So as we were sitting so very close together on her bed I said,
“Why is he closing the store?”
“Not making any money.”
“Oh. I guess that makes sense. What else did he say, if anything?”
“He said, I guess I could just burn the place down and collect the insurance.”
I said to Maddy, “He would never do that. He is too much a pussy.”
“Yeah,” she sighed.
Then she confided:
“I stole a lot… A LOT of stuff from the store. Closing right? I lit a fire, but I think it didn’t take. I am so afraid My fire went out! They will find me out!
ZZ Top – Blue Jean Blues by Billy Gibbons:
“Don’t worry ‘bout that. I’ll fix it for you.”
“How? How you gonna fix it for me?”
“You still have a key to the front door?”
“You know I do.”
“Give it to me.”
“What you gonna do?”
I flashed her a grin:
“I’m gonna burn the place down to the ground. For you Dear Sister”
I Cannot Wrap My Moron Mind Around How I Managed To Leave Out Some Of The Most Important Vids!
When First I Published This.
JOHNNY CARSON INTERVIEW JENNIFER GREY Feb 02 1990
“She’s Like The Wind”–“Just A Fool to Believe—“Jennifer Grey, Okay?! I Know She Was a Famed Flaming Bitch to Work With–Precisely Why I Love Her So Marvelous Much! (And Some Other Superfluous Stuff)”
This is So ‘Eighties’
I LOVE IT!
******
“She’s Like The Wind”
“Dirty Dancing”
Screen Test:
Like The Wind:
I look in the mirror and all I see Is a young old man with only a dream Am I just fooling myself That she’ll stop the pain? Living without her I’d go insane I feel her breath in my face Her body close to me Can’t look in her eyes She’s out of my league Just a fool to believe I have anything she needs She’s like the wind
****
She’d Drive Me Insane
******
*******
Dirty Dancing – “Mambo – Dance Training” (1987)
Cred Fir Share: Stu Pollard
******
Fool to Believe
The Doobie Brothers – What A Fool Believes
Pay Close Attention to the Lyrics
or
You Miss The Entire Point of the Exercise
******
(This below is a Very Gaay Vid, But I Love The SONG)
Jennifer: Honesty
Wonderful Classy Lady:
Just a Fool To Believe
Love Her…. Unconditionally
(And That’s A Stretch For Me)
YES! JENNIFER!
Time of Your Life
Thank You Beautiful Lady For Enriching Mine
**********************
Uh… Just to kick this off,
Please watch to this bit to get y’all in the mood:
Here is a ‘novel’ approach (Well not really for me)
However maybe for Y’all:
This is a ‘work-in-progress’. Most writers polish, polish, polish, then anguish, anguish, anguish, and then… finally… publish. I subscribe to a slightly different philosophytenet philosophy: “Just throw it out there and fix it later.” Probably not wise, but what the hell?
Anyway. Yup. This is a ‘work in progress’ (process?) and yes, I do have (buried somewhere in the dank, dark, dank, deep, nether depths of my addled mind) a purpose for this post. And yes, I hope to coaxlure hoist it up to the surface and boardbeach land it, still flopping about, right here on this page.
Might be entertaining (or not) to watch the process. And in this vain vein, I am going to keep all the edits here, just as an experiment. A way to look into the my writing/editing process. (“Now damnit, I do hope I can come up with a valid subject to go along with this ‘wonderful’ prose.”)
To (obviously) be continued…Please don’t change touch that dial!
(And, as usual: nothing works if you don’t click the video/sound bite below)
***
Yes.
Moody Blues?
Dare I say?
Genius?
Naw!
“Just What You Want to Be, You’ll Be In The End.”
*****
Boz Scaggs
Just kids havin’ fun
(We are entitled to fun, eh?)
“Who put those idea’s ideas in your head?”
And…
“The Pursuit of Happiness”
Cred for Vid Share:Redbaron863
********
(I read that somewhere)
“Come on back down to Earth Son!”
“Boz, I Am Really Tryin'”
P.S. Yes my mind is a terrible thing. And if you have not clicked all the audio, you will lose Karma. Just sayin’…
Here was my mantra during those six months I spent languishing away in Amman Jordan between Iraq gigs:
Vid Street Cred: Jewfro69man
AND FUCK YOU WORDPRESS!
YOU Arbitrary-illy
PUT MY PROSE WHEREVER THE FUCK YOU FIND IT
‘CONENVIENT’
FUCK Am I PAYING You For??
To Fuck Me?
Without Even a Kiss First?
**************
Bonus:
Serverely Out of Context
And Unrelated
But This is
How
I Roll
Hahahahahaha!
