Get Together for Jake
Hey Jake and all Simpson family members. I don't know how your schedule is looking Jake but we sure would like to see you and hear about your South American adventures. I'd like to have everyone come over on Friday evening, August 24rth. Jake would you be available then? If not perhaps there could be a gathering some other time. We'd all like to see you!
posted by Junglechina at 8/15/2007 01:13:00 PM
7 Comments:
great idea, marg.
we'd like elizabeth to see all her cousins, aunts, and uncles.
chuck, just about done watching shut up and sing. it's entertaining watching the chicks in concert. and it's amusing to watch them sit around and bitch about their terrible plight in this unfair world.
but i guess beyond that i don't get it.
powerful rightwing bad guys thwart country singers? lots of bad guys out there, on all sides, doing all kinds of nasty stuff.
no more #1 country singles because a bunch of rednecks won't buy their tunes cause they dissed georgie? poor girls.
the caretaker sold over 125,000 copies. the pub biz said that was not enough. now i can barely get anyone to read my stuff much less buy it or even tell me if it's any good. maybe someone wants to make a documentary of me sitting around on my scrawny arse getting my hair done and listening to me bitch about the six unsold novels i have in my drawer.
write on. ride on. run on. play with your kids. life is short.
Marg,
I am on a business trip, leaving on Tuesday and arriving around 7 pm on Friday. That will prevent me from attending. However Rich, Pete and Ted might be able to. I'll check with them tonight.
Love,
Nanda
I'll try to be there.
...As for the Dixie Chix:
One of the things about our country that has always frustrated me yet continues to surprise me is our boundless hypocrisy. We believe ourselves to be the greatest nation on earth, above all for the freedoms our Constitution purports to guarantee, yet often when a person has the gall to use those freedoms—most particularly the freedom of speech—in a manner that’s construed by some to be out of line, he or she is pilloried as a traitor, fellow traveler, commie, etc. Case in point: before it was fashionable to oppose the Iraq debacle, the few people around willing to speak against the war were branded as anti-American, and in fact in some cases still are. What was significant for me about Shut Up and Sing wasn’t the rightwing bad guys or even the artists’ loss of personal respect and professional prestige. It was the hateful, at times murderous, intolerance of a large segment of our people, and more detestable, the hatred and condemnation mustered against those artists by the media, which should have been defending free speech, whether they supported their political views or not. (What could be more in the media’s interest than defending free speech? he asked naively.) Well, money—of course! I know it’s naïve, but I still expect the U.S to live up to the promises it made 53 years ago when my 3rd grade catechism brainwashed me into believing that this is the land of the free and home of the brave.
Hi Marg, Ill be in New Orleans next weekend but would be happy to come for dinner one evening next week ?
Hey Bill, maybe John and I can stop by this Sunday ? Also Id like to see Grandpa and told Nanda + Rich we'd come over ...
Unfortuntely Josh is working on Sunday and in Vegas next weekend for another bachelor's party.
Charles if you make it down here at some point Ill find a way to meet up with you.
That sounds good Jake. I talked to your Mom and she knows the score. Hope to see you mid week. Since it appears that there were other visits already in the works I'll withdraw my big get together offering.
Chuckie I'm sorry Dude but you knew they was snakes all along. The media sucks along with insurance and pharmacutical companies and most Republicans and the industrial military complex. We are all smoke and mirrors and stories about Britney. I'm thinking local, do what you can do. You're a good man who tries to be compassionate, lives a thoughtful life taking pleasure in many good things, working hard.Don't make yourself nuts with this stuff. We know its not fair or right or what we like to believe about our country but it exists. Hey remember what Anne Frank said, I choose to believe that too. Why don't you rent Caddyshack and forget about the sorry state of the world for awhile? It will still be there when you are finished but you will feel better I hope.
chas, please do not cool your heels; at least not while blogging or conversing. vent or die... or go watch TV
now back to the chicks. after finishing the film, i still was unable to muster much empathy for the trio. i liked the tart one; i like anyone with passion.
but it really seems as though the system worked pretty well. she said her piece (bush sucks), then others said their piece (she sucks).
the douche bag who threatened to shoot her should have his testes torn off with a dull garden shears, but everyone else in the mix played out the capitalist/democratic system nicely. the chicks got to keep making records and the people got to buy them or not.
at least we don't have a system wherein the chick was tossed in the gulag for lambasting the prez or wherein the chicks were prevented from recording their music or wherein the people were kept from expressing themselves verbally or with their pocketbooks.
it's just too bad someone didn't pop diane sawyer.
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