Anyone who has read through the genesis of this blog knows that it started out to record our time in England. Truthfully, it seems like those days were only a dream. I loved the time we spent there. In many ways their culture is just like ours. After all our nation was founded based on the promise of the Magna Carta recognizing that governmental legitimacy does not come from the top down but rises up from the people. And, they have buffalo wings! But some things are still very different. Take this story from the BBC.
The guy dies because drank a pint of vodka in four seconds and the coroner rules his cause of death is misadventure! When I think of misadventure the image that pops into my mind is actually English. It's of the Pythons in the Holy Grail prancing about the country side dressed as knights with men banging coconuts together. It's not a human being dying in a puddle of his own regurgitated blood after consuming too much alcohol in too short a time.
It kinda reminds me of a news story we heard one weekend while we were there (we only had TV when we were in hotels visiting other towns). Guns are basically outlawed over there so criminals have to be more industrious. A serial car jacker was operating on the motorways (our equivalent of interstates) using a large piece of lumber to threaten people to leave their cars. In the US, especially in the south, that would never have worked. He would have been shot long before he got away with a car.
So close yet so far away.
-J
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
I'm still here
I don't really have much to say, but I thought it was about time for another entry so enjoy some random thoughts.
The older I get, the more I have come to appreciate Supertramp and Steely Dan. It's Raining Again has become one of my favorite songs. I also downloaded a Robert Johnson Album off of itunes. It is easy to write him off as an early influence and not really listen to his music, but he was amazing. If he sold his soul to the devil to make that music, I still think he came out ahead.
Fall is probably my favorite time of the year. How do we know when its fall? The leaves change? No. The weather gets cooler? Have you been outside? Football season starts? No, but you are getting warmer. The answer is: Pumpkin Spice Latte is back at Starbucks. Generally, I try to go to CUPS or Seattle Drip to support my local coffe house. But, I wait every year for fall to roll around so I can get this seasonal treat. It's like a McRib for people that can read, it only comes once in a while so enjoy it while you can. I have already had one. Just as good as I remember. It goes well with changing leaves, cool weather, and football.
Recently it has been announced that Anna Nicole Smith took about 1,500 pills per month. I know that is a lot but why? Not why did she take the pills, but why does anyone care? It would be one thing if it were a cautionary tale. If Lindsay Lohan would pay attention to the story of Robert Downey, Jr. maybe she will become a star again. But how could Anna Nicole's story apply to anyone. Will there ever be another white trash bleach blonde idiot that becomes famous for being in Playboy and looking (kinda) like Marylin Monroe who models Guess jeans, marries a hundred year old oil tycoon, has a baby with somebody (jury is still out on the dad) and overdoses? It's hard to figure on that repeating itself. So like a post I wrote a couple of years ago about Princess Diana, we should just leave Anna Nicole alone.
Thats all I've got.
-J
The older I get, the more I have come to appreciate Supertramp and Steely Dan. It's Raining Again has become one of my favorite songs. I also downloaded a Robert Johnson Album off of itunes. It is easy to write him off as an early influence and not really listen to his music, but he was amazing. If he sold his soul to the devil to make that music, I still think he came out ahead.
Fall is probably my favorite time of the year. How do we know when its fall? The leaves change? No. The weather gets cooler? Have you been outside? Football season starts? No, but you are getting warmer. The answer is: Pumpkin Spice Latte is back at Starbucks. Generally, I try to go to CUPS or Seattle Drip to support my local coffe house. But, I wait every year for fall to roll around so I can get this seasonal treat. It's like a McRib for people that can read, it only comes once in a while so enjoy it while you can. I have already had one. Just as good as I remember. It goes well with changing leaves, cool weather, and football.
Recently it has been announced that Anna Nicole Smith took about 1,500 pills per month. I know that is a lot but why? Not why did she take the pills, but why does anyone care? It would be one thing if it were a cautionary tale. If Lindsay Lohan would pay attention to the story of Robert Downey, Jr. maybe she will become a star again. But how could Anna Nicole's story apply to anyone. Will there ever be another white trash bleach blonde idiot that becomes famous for being in Playboy and looking (kinda) like Marylin Monroe who models Guess jeans, marries a hundred year old oil tycoon, has a baby with somebody (jury is still out on the dad) and overdoses? It's hard to figure on that repeating itself. So like a post I wrote a couple of years ago about Princess Diana, we should just leave Anna Nicole alone.
Thats all I've got.
-J
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