Art is not Art unless it speaks and is a pleasure to someone. In days of old, artists painted to please others. One could not produce a piece of trash calling it art and have others go overly enthusiastic about it. Shakespeare and Dickens wrote to entertain and please, but wrote well. Things have changed since those times of Michael Angelo and Monet. [Read more…] about Audacity Makes Mediocre Art
Excuses
Daytona Arena Blood Lust
Daytona 500
So, here we are again boys and girls celebrating Daytona 500 day. You know that amazing day where all these grown men get into perfectly good, expensive cars, knowing full well, I might add, that they might get smashed to smithereens. Yep, they know it, they have spent the money and will do it anyway.
Talking to a friend last might, I suggested that it was amazing that throngs watch cars going around in circles the same direction for hours. That crazy woman screamed, “But sometimes they crash!” [Read more…] about Daytona Arena Blood Lust
Lousy Books are Killing Trees!!
This week is National Green Week.
Now, I am not so much into the green thing when it comes to books. I may have books on Kindle but reading them on Kindle, well not so much.
Back to my point. So, if you are reading a book (and I will not mention said book) and you get to page 86 and you still did not get into the meat of it, then something is really screwy in this equation. Here is a waste of several pages that could have saved a tree.
Now, you try and stick to it since you are, after all, in the first pages of this mystery. Nothing so far has really happened and you are anticipating lots from the reviews and the hype. Still nothing.
When 300 pages into it, it starts to get a little better, you wrinkle your nose in disgust.
And here comes my Green Week suggestion. What if we all stopped this insatiable need to devour books in the raw and just buy online writing or even join the library. Would that be an acceptable solution to you all?
After all, if more than 80% of this book (which was made into a movie, by the by) is not getting you into the place where you cannot tear yourself away from it, what is the point?
You can put up with 20% of blah blah blah blah blah, but 80% is carrying the line too far where it is borderline garbage. You expect a mystery to grab you and not let you go. Not drag you along kicking and screaming.
If you think my idea of a library card or even online reading is valid, let me know. After all, we all have opinions like we have …… and they all stink.
Peter Pan, my eye!
Dear Baba Rumcake,
I screwed up, growing up. I can’t handle the world
I’m having some Peter Pan problems. Can’t face it.
But my parents, are too old to move back in with, and they didn’t really prepare me.
They did what they could. This introversion crap, was ok, in highschool, college, ok, but I’m 40. It’s just not cutting it, anymore.
Bratty in Baldwin
Bratty, Dude,
It may be true, but you are way overdue! After college, which is already late, there are no excuses for blaming parents.
Get on the stick! Get off your duff, stop the blame, and get a move on. Find yourself a niche. Find a life and get on with it, you, slug, you blaming, irresponsible excuse of a man.
Stop grousing, accept your culpability, and do the right thing.
Suggesting that you “cannot face the world” amounts only to one thing, you are a derelict, who does not want responsibility. Being delinquent when you are young, is not acceptable; but as an adult, it is criminal.
Peter Pan, my eye! That is an old excuse that has been over used and chewed upon to death. At least be creative, finding a more decent excuse for using your parents.
Or, find yourself, a Sugar Mama and keep living like a ‘hang on’, a zit, on the face of humanity.
Grow up, quickly!
Blessings! Wishing you a swift kick in the ass,
Baba Rumcake