Don't let the New Year's Door hit you in the ass on your way out, you G-d awful year! OK, perhaps in the grand scheme of my life 2008 will simply be a year of major change and it even could and probably will be for the best, but it was still a hell of a year to endure and I am not the least bit sad to see it go. Ironically,
for all the Hell 2008 brought, I am strangely optimistic for 2009. I can't wait til tomorrow so we can get this rockin' year started!
Happy New Year to All Wayward Lemmings! I am honored to have you spend time here.
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Just Incase...
I want to wish every Wayward Lemming out there a very Merry and a very Happy to you and yours and to those that don't belong to you just incase I get busy, or lazy...probably lazy, and don't update before Christmas.
Friday, December 19, 2008
Another Friday?
Where oh where are my weeks going to? I planned on blogging this week, but here we are at yet another Friday and I have not posted word one since last Friday. 'Tis the season to not be blogging or what? Perhaps Motorcycle Jacket's post yesterday congratulating me on my upcoming nuptials scared the blog right out of me or something.
For the record, no, the Kanrei has not lost his mind and decided to take a vow of whatever marriage is. I assure you that I am quite happy and nowhere near suicidal at this moment, but if I ever did decide to severely alter the quality of my life, you would be the first to know.
We have the office Holiday party today in about 3 hours, so have a great weekend to you all and to all...um, a great weekend...
For the record, no, the Kanrei has not lost his mind and decided to take a vow of whatever marriage is. I assure you that I am quite happy and nowhere near suicidal at this moment, but if I ever did decide to severely alter the quality of my life, you would be the first to know. We have the office Holiday party today in about 3 hours, so have a great weekend to you all and to all...um, a great weekend...
Friday, December 12, 2008
Happy Friday
I have a wedding to goto today, so no major update, just a "have a great weekend" to you all.
Oh, and Jennifer Aniston, if you want your privacy you should consider not posing nude on magazine covers in the future. Also, how many interviews are you going to give about how you don't want to give interviews?
Oh, and Jennifer Aniston, if you want your privacy you should consider not posing nude on magazine covers in the future. Also, how many interviews are you going to give about how you don't want to give interviews?
Friday, December 05, 2008
Happy Friday
Since I really want you to read the rejected post and let me know where exactly I failed (the only way I can learn), I am not going to post anything for It' Friday except the link to the rejected post. Please let me know and have a happy weekend.
THE REJECTED POST
THE REJECTED POST
Thursday, December 04, 2008
The Rejected Lost Post
After 72 hours in edit-Hell, I have withdrawn this piece after they rejected one time already. I admit it is not my best work, but I don't think it was all that bad.
To: the Children of Tomorrow
From: a Child of Yesterday
Subject: the Confusing Events of Today
Let me start by saying this up front: I’m sorry. We really did not think this all the way through and we obviously did not learn from the mistakes of our past, so I feel that some member of this generation should apologize and make amend. I am willing to take the hit and say once again that I am sorry. Learning history and keeping names and dates straight is hard enough without our complicating it further. The last fifteen years or so almost appears like we have gone out of our way to make it difficult for you, but I swear it just is how things worked out. I can only offer you this as a sort of study guide to help you steer through the confusing mess we've left in your history books.
1. Barack Hussein Obama and Saddam Hussein are not related. I realize Hussein is not all that common of a name in our history prior to 1991, but it really is coincidence and they are not related in any way, shape, or form despite what opinion pieces you make have unearthed during some archeological expedition.
2. Obama and Osama are not the same person. Osama is the one with the Mel Gibson beard and the bad kidneys who we can't find while Obama is the guy who has not been sworn in as President just yet, but is seen more often than the current President is and listened to more.
3. George H. W. Bush went to war with Saddam Hussein in 1991 to liberate Kuwait while George W. Bush went to war with Saddam Hussein in 2003 to…well, we're not totally sure. Amazing what a difference a letter makes. Also, unlike the previous Obama Hussien/Saddam/ Osama confusion, these Bushes are actually related.
4. Bill Clinton served two terms (1992, 1996) as President and it was Hillary Clinton who was in the Senate and ran for President in 2008. Bill was instead eager to get back to the White House Interns.
5. Hillary, not Bill, was selected as Secretary of State for Obama's, not Osama's cabinet. Osama's cabinet is not that large and most of the space is taken up by his portable nuclear powered dialysis machine and his copy of "How Not to Be Seen" by Monty Python.*
*Bill Clinton, the former President, will probably take over Hillary's Senate seat, so references to Senator Clinton from New York probably will be as confusing to you as which Bush waged war on Iraq when. Neither Clinton however should be confused with Governor DeWitt Clinton of New York who built the Erie Canal or George Clinton of the Parliament Funkadelic who filled the 70's with funk and brought us Bootsy Collins, who then helped us learn about Dee-Lite and showed us that the groove was in the heart all along.
