SUMMER 2010. ARTLUNG IS A PERSONAL WEBSITE. ROANOKE, VIRGINIA, USA.

2010 One hundred and twenty-two posts

29-Dec-2010

Danny Trejo’s Prayer Lord, if you’re there, it’ll be okay, if not, I’m screwed. And a bonus quote from Danny Trejo: “Everything good that has happened in my life, has been a direct result of helping someone else.” from Champion
25-Dec-2010

Fairytale of New York, selectively annotated. (bold items sung by Kirsty MacColl) (otherwise sung by Shane McGowan) (bold and red by both) (lyrics from pogues.com) On YouTube, a live version, and an incomplete version. It was Christmas Eve babe In the drunk tank An old man said to me “Won’t see another one” And then he sang a song The Rare...
25-Dec-2010

Merry Christmas! Sure miss my Mom today, but the spirit of joy is alive and well. And it’s snowing like crazy today. Very Christmas-y. Also, footnote for this poster.
21-Dec-2010

6 Years Married Today marks Leah’s and my six year anniversary. I am so thankful she is in my life. No marriage is “easy,” but some are rewarding partnerships filled with love and adventure. Thank you, Leah, for sharing our lives together.
18-Dec-2010

Batman (this week: was sick, and my dad was sick, and leah was sick, and our van got worked on, and it snowed like crazy, and my laptop pretty much died without good backups, and i fixed the laptop and got a backup system in place, and i shoveled snow, and my dad got better, and...

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06-Dec-2010

QOTD: Clay Shirky on Wikileaks and the US Government Quote of the Day, from Clay Shirky’s Wikileaks and the Long Haul: The key, though, is that democracies have a process for creating such restrictions, and as a citizen it sickens me to see the US trying to take shortcuts. The leaders of Myanmar and Belarus, or Thailand and Russia, can now rightly say to...
02-Dec-2010

K-R Grief Observation In Wikipedia, about the Kübler-Ross model, it’s said of the “5 stages of grief (denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance)” this (the emphasis is mine): Kübler-Ross claimed these steps do not necessarily come in the order noted above, nor are all steps experienced by all patients, though she stated a person will always experience at least...
29-Nov-2010

Thanksgiving Trip Redux Leah and I went back to California for Thanksgiving. Highlights included Thanksgiving with a turkey roasted in a Hotel room, quality time with the kids, who are now ages 16 to 21 and we are so proud of them; a playoff game for the boys that they unfortunately lost; seeing Tangled, which was good, going...
22-Nov-2010

Painful Rebirth In some ways, I feel as though I’m reborn. Not precisely in the sense that some Christian sects refer to being “born again”–but not entirely dissimilar. I find myself really missing the fact that my Mom is reading this blog and can send me an email in reply. I miss the fact that occasionally she...
20-Nov-2010

Ave Maria, a favorite of my Mom Ave Maria was a favorite song of my Mom’s. It was played at her Wedding on June 15, 1968 at St. Rita’s Catholic Church in San Diego, California. And it was also played at her beautiful Memorial Mass on November 6, 2010 at Our Lady of Nazareth Catholic Church in Roanoke, Virginia. Below are both...

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