Yoshi lent me a comic book. I was flipping through the pages and saw this.
Catching snippets of the GOP convention brings to mind a quote from Apocalypse now:
“Oh man, the shit piled up so fast in [the GOP] you needed wings to stay above it.”
Rationalizing hatred and greed has been translated into “family values” and “freedom”.
Thomas Jefferson is rolling in his grave.
Last week I was in Orlando for some company meetings. Hot, muggy weather, long meetings, backstage tours of Disneyworld, lots of drinking at business dinners. I think it wore me out a bit.
Today I took the kids to the Page Museum bka The La Brea Tar Pits.
To those not from Los Angeles, the Tar Pits are an area where oil and asphalt have risen to the surface in the middle of the city for the last 40,000 years at least. Water would collect on top of the asphalt and thousands of animals got caught in the tar trap, their bones preserved for centuries.
Yesterday was the party for LA Bloggers and we had a good time.
Jim bought his whole family and the four girls (his 2 and my 2) were awfully busy playing the whole time. Being the daughters of geek bloggers, the girls spent time outdoors in a tent watching a portable DVD player, emerging to get more food and more My Little Pony dolls.
Grant and Jill showed up. Mack from LAVoice came along with his son Cooper as well. Britta stopped by with here dad. I know her more from #joiito than blogging. Cousin James stopped by as well.
There weren’t enough people for the planned Mac vs. PC tug-of-war, but it was fun for all. I made them all drink shots, as usual at a Pusateri party and they were good sports to try.
This is just a note to remind you that tomorrow is Blog My Backyard.
Preparation is underway and it sounds like a good number of people will show up.
I hope to see you there and shake your hand.
I started Sunday early with a little yardwork. I beat down the tree stump a little more with the maul and finally filled the large hole up with dirt.
Nothing like swinging a maul first thing in the morning to get the blood pumping.
Around lunch time I headed off to meet Sean, Shawn, Michael, and Jason to do a little Sunday Shooting. This time I brought the rifle and saw what it could do at close range. That barrel makes things within 20 yards all easy targets. I rented a shotgun to add a little variety.
President Bush said yesterday:
“I think there may be handfuls of people that are very emotional, but I think by far the vast majority of Americans are wanting to know whether they’re going to be able to work and whether or not the government’s doing its job of protecting the country, I don’t have a sense there’s a lot of anger.”
It is a sad day for the US when it’s leader can’t see what is obvious to every citizen…
I noticed that Squidly was questioning my progress on the Two Week Plan.
Let’s take a look at the plan and what’s I’ve done so far.
By my count that’s 6 and 2/3 out of the 12 I listed. That’s more than half with the toughest one, the stump removal done.
In light of this, I respectfully tell Squidly to ‘step off’.