My views on politics, life, death, the army, and other things too miscellaneous to mention here. This is a personal blog. This blog is 100% factual.
Bill Duckwing
Poet, Author, Journalist
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"There are some myths and untruths surrounding the role God plays in our daily lives. To say that religion and politics do not mix, is certainly a myth, unless you ask a liberal. Anything that affects a Christian (and voting is one of them) — enters into the religious realm. Trying to separate the two is like trying to separate oil from a glass of water, it's impossible to do. "
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Monday, March 31, 2003
Ha Ha Ha
Is this guy Hollywood's Next Big Leading Man? Yeah, we'll just call him "The Chin."
Also, a guide to be a more effective complainer at MSN.
Sorry for all the links to MSN today -haven't had a lot of time to slack off work and really browse the web.
-duckwing, at 3:14 PM
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Peter Arnett Fired
I have a feeling this will be a pretty big story.
Despite whether or not what he said was true, I think this is a pretty good case for giving at least comfort to the ememy in a time of war.
Looks like we've found this week's whipping boy.
-duckwing, at 1:00 PM
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Tonight's Reading
Tonight I ugre you to read up on Cinco de Mayo, a traditional holiday that has always invited drinking and great festivities, even though many of the participants have no idea what they're actually celebrating. Although it's more than a month away, it's pretty much the next big holiday for most of us (St. Patrick's Day being mostly a memory by now), and I hope we prepare ourselves accordingly. So read the history.
Speaking of history, read up on some of the glory of Akhenaten, absolutely the coolest Pharaoh that ever ruled ancient Egypt. Anyone who can replace the whole ancient polytheistic religion of Egypt in favor of some weird Sun Disc is okay in my book.
I've been periodically adding permanent (or not so permanent, eh?) links, located on the right hand site of the page. Purple.com, is an exception, though. I've given them a whole graphic link this time around. If you like them, make sure you donate $5000 or so, so they can keep the site up. Really, they could use it, with all the bandwidth they use to display the color purple.
-duckwing, at 12:14 AM
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Sunday, March 30, 2003
On a Green Code Day
Hank Stuever speculates in the Washington Post today.
Maybe we should have Kermit place a call to Tom Ridge.
-duckwing, at 6:12 PM
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Why We Hate Health Insurance Companies AND the Pharmaceutical Industry: A Personal Anecdote.
I have a few presricptions in my medicine cabinet that keep me alive most of the time, and I own my Insurance company some thanks for paying for some of the expenses, and for paying for everything if I ever get mangled up in a car wreck or take a fall straight down into the concrete from the top of a tall building, so I'm not saying that these guys don't provide a service to us right here in the good ol' US of A.
Right. So here's the anecdote: I get a coupon for an over the counter non-drowsy 24hr Anti-histimine called Alavert, offering $.40 off the retail price. So we thought that sounded pretty good, and bought the stuff, and then it dawned on us (as I'm sure it's dawned on you by now). $.40 on the coupon really means 40 cents, not $40 dollars. We ended up paying 54 dollars and some change ($.??) for the shit. Is this decpetion?
I mean, if they were going to use the $ when offering a discount on the coupon, why not be fair about it to consumers. $0.40 would be better. To use a decimal you need a number on both sides of it to be legit. Not using a number on the left of the decimal sign, although used a lot by accountants and other professionals that use math a lot, is just shorthand. And when you try to pull that shit on the everyday joe average consumer, I think that's being willfully deceptive.
There seems to be a big push (or pig bush, whichever you prefer) for both Pharms and the HMO's to knock out 24hr antihistamines off the presrciption market lately. Almost every two weeks I get mail from my Insurance Provider commanding me to switch off my presciption from Allegra (for which I copay $15 bucks) to switch to recent OTC Claritin (for which I'd pay $30 without any assistance from my Insurance Company). And I'm sure there are many other popular drugs where this has happened to other people.
