Happy New Month
Short Story Opening Lines of the Day:
"Summary Execution" a short story by Davis Schneiderman and Henri d’Mescan
Mutation is the death mask of conception, your co-opted angel of mercy—fingering a soiled Pan flute in the corner of a pawn shop, dipping opposable thumbs into the Rhine, pressing out all resistance from the lungs of the cold-blooded past. And covering the water, obscuring the gravesites, noxious lilies explode across every surface in an endless bloom of rifle shots, administering total evolution from the scales of the dead.”
Sports:
Goodbye Ty:
From my friends at Fox this morning: Notre Dame's return to glory under Tyrone Willingham was brief. Too brief. That's why he was fired Tuesday after just three seasons at Notre Dame - the shortest tenure of any full-time coach since Hunk Anderson was there from 1931-33. "We simply have not made the progress on the field that we need to make," athletic director Kevin White said.
With a Bowl Game who will lead the Irish? One coach certain to be mentioned as a possible replacement for Willingham is Utah's Urban Meyer, a Notre Dame assistant from 1996-2000. The Utes are 11-0 and ranked No. 5 in their second year under Meyer, who has a clause in his current deal that allows him to leave for Notre Dame without a buyout. Meyer wouldn't say whether he'd be interested if Notre Dame called.
"I have great respect for that university. That's the reason it's in my contract," Meyer said after Tuesday's practice. "I think a lot of people look into it more than what it is. I'm sure that this is going to spark a lot of discussion, but I'm just trying to get a team ready to play in a bowl game." Other possible candidates include California's Jeff Tedford, who has had success at a school with high academic expectations, Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz, who was hired as head football coach at Maine in 1990 by White when he was athletic director there, and Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach Jon Gruden, whose name was mentioned prominently in the Notre Dame search three years ago. He grew up in South Bend and his father was an Irish assistant under former Irish coach Dan Devine.
NAIA next to last round! USF #2 plays #3 Georgetown Saturday. Now that should be some good football, however I am dbl booked with a wine tasting I agreed to help out with, anything for the hungry children and its still be kind to your kidneys week for me.
Indiana News:
Queer Eye for the Straight Guy’ Road Show Huge Disaster for Vincennes
By Eddie Bird, THG staff writer
In what was planned as an event to bring a highly popular show to the masses turned into a fiasco in Vincennes, Indiana this past week.
According to the show’s website, ‘Queer Eye for the Straight Guy’ is “an elite team of gay men dedicated to extolling the simple virtues of style, taste, and class.” Their mission is to acquaint otherwise straight men with the pleasures of homosexuality. Because of the show’s popularity, the producers decided to take the program on the road to communities in desperate need of makeovers.
The Fab Five mistakenly selected the southwestern Indiana city of Vincennes for their first road trip. Says show member Carson Kressley, “Vincennes was a natural choice for the show. The men were in desperate need of some culture. I mean, have you seen the plaid shirts and Wrangler jeans? It just boggles the mind.” That is exactly what cast member Jai Rodriguez thought of the town. Says Jai: “We thought it would be a perfect fit. After all, their high school mascot is the Alices!”
Vincennes Mayor Scott Brown thought differently. “Vincennes and Knox County does not condone this type of lifestyle.” Brown went on to say that “This is the type of influence we mean to keep out of our city.” When asked if this was a form of discrimination, Mayor Brown replied that “I went to college in Alabama during the civil rights movement, so I’m sensitive to civil rights.” But Brown added, “This is going a little too far. We don’t need these types of people in our community.”
Mayor Brown sounded politically correct compared with some of the locals. When questioned for his views, lifelong resident Dexter Dooley replied, “If them fags didn’t git the hell out of town when they did, we were going to string ‘em up from the George Rogers Clark Memorial.”
In hindsight, Kressley agreed the city was a poor choice for the show. “These people were beyond help. I mean, first off, where were we going to buy new clothes for these people? Our choices were either K-Mart or Wal-Mart. That would just be more of the same.” Rodriguez also agreed, “Most of the people we help on the show are glad for the help. In Vincennes we never really felt welcomed.”
Producers have decided to discontinue the road trip version of the shows for safety reasons. “We now realize not everyone appreciates or even desires to better themselves in the fashion and culture sense,” concluded an unnamed show executive. The moral of this story seems to be that if you have a queer eye, stay the hell out of Vincennes.
