monday

Woke up to another good rain. After it didn't rain yesterday, I was hoping the weather system might be clearing and we could start drying out - but not so fast! ... ... Thinking about Pablo Bastard and his pest-control business, I remembered his early days as a financier-investor. He had the licenses and everything. He complained about the tactics and greed, but he was a lefty back then. The question came to mind: why doesn't he go back raking in the big bucks as an investment guy? Seeing how he is a full-on right-winger now, it strikes me as a happy pursuit. Can he really prefer a career of chasing down bugs? I suppose it is possible that he still sees an integrity issue with the finance business, that it is possible to be a right-wing libertarian and anti-greed. But I cannot help wondering if maybe he didn't tell us something about his investment past: like maybe he got in serious trouble ... ... I had Machiavelli on my brain this morning, thinking about he is rather more realistic than, say, Socrates or Plato, and then it occurred to me that it might be a good idea to jump him in front of Kant. However, looking at the book on Amazon, it didn't feel really philosophical enough, and maybe it's time I stop pushing Kant off. At least begin it. This weekend probably ... ... NYT blurb: 'Asked on Fox News if he was flip-flopping on his immigration ideas, Mr. Trump said, “We want to come up with a really fair, but firm, answer.”' He has been down since coming off his nomination and going into the general contest, but he is still fighting. Personally, I was thinking that as the prospect of becoming president became more real, Trump might be hoping to lose, not really wanting that impossible responsiblity of the American presidency. But I guess that is underestimating his ego ... ... Sugar seems to have caught a national wave with a piece she wrote on a Canadian band known as The Tragically Hip. Their lead singer is apparently dying of cancer or something equally terminal. Seeing the response she is getting, it doesn't seem unlikely that her career might skyrocket to who knows what level. An excerpt: "It was the mic drop that did it, and the preceding howl. When Gord Downie released it, letting it erupt from somewhere deep and liquid and primal, a thousand people in the heart of Winnipeg fell nearly silent. ... Still, to be alive is to exist in the time between, where all things are yet possible. Modern medicine can do great things and besides, we came to watch a rock'n'roll show, and not a funeral." [WFP] Has she been reading poetry?? Or was she just on fire with inspiration? ... ... Pi says, "Oooh, 'Casino Royale' with Daniel Craig!" Yes, definitely one of the best Bond pics. I remember when I went to the theater to see this one. I thought Bond was back. Alas, that was the only good Bond pic he made. But I will take a good Bond movie whenever I can get it. With Craig leaving the role, maybe we will get another good one. They seem to go out of their way to make a particularly good movie when they are breaking in a new Bond ... ... Pi says, "Survey time: When did someone last admit romantic or sexual feelings for you? Was the feeling mutual?" So long as we can count e-life. Because you are never going to find that in my real life. Daimon says, "Tsk, tsk, you are blocking out that teen girl, Kelly. As I recall, she did say she loved you, and she certainly showed you in every way a woman can." Yes, and I answered, uh, something to the effect that you cannot love someone just like that, that it takes time to know that, or something like that. Daimon says, "LOL That did kill the mood. But she still let you play with her body." Pi says, "And if we are counting e-life?" I don't know if we should count that. All they have to do is see me, and that's the end of that. They say love is blind, but you cannot really love until you get a good look at what you are flirting with. Anouk was probably the last blogging pal that expressed such feelings. And, sure, the feeling was mutual: she was a girl who liked to let men get their rape-kinks off on her, and she was not an ugly woman. It didn't hurt that she was apparently also rich, if you can imagine. I know that sounds incredible, but fact is often stranger than fiction, and this was not an e-fable that we often see on the Net. Jena was close to the time of Anouk, but she was a case in which she got a look at me on webcam, and as with Gabe, that put the fire out. I'm just not going to be good for romantic questions. Kelly was an odd fluke and a one-night stand. And if you take her out of the equation, there is absolutely nothing, at least nothing that I didn't pay for with cold cash ... ... Cats are crying a lot more this evening as though they have big expectations of being let out. At least they have actually been largely quiet during the sleeping hours, which is remarkable when you think of it. Is it possible that they have learned that nothing is going to happen when I am sleeping?