c.i. and wally are all over the hearing today and you should make a point to check out c.i.'s comments on the hearings and feinstein in "Democracy Now: Al Lewis; Senate Hearings (Miss Priss Instant Cuckoo and more)" and wally's explanation of alberto gonzlaes in 'THIS JUST IN! "GET MRS. GONZALES HERE PRONTO!"' for critiques and humor.
so what's left you for you, rebecca?
so glad you asked.
well john cornyn managed to pronounce all his words correctly. alberto was slurring like a mean drunk when he got nervous which, sadly, wasn't too often because, with few exceptions, he wasn't seriously challenged. but the howler came from republican senator jeff sessions who some 1 needs to teach how to say 'fascist' because he pronounced it 'fast-ists.' jeff, we're talking about history here, basic history. how can you be so ignorant and be a senator?
although john cornyn proves that brains aren't required to serve in the senate.
did any 1 catch how cornyn left the impression that he was all over the patriot act? of course, he wasn't in the senate at the time. but corny's a glory hog.
there was moment i'll write about right after this goes up in a short post. but i want to talk about music and something else 1st. (the other thing is just something i need to get off my chest so i'm not screaming in frustration all night, plus the asshole visits sometimes and if he sees this, maybe he'll own his own crap when he reads me calling him out.)
sherry wrote and goes 'what gives rebecca? i got an e-mail from c.i. yesterday that started "finally home" and it's pretty obvious that this morning's entry is dictated and that c.i.'s in dc.' what gives? c.i. and wally are in dc with a few others. with all the problems with blogger/blogspot this weekend as well as the problems the weekend of september when we were all in dc and either couldn't get into our sites or were losing posts, the decision was made to leave the impression that all returned home. with c.i., specifically, those posts were typed up by a friend. 'paranoid?' was c.i.'s question to jim when it was proposed in dc. (and i only found that out from jim this evening. i was calling c.i. at home yesterday evening and never getting through. i was thinking 'okay, c.i. doesn't want to talk to anyone, just wants to rest.' after jim told me, i called c.i. on the cell.) but jim said 'better safe than sorry.' so that was what was done.
when do those who stayed leave? how do you know they haven't already? you don't.
so let me talk about the phone call with c.i. because i'm pissed off at some 1. with everything going on right now, you'd think 'friends' would be understanding but this 1 jerk who knows c.i. is having a little fanny fit. for over a month, this 'friend' has been nothing but 'i want . . . i want' and then c.i. makes time and the jerk blows c.i. off to party and play. now the 'friend' has a bad patch and is acting like c.i. blew the jerk off.
elaine and i are friends so let me use us as an example. she won't mind. it would be like elaine calling me up out of the blue after ignoring me for about a month to say 'hey becky, i'm sorry that we've drifted apart' and then wanting to go into all the reasons why on her end. (elaine and i have never drifted apart, for the record.) then elaine would say, 'let's really work at this friendship' and we'd both agree to and then elaine blows me off for a month. then all the sudden her brother's sick and i hear about if rom c.i. and i contact her and she acts like it's my fault. just a real jerk like this has been happening the whole time she was blowing me off and like i was the 1 blowing her off.
i told c.i. if the jerk wants to play it like that, don't lose any sleep over it. but c.i.'s all 'did i do something wrong?' because c.i. will automatically assume that. no, c.i. didn't do anything wrong. some 1 had a new year's resolution and suddenly wants to be best friends, for that 2nd in time, then gets lost in the party scene. then the jerk gets bad news, doesn't call c.i., and when c.i. goes to the trouble to contact the jerk, the jerk has a mini-explosion acting like the bad news is c.i.'s fault and c.i. has been one doing the blowing off.
what happened is some 1 didn't take life or the people around them very seriously. now 1 isn't doing well. the jerk can't own his problems and has to push them off on c.i. i don't take that crap and i wish c.i. wouldn't. i said, 'look, you have so much on your plate right now. if you won't say "screw you" to the jerk, just avoid him until you have time.'