Local News:
Meth lab found in Camaro after chase
Kendallville pursuit ends with 4 charges. A Rome City man with a mobile methamphetamine lab in his car was arrested Friday after he led a Noble County deputy on a high-speed chase through Kendallville, police said.
Terry G. Wicker, 34, of the 100 block of Spring Beach Drive, was being held in the Noble County Jail without bond, the Noble County Sheriff’s Department said. In addition to being charged with manufacturing methamphetamine, Wicker is charged with resisting law enforcement with a vehicle, operating a vehicle while intoxicated and driving while suspended.
(More proof about everything I ever said about people who drive Camaro’s.)
Smell of marijuana leads to jail visitor’s arrest
A Wabash County woman was arrested Thursday at the Wabash County Jail after deputies determined she carried marijuana and drug paraphernalia to the visitation area.
According to a statement from the Wabash County Sheriff’s Department, deputies smelled burnt marijuana in the jail’s lobby Thursday evening and traced it back to a visitation booth. The event occurred during visitation hours. At the booth was Bernice Fields, 35, of rural Wabash. Deputies investigated and found Fields had marijuana and drug paraphernalia, the statement said. Fields was charged with possession of marijuana, paraphernalia and prescription medication. She was being held in the jail in lieu of $1,200 bail.
(Just another example of why potheads don’t make good criminals.)
National News:
Yale Students Perform Prank of the Century, Almost
In a rivalry that is 121st old, students at Yale University successfully pulled off the most
impressive prank in the history of rival pranks. The students faked being members of the "Harvard Pep Squad," passing out pieces of paper to the Harvard side of the stadium.
These Harvard fans were told that the pieces of paper would join together to spell
"GO HARVARD." Little did they know, when held up at just the right moment, the pieces actually spelled "WE SUCK." //www.davesdaily.com/out.php?id=1736&url=http://www.juiceenewsdaily.com/1104/news/yale_harvard_prank.html
(In case you ever wondered what the ruling class did to cut lose in college.)
Today’s Bill
Macbeth ACT V SCENE VI
Dunsinane.
Before the castle.
Drum and colours. Enter MALCOLM, SIWARD, MACDUFF, and their Army, with boughs
MALCOLM
Now near enough: your leafy screens throw down.
And show like those you are. You, worthy uncle,
Shall, with my cousin, your right-noble son,
Lead our first battle: worthy Macduff and we
Shall take upon 's what else remains to do,
According to our order.
SIWARD
Fare you well.
Do we but find the tyrant's power to-night,
Let us be beaten, if we cannot fight.
MACDUFF
Make all our trumpets speak; give them all breath,
Those clamorous harbingers of blood and death.
Exeunt
Phrase for the Day:
ease back: a suggestion for someone to simmer down/ back the f'ck up.
“that bitch better ease back” or “Tight fuck should of eased back ‘before all this shit came down on him”
Drink for the Day:
Jumpin Jesus on a Pogo Stick
Fill 7 to 9 oz. Rocks Glass with Ice and Stack
Ingredients:
1 oz. Yukon Jack
1 oz. Jagermeister
Dash of lime juice
Fill with Coke
Today’s Mental Illness and/or Defect:
A pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of empathy, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by five (or more) of the following:
1) has a grandiose sense of self-importance (e.g., exaggerates achievements and talents, expects to be recognized as superior without commensurate achievements)
2) is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love
3) believes that he or she is "special" and unique and can only be understood by, or should associate with, other special or high-status people (or institutions)
4) requires excessive admiration
5) has a sense of entitlement, i.e., unreasonable expectations of especially favorable treatment or automatic compliance with his or her expectations
6) is interpersonally exploitative, i.e., takes advantage of others to achieve his or her own ends
7) lacks empathy: is unwilling to recognize or identify with the feelings and needs of others
8) is often envious of others or believes that others are envious of him or her
9) shows arrogant, haughty behaviors or attitudes
Associated Features
Depressed Mood
Dramatic or Erratic or Antisocial Personality
Today’s Poem:
If
IF you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too:
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;
If you can dream -- and not make dreams your master;
If you can think -- and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same:
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings,
And never breathe a word about your loss:
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings -- nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much:
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And -- which is more -- you'll be a Man, my son!
