Eastbound and Down (no camp stuff)
Why this didn't get the media attention it deserved, I just don't know. Jerry Reed died last weekend. He was one of my heroes. What college road trip did I go on that DIDN'T begin with "Eastbound and Down" blaring from the speakers? I miss Jerry. I'm going to come up with my own "We miss you Jerry!" bumper stickers and confuse the hippies. When I get home I'm going to put on my "Smokey and the Bandit" t-shirt, cowboy boots and aviator sunglasses and blow stuff up in the woods while "Amos Moses" plays on 8-track. YEAH!! If you want to learn more about Jerry Reed, call me and I'll bore you to tears with trivia. Did you know he once told Elvis he couldn't record a guitar track for him because he was busy fishing? I know much, much more......
Is anyone posting on politics these days? Well, here's about 1% of my opinion:
Sarah Palin was supposed to fire up women voters. She succeeded. After her acceptance speech several women I know made donations to the Obama/Biden ticket. That's not a joke. Why is she on stage under those lights at that late hour with a four month old?! Regardless of any special needs, that's not cool. Is she breast-feeding? This isn't a political thing to me, this is a parenting thing. Yeah, you go back to work but campaigning with a four-month old in tow is unbelievable. Please get the baby back to Alaska with some Infamil and some loving relatives. I guess that makes me sexist for criticizing the politicization of her baby. Oh well...
I read "Faith of My Fathers" some time ago and really respect McCain's service. I wish McCain v.2000 was running. McCain v.2008 reminds me of Bob Dole in 1996: vote for me because this is it for me. That's not much of a pitch. He should have hit back harder in South Carolina when he let Bush's campaign slime him in 2000. I think McCain can still win but being the change candidate when your party has had the White House for 8 years doesn't pass the sniff test...even if you are the maverick.
Morning Joe on MSNBC (best way to start the day, by the way) broadcast all week from Key's Cafe in St. Paul. I miss St. Paul but the St. Clair Broiler has a better breakfast. Anyways, I miss the Twin Cities. I don't miss mentally preparing for the coming winter. But this is a nice time to be up there. I miss the neighborhoods with sidewalks and parks where middle-class families can still afford to live in the cities with good schools and low crime rates. Too bad we can't seem to figure out how to do that consistently down here.
As for the rest of MSNBC's line up? It's just bizarro world's Fox News, which I don't particularly need. Watch Morning Joe, go to work, then flip around until the Daily Show for your political fix. That's my advice. Keith Olbermann is going to bring the network down soon. He's out of control. Watch for it.
As others have pointed out, the "tin foil hat" types love to disrupt events like these conventions. And the Twin Cities are full of these folks. All the weirdos who can't make it to Chicago come from the small towns in the Dakotas, Iowa and northern Minnesota to be nut jobs together. The good news is it makes life more interesting on a day-to-day basis. The bad news is they make everyone groan when they take their shenanigans outside the socialist bookstore (which is on 19th Ave, across the street from the Carlson School of Management). While I was up there, I went to a Michael Moore rally leading up to the 2004 election. Moore was OK but the folks who showed up? Whoa. Like an exact inverse of the infield at Talladega. If your average good ol' boy is embarrassed by frenzied rednecks throwing empties at Jeff Gordon, then that's how most Minnesotans probably viewed folks at that Moore rally, or at the Republican convention.
Everyone should have the experience of going from the most liberal in the room to the most conservative in the room or vice versa. It's good for a healthy sense of self to take the role of the other once in a while. Just don't call out a full professor of economics the first semester in front of all of your classmates...trust me on this one.
This is more pointed in tone than I usually like to post on my live journal. Yet still very bland compared to what I'll tell you over a cup of coffee...as long as you're buying.
ROLL TIDE!! GO AMERICA!! BEAT RUSSIA!!
WOLVERINEZ!!
Is anyone posting on politics these days? Well, here's about 1% of my opinion:
Sarah Palin was supposed to fire up women voters. She succeeded. After her acceptance speech several women I know made donations to the Obama/Biden ticket. That's not a joke. Why is she on stage under those lights at that late hour with a four month old?! Regardless of any special needs, that's not cool. Is she breast-feeding? This isn't a political thing to me, this is a parenting thing. Yeah, you go back to work but campaigning with a four-month old in tow is unbelievable. Please get the baby back to Alaska with some Infamil and some loving relatives. I guess that makes me sexist for criticizing the politicization of her baby. Oh well...
I read "Faith of My Fathers" some time ago and really respect McCain's service. I wish McCain v.2000 was running. McCain v.2008 reminds me of Bob Dole in 1996: vote for me because this is it for me. That's not much of a pitch. He should have hit back harder in South Carolina when he let Bush's campaign slime him in 2000. I think McCain can still win but being the change candidate when your party has had the White House for 8 years doesn't pass the sniff test...even if you are the maverick.
Morning Joe on MSNBC (best way to start the day, by the way) broadcast all week from Key's Cafe in St. Paul. I miss St. Paul but the St. Clair Broiler has a better breakfast. Anyways, I miss the Twin Cities. I don't miss mentally preparing for the coming winter. But this is a nice time to be up there. I miss the neighborhoods with sidewalks and parks where middle-class families can still afford to live in the cities with good schools and low crime rates. Too bad we can't seem to figure out how to do that consistently down here.
As for the rest of MSNBC's line up? It's just bizarro world's Fox News, which I don't particularly need. Watch Morning Joe, go to work, then flip around until the Daily Show for your political fix. That's my advice. Keith Olbermann is going to bring the network down soon. He's out of control. Watch for it.
As others have pointed out, the "tin foil hat" types love to disrupt events like these conventions. And the Twin Cities are full of these folks. All the weirdos who can't make it to Chicago come from the small towns in the Dakotas, Iowa and northern Minnesota to be nut jobs together. The good news is it makes life more interesting on a day-to-day basis. The bad news is they make everyone groan when they take their shenanigans outside the socialist bookstore (which is on 19th Ave, across the street from the Carlson School of Management). While I was up there, I went to a Michael Moore rally leading up to the 2004 election. Moore was OK but the folks who showed up? Whoa. Like an exact inverse of the infield at Talladega. If your average good ol' boy is embarrassed by frenzied rednecks throwing empties at Jeff Gordon, then that's how most Minnesotans probably viewed folks at that Moore rally, or at the Republican convention.
Everyone should have the experience of going from the most liberal in the room to the most conservative in the room or vice versa. It's good for a healthy sense of self to take the role of the other once in a while. Just don't call out a full professor of economics the first semester in front of all of your classmates...trust me on this one.
This is more pointed in tone than I usually like to post on my live journal. Yet still very bland compared to what I'll tell you over a cup of coffee...as long as you're buying.
ROLL TIDE!! GO AMERICA!! BEAT RUSSIA!!
WOLVERINEZ!!