Monday morning griping
 

Paigow invented being a misunderstood genius.

Monday morning griping
 

Picasso also was once so impressed with the artistic talent of a chimpanzee named Congo in the 1950's that he bought one of his paintings.

Hank Chimpnaski?

Monday morning griping
 

Pablo Picasso never got called an asshole.

Monday morning griping
 

It is said that a Nazi officer once came to Picasso's house with a postcard of the painting Guernica. The Nazi show the postcard to Picasso and asked "Did you do this?" Picasso replied, "No, you did."

Whether apocryphal or not, this story has been rather instructive to me. I see now that my fascistic adherence to order and structure and rules only serves to quash the creativity that sometimes exists, and can only exist, outside of these rules. Grammar can be an important and useful tool, but when it becomes a fetish, worshiped for its own sake, it undermines the very purpose of putting pen to paper (or typed word to cyberspace, or ink to cave wall) in the first place - the expression of ideas. They laughed at Ornette Coleman when he felt he could no longer be constrained by time signatures and chord structures. They said his music was no different from that which an untutored child could make. But few could disagree that the haunting beauty of his song Lonely Woman has withstood the test of time.

Hank, I may not understand many of your posts, and I may find the ambiguity caused by your grammatical and typographical lapses to be maddening at times. But I will keep reading, looking for the Lonely Woman I know you have inside you.

Umm...
 

I thought I read somewhere that the Invisible Woman was there for moral support.

Monday morning griping
 

Thanks Shifty. I've got various Modern Lovers tunes running through my head now. Which reminds me I need to get them on mp3.

Monday morning griping
 

But also remember that Rembrandt, Caravaggio and Peter Paul Reubens paid abundant attention to detail. So, if it ain't Baroque, don't fix it.



BOTD!

Monday morning griping
 

Like some after school special where 2 kids learn all there differences aren't, or like the Gift of the Magi, only inside out, I too learned some of my preset notions only limit me!

this weekend, I hurt my leg and couldn't run, so I went to my local health club for an intense "deep burn" spin class. I felt funny because of all the ignorant things I had said about spinning, but no one there knew, right? We started up, and got going, and when we hit the first hill, the instructress' tape merges into Spandau's Chant No. 1 the extended version.

"Hill sprint people!"
I thought of how I had said horns were awful in music as the sax drove us all up the hill- "faster now- more tension!" buttocks all around me undulating under spandex as spandau drives us on.

I feel the graze against my skin
I feel the graze against my skin
I know this feeling is a lie
I know this feeling is a lie
There's a guilt within my mind
There's a guilt within my mind

There was indeed a guilt within my mind! there was nothing wrong with horns and nothing wrong with spinning! yet I had posted there were problems with both......to the extent I influence, perhaps I have limited the lives of another with my prejudices.

"Increase tension! HARDER NOW! FASTER! MORE TENSION!"
I know this feeling is a lie
There's a guilt within my mind

Driving us up towards the crest- the horns motivating- a lesson the Chinese army knew long ago and Hank just learns!

"C'mon almost there- faster even faster- 10-9- almost there--5 -4-3-2-1 Done!"




Later, sitting with the guys in the sauna with a marjoram aroma-therapy underway, I was the one who suggested we ask her to play Saturday in the Park as a cool down next time.

Monday morning griping
 

Sorry, Hank, I know you've been trying hard, but since I don't believe in all of that touch-feely self-esteem-building bullshit, it doesn't matter. The best you are ever going to get is misunderstood. Genius just ain't gonna happen.

Monday morning griping
 

Like many artists, he won't be understood until after he's dead.

So let's kill him now. For his sake.

Question for people who have been pregnant or intimate with same
 

For the ultimate gift (albeit one requiring pre-giving consultation with the recipient), find a nurse-midwife who knows massage (you will discover most do - those quasi-alternative medicine types tend to hang together) and get her a massage DURING delivery. I have been told that this is better than drugs, by one who has had both.

Edited to add: if you want to find a specialist in prego-massage, check with the nearest nurse-midwife for a reference. There's a good mid-wife program at UTEP.

Monday morning griping
 

At the risk of failing to stp, one explanation of this is as follows: Martin van Buren was known by the nickname "Old Kinderhook," Kinderhook being a small town south of Albany from whence he hailed,* and would sign White House papers "O.K."

Sadly, I've also seen this explanation debunked.

* Some think the industrial revolution was made possible by the development of hipper nicknames like "Speedy" and "Junior", which in turn begat even hipper nicknames like "J-Lo".

Question for people who have been pregnant or intimate with same
 

I'm assuming that you aren't suggesting that El Paso is anywhere near Houston. You're lucky that I give you the benefit of the doubt here, G3. Hank wouldn't be treated quite so well.

Question for people who have been pregnant or intimate with same
 

Yeh, a few hundred miles and about a century apart, I believe. I wasn't sure where in Texas RT is, somehow I'd thought San Antonio, but I thought the medical folks in El Paso might have statewide contacts / reference lists.

I can say this: El Paso is closer to Houston than the other places I know that have good midwifery programs (Oregon and Massachusetts).

And, I thank you for the benefit of the doubt. It's good not to be Hank.

General gym pet peeve
 

Look, if you are mortified of walking around the gym locker room naked, don't take a shower at the gym.

Taking a shower in your gym clothes or in your underwear is fucking wacky.