Rudyard Kipling
Your Greek Gods for the Day are:
Kastor and Polydeukes; ( Dioskuroi, Latin:Castor and Pollux, Discouri )
When Zeus raped Leda, she had sex with her husband the same day. So when she laid two eggs from one came the two brothers, one the immortal Polydeukes, and the other the mortal Kastor. Their sistes were the immortal Helen, and the mortal Clytaemnestra.
When Helen was a woman she was abducted by Theseus and her brothres. He had taken her to Aphidnea in Attica. The two brothers stormed the city and took her back to her home. In revenge Helen took the mother of Theseus, Aethra,
The Dioscuri married by carrying off the daughters of Leucippus,. Anogon was the offspring of Hilaira, and Mnesileus was the offspring of Phoebe.
One day the brothers were stealing cattle in Arcadia with the two Messenian brothers, Idas and Lynceus. They allowed Idas to divide the spoil and he cut a cow in four pieces saying that one half of the booty should be his who ate his share first, and that the rest should be his who ate his share second. And before the Discouri could even react to that proposal Idas had swallowed his share, and his brother had done the same. The Discouri marched against Messenia, took the cattle they had lost and much else besides.
Kastor was killed by Idas. Polydeuces attacked and chased them killing Lynceus, but was himself struck the head and passed out. Idas was killed by Zeus with a thunderbolt.
Polydeukes renounced his immortality (not actually possible) but Zeus put him and Kastor into the sky as the constellation the Greeks call Discouri and in English is now Gemini.
Thought for the Day:
All bad precedents began as justifiable measures.
Julius Caesar, quoted in Sallust's Conspiracy of Catiline (1st c. B.C.)
Editors Note:
Off to court today then MD apts. oh joy! oh joy! And then grant writing if I have time left.
Cold weather sucks when ever I get cold I seem to find myself singing “summer time, and the living is easy, fish are jumping and the cotton is high, your daddy’s rich and your momma’s good looking…” Guess I am home sick today not just sick, but its that time of year.
Plus side, I did find a place for old junked RV's its kind a dream come true for me of re-due-ing this damn boat, I can get the cabin all rigged out. However the engine is still a bit of a problem, lol....
Bowed but before my God, I remain…
JQP
"Summary Execution" a short story by Davis Schneiderman and Henri d’Mescan
Mutation is the death mask of conception, your co-opted angel of mercy—fingering a soiled Pan flute in the corner of a pawn shop, dipping opposable thumbs into the Rhine, pressing out all resistance from the lungs of the cold-blooded past. And covering the water, obscuring the gravesites, noxious lilies explode across every surface in an endless bloom of rifle shots, administering total evolution from the scales of the dead.”
Sports:
Goodbye Ty:
From my friends at Fox this morning: Notre Dame's return to glory under Tyrone Willingham was brief. Too brief. That's why he was fired Tuesday after just three seasons at Notre Dame - the shortest tenure of any full-time coach since Hunk Anderson was there from 1931-33. "We simply have not made the progress on the field that we need to make," athletic director Kevin White said.
With a Bowl Game who will lead the Irish? One coach certain to be mentioned as a possible replacement for Willingham is Utah's Urban Meyer, a Notre Dame assistant from 1996-2000. The Utes are 11-0 and ranked No. 5 in their second year under Meyer, who has a clause in his current deal that allows him to leave for Notre Dame without a buyout. Meyer wouldn't say whether he'd be interested if Notre Dame called.
"I have great respect for that university. That's the reason it's in my contract," Meyer said after Tuesday's practice. "I think a lot of people look into it more than what it is. I'm sure that this is going to spark a lot of discussion, but I'm just trying to get a team ready to play in a bowl game." Other possible candidates include California's Jeff Tedford, who has had success at a school with high academic expectations, Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz, who was hired as head football coach at Maine in 1990 by White when he was athletic director there, and Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach Jon Gruden, whose name was mentioned prominently in the Notre Dame search three years ago. He grew up in South Bend and his father was an Irish assistant under former Irish coach Dan Devine.
NAIA next to last round! USF #2 plays #3 Georgetown Saturday. Now that should be some good football, however I am dbl booked with a wine tasting I agreed to help out with, anything for the hungry children and its still be kind to your kidneys week for me.
