Random Thoughts

I have a cold. AGAIN. I think the last one was just like the understudy's peformance. This one is definitely making me feel something. This is the bad thing about having kids and being around kids - germs. I have become such a germaphobe since becoming a parent. Mostly that is because I get sick from them all the time and being sick and still having to parent rowdy children well...sucks.

You don't get to sleep. You still have to get up and make breakfast and lunch no matter how thick the haze, no matter how twisted the aches and tortured the pains. You still have to resolve arguments, fix broken toys, find paper and crayons and clean up the sticky spills and crumbs left behind two kids trying so hard to let you rest that they are willing to do anything all by themselves. Ha, it is more like, "She's down! Popsickles and honey with sprinkles on crackers! She'll NEVER know. SHE is laying down. If SHE doesn't see us, she will never find out." Then a battle of who can SHHHHHH the loudest ensues. Youngest hits oldest for bossing him around. I hear screaming and yelling. I walk in holding my head and voila - They have been found out! Somehow, they never put together the whole cause and effect thing. They will think that somehow, the forces of evil brought me to my feet from my death bed moved me downstairs at the precise moment that there were sprinkles decorating sticky spots all over my floor, ants nursing a wet towel on the counter used to clean up melted popsickle, crinkled paper obscuring the honey smeared glossy coating on the kitchen table and dog chewed crayons and wrapper bits litter the floor. They have been busted! Not because they were doing something out of the norm for our household. Not because I have told them a million times not to eat popsickles without asking and to stay the hell out of my sprinkles and baking supplies. But because they are unlucky. Because they are having a "Bad Day."

I guess I'll sink to turning on the ol' "idiot box", the "boob tube", the "Republican's pulpit" (*grinning* - that last one is mine by the way) for them. It is truly the easiest way to keep them in one place for more than fifteen minutes at a time. We ration tv around here, so it works like a charm.



Anyone who has not read the zombie horror anthology Brainchild should most definitely do so RIGHT NOW! It is so awesome!!!! PLUS, it is locally published by Omnibucket Press http://www.omnibucket.com/. The artwork is stunning. The writing is captivating. It is all printed on quality, glossy paper stock! Not that that matters to me. But it matters to some. I got my copy at The Laughing Ogre on High Street http://phoenixcomics.com/. You must check it out! It was like $15 but sooooo worth it. And supporting a local business that offers quality services of stuff I like is the soy in my chai! PLUS - If you go to their site and sign up for their mailing list for Ology (their online Magazine) they give you free art and music and stuff. How cool is that?

Also, has anybody seen the HBO series Carnivale?



I LOVE THIS SHOW! This show is so esthetically pleasing that I can watch two seasons of it without knowing what the hell is going on and totally not care! http://www.hbo.com/carnivale/ It is as if I am being led on a journey that is forboding and dark. I, like the characters, have no idea what is happening and where I will end up. The colors on film are all rich, warm earthy colors. The artwork is dark and mystical utilizing tarot symblos, 40's carnival and circus graphics, and universal symbols of good and evil. Those things along with a cast of characters inluding but not limited to a dwarf carnie boss, a bearded lady, a blind mystic, a snake charmer, a family of hoochie coochie dancers (Mom and daughters) being pimped out by their Dad, a tarot/mind reading daughter of a mute psychic and WAIT THERE'S MORE!!! On the other side you have a powerful preacher, his sister and their devoted followers all looking to serve God but are increasingly swayed by darkness.