goofballs

I apologize, in advance, for our idiot President and his cabal of right-wing neo-conservative advisers will be bombing the shit out of you for no reason in the next coming days or weeks. Please let me know if there is anything I can do to help. As you know, I have written my congresswoman and urged her to reconsider impeaching the president and vice president.

I spin and spin between the towers until I am dizzy, and only then do I look up, and the towers collapse in on me . My father famously said that he will forever regret not having photographed these buildings on 9/9/2001 because it was "nothing special." But to Speed Levitch of NY, NY, the towers were a place of worship and he a whirling Derbish. Find pleasure in a cloud or a leaf today, and have a great weekend!

Help us to end Autism -Ronnie James Dio. Having the genius behind Rainbow in the Dark pitch an autism charity is sheer genius. Speaking of autism, have you all seen the reality show where a cross between Jack White and Willy Wonka and his two homo-ambiguous "wingmen" help teach a band of guys with Asperger's how to pick up unsuspecting women? I am talking of course about "The Pick Up Artist" . Personally, I think that teaching the socially awkward about guyliner and highlights is yet more proof of a hidden gay agenda (do you know what the queers are doing to the soil?). OTOH the 1980s is proof that men wearing make-up and glitter get more ass than anyone. I mean, we are talking about an era where Joan Jett looked more manly than the average all-guy hair band (and that I still want to have sex with her, well, what does that say about me?). That said, I am still have reservations about peacocking-up nerds. I also have reservations about teaching nerds to ...

That is why the complete lack of urgency on the part of Congressional Democrats -- their aiding and abetting of this P.R. campaign about how much military progress we are making in Iraq and how Iraqi forces are improving and how we need more time -- is so dangerous, so alarming. The tragedy we have unleashed in Iraq is a fait accompli. ..And the inevitable invasion of Iran is practically a fait accompli if Congress will not strip Dick Cheney and George W. Bush of all of their powers. This cannot happen. Moreover, it is my opinion that an invasion of Iran, in addition to being a disaster for the United States, would be a catastrophe for Israel; and the entire world.

This is, like many things on this blog, a glancing overview. I think that one of the best pieces of Americana, one of the most influential and greatest works reflecting the then more than 100 years old Union (after having endured its Civil War) was authored by a Czech composer by the name of Antonín Leopold Dvořák. Let's just call him "Tony D" for the sake of saving my keyboard and/or clipboard from those funny Czech characters. Tony D was the Director of the National Conservatory of Music in New York City from 1892 to 1895 through a set of circumstances too varied to cover just now; but during his tenure he made an astounding amount of money ($15,000 per year in 1892 compared to my starting salary at a San Francisco start-up of $42,000 or so in 1996, nevermind what my father made at a Cleveland law firm between 1969 and 1975 when he made partner, the year I was born). Was Antonin Dvorak worth that much? The debate during his tenure finally compelled him to leave Conserv...

Bill O'Reilly has been spouting off recently that the Daily Kos website is a "hate speech" site, just like the KKK. The KKK, of course, is an organization that does not like blacks, jews, catholics, gays, or just about anyone who isn't an inbred cracker. Cracker. Its like saying "nigger" but for white people. And I think "cracker" is a good way of describing a white person who still, in the 21st century, believes in eugenics and the young Earth. Bill O'Reilly is a rich cracker with a TV show, but he is a cracker none the less. He may himself be a Catholic, but for their purposes he would find many a friendly ally in the ranks of the Ku Klux Klan. Here is an article in Esquire about a little museum some crackers built in Kentucky, a state I can only forgive its continued existence because it keeps the Jim Beam coming. James Dobson, a prominent conservative Christian spokesman, compares the Supreme Court to the Ku Klux Klan. Pat Robertson, anot...

Soon, we at goofballs will be talking about music. And by music I mean, "Real" "Music", and by "real music" I mean largely Germanic composers of the 18th and 19th centuries. Why am I so racistly choosing those composers? Because I'm half German, that's why. And if you don't like it, then fuck you. Seriously though, I will have at least on Czech composer (Dvorak, duh), in the mix for this first series. But, there is no doubt that I will branch out into the SVS (Second Viennese School), and a large number of French Romantic, Post-Romantic, and Impressionistic composers. Maybe I'll compare Pink Floyd to 19th Century music. Who knows? I'm CRAZY LIKE THAT ..