On Strike.

We here at The Daily Crock are in full solidarity with the WGA.

Daylight Savings

...seems to have had some sort of exaggerated effect in my internal clock!, I'm like, jet-lagged, dude. Not as nocturnal as usual. Short blog due to exaustion, still reeling from info overload, so much to process lately.
I wish I could write a song like "Three Blind Mice" or "Pop Goes The Weasel"...

The Earl Of Inertia

Very undisciplined blog wise, busy with basics. The media shit storm is raging right now, difficult to digest, let alone transform into a unique commentary. Suffice to say, that day by day the world seems to be hurtling towards Hell in a hand basket. But you can't let the fear get to ya. They're manufacturing it in bulk quantities for mass consumption.
I'm just a spectator, a cave wall chiseler.
This is a great world while you can still pretend to be an artist.
Plus there's the added benefit of a self indulgent blog!

The Church Of Divine Intervention

Get ready!
I'm starting a web-based ministry! All the exciting details will soon be announced. As soon as we finalise our deity, philosophy, and odd rituals, we'll get the whole thing rolling. I can hardly wait. I'm sure there will be benefits tax-wise to you contributing hefty sums to further our agenda, no matter how misguided or self rightious . I just gotta brainstorm up an icon or two...and a good prayer. Hmmmm
Oh, Guy In The Sky
We won't ask why
This world's so cruel
But if you get a sec
And you give a heck
Could you make it cool?
This we pray.

Coming soon: "sacred" merch and silly sermons.

Friends

...are just people who haven't betrayed you yet.

Halloween

King Of Fools.

Another in a cascade of catastrophies....

Where did all the bees go?
By JEAN PRESCOTT
sunherald.com
-- Honeybees are disappearing - by the hundreds of thousands - here, there, seemingly everywhere. And if they go extinct, humans can say goodbye to fruits and vegetables, a third of the food produced in the United States.
Is it real? Indeed it is, and it's happening now, identified as colony collapse disorder (CCD) and acknowledged not just by beekeepers and scientists in an upcoming PBS documentary but by South Mississippi beekeepers as well......

This could doom us before anything, it's appalling.

Ambitious Transmissions

After long layoff, I have decided to once again devote some time to my little hobby. (Music.)
So important to have a creative outlet. I was hoping this blog might be fun, but so far.......
Anyway, my only point here is to encourage anyone who might stumble upon this to "Follow your dream!", no matter how bitter and jaded, damaged or downhearted you are. It comes back to a team effort, but if you don't have a team, too bad.
Do something anyway!
Time is slippin' away.

Cowardly Firebugs

Los Angeles (AP) --
A man suspected of starting a fire on a San Fernando Valley hillside has been charged with arson.
Catalino Pineda, a Guatemala native, was scheduled to be arraigned Friday on one count of arson. He was being held on $75,000 bail.
Police say witnesses spotted Pineda, 41, starting a fire in the West Hills area and then walking away. Witnesses contacted authorities and followed him to a nearby restaurant where police arrested him.
Pineda is currently on probation for making excessive false emergency reports to law enforcement, police said.
If convicted of the arson count, he faces up to six years in prison.
Pineda is among five people who have been arrested for arson since wildfires broke out across Southern California this week, but none has been linked to any of the major blazes.

UNBELIEVABLE. What worms. I hope they track these vermin down. Kinda makes you feel real good about yourself while losing faith in humanity. No matter how much of a loser I may become in this lifetime, at least I can enjoy the towering view over pedophiles, junkies and these retarded, evil arsonists.

Please, let there be Karma, so that those that they love have to have skin grafts and sustain lung damage. As always, bless the first responders.

Speaking of which, how cool would it be if Fox Sports could take just a few seconds out of the hours of beer & car commercials to thank the amazing men & women of our armed forces for making it possible for everyone to lose themselves in a childs game?

Toxic Toys

This particular issue has me all raged up, and I'm without somewhere to direct it. Unseen greedy businessmen? Foreign slave owners? It's just that every once in a while there's a situation like this where you'd like to actually be able to create immediate action.

How messed up is this society when toys kill while people yawn?

