I was doing the dishes tonight after a delicious dinner of halibut in white wine and leeks... the kitchen's not big, you can pretty much stand in one spot and get the job done: I was scraping off and rinsing plates and glasses and loading the dishwasher and wondering if that soy chocolate milk I spilled in dots and rivulets all over my favorite orange blouse and tan gaucho pants had come out in the wash. I love chocolate milk but don't drink too much cholesterol these days, so when I saw SOY CHOCOLATE MILK at the store today, I bought a carton, opened it and started drinking it in the check out line, drank more on the way to Santa Monica Seafood, still more on the way home, and you know that last few drops, when you tip your head waaay back? Ya, all over the blouse and pants. (it was worth it)
The weather's about the same as it's been, slightly cool and refreshing, but getting cool enough to where I had to pull the sliding glass doors onto the patio shut hoping Mr. Z, who likes it cooler than I, wouldn't mind too much. Just another night at the Z household, what's different tonight, I asked myself?
I'm moving, that's what. I'm doing the dishes and doing a modified rendition of The Big Chill's dishwashing scene...."I Heard it Through the Grapevine not much longer will she be mine..baby........" No plates are tambourining my thigh (I gave up the tambourining after I left the rock band I played keyboard and sang and did percussion for in college....it was hot pants days and I'd have bruises up and down my 5'9" thighs after some rousing Credence Clearwater number), but I'm groovin'. I'd write 'grooving', but it would be like Florence Henderson singing In A Gada Da Vida. So, what's funny tonight about moving, I asked myself? I like to dance, I like music.......
That was it. It was MUSIC on the radio. No talk radio. No Hugh Hewitt, no Dennis Miller, no Al Rantel. NO talk. No politics, no gnashing my teeth upon hearing yet another way the Left is harming our country, no Obama stories, no Code Pink nut being interviewed singing "Get out of Iraq" to the tune of "Unchain My Heart"... MUSIC. It felt good. I felt light, I felt free.
How much is this talk radio and politics hurting us? It's better to feel light and free, isn't it? Shouldn't we stop watching so much TV news, so much talk radio? Yes~! We must! MUSIC IS GOOD!!
Except I can't stop. Can you?
and the chocolate did come out. And no, I am not a Florence Henderson fan, but I do love the Big Chill soundtrack, it's the soundtrack of great times in my life. And I DO love Mr Marvin Gaye. and no, that is not me.
21 comments:
Music is good. Leftists should make more of it, and stay the hell away from politics.
There's just no way to make tax increases, activist judiciaries, and negotiating with terrorists "rock."
Just your thighs are 5'9"? YOU MUST BE THE TALLEST WOMAN I'VE EVER ENCOUNTERED!!! How big is Mr. Z? Is your entire family this gigantic or is it just you? Do you prefer giantess or...........................
frank family...it's poetic license...don't you EVER read Farmer's blog? :0)
Seriously, I am all of 5'9"...and do have long legs. Anyway, in hot pants they looked real long! (do you remember them?) probably not. If not, do NOT tell me!!
Beamish; I'm still trying to remember a night of rappers at the Inauguration Balls. I shudder.
Florence,
Let's get it on....I have a friend who was so wound tight over politics etc....just got an email from him and he has quit blogging and listening to the news and his mood, his relationships have all improved
there's a lot to be said for shutting the world out once in awhile if not for good and enjoying life with some good music and some (ewwww) soy chocolate milk
now get down and boogie
Hi All,
Well, Z, I remember hot pants. I loved 'em. I'm 5'2", and they did make me feel taller. That more leg look worked for me. For you younger folks, hot pants were verrry short.
And Beamish, I'm a political junkie, but if leftists stayed away from politics, I'd be open to an intervention!
Pris
Pris,
I've always been a political junkie, of the libertarian / conservative slant. I was all of 22 years old when Bill Clinton was elected President, really "too young" to become cynical and jaded about politics, and yet I became so within 4 years of Clinton, and remain so to this day.
Although there has never in American history been a rationally defensible reason for voting for a Democrat for any office and likely there never will be, as I get older, reasons to vote Republican are getting more hard to come by.
It's like a choice between Turd and Diet Turd.
Z,
An inauguration ball with rap music wouldn't be insufferable, but I like the boomin' bass.
My own inauguration, should the Democrats allow the 6.5 trillion absentee ballots I have filed for myself count, will feature a techno dance rave and nuclear strikes on Mecca at midnight.
Nietzsche, WtP 1067
...--do you want a name for this world? A solution for all its riddles? A light for you, too, you best-concealed, strongest, most intrepid, most midnightly men?-- This world is the will to power--and nothing besides! And you yourselves are also this will to power--and nothing besides!
i've been feeling 'ZACTLY like this for the past few days!
my hotpants go just past my knees these dayz...hehehe...
i'm getting out of the house today and go walking with a couple of my neighbor lady acquaintances - and need to get a new seatcover for the bicycle one of the neighbors gave us lest i have nut and bolt dimples embedded in my tush!
