Sep. 3rd, 2011

UTSA

Sep. 3rd, 2011 06:56 am
monk222: (Noir Detective)
UTSA got their football team and are getting reading for season one. The Alamo Dome is finally going to get used for a football program, though the stadium is plenty old now and it’s still not the NFL. But San Antonio is excited. Rah, rah, whatever!

For college football fans in the region, I don’t know if this makes up for the loss of the Aggies, who will now be playing in another conference in an unrelated development, but that’s how the football bounces. You'd think they would keep the rivalry with the Longhorns going in cross-conference play, though, since that is good for the crowds and the money.

UTSA

Sep. 3rd, 2011 06:56 am
monk222: (Noir Detective)
UTSA got their football team and are getting reading for season one. The Alamo Dome is finally going to get used for a football program, though the stadium is plenty old now and it’s still not the NFL. But San Antonio is excited. Rah, rah, whatever!

For college football fans in the region, I don’t know if this makes up for the loss of the Aggies, who will now be playing in another conference in an unrelated development, but that’s how the football bounces. You'd think they would keep the rivalry with the Longhorns going in cross-conference play, though, since that is good for the crowds and the money.

Sinfest

Sep. 3rd, 2011 07:43 am
monk222: (Little Bear)


I sympathize. You really pay for it when you get older. though, at first, I thought he was talking about his dick.

Sinfest

Sep. 3rd, 2011 07:43 am
monk222: (Little Bear)


I sympathize. You really pay for it when you get older. though, at first, I thought he was talking about his dick.

our Obama

Sep. 3rd, 2011 07:54 am
monk222: (Bonobo Thinking)
Obama Pulls Back Plan to Tighten Air-Quality Rules

By JOHN M. BRODER

After intense lobbying by industry, the White House overruled a plan by the Environmental Protection Agency to reduce emissions of smog-causing chemicals.


-- NYT's headline

That sounds like our Obama. See, Rick Perry could do that just as well. I understand that Obama's heart is presumably in the right place, but what difference does it make if they always wind up in the same position, stiffing the poor and the weak and the environment in favor of the wealthy and the powerful?

our Obama

Sep. 3rd, 2011 07:54 am
monk222: (Bonobo Thinking)
Obama Pulls Back Plan to Tighten Air-Quality Rules

By JOHN M. BRODER

After intense lobbying by industry, the White House overruled a plan by the Environmental Protection Agency to reduce emissions of smog-causing chemicals.


-- NYT's headline

That sounds like our Obama. See, Rick Perry could do that just as well. I understand that Obama's heart is presumably in the right place, but what difference does it make if they always wind up in the same position, stiffing the poor and the weak and the environment in favor of the wealthy and the powerful?

104

Sep. 3rd, 2011 12:48 pm
monk222: (Global Warming)
Whoa, 104 degrees!

I was wondering why I wasn’t feeling cooler, cripes!

I thought we were past this. Wading deeper into September.

104

Sep. 3rd, 2011 12:48 pm
monk222: (Global Warming)
Whoa, 104 degrees!

I was wondering why I wasn’t feeling cooler, cripes!

I thought we were past this. Wading deeper into September.
monk222: (Flight)
Alvarez and the Hugheses went their separate paths for a while, maybe a year or two. Alvarez’s periodical, The Observer, continued to publish a few of Sylvia’s poems, as her writing became stronger, as though she was no longer casting about to discover her voice. As Alvarez put it, “The current was deepening, its flow becoming easier.”

Then, the Hugheses happened to move to the vicinity of Alvarez’s residence, and Sylvia would take to stopping by to visit, and to share her poems, and I thought I would share this touching scene from the first of these occasions, with her seated on a rug on the floor, like a grad student in the autumn of ‘62.

_ _ _

“I’d like to read you some of the new poems,” she said, and pulled a sheaf of typescript from her shoulder bag on the floor beside her.

“Gladly,” I said, reaching over for them. “Let’s see.”

She shook her head. “No. I don’t want you to read them to yourself. They’ve got to be read out loud. I want you to hear them.”

-- A. Alvarez, “The Savage God”
monk222: (Flight)
Alvarez and the Hugheses went their separate paths for a while, maybe a year or two. Alvarez’s periodical, The Observer, continued to publish a few of Sylvia’s poems, as her writing became stronger, as though she was no longer casting about to discover her voice. As Alvarez put it, “The current was deepening, its flow becoming easier.”

Then, the Hugheses happened to move to the vicinity of Alvarez’s residence, and Sylvia would take to stopping by to visit, and to share her poems, and I thought I would share this touching scene from the first of these occasions, with her seated on a rug on the floor, like a grad student in the autumn of ‘62.

_ _ _

“I’d like to read you some of the new poems,” she said, and pulled a sheaf of typescript from her shoulder bag on the floor beside her.

“Gladly,” I said, reaching over for them. “Let’s see.”

