Gotta sweet tooth fer this, ehrh (pause for effect)..stuff:

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/polls/slansky/071217sh_shouts_slansky1

Caucus eve!

I soooooo just sent the following to the State's Attorney General's Consumer Advocates' office, hotcha! I'm still getting mileage out of Bob's "...It helps if they think you're dangerous..." criticism (from other 'writwit') and Steve Alford jokes!

http://urbansquirrelstuntdesign.blogspot.com

Ready?...

Miss me? It's me! xxx-xx-xxxx! But honest...‏
From:	domartyn@hotmail.com
Sent:	Wed 1/02/08 2:47 PM
To:	Att Gens (consumer@ag.state.ia.us)

Your Internal Revenue Service (I know, different dept, not your job, whatever) rep hung up on me today after inquiring as to routine protocol, and I'm thinking, 'What sort of message does this send the taxpaying business community denizens with it's upstanding law enforcement ethics of bad legislation that hasn't been passed yet?' Was it the rhetoric? I mean, I took time from my personal lunch break to hopefully get some clarity, after being interrupted during business hours from another call from the Mssr. Edwards camp, when all I asked was when I could expect a tax reimbursement for all the cell minutes the highly service-oriented phone company was going to charge me whenever that Obama fellar or J. 'Carolina Boom-Boom' Edwards wanted me to caucus for them tomorrow and would I receive double for the calls received after requesting removal from their phone lists? For that matter perhaps triple or quadruple for after 2nd such demand, or pentuple/sixteeninial (didn't want to get all greedly just after happy fatbutt Santa day [I'd already written his industry before crunchtime] and all) after the 4th and during an interruption like this should I lose my employment and wife would I get a free country western album as a bonus? I understand there's a bigbig chunk of investment here with issues of representation, but she wouldn't stay on the phone for me even long enough to ask if she could patch me into your tax-funded office, assist with a number, or just a reference to an office of "yeah we really give a carp (yes I typed "carp")" even though with time short the effort to seek transparency on behalf of my weak and worthless consumer brain reeling from the ravages of years in and out of the educational system, veteran duties, and public service (not necissarily in that order) and hopefully for some benefit to others seemed like a swell idear. Maybe you could check through, that is if you're not too engrossed in catering plans for the next tea party with Tom Baker and Phillip Jones at the U of I or anything.
Well mymy, now it's "back to work for Algrenon as break's over" as they say out here in the commercial world of rightousness, though wishing you and yours a safe and happy New Years!
Sincerely,

:-D

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Think Locally...(but have a look at Chris Dodd's resume)

http://www.youtube.com/CJDTV
http://www.thebrokenspoke.com/

Feed heads

Good to check these:
options: http://www.goes.noaa.gov/
local: http://www.goes.noaa.gov/GSSLOOPS/ecvs.html
vissat (visual satelite):
http://www.weather.com/maps/maptype/satelliteusnational/usvisiblesatellite_large_animated.html
vapsat (water vapor):
http://www.weather.com/maps/maptype/satelliteusnational/uswatervaporsatellite_large_animated.html
infsat (infrared):http://www.weather.com/maps/maptype/satelliteusnational/usinfraredsatellite_large.html?clip=undefined&region=undefined&collection=localwxforecast&presname=undefined
http://thesaurus.reference.com

Oh, and I'm reachable here: domartyn@hotmail.com

Beginin's to "Dave's Picks" (you don't care)

Arts

Must admit I've a bias on this one: http://www.catherineferguson.com

All about anything from here: http://www.robsongallery.com/

& heads up here for true: http://karlsterberg.squarespace.com

Would somebody stop this crazy man (I don't think so either!)..: http://images.google.com/images?q=julian+beever&hl=en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&oi=images&ct=title

This man as well, he trying to put george Lucas out of work or something? http://images.google.com/images?q=theo+jansen&hl=en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&oi=images&ct=title

Film
Time Bandits/Brazil/The Adventures of Baron Munchausen Great things come/go in triplicate, at least that's word on the streets. Thank-you Sir Terry Gilliam (as if I've decided to grant myself the ability to go around beknightin' folk, right)

Hot Fuzz Law & orderly, well at least for a work from across the pond

Reign O'er Me This will do more for Post traumatic stress than medicine will explain for years, thank- you Adsam Sandler!

Flags of Our Fathers/Letters from Io Jima Even the other side has another side, or so I've read!

Honorable Mention;

• The Deer Hunter ~Would be timeless, but it's Pennsylvanian
  
• The Fifth Element ~Action/Sci-Fictitiously goodness with Bruce Willis, a Brazil/Time Bandits Veteran & a hothothot hottie
  
• Ideocracy ~Hold out for the computer animation, double dog dare ya, not here to spoil it, but mmmmm!
• Day of the Locust Ah, the classics.
• Stranger Than Fiction ~Love the premise, well rounded entertainment
• Color Me Kubreck
• Bubbahotep ~Writing is fantastic; right up my alley.
• The Professional ~You into gladiator films?
• Balls of Fury ~Can't go wrong with Christopher Walken.
• Talladega Nights ~Fresh.
• A Fish Called Wanda~Comedy? How does one tell?
• Guideon's Trumpet ~Hey! It's Barbarella's Pop!
• Wagons East ~Not just because it reminds me of Blazing Saddles.
• Shanghai Noon/Shanghai Knights ~Just plain outstanding.
• An Inconvienient Truth More for content than Fox "reporting"'s use as a foootball in political/"commercial" efforts

Literature

• Teacher Man ~Mr. Frank McCourt, that's right; a teacher. NYC high schools, plural, nonetheless-beat that Sean Slannity!
  
• Our Own worst Enemy ~Mahatamus Ghandi had it right, knowledge is bliss and Randall Larsen proves virtue of meaning what one sais through this fine demonstrat8ion of ability to say what one means
• Areas of My Expertise ~Treats courtesy of John Hodgeman-don't spoil yourself for Halloween, muhahahaha!
• Fates worse than Death ~Same number of syllables as "Posterity". Not only that, but true Vonnegut!
• I Am America (And So Can You!) ~Stephen Colbert-shouldn't it be Sir Stephen by now?
• Madness and Society ~Foucoult. Embrace the Madness!
• Bush on the Couch ~too technical for ya?
• Farm Gate Defense ~too historically significant for you? Tell that 2 Allen Wilford! (Sing with me...)Oh Can-AH-da!; Land of Brave and TRUE!
• Bless the Beasts and the Children ~Little treat by Glendon Swarthout- I think I must have taken it at one point as a tech manual though it was required summer reading for freshman year of high school English class. Still with me. Thank-you, Coach Ed Jones!
• Merchant of Death ~too Pulitzer prize winning and currently productively writery for you?

Honorable Mention;

• Naked Pictures of Famous People ~DaVinci's lost sketchbook?!!? Whaaaa???!!
• The Real Frank Zappa Book ~Appearently after all those albums the man could write, go figure.
• Napalm and Silly Putty ~Might be too rad for rookie coast guard JAG officers, but Yale cheerleaders from the TX Air National Guard might be able to handle it, dunno.
• Pure Drivel ~Remember "Cruel Shoes"?

Mark Farina's new release is available you say?!! Well, I hafta dance! L8R!! ;-)

Air show, personal favorite of mine

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