The Health Industry is incredibly profitable, because, unlike most other comsumables, if people do not consume some of these products, they are going to die. Or be completely miserable. You can't boycott the pharms.
Which means that they, if no one else, should be held accountable when they pull stupid stunts, like strike deals with Health Insurance to provide over the counter drugs at unreasonable prices that Insurance won't pay for. You're not likely to see over the counter Insulin, or over the counter Super Knock-Out Cancer Remedy yet, but at this point, maybe it's all just a matter of time.
Note: I've been joking around with my links lately. If you don't like it, tough...
-duckwing, at 5:35 PM
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Saturday, March 29, 2003
When Surrealness Burns a Hole Through Your Head.
Honestly, most things we go through in life seem so real and boring that we hardly ever give them a second thought. We're conditioned to just accept things as they are, and in general most things we do in life are pretty mundane. Nothing to really blow your mind, or make you question the nature of your daily life.
I say this because I live in a world where 99.99999% of the things I observe in the course of my daily life pretty much conform with my expectation of daily events. I live in Washington, DC, commute to work on the subway about an hour each way, and generally see about a thousand different strangers every day that do nothing extraodinarily weird. Granted, DC is under some tight security right now (I really have no idea what conditions are like in other big cities -broaden my persceptive a little bit, and email me about how things have changed in your city since the war started), and people just aren't as crazy about going manic just for the hell of it in fear of being arrested around here, but in general this city has been pretty subdued for awhile.
My point is that when most people don't freak out on a regular basis, the really weird moments in life are damn funny. We're not talking about your run of the mill performance artists, because they're obviously performing, and just act weird to get your goat. We're talking about the strangeness that comes from people who aren't aware that they're putting on a performance. The examples I'm going to mention deserve kudos just for the way they were able to, in one situaation, burn their image onto my mind.
Okay -I'm going to bed. This is a pretty central thought, and key to the point of this blog, and I'll have to get to this in later posts. Stay tuned.
-duckwing, at 12:29 AM
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Friday, March 28, 2003
I'm scooped again. Atrios reports that Sadaam might be heading for Syria, although obviously at this point it's just speculation...
So here's the story.
To state the obvious, it doesn't look like there's going to be a quick resolution to this war.
Someone put an end to "Kiddie American Idol," please...
Story about the pink gorilla, and why I change my subtitles so much, coming up later.
-duckwing, at 8:22 PM
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I don't think that this is going to catch on:
Three Fingers, A Not So Simple Message
I have an idea for the USA.
Since the "V" sign has been hijacked to only mean "peace" and no longer "victory", I am proposing a new way of communicating our support of the troops during, before, and after War and also for our President- George W. Bush.
THE "W"!
Flash the "W" at peaceniks. Flash the "W" at liberals. Flash the "W" any time someone makes the most ignorant comment concerning war, our president, conservatives...etc.
I will start. When I am asked what it means I will tell them. But, just like the corny "V" sign, it will hopefully take on a life of its own. Just flash it at photo-ops. Flash it when you are too tired to set the uninformed straight.
It will become a quick way to let people know where you stand without wasting any breath.
Years from now, people may forget where it started and why it started, but you and I will always know. It started the day our troops were willing to dare greatly for a cause bigger than the here and now. It started the day we had an honest man in the White House. It started the day the media decided that truth shouldn't get in the way of a good story.
Three fingers could mean the difference between being a cold and timid soul or one who fingers their jaw in painful admiration.
My hand is raised. My fingers extended. Our President is supported and our troops honored.
"W", "W", "W""W", "W", "W","W", "W", "W","W", "W", "W","W", "W", "W","W", "W", "W","W", "W", "W","W", "W", "W"!
I was going to write something else, but I just had to post this. From John on Good vs. Ignorant, if you want to read some more of his stuff. Trying to make my fingers do a "W" sign at home now -it's not easy. Not quite as easy as the peace sign, anyway, as your hand doesn't naturally conform into the shape of a W. It tends to stretch your joints out of shape. I guess that's what he means by "painful admiration" of the President.
