“What is your name?”
Job Applicant
“What is your quest?”
I seek a job
“What… is your favorite color?”
Blue! No. Yell… AHHhhhhhhhh! (This is where you need the parachute.)
http://www.careerpath.com/career-tests/colorcareercounselor.aspx
Add comment February 9th, 2010
Prudence Bury has put her home in France up for sale. Prue says it’s time to downsize, but “Oh how I hate that expression.” Here is a link where you can see her property, which includes a separate guest/vacation house, called a gîte.
http://www.vendeehousesales.eu/index.html
What a lovely place! The farm house was restored by Prue, and she did all of the decorating, of course.
Prudence Bury-Fuchs with the Beatles band Los Brandys, November 2009
1 comment February 7th, 2010
Seeing the end of printed newspapers on the horizon, Mark Fiore was one of the first political cartoonists to use Flash animation. Fiore is a liberal, and around the time that George Bush was re-elected I watched a lot of his cartoons. But eventually his bag o’ gag tricks became somewhat repetitive, and I stopped watching.
Back in December, NPR used one of Fiore’s cartoons, and it went relatively unnoticed for a while, but then went viral.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120344047
But Fiore doesn’t give Obama a free ride. Unlike Republicans, Democrats think it’s all right to criticize a sitting President from their own party. The lock-step adherence to the GOP party line during Bush’s tenure was both impressive and appalling.
It is my opinion that George W. Bush was by the far the worst President we have ever had — how I wish we’d never gone into Iraq — but there’s no doubt that the mess he left behind is Obama’s to fix, and I’m pretty much with Jon Stewart in my criticisms of the job Obama is doing so far. Financially, there are two things that I think must happen, where Obama could show some leadership:
As far as fiscal policy goes, I think we’re spending all we can now. Borrowing more money from China isn’t in our national interest, not even in the short term.
4 comments February 4th, 2010
As I keep saying, I enjoy listening to BBC Radio 2. Steve Wright in the Afternoon is in the morning here, at 9 AM ET. On Wednesday Steve’s guest will be Micky Dolenz.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00qfzp9
4 comments February 2nd, 2010
Besides being given an iPad on Sunday, Stephen Colbert also happened to win a Grammy for the music from this Christmas special…
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My favorite Col(d)bert Christmas tune is this…
1 comment February 2nd, 2010
A very happy birthday to Monte Schulz, whose novel “This Side of Jordan,” makes for very compelling reading. There’s one aspect of Monte’s book that I would compare to a famous comic strip — but not “Peanuts.” Like Chester Gould’s “Dick Tracy” in its heyday, the scenes of violence in “This Side of Jordan” are relatively few, but they’re so sudden, shocking and memorable that you may think the story is more violent than it really is.
Every year for Christmas I get the latest 2-volume box set of “The Complete Peanuts” series. Last year I pointed out that one of the books had a printing defect. It happens to be on the page with the installment of “Peanuts” that was published on Monte’s 18th birthday.
Here’s the box set for Christmas 2009. We also have a new “Peanuts” ornament, but I neglected to take a photo before Carol packed it away.
4 comments February 1st, 2010