Pre-Holiday

Non-Crappy Starring You! eCards on JibJab

I am not really THAT fat...

In what was really an awful week, travel and work wise, the one highlight of my last trip was having a chance of visiting my niece E in that swamp that is the Nation's Capital.
The funny thing is that all the disbelief I have regarding how grown up she is, she has the same for her brother. Nat's won (against the Rockies so I have mixed emotions there) and it was not too humid - a great Sunday all around!

Why?

Why is it that so called Princes of Peace and Enlightenment usually turn out to be the largest and greediest of a-holes? (There are some f-bombs in the video – but seems appropriate based on the outrage)

What the heck did I copy?

I have no idea what this video is, so I am posting it here so I can see what it is...
Good things

Baldface Pandering for Attention

G and Kris have been sort of MIA, for good reasons, but seeing this video made me think about them both:
Animal vs Buddy Rich (en espanol, ¿si?)


How good will Hell’s Kitchen be now without Aaron?
Aaron

Rant

Being the home office shut-in, I am becoming way too familiar with popular music. Daytime TV is a wasteland, but an adequate replacement for interoffice crapola. VH1 is on more often than not and a couple of videos make me cringe, so of course I think it is a good idea to share the pain?
It really bothers me that Kelly Clarkson is popular, especially with the young folks, in that she constantly portrays herself a s a victim. Nothing better than modeling a passive aggressive response to life’s conflicts... Grow up Kelly!
Victim Rock

I am sure there are a whole boatload of people that think this song is romantic; whereas I am certain that this song is the most pathetically sleazy request for a one night stand since Duran Duran’s Save a prayer… Hey Desperado! Go back to riding your fences!
Sleazy Metal

(Try to get her) Nude Wave

(Sorry for tearing down to build myself up)

Patsy Cline/Wille probably had a different idea in mind?

I am not sure why I find this funny – it is a nervous laugh, though… ?

बद Bad Laguage

I am kind of sort of afraid of posting this on 360 - on the odd chance someone would be offended - Cause I'm a Chicken!

Signs that I still need to grow up

Is it wrong of me to find this Lio Comic somewhat pornographic? (Comic borrowed from http://www.gocomics.com/lio/ )

Midweek Melody

Thanks to Brenda J and G, and I somewhat up to date as to what is the popular new alternative music. When I first heard Lazy Eye by Silversun Pickups, I thought this might be the Hot Child in the City of the aughties. After seeing this video, I have been able to confirm that the singer is in fact a dude, but then the androgyny of the scraggily punk teenagers featured as the front story bothered me; more by the fact that they all appear to need to take a shower than anything else – but I hope I am sharing back something you may not have seen for yourself as of yet? (Having a woman playing Bass Guitar is hawt, but not nearly as cool as a female drummer…)http://www.silversunpickups.com/

Mother of the Year

I was traveling back from a business trip where I had a fairly long layover in the Denver Airport. Lucky for me, DIA has one of the few smoking lounges left in the USA that saves the hassle of going through security just to continue this disgusting, filthy habit of mine. In an odd way, I actually look forward to hanging out at the particular lounge, as I have had random encounters with celebrities with this same bete noir, like the director Kevin Smith.
I have been having particularly tough weeks both personally and professionally and I was more bent on self-destruction than my usual self-destructive tendencies; i.e. I was chain smoking and slamming beers. But then a woman came in that jerked me out of my grimaced torpor. She appeared to be a single mother, carrying a car seat and a leash, to which her son was attached. She eventually found a table near mine and preceded to place her son in a high backed high barstool, to which if the toddler with what I perceived to have some developmental issues fell off, would have resulted in some very serious injury. In the midst of my violations of the temple of the body, I was appalled that anyone would subject their offspring to such an awful, malodorous nicotine oasis.
I looked around the room to see if I was the only one bothered by such a spectacle of bad parenting choices. An older couple at the next table over looked very uncomfortable, but refused to look at me to acknowledge my outrage. Turning back to gawk some more at this train wreck, I was surprised to learn that this could get any worse; the young mother (abuser) started drinking and sharing her Red Bull with her assumed son. So thank you young-random-encounter lady for reinforcing my perception that humanity is basically brutish and selfish. Thank you to whatever higher powers or random luck that you were not on my flight with your juiced up toddler – and may they also intervene to help you make better choices for the both of you.

Song Sunday

I am thinking about changing the name of this blog to “My open correspondence with G.” With the exception of G, I really don’t like people very much right now, including myself. My 360 blog sucks and blows simultaneously…
Any hoo – As I have managed to unintentionally piss-off some people who appear to believe the world revolves around them, I intend to utilize this space more than I have in the past. My latest idea is to propose a new musical featuring the music of the Split Enz and Crowded House – I mean for goodness sake if Mamma Mia is a musical, why not a show of these somewhat famous (or famous) Aussies?
The show opens with our protagonist, Bob writhing around in a somewhat existential angst:
History


Bob further wallows in his crapulence
Dirty Creature


But then Bob meets Marcia, and all of a sudden feels like there is hope in the world (Hooray!)
Something So Strong




Bob then alienates himself from the affections of Marcia through a series of misunderstandings and goofs. Marcia falls in the arm of a pretentious know-it-all, so Bob falls into a maudlin bout of self mastication (this song is so weepy and maudlin – but it is good to indulge yourself once in awhile)
I Hope I Never




Keeping good on his promise to leave and never come back, Bob goes to the Sea. His spirits are lifted, but he later comes to the realization you can not run away from your self.
Six Months in a Leaky Boat




Fin – Or Neil and Tim Finn
Happy Victoria Day G!

