Monthly Archives: December 2008

Where I’ll Be

Same as last year (*22) this is where I will be for the next week (Note: video found on YouTube; I had nothing to do with its creation and don’t know the individuals who did.)

Last year was the first year I had internet access while there, and it is possible though not guaranteed that I will again. If I do, I might post something.

Where I’ll Be

Same as last year (*22) this is where I will be for the next week (Note: video found on YouTube; I had nothing to do with its creation and don’t know the individuals who did.)

Last year was the first year I had internet access while there, and it is possible though not guaranteed that I will again. If I do, I might post something.

Happy Birthday, Phil Ochs

Phil Ochs would have turned 68 today.

Hunger and Cold
By Phil Ochs

I’ve been all around your dirty old city.
Been all around your dirty old town.
I’ve slept in your alleys; I’ve slept in your subways.
Hunger and cold, they follow me down.

Chorus:
Hunger and cold, hunger and cold
I wouldn’t mind but I’m growing so old.
But as low as I am, you know I’m still a man.
And I wouldn’t mind but I’m growing so old.

Only last year I was rolling in money.
Only last year the good times would roll.
Only last year my friends were so many,
But only last year was so long ago.

(Chorus)

It’s all so easy to throw me in prison.
It’s all so easy to just walk on by.
But it’s not so easy to see a man hungry.
It’s not so easy to look in his eye.

(Chorus)

Yes there’s poison in my cheap rotten liquor.
There’s poison in every old garbage can.
But the worst kind of poison Is in your own brain
When you look at me and forget I’m a man.

DVR list

This is a list of shows for which my DVR is scheduled to tape any new episodes, whenever they may appear.

Dr. Who
Pushing Up Daisies
Sarah Silverman Show
Daily Show
30 Rock
Heroes
Skins

So — any suggestions for addition? For someone who didn’t watch television a year ago this is disturbing enough as it is.

Classic Reruns:

I’m also taping every episode of the Twilight Zone and TNG…but I am deleting most unwatched. I only want a few classic episodes I recall from my youth, but this way I don’t have to know beforehand when they are going to be shown. I’ve done this already with Monty Python and have both the Spam episode and Spanish Inquisition episode, which is sufficient.

Been There Done That

Blair is to blame for this, who blamed Dave, who blamed another Dave,

 

The usual style — make a copy and mark the ones you’ve done in bold and the ones you’d like to do in italics (or at least do something to make them noticeable).

 

New rule: And add one of each. Something you’ve done, and something you would like to do.

 

1. Started your own blog
2. Slept under the stars
3. Played in a band, or orchestra
4. Visited Hawaii

5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than you can afford to charity
7. Been to Disneyland (and Disney World)
8. Climbed a mountain
9. Held a praying mantis
10. Sang a solo
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched a lightning storm

14. Taught yourself an art from scratch
15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty
18. Grown your own vegetables
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France
20. Slept on an overnight train
21. Had a pillow fight
22. Hitchhiked
23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill
24. Built a snow fort
25. Held a lamb
26. Gone skinny dipping
27. Run a Marathon
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice
29. Seen a total eclipse
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset

31. Hit a home run
32. Been on a cruise
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person  
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
35. Seen an Amish community
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
39. Gone rock climbing
40. Seen Michelangelo’s David
41. Sung karaoke

42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant
44. Visited Africa  (Checked to see if Israel is officially entirely in Asia, and it is.  Damn.)
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight
46. Been transported in an ambulance
47. Had your portrait painted
48. Gone deep sea fishing
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling
52. Kissed in the rain
53. Played in the mud
54. Gone to a drive-in theater

55. Been in a movie
56. Visited the Great Wall of China
57. Started a business
58. Taken a martial arts class
59. Visited Russia
60. Served at a soup kitchen
61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies
62. Gone whale watching
63. Got flowers for no reason
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma
65. Gone sky diving
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
67. Bounced a check
68. Flown in a helicopter
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. Eaten caviar

72. Pieced a quilt
73. Stood in Times Square
74. Toured the Everglades
75. Been fired from a job (Technically “laid off”, but it feels the same.)
76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London
77. Broken a bone
78. Been on a speeding motorcycle
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person
80. Published a book (self-published several poetry chapbooks)
81. Visited the Vatican
82. Bought a brand new car
83. Walked in Jerusalem
84. Had your picture in the newspaper
85. Read the entire Bible
(Both my sections, and the other sections.)
86. Visited the White House
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating (frogs!)
88. Had Chicken Pox
89. Saved someone’s life
90. Sat on a jury
91. Met someone famous
92. Joined a book club
93. Lost a loved one

94. Had a baby
95. Seen the Alamo in person
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake
97. Been involved in a lawsuit
98. Owned a cell phone
99. Been stung by a bee

100. Read an entire book in one day

101. Written a novel

102. Tour the sewers of Paris

 

An overabundance of laziness is to blame for the weird font issues. It was originally posted here.