Go Z! I can just see you gettin' your groove on in the kitchen. There's no better place for music, in my opinion.
Hot pants? Are we talkin' daisy dukes or petal pushers? hee hee! I'm so not a fasionista!
I do take a break from the talk radio here and there, but after about two days I feel out of touch and I need my 'daily radio addiction'. But all things in moderation...I suppose.
You rock, Z!
I'm looking forward to beamish's party!!!
beamish, it beats fireworks over the Potomac hands down!! I'm still laughing! I don't hate rap music, I just hate the tone it would set to have quite THAT "cool" a president of the United States.
You know, for ME, it's bad enough realizing most policemen are younger than I am. (well, not MOST, maybe...!!)
FJ: right
nanc; you listen much to talk radio? Are you addicted like I am? I honestly wonder if it hurts our health... the stress of the constant harangue...AND, I watch CNN and MSNBC, too ("self mutilation" is what Mr. Z refers to that as!), so I'm tense by the end of the day. GOT to stop that.
Pinky...I don't know if I "ROCK" but I was on a real "ROLL!"
ALL OF YOU!: TELL me, am I the only nut who listens to SO much news? And could YOU go 2 full days with NO news? AND, do you think it would be better for us?
Frank Family? You can say THAT again!!!
I, too, am a political junkie at times. I only follow closely during elections though. In between the elections I ignore most of the political "news." One of the greatest times for my soul is when I set out into the woods to hunt. Hunting is exhilerating but it is far more calming. Even if you don't hunt just get out into the woods and sit still for a little while and just watch as all the little creatures come back out and the trees do their dance and the birds sing and play. You can learn libraries full of information from just watching the dance that creaton miraculously puts on every day.
You are cracking me up today! I had the visual of you gettin' down while doing the dishes! So fun. I clearly remember hot pants and CCR and Zepplin, etc. Ah, youth.
I had to turn off all talk radio except for Bill Bennett and Michael Medved a while ago when everyone was having a meltdown over the McCain nomination. I couldn't take it, which is saying something as I am a huge news/politics junkie geek.
I have on news all day when I'm here so I know what's going on. Once my mother in law was visiting for a few days and she finally said, "my God, don't you ever watch anything else?!!" Non-addicts just don't understand.
Why do you feel so compelled to keep abreast of the news, z?
Plato, "Republic" (on Justice)
And will you have a work better done when the workman has many occupations, or when he has only one?
When he has only one.
Further, there can be no doubt that a work is spoilt when not done at the right time?
No doubt.
For business is not disposed to wait until the doer of the business is at leisure; but the doer must follow up what he is doing, and make the business his first object.
He must.
And if so, we must infer that all things are produced more plentifully and easily and of a better quality when one man does one thing which is natural to him and does it at the right time, and leaves other things.
Undoubtedly.
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How many occupations do you have, z?
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Plato "Charmides" (On Temperance)
...a temperate state will be a well-ordered state.
Of course, he replied.
Then temperance, I said, will not be doing one's own business; not at least in this way, or doing things of this sort?
Clearly not.
Then, as I was just now saying, he who declared that temperance is a man doing his own business had another and a hidden meaning; for I do not think that he could have been such a fool as to mean this. Was he a fool who told you, Charmides?
Nay, he replied, I certainly thought him a very wise man.
Then I am quite certain that he put forth his definition as a riddle, thinking that no one would know the meaning of the words 'doing his own business.'
I dare say, he replied.
And what is the meaning of a man doing his own business? Can you tell me?
Indeed, I cannot; and I should not wonder if the man himself who used this phrase did not understand what he was saying. Whereupon he laughed slyly, and looked at Critias.
Hi, Z,
As we have long known, you and I are both good cooks and kitchen lovers (small is better than large, believe me; standing in place to perform all necessary culinary functions is Kitchen Heaven–––who wants to cook on a granite-topped football field?).
I'm sure Mr. Z will forgive you anything as long as you continue to prepare distinguished home-cooked meals.
Please don't be shocked, but I prefer to wear as little as possible when cooking, since I am always hot under the collar, as it were. At a friend's suggestion I once considered doing a TV Food Show called The Naked Chef, until I got a good look in the mirror, and decided against it. (:-o
In my last private email to you In confessed to being burned out, bummed out and freaked out by the "Great Issues of Our Time." As Michael Savage said a couple of nights ago, "How much baloney can a person be expected to take?" Only I knew he wasn't really thinking "baloney" when he asked the question.
Carrying on as we political junkies do day after day after day–––ragging on about the same old, uh, "baloney"–––however eloquently–––induces dyspepsia and migraine after a while, and could lead to the kind of thoughts so well expressed by Macbeth after learning of his Lady's suicide: [". . . Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player who struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury signifying nothing."]