Indiana News:
Queer Eye for the Straight Guy’ Road Show Huge Disaster for Vincennes
By Eddie Bird, THG staff writer
In what was planned as an event to bring a highly popular show to the masses turned into a fiasco in Vincennes, Indiana this past week.
According to the show’s website, ‘Queer Eye for the Straight Guy’ is “an elite team of gay men dedicated to extolling the simple virtues of style, taste, and class.” Their mission is to acquaint otherwise straight men with the pleasures of homosexuality. Because of the show’s popularity, the producers decided to take the program on the road to communities in desperate need of makeovers.
The Fab Five mistakenly selected the southwestern Indiana city of Vincennes for their first road trip. Says show member Carson Kressley, “Vincennes was a natural choice for the show. The men were in desperate need of some culture. I mean, have you seen the plaid shirts and Wrangler jeans? It just boggles the mind.” That is exactly what cast member Jai Rodriguez thought of the town. Says Jai: “We thought it would be a perfect fit. After all, their high school mascot is the Alices!”
Vincennes Mayor Scott Brown thought differently. “Vincennes and Knox County does not condone this type of lifestyle.” Brown went on to say that “This is the type of influence we mean to keep out of our city.” When asked if this was a form of discrimination, Mayor Brown replied that “I went to college in Alabama during the civil rights movement, so I’m sensitive to civil rights.” But Brown added, “This is going a little too far. We don’t need these types of people in our community.”
Mayor Brown sounded politically correct compared with some of the locals. When questioned for his views, lifelong resident Dexter Dooley replied, “If them fags didn’t git the hell out of town when they did, we were going to string ‘em up from the George Rogers Clark Memorial.”
In hindsight, Kressley agreed the city was a poor choice for the show. “These people were beyond help. I mean, first off, where were we going to buy new clothes for these people? Our choices were either K-Mart or Wal-Mart. That would just be more of the same.” Rodriguez also agreed, “Most of the people we help on the show are glad for the help. In Vincennes we never really felt welcomed.”
Producers have decided to discontinue the road trip version of the shows for safety reasons. “We now realize not everyone appreciates or even desires to better themselves in the fashion and culture sense,” concluded an unnamed show executive. The moral of this story seems to be that if you have a queer eye, stay the hell out of Vincennes.
Local News:
Meth lab found in Camaro after chase
Kendallville pursuit ends with 4 charges. A Rome City man with a mobile methamphetamine lab in his car was arrested Friday after he led a Noble County deputy on a high-speed chase through Kendallville, police said.
Terry G. Wicker, 34, of the 100 block of Spring Beach Drive, was being held in the Noble County Jail without bond, the Noble County Sheriff’s Department said. In addition to being charged with manufacturing methamphetamine, Wicker is charged with resisting law enforcement with a vehicle, operating a vehicle while intoxicated and driving while suspended.
(More proof about everything I ever said about people who drive Camaro’s.)
Smell of marijuana leads to jail visitor’s arrest
A Wabash County woman was arrested Thursday at the Wabash County Jail after deputies determined she carried marijuana and drug paraphernalia to the visitation area.
According to a statement from the Wabash County Sheriff’s Department, deputies smelled burnt marijuana in the jail’s lobby Thursday evening and traced it back to a visitation booth. The event occurred during visitation hours. At the booth was Bernice Fields, 35, of rural Wabash. Deputies investigated and found Fields had marijuana and drug paraphernalia, the statement said. Fields was charged with possession of marijuana, paraphernalia and prescription medication. She was being held in the jail in lieu of $1,200 bail.
(Just another example of why potheads don’t make good criminals.)
National News:
Yale Students Perform Prank of the Century, Almost
In a rivalry that is 121st old, students at Yale University successfully pulled off the most
impressive prank in the history of rival pranks. The students faked being members of the "Harvard Pep Squad," passing out pieces of paper to the Harvard side of the stadium.
These Harvard fans were told that the pieces of paper would join together to spell
"GO HARVARD." Little did they know, when held up at just the right moment, the pieces actually spelled "WE SUCK." //www.davesdaily.com/out.php?id=1736&url=http://www.juiceenewsdaily.com/1104/news/yale_harvard_prank.html
(In case you ever wondered what the ruling class did to cut lose in college.)
Today’s Bill
Macbeth ACT V SCENE VI
Dunsinane.
Before the castle.
