With each passing day it becomes harder to find much in this town to get behind, except perhaps bullet proof surfaces.
Let's see, we have a murder or two daily. A clown for a Mayor and plenty of jesters for city council. The only things growing in this town are gangs and weeds and gangs with weed and rival gangs fighting over weed........it's an overgrown situation.
For the past month, we've had an annual diversion tactic in progress known as Memphis State basketball. Yeah Yeah, I know some things change as did the name of University of Memphis, but a large majority of its fan base, wasn't always gray haired either. Blue is the color of the month and you see it everywhere.
In typical Memphis fashion, we always seem to take a perfectly good thing and snuff , the life out of it........I have decades of examples going back atleast forty years, with today marking the anniversary of our national claim of defame. The latest "Start something great in Memphis.........and watch someone F it up" award goes to an "ungrateful little pisser" who was asked to submit a sample for the NCAA.
This makes me see red, so perhaps I am not as color blind as I should be by today's sub standards. It disgusts me so that I could need a coating of the pink stuff to be able to stomach listening to anymore of the philosophical bull shit this loser's coach is putting out to the media regarding this little pee-pee stain on the reputation of our city's last remaining hope.
The whole thing is being ignored by the masses, in their "blue colored"glasses.
Shame or not blue and yellow still make green and lots of green will be made over all of this.
Just like our failed city system, when things go a miss, find ways to p.... pour more money into it. Nothing is more Memphis than that.
Friday, April 4, 2008
Thursday, March 27, 2008
A LITTLE PHONE HUGHMAH......
"I am not available right now, but
Thank you for caring enough to call.
I am making some changes in my life.
Please leave a message after the
Beep. If I do not return your call,
You are one of the changes."
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Monday, March 3, 2008
HELP ME.......HELP ME
Well hell.....
Everyone knows to , "Be careful what you wish for". This morning, never really believing it could happen..... I wished to be a " fly on the wall" at some closed door meeting at work.......
I should have been more specific.
Hey if anyone calls looking for me.... I"m stuck in a spider's web on the back wall of the boss's bathroom.
Jinks.
Everyone knows to , "Be careful what you wish for". This morning, never really believing it could happen..... I wished to be a " fly on the wall" at some closed door meeting at work.......
I should have been more specific.
Hey if anyone calls looking for me.... I"m stuck in a spider's web on the back wall of the boss's bathroom.
Jinks.
Friday, February 29, 2008
JINKS......MISSING IN ACTION
Hey,Just now getting around to reading blogs and thank you Auntie J for the encouragement....I'm now ready to stand my ground and yell...."MARK IT ZERO"...drop kick the chaos and call a time out to check in with the blogworld
......here is a quick 10.... a slice of what i've been up to for the past 3 weeks.
1. decluttering my home and office.
2. climbing "Mount Washmore".....21 x 2=42 loads of laundry
3. i've been the one in the kitchen with Dinah..........18 home cooked dinners, 45 packed lunches.
4. pumping iron........15 visits to the Y
5. one visit to Kentucky...........30th wedding anniversary
6. shaved legs every 10.5 days.......(see number 5 and 7)
7. participated in 2 seperate 5K walk runs.......convinced there is something to aerodynamics ...decrease in my finish time of 1 minute and 11 seconds.
8. monkey mattress mayhem.....hmmm? ( well, Cheeta never had it so good)
9. lost 5 pounds.....If you find them don't mail the little fkrs back......
10. sudoko.......105 puzzles solved.
Blog to you later.........hugs all around.....Jinks
......here is a quick 10.... a slice of what i've been up to for the past 3 weeks.
1. decluttering my home and office.
2. climbing "Mount Washmore".....21 x 2=42 loads of laundry
3. i've been the one in the kitchen with Dinah..........18 home cooked dinners, 45 packed lunches.
4. pumping iron........15 visits to the Y
5. one visit to Kentucky...........30th wedding anniversary
6. shaved legs every 10.5 days.......(see number 5 and 7)
7. participated in 2 seperate 5K walk runs.......convinced there is something to aerodynamics ...decrease in my finish time of 1 minute and 11 seconds.
