Quick Hits

Hello.

Well, I have a few postings here that could’ve been individual postings, but I am cutting back on giant posts, which after you read the first mini-post, you will understand why.


Blathering about Blue Cats

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You know, I just reread my review of Avatar. It is overlong, unfocused, rambling, and just plain sloppy. In other words, pure ass. I tried to do too much with it, and the post suffered greatly. I have to now rethink my strategy of writing blog posts. Sometimes less is more. Now, if I can just remember that…


Riding off into the Sunset Lanes

They finally tore down Sunset lanes in Ballard, and though I haven’t visited there in over 15 years, I am still saddened by its passing.

Back in the early 90’s, when I lived in Ballard, my roommates and I had a little ritual involving it. Work mates and friends would gather at our place to watch Beverly Hills 90210, (well, except for me… I could never stand that show) having drinks to get us ready for what was to come after.

When the show was over, we would pile into our cars and head out to Sunset lanes to bowl for a couple hours. I would bowl a frame or two, but was more interested in the bar and the activities going on. You see, on Wednesdays, it was karaoke night, and there was this one guy there who always delivered. He was an older tall slender white man with black hair and bushy mustache. He always wore the same outfit: cowboy boots, black jeans a ruby red button up shirt, and a black cowboy hat. And when it came his turn to sing, he always picked the same song: Elvira. He was a horrible singer, but the effort and passion he put into it is something I will remember to the end of time. Fare thee well, songman…


The Brown note

There was a major election that came to a conclusion recently. It was Massachusetts’s special election for a senator to replace Kennedy. In a surprise upset, a Republican won it.

Now, if you ever listened to my rantings, you would know I am not a political party person. I find both major ones to be as corrupt as all get out. ‘For the people, of the people, by the people’ Lincoln famously said, NOT ‘For the Party, of the Party, by the party.’ And for the first time, I saw the people realize this. The Democratic Party ran as if it was already theirs, claiming it as ‘The Kennedy seat.’ The people thought differently. I am hoping more people got the message I got from it, and realize that you vote for the issues… NOT what letter is after their name. (However, living in Seattle, I HIGHLY doubt it will happen around here. As was once said ‘People in Seattle would vote for Koko the chimp if there was a ‘D’ after the name.’)


Alas, poor Coco, we hardly knew thee…

Conan O’Brien was robbed. ‘Nuff said…


Comicon Update

Tickets are bought, and hotel and travel will be taken care of within the next couple weeks. I decided to fly there and back, as since I will not be going alone, I had to take my friend into consideration. I will be going back down in the next couple years, so I will be doing more then.

In other news, I am thinking of dressing appropriately for the two days I am going… but who to dress up as? I have an inkling forming, but I shall see what happens, and go from there…


Blog postings update

I will be posting a few bigger posts within the next couple weeks. One will be relating to dreams, one about the big project I have been working on, (including pics), and the finally posting the third part of a trilogy I started in 2008…