Reading over some of his other posts, I am definately putting a permanent link to this guy on Apple Coda. Enjoy!
-duckwing, at 6:20 PM
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To Better Respect our Superpowerful Overlords in Outer Space
Extraterrestrial Culture Day is introduced into New Mexico's "unique and dynamic mosaic of cultural anomalies."
-duckwing, at 10:43 AM
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Thursday, March 27, 2003
The "Beat the Crap out of Charlie Daniels" Flash Game
Okay, so if I knew how to use flash, I might actually set some time to work this thing out. As I'm having trouble dealing with basic html at the moment (check out the fact that I have the Cockeyed link below where it says "Archives" on the menu), I think all I can manage to eck out is a description of it this time around.
The basic idea I nicked from the general "Assassin" games you see posted all the time on Newgrounds. (great site; make sure you visit it behind a firewall) Most of the games you end up shooting or pounding a member of the Backstreet Boys to a bloody pulp, or making Osama Bin Ladin or Harry Potter do lines of coke, but I do think that the "games" do seem to satisfy a primal need for the majority of web nerds.
So I see a need to broaden the appeal of these games, starting with liberal intellectuals. And what better target for liberal intellectual rage than Charlie Daniels? The idea is that you're face to face with Charlie Daniels on his livestock ranch or whatever, and he tries to pummel you with one of his (randomly selected) quotes, taken from Charlie Daniel's SoapBox. Then you get to smack him. Once you smack him, he'll reply (again, radomly selected) "Oohh, that smarts there pilgrim," or "Thar's no grey area here, buddy, and you obviously are playin for the other team." And the whole thing repeats until either the terrorists win or you get bored and close the flash player.
Some of the quotes I'd have him say (all taken from his recent SoapBox entries):
"This ain't no rag, it's a flag, and we don't wear it on our heads."
"Why you bunch of pitiful, hypocritical, idiotic, spoiled mugwumps. get your head out of the sand and smell the Trade Towers burning."
"I choose the fiddle instead of the plow, but nevertheless I’ve had a taste of it."
"Ok let’s just say for a moment you bunch of pampered, overpaid, unrealistic children had your way and the U.S.A. didn’t go into Iraq."
"You people make me sick."
"I hate war as much as anybody and would love it if we could just bring all our troops home from around the world, put some flowers in our hair and go to a Grateful Dead concert. But that ain’t how it is Jack."
"Wake up and smell the hostility"
A little sidebar here: Actually, I do like Charlie Daniels. He has this southern good ol' boy populism going for him that's easy to knock, but it's still pretty damn endearing. And his website is probably the funniest thing I've found on the web lately. The flash intro with him sitting on his red (I presume Harley) motorcycle is great.
But we're not just looking to please the liberals here. We want to include the whole body politic on this one. So for conservatives I offer:
The "Beat the Crap Out of Michael Moore" Flash Game
This shouldn't be too hard. Words are obviously no good against a good smack upside the head, despite cries of, "The facts supporting this war do not justify you smacking me upside the head," and "Shame ON YOU, Mr. Aggressor, Shame ON YOU!"
I urge all of you -Yes any number of you reading this, all of whom I know -to consider this and support the prolifieration of Flash Assassin games into mainstream America Pummel virtual celebrities online, and be sure to write your congressman (or pummel him, your choice).
-duckwing, at 11:53 PM
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The Comedian as Rebel: Bill Mahr's "Real Time" on HBO
Okay, so he's not going to be the next Lenny Bruce or anything. I think that we're probably going to have to take another ten years or so of this post 9/11 politics before we get someone like Lenny back again in our cultural forum, after the decade of cynicism that the 1990's gave us. Bill Mahr is not a great comic, and the fact that he has no moderate his guests on his show hinders his ability to really express beliefs that differ from his audience. I never really thought he was all that funny on Politically Incorrect, and I think that he tries to hedge his political views ("I'm a libertarian, not a liberal," that kind of stuff), but I really think he might have something good going on on his new HBO show. Newly juiced up on HBO (see a previous post), I caught a rerun of his show tonight, the one right after the war started that was sorta panned by some of the lefties in various web journals and mags. (Although in general they did seem to like Tim Robbins' stuff.)