She shook her head. “No. I don’t want you to read them to yourself. They’ve got to be read out loud. I want you to hear them.”

-- A. Alvarez, “The Savage God”

104 degrees

Sep. 3rd, 2011 03:20 pm
monk222: (Global Warming)
Not a bad nap. I fell off, but only for about fifteen minutes, when I could use one of those thirty-minute wonders.

Watering the elephant ears, I marvel that we are only registering 104 degrees. It feels like that 110-degree heat. My skin tingling, singeing almost immediately in the direct sunlight, wanting to make me darker, more black, without making me taller or my dick longer.

104 degrees

Sep. 3rd, 2011 03:20 pm
monk222: (Global Warming)
Not a bad nap. I fell off, but only for about fifteen minutes, when I could use one of those thirty-minute wonders.

Watering the elephant ears, I marvel that we are only registering 104 degrees. It feels like that 110-degree heat. My skin tingling, singeing almost immediately in the direct sunlight, wanting to make me darker, more black, without making me taller or my dick longer.
monk222: (Noir Detective)
America's taken a hammering in the decade since 9/11. But never doubt that it can rediscover its awesome self-belief

-- Daily Main headline

Optimism can be touching. Unfortunately, I think the game has changed. The rich have written off the country as they consider themselves to be a country unto themselves living in the Plutonomy. A country thus divided cannot rise and conquer. We are moving into a rougher time, a rougher world.

_ _ _

The American Century may have come crashing to a tragic halt on 9/11, but we must all hope the U.S. soon recovers its sense of purpose and self-belief.

I still have faith in the American capacity for ingenuity, enterprise and reinvention. The idea of American exceptionalism may be battered, but it hasn’t been extinguished.

We need a strong, confident, optimistic, outward-looking America. It’s still the planet’s last best hope. If you doubt that, imagine living in a world dominated by those bastions of liberty, China and Russia. The EU is a basket case, riddled with corruption and duplicity.

The U.S. has always emerged stronger from wars and economic depression. Despite the traumas of the past decade, it still can.

-- Richard Littlejohn for the Daily Main headline

monk222: (Noir Detective)
America's taken a hammering in the decade since 9/11. But never doubt that it can rediscover its awesome self-belief

-- Daily Main headline

Optimism can be touching. Unfortunately, I think the game has changed. The rich have written off the country as they consider themselves to be a country unto themselves living in the Plutonomy. A country thus divided cannot rise and conquer. We are moving into a rougher time, a rougher world.

_ _ _

The American Century may have come crashing to a tragic halt on 9/11, but we must all hope the U.S. soon recovers its sense of purpose and self-belief.

I still have faith in the American capacity for ingenuity, enterprise and reinvention. The idea of American exceptionalism may be battered, but it hasn’t been extinguished.

We need a strong, confident, optimistic, outward-looking America. It’s still the planet’s last best hope. If you doubt that, imagine living in a world dominated by those bastions of liberty, China and Russia. The EU is a basket case, riddled with corruption and duplicity.

The U.S. has always emerged stronger from wars and economic depression. Despite the traumas of the past decade, it still can.

-- Richard Littlejohn for the Daily Main headline

monk222: (Strip)


Alice Cooper has a thing for 25-and-under pop stars. First, he’s cavorting with pop tart Kesha, 24, and has included her on ‘Welcome 2 My Nightmare.’ Now, he has made the bold statement that the ruler of the pop music universe known as Lady Gaga reminds him of himself. Given both artists and their well-documented penchant for the theatrical, it’s not a stretch for Cooper, 63, to consider Gaga, 25, a kindred spirit.


“Lady Gaga is the female Alice Cooper,” the ‘School’s Out’ singer declared, according to the Associated Press. “She totally gets it.”


-- ONTD

I don't get it. I scarely know Alice Cooper, other than that he is one of rock's wild and bad boys. Gaga makes a spectacle of herself, but I don't know if she is quite that far out there, as I think she wants to be more mainstream and richer than fringey and extreme. I mainly like the pictures on this item.

monk222: (Strip)


Alice Cooper has a thing for 25-and-under pop stars. First, he’s cavorting with pop tart Kesha, 24, and has included her on ‘Welcome 2 My Nightmare.’ Now, he has made the bold statement that the ruler of the pop music universe known as Lady Gaga reminds him of himself. Given both artists and their well-documented penchant for the theatrical, it’s not a stretch for Cooper, 63, to consider Gaga, 25, a kindred spirit.


“Lady Gaga is the female Alice Cooper,” the ‘School’s Out’ singer declared, according to the Associated Press. “She totally gets it.”


-- ONTD

I don't get it. I scarely know Alice Cooper, other than that he is one of rock's wild and bad boys. Gaga makes a spectacle of herself, but I don't know if she is quite that far out there, as I think she wants to be more mainstream and richer than fringey and extreme. I mainly like the pictures on this item.

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