Drum and colours. Enter MALCOLM, SIWARD, MACDUFF, and their Army, with boughs
MALCOLM
Now near enough: your leafy screens throw down.
And show like those you are. You, worthy uncle,
Shall, with my cousin, your right-noble son,
Lead our first battle: worthy Macduff and we
Shall take upon 's what else remains to do,
According to our order.
SIWARD
Fare you well.
Do we but find the tyrant's power to-night,
Let us be beaten, if we cannot fight.
MACDUFF
Make all our trumpets speak; give them all breath,
Those clamorous harbingers of blood and death.
Exeunt
Phrase for the Day:
ease back: a suggestion for someone to simmer down/ back the f'ck up.
“that bitch better ease back” or “Tight fuck should of eased back ‘before all this shit came down on him”
Drink for the Day:
Jumpin Jesus on a Pogo Stick
Fill 7 to 9 oz. Rocks Glass with Ice and Stack
Ingredients:
1 oz. Yukon Jack
1 oz. Jagermeister
Dash of lime juice
Fill with Coke
Today’s Mental Illness and/or Defect:
A pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of empathy, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by five (or more) of the following:
1) has a grandiose sense of self-importance (e.g., exaggerates achievements and talents, expects to be recognized as superior without commensurate achievements)
2) is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love
3) believes that he or she is "special" and unique and can only be understood by, or should associate with, other special or high-status people (or institutions)
4) requires excessive admiration
5) has a sense of entitlement, i.e., unreasonable expectations of especially favorable treatment or automatic compliance with his or her expectations
6) is interpersonally exploitative, i.e., takes advantage of others to achieve his or her own ends
7) lacks empathy: is unwilling to recognize or identify with the feelings and needs of others
8) is often envious of others or believes that others are envious of him or her
9) shows arrogant, haughty behaviors or attitudes
Associated Features
Depressed Mood
Dramatic or Erratic or Antisocial Personality
Today’s Poem:
If
IF you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too:
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;
If you can dream -- and not make dreams your master;
If you can think -- and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same:
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings,
And never breathe a word about your loss:
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings -- nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much:
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And -- which is more -- you'll be a Man, my son!
Rudyard Kipling
Your Greek Gods for the Day are:
Kastor and Polydeukes; ( Dioskuroi, Latin:Castor and Pollux, Discouri )
When Zeus raped Leda, she had sex with her husband the same day. So when she laid two eggs from one came the two brothers, one the immortal Polydeukes, and the other the mortal Kastor. Their sistes were the immortal Helen, and the mortal Clytaemnestra.
When Helen was a woman she was abducted by Theseus and her brothres. He had taken her to Aphidnea in Attica. The two brothers stormed the city and took her back to her home. In revenge Helen took the mother of Theseus, Aethra,
The Dioscuri married by carrying off the daughters of Leucippus,. Anogon was the offspring of Hilaira, and Mnesileus was the offspring of Phoebe.
One day the brothers were stealing cattle in Arcadia with the two Messenian brothers, Idas and Lynceus. They allowed Idas to divide the spoil and he cut a cow in four pieces saying that one half of the booty should be his who ate his share first, and that the rest should be his who ate his share second. And before the Discouri could even react to that proposal Idas had swallowed his share, and his brother had done the same. The Discouri marched against Messenia, took the cattle they had lost and much else besides.
Kastor was killed by Idas. Polydeuces attacked and chased them killing Lynceus, but was himself struck the head and passed out. Idas was killed by Zeus with a thunderbolt.
Polydeukes renounced his immortality (not actually possible) but Zeus put him and Kastor into the sky as the constellation the Greeks call Discouri and in English is now Gemini.
Thought for the Day:
All bad precedents began as justifiable measures.
Julius Caesar, quoted in Sallust's Conspiracy of Catiline (1st c. B.C.)
Editors Note:
Off to court today then MD apts. oh joy! oh joy! And then grant writing if I have time left.
Cold weather sucks when ever I get cold I seem to find myself singing “summer time, and the living is easy, fish are jumping and the cotton is high, your daddy’s rich and your momma’s good looking…” Guess I am home sick today not just sick, but its that time of year.
Plus side, I did find a place for old junked RV's its kind a dream come true for me of re-due-ing this damn boat, I can get the cabin all rigged out. However the engine is still a bit of a problem, lol....
Bowed but before my God, I remain…
JQP
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