Emily Keegan stole my cigarettes

Well, she didn't really. It's just that I was at a booth with her and a lovely couple and I got up to move and then my cigs were gone. But it makes a nice blog headling. This young couple, Lindsey and Gary


Here is the birthday boy with the party dog Stubbs.


Here is the birthday boy's brother looking uncharacteristally jovial.


Here is a pole dancer in Nate and Wally's. She showed up at Amy's afterhours. She tried to eat but I think she was all tuckered out from all that gyration.


I guess I shoulda worn a hat.


A guy in a hula skirt.


When I left some guys were busking next to the bar.


It was bar crawl night and these girls had the appropriate sentiment on their shirts.



These girls looked like they had had plenty o bar crawl.


Here is a girl who some felt looked like Pippi Longstocking but she had me email this picture to some oliveoyl address.





I got this table runner for the table behind my new sofa.


Here is a closeup view of one of the palm trees on it.


I know I haven't blogged in a while and I missed an entire weekend, one in which I even had an extra day off. That weekend I did massive yard work and planted some bushes (note to self: get pictures) and had some people over for patio beer and then I had a radio meeting last Monday and went to the bar with Jenks on Wednesday and to Amy's Thursday briefly and then it was Friday and you can see above what we did. Celebrated Will's b-day at Nate and Wally's.

I am told there is a Kent Holloway benefit at Howard's on May 14 with Rod's Collision and Tony and Joe et al. Also one is being planned for Michael Stickles whose new salon burned down last Friday morning.

So it's May. Amy and I have bailed on Wakarusa so I have the tickets listed on eBay. Let me know if you want to buy them. And there's some one-day concert in California in August that Jenks and I are looking at.

Tomorrow's Monday which probably means saying "Hi" to Gus at Beckett's. Wednesday is GNO at Deb H's. And that brings us to nearly the weekend and certainly Cinco de Mayo.

Email

-----Original Message-----
From: Amy
To: evilwebqueen
Subject: Monday bloody Monday

argh..............I need to retire......how 'bout you?
...so I did absolutely NOTHING when I got home last night except go to

bed......and watch the housewives & Grey's Anatomy.....for which I
almost didn't remain awake.....guess I was well fed and ready for
bed


evilwebqueen wrote:

I did the dishes and watched 2 Sopranos. Had a hard time dragging
myself
out of bed. I don't want to retire so much as just work less. But then
there goes your health insurance etc. It's a bad trap for us rats.
Maybe
we could just advertise on match.com: pleasant middle-aged woman seeks
funding for indolent lifestyle in exchange for listening
sympathetically
to your petty annoyances.


amy wrote:

....now that's a plan.....there'd probably be many guys who'd take us up

on this....but then they'd change the rules after they had us hooked and

expect us to actually ACT like significant others....


evilwebqueen wrote:

We'd have to demand a "pre-nup" spelling out exactly the terms.
Listening limited to 4 hours per day. No problems will be solved.
Response limited to "oh yeah" "you poor thing" and refilling wineglass.

And I wouldn't limit it to a guy. I'd listen to a woman whine for enough
money and a bottle of a good cab.


AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT:
-----Original Message-----
From: barker
Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 9:48 AM
To: Weiser
Subject: RE: jebus and jubas


No not joking it's just that the more I read the less likely the whole thing seems. It would be great if there was some omni-present benevelance watching over us all but where is it. In the past it talked to people from burning bushes and from montain tops, but now it doesn't have anything more to say? It just smiles down on our world and thinks "it's all good". The Iran thing scares me. It must scare a lot of other countries too. Maybe that's what this is all about, no fear for the future because Jesus is coming.


----- Original Message -----
From: Weiser
To: barker
Subject: RE: jebus and jubas
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 11:19:14 -0400

There is a lot of talk about the messianic vision of the dubya. And if you google george w bush rapture, you get much speculation on this, from both the sarcastic left side and the ‘he da man’ evangelicals. I think that’s why they’re also so willing to rape the environment, cause they ain’t gonna be there to inherit the wind, as it were. Frankly, I’m hoping that whole rapture thing will backfire in a big way, the nutty nuts will be taken up and those of us left here will get to start over, possibly even getting some post-apocalypse bonuses.

Look here’s a paragraph from the 2002 inaugural speech:

“At this second gathering, our duties are defined not by the words I use, but by the history we have seen together. For a half century, America defended our own freedom by standing watch on distant borders. After the shipwreck of communism came years of relative quiet, years of repose, years of sabbatical - and then there came a day of fire.”


And we thought he was talking about 9/11. And what’s up with that ‘second gathering’ BS?? Like maybe it’s the second coming????


