Vic Vinegar

Vic Vinegar of Honey and Vinegar Real Estate.
The Real Estate team that uses "Good cop, Bad cop" philosophy.

Draft Flashbacks

I got nothin. I'm out. I'm wiped. S'okay, it's not permanent. I decided to venture into "Edit Posts" and check out the Drafts I've left along the way. The posts below are probably not suppose to see the light of the internet, but I feel like posting them anyway. I did manage to comment a little on each Draft post. Enjoy?

An Idea for a Conceptual Art Play

Spices mixed with herbs

Herb mixed with spices

It's time to go down stairs

Make an appearance

We feel special and famous

Everyone does

We take the stairs

Emerging from the staircase,

we open our smokey eyes to light

and a darkness in the freight elevator shaft

The lift is on the first floor

Thermiu and Andiwin hold on to the wooden gates

and look down to the top of the elevator

Slowly their eyes climb up, taking in all the movement below

"There's a pretty big crowd this time."

"Yeah!"

"It's so cool to look down the shaft and hold onto the gate."

"I know! This would be a cool stage setting in a play."

"Yeah! Yes! It really would!"

The guys are looking around the art studios trying to find

something to drink.

"This is little mama's studio. She comes over and lifts up her skirt for a blue."

"Whoa, really Wic? That's messed up."

Runs on Farnsworth Rays

Appropriately enough, one of Artie's gizmos is a video communicator dubbed "The Farnsworth:"

“This is basically a video cellphone and it was invented by Philo Farnsworth, the unrecognized inventor of television,” Simkins says. “We imagined that Philo invented it one weekend in 1929, it worked, and it’s been in the warehouse ever since. One reason they still use it is that the technology is so old, no one can hack it. It’s not digital. I don’t even know what it runs on but it’s untraceable because the Farnsworth exists totally off the grid.”


I don't remember where I found this, but I believe it was in an article in either msnbc or wikipedia. I don't remember who Artie is..........

Problem Complexities

The time it takes to solve a problem is a measure in the problem's complexity.

How complex is your problem?

I had a problem. So I looked up problem.
I think I got this from wikipedia.

drug thoughts

Okay. Hmmmmm..... Making people safe from drugs..... What's the drug problem? Killings. Miserable Humans. Problem. Sick people trying to make them selves better. Drug users are sick people trying to make themselves feel better. Only to turn themselves sicker. How to care for sick people that made themselves sicker? This is the question. Looking for more chemicals to make sick people better. Places to dry up and shake off. Best choice can't be jail. Sounds like a medical problem.

Customer drives the market. No more customers....No more Market?

No more Market, no more sellers? Probably not....but, maybe less killings?

So, COMBAT is not making people safe from drugs by taking people to jail who are sick that made themselves sicker.

Dealers.....what are words to describe them?

It depends on the drug and circumstance.

No More Illegal Drugs.

No More Sick people in Jail.

A local commercial irritated me.

Fascism

from Wikipedia: Fascist movements promote violence between nations, political factions, and races as part of a social Darwinist and militarist stance that views violence between these groups as a natural and positive part of evolution.

What makes these movements think that they are the catalyst to evolution and destruction?

Just in case I forget.

The TOO long, never finished "review"--read at your own risk!

