Displaying 2,851 To 2,880 Of 3,373 Comments You DO know the game well! Same exact experience over here! » Posted By whatsthatsound On March 24, 2010 @ 4:35 am She’s dutifully engaged in her favorite game, “Hide My Toy!” » Posted By whatsthatsound On March 24, 2010 @ 4:16 am Hi Kalima, I hope there is sunshine and warmth in your heart and at your hearth. Spring will get here, eventually! » Posted By whatsthatsound On March 24, 2010 @ 2:59 am Me too! » Posted By whatsthatsound On March 16, 2010 @ 4:35 am She just wanted to soak up the sun, apparently. I expected her to scamper all over the place like a kid on summer vacation. Still, it gave me a good excuse to head over to the river! » Posted By whatsthatsound On March 16, 2010 @ 3:54 am Indeed it was a nice day, Kalima. Like June! I took Rosie to play by the river, first time it’s been warm enough in ages, but all should did was just sit there…ferrets? Who can figure? » Posted By whatsthatsound On March 16, 2010 @ 3:27 am Yeah, with blogging there is the feeling that it’s not enough to just say, “great stuff”; we feel a subtle obligation to keep the conversation going, which we can’t do when we read a book or newspaper article, or watch tv. So simple words of praise seem like a dud, somehow, at least to me (and you, it seems). » Posted By whatsthatsound On March 11, 2010 @ 5:00 pm I wish I had an insightful comment to offer, but sadly I don’t. Every point you make I agree with, particularly the sentiment that we need to get out in front of the president, create the momentum that pretty much forces his administration to act on behalf of the people and not the entrenched and selfish interests and groups. » Posted By whatsthatsound On March 11, 2010 @ 4:17 pm Great article, Cher! » Posted By whatsthatsound On March 11, 2010 @ 4:07 pm Glen Beckistan Strikes Again but this Time with a Dem paraphrasing Elvis Costello: Two little Messiahs will fight it out, until one little Messiah does the other one’s will. That’s what it was like. » Posted By whatsthatsound On March 10, 2010 @ 4:13 pm Blogging and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Waaaaayyy back when, when she was still a pup, I dropped my daughter off at day care. While there, I noticed two boys fighting, and it looked like they wanted to rip each others’ throats out. Not wanting to bust it up myself, I alerted the attendant, who was sitting there helping the new arrivals with their shoes and coats and things. She, a bit older than the typical day care attendant, just looked at me beatifically and said, “so, desu ne”, which basically meant, “yep, they’re fighting”, and proceeded with her work. I was outraged! What a neglect of duty! I was tying to work out the best Japanese I could to reprimand her for her lackadaisical behavior, and then glanced over at the two boys, who were now playing together like two friends who would take a bullet for one another. And I realized the wise day care attendant had seen it all before. » Posted By whatsthatsound On March 8, 2010 @ 4:48 pm I’m pretty much the opposite. Not buying things I could actually use or enjoy because I’ve convinced myself I can’t afford it. So, wham, karma, I get a consumption addict daughter. » Posted By whatsthatsound On March 8, 2010 @ 4:52 am Great, great, great! Love it! There is A Field Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing » Posted By whatsthatsound On March 4, 2010 @ 6:06 pm GROW – The Specific Agenda and Tactics Hey there, Cher! » Posted By whatsthatsound On March 7, 2010 @ 8:29 pm Hey, have you guys heard about “The Coffee Party”? It seems to me there may be some symbiosis between it and GROW. » Posted By whatsthatsound On March 7, 2010 @ 7:45 pm Okay, okay, I take it back. I like deep fried, buttered, cream-ladled stuff as much as the next guy. » Posted By whatsthatsound On February 23, 2010 @ 6:12 am Hi Cher, Certainly food is fuel for the body, but it can be so much more than that, and so many cultures have made it so. We have even commercialized our no-longer-sacred holiday meals. “Butterball” turkeys, mass produced candy hearts, etc.; I’m not saying other cultures don’t do this, just that we are so extreme about it. I think only a small minority of Americans truly revere food, or even consider the relationship they have with it, that it will become them. I know I myself have to do a LOT better in this regard. Teenagers? Fugedaboudit! As for chicken and egg, that seems possible with all of the forces you present, does it not? » Posted By whatsthatsound On February 22, 2010 @ 10:17 pm I think that one of the most important causes of all is not mentioned in the article, in fact, I think I’ll do a visual essay on it because it relates somewhat to what I already wrote about the body. It is the “corporate” relationship that so many Americans have to food. Fast food, and then drive-through, were invented in America. What does that suggest? That to us, food is “fuel” that we tank up on. People driving or walking through airport terminals while munching on something or other wrapped up in paper. What disrespect this shows for the body and its needs! To say nothing of the contents of the “food” itself. » Posted By whatsthatsound On February 22, 2010 @ 9:46 pm Of course! » Posted By whatsthatsound On February 22, 2010 @ 9:26 pm We should all read, or reread, Malcom Gladstone’s “The Tipping Point” and try to glean some insights from that about what it takes to successfully grow a movement that can achieve something and make a difference. » Posted By whatsthatsound On February 22, 2010 @ 6:05 pm Hey, great! Let me know if the colors run! 