Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Weirdos!!


Introduction by Gahan Wilson, from The Big Book Of Weirdos:
"...if you can spot the right Weirdo you can make a fortune (Henry Ford), find salvation (Georges Gurdjieff), or experience the absolute tops in literature (Fyoder Dostoyevsky), art (Vincent van Gogh), or theater (Sarah Bernhardt). Without Weirdos to lead the way, in fact we all would still be wrapped in the rotting hides of animals, crouching around fires in caves, and dying miserably of old age at around sixteen years old. Actually, we wouldn't be anywhere near that well off, because the fire wouldn't be there if some Weirdo hadn't been nutty enough to think of lighting one indoors, and we'd still be shivering in our bare flesh if another Weirdo hadn't been perverted enough to try to wear an animal instead of just gulping it down.
The truth is, you have to be pretty weird to invent a light bulb or create surrealism or put together the FBI, and if you think your totally unweird Uncle Fred could come up with "The Tell-tale Heart" or "Swan Lake" or "Plan Nine from Outer Space," think again. He's probably never even heard of them."

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

"Google Me."

The commercial for some wrestling show has the audio of the guy saying, "GOOGLE ME!"
So I did, I googled myself. I am #5 on the list of links. A few years ago, I was #1.

(I want to thank my son's girlfriend for all her help, and tell her my son has good taste in being with her. [He is six at this time, and to tell the truth, the concept of a girlfriend is to him, a girl who is a friend and he has many but no one that serious. He has crushes, and I will have to discover if that is abnormal or not for his age. At least he has no desire to wed his mother. He plans on marrying the girl who gives him extra toys in his happy meal. He is cute and gets free stuff, but he is no sl_t. {...now I wonder if I have crossed some line in trying to be funny...} Anyway, I thank my son's gf because I want to remember to welcome and show investment in any person who enters his life and brings him happiness, so I am thanking her right now as a strategic first strike years before the fact because that is how I do things, maybe.] I also wish to thank his (yet to-be-met) second mother for her patience and love and her dogs, because my son loves dogs.)