*******
Camila Cabello:
Hey Havana, ooh na-na (ayy) Half of my heart is in Havana, ooh na-na (ayy, ayy) He took me back to East Atlanta, na-na-na, ah Oh, but my heart is in Havana (ayy) There’s somethin’ ’bout his manners (uh-huh) Havana, ooh-na-na (uh)
Guess What? Fu*cK’d-UP WordPress! I DID try! Re-DAS-Boot “And Lenny (and Christopher) Lives (again) Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid (sic)” I did Manage to Add Some NEW Shit to this One Though WP was
Even that statement is wrong. It presupposes that religious folk do not have a sense of humor, or that they are intolerant of not-religious folk. I know of only one religion which is totally intolerant and not open to sense of humor. I don’t need to name it, but we all know its name (Shhh…. Don’t tell. But it starts with an M and ends with an ‘um’. Yeah! You guessed it:“Methodist-um” )
(Now I know, I have been uncharacteristically silent on the ISIS CRISIS in specific and ‘Religion Poisons Ever’Thing’ in General. I am ‘back-building’, much like that volcano in Iceland. What you may experience here, today, is just a fissure, impotently spewing. ‘Fissuring’, if you will. Don’t worry: The Big Bang is coming folks and it ain’t gonna be nothin’ nice.)
Shhhhh…. don’t tell. Keep yer head, and yer wits, and yer tits, and yer clits about you.
So… Don’t speak. Bad for your health: ‘Speaking.’
Listen / Watch Here Below: And Christopher’s last line (in case you missed it)
“Stay cool.”
So ‘be cool’ and watch it, for it is timely, given our present present.
And as a completely different aside: I got some very good advice from a very, well not very, not even a very good friend, let us just call her ‘an acquaintance’:
She chastised me.
Why?
Because I employ too many parentheses…. “Makes me hard to read.’ She said. ‘Madman,’ She said. Truth, she spoke.
“Jennifer Grey, Okay?! I Know She Was a Famed Flaming Bitch to Work With–Precisely Why I Love Her So Marvelous Much!
(And Some Other Superfluous Stuff)”
This is So ‘Eighties’
I LOVE IT!
******
“She’s Like The Wind”
“Dirty Dancing”
Screen Test:
Like The Wind:
I look in the mirror and all I see Is a young old man with only a dream Am I just fooling myself That she’ll stop the pain? Living without her I’d go insane I feel her breath in my face Her body close to me Can’t look in her eyes She’s out of my league Just a fool to believe I have anything she needs She’s like the wind
****
She’d Drive Me Insane
******
*******
Dirty Dancing – “Mambo – Dance Training” (1987)
Cred Fir Share: Stu Pollard
******
Fool to Believe
The Doobie Brothers – What A Fool Believes
Pay Close Attention to the Lyrics
or
You Miss The Entire Point of the Exercise
******
(This below is a Very Gaay Vid, But I Love The SONG)
Jennifer: Honesty
Wonderful Classy Lady:
Just a Fool To Believe
Love Her…. Unconditionally
(And That’s A Stretch For Me)
YES! JENNIFER!
Time of Your Life
Thank You Beautiful Lady For Enriching Mine
**********************
Uh… Just to kick this off,
Please watch to this bit to get y’all in the mood:
Here is a ‘novel’ approach (Well not really for me)
However maybe for Y’all:
This is a ‘work-in-progress’. Most writers polish, polish, polish, then anguish, anguish, anguish, and then… finally… publish. I subscribe to a slightly different philosophytenet philosophy: “Just throw it out there and fix it later.” Probably not wise, but what the hell?
Anyway. Yup. This is a ‘work in progress’ (process?) and yes, I do have (buried somewhere in the dank, dark, dank, deep, nether depths of my addled mind) a purpose for this post. And yes, I hope to coaxlure hoist it up to the surface and boardbeach land it, still flopping about, right here on this page.
Might be entertaining (or not) to watch the process. And in this vain vein, I am going to keep all the edits here, just as an experiment. A way to look into the my writing/editing process. (“Now damnit, I do hope I can come up with a valid subject to go along with this ‘wonderful’ prose.”)
To (obviously) be continued…Please don’t change touch that dial!
(And, as usual: nothing works if you don’t click the video/sound bite below)
***
Yes.
Moody Blues?
Dare I say?
Genius?
Naw!
“Just What You Want to Be, You’ll Be In The End.”
*****
Boz Scaggs
Just kids havin’ fun
(We are entitled to fun, eh?)
“Who put those idea’s ideas in your head?”
And…
“The Pursuit of Happiness”
Cred for Vid Share:Redbaron863
********
(I read that somewhere)
“Come on back down to Earth Son!”