🙂 » Posted By whatsthatsound On February 22, 2010 @ 6:02 pm You said a mouthful, K! I agree completely with each point you so eloquently put forth. » Posted By whatsthatsound On February 22, 2010 @ 5:32 pm This is a great read, so thought provoking! A social “contract” has clearly been broken, a one sided love affair has disintegrated. The vast corporate empire that is the current true government had swept the American people off its feet with the assurance that things would keep getting better, generation after generation, that we were the greatest country on earth, and it was the power, and BUYING power, of our two hundred million strong or so middle class that made that possible. A seductive and irresistible line that the nation’s workers fell for. All along, the Lover, The suave corporate Daddy with Madison Avenue manufactured come ons, had a wandering eye. Hmmmm…it noticed, if Americans can be convinced to buy all these things they don’t need in order to make me rich, just imagine if the Chinese, Indians, Brazilians, Russians and Indonesians would do the same? So, in the eyes of the Corporate Lover, the middle class is a moveable feast, not a bedrock foundation. It can be used, and shifted. Build it up in one place,and then use all that accrues to do it somewhere else. Start by using cheaper workers overseas, then outsource your own companies’ business as much as you can and make most of your money through investments and financial gadgets, not actual products. Pretty soon you’ve got people all over the world who can afford and have been trained to want what you produce. You’ve got a new “trophy wife” – and she’s Chinese! Meanwhile, the dowdy old ex-wife wakes up, briefly, to realize she has been totally taken in and snookered, and you add insult to injury, you sell her Prozac. Wake up, China and India, before it’s too late. Your charming suitor is using you. » Posted By whatsthatsound On February 22, 2010 @ 4:10 pm Real Time Real Good … for Now: A Review of Season 8 Episode 1 of Real Time with Bill Maher Your last comment is probably true, but it seems to me if he had any more self esteem it would leak off of him and damage the ozone layer. » Posted By whatsthatsound On February 22, 2010 @ 2:58 am What a fantastic array of commentary! My favorite is one made by Kalima. Third world countries and colonies may need to resort to extreme measures to claim freedom, but a country that wants to think of itself as “advanced” must reject violence as a means of attaining that goal, as one of our greatest leaders, Martin Luther King, taught and demonstrated, and as the Civil Rights Movement showed. » Posted By whatsthatsound On February 18, 2010 @ 5:46 pm The Party of Lincoln vs The Party of Winkin’ Very, very good article. Really interesting, and I learned so much! » Posted By whatsthatsound On February 12, 2010 @ 11:45 pm Okay, it all makes sense when you put on your handy new Corporate Mind-set, which is produced by Nintendo because American companies don’t actually make anything anymore and which will be mandated to be purchased by every American by the end of 2011, or they kill you. The reason for the increase in premiums is because, you see, if the greed of corporations continues on its insidious trajectory (guess what? it will) for another few months or so, peoples’ heads are going to start exploding! People will be sitting watching TV, or reading the newspaper on the train to work, and they’ll get to the financial stories, and then their faces will turn red, their eyes will bulge to the size of cantaloupes, and their heads will explode! We’re talking hundreds of thousands of people here. How is a poor company with a measly three billion or so going to clean up after that? So you see, it’s a classic win-win, a no-brainer actually (see? I bought my Mind-set early!). The company wins by profiting, and then creating a new malady that it can further profit from. That’s what “insurance” means, that they win no matter what. Look it up! » Posted By whatsthatsound On February 12, 2010 @ 1:09 am Good show! » Posted By whatsthatsound On February 11, 2010 @ 3:53 pm It’ll be like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1f-kfRREA8M The Royal Society of Putting Things on Top of Other Things » Posted By whatsthatsound On February 11, 2010 @ 3:47 pm How about “Group of People That Spend All their Time Trying to Come up with A Great Name” ? » Posted By whatsthatsound On February 11, 2010 @ 3:39 pmComments Posted By whatsthatsound
Yes it is dreary and COLD today! And it’s going to continue like this all week? Yuck.
But, as posters, we do appreciate the praise. It’s gratifying to see our work inspire a lot of comments that take it further, but it’s also nice just to get the ol’ thumbs up.
(and the stars are nice too!)
The lesson is we can learn a lot from kids and day care attendants.
Here is a Rumi poem that I have always gotten a lot out of
and rightdoing there is a field.
I’ll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.
In Japan, food is almost a religion. It’s changing (as in so many ways that the Japanese Soul is being replaced by the Corporate Mindset) but not nearly as bad as in the US, and hopefully that will never happen. So you don’t see obesity here to anything approaching what you see in America. Food becomes US, it becomes What we ARE, and if we just toss it down our gullets without a second thought, no WONDER it shows up as flab, and deadens our minds.
Europeans, who eat ungodly concoctions like shnitzel, still have better figures than Americans, and not because the wine helps the digestion. It is because they LOVE the food as they place it in their mouths. They delight in every moment of tasting it. They are loving that which will soon become THEMSELVES! I think that goes a significant way toward explaining what is happening in modern day America.
I’ll be in touch! February has been as busy as it has been cold, but let’s do that soon!
– This is not meant to imply I feel that AdLib’s article condones this or any other act of domestic terrorism.
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