I really had though that the confusion we underwent trying to keep Teddy Roosevelt straight from Franklin Roosevelt and remembering which Kennedy was President, which was Attorney General, and which was a drunk with a problem crossing bridges, would have kept us from further political dynasties, but it didn’t. Instead we used initials to keep them straight, such as FDR and JFK, and they slowly got lost in the alphabet soup that is our government (DEA, FBI, CIA, CDC,etc) so much so that we really don't know which is a former President, which is a government agency, and which is the international airport our flight is leaving from.
I beg you to learn from our mistakes and please try to keep some variety in the names of your leaders so that future generations can keep their history straight and perhaps actually learn from it instead of repeating it over and over again.
To: the Children of Tomorrow
From: a Child of Yesterday
Subject: the Confusing Events of Today
Let me start by saying this up front: I’m sorry. We really did not think this all the way through and we obviously did not learn from the mistakes of our past, so I feel that some member of this generation should apologize and make amend. I am willing to take the hit and say once again that I am sorry. Learning history and keeping names and dates straight is hard enough without our complicating it further. The last fifteen years or so almost appears like we have gone out of our way to make it difficult for you, but I swear it just is how things worked out. I can only offer you this as a sort of study guide to help you steer through the confusing mess we've left in your history books.
1. Barack Hussein Obama and Saddam Hussein are not related. I realize Hussein is not all that common of a name in our history prior to 1991, but it really is coincidence and they are not related in any way, shape, or form despite what opinion pieces you make have unearthed during some archeological expedition.
2. Obama and Osama are not the same person. Osama is the one with the Mel Gibson beard and the bad kidneys who we can't find while Obama is the guy who has not been sworn in as President just yet, but is seen more often than the current President is and listened to more.
3. George H. W. Bush went to war with Saddam Hussein in 1991 to liberate Kuwait while George W. Bush went to war with Saddam Hussein in 2003 to…well, we're not totally sure. Amazing what a difference a letter makes. Also, unlike the previous Obama Hussien/Saddam/ Osama confusion, these Bushes are actually related.
4. Bill Clinton served two terms (1992, 1996) as President and it was Hillary Clinton who was in the Senate and ran for President in 2008. Bill was instead eager to get back to the White House Interns.
5. Hillary, not Bill, was selected as Secretary of State for Obama's, not Osama's cabinet. Osama's cabinet is not that large and most of the space is taken up by his portable nuclear powered dialysis machine and his copy of "How Not to Be Seen" by Monty Python.*
*Bill Clinton, the former President, will probably take over Hillary's Senate seat, so references to Senator Clinton from New York probably will be as confusing to you as which Bush waged war on Iraq when. Neither Clinton however should be confused with Governor DeWitt Clinton of New York who built the Erie Canal or George Clinton of the Parliament Funkadelic who filled the 70's with funk and brought us Bootsy Collins, who then helped us learn about Dee-Lite and showed us that the groove was in the heart all along.
I really had though that the confusion we underwent trying to keep Teddy Roosevelt straight from Franklin Roosevelt and remembering which Kennedy was President, which was Attorney General, and which was a drunk with a problem crossing bridges, would have kept us from further political dynasties, but it didn’t. Instead we used initials to keep them straight, such as FDR and JFK, and they slowly got lost in the alphabet soup that is our government (DEA, FBI, CIA, CDC,etc) so much so that we really don't know which is a former President, which is a government agency, and which is the international airport our flight is leaving from.
I beg you to learn from our mistakes and please try to keep some variety in the names of your leaders so that future generations can keep their history straight and perhaps actually learn from it instead of repeating it over and over again.
Rejected!
They turned down my piece, but sent me an email explaining why and gave me the option to resubmit. The political editor added some jokes to it that actually work quite well and flesh out the joke I was going for much better than I did. I am going to now rewrite it using his ideas, but with my humor, and do exactly that, so you will have to wait a little longer for the mystery post. I am sorry, but you deserve the best I can offer and that was apparently not it.
Wednesday, December 03, 2008
Immortal Insecurity and Worry
In the immortal words of Charlie Brown: aaugh; in the immortal words of Tom Petty: the waiting is the hardest part. I am questioning it all right now and going slowly mad. Maybe my piece is not funny enough or, even worse, at all. Maybe I lost my mojo again! Maybe they just don’t like me anymore! I honestly cannot say for certain, but I submitted a new piece to Blogcritics yesterday morning and it still has yet to be posted while two stories submitted afterwards have been posted. Of course, both those stories are by the political editor…Regardless, I was hoping to post my copy of it here today, but I cannot since they have yet to post it and I must wait 24 hours after they do it for me to do it. In the immortal words of Charlie Brown: aaugh; in the immortal words of Tom Petty: the waiting is the hardest part.
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