Friday, July 31, 2015

Stop


                                                          The scene outside today

I want the hands of time to stop right now.  It is July 31, the end of another month of summer.  It is a dazzling day filled with radiant sunshine.  I want to embrace the moment, treasure it, so I never forget it.  I want to hold on to this for as long as I can.  Tennis will be wonderful this evening.  I beg for time to go into slow motion but alas I know it won't.  Too soon it's over and done.  Time is an evil bastard.


                                                                          Stop


                                                                   Beautiful Day


                                                                   Sing Your Life

Wednesday, July 29, 2015

I'm an Anti Dentite


So today was my dreaded annual trip to the Dentist.  I don't know why I get worried about going to the Dentist.  I have only ever had one cavity.  I suppose one of the only gifts I was ever given is strong teeth.  I am always worried the Dentist will come in, after inspecting the X-Rays and say I have 5 cavities.  What I really hate most is the Hygienist who cleans my teeth.  I call her "The Marquis de Sade".  I don't call her that to her face of course.  I just think of it as she is torturing me with that damned metal pick of hers.  I really do think she enjoys inflicting pain on her patients because they didn't floss enough or didn't brush the correct way.  She politely smiles and says "Now that didnt hurt did it?"  In her evil mind she's thinking "Pain, Pain, Pain" for the Anti Dentite.  So now this evening my mouth feels like Napoleon's Army attacked it with bayonets drawn.  And after The Marquis de Sade was done torturing me with her metal pick, the Dentist finally came in.  He is a very genteel fellow, a total opposite of The Marquis.  He poked around in my mouth for about a minute and in a slightly disappointed tone he announced, "You don't have any cavities."


Now on a serious note.  A Dentist from Minnesota named Walter Palmer murdered a lion in Africa who was lovingly known to the locals as Cecil the Lion.  He apparently paid $50,000 and had 2 guides with him.  They used bait to lure Cecil outside the nature preserve where he lived.  He shot Cecil with a crossbow but that didn't kill him.  They tracked Cecil for 40 hours and finally found him and shot him to death with guns.  It makes me so angry I can't think of words to describe what a despicable act this was and what a loathsome person this individual is.  I wish he could be put into a cage with no weapons and several hungry lions and see what happens.  Or maybe he could be hunted by several men with high powered rifles with scopes and see how he likes it.  He is apparently wanted by the government of Zimbabwe for this shameful act and is now in hiding.  I sincerely hope he is found and deported there to face some kind of justice.  Unfortunately, this will not bring back Cecil the lion.  And lest we forget, every day millions upon millions of animals are murdered by humans, what a bunch of hypocrites we humans are.

Sunday, July 5, 2015

The Great Compromise of 2015

The widely anticipated Sumarongi College Board of Regents took place.  It was an emergency meeting called because Scholar Emeritus "Ye Olde Farte" was attempting to force the School of Fine Arts Fall Musical to be a production based on the songs of the singer Taco.  The Drama Department head Pantz A, DeLeon was vehemently against this as she had decided to do a review of the music of Patty Smyth.  Her and the Chairman of the School of Fine Arts, Foodwin P. Elegante went to Sumarongi Chancellor John to ask that a Board of Regents meeting be called to discuss the matter.  When they went in to Chancellor John's office he didn't know who the hell they were because of his worsening case of Alzheimer's. They then went to the real power at Sumarongi, Dean James and he agreed to call a meeting.

Meeting Attendees
Chancellor John, Dean James, Scholar in Residence:  Culpepper Pemplefelt, Scholar Emeritus:  "Ye Olde Farte", School of Fine Arts Chairman:  Dr. Foodwin P. Elegante, Drama Department Head:  Pantz A. Deleon, Computer Science Department Head:  Dr. Cobol D. Clodpate,  Science Department Head:  Dr. Mortimer A. Magpie,  School of Business Chairman:  Paul Bunion, The Alumni Honorarium:  Baroness Von Vegalilly of Luxembourg and Chief of Security: Zell U. Light.


Scholar Emeritus:  "Ye Olde Farte".  Despite his title, "Ye Olde Farte"  wields a great amount of power at Sumarongi.  The honor of being called "Ye Olde Farte"  is passed down to each Scholar Emeritus.  No one really knows what his real name is.  Rumor has it, it is John but no one would dare call him John or be prepared to endure his incredible wrath.  His most important contribution to academia is "The Three T's" Theory.  Time, Taco and Tabasco.  His lifelong research has been the assertion that there is no such thing as time.  He has written many papers and done many tests to prove his theory that time does not exist. Time is just something some stupid idiot developed.  The other T's are Tabasco and Taco.  He also has done a life's worth of research on his assertion that Tabasco sauce is the elixir of life.  Once again he has written many papers that prove his theory on why Tabasco sauce is essential to human existence.  The last T is Taco.  He feels that the singer Taco is the most underrated genius in music history and has been a champion to put Taco in his proper place amount the greats of music such as Mozart, Bach, Sinatra, Pavarotti, Stravinsky.


                                      School of Fine Arts Chairman:  Dr. Foodwin P. Elegante


                                                Drama Department Head:  Pantz A. DeLeon

Dr. Elegante and Pantz A. DeLeon are the true power couple at Sumarongi.  They are married and rule all things in the Fine Arts with an iron fist.  Dr. Elegante is a world renowned expert on the films of internationally famous director, Federico Fabrizi.  He is always immaculately dressed and casual attire to him is a three piece suit.  Pantz A. DeLeon is known for the attractive pants suits she wears around campus.  She reportedly was married to Foodwin in a white pants suit.  Rumor also has it they do not sleep in the same bed and neither has ever seen each other naked.  They believe their children were conceived by test tube.  It is said no one has ever seen Pantz A. DeLeon's legs ever.


                                Computer Science Department Head: Dr. Cobol D. Clodpate


                                                        Chief of Security:  Zell U. Light

The meeting started quite rambunctiously with heated disputes between "Ye Olde Farte" and Foodwin P. Elegante.  Foodwin said that no one was going to force their will on the School of Fine Arts.  At one point Security Chief Zell U. Light had to step in and separate the two or fists were going to fly.  Culpepper Pemplefelt and Dean James then came up with a brilliant plan and compromise which would satisfy both parties.  They decided the fall musical would be a musical review of famous one named singers,  Each attendee would submit one nominee and a special blue ribbon committee would choose six of the singers for the final musical.  Then each person could submit several songs by each artist and the committee would select two numbers for each of the artists for the musical.  The final vote was 11-0 in favor of the plan and disaster was averted.

The following were the artists nominated by each attendee:

Chancellor John:  He didn't nominate anyone because he had no idea what they were talking about.
Dean James:  Dion
Culpepper Pemplefelt:  Morrissey, and he picked 2 songs he felt were culturally significant: "Tony The Pony" and "Dagenham Dave".
"Ye Olde Farte":  Taco
Dr. Foodwin P. Elegante:  Fabian
Pantz A. DeLeon:  Martika
Dr, Cobol D. Clodpate:  Lulu
Paul Bunion:  Cher
Dr. Mortimer A. Magpie:  Pink
Baroness Von Vegalilly:  Basia
Zell U. Light:  Beyonce