8. monkey mattress mayhem.....hmmm? ( well, Cheeta never had it so good)
9. lost 5 pounds.....If you find them don't mail the little fkrs back......
10. sudoko.......105 puzzles solved.
Blog to you later.........hugs all around.....Jinks
Friday, January 25, 2008
INSIDE AND OUT.
Hey, hope you're here to leave a comment from other blog........no?
Oh.....so who are you and what's on your mind?......
Yeah, I guess you came here to see what was up with me, huh...well....here is what's currently
occupying thoughts.
Sit down this could take a few ......smoke em if you got em.
1. getting off work in an hour.
2. wondering how hubby's day went.
3. wishing I had taken off to go with sister to see about her mammogram
4. still reeling from watching a documentary last night on Crank in Tennessee.
5. feeling like I should be doing something to be a part of a real solution that didn't have to be tide up with politics.
6. wondering when everyone else is going to wise up.
7. wondering how long I will linger under the delusion that I'm right and the rest of the world is wrong.......
8. hoping my favorite socks are clean so I can rub my feet together with them on as kick back on the chair with a bottle of beer.
9. what if there's only one beer left?
10. What can I say to distract my hubby so that I get it.
11. why won't the co-worker in the next area shut the fk up
12. I really need to get a new pillow speaker......george noory sounded so distorted last night.
13. what if its my hearing?
14. nah......I can still hear myself fart
15. how long would it take me to get back into a size 10?
16. do I have that long to live?
17. i'd like to be walking on Roan mountain
18. need to get another page or two done over the weekend.
19. why can't I enjoy sleeping past 7:30 on Saturdays anymore?
20. wish Sunday afternoons were 12 hours long
21. if they were, be my luck to have to spend them in a hospital room or some other uncomfortable situation.
22. I have 42 minutes left, how can I look busy?
23. Would anyone here know......would they care?
24. I don't think so......the conversation has gone to the dogs in the other room...literally.
25. I miss my dog........she died in October.......hubby says won't ever get another one.
26. I want to, when we move again......don't want to see another animal in Lucy's yard.
27. What are you thinkin bout?......your evening?......your weekend?.......
28. I need to call Ed, to see if he has done any more work on any of his projects.
29. Surprised Yolanda hasn't called me to inquire why I have changed gym locations.
30. No, we both know why........I can make up all the excuses I want....she won't buy it.
31. I should have had a routine worked up by now to begin a class.....
32. What is the rush.......I only have so many hours.....
33. I keep noticing all the folks on the corner of the building smoking.
34. I wonder if it bothers them they have to "move away from the building" to enjoy a few minutes of peace and quiet.
35. Ever notice how the eyes get "slitty" when folks smoke?
36. No big eyed expressions with a lit cigarette.....
37. I just want to walk up and say......hey, you look interesting....tell me your story kid.
38. Across the street, wrecking crews are tearing down the mental health hospital...looking at it is like witnessing a mental breakdown........it's disturbing.
39. I"m just sitting here waiting for another thought to come around........
40. the computer trainer we've had this week sounds like a robot........she talks quickly......doesn't laugh......and she has to be tired of repeating herself......
41. 41!.....DAMN...I better go........
later Jinks.
Oh.....so who are you and what's on your mind?......
Yeah, I guess you came here to see what was up with me, huh...well....here is what's currently
occupying thoughts.
Sit down this could take a few ......smoke em if you got em.
1. getting off work in an hour.
2. wondering how hubby's day went.
3. wishing I had taken off to go with sister to see about her mammogram
4. still reeling from watching a documentary last night on Crank in Tennessee.
5. feeling like I should be doing something to be a part of a real solution that didn't have to be tide up with politics.
6. wondering when everyone else is going to wise up.
7. wondering how long I will linger under the delusion that I'm right and the rest of the world is wrong.......
8. hoping my favorite socks are clean so I can rub my feet together with them on as kick back on the chair with a bottle of beer.
9. what if there's only one beer left?
10. What can I say to distract my hubby so that I get it.
11. why won't the co-worker in the next area shut the fk up
12. I really need to get a new pillow speaker......george noory sounded so distorted last night.
13. what if its my hearing?
14. nah......I can still hear myself fart
15. how long would it take me to get back into a size 10?