And furthermore in that speech: “By our efforts, we have lit a fire as well - a fire in the minds of men. It warms those who feel its power, it burns those who fight its progress, and one day this untamed fire of freedom will reach the darkest corners of our world.” More fire.


I’ve always thought that Jesus stuff, and all religious texts, were pretty much fictional/exaggeration but at the base, they all have some of the same tenets, which if everybody adhered to, like love thy neighbor and respect others, there wouldn’t be all this divisive stuff. I think the omnipresence is the combined sum of all “souls” and when the preponderance of them swings over to the bad side, bad stuff happens. Karma is my favorite religious view.


Well, I hope you don’t fling yourself off a cliff because your religious feelings are in doubt. And for all my possibly sinful action, I know I am one of god’s chosen few. Some wacko who picked me up hitchhiking in Kansas in the seventies told me so.


-----Original Message-----
From: barker
Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 2:58 PM
To: Weiser
Subject: RE: jebus and jubas



No, no cliffs for me. Like Brian said in "Life of Brian", "you're all just going to have to think for yourselves". I hope you're right about the whole second coming, they take them away and we can live in peace. Maybe come up with some new commandments, "thou shalt not evangilize at thy neighbors door...

Rewind

My daughter took these pictures in NYC on her camera phone. She says she knows this is not how Sherry spells her last name but, as she says:
"Also, I sent you a couple of picks of a upscale wine/liquor store
that was on Madison ave. among the high-end designer boutiques
(Chanel, Prada, Hermes, etc..) I know that Sherry spells her last
name differently but hopefully they will be entertaining all the
same. I took those picks with my camera phone and they turned out
pretty well. AAhhh, technology."




Friday night, we went downtown. We saw this chick on the corner at the Downtown bar. Hey, baby.


We went into Beckett's by the back door.


These two guys at the bar had on matching shirts. They didn't LOOK gay.


Then we went to Grumpy Dave's to see Blues Posse in one of their swan song performances.


Here's a picture out my front door from the table in the living room. The magnolia tree or whatever is in bloom. It gets too much shade from the big tree out by the street. OMG, you can see the shadow of the monkey on the walls! YOWWWW!!! It's mystical.


See this Google map of my house? You can see that big tree from OUTER SPACE and it's shading my magnolia or whatever so it doesn't bloom as profusely. You can't link a Google map so here's how you can find it or YOUR house on the big map from outer space. Click on the Satellite view after you type in your address.


And here is the lovely new cabinet.

I haven't blogged in a while since all this shopping takes a lot out of me. I might be about done. Except I bought this iron table for next to the zebra chair but it's not right. Still looking. You need to come over and see it.

I did a great radio show Saturday. None this week or next. Sports. Sunday, I was fed an incredible Easter dinner, chicken, stuffing, taters, rolls, asparagus and lemon meringue pie. I am not worthy. Monday we went to see Gus. Ask your friends about their brush with the FBI. It's like The Sopranos. I'm up to Season 4, Episode 10. Four left here and then on to Season 5 with Steve Buscemi.

Also I bought a DVD player for CDs in the new cabinet because nothing else would fit. Taking Friday off to drill the hole in that, do the car loan, get my bike seat fixed, fertilizer the lawn, yada, yada.

Friday yay!

Here is the monkey on the black mantle. He is mine. Connie bought those little fake candle things which are perfect. There is talk of decorating him for various holidays but I don't want to annoy the monkey.


The Subdudes were excellent as usual. I have a 6-second video clip of them which I will try and figure out how to load up here. Maybe.

Last night some wimmen came over and we drank too much wine and I knocked over a wineglass and it splashed on the newly painted wall. Things cleaned up nicely.

Tonight was Lesa's last day at work party at Amigo's. I am sorry to see her go.

Puddlewonderful

On Sunday, it was finally like spring. Here's a lovely backyard in our fair town.


Us chicks was hanging out gossiping in the driveway.


Some people like to go fishing in this weather. Or say they're going fishing. Does that look like a plastic fish to you?


We got down to it Thursday night. This is right before we painted the mantle black.


We are recovering the ottoman. I use "we" in the royal sense here. I didn't do nothing.


There was much sewing which was all ripped out the following day for a new design which is almost finished. really. almost.



These women came over to critique and advise and apparently smoke and drink.


Now the mantle is black.

And so finally, there is a partial result. To the untrained eye, it's done. Just a little snip snip here, brush brush there, and a couple of tra-la-las. That's how we pass our life away in the merry old land of Oz.


Here is a photoshopped version of that picture above, lightened for clarity, sharpened for detail. I disclose all photoshopping. I hope you appreciate how much time I put into this . Sniff.

That sofa is the perfect height. Some of my longitudinally challenged friends can't get their feet to touch the floor, but, alas.

I need that brass monkey.....