When things get that bad, some comic relief–––and a change of pace–––is definitely in order.
I feel something halfway between sympathy and mirth at your story of The Orange Blouse v. The Chocolate Soy Milk. I'm glad the stain came out, but perhaps this episode was a gentle reminder from Above that gluttony is one of the Seven Deadly Sins. ;-)
~ Freethinke
PS: You have not heard from me via email, because I've been unable to SEND anything for the past few days. Tech probs AGAIN–––this time from MY access-provider. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! FT
SAM, thanks for your message. Je ne peu pas vous aidez avec ca...malheuresment. J'ai aucun idee de les sciences, etc!! Comment peu me vous aidez, s'il vous plait?? Et, je suis a Los Angeles maintenant, pas Paris, malheuresment (encore!)
mai mes felicitations regardant votre nouvelle!!
FT: I finally give in and have something healthy AND delicious and you're calling me a glutton? Hey, hey..!!
And, the name THE NAKED CHEF is actually taken now by a British chef called Jamie Oliver, very young, very hip and a VERY good cook!
You can wear as little as you like cooking (altho I must admit I find it a little unsavory!? chacun a son gout, non?), just don't use those plates against your naked thighs when you're tambourining through a chorus of "Bad Moon Rising!" ...TRUST me!!
BEYOND BIZARRE to the TWILIGHT ZONE and OUTER LIMITS
Read the following, and you will find that Mr. LeStrange is very aptly named–––STOOPID too, if you ask me.
~ FreeThinke
http://www.thetimes-tribune.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19505543&BRD=2185&PAG=461&dept_id=614635&rfi=8
Obama's eBay Waffle Bid Tops $20,000; Owner Stops Auction
4/22/2008
John Oakes, of Chinchilla, said the negative calls diner owner Charles LeStrange received wasn't worth the publicity and money that could be possibly raised. Even though it had reached $20,100 in a day.
"It had nothing to do with him (Mr. LeStrange), but everyone was blaming him. So we took it down," said Mr. Oakes.
Mr. LeStrange gave Mr. Obama's leftover waffles and sausage, along with a plate and silverware to Mr. Oakes, whom he called a loyal customer.
Mr. Oakes, who supports Sen. Hillary Clinton for president, put the waffles up and said the money raised from the sale of Mr. Obama's breakfast would "go to Hillary for President!!!! Haha."
"We put it up there because we figured people are nuts and they might go crazy with it. And guess what? They did," Mr. Oakes said.
But he said the funds would not have gone just to Mrs. Clinton's campaign.
The auction money would have been donated to either the Democratic Party or be split between both the Clinton and Obama campaigns.
The auction was put up Monday afternoon and had solicited 36 bids by 2:45 p.m. today, the highest at $20,100. It was taken down about 15 minutes later.
Mr. Oakes said he isn't sure what he will do with the leftovers now.
Earlier today we reported:
An auction on Sen. Barack Obama's leftovers from the Glider Diner at first had the diner owner waffling over the negative attention it might receive.
But now, after seeing the eBay auction has garnered at least a high bid of $10,100 in just a day, owner Charles LeStrange is willing to let the bidding war continue.
Mr. LeStrange gave Mr. Obama's leftover waffles and sausage, along with a plate and silverware, to a loyal customer of the diner: John Oakes of Chinchilla. What was meant to be a joke, turned out to be a serious affair.
Mr. Oakes, who supports Sen. Hillary Clinton for president, put the waffles up and said the money raised from the sale of Mr. Obama's breakfast would "go to Hillary for President!!!! Haha."
When the Glider Diner began receiving negative calls, Mr. LeStrange asked Mr. Oakes to take the food auction down from the sales Web site. But then CNN and other media began calling.
"Now we decided to let things go," Mr. Oakes said. "We put it up there because we figured people are nuts and they might go crazy with it. And guess what? They did."
But he said the funds will not go to just Mrs. Clinton's campaign. The auction money will be donated to either the Democratic Party or be split between both the Clinton and Obama campaigns.
The auction was put up Monday afternoon and had solicited 31 bids by 2 p.m. today, the highest at $10,100.
Mr. Oakes said the leftovers were wrapped immediately after Mr. Obama had finished with his meal and put in a freezer.
Mr. LeStrange said he was concerned about the auction without getting Mr. Obama's permission first.
Mr. Obama has been known to get into arguments with people looking for autographs and campaign memorabilia to sell online.
Mr. Obama's campaign did not immediately return a call on the leftovers.
"I didn't want to put it up to generate money," Mr. LeStrange said.
"I just thought it might get us a little publicity."
[Contact the writer: cschillinger@timesshamrock.com]
I cant clean without music Z!..really!..lol
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