16. do I have that long to live?
17. i'd like to be walking on Roan mountain
18. need to get another page or two done over the weekend.
19. why can't I enjoy sleeping past 7:30 on Saturdays anymore?
20. wish Sunday afternoons were 12 hours long
21. if they were, be my luck to have to spend them in a hospital room or some other uncomfortable situation.
22. I have 42 minutes left, how can I look busy?
23. Would anyone here know......would they care?
24. I don't think so......the conversation has gone to the dogs in the other room...literally.
25. I miss my dog........she died in October.......hubby says won't ever get another one.
26. I want to, when we move again......don't want to see another animal in Lucy's yard.
27. What are you thinkin bout?......your evening?......your weekend?.......
28. I need to call Ed, to see if he has done any more work on any of his projects.
29. Surprised Yolanda hasn't called me to inquire why I have changed gym locations.
30. No, we both know why........I can make up all the excuses I want....she won't buy it.
31. I should have had a routine worked up by now to begin a class.....
32. What is the rush.......I only have so many hours.....
33. I keep noticing all the folks on the corner of the building smoking.
34. I wonder if it bothers them they have to "move away from the building" to enjoy a few minutes of peace and quiet.
35. Ever notice how the eyes get "slitty" when folks smoke?
36. No big eyed expressions with a lit cigarette.....
37. I just want to walk up and say......hey, you look interesting....tell me your story kid.
38. Across the street, wrecking crews are tearing down the mental health hospital...looking at it is like witnessing a mental breakdown........it's disturbing.
39. I"m just sitting here waiting for another thought to come around........
40. the computer trainer we've had this week sounds like a robot........she talks quickly......doesn't laugh......and she has to be tired of repeating herself......
41. 41!.....DAMN...I better go........
later Jinks.
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
everything.....elvis
Happy B-day Elvis,
and to anyone else who happens to share the same birthday.
Woke up this morning and almost called in sick in honor of the day. Wanted to stay home and continue my latest read, which is in the "Odd Thomas" series by Dean Koontz. Now the main character, Odd Thomas, has a sidekick of sorts....dead Elvis. He follows him from book to book and mystery to mystery. He entertains Odd by wearing costumes from his various movies, and doing outrageous things in order to get Odd to laugh while he is engaged in deep conversations, usually with suspicious police. Elvis never says or sings a word, just hangs in support of Odd.
Seems according to the author, that Elvis will not pass on into the next life, because of Gladys.
Now anyone and everyone knows he loved his mama, but he is too ashamed of his former drug use and how he died to enter into the great beyond.......suppose even Elvis has/had parent issues.......and he is 73 today. He appears to Odd sometimes just crying.
Upon reading this take on Elvis, I wonder what he has to cry about, besides the shame he feels having gone the drug route.......Oh, Dean, you simply must have one of your other characters, preferably a woman....a mother....explain to Odd or to Elvis that mothers don't hold that sort of stuff against a child........its totally unconditional love when it comes to mother and son.
I suspect Mrs. Koontz has advised Dean of such, but perhaps she thougtht it through.....no use
wasting all that "workable guilt" mothers have placed on son's (and daughters) .
I can't help but wonder if Elvis were still hanging around in ghost fashion, would he be happy with all that has happened since his demise. Now excluding the Lisa Marie/Michael Jackson fiasco.... cause that would have killed him for sure. If he were still living ......what kind of guy would old Elvi be right about now........
I think the answer to that is simple.....you can take the boy outta Memphis, but you can't take
Memphis outta the boy.......
for example, he'd have moved to Hernando or Tunica when Willie made mayor. He'd be doing
16 shows a week from Bluesville or perhaps his own, Heartbreak Hotel Gambling and Casino Hall
He'd be going hunting at the beer camp. He'd be a reserve policeman, he'd be outspoken against illegal aliens and he'd sing about it on his 55th christmas album entitled....."Felis My Ass".........he'd be just like the rest of us old farts at 73........tired, cynical, and wondering who the hell we've left running this show.
The only people who would pay any real attention to him would be the same people who pay attention to him now......his devout fans from all corners of the world......
