I think this 'ere is funnier dan 'ell!

Birthday RECAP BLOG

I got into Jesus Christ Superstar.

"The Rant" by Tom Degan: America's Favorite House Nigger

"The Rant" by Tom Degan: America's Favorite House Nigger

I sincerely enjoy the blogs posted by Tom Degan. One day he stopped by my Keeping Tabs On John Edwards blog and left a comment!

I'm so glad he did :-)

For want of a better phrase! or “shared by all.”

vul·gar (vŭl'gər)
adj.

1. Crudely indecent.
2. 1. Deficient in taste, delicacy, or refinement.
   2. Marked by a lack of good breeding; boorish. See synonyms at common.
   3. Offensively excessive in self-display or expenditure; ostentatious: the huge vulgar houses and cars of the newly rich.
3. Spoken by or expressed in language spoken by the common people; vernacular: the technical and vulgar names for an animal species.
4. Of or associated with the great masses of people; common.

[Middle English, from Latin vulgāris, from vulgus, the common people.]

vulgarly vul'gar·ly adv.
vulgarness vul'gar·ness n.

WORD HISTORY The word vulgar now brings to mind off-color jokes and offensive epithets, but it once had more neutral meanings. Vulgar is an example of pejoration, the process by which a word develops negative meanings over time. The ancestor of vulgar, the Latin word vulgāris (from vulgus, “the common people”), meant “of or belonging to the common people, everyday,” as well as “belonging to or associated with the lower orders.” Vulgāris also meant “ordinary,” “common (of vocabulary, for example),” and “shared by all.” An extension of this meaning was “sexually promiscuous,” a sense that could have led to the English sense of “indecent.” Our word, first recorded in a work composed in 1391, entered English during the Middle English period, and in Middle English and later English we find not only the senses of the Latin word mentioned above but also related senses. What is common may be seen as debased, and in the 17th century we begin to find instances of vulgar that make explicit what had been implicit. Vulgar then came to mean “deficient in taste, delicacy, or refinement.” From such uses vulgar has continued to go downhill, and at present “crudely indecent” is among the commonest senses of the word. (copied and pasted from: answers.com)

Look what I found on my reader:

Shakespeare Experience: In black and white 2:

I also just downloaded a program called CamStudio. I can take movies of my screen! I plan on using it as a training tool!!!

Little Gandhi's

I have to practice some things with people I do not agree with:

1. Treat them as a friend

Treat them as friend? I do not treat my friends as sweetly I do my enemy sometimes. When I am trying to persuade someone I am in disagreement with I become so good.

2. Use a strength based approach to discussing their attitude or behavior.

I can not personally attack them or their ideas. Name calling never got anyone anywhere. When I feel attacked I shut down. I am not open to sharing my thoughts or feelings. Sometimes when I am attacked I want to strike back and am unable to listen to "reason".

ANYWAY about the photo:

Children, dressed as Mahatma Gandhi, wait for their turn to perform during Mahatma Gandhi's 136th birth anniversary celebrations in Lucknow on Sunday. — Reuters

I little more about Web 2.0

I found a great link about the answer to a very important question:

Why bother with Web 2.0?

What ever happened to "Noble Resolve"?

Here is an article from Portland Independent Media Center, the thoughtful folks who brought us the imagined Atom Bomb drop in NW P-town:

Steel Bridge in Portland, Oregon (the "dirty bomb" target of TOPOFF4 this month)

I heard about this on the radio (AM620) and the words "i guess it's real because it's on the radio" actually crossed my mind.

Jesus Du Jour

I can not quit Jesus. I can't quit him!

Rather than focus on Black Jesus, a topic nones of you give a damn about, I am going to talk about my Jesus Du Jour.

My new blog idea du jour is:

Jesus Du Jour -- The Blog!!!

My pick for Jesus #1 is Google. Google is the modern day saviour. Google is everywhere around us. Google is also inside of us.

Aaahhhh! Praise! (hands held in open praise face tilted towards the sky)

Did you ever see the movie "Stigmata" starring Patricial Arquette? If you haven't you need to.

Web 2.0 is The Holy Ghost.