Various and Sundry

[richardf8]

Been a while since I've done an entry. Now that I'm listening to Air America, I feel more relaxed -- I know that I'm not alone in my outrage. This has had a good calming effect on me, and I've been less combative as a result. Last weekend I put new back stairs on the house. Lumber is not cheap. Remarkably, pulling a design out of my own head, I managed to produce something serviceable and a damn sight solider than what they replaced. I've been plunging a lot of time and resources into home improvement this year, and the house does look better for it. Compact Fluorescent bulbs don't, however, much like living in motion-detection sockets. This has all also been giving me growing confidence in my abilities, and that's good, because there's lots of stuff I want to do inside the house as well. My kitchen and some repairs to a wall in my living room. I got next weeks strips lettered last night, and I will be pencilling and inking this weekend. It might also be nice to get the solo canoes on the water.

Oh and Mako, my boss and a co-worker were just standing around gawking at that McLaren you posted, and then my boss noticed your LJ-Icon, and wanted to see your 'Vette, so it was off to caspeed and further gawking ensued.

Comments

[makovette.livejournal.com]

I know a gentleman who was replacing the rear door stairs on his house. He tore the old steps out, and was fabricating the new stairs when his wife walked out the door to talk to him.... =:-O

Your boss is a motorhead? Sounds like a perfect fit to me! :-D I hope he enjoyed the show!

CYa!
Mako

[richardf8]

I made sure to keep morgan1 appraised of every development along the way. What's more, the old stairs were so unsafe, she wasn't using them anyway.

My boss isn't a motorhead so much as an admirer from afar. As for me, truth is I'm one of those people who thinks of cars as a way to get from point A to point B. I only work on them when they stop being able to do that. My coworker, Roger, on the other hand is a comitted Mopar guy with a couple-two-three cars he's working on. Most of my research for Cujo's auto-work comes from caspeed.com, and reading motorhead magazines in the bookstore. I know better than to ask a Mopar guy about Delco stuff.

That McLaren engine, however, does deserve a place in a museum of art. It was a joy to behold. Before Kevin's eye fully resolved it he thought it was a Hindu temple.

[visservoldemort.livejournal.com]

I listened to Air America recently..To be quite honest, it seemed to be the same style as WABC and Conservative talkradio, with the same type of caller and so on and so forth, simply with a different ideological content. I'm not certain whether that's a good thing or a bad thing.

[richardf8]

It's all about fighting fire with fire, energizing and unifying your base, and getting out the vote. Conservative talk radio has been very effective at those things, so I'm glad of this. There is more intellectual rigor on air-america than there is on conservative talk radio, especially on shows like Unfiltered and Randi Rhodes. Whereas conservative talk radio deals out memes which are then repeated verbatim by people who feel somehow empowered by being told what to think, Air America's shows to to be more analytic. There isn't a John Kerry can do no wrong mood associated with it the way there is a Bush can do no wrong mood with Conservative talk radio.

The other thing I like about it is that it is unabashedly liberal, but since there are so many Liberal Jews on staff, it is not anti-Israel in the way that ultra-liberal Free Speech Radio tends to be. Randi Rhodes on Air America defended the security fence to a caller, whereas Free Speech Radio unabashedly calls it "the Apartheid Wall."

[richardf8]

Oh, please remember, I have not lived in NYC in over a decade, and my last memory of WABC is of it being an AM-Top 40 station featuring Imus in the Morning.