Friday

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Happy lunar eclipse. Lucky europeans...

More Catscratch - more coincidental

Pearl

I am a Pearl Girl - I mean BOY!
http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-3OPJQqY8cqVuj7NmoUVhx1J2_UfXEw--?cq=1&p=1022#comments

POTUS Redux

On second glance, this tribute is fairly close to the likenesses of William Henry Harrison and Franklin Pierce…
http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-3OPJQqY8cqVuj7NmoUVhx1J2_UfXEw--?cq=1&p=980

The mean 'ole Tooth Fairy

I am not sure why I don't post actual posts here - I kind of like this place better than my 360 page because I never wrapped up any expectation in this blog. I don't really promote or actively point folks here. Sorry if this is like looting through my mind's trash can.

Be that as it may, I posted this (from the Comic Crunudgeon's site - and wherever he swiped it from) for G on the off chance she stops by, so that she can recongize the Tooth Fairy in order to give her a piece of her mind for being LATE last time...

Coincident or subconscious swiping

My Wif is a fan of MacDonald’s Happy Meals, even though we are kid-less and plan to stay that way. Short story long, the prize in a recent forage by her into the mundane and bland was this character from the cartoon show Catscratch:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catscratch
Gordon Quid
This looks a lot like my Blue Monster… When she saw my picture for the first time she even asked if it was a cat – I and I said I didn’t know… I think it is my rendition of Demon Man.
Any hoo – there is no real point other than to point out another weird coincident.

Crab Melt Redux

Moon River Brewery

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-3OPJQqY8cqVuj7NmoUVhx1J2_UfXEw--?cq=1&p=899

Room with a View (for reals this Time) Savannah GA

Savannah ga

Hurley Action Figure

Brender J gets the coolest stuff... an expresso machine and a Hurley Action figure. My jealousy abounds!

Another Crappy Cell phone picture from DCA

Can you see the capital?

Room Without a View - Washington DC - Club Quarters

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Stuck in chicago listening to 2 radio stations @ the same time

Conicident? Cats' in the news (or mews {sorry})

I checked and Pumpkin from this video link is not the same cat as HB's Mandic Motors cat...

http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/ver/21/popup/?rn=952695&cl=1694302&src=news

Aw Crap!

I think some ill thought out comments by me may be the reason a fellow blogger posted an entry apologizing for her entries; which was completely unnecessary. How in the world do you say, “It’s not you, it’s me” without it seeming to mean the exact opposite in this post Seinfeld world?
It really is me that is the problem and I by no means meant to discourage her from continuing on being exactly who she is and writing what she wants to write. I was really attempting to apologize and explain why I had not been commenting on her entries – but this may have been an absolute failure of execution on my part; I would try to apologize for this failure to apologize, but I am afraid the damage is too far gone that it would come off as being disingenuous.
I may be reading this wrong and overreacting to something that has nothing to do with me at all – but I have a feeling my ham-handed comments/typing have done away with any limited readership I may have had…

So Cal Stupid

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-3OPJQqY8cqVuj7NmoUVhx1J2_UfXEw--?cq=1&p=806#comments

A Life unexamined

Thanks to Denille - I tried out this personality test (I guess my Mom is right to call me Neurotic):


My Personality

Neuroticism	89
Extraversion	27
Openness To Experience	54
Agreeableness	52
Conscientiousness	29

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Blue Period

Monster3, originally uploaded by Maethane Boy.

I guess I am feelling gloomy... Original on Painter mix of pencil, airbrush, oil with lots and lots of blending. Thank goodness photoshop effects makes it look better with the watercolor effect.

Huntington Beach New Year's Eve

Tiki

tikiexped, originally uploaded by Maethane Boy.

Painter Essential 2, airbrush, acrylic and lots of smearing...not sure if it is good, but seems to be doubly "primative"..

Horseonfire

Horseonfire, originally uploaded by Maethane Boy.

All Corel Painter Essentials 2 - I really have become enamored with smearing paint pictures. Another Chinese "Fire Horse" and/or Dragon (I guess I have been jelous of the kids born in the year of the Dragon - but then again, most of these kids were Jerks, at least to me). I wish I stuck with "art" as a kid - either visual and/or writen... Boo Hoo... Hey Kids! Now that I am Bureaucratic drone, please learn from my mistakes.

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Cat's still ok. Won't stay still for a picture though.

New avatard

maethaneavatard1, originally uploaded by Maethane Boy.

I have no idea what I am doing... Ignore the man behind the curtain...

Out of Sequences - DC Club

Washington dc club - http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-3OPJQqY8cqVuj7NmoUVhx1J2_UfXEw--?cq=1&p=631