Category Archives: Opinion

If You’re Happy and You Know it: Stomp

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This weekend I’m going to go see Stomp. I haven’t seen them since the 90’s but I’m quite looking forward to it. I believe we’ll be passing Abby off onto someone else because it will be too loud for her, but I’m very excited. Saturday may lead to another day of working on ‘home things’ but Sunday night is going to be intense! I was blown away by the quality of the percussion rhythms and the diversity as well since to most folks drums have about 6 different beats in the music they listen to. Being a drummer in Jr. High and High School I just loved it and I bought the DVD for my collection – I pull it out every once in a while to enjoy the fun.

Have you seen Stomp, and if so, what did you think?

Poor Italian Girl Totally Gets Blown Off

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So there’s a commercial on TV for some sort of low carb pasta that comes on with this mother and daughter going into a store. The store looks so expensive that I would probably have to take out a small loan or donate some organs to afford to shop at… once. In the background the commercial has some Italian opera music. I don’t know what the guy is singing about so I often join in with an English translation that I can only assume reflects the intents of the original lyrics in my native tongue.

However, the middle of the commercial shows this girl lifting up one of the pristine boxes of noodles that the competition sells. Since the mother is health conscious and wants the rest of her Italian family to live the Adkin’s lifestyle she shakes her head, ‘no,’ and holds up a box of [marketed brand name here] noodles. Then, they show the woman lifting a noodle on the end of a fork into her mouth. The camera changes angles and she actually ‘chews’ a noodle. Or so it seems. Actually showing anyone masticating like that is not sexy, therefore they show this part from a great distance (which shows that this family has some serious cash since their kitchen can handle a distant shot panning around the room).

Then, to further insult us they show a family of four: a man, the woman, the girl, and a boy all sitting at the table eating some sort of pasta dish. However, these must be droid children because the fact that the sauce is so sparse on the noodles makes it look like they’re just eating a plate of these low-carb noodles with bits of tomato for decoration. No United States of America born child actually eats noodles plain, they drench them in so much sauce that the noodles become a medium for the sauce. In most homes it probably looks like a Tomato based soup with noodles in it.

I still insist that the opera words go something like this:
A woman and her daughter
Love to buy noodles
The daughter is skinny
The Mom is anorexic
[it should be noted that the words don’t rhyme because this is a direct translation, word for word].

The mom is on Adkin’s
Please put it back kid
I’m the boss
Don’t mess with me

She looks so sultry
Eating the noodles
Look how her fork glimmers
In her sexy hand
[Those Italians know sex sells]

The family is eating
Smile or a beating [that rhyme was not intentional]
We’re so stereotypical
It makes you want to throw up

Coffee Ice Cream Review

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So last weekend we made Coffee Ice Cream using Craig Kaes’ fantastic Espresso and real live (dead) Vanilla Beans. It was quite tasty with the exception that it had maybe 2 table spoons too much sugar so the richness of the coffee was lost just a little bit. I would have eaten it all myself but I think that would have resulted in several things:

  • Obesity on my part
  • Diabetes for me
  • Death for me as the others would have certainly mauled me to a point where I would have died

I would recommend getting espresso as the coffee flavoring and refrigerating all of the pieces for the 6 hours like we did. We also froze the ‘soft serve’ ice cream out of the ‘maker’ longer to solidify it more. We had to leave before the ice cream was really firm, but it was quite tasty. I imagine that if the Kaes still have any it tastes good, too. I would also imagine that they don’t have any more 🙂

Lord, Forgive My Fleshly Desire for This Video Recorder

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It may be a couple years until this is in my price range, but this little device will rock the consumer cam-corder market: JVC Introduces Hard Disk Camcorders. This will make transferring video from your computer to DVD or the Internet nearly instantaneous since the clips are stored as seperate files (one for each recording session), they’re stored in MPEG-2 format, which is the typical DVD format – and when you translate them into Quicktime or Windows Media format they’ll have a quality starting format.

This is on the top of my Christmas wishlist for 2010, when they’re cheap enough.

Realer Mexican Food Found Near Denver

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Since moving from Texas, where Tex-Mex is so prevalent that quality is a must if you want to stay in business, we have found the Denver area to be deficient of what we would call ‘Mexican Food.’ However, thanks to the keen taste buds of my Chiropractor (and her mom!) we found Los Dos Potrillos (Flash Encrusted Web Site with Authentic Mexican background music). The service was a bit lacking, but I think the gal who was serving us was a bit overwhelmed. The food was good and I finally tasted something that resembled Mexican food, again. There is hope for us here after all 😉

It’s My United States of… Whatever

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The title of this post comes from an Liam Lynch number. It’s odd, but so is Lynch. I like it. However, this post is about the phrase “Bush’s America.” I’m tired of reading it and hearing it and tasting it and feeling it. Google Search: Bush’s America. There’s over 19,000,000 references to said term.

Yuck. It’s my United States of America. America is a contenent, and it doesn’t belong to Bush. Nor does it belong to any one person or nation. Lets stop calling it that silly, short sited name shall we? When Clinton was in Office politically right winged folks said that he and Hillary were going to pull some coup and never leave power until they, or their clones, died. Now, left leaning folks are calling this Bush’s America and saying Bush has some secret plan to do the same.

Stop! I’m ready to get off this ride and realize that the political system of this Democratic-Republic is not a simple system to break up and destroy. If Bush were to pull some scheme you can bet that all sorts of chaos would erupt. Much worse than if Michael Jackson had been found guilty 🙂

OK, I’m done.

The Circus Is Over, Now What

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So Michael, besides being a robot, is apparently not being convicted and prosecuted for various attempts to turn a minor into a robot, too. Who cared? Who Cares? Who will care? The Media had their circus, the fans were photographed, Michael’s robot was photographed, and the Jurors are going to have to go go rehab for Jurors. Speaking of which: who pays the jurors after these extremely long periods of jury duty? The answer is that they get paid almost nothing for their time yet the attorneys get paid millions of dollars. That’s just plain stupid seeing as how those on the Jury might just have mortgage payments, car payments and if they’re like most of America, they’ve got a lot of debt, too. After this ‘juring’ they’ve surely got more debt than when they started.

Michael Jackson… Cloned?

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So, as many of America’s top thinkers have thought: Michael Jackson is fake. I swear that the man who, on live Television, walked into the court room was not human. he had this look of a robot. I’m convinced that the real Michael Jackson is on some island somewhere else and is not remotely close to any court house.

To the White Honda Behind Me Last Night: Thank You!

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Yes, you, Mr. Speedy Pants. Thanks for riding my bumper all the way across the Dam Road. Thank you for swerving as if you wanted to speed around me while I was carrying my pregnant wife and precious two year old. Thank you for endangering my life, the lives of my family members and the lives of others on the road. We appreciate it.

Signed,

Randy Peterman

Post Script: Please move to Florida where that sort of driving is the norm.