Dial 'J' for 'Judicious Palate'

16:52

Just talked with Mel on messenger. She is well.

I was supposed to work today but Elena had an emergency at the hospital. May tomorrow. I will be working weekends til the end of June. It's the only way i can fit everyone in! And while the work is there you gotta take it.

The Babylon Sisters have started a wine importing business so i am going to Monica's for a wine tasting. She said she needs feedback from an American palate. I said "you dialed the right number."

SO i shopped. Now eat. Then shower. Clean room. Hang laundry. Taste wine. Watch USA vs. Panama, Gold Cup at 1:00 am. Jamaica is through to the quarterfinals already. Yeah Jamaica!

The Rainy Season

All the late night bargains have been struck
Between the satin beaus and their belles
Prehistoric garbage trucks
Have the city to themselves
Echoes and roars, dinosaurs
They're all doing the monster mash
And most of the taxis, most of the whores
Are only taking calls for cash
-Dire Straits

LUNES

Apparently we are in monsoon season here in early June. i've never seen it like this. Pouring all day long. If i see locusts or frogs start falling from the sky i am pulling up stakes and getting the hell out of here. You don't have to be Yul Brynner to know plagues when they arrive.

What have i been teaching lately? Well, about Ford and GM finally building fuel-efficient small cars (GM was told it needed to recover their competitive advantage by the Obama Admin. when they were bailed out by the Taxpayers). Tomorrow i'll start an article about how there is ACTUALLY such a phenomenon as raining frogs. What else; Marketing and the early Republican candidates for President (I threw the Gary Hart / Donna rice scandal in there, as well as the Iran-Contra affair; supposedly a CIA guy said he was tasked with neutralizing Hart because of his promises to investigate the relationship between the Government and organized crime. And Bush was the VP, Ex-head of the CIA. If they'll fund an illegal war in Nicaragua, sell weapons to the Iranians and allow drug dealers to bring cocaine into Miami as long as they dropped off the weapons to the Contras, can you put it past him to dig up dirt on Hart? The students seemed to dig it. They were shocked about the Iran-Contra affair but it's all documented. I studied it in social science with John Orman (Ethics in Government.) How the fuck did our country ever elect George Bush after that? And a heap of people took the fall for George. The paper trail led right to his feet. But they took the fall so that Bush could still run in 1988.

Sometimes i swear i've seen it all. The things that people do on this planet are unbelievable. And what's going on in the US now.... well it doesn't make a goddamned bit of sense.

New class manana, up north. I'll take as many classes as i can get. Anything to keep from doing the soundtrack for pornos again. Although i did win a PORNY award for Best Soundtrack for The Wind Beneath My Wang (1998). And Amy PoonTang also won another award for WBMW for Best Actress in a Foursome. 2 PORNYS, that's kind of impressive.

But i've turned the page. I left that life behind a long ago time ago. Possibly in a galaxy far far away.

Today i feel old. That just happens sometimes.

Will the Canucks take a commanding 3-0 lead in the Stanley Cup or will Boston still stake a claim to make it a series. I think Boston did well just to get as far as they did (and beat a tough Tampa team.) I just think it's Vancouver's year after 4 decades of waiting.

Like the way the Caps are still waiting. They tear it up in the regular season and then fizzle and fry in the playoffs.

My mobile phone just rang. I was offered a job scoring a new movie, Seymour Butts. I passed. I'm going to bed.

MIERCOLES

Bender Tuesday was a blast. I didn't get there til 10:30 and everybody was psyched to see me. It's an organic celebration of friends getting together during the middle of the week. I quite like it.

I work at 4, 6, and 8. I teach therefore i am.

43

June 5th in History (we're really getting to the dregs at this point.)

