Friday, February 25, 2005
If you're a Montgomery driver, this is for you... well, if you're a BAD one that is...
Let me explain a bit about why your insistence on pulling out in front of me onto Atlanta Highway makes my heart skip... and I think I mean that literally!! Incident one, I knew of a girl when I was a senior who's name is Sam. She was a student at CCPAC with me. Two years later, I heard on the news or from somewhere that she and her twin had been in an accident. Sam was killed and her sister spent time in the hospital. What happended? Sam pulled out of Fox Hollow, obviously thinking she had time to get across, and she got hit. THAT is why some person in a big ol' tan colored truck who decided to race between traffic into the median of Atlanta Highway and slam on breaks in the nick of time for me NOT to hit him in the RENTAL car I was driving made my chest hurt... I think it literally stopped my heart or something like that.
Incident #2... A few years ago, a girl I go to church with and her Mom were leaving the Dairy Queen up Atlanta Highway when she was hit and her mother was killed. I have very special memories of that DQ... my best friend Leigh Ann and I used to go there all the time when I'd spend the night with her on Friday night. It was a good while after that before I drove by ('cause it's out of the way for me) but even longer before I could bring myself to have to pull out from there. I had a bit of panic in me still.
I wouldn't be surprised to find that I have heart damage from the times some wild driver has scared me half to death pulling out in front of me or over in front of me. I don't like it... I value my health and my car too much to take that kind of a risk.
Oh, and by the way, please don't bother HONKING at me if I'M waiting to turn onto a road like Atlanta Highway. A) I'm driving/ it's my car... I'll drive it how I see fit and that's safely and cautiously. B) You are doing no good... I'm not going to pull out just because you honk and your honking isn't going to magically make all the traffic disappear and me be able to go... however, I DO understand that it might make you feel better, but it won't necessarily, mostly it makes whoever you're honking at MAD AT YOU... I've learned to just look in the rearview mirror, fuss that I'm driving my car, and go back to traffic...
Oh... AND some of you are not very nice about letting people over when there's a lane merging or someone has their BLINKER ON. I will admit, sometimes I'm not as nice as I should be about letting people over, so I think we ALL need to be nicer.
Anywhoo... that's my soapbox for the day...
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Let me explain a bit about why your insistence on pulling out in front of me onto Atlanta Highway makes my heart skip... and I think I mean that literally!! Incident one, I knew of a girl when I was a senior who's name is Sam. She was a student at CCPAC with me. Two years later, I heard on the news or from somewhere that she and her twin had been in an accident. Sam was killed and her sister spent time in the hospital. What happended? Sam pulled out of Fox Hollow, obviously thinking she had time to get across, and she got hit. THAT is why some person in a big ol' tan colored truck who decided to race between traffic into the median of Atlanta Highway and slam on breaks in the nick of time for me NOT to hit him in the RENTAL car I was driving made my chest hurt... I think it literally stopped my heart or something like that.
Incident #2... A few years ago, a girl I go to church with and her Mom were leaving the Dairy Queen up Atlanta Highway when she was hit and her mother was killed. I have very special memories of that DQ... my best friend Leigh Ann and I used to go there all the time when I'd spend the night with her on Friday night. It was a good while after that before I drove by ('cause it's out of the way for me) but even longer before I could bring myself to have to pull out from there. I had a bit of panic in me still.
I wouldn't be surprised to find that I have heart damage from the times some wild driver has scared me half to death pulling out in front of me or over in front of me. I don't like it... I value my health and my car too much to take that kind of a risk.
Oh, and by the way, please don't bother HONKING at me if I'M waiting to turn onto a road like Atlanta Highway. A) I'm driving/ it's my car... I'll drive it how I see fit and that's safely and cautiously. B) You are doing no good... I'm not going to pull out just because you honk and your honking isn't going to magically make all the traffic disappear and me be able to go... however, I DO understand that it might make you feel better, but it won't necessarily, mostly it makes whoever you're honking at MAD AT YOU... I've learned to just look in the rearview mirror, fuss that I'm driving my car, and go back to traffic...
Oh... AND some of you are not very nice about letting people over when there's a lane merging or someone has their BLINKER ON. I will admit, sometimes I'm not as nice as I should be about letting people over, so I think we ALL need to be nicer.
Anywhoo... that's my soapbox for the day...
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Thursday, February 17, 2005
Prologue/ Tower of Babel
from Godspell
Socrates:
I honor and love you. But I shall obey God rather than you. This is my teaching. And if this is the doctrine that corrupts the youth, then I am a mischeivous person.
Wherefore, O men of Athens,I say to you:
Therefore, acquit me or not
But whichever you do
I shall never alter my ways
Never adjust my approach to this maze
Never reform til the end of my days
Even if I have to die many times.
Thomas Aquinas:
God is apprehended by imagination, intuition, reason, touch, opinion, sense, and name - and so on.
While on quite the other hand, we find we can't begin toUnderstand him, so to some it seems a shame
To go on
But he is all things in all
And he is nothing in any
He is often found in one thing small
Conversely, he is often missed in many.
Martin Luther:
God almighty has made our rulers mad
God almighty has turned our people bad
For the German nobility, with typical agility,
Have so applied their skill at egregious laws
That the people are lead astray; they feel beholden to obey
I may be just the German way, but God, it gives one pause.
(On the following... they overlap and stuff... so I'm just splitting it up with the way it pasted here...)
DaVinci:
Gibbon:
The rise of man...Was natural... Man is so levitable! Instead of admiring
Man's filling of the void.We should rather be surprised
That God had man so tyrannized... Man will be strong
So long
The decline of Rome...Was natural...And inevitable... Instead of inquiring
Why Rome was destroyed... We should rather be surprised
That Rome remained so strong
So long
Frederic Nietzsche:
What...Is noble
Nowadays?
Jean Paul Sartre:
Atheistic existentialism
which I represent is
More coherent - I do believe it...
Buckminster Fuller:
Man is a complex of patterns, of processes...
Jean Paul Sartre:
There is no such thing as human nature,not in all or few men,
Since there is no God to conceive it...
Buckminster Fuller:
Man is a complex of patterns, of processes...
I live on Earth at present, and I don't know