So, here's my take on the show. I don't think there was anything inherently wrong in Bill's take that after the war's begun, previous questions about why have the war in the war in the first place become moot. And the point being is that it isn't suddenly wrong to criticize a war after it begins, it's just that the biggest thought that should be going through our minds should be that our troops are out there fighting, perhaps an unjust war, but we should be hoping for a swift resolution to this with minimal casualties. To hope for this, I think it's important to trust and have faith that our leaders will conduct this war this this hope in mind. That's all.
Also, the funniest thing on the show was definately when they were talking about the leaflets being dropped on the Iraq cities. Larry O'Briens quip that the Iraqis were surrendering just to find out what the leaflets meant (because Bill Mahr was reading them in English, if you missed the show) had me pretty much jumping around my living room with laughter.
Anyway, after getting over that, the thing that impressed me most about the show was when Bill Mahr was talking with the war veterans. To be able to twist patriotism with supporting the troops when they come home was great. And that the best way to support our troops during peacetime is to increase veteren's benefits, ect. It was brilliant. No matter how dissastified liberals were with that show, I must admit: No other show on television is even acknowledging the arguments that Bill Mahr is making on his show right now. God Bless Bill Mahr and God Bless HBO for this excellent (so far) program.
Also, I liked this article from Alternet that I came across recently. I think that it really does a good job articulating the distrust, and hostility people can feel about each other in the big cities since 9/11. And it underscores the new harsh political reality that many of us must deal with on a day to day basis in the New World Order. Everything has changed, apparently. So here's the link, if you're interested.
-duckwing, at 1:00 AM
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Wednesday, March 26, 2003
Best I've found on the web today:
(note: I'm trying to embed this with links today -if this doesn't work I post the urls of the links later)
The Onion had a funny Point Counterpoint about the War on Iraq. Whether you're for or against the war right now, I think this pretty much sums up the limits of the debate.
The Onion AV Club also had a decent interview with Eric Idle last week.
On Atrios
108th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. RES. 153
Recognizing the public need for fasting and prayer in order to secure the blessings and protection of Providence for the people of the United States and our Armed Forces during the conflict in Iraq and under the threat of terrorism at home.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
March 20, 2003
Mr. AKIN (for himself, Mr. GOODE, Mr. BARTLETT of Maryland, Mr. JONES of North Carolina, Mr. KING of Iowa, Mr. HAYES, Mrs. JO ANN DAVIS of Virginia, Mr. BEAUPREZ, Ms. CORRINE BROWN of Florida, Mr. MANZULLO, Mr. ADERHOLT, Mr. TIAHRT, Mr. PITTS, Mr. RYUN of Kansas, Mrs. MYRICK, Mr. WELDON of Florida, Mr. BISHOP of Utah, Mr. BARRETT of South Carolina, Mr. MILLER of Florida, Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN, Mr. GINGREY, Mr. TERRY, and Mr. SOUDER) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Government Reform
RESOLUTION
Recognizing the public need for fasting and prayer in order to secure the blessings and protection of Providence for the people of the United States and our Armed Forces during the conflict in Iraq and under the threat of terrorism at home.
