10/02/2009
Killing two blog entries with one automatic weapon
Pre-Halloween, autumn, tuba blog and we have nothing to fear except fear itself but let's act like a buch scared, out of their mind Lemmings anyway,
I have the unmistakable smell of Ginko Balls on my shoes. It's unmistakable only if you don't have dogs that shit in your yard. Ginko smell = dogshit. I once wrote about our Ginko tree in a poem.
Ode to a Ginko
When Ginkoo balls fall
and that fragrance fills the air
Aromatic Autumn
You smell like old underware
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I just returned from the secondhand store where, wonder upon wonders, they have a beautiful Yamaha Tuba with case. As soon as I sat down I googled it. They have quite a few listed on ebay the most expensive is almost $2500.00 and it isn't as pristine as the one on the shelf above the worn out shoes.
If I remember correctly I bought an accordion on the same premise; that it was worth a whole lot more that I could buy it for. With the accordion I was wrong, I'd have been lucky just to make my money back, let alone turn a profit. So now there's an accordion tucked away in the bowels of my comfy overstuffed basement. I hope some day some offspring's offspring finds it and thinks I knew how to play it.
I did buy a Pharaoh's head gear though, quite becoming on me I think. They also had a Jonny Depp pirate hat that was also quite lovely. It seemed to be woollen or thick felt (is there a difference?) and who wouldn't want that? I may have hit the Halloween mother load, so many colorful head pieces ... Too bad I have only one head.
So I danced and sang King Tut by Steve Martin for a while and then started to feel puny again. This infection in my foot has me in a dithering malaise.
For the ones that read yesterday's, Make a wish Foundation blog and just didn't think it was funny, like my wife who thought it was alarming. I had just watched a Bruce Willis, Die hard, Kill Harder and eat you victims flesh movie and I felt a little jealous that he can shoot down at least 4 helicopters per movie and I have yet to bring down a single one.
So, as Hamlet said, Tu-ba or not Tu-ba, that is the question. Omp Pa Pa, Omp Pa Pa Omp Pa pa.
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Because, you, dear reader, deserve only the best, and I wish I could give it to you, I thought I'd include a partial blog entry that I was meandering with. I once again attempted to meld scientific principles metaphorically with our current state of affairs. The funny part is, everyone knows what's wrong we just can't sit down and decide how to fix it. So my metaphor involved smacking something, I'm not sure what, with a metaphorical hammer and rebuilding the whole kit and kaboodle. Or maybe I was just showing off ...
Theoretic magnetic regions are randomly distributed within an iron bar, each having their own north and south poles. Strike the iron bar with a sharp blow from a hammer and the theoretical magnetic regions align. You now have a multitude of norths and corresponding souths magnifying the strength of the magnetic field. The bar has become magnetically polarized. Cut the bar in half and you have two bar magnets, cuts those halves in half and you have four bar magnets, You never lose a pole. When one is present the other is present.You could bend the bar magnet so that the two poles touch and thereby cancel one another out. You could demagnetise the bar with a second sharp blow or you could heat it, Heating the bar magnet permits the magnetic regions to lose their allegiance to one another and go back to random distribution. No one is sure why any of this works the way but it does and current theories explain it rather well. However, a theory is never proof. A theory is an explanation for certain phenomena based on observation, tests, laws and facts. A theory is a weighty thing. It is not a crack pot idea as certain sects would have us believe.Numerous sharp blows have polarized factions across the country: the birthers, the death panelists, the preemptive war crowd, the gun slingers, the laissez-faire capitalists, the demagogues and the woefully ill informed Fox viewers.The blow; was it Watergate? Reagan? A Bush under every rock? Vietnam? Or was it that most damaging sharp blow in recent history, 9-11? Whatever it was, or is, these things are the primary factors in our zeitgeist.Some, simply need to shake the stupidity that holds them in place and almost everyone thinks that by resisting change, change will never come, They're wrong, the change is here and it reflects our efforts to deny it. Rather that a natural outflow of our justice and good will, the change is as twisted as it is convoluted, trying to jam itself into the space allotted for it.Strike the bar and allow the magnetic regions to become random again. They will eventually align themselves, but maybe, this time, rather that point to war and hate, a new way will appear. Or, are we too steeped in fear to even take the chance?
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That's a damned fine hat.
Posted by: Sue | 10/04/2009
Reminds me of a Jethro Tull concert we once went to
Posted by: Mike G. | 10/06/2009
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