I'm so thankful that he is gone and hasn't had to endure the slings and arrows of old age.......the dentures, the walking farts, poor eyesight, hair loss, unwanted hair gain, the loss of friends and family.
He lives in memories, and photographs, movies, and even in current mystery novels.
So chins up Elvis, nothing to cry about........have a jelly donut and enjoy your day.
and to anyone else who happens to share the same birthday.
Woke up this morning and almost called in sick in honor of the day. Wanted to stay home and continue my latest read, which is in the "Odd Thomas" series by Dean Koontz. Now the main character, Odd Thomas, has a sidekick of sorts....dead Elvis. He follows him from book to book and mystery to mystery. He entertains Odd by wearing costumes from his various movies, and doing outrageous things in order to get Odd to laugh while he is engaged in deep conversations, usually with suspicious police. Elvis never says or sings a word, just hangs in support of Odd.
Seems according to the author, that Elvis will not pass on into the next life, because of Gladys.
Now anyone and everyone knows he loved his mama, but he is too ashamed of his former drug use and how he died to enter into the great beyond.......suppose even Elvis has/had parent issues.......and he is 73 today. He appears to Odd sometimes just crying.
Upon reading this take on Elvis, I wonder what he has to cry about, besides the shame he feels having gone the drug route.......Oh, Dean, you simply must have one of your other characters, preferably a woman....a mother....explain to Odd or to Elvis that mothers don't hold that sort of stuff against a child........its totally unconditional love when it comes to mother and son.
I suspect Mrs. Koontz has advised Dean of such, but perhaps she thougtht it through.....no use
wasting all that "workable guilt" mothers have placed on son's (and daughters) .
I can't help but wonder if Elvis were still hanging around in ghost fashion, would he be happy with all that has happened since his demise. Now excluding the Lisa Marie/Michael Jackson fiasco.... cause that would have killed him for sure. If he were still living ......what kind of guy would old Elvi be right about now........
I think the answer to that is simple.....you can take the boy outta Memphis, but you can't take
Memphis outta the boy.......
for example, he'd have moved to Hernando or Tunica when Willie made mayor. He'd be doing
16 shows a week from Bluesville or perhaps his own, Heartbreak Hotel Gambling and Casino Hall
He'd be going hunting at the beer camp. He'd be a reserve policeman, he'd be outspoken against illegal aliens and he'd sing about it on his 55th christmas album entitled....."Felis My Ass".........he'd be just like the rest of us old farts at 73........tired, cynical, and wondering who the hell we've left running this show.
The only people who would pay any real attention to him would be the same people who pay attention to him now......his devout fans from all corners of the world......
I'm so thankful that he is gone and hasn't had to endure the slings and arrows of old age.......the dentures, the walking farts, poor eyesight, hair loss, unwanted hair gain, the loss of friends and family.
He lives in memories, and photographs, movies, and even in current mystery novels.
So chins up Elvis, nothing to cry about........have a jelly donut and enjoy your day.
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
OKAY.......SO TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK
Tell me about the best or the worst christmas party you ever went to........
Here is to hoping that you haven't been to the former yet and have to the later.........
and the wisdom to figure out that it.....JUST DOESN'T MATTER!!!!!!!!!
jingle them bells....jingle them bells.......fa la la la la........
Here is to hoping that you haven't been to the former yet and have to the later.........
and the wisdom to figure out that it.....JUST DOESN'T MATTER!!!!!!!!!
jingle them bells....jingle them bells.......fa la la la la........
Thursday, November 8, 2007
Friday, November 2, 2007
HEY YOU TALKIN TO ME?
Hey,
a while back I took off my comments, on JINKS WRITES AND REWRITES.....over the course of the past few weeks, and especially since my mother contacted me from the "otherside", I've had a change of mind and tried to establish that little option and it is pissed at me and so refuses to re-appear........ so if you have comments on anything that Jinks wrote or rewrote........then come here to comment.....puleez.........
a while back I took off my comments, on JINKS WRITES AND REWRITES.....over the course of the past few weeks, and especially since my mother contacted me from the "otherside", I've had a change of mind and tried to establish that little option and it is pissed at me and so refuses to re-appear........ so if you have comments on anything that Jinks wrote or rewrote........then come here to comment.....puleez.........
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