Nothing To Get Up About

"I ran into the fortune teller the other the other day and she said-
"Beware of lightning that might strike"
"I haven't known peace and quiet for so long I've forgotten what it's like"

Here are three fortune cookies.  I'll give you the option of smashing one of them with this hammer sight unseen and just- - toss it here in this waste basket.  The other two cookies said

"Don't go where the road don't go" and
"Forget about your silly whim- it doesn't fit the Plan"

Well this morning I got up at 6:15.  There was no particular reason to get up early at all.  I kind of lay in bed a while before I actually checked the time.  I had just had a dream where I had this at length interview with John Lennon and I was making all these notes and hearing all of his observations on things- - but there were really no “current events” in this dream per se.  Anyhow I remember typing up a bunch of pages and planning to photocopy them and send them off in snail mail sometimes overlaying art of one page over another.  But today there was “Nothing to get up about”.  “Meet the Press” is on now- - - and of course his rule of thumb goes “Any violence in the Mideast is good for my poll numbers” so the more they talk about it on NBC the happier Romney is.  Pat Buchannon thinks we should yank our foreign aid to Egypt if they don’t start showing us a little respect, and I can’t argue with that.  Today is September 16, 2012 – so it’s “El dia de la Independencia” for all our Chicano friends.  Today is also of course “El ultima Domingo en verano”.  Today is BOSC land is a rather dubious anniversary.  It’s the 31^st anniversary of the last time we took Toby to any park before the dog got too sick.  I think the other members in the party were Pete Richards, Dragon Lady (you BOC fans) Jeane Hayse, Vicky, and me and Laura, of course.  Eddie Haskel wants me to tell all you people if you see Dragon Lady today to walk up to her and say “Tu tiennes un cara como Puerco”.  Of course out friends at NBC know you should celebrate today’s festivities with “Puerco”.  Of course as you know that Sam Bassile guy was questioned by authorities yesterday because perhaps making that inflamitory film violated his parole terms for bank fraud in 2009 or whatever, because he was forbidden to use anything involving the internet.  But it’s just like Dr. Levy to “drop the ball” on this one.  We did not discuss current affairs at yesterday’s gathering.  We did not discuss Rosh Hashana even though Dr. Levy is a Jew.  We did not discuss that sheet he handed out last week and then collected at the end of class.  We were only a small way through it.  We did not watch the video on Dr. Levy’s Italy trip three months ago.  (I’ve about given up hope on that)  And we did not discuss signing permission slips for use or our poetry and other writings in that upcoming book Dr. Levy plans to compile- - but seems to have forgotten all about it.  What we did discuss last week of course was technology, which wasn’t bad.  But he has no follow through, just like USC could not rest on the laurals of a 14 to 7 lead yesterday.  With Netenyaho as chief spokesman in chief for the Mitt Romney campaign, none of us can rest there, either.  In fact these days, given my recent record, I’m not predicting anything about anything.  I have no real complaint about Netenyaho’s “drawing a line in the sand” or “in the red zone”.  Netenyahoo pointed out that John Kennedy drew a line in the water in Cuba with the Soviet armeda, and the Russians did not cross it- - and this may well have prevented the necessity for World War III.

Well, Stanford beat USC tonight 21 to 14 in a game that literally shredded USC’s reputation as a number two team, a designation I’m not sure how they got in the first place because they beat a couple of nothing teams their first two games.  They got off to a strong 21 to 14 start and it looked like more was easily obtainable.  There was a risky fourth and 19 play they did and picked up 24 yards.  But later as they were about to push their lead to two touchdowns they began dropping passes and getting sacked all over the place.  At one point the FOX commentator said “You can feel the momentum of this game shifting to Stanford, as if by conformance to a script.  It was soon after this that Stanford scored making it fourteen all, and then Stanford pushed it to 21 points.  So USC’s scoring was confined to the early minutes of the game.  But like I say I felt the FOX commentator was definitely biased.  The game was some four minutes in progress at the stroke of five, and the game ended at 8:25.  Well now it’s just a game best forgotten about.  On ABC they had Notre Dame and Michigan State and Notre Dame easily handled the Spartans.  This game put’s USC’s entire post season bowl championship plans in doubt.  I can’t imagine what USC was thinking with some really bad play decisions.

Bill has been generous with the cigarettes.  We had peanut butter and jelly sandwiches from Donnie.  I watched the Mc Laughlin group and it was a four to one gang-up of conservatives against the lone liberal, Eleanor Clift.  If they all want to agree that the moon is made out of green cheese what should I care?  I went out near the end of the game and James was playing Led Zeppelin I and I listened to “You Shook Me” and “Dazed and Confused”.  The AC continues to work well and it’s a good thing since it’s still probably above eighty outside.  I made coffee about seven and poured Bill a large cup.  It’s almost like USC threw the game because there were so many obvious bad plays, dropped passes, and bad play calling.  I haven’t checked my blogger numbers and right now I guess the lower the better. Later on I went out once more on the patio and James was playing "Back in the Saddle Again" followed by "Draw the Line" and I watched N C I S on C B S.

What we all have been wondering is that age old question “Does Time itself have ontological existence”?  Remember when you use that word if you can’t substitute the word “necessary” as in “necessary existence”, then you’ve picked the wrong word.  Does Time itself have “substantive” existence?  Albert Einstein for at least most of his life was not clear on this issue.  The answer greatly changes how we view the world.  As you know me and Dr. Albert disagree on the “necessary existence” of the eubiquitus “Ether” substance.  I maintain- - again strictly by deductive logic- - that part of the definition of “Wave” is the notion of a “Medium” of propagation.  I bet even Fred Price agrees with my logic here.  I wanted to point out that the Evangelist of last Friday made the following statement.  He said “If you fall short of the Grace of God then you allow a root of bitterness to spring up”.  First of all in Evangelical circles all sorts of power has been attributed to this “root of bitterness” from the Hanta virus to the attack of 9 – 11 on the Twin Towers.  This “root of bitterness” is kind of this eubiquitus “Thing” out there that we are to be deathly afraid of.  But let’s back up a bit.  Implicit in the word Grace is the notion of “bridging the gap between requirement and performance.  That is, if you should fall short of your goal, then you are allowed grace.  The idea of “falling short of Grace” is kind of an oxy-moromisum, in this sense.   Not only the notion of “falling short of Grace” is something that shouldn’t be happening, or more strongly “Doesn’t happen”.  No less than John Calvin goes farther.  He says “Falling short of God’s grace- - - CAN’T happen”.  It’s too bad these tea totteler evangelists on the right don’t read Calvin.  Besides- - since Grace is morally neutral to begin with- - on this basis alone “falling short of it” would be no moral vice.  (Selah)