I like Betty Boop.....

I remember my Grandpa had a calendar with women bearing their breasts. My mother was a bit upset, but grandpa just smiled. I know now that it was just a man who was in the shadow of death trying to remember the good times. it ws not vulgar, just a bit naughty.

I've had strange dreams of late. Last night, early morning. I do think I dream more towards morning than any other time. I was still delivering in my dream, and I was at 1100 Kansas Avenue waiting on Mom. She did not show, and the longer I waited the angrier I became, and then someone in the dream said,"Your Mother is dead." I then woke up.

Stupidity......

There are many things which I am ignorant of or things which I cannot fully grasp. Forinstance, Math is not one of my better subjects. I can add, and subtract, possibly do some fractions, but please, nothing more complicated than that. But out and out stupidity galls me.
Yes, this is a rant. I was listening to Coast to Coast with Ian Pluckette last night, and as his guest he had someone on who claimed that Obama was not qualified to be President because he was not a U.S. Citizen. The story is in the URL http://newsbusters.org/blogs/p-j-gladnick/2008/08/22/msm-ignores-democrat-lawsuit-against-obama
It is totally false, there is no merit to the charge, and if it were true would Obama spend time trying for a chance at something which was prohibited by the Constitution? I don't believe so!
We have had to endure "Swift Boat " tactics from the Republicans, but now this lie comes from a Hilliary supporter. I knew she was unethical, but to stoop to this level is beyond belief. I remember during the Primaries I knew when she was going to tell a whopper her eyes got wider.
I swear, I will never listen to Coast to Coast again.

Creative Juices.......

Stephen King calls writing dream writing. No, let me get this right... He says that "Misery", the book started out as a dream. He says that he had found a relic, but had to flush out the story. he likens it to hunting for old bones, archeology. You have to dig for the bones, and then piece them together. King does not believe in plots. he bleieves plot comes from situations.
I just finished reading Dean Koontz's new book, well, new to me, "The Good guy." The plot and charactereriztions moved the story. Our hero is sitting at a bar nursing a beer, when he encounters a guy sitting at he bar. Our hero, forgot his name, likes to start conversations, and see where they lead. The stranger says;"You're early." He hands him an envelope which contains a picture of a woman, and $10,000. Half now, half when the job is done," says the stranger, and walks out of the bar.
Our hero tries to follow, but before he does, he takes a peek inside tehe envelope. He sees the money, and takes the picture for some reason. When walks in another stranger. He sits next to our hero, and says;"You're early." The Killer has mistakenly thought that our hero is the one who wants to place the hit.
Our hero says," I've changed my mind, but here is $10,000 to do nothing." The Killer takes the money, and walks out, our hero follows, only to see that this guy is connected to the police. No ue calling the cops.
Our hero then takes a look at the picture which had been in the envelope and trys to discover the woman's idenity. She must be warned.
Thus begins Koontz's best book I have read so far. It is action packed, and action drives plot, and dialogue and description keep things moving.

Moving.....

I'm moving my blog to over here. 360 is too slow. So, Fluffy, if you get this, you know, I am no longer writing in 360. I've not totally given up on that place, but it has become inconvenient to say the least.

These horses were drawn by a friend of mine in Alabama. She is an artist of some talent. She has done ceramic vase with bas relief horses on the side. I love her art. This is a plate. I do believe the painting is inside of the plate. Perhaps it is a bowl, if it is a bowl, it is shallow, if it is a plate, then it it is deep.

Nothing much going on. Tomorrow, I have to get my hearing aide fixed. I am deaf, and I can't stand that. Moe later......

I love her work.

Revelations......

The Greeks used to have plays ,all the actors wore masks. I suppose the people then thought that facades were difficult to put on. Well, in my 63 years, I have learned that masks are not needed to conceal who you are. Not that you can hide your idenity for long, but if you play at it, you can deceive for a while.

When I was ten or eleven, I wanted to be someone else. I had operations on my legs from age nine to age wll, they are still ongoing, but not as drastic as they were then. So, on this one occasion I decided to become a Mike. I liked the name. However, I could not recall that my new idenity was Mike, and finally, I had to break down and tell the truth. Of course, this created distrust, and I was never accepted as I would have been had I been who I was. So much for pretention and aliases, ever since then, I am who I am.

I had a cybespace friend. It is difficult these days to actually know people. On the Internet, you meet quite a few people, and I know more than most. This guy was O.K., he was bright, had a profession I would have given my eye teeth to be in, Broadcating. We had discussions about people we admired; Jack Benny, Jean Shepherd, Fred Allan,Long John Nebel, to recount a few.

We swapped stories, and had a few laughs. I knew this guy on line for over two years. In cyberspace, that is a lot of time.

But, the guy could not stay in a relationship. Since ours was a passing thing, I never thought about the reasons why he could not get along with his daughter, his ex-wife, and anyone else he should have been close to. There was always some turmoil going on in his life. But, as I say, I was insulated from his day to day existence. And, it was never his fault that things were as they were.

He got "a job" at a cyberspace radio station in Phoenix. He was on the air for one day, Sundays.

I asked him how much they were paying him, and he said zilch. Ouch! For a guy on SSI to be working for nothing is something. So, I asked if I could write someone to tell them that this was wrong, wrong, did I tell you, that this was wrong! They informed me, that it was because they liked him that they did not charge him to be on the air. As the e-mail letter came back, it read;"Customarily, we in the radio biz charge people who are not full timers a fee." Then they added that they waived that fee because they liked him.

I then got a e-mail from my cyberspace friend, that he had been threatened,they were going to kick him off the air, because of my one e-mail.

This got me curious, so I started asking questions, and each e-mail I sent was returned with a more vicious reply. Finally, they did remove him from his show.

He needed money to move, and asked me for money. I had no real way of meeting my obligtions, and helping him, so I had to decline.

But as I knew he would, he did get out of town, and got into another apartment, but new developments arose. He did an illegal act, petitioned for money under false pretense to a Federal Agency. So, who knows what hot water he is in? But the other day, I received this e-mail;"Happy Now, I don't have a radio show?"