Choose Your Side

I'm going to entertain myself with a foray into futile politics. I'll promote my petition where I can but I also want to share some of the responses I got from people who won't be signing my petition. I'll assemble these responses here so you all who have not signed the petition can know exactly who you have chosen to be allies with. It's definitely a humiliation tactic because I don't see how someone can watch armed thugs march on a mosque chanting "Stop Islam" "No More Mosques" and not be considered Nazi equivalents who are being given free opportunity to persecute a religious minority. Really gross. But if you fervently believe that obvious religious persecution is simply harmless free speech then I definitely wish you the very worst kind of free speech Pamela Geller can generate. I truly hope she comes to your home with guns and pitchforks and offensive signs and t-shirts and cartoons and chants thug slogans at your door, because you'll surely shrug and consider it nothing but harmless free speech, protected by the glorious constitution. Sure, you will. The terrified look in your child's eye will simply be his weakness, and not related to the thug terrorists at the door.

And furthermore, the quotes here will give you and idea of what to expect because I'm not going to pretend this is a popular opinion. Fox News has inculcated a society of brain dead people even the ones who hate Fox News. Yes, you have bought the idea that hate speech and religious persecution is protected. Well, I'm here to protect Freedom of Religion and I have the highest ground possible because I'm neither religious nor devout. I am purely a social philosopher and this is my conclusion: one can not stand aside when someone persecutes a religious group. If you do, then you have failed as an American and a person. Your parents didn't raise you right, and once you became an adult you neglected your studies. And here are some other people who have failed as Americans:

May Chuck Norris do push ups on your sorry < euphoricphart > 2015-05-30 15:45

ass!!!!! TEXAS RISING!!!

1 signature. ba ha ha ha ha § < hillbillyfishin > 2015-05-30 15:43

take a hike you terrorist head chopping scum § < back-to-iran > 2015-05-30 00:54

subhuman animals betrayed GOD'S 10 commandments < thou-shall-not-kill > 2015-05-30 01:04  

Go screw yourself, you rat bastard sympathiser! < -__- > 2015-05-30 11:01

Where do you live?

Perhaps we should boycott you and your area!

If you don't like our freedom of speech, freedom to assemble, and other freedoms, you can leave! Get out now!

WE citizens have the right to say who can and cannot be here.

Why are you sympathize with and support KNOWN, proven terrorists - that is to say Islamic radicals (17 to 45 years of age)!

YOU are a traitor!

GET OUT NOW, while the getting is good.



Oh, now to educate you, stupid bastard, the State of AZ has the clearest gun rights in the nation! NO gov't agency can interfere with the lawful ownership, possession or legal use of firearms, including protecting one's self, family or community. Again, if you don't like it, get the hell out of MY nation. 

Im going out on a Limb here..But is that one < euphoricphart > 2015-05-30 17:51

signature yours????

Will buy whatever I can from TX & AZ < BooFrigginHooForYou > 2015-05-30 08:48

Maybe if California was more like them, we wouldn't have the problems, gridlock and water rationing we do today.
 
mohamid is the way to the grave or the nuthouse § < boycott-islam >  

f off propaganda lying sand turd gfy § < blah-blah-blah-yawn-zzzz > 2015-05-30 18:32

"As far as your petition - take it, bend over take a deep breath and shove it!!"

Blkwater Liberty For All • 20 hours ago

I'll sign, if you bring it to me! I might have to wash the blood off to read it! Muslim goat f•ck ers have no place here! I will pray to my god Jesus Christ every day for you to come here, and if Allah smiles on me, it shall be so! Great for me, not so good for you!
(This really makes me laugh because he's saying he'd kill me for exercising my free speech because he's defending free speech?"

Real charming fellow...

(I'll add this one from my own comment section)
"Yeah. Go fuck yourself Oggy. Traitor and A coward. Draft dodger at best. Seriously shut the fuck up about it. If I wanted to hear any shit I'd just squeeze your eccentric head. "

common terrorist threats from thugs. Hypocrites hijack 1st amendment to terrorize.