1940/06/05 (Wed): 1st synthetic rubber tire exhibited Akron Oh
1933/06/05 (Mon): US goes off gold standard
1975/06/05 (Thu): Suez Canal reopens (after 6 Day War caused it to close)
1977/06/05 (Sun): Revolution in Seychelles Islands (they had been given independence in 1976 from England but there was a coup in 1977- they are off the coast of Africa, north of Madagascar. Never heard of them before this.)
1996 - Howard Stern makes his market debut in Memphis.

Like i said, dregs.

Great picnic yesterday in Retiro. Great weather for about 3 hours, then it rained but Most of us found a tree and Jenny and i found a big bush (i'm serious) threw down a blanket and sat under it, aided by an umbrella. Then we went to a bar for a bite and then to Barbaroi to watch Spain bitchslap the US National Soccer Team. Save the bitchslapping, it was a great time. Everyone was there; American Laura, the Babylon Sisters, etc. We celebrated birthdays of May 31, June 5 (2) and June 7 (3). Until the rain came, and it was pretty steadily coming down for a spell, it was a sunny glorious 72 degree day.

Vancouver went up 2-0 on Boston (yeah!) The Mets blanked the Braves for Gee's sixth win.

So i am 43 today. Hooray! I Feel like a well-built Toyota.

At the Uni on Friday, the class all wished me a happy birthday. I told them i was going to be 143. This one guy, Xulio (chulio) said, "You look like your only 123!"

Gemini Rising

I guess it's one of those things
You can never explain
Like when an angel cries
Like runaway trains






Like one of those times
That's never the same
Like when something dies
Like runaway trains
-Tom Petty

What day is it? Friday. No... 4:15 AM. Saturday. Whew! Long day, but fun. Lots of good classes.

We came in second in the Quiz tonight; Mike, Ben, Josh and i. Respectable. ooohhh. I have a party to be at in 12 hours. better get some shut eye!

10:03

Congratulations to Atlanta. This is city of under a half million, best known for being a Delta Airlines hub and the home of CNN, now has the dubious distinction of being the only NHL market in the modern era to lose it's hockey team TWICE, both to Canada (the Atlanta Flames move to Calgary in 1980, The Atlanta Thrashers move to Winnipeg in 2011.)

Let's burn Atlanta again!
-me, 1999 After Atlanta beats the NY Mets in the NLCS

13:55

I love waking up and falling back to sleep. We are all meeting at Retiro Park at 4 for a picnic, of sorts. It's a Gemini fest. Me, Alberto, Ana, Laura Mitchell and Carrie. Carrie had to go back to Alabama to take care of some family business and i don't know if Laura Mitchell is coming, but still; there are 4 of us. And Bayside is a Gemini too, the 17th. So many Geminis, so many expats (Ana y Alberto are Spanish, but they hang with us, and Alberto is married to Carrie). Is there a like equation? Probably..... that we are all certifiably Bonkers.

Carrie is actually the 5th like me. She's the good twin. Which...., i guess makes me the evil twin. I bet that comes as a shocker. So the pic above is a fairly accurate portrayal, excepting that i normally hide my horns and my tail and i don't have hooters (God Damn it! ). But my hair's almost that long. And we both love to rock high heel shoes!

Severed

JUEVES



JUNE 5th in History;

1930 U.S.A. Mobsters 5th June 1930 : The Illinois State Prosecutor made a public statement that gang murder in Chicago has taken a grizzly turn and mobsters are now cremating victims to stop identification and evidence .



1945 Germany Borders Re Set 5th June 1945 : The United States, Great Britain, France, and Russia formally strip Germany of all conquests it acquired under Nazi rule . The "Big Four" reduced the country's borders to those of which it held in 1937 . They also set up a military government over the country while getting the country's unconditional surrender.

1953 U.S.A. Fireworks Explosions 5th June 1953 : An Alco Fireworks and Specialty Company warehouse and factory exploded killing four people in Houston, Texas. Over 400,000 pounds of fireworks exploded in the factory which in addition to the deaths injured 73 people. The cause of the explosion was said to be due to a general manager hammering nails into a display.

