White Flower? Tight Shower? Wife Power?

Posted on August 30th, 2007 in What's So Funny 'bout Peace Love and Understanding? by Mrs. Hall

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Maybe the best way to deal with racists is just to treat them like the clowns that they are:

“White Power!” the Nazi’s shouted, “White Flour?” the clowns yelled back running in circles throwing flour in the air and raising separate letters which spelt “White Flour”.

“White Power!” the Nazi’s angrily shouted once more, “White flowers?” the clowns cheers and threw white flowers in the air and danced about merrily.

“White Power!” the Nazi’s tried once again in a doomed and somewhat funny attempt to clarify their message, “ohhhhhh!” the clowns yelled “Tight Shower!” and held a solar shower in the air and all tried to crowd under to get clean as per the Klan’s directions.

At this point several of the Nazi’s and Klan members began clutching their hearts as if they were about to have a heart attack. Their beady eyes bulged, and the veins in their tiny narrow foreheads beat in rage. One last time they screamed “White Power!”

The clown women thought they finally understood what the Klan was trying to say. “Ohhhhh…” the women clowns said. “Now we understand…”, “WIFE POWER!” they lifted the letters up in the air, grabbed the nearest male clowns and lifted them in their arms and ran about merrily chanting “WIFE POWER! WIFE POWER! WIFE POWER!”

It was at this point that several observers reported seeing several Klan members heads exploding in rage and they stopped trying to explain to the clowns what they wanted.

They're heeeeere!

Posted on August 28th, 2007 in All This Useless Beauty,Motel Matches by Mrs. Hall

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For some reason, the picture of the TV above reminds me of Poltergeist. What a fantastic movie. That is a shot of the TV in my room this evening, which features drippy new age music accompanied by oozing visual effects. I can’t imagine what would induce someone to subject themselves to that for more than 1 minute. Tonight, I’m holed up in Hyatt Place in Atlanta. The hotel is a great new concept: low service combined with upscale features. When you walk in, you check yourself in at a kiosk. No bellmen, no concierge, no room service. If you want food, you come downstairs to the kitchen and order at a kiosk, and it pops out of a little window. However, the large, well appointed rooms, in fact the whole hotel, has free wi-fi, large flat-screen TV’s, big plush beds, and free Starbucks and continental breakfast in the morning. There’s even a coffee and wine bar in the common area, and I saw several people sitting around surfing and having a nice glass of red. Great idea to give business people the things that they really care about like wi-fi, without offering expensive services that most road warriors never use or don’t care about. It’s still a $200 a night hotel, but then the JW Marriott is $350, and I can easily do without the annoying little man who insists on taking my bag up to my room for me.

Fatima Struggle

Posted on August 26th, 2007 in What's So Funny 'bout Peace Love and Understanding? by Mrs. Hall

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This Opus cartoon won’t be run in many national papers this weekend, because while it’s okay to make fun of Christians (and nobody loves to more than I), there is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING FUNNY ABOUT MUSLIMS! Just striking my own, very tiny, blow against political correctness by publishing it here. Where no one will see it. But hey…it’s the thought.

Zen Sushi

Posted on August 25th, 2007 in All This Useless Beauty,Party Girl by Mrs. Hall

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We got together with our dear friends Regina and Jim tonight. After subjecting them to our wedding dvd, we hit the Bishop Arts District and tried the new sushi restaurant. Our favorite is still Hatties, but Tillman’s Corner, Vera Cruz and Cafe Madrid are all wonderful. And El Jordan is still a great Mexican breakfast. But our ‘hood is changing fast. I wonder what it will look like in five years. And if we’ll be here. I love it, and yet I know that I’ve never lived in any home for more than 4 years. Well, one year down in Oak Cliff…..

How To Spend A Saturday

Posted on August 25th, 2007 in All This Useless Beauty by Mrs. Hall

This is the plan for next weekend anyway….first you go to Fort Worth.

Go to Ol South Pancake House and have one of their 39 flavors of pancakes and waffles. I’m partial to the Dutch Babies myself.

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Then you go to the Fort Worth Museum of Art to look at giant babies, giant dead men, and giant women tucked into bed. It’s an exhibition by hyper-realistic sculptor Ron Mueck. I’ve run across photos of his sculptures before, and had no idea that an exhibit was so close by!

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Then if you still have some energy left, head over to the Amon Carter Museum to view Masterworks of American Photography. This Avedon portrait is a favorite, we have the beautiful book “In the American West” which features this photograph on the cover.

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Then if Les has been really nice, we’ll go to Angelo’s Barbecue for dinner.

Mmmmm…..Hopefully many photographs of our adventure will be forthcoming.

Men Who Run with the Wolves

Posted on August 23rd, 2007 in All This Useless Beauty by Mrs. Hall

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Les prepares for the Iron John festival……Will animal pelts be too much? Decisions…..

Sunday Gardening

Posted on August 19th, 2007 in All This Useless Beauty by Mrs. Hall

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Les has lent me his Panasonic Lumix with a Leica wide-angle lens It’s really fun to take pictures with. Since I was headed outside to do some weeding and pruning, I took it along to give it a try. See the results here.

Top 40 Magazine Covers of the Last 40 Years

Posted on August 18th, 2007 in All This Useless Beauty by Mrs. Hall

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Cool list of influential magazine covers from the American Magazine Conference. It’s not new, it was published in 2005, but still pretty relevant. I was particularly struck by the pink space helmet from the sixties, and the above Time Magazine Gun cover.

“Roy Lichtenstein’s drawing of “The Gun in America” was the cover of the June 21, 1968 issue of TIME. Soon after the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy, pop artist Lichtenstein aimed a smoking gun at readers to emphasize the urgency for gun legislation. Before the end of the year, Congress passed the Gun Control Act of 1968 that banned most interstate sales, licensed most gun dealers and barred felons, minors and the mentally ill from owning guns.”

That should be enough to start another gun argument at Chez Hall tonight!

The Last Supper

Posted on August 16th, 2007 in All This Useless Beauty,Motel Matches,Welcome to the Working Week by Mrs. Hall

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Geesh, finally. The last dinner of a 10 day stretch of traveling. It’s been an eventful 10 days, capped off with the big “closing” today, which will be followed by the arrival of a FedEx containing stock certificates and a check tomorrow. And then Sunday we get to go the The Mansion on Turtle Creek for a fabulous celebratory dinner. I’m having Seafood Risotto and Les is having the Rack of Lamb. We all got to order ahead. Sadly, I think it would be bad form for us to take pictures of our food. I’m sure Les will try though.

I can’t wait to get home and see these guys:nick.jpgangus.jpgfinn.jpg

And Les of course!!!!!

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