Here's something from MotherJones.com - When the Danish government learned about toxic chemicals leaking from certain baby toys, it moved to get polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plastic out of teething rings, rubber ducks, and other toys kids can chew on. The Netherlands, Germany, and Austria followed suit, and the Spanish government even asked the European Union to ban PVC from such children's items. But last week the European Commission decided not to enact a temporary ban. Why not?
The answer is a little bit of science and a whole lot of economic diplomacy by the U.S. Department of Commerce, prodded by U.S. toy manufacturers like Mattel (maker of Barbie) and PVC producers like Exxon. In memos obtained by Greenpeace last month, the big corporations express their gratitude to the U.S. government for helping them to quash the European ban—never mind the question of whether their products are poisonous to children.

www.motherjones.com/.../columns/1998/07/pvc.html

Oh, brother.

Just one more Sox-related item.

Feels like the first time...

Well, actually, not at all. The first time sucked.

Idiots ran amuck and soured it for everyone.

Now, after it has all faded some, the Carmine Hose are in the big showyet again, and while an interesting diversion, will elicit very little commentary here.

As The Daily Crock is based in the vicinity of beantown, we have a plethora of pundits, legions of literary types, and a bevy of blowhards to do so.

But at least no innocents were killed in the post game celebration last night. That was friggin' horrifying.

I hurt my arm.....

patting myself on the back, played a pretty good gig this week. I was down in New Orleans in late September, and in Marie Laveau's Voodoo Shop I got a 3 legged Chilean Good Luck Pig. It's small, made of wood, and seems to be working. There has been a beneficial confluence of events lately. I seem to be getting superstitious.
.....anyway, I got to play with a talented sax player, and I'm still a little buzzed from the brain chemicals it set off. In order to play music however, it takes a team effort. Out of luck there. regardless, this blog bit has been a bit gloomy, so just wanted to report that something good happened, and I had fun.
It has once again jacked my appreciation of music up to a new level.
Listening to beatlesradio.com, WYLD in NOLA....

Death by TV

It just goes on and on, an unending flow of sad, alarming and frightening info and data . Dulls the senses, jacks your sensitivity threshold way up there.
So many senseless deaths and injuries, punctuated by high volume demands to "Apply directly to the forehead". Sandwiched between polling data that indicates polls are unreliable and easily misrepresented, product recalls endangering innocents for the benefit of our "trading partners", and the dangling of shiny objects to distract an increasingly illiterate, obese, selfish and greedy public.
But we here at The Daily Crock hope to provide some respite, a calm oasis in the media shitstorm.
And as soon as we find a way to do that, you can find out all about it right here......maybe I'll tell some charming old stories about the way life used to be. Or some inspirational verse about the wonders of nature or romance.......But don't get your hopes up.

What a blogtastic day!

Attempting to do this on a regular basis, hopefully at some point, literary genius will flow abundantly. But probably not.
Regardless, I shall continue in the hope that this exercise may serve some useful purpose. It is possible that if I add something here every day, eventually something revelatory will manifest itself....

Playing/Working on Music

Funny how it is, you forget what it's like to hang around with ancient aquaintences......rehearsed tonight with a pre-historic pal for an event next week. Felt like the 90's. And after a few hours of playing old rock & roll, I feel like I'm in my 90's. But the infusion of certain chemicals and composites into the brain reawakens memories of the long lost past. Kinda makes you feel like a kid again, except jaded and bitter.
Anyway, those of us here at The Blog Cabin feel mighty fortunate to be able to fire up an amp and rant into a mic, a beautiful tradition. Though futile and meaningless, I had more fun than most people tonight.

Prescient?

I have an uneasy feeling of impending doom. But while running errands today, I was fortunate in finding parking spaces, so maybe everything will work out okay.
I keep hearing this song in my head called "Don't Listen To The Song In Your Head", kind of a samba instrumental.
This blog is not ramping up quickly to a level of excellence, but I wasn't expecting it to.
Now I am.
Now, I'm not again.
Having jacked up the anticipation level, I depart.

What might have been.

Heard "Instant Karma" several times on the radio yesterday, would've been John Lennon's 67th. Even if he only cut a single every 5 years....
At least the worm is still in the can.