1981 U.S.A. AIDS 5th June 1981 : The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a report announcing that cases of rare pneumonia were found among five homosexual men in Los Angeles, California which was later identified as the Aids Virus


Stanley Cup Finals. Go Vancouver! I say Vancouver in 6. I can't live in a world where Boston wins a title in all 4 major Sports within ten years.

I can't let that happen and i won't let that happen and i can't let that happen!
-Homer Simpson

4 scratch infield hits for Pittsburgh. Capuano is in trouble in the 7th after pitching very well. Bases loaded, no outs. And now it's 2-2. Still no out. Capuano is out. Hard luck. A missed force play. Going for instead of throwing home. 4-2 Pitt. Ugh! An inning to forget. Another infield hit. That's five now. 5-2. Brutal. Please make it stop.

There are no good days anymore Bart, just days.
-Milhouse, the Simpsons, after seeing the beginning of Finding Nemo for the 1st time and seeing the mother and her eggs getting eaten.

And there will be no NFL season in 2011. Sad but true. I just don't think they'll reach a deal. The owners are being selfish morons. They don't give a hoot about all of the people who work at the stadiums. They're going to shut down a $6b dollar a year industry during the worst recession since the Great Depression. Shameful really.

Pitt 9 - Mets 2

Shameful.

VIERNES

When the evil of a snowflake in June
Could still be a source of relief
-Genesis

it's not that cold but its like high 50's. Which is lovely weather here for June. The summer is coming. And the heat. The soul damning heat.

So 50's is cool.

Okay - must wake up earlier than my norm for work manana. It's late but it sometimes takes a while to wind down from 7 hours of class. Sleep well dear peoples to the West. Tomorrow is the following day's yesterday.

Sever tomorrow
-Porcupine Tree

Imagination, part II

Okay. I can post pics again. Is that what you imagined earlier today? A Robot drinking beer, smoking a cigar and pointing to his ass? I know i did!

That's what i always imagine.

June is here and it's 64F and cool. It should be low 7o's for the next week or so. Woo hoo! I love it. Sometimes the beginning of June is so great here.

Bender Tuesday was fun. Small crowd, but fun. It was just Kelly, Goran and I for quite some time.

13 hours of class the next two days. Whew! My week is so bottom heavy. End of the week heavy.

This blog is to go over 5,000 page views. Crazy. Thank you, all of you.

Imagination

MARTES

i can't be sure, but i think that recently listening to several musical projects that include Tony Levin have changed my life (see: Stick Men, Liquid Tension Experiment, and his solo stuff.) It's unlike anything i've ever heard (see: Exit Stage Left, Rush -Meddle, Pink Floyd - Red, King Crimson, - Selling England, Genesis.) Sometimes you get into something and it changes the way you look at music.

i need a change. Not sure what it is. And i've just been thru so much change! It's a minor one. I 'll figure it out. Life keeps you on your feet, i'll tell you that much.

The teaching treadmill. It's always running. But, that's kind of what i was looking for, i guess. i'm not sure what that means but it's 1:18 on a Tuesday morning, so i'm gonna let it slide.

Take me off the grill cuz i'm done. Night!

11:18

Looking for extra work in the summer. Maybe i could be an Au Pair in August. Either that or i'll reluctantly go back to scoring pornos for a while. I mean, i did get best score for Rack of Ages, I Know Who You Did Last Summer, and the epic Nineteen - Hundred and Eighty Whoors. Screw it, it's a living.

19:12

2 Classes canceled so i only taught 1. I just can't seem to work on Tuesday (Martes.) So i cooked up a half kilo of lamb chops and had a salad. Yum. Do the dishes, hang laundry and then off to Bender Tuesday. I'll make them up on Friday (Viernes.) Cleaned my room so it's spanking clean!

MIERCOLES

14:06

Sunny and really cool. 64F. Beautiful! Shower. Then teach, teach and teach.

It's not letting me add a photo, so you'll have to use your imagination.