I watched Logan's Run a couple nights ago. I can't say it was spectacular, but I can't say I don't like it. I think I can say I possibly love it. The film is based on a book of the same name. I love the 1976 visual effects--there is an element of Star Trek in it that is comforting. Set in 2274, the movie begins with the camera panning over a domed city or actually, an obvious miniature set. Eventually the camera rests on a baby hand with a white diamond in it. When the inhabitants of this city reach the age of 30 they must go to the carosel and be whisked up and evaporated so that they can be renewed. While these poor souls are getting killed, the theater of youngsters around them are cheering them on, chanting "Renew!" Sometimes there are people who try to get out of renewing and decide to run. Logan 5 is a Sandman, whose job is to catch these runners and zap them with this crazy inaccurate gun. Once they finally zap the runner they call for clean up and a person in a flying armoured segway looking thing comes and pours something that looks like the stuff janitors use to clean up puke over the dead body which, in a few seconds, disentegrates the remains completely. Oh don't the janitors of the present wish they had this stuff!
Then we get to see how these people of the future live their lives at home. Logan 5 is dressed in this hilarious kimono relaxing in his futuristic pad. He saunters over to this enclave in his living room and checks what they call the circuit. At first a man appears and he laughs and shakes his head no. Then a scantily clad female finds herself in Logan's love lair. She is rockin' this enormous ankh pendant on a choker. He is ready for love, but she is not. He wonders why she was on the circuit, she thinks she was mistaken. Logan's friend and fellow Sandman, Francis, busts into the living space with two swinging chicks. The ankh girl leaves. Logan looks after her, but then his attention is turned toward his friend and the two foxy ladies. Francis throws some red dust in the air covering the gang and they raise their faces up to the dust in a lustful fashion.
Back at work, Logan gets an assignment from a computer. The computer has a female voice. She tells him that there is a place called Sanctuary and that is where he will find some runners that have successfully escaped. The computer shows him the ankh symbol and tells him basically that this is the key to find Sanctuary. Then he gets the most unsettling news that he must act as a runner in order to infiltrate the society of this underground movement. To his dismay the computer turns his life clock (the jewel in his hand) from red to blinking red, meaning it's his time to renew. He fears for his life when he asks if he finds Sanctuary will his life clock be turned back. For chrissake he has 4 more years! The computer goes blank.
Logan hides his blinking life clock and decides to find the ankh girl. He realizes that she can lead him to Sanctuary. Ankh girl meets him, her name is Jessica 6. He shows her that he's a runner and her eyes grow wide. He asks her about Sanctuary and she sorta feigns ignorance. In the middle of this exchange, Logan gets a call on his 1970's space age walky-talky. There's a runner at the plaza. The plaza is in the bad part of town where children under 16, called the cubs, live. Without parents, these cubs are left free to brutalize, rob and basically live like savages. Jessica 6 decides to go with Logan to catch the runner. While gliding in a pneumonic tube shuttle system, they talk about society's ills and Jessica waxes philosophical that she wishes that she knew her mother. They find the runner in the Plaza and Logan lets the runner go. Unfortunately, Logan's friend and fellow Sandman, Francis, got the same call and got to the Plaza just in time to see Logan letting the runner go. Francis did not follow suit and begins the chase of his friend turned runner. For some reason, my husband and I couldn't figure it out, Logan decides he has to get a new face. Jessica takes him to a doctor she knows. Farah Fawcett-Majors is the doctor's secretary. She is, like, far out.

Even though the doctor is on Jessica's/Runner's side he decides to let the lasers go haywire all over Logan. Logan escapes miraculously and the doctor ends up getting lasered to death. Farah is in shock and hovers over the doc with tears in her eyes. Jessica and Logan again start their run. Francis as always, is just behind them. Somehow they decide that the way to Sanctuary is through the sex shop. They get separated for a second by writhing naked people; the women take Logan, the men take Jessica. Logan and Jessica make some kind of communication through eye contact and slight head movements and they get away. Ah! They were right! The way to Sanctuary is through the sex shop! They enter a frozen room and meet a robot--oh, strike that, an android that looks like a poorly made robot. His name is Box. Box freezes all the seaweed, fish and other food that comes in (it's never explained who brings in the food to Box) for the inhabitants of the city. Well, Box used to freeze the food, until the food stopped coming. The only thing that came after while were the runners so Box froze them instead. Looks of horror from Jessica and Logan at their frozen comrades. Does that mean that the people of the city were eating people? Soylent Green is pee-pul!! They never say. Logan is the only runner to have a gun so he uses it on Box and the place explodes. Logan and Jessica narrowly escape the see-through ice crystal special effects. Here comes Francis and this is last we see of him for awhile (he must run like the 6 million dollar man). An opening out of the dome! Also, Logan doesn't believe in Sanctuary any more, he thinks that Sanctuary was built on belief and hope. Jessica doesn't agree and thinks that this new warm place must be Sanctuary. They find a lake, get naked and skinny dip. They look at their life clocks. What?! Ha! They are renewed! Wow!

