So after Supergrass and Low the office today plays host to the Davids - Archueletta and Cook who will be crooning and doodling their way through their conractual obligations to Fox while men in shiny suits chomp noisily on rawn cocktail starters... good practice then for their Vegas / Cruiseliner futures.
It's another gorgeous day here - with skies bluer than Sinatra's contacts and temperatures warmer than a Dolly Parton hug. So I'm going to go to my last meeting, ditch my shiny suit and head home - where Jude and Nadia are turning locally sourced poroduce into delicious pot roast dishes for a party tonight.
15 more days of summer (according to accuweather) - and after last week's torrential reminder of what's to come I intend to get out and make the most of them
Friday, September 19, 2008
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Standing in line to withdraw your cash
So it seems financial armegeddon is upon us. In the US banks are collapsing more often than Lindsey Lohan, in the UK they're being forced into shotgun marriages faster than a pregnant Palin daughter and the news stations are frothing at the mouth as the meltdown continues. It's horrible. Really horrible. And yet the malls are full, the credit cards are being swiped and people are going about their business as though their house wasn't about to be repossessed by an institution on the verge of going under.
Bad news for me - as I'm about a year away from the job market and total financial meltdown is hardly conducive to a tasty, well paid, post somewhere warm.
Of course a year from now we'll have a new US president and he may well fix everything. Okay, he may well fix something. Or at least be smiley enough to make us feel that he might fix something. And that might just be enough. My suspicion though is that the next president could well be John McCain (currently tied in the polls) - and of course McCain is 100% in lock step with Bush on the economy, which may be an indicator of not much changing on Wall Street.
The fact of course that McCain is currently tied despite his party having been in power for 9-11, wiretapping, pre-emptive war against the wrong country, Guantanamo bay, secret torture sites, billions lost in cash in Iraq, several 'gay scandals', the response to Katrina, the collapse of Wall St, record job losses, the weakest dollar in forever, a record deficit and Britney's metltdown is amazing.
Joe Biden put it well this morning. "People are ready for a change. They want the country to move in a different direction, They're just not sure that they can trust Barack Obama and Joe Biden to give them the change that they want. They're not ready to make that leap of faith yet. We need to win them over. Not on the issues, they're with us there. But on the fact that we can be trusted to do what we say we're going to do."
And that's why McCain may still win. He's also a change. If he can convince people that it was Bush (rather than the Republicans) that ran the country into the ground and that he is a change from Bush then he has that base covered. Plus it takes just one misstep, one fuck up, one bad phrase or weird scandal to sink the Obama boat. "You see, you can't trust them" is what McCain needs.
So if I was Obama I'd try to make Bush stick to McCain like a shit covered barnacle.
If I was McCain I'd go "they're two faced shifty liars" on Obama's ass.
Meanwhile I'll be standing in line to get my money out of my sinking bank and into something less risky. Any suggestions?
Bad news for me - as I'm about a year away from the job market and total financial meltdown is hardly conducive to a tasty, well paid, post somewhere warm.
Of course a year from now we'll have a new US president and he may well fix everything. Okay, he may well fix something. Or at least be smiley enough to make us feel that he might fix something. And that might just be enough. My suspicion though is that the next president could well be John McCain (currently tied in the polls) - and of course McCain is 100% in lock step with Bush on the economy, which may be an indicator of not much changing on Wall Street.
The fact of course that McCain is currently tied despite his party having been in power for 9-11, wiretapping, pre-emptive war against the wrong country, Guantanamo bay, secret torture sites, billions lost in cash in Iraq, several 'gay scandals', the response to Katrina, the collapse of Wall St, record job losses, the weakest dollar in forever, a record deficit and Britney's metltdown is amazing.
Joe Biden put it well this morning. "People are ready for a change. They want the country to move in a different direction, They're just not sure that they can trust Barack Obama and Joe Biden to give them the change that they want. They're not ready to make that leap of faith yet. We need to win them over. Not on the issues, they're with us there. But on the fact that we can be trusted to do what we say we're going to do."
And that's why McCain may still win. He's also a change. If he can convince people that it was Bush (rather than the Republicans) that ran the country into the ground and that he is a change from Bush then he has that base covered. Plus it takes just one misstep, one fuck up, one bad phrase or weird scandal to sink the Obama boat. "You see, you can't trust them" is what McCain needs.
So if I was Obama I'd try to make Bush stick to McCain like a shit covered barnacle.
If I was McCain I'd go "they're two faced shifty liars" on Obama's ass.
Meanwhile I'll be standing in line to get my money out of my sinking bank and into something less risky. Any suggestions?
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Perfect Driving Day
Today seemed like the last day of summer. As I drove home with the windows open and the sun low in the sky, the breeze a warm 27c on my arms and the streets full of people trying to eek out the last days of outdoor dining it felt both perfect and sad,
A great day to own a convertable - but close enough to winter to remind you why you don't
A great day to own a convertable - but close enough to winter to remind you why you don't
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
If I want to be provocative, well that ain't a sin
Well for a while now the blog has been deader than Hillary Clinton's eyes as she praises Barack Obama. It's been a busy time. The parents have been in town, the rain has been torrential (though as soon as they left the skies turned an azure blue and the clouds moved on leaving only the diamond light of early fall) - most of all though I've been swamped under the weight of too many projects, on too tight a timeline with too few people to help. Or at least it seems that way. Things will get done. work will go out. And the world will get back to normal soon. It always does.
The picture I have partly because I think that it's a beautiful image and partly I will admit to drive traffic. You see that picture and some text that says either "beautiful naked girl with a pearl necklace" or better still "the post op tranny I'm going to marry" will see this blog hit upon more times than a fat girl at a cake convention (or something)
And I need the hits. This blog is dying. Partly because I'm not. Partly because the sense of fun has been replaced by a 'duty to post' and partly because y'all have better things to do when the sun is shining and the outside world is beckoning - its hot breath sexy on your neck as it urges you outside.
And with that thought I'm blowing this joint and heading for lunch
The picture I have partly because I think that it's a beautiful image and partly I will admit to drive traffic. You see that picture and some text that says either "beautiful naked girl with a pearl necklace" or better still "the post op tranny I'm going to marry" will see this blog hit upon more times than a fat girl at a cake convention (or something)
And I need the hits. This blog is dying. Partly because I'm not. Partly because the sense of fun has been replaced by a 'duty to post' and partly because y'all have better things to do when the sun is shining and the outside world is beckoning - its hot breath sexy on your neck as it urges you outside.
And with that thought I'm blowing this joint and heading for lunch
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