“Boz, I Am Really Tryin'”
P.S. Yes my mind is a terrible thing. And if you have not clicked all the audio, you will lose Karma. Just sayin’…
Here was my mantra during those six months I spent languishing away in Amman Jordan between Iraq gigs:
Vid Street Cred: Jewfro69man
AND FUCK YOU WORDPRESS!
YOU Arbitrary-illy
PUT MY PROSE WHEREVER THE FUCK YOU FIND IT
‘CONENVIENT’
FUCK Am I PAYING You For??
To Fuck Me?
Without Even a Kiss First?
**************
Bonus:
Serverely Out of Context
And Unrelated
But This is
How
I Roll
Hahahahahaha!
*******
Camila Cabello:
Hey Havana, ooh na-na (ayy) Half of my heart is in Havana, ooh na-na (ayy, ayy) He took me back to East Atlanta, na-na-na, ah Oh, but my heart is in Havana (ayy) There’s somethin’ ’bout his manners (uh-huh) Havana, ooh-na-na (uh)
If you listen to the news — pretty much any channel — it is likely that it won’t take more than a few minutes for you to hear someone say “take a listen” and then go to some video. I know it’s hardly one of the world’s big (or even little) problems, and it’s hardly a new one, but I cringe when I hear it. I’m not the only one.
The authors of the great Grammarphobia blog have been on this since 2008, and following is the post they wrote then, and updated on Saturday, Jan. 23 (which I am republishing with permission). They are Patricia T. O’Conner and Stewart Kellerman, who between them have written five books about the English language and have more than half a century of experience as writers and editors.
They include “Woe Is I: The Grammarphobe’s Guide to Better English in Plain English” (O’Conner), “Origins of the Specious: Myths and Misconceptions of the English Language” (O’Connor and Kellerman), and “You Send Me: Getting It Right When You Write Online” (O’Connor and Kellerman).
O’Conner spent 15 years at the New York Times mostly editing at the Book Review but also writing articles and book reviews. She also wrote The Times’s weekly columns on new video releases and paperback books. Kellerman, a foreign correspondent at United Press International, took over that column at the Times, where he worked as an editor, wrote articles on literary subjects and reviewed books.
From the Grammarphobia blog:Q: On CNN, all the anchors use the expression “take a listen” instead of just “listen” or “listen to this.”
Does that sound as caustic to you as it does to me?A: We don’t know about caustic, but it certainly sounds puffed up, condescending, and lame. We could go on, but let us quote from the entry for this “infantile phrase” in The Dimwit’s Dictionary (2d ed.), by Robert Hartwell Fiske:“As inane as it is insulting, have (take) a listen obviously says nothing that listen alone does not. Journalists and media personalities who use this offensive phrase ought to be silenced; businesspeople, dismissed; public officials, pilloried.”Unfortunately, this horse is out of the barn. We just googled “take a listen” and got 725,000 hits.
The expression hasn’t made it yet into modern dictionaries, but The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (5th ed.) and Cambridge Dictionaries Online include examples of somewhat similar usages.Here’s the American Heritage example: “Would you like to give the CD a listen before buying it?”And this is the example from Cambridge Dictionaries:
“Have a listen to this!”The word “listen,” by the way, has been used as a noun for centuries in expressions like “to be on the listen” or “to have a proper listen.”In fact, the earliest citation in the Oxford English Dictionary for “listen” as a noun dates from the 1300s. In an apparent reference to becoming deaf or hard of hearing, the writer wonders if someone “has losed the lysten.”
Just to kick this off, Please watch to this bit to get y’all in the mood:
Here is a ‘novel’ approach (Well not really for me)
However maybe for Y’all:
This is a ‘work-in-progress’. Most writers polish, polish, polish, then anguish, anguish, anguish, and then… finally… publish. I subscribe to a slightly different philosophytenet philosophy: “Just throw it out there and fix it later.” Probably not wise, but what the hell?
Anyway. Yup. This is a ‘work in progress’ (process?) and yes, I do have (buried somewhere in the dank, dark, dank, deep, nether depths of my addled mind) a purpose for this post. And yes, I hope to coaxlure hoist it up to the surface and boardbeach land it, still flopping about, right here on this page.
Might be entertaining (or not) to watch the process. And in this vain vein, I am going to keep all the edits here, just as an experiment. A way to look into the my writing/editing process. (“Now damnit, I do hope I can come up with a valid subject to go along with this ‘wonderful’ prose.”)
To (obviously) be continued…Please don’t change touch that dial!
(And, as usual: nothing works if you don’t click the video/sound bite below)