After trampling many miles through an overgrown forest, they see, well, they see the Lincoln Memorial, overgrown with weeds, of course. The two look at the statue of Lincoln and wonder aloud that this. must. be. what. it. looks. like. to. be. old. (Kind of Capt. Kirk like). They see tombstones and wonder what they are. They wander into the US Congress Chambers. They hear a sound. In walks Peter Ustinov as a scraggly old man. He talks in T.S. Eliot cat riddles and conveniently has a lot of cats. Jessica asks him if his wrinkles or the cracks on his face hurt. She asks to touch them. Ustinov obliges and giggles when she touches him. They start asking him more questions. Whoa! He doesn't have a life clock. Wow! He knows his mother and father.

lesson plan for kids: A Study on George Washington Carver

Make peanut butter--describe that all nuts can be used to make "butter", mention the oils in nuts
History on GWC
Plant peanut plants, if possible in garden and one to take home.
Describe legumes and the nitrogen cycle
Go outside and find legume plants
Draw diagram of peanut plant or legume plant of their choice.
Read a book about GWC

Math in the Morning--find record that Mr. Marks used for times tables, chalkboard challenges


I'm sure that this is already done--I don't have kids, what the hell do I know!

Mr. Marks Rocks!

I want to work at Marr Sound Archives

Yeah, I do.

A Rational Approach

Good article about the US's 37th ranking in World Health Care.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32898477/ns/health-health_care/

Ya see? It's not so bad, relax.

Charley Harper

I love this artist and the way he described his art: "minimal realism".





"When I look at a wildlife or nature subject, I don’t see the feathers in the wings, I just count the wings. I see exciting shapes, color combinations, patterns, textures, fascinating behavior and endless possibilities for making interesting pictures. I regard the picture as an ecosystem in which all the elements are interrelated, interdependent, perfectly balanced, without trimming or unutilized parts; and herein lies the lure of painting; in a world of chaos, the picture is one small rectangle in which the artist can create an ordered universe." -Charley Harper

Hey! Wow!

from msnbc:

"Czech Premier Jan Fischer told reporters that Obama phoned him overnight to say that "his government is pulling out of plans to build a missile defense radar on Czech territory."

"The same happened with Poland. Poland was informed in the same way about this intention," Fischer said."

maybe President Obama read my blog....HA! This is good news--so far.

Last Night

After a day of uncertainty, this was my night:

it was not a dream....

:(

RIP Buddy Swayze (1952-2009)

Insane in the Membrane

Crazy insane, Got no brain!

Who you tryin to get crazy with ese?
Don't you know I'm loco?

Come on people now!
Smile on your brother
Everybody get together...

...and take hits from the bong!

Pick it, pack it, fire it up, come aloooong
and take hits from the boooong

We're gonna need it....

Cypress Hill lyrics from Insane in the Membrane and Hits from the Bong
Nirvana's version of The Youngbloods lyrics from Get Together

takin tv pics

watchin
captain
kAN-ga-roo
I have no idea, what I'm tryin to dooooo!


(from: visio commercial)

Wall and Rye

A Hall and Oates Parody Cover Band

Duo parodic suggestions for the Hall and Oates song, Kiss is on my List:

for shits and giggles:

your shit, your shit

is on my list

your shit, your shit, I can't resist

because your shit is on my list

gonna knock out your liiii-iights

this is what the lyrics were supposed to be, but H&O were censored:

your kiss, your kiss

is on my dick

your kiss, your kiss, I can't resist

because your kiss is on my dick

when I turn out the liiii-iights

It just makes more sense, right knw?

A Touch of Autumn

demeter kissed golden chinese elm leaf

firethorn pomes

happy pink chomper

mushroom sombrero

ripe dogwood drupes

pearl cinnamon roll

bitter melon blossom with parsley

Friday Fluff

This plant is like crack to an adverse group of flying insects.

Lazy Ass Activism

Here's what I sent to my Senators and Representative:

Dear Public Servant:

I appreciate your service to Missouri. Please admit that our health care system is in need of reform and work toward a solution to uplift the health of our nation. Preventative health care must be implemented. We the People are the government, let's not be afraid of ourselves. Thank you.

Andrew Law

citizen

Currently Reading: Short Stories of...

Truman Capote

The scandalous photo that helped launch Capote's star.

The Grass Harp and A Tree of Night and other stories

Read so far:
Children on their Birthdays
Miriam
My Side of the Matter
Jug of Silver

And Willa Cather


The Troll Garden

Her first book comprised of short stories.

I have finished only one: Flavia and her Artists.

I'm enjoying this mix of authors. It feels like the perfect season for these two!

Lake Break