 

Desert Dust

My needle threader broke before I could add more flowers

There's more to the story of this embroidery project, but for now I will only confess to trying to replicate the 70 year old photograph by Verne Wood of a wild horse in Wyoming. For a model I actually used a oil painting someone did of the photograph so this embroidery project is even further removed from the original. I also moved the horse, a Palomino Stallion named Desert Dust, about 1200 miles south and made him a Mare. Desert Dust was indeed captured during the wild horse round up, a' la the 1961 Henry Miller/John Huston movie The Misfits which killed Clark Gable and also Marilyn Monroe. This photo was of the horse's last few moments of freedom. It became a rodeo horse and tried to stomp to death anyone who rode it. But it was never free again. Desert Dust was reportedly murdered in captivity in 1952 but reckless and unsustainable wild horse entrapment and slaughter came to be regulated. There's actually more to the story than that but to delve deeper would be like turning Desert Dust into dog food.

The horse came out a little fat and the color shades were beyond the limitation of a corner store selection of yarn. And those flowers aren't native to Wyoming. I was adding more flowers when the needle threader broke. Alas, it wasn't the only thing that broke.

Screenshot Trivia #7

Vintage 1986 cinematography; shoot everything at night so no one can tell it's a soundstage

This was a pivotal film in my cinematic development. The key to these lower budget flicks is to make an attempt to rise above the puerile material and get goofy when the timing requires it. It's a revolving door of sequences involving, goofy acting, sex, generic stunts, heroic character arcs. Simple, but don't forget to be unmistakably goofy.

Any Guesses?

Hint: This is one of the few movies to have a character named Oggie, pronounced exactly how my blog name is pronounced. Very portentous. Also, this movie was about as low class/budget ($2.7 million) as would be made in 1986 and it's simply far superior to a $200 million dollar Fast and Furious flick which is technically superior but lacks greatly in the mystique department.

I Don't Know Why

This song is actually a codependent's anthem, so it's perfect for me. "You treat me like dirt, but I love you anyway."

I Don't Know Why (I Just Do) is in the Nat King Cole songbook. The song is from 1931 so it's from Prohibition era. Fred Ahlert also collaborated on another broken hearted anthem:  I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter. Lyrics were written by Roy Turk. Couple of real professionals from the Cole Porter/Hoagy Carmichael school of songwriting, be generous with the vowels and keep the melody as simple and stepwise right up until it has to jump or else you'll go crazy. That's probably the trademark of all these great songs: very simple stepwise melody, repetitive and basic that has a phrase that ends with a large intervallic leap to the perfectly chosen note and chord, melancholy, wistful, unmistakable, fundamental.
Ahlert and Turk wrote Mean to Me, which the Tenor Sax player Lester Young and my pianist Buddy Nat King Cole and drummer Buddy Rich all slayed. That's a dream trio...no bassist, but a ton of soul. I was reading some asshole saying Jazz makes no sense to him and is dead based on the fact late career Coltrane sounds like crap. Well, I don't really care what modern jazz players are composing when you have the Lester Young Trio to enjoy. Listen, no musicians ever will be as talented as Lester Young, Nat King Cole, and Buddy Rich. So you are insane to expect anything better. Do you look at every single new house and think, "Frank Lloyd Wright would've done a better job designing that house."? No, because that's crazy. But criticizing a genre that has definitely entered another era of creativity is numb. You might not love the Lester Young Trio like I do but you can't call it boring or overrated or washed up. There's a song in there and you have to recognize the melody and what the musician does with the melody. Your homework is to listen to a Sinatra version of Mean to Me, and then listen to the instrumental version. Nat King Cole could sing the shit out of this song but he'd be challenged to sing what he plays on the piano, so that's why he played it on the piano. Savvy?

I know I got a request to monkey around and give an actual performance, but you can't get blood from a stone.

Thunderbird

I now notice the upper right wing tip is not filled in.

 Again, this is all procrastination because I think a hand embroidered Thunderbird on a shirt will not withstand machine washing. I'll probably hand wash it for a while but eventually it will go in a machine and be destroyed. The only way to do this is to pay a computerized machine embroidery shop to do it as the stitches will be solid and washable. Speaking of washable, I recommend using some fabric glue on the back side to reinforce the stitch. Fabric glue is washable. Glue a patch on the back loop side and that's all one can do to protect it.

I should frame this shirt and not wear it. But I don't really care. It's practice for an epic punch pin project that will be framed.

As I applied the final stitch the whole building shook like a bomb had gone off. 5.1 isn't very damaging but I did have about 8 seconds of wondering if I should jump out the window.