Whereas the United States is currently engaged in a war on terrorism in response to the attacks of September 11, 2001;
Whereas the Armed Forces of the United States are currently engaged in a campaign to disarm the regime of Saddam Hussein and liberate the people of Iraq;
Whereas, on June 1, 1774, the Virginia House of Burgesses called for a day of fasting and prayer as an expression of solidarity with the people of Boston who were under siege by the enemy;
Whereas, on March 16, 1776, the Continental Congress, recognizing that the `Liberties of America are imminently endangered' and the need `to acknowledge the overruling Providence of God', called for a day of `Humiliation, Fasting and Prayer' ;
Whereas, on June 28, 1787, during the debate of the Constitutional Convention, Benjamin Franklin, convinced of God's intimate involvement in human affairs, implored the Congress to seek the assistance of Heaven in all its dealings;
Whereas, on March 30, 1863, in the midst of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln, at the bequest of the Senate, and himself recognizing the need of the Nation to humble itself before God in repentance for its national sins, proclaimed a day of fasting , prayer and humiliation;
Whereas all of the various faiths of the people of the United States have recognized, in our religious traditions, the need for fasting and humble supplication before
Providence;
Whereas humility, fasting , and prayer in times of danger have long been rooted in our essential national convictions and have been a means of producing unity and solidarity among all the diverse people of this Nation as well as procuring the enduring grace and benevolence of God;
Whereas, through prayer , fasting , and self-reflection, we may better recognize our own faults and shortcomings and submit to the wisdom and love of God in order that we may have guidance and strength in those daily actions and decisions we must take; and
Whereas dangers and threats to our Nation persist and, in this time of peril, it is appropriate that the people of the United States, leaders and citizens alike, seek guidance, strength, and resolve through prayer and fasting : Now, therefore, be it
Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Representatives that the President should issue a proclamation--
(1) designating a day for humility, prayer , and fasting for all people of the United States; and
(2) calling on all people of the United States--
(A) to observe the day as a time of prayer and fasting ;
(B) to seek guidance from God to achieve a greater understanding of our own failings and to learn how we can do better in our everyday activities; and
(C) to gain resolve in meeting the challenges that confront our Nation.
The funniest thing about this were the comments though.
-duckwing, at 2:35 PM
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Tuesday, March 25, 2003
Cable guy came today. The deal is I was getting the extended cable package, but now I'm getting just basic cable now with HBO. This is a great deal, considering how awful the cable package is. I can't watch anything other than the networks anymore. Even Comedy Central is dreadful. Anyway, I guess one of our local news stations ran an "expose" a few months on which cable companies would offer just basic cable with HBO in a package and none of them would really do it without giving them a ton of crap about it. They wanted to throw in the whole digital cable package for like $100 bucks a month. Screw that.
So, I called them, and I'm saving like $10 bucks a month now. No problem. It shows what the local media can do if they cared enough to do their jobs regularly.
In regards to the last post. I wanted to put some pictures of Grantland Rice and the others to make it look more "authentic", but I haven't upgraded yet, so I guess it'll have to wait. Oh well.
Security has really tightened up in DC. I think. Anyway, MP's and regular old metro police are much more visible right now. I generally see at least three of them when a take the train to and from work. And two forms of ID are generally necessary (and bag searches) to enter military bases. I understand the necessity of it, but it's definately different, even though we live in a post 911 world. Here's hoping that something really good happens in the world, so we can allow ourselves to vaguely give each other the benefit of the doubt again, and stop being so tense when confronting each other in our daily lives.
-duckwing, at 11:51 PM
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“Joseph and the Amazing Embryonic Dreamcoat”
Grantland Rice Interviews Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice on the revision of their classic Broadway Musical.
By: Grantland Rice
Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day's journey take the whole long day? From morn to night, my friend. And never forget that. For Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, of course, it’s been a very long and winding road up a mountain whose steepness is incomprehensibly measureless to man, through a tempest. Meeting at Colet Court School in London, they were commissioned by the school headmaster to compose a school musical. The result was “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.”
“Joseph” proved to be a masterful species of colourful imagery while respectful to the story’s biblical majesty. But they have since parted ways to climb the mountain to equal and ever-stellar heights. Rice completed the circle with joyful showman Elton John to compose the soundtrack to the joyous and sorrowful animated picture show “The Lion King.” Andrew Lloyd Webber stuck to his roots and composed the music to “Cats.”
“Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat’s” brilliant display of allegorical metaphor proved too much for the duo, however, and, nearly 35 years after it’s debut, they have decided to par the story down to its true Freudian psychological roots.
Our interview was conducted at the Royal Regency Hyatt Hotel in New York, where sedatives were made available should one side become too overwhelmed by emotion.
Grantland Rice: There's no dearth of kindness in this world of ours; Only in our blindness we gather thorns for flowers. What do you say to that?
Tim Rice: Glad I’m not blind.
Andrew Lloyd Webber: I actually make particular reference to that sentiment in “The Phantom of the Opera.” The Phantom wears a mask to make the world blind to him. That makes it much easier for people to stumble into his thorns.
GR: So do you sympathize with the Phantom?
ALW: Well, yes I do actually. I think he’s really misunderstood in the programme, really. I mean, he’s this small ugly viscous troglodyte Englishman, and even though he rules this French opera house with an iron fist from his subterranean sewers, he really does have a good heart. I mean, think back to when he professes his undying love to beautiful debutante Christine, before finally letting her go and taking his leave back into the submerged depths. Think of the sacrifice. That’s pure theatre magic.
TR: Actually, I think that “Phantom” was a total fucking piece of shit.
GR: So, tell us about your new project, “Joseph and the Amazing Embryonic Dreamcoat.” This is your first collaboration project in years, isn’t it?
TR: Fuck if I know. We did “Jesus Christ Superstar” together, and “Evita,” right? That was like back in the eighties or something, though.
ALW: Yeah, something like that. Anyway, JATAED is bare bones, hard knuckled version of JATATD. No fucking around with that rainbow shit, y’know? This one covers the barren beaten desert wasteland that the Canaanites actually lived and tried to grow and raise shit in. They were nomads, right? And no, to dispel all rumors, it’s not about Joseph and his amazing trench coat made of human baby fetuses, okay? (throws his hands up, laughs hysterically) I mean, it’s a symbolic term. His folks give a coat cause he’s their favorite, and all his other brothers whale skin to prance around in. The brothers all hate Joseph because their parents give Joe their protection. He gets to hang out in the womb while his brothers are starving in the desert.
TR: So they tear up his coat and toss him in a pit. And Joe finally gets out of the womb and becomes a fucking man.
ALW: Classic Freudian head case.
GR: That’s right. A man leaves the womb of security and climbs out of the abyss, and awakens. He finally realizes that a wise man makes his own decisions; an ignorant man follows the public opinion. Good lad.
TR: Right.
GR: So tell us a little about what the people actually care about? What new songs did you write for this musical?
ALW: We actually just stuck to the themes we just discussed. There are the real showstoppers, like, “I Wanna Be a Man, But I’m just stuck in this Fucking Pit.” Contrast those with lovely, tender ballads, like “Why Don’t You Guys Love Me, Your Tender Loving Brother Who Can Read Your Minds.” Backed with the ensemble chorus of “Because We Hate Your Fucking Guts, Joseph.”
TR: We covered all of our bases for this one.
GR: Andrew Lloyd Webber, you pioneered the mega-musical art form. So would this be your pinnacle? Your peak, so to speak?
ALW: Oh, hell no. This is just the beginning. Rice and I are already working on our next musical. And this one will be BIG. An uber-musical, if you will. You have no idea. This will be the one to paralyze New York City. We’re calling it “Monstrosity.”
It will rock your world.
TR: With this, we will finally crush the world’s theatre critics AND the New York City commuters. Our next musical will close off twenty city blocks of Midtown Manhattan. It will feature dozens of multilingual choruses singing simultaneously and thousands of blimps covering the sky so that the city will be enclosed in darkness…
ALW: And we will emerge victorious, at last.
