? If he was Joe Shmo we wouldn't have thought twice about what kind of punishment to give him. I’m sure you haven’t forgotten he said some pretty messed up things. Leave it to the Jewish community to decide what he should do to be pardoned for that. (Though we do enjoy your opinions Mr. Swayze, we get the impression you are riding coat tails on this one.)
The last issue: are we responsible for what we say when we are drunk? Yes. Our friends never let us forget the stupid things we do. In Mel’s case, the right to judge him belongs to the people he offended. This is true in less serious cases as well, here are a few examples from my life.
My friend Sam once slurred over a bucket-o-beer at Crunchy’s, “man, I wish I was a woman. They have it made.” That is why he is still taunted to this day as 'sex change-Sam'. My friend Jane would still be staring at a map trying to prove that the Netherlands are not real and National Geographic has a typo because they are part of the Peter-Pan story. (Never-Never Land) My friend Jessie would be the lead singer to a hair metal cover band that tours in the area because I remember screaming that she sounded just like the singer when a mike was thrown in her face at Rick’s and she began singing “Talk Dirty To Me” for the whole bar. For the record though she did rock it!
So is Mel subject to the same standard as my friends? Is he Anti-Semitic? Is what he said a bigger deal than what he did? As the rest of us, he should be accountable for what he says and does at all times. Now let get on with it!
Wednesday, August 02, 2006
Rent-A-Husband
On the morning commute I came accross a truck in the next lane with "Rent a Husband" detailed on the sides. The company specializes in maintenance and home repair, and what a great name. I think this is genious. You can have a guy come in and fix everything and then leave. You don't have to relinquish the remote control, you don't have to deal with his mother calling every thirty minutes, you don't have to feed him, you don't have to ask him to fix that something a hundred times, he doesn't leave his tools or dirty clothes all over.....they should call this business "An Ideal Husband"! I'm serious.
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