More stumbling thru the tomato patch. Tripping over pumpkins. Wondering why if Xmas is THE day how come the Wicked Witch of Sins Past and Sins Imagined is able to step center stage when it's only the beginning of November.

I'm sure the Queen of Unease is comfortable that we are unsettled. If it were not for the pumpkin's smile I'd probably vote the 4th of July the most enjoyable time spent on the porch, being benigh, being grumpy, being neighborly.

 
 

God. I hate trying to re-learn every little tibbet whenever I become re-involved with the Net. "Hal, where are you"" I mean, shee...Hal was supposed to be on the scene by "2001" - at least according to Stanley Kubrick's version in 1968. 2001? "Hey, Stanley! We're talking about 2005!"

Anyway. Onward and up and out and inside down...here's more "pages" from my Notches. Mainly, as usual, talking about art. (That's what artists do. Talk about art. Some even produce.)

rivy

Good day, today. Got another load of interesting library books. One on 9/11 personal memories, one on Mayor Koch and NYC in the 70's and 80's. And "The Poetry Home Repair Manual" by Poet Laureate Ted Kooser. I get from the intro he's my age. 60's. It looks interesting. Oh, and a video tape on New York histroy from end of WW2 to end of Century.

I'm having this love affair with New York City. I visited there one time only, in 1999 - and wow!- People say they like to visit NYC but have no desire to live there. I do. I don't know how long I'd like it. How long before I turned back to the Ozarks, but I'd certainly like to find out.

Onward with the masses.

Tuesday. Signed up with MSN penpal or something and 've been bam-blasted with one pop-up ad after another. It ticks that my computer is not mine. I paid for it. Yet Corporate American aggressively intudes into my time and space when I go on-line. Not fair, folks. Not fair. I don't care who's counting the beans.

Anyway...today. A post. Thanks, Muse.

Getting re-started. Regaining traction. I long ago gave myself 3 rules for filling a sketchbook/journal. 1. Put anything down. 2. Don't tear any page out. 3. Continue until the book is filled. It worked. A long, long time. 20 volumes (my Notches) are now filed with the University's special collections. And hopefully will be around for a time. So...telling myself to apply the same thing here. Log in and write something. Show something. Just blog. So...there it is and 'ere 'tis.

God, a whole month without anything. It's tough enough being a "pro" at crastination, but putting it on display for others does spike it up a notch. Ah, wail....

Anyway, here's a copy of my letter just posted to Congress via MoveOn.Org. About ethics. About rules. Tongue well in cheek.

I think advice and consent from Congress should come from the party in power, i.e., the GOP. Losers are losers and in Congress they should be treated as such. If additional advice/consent is needed outside the Republican ranks, it should come from True Christian Believers, not those Donkeys on the other side of the aisle.

As far as ethics in the House goes (which is not that far), Republicans are NOT to be held to the same standards as Democrats. If there are NO perks to power, then why seek it?

Republicans seem to understand this. So should the public at large.

Ralph Ivy

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