i called elaine and told her what was going on and her response was 'well that's c.i.' and it is. any problem in the world that someone wants to push off, c.i. will grab the blame for. but this jerk has ticked me off and if c.i. lets the jerk push blame off on c.i., some 1's going to see just how angry and nasty i can be. i don't mean c.i. (the jerk sometimes visits my site. so the jerk should read this as a warning.) c.i. could be partying and basically living in la-la land but instead, c.i.'s trying to do something. some lazy ass, pampered prick doesn't need to dump his problems on c.i. boo hoo, you got bad news. so you didn't get to party all week. maybe you're a little too old to be partying all week? maybe it's past time that you grew up? or do you plan to live on your parents' money your whole damn life?
seriously, you're teenage years are long gone. quit being a mooch and grow up. and quit blaming your problems on others. if you're wishing you'd spent more time with the person who was ill, c.i. didn't prevent you from that. your partying prevented you from that. so lose the chip on your shoulder. i've never had a lot of sympathy for people who don't do anything with their lives.
some would accuse me of that. and there are some who think i live off fly boy's alimony but i don't. i made my own money. i did get this house in the divorce but he got the place in the city.
and i worked until an abortion. that's when i quit and went through my withdrawal period. (for non regular readers, i am pro-choice and i do not regret the abortion. i was and still am angry that due to the health issues, i had to excercise that option.)
but even now, i'm not partying all the time. as i've come out of my shell, i've started working with a group of teenagers and volunteering some time there. but i busted my ass for years.
this jerk still depends on mommy and daddy to pay for everything and, when your adult, that doesn't cut it. 'mommy, will you pay for my apartment?' 'daddy, where's my allowance?' i mean grow the hell up already. and you're too old for the party circuit, jerk. when all the people around you are that much younger than you, you should take a hint.
i'm not as nice as elaine or c.i. i feel like people who are just mooches aren't worth hanging around with. elaine will set boundaries but with c.i. it's different because all it takes is 1 hard luck story to pull the heart strings. that was the 1st thing i said to c.i., 'do not give that jerk any money, do not buy that jerk a "cheer up" present.' but knowing c.i. it's now guilt time and wondering 'did i do something wrong?' the world's most emotionally needy tend to regularly show up at c.i.'s doorstep. i don't have time for them. c.i. doesn't have time for them but i bet you anything right now c.i.'s still doing the 'how could i have handled this differently?' dance.
which is 1 of c.i.'s best qualities, to be fair. c.i. will examine personal relationships and will own up to mistakes. but c.i. will also grab blame that's not been earned. if some people are glory hogs for attention, c.i.'s a glory guilt hogging all the blame. and there's really not time for it right now so i'm hoping the pratical side of c.i. trumps the side that's always willing to buy into the 'it's your fault' claim.
on the phone we did have some laughs. c.i.'s still ticked me and we laughed about that. i'm a big fan of the musical hair and was on the fence about going away for the weekend 2 weekends ago. i went. so third estate sunday review did their review of the hair album without me ('Music soundtrack: Hair'). now c.i. says that 'facing a dying nation of moving paper fantasy listening for the new told lies' from 'the flesh failures (let the sunshine in)' is stuck in the head. we were laughing about that during the work on the latest edition of the third estate sunday review. and every now and then jess would offer, in his amazing baritone, 'facing a dying nation.'
i really do love that musical. i'm not huge on musicals, i think most of them are a waste of time because they're a bunch of really bad disney cartoons brought to life. but something like chicago or all that jazz or something that goes beyond 'bring the toddlers! for the whole family!' i can usually enjoy. i loved rent and saw it repeatedly.
by the way, 'Music soundtrack: Hair' noted that hair's being performed next month at 3 different locations so let me plug that. if you're in 1 of the areas, you should check out a production. fly boy and i are talking about seeing the new york production.
1) March 9 through 12 and 16 through 19th, Brown University presents its production of the musical.
2) Glendale College (Glendale, CA) starts its performance on March 10th (concludes March 26th).
3) Rounding out the March performances, the Endicott Performing Arts Center in New York performs their production of Hair on March 10-12 and 17-19.
if you've never seen hair, see if you don't come out of the theatre singing or humming the songs. like 'initials' which is 1 that usually sticks in my head when i'm making drinks with the blender for some reason:
LBJ took the IRT
Down to 4th street USA
When he got there, what did he see?
The youth of America on LSD
The Vietnam War waging.
now after that they start doing this call and response of 'lbj' and 'irt' and other lines. and you'll love what happens at the end of the song, trust me.