WHAT I DID ON THE WEEKEND
--by the evilwebqueen

Umm Friday we worked on the ottoman and played some pool. And Saturday I stayed in bed late and did a radio show and watched some Sopranos. I got to the part where Tony gets a bunk buddy who we think is all cool and independent and confident and sexy and stuff (like me) but she turns out to be the same raging, beef-slinging, guilt-pushing quiff all the other women in the world are. I was personally affronted by this turn of events.

Sunday was lovely and I worked outside (I use that term loosely) and walked downtown. All right, to the video store. AND the library and the Ace. Then later I grilled hamburgers. And got ready for the talk I gave to a bunch of high school kids today on "Converging Media: The Face of Tomorrow." I did not pick this topic. I told these kids if I knew the Face of Tomorrow, I would be a zillionaire and not standing there talking to them. Real dose of reality for the little weasels, eh? Then I went on to bamboozle them with statistics on how many Amerikans have broadband and get news online and how somebody has to PAY for all this internet content and there is advertising and subscriptions and product placement, such that you can tell who the sponsor of a Sopranos episode is by, for example, the guys all ordering shots of Wild Turkey and walking past Wild Turkey signs on the way out of the bar etc etc. Also I got in some shots about Rupert Murdoch and Fox and myspace and what is REALLY evil in this world. Very satisfying. Perhaps I will return to teaching...

Tonight my phone rang as I walked past Annie's and it was HER and I went in and got her and as we walked past Howard's, DONNA comes out and we all go to Beckett's and drink while Gus (whom we love) tends bar. It was all too cosmically aligned. Speaking of which, full pink moon Thursday.

Tomorrow night, the Subdudes at the Ark.

GNO April

Here's the chair in place and a view of the curtains in the "dining room." More tomorrow. Pictures aren't uploading right.



Larry brought us snacks from the Grill for GNO. What a nice boy.


Tuna was there.

Never ending stuff

Incredibly interesting notes on my personal life for your enjoyment:

Monday night I made a quiche and a meatloaf and poached salmon so I'd have food for all week. I meant to do this stuff Sunday but that curtain installation tuckered me right out. I am up to episode 7 of season 3 on The Sopranos. Meadow has developed a big ass, AJ has developed a bad attitude and blood continues to flow freely.

Tonight is the last GNO indoors until fall. It's at Howard's. Because Martha likes their bathrooms better than Nate and Wally's bathrooms.

Amy and I are going to see the Black Swamp Players' 'Mary, Mary' Friday night at the FUM. Last Friday night, we went to Cucina de Betta in downtown BG and I had veal/porcini baci, which were like little bags of pasta, shaped like those rice bags you throw at weddings and it was delish. And the salad was excellent. The bread, though, could still be improved on.

Saturday night I think we might go see Soul Kitchen at Fitzpatrick's instead of going to Hines Farm to see Magic Slim whose promo vanished from the website yesterday. Now there's some Extravaganza up there touting blues 'all night long.' Oh yeah, I hear that 'all night long' everywhere.

Saturday I am doing half of the Blues Breakfast, the noon to 2 half. So tune in for the usual fabu tunes and snappy repartee.

Next Monday I am giving a talk at UT to high school kids on career day. Topic: Converging Media: The Face of Tomorrow. HAHHAHAHAA. I didn't choose that.

Tuesday, Annie and I are going to the Ark to see the Subdudes.

Finally, I am going to Tim's in Kent April 29-30. Most likely. I've already cancelled twice this year with him.

I sent Amy this email:
Britney Spears is in hot water for hiring dwarves to entertain husband Kevin Federline on his birthday.

She replied:
another case of more money than brains

this close

Click on a picture for a larger view. I saw all this stuff at Classic Antiques and Collectibles in downtown Toledo. The red couch is here. Pictures tomorrow (for those of you who haven't sat on it yet). A special GNO is forthcoming. But what about these accessories??


Brass monkey. $45. I NEED this. Look, he has a bathrobe on.


Framed ceramic zebras. $10.


And it's SOUL CITY. Worshipping on Dorr St.


From the side


Oooh, $265, Mahogany and birds eye maple. I could put a cd player in here and use the top for drinks serving.


A steal at $20. Serving your pastries or shrimp or cheese and crackers or something. Plus it was right next to a bleeding heart of Jesus.

Way behind

The other night, Amy and Annie came over and assembled my table and chairs. Actually, I assembled the table WRONG and redid that this morning. They were working like Santa's elves.


So this is how it looks with the torchiere lamp in the corner. No arwork up yet. Today the curtains came and I bought rods at Meijer. Putting those up tomorrow.


And here's how the zebra chair looks now TEMPORARILY until I buy that copper top table in GR. And I WANT that depression glass/stained glass thing in one of those stores there. I WANT, I WANT, I WANT.