Newscoma

I’ve been out and about today fighting shoppers for a Wii.

Hell. Hell, I tell you. There is none of these games in northwest Tennessee.

Conspiracy, I tell you.

So, it’s how it goes. The kids eat, so I guess that’s good so they can live without a Wii, but Homer will find one hell or highwater as she is a momma with a mission that I was sent on. Where is Santa when you need him? It’s not for me, as I really hate all games but football and baseball which saddens my family who are a bunch of game crazy fools.

Me, not so much.

As I got home this evening after a trip of no luck of finding a Wii in a new fangled thing that my family has decided to do a some sort of misguided sport of folly, I’ve watched Bear Grylls of Man Vs. Wild chop the head off of a snake, eat a goat testicle and skin a goat and drink the water off of a camel from it’s hide after he took the skin off it and crawl into it’s guts.

Whoa, I think it can be determined that Bear needs ratings as I saw him drink his own pee last year.

Now, he’s sleeping under the camel hide and peeing around the camel carcass to keep the jackels away. (But Bear informed me that camel meat is low in cholesterol so this might be the meat for me Umm, okay.)
Man, I just got home and this has been within five minutes.

Again, wow.

I miss Deadliest Catch. Seriously, I do.

A happy Friday indeed.

The Superficial makes me laugh.

Here’s a snippet of a post about Jessica Simpson’s appearance on a recent episode of The View.

I think Jessica Simpson should’ve been allowed to talk to the guests. You know, just to see her head explode when one of them tried to explain what a newspaper is. “So, what do you mean?” she’d ask. “You, what’s the word, read? You ‘read’ the words and it puts ‘facts’ in your head about what’s happening in, what was it, the world? I don’t feel so good.” KERPLOW! If that ever happens, I hope her breasts survive.

I make no apologies for guffawing.

Okay, I realize that sometimes I’m a bit melodramatic. I think I should have been hired as an extra on shows like “The Love Boat” or “Vegas” (that was Dan Tanna, right?)

How’s that for random?

I’ve been thinking about the Thanksgiving holiday. As much as a I adore Halloween, and I appreciate that we have a day that we are supposed to wake up and go “Wow, I’m thankful, by golly. I’m going to eat a big bird, watch football and avoid cranberry salad” it just doesn’t bowl me over like other holidays. As a kid, when you were supposed to make those pilgrim’s hats in kindergarten out of construction paper and something strange like a paper plate, I always felt melancholy.

Now, that’s a lie. I had no idea what melancholy meant at 5-years-old. My happiness level had to do with whether or not I got to play the cymbals during the music part of the day. Man, I loved the cymbals and hated playing the triangle. Now, that was just plain torture, playing that goofy triangle. I was a cymbals girl.

But, nonetheless I still hated that damn pilgrim hat. I would have much rather have made the boy pilgrim hat, but no, we were stuck with this atrocity.
The one thing I do like about Thanksgiving is that it kicks off the holidays and, if you can find your best chi, people tend to be more cheerful right after Turkey Day. As it gets closer to Christmas, I think people get more stressed although I have nothing to back that up other than 40 odd years on the planet.
So, as I tend to do, I looked up Thanksgiving Zombies. I didn’t really find anything (I do this to amuse me, remember that.) I’m still on the hunt. I think that would cheer me up immensely, although I’m actually already pretty cheery.
But I did find this one sentence in a story about gasoline (one I’m not 100 percent buying, incidentally) that said this:

The most significant change is that the Pentagon will open unused military airspace from Florida to Maine to create “a Thanksgiving express lane” for commercial airliners.

I don’t know why I find that unusual, but I did.

Here’s your arbitrary blog post of the week. From Dan Tanna to the Thanksgiving Express Lane in just few scant seconds.

Last night, I went to a photography exhibit at the local college to see a new friend’s photography work with SQ and Badger. I have to say, I was absolutely inspired.

My new friend, who we will call Robert as that is his name, has a day job running an after school program, which was the same one I read Dr. Suess to last week.

Now, why was it inspiring you might ask and I can say that the best way I can explain it is that I get bored and in routines that sometimes aren’t very exciting. You know how it is, you get up, you go to work, you stumble around in your day to day life and then you head home and order a pizza.

Yeah, I’m just as exciting as tofu.

But, with that said, Robert is one of those intense men who stirs things up within the people he meets. He recently returned to Hooterville after living a great portion of his life in Indianapolis teaching art. His parents are elderly and he decided to stay to be with them as there are a multitude of health problems and his dad suffered a stroke recently.

But, back to the exhibit, it was good. He took local shots of things I’ve seen my entire life (with a little Canon ultra-compact mind you) and I found myself looking at things in a new light. During the presentation, he had three kids and one matriarch of our community read small excerpts of poetry and writings. This took less than ten minutes, but all three of us just got misty-eyed. There was something buried in the small presentation, almost as if we were allowed to walk through a door and see things that were always there.

He had taken small little things that are in our world and made them special. The colors were vibrant, the pictures tight and focused. But there was more to it.It was a message of possibilities and hope, finding beauty within the cracks.

We dig our friend Robert.

Congressman John Tanner’s position on how he plans to deal with war made the Huffington Post yesterday:

It is already conventional wisdom that the “bridge fund” for the Iraq war passed Wednesday night in the House will be stopped by Republicans in the Senate. And for that reason, at least a few House Democrats say that their party should not pick another fight with the president over ending the war.

“Rep. Tanner had questions about the political viability of the bill because it may not be something that has the possibility of passing and making it all the way,” said Randy Ford, spokesman for Rep. John Tanner (D-TN), who voted against the bill. “He really wants to continue working on it in a bipartisan way, so the House can insert itself not as one party or another but to have an oversight role.”

Read the rest here.