GR: But remember, guys, for when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name…
ALW: Don’t throw me that fucking Gipper shit, Grant. We will march and be victorious. I spent the brunt of my life composing music for the masses…
TR: I collaborated…
ALW: …and I’ll be damned if this was all in vain. Peak! Win! Victory! I will rule New York again! And I will rule until they pull my cold dead fingers from around my scepter this time around…
TR: I’m actually feeling a little bit sleeply right now. Could you pass me a few of them there sedatives for me, please?
-duckwing, at 8:58 PM
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Amusing correspondence on WP's LiveOnline today with Gene Weingarten:
Greek To, ME: Gene --
I'm e-mailing this to you rather than Michael Wilbon or Tom Sietsema because, well, you're smarter, funnier and probably better looking.
The basketball games over the past week or so have provided notable entertainment. I enjoy watching so many games in a row because of the sky-high levels of competitive drive and linguistic gaffes.
Here's one for which I need a humor ruling:
In an exciting second-round game, a player who made a horrible play found redemption via a steal and a dunk just seconds later. The announcer said, "He went from goat to hero in a matter of less than a minute."
I thought this was funny because "hero" is often a pronunciation of the Americo-Greek taste treat made from lamb (or sometimes goat?) called a "gyro." Instead of meaning bad to good (as the announcer intended) his statement gave the opposite effect. That is, he went from being a live goat (probably enjoying just chewin' on some grass) directly to someone's (probably an overweight American) dinner table. Funny? Or too much a stretch?
Goat Boy
Gene Weingarten: Well, it's too much of a stretch, for sure. But you are one weird dude, and there is humor in that.
Full transcript at:
http://discuss.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/zforum/03/r_style_weingarten032503.htm
-duckwing, at 2:38 PM
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Working on a big weird post I'll probably put on here late tonight. Given that this has been up less than 24 hours, this is still very much a work in progress. I'm not familiar with html but I'll figure it out and put some links up here soon.
Any help, questions, comments, or scorn you can email to me at ducksanonymous@yahoo.com.
-duckwing, at 12:16 PM
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Perfect day to slack off work and just smoke some cigarettes outside in Wash DC today. I would recommend a walk out or at least taking a personal day to enjoy the first really fine day of Spring out here on the East Coast.
-duckwing, at 10:30 AM
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Bummer. Showing the interviews of the US POW's on ABC. Anger and resign are the two emotions that register on my plate right now. Obviously it's a violation of the Geneva Convention, but that's probably a little too abstract to get my goat right now. The tapes are an outrage. This had better end soon.
-duckwing, at 12:05 AM
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Monday, March 24, 2003
Okay. So the war on Iraq is obviously on everyone's minds. Confusing.
I personally think that every view on this issue, whether for or against the war, has become so completely muddled by argument that there isn't really much I could add to it without joining the fray adding to the confusion.
I did enjoy the Academy Awards last night, though. Washington Post's LiveOnline (copy and paste the url below to read the discussion, sorry...) lends some great analysis into who exactly was booing during Michael Moore's acceptance speech. It's almost a surreal kinda exposition. Here you have all these great Hollywood types either cheering or giving polite applause (or rattling their jewlery), and then these stage hands cupping their hands and booing out in the aisles.
I just hope that everyone in the country just takes a nice, long nap after this whole war is over. I think our country needs it.
Anyway, here's the link. Adieu.
http://discuss.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/zforum/03/sp_style_waxman032403.htm
-duckwing, at 10:53 PM
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Welcome to The Apple Coda. I'm Duckwing, and this is basically my place to vent, think, and basically just sort out any thoughts as they occur to me. I am completely out of practice writing whatever comes to me, although I think that once I get back into it I'l probably be pretty good at it. The title for this thing came to me pretty much out of nothing in particular, but if you're trying to read anthing into it, I guess "apple" could mean insight, and "coda" could mean an afterthought. So you could get "An Insight as an Afterthought." Which means I'll probably be writing these things pretty late at night. And there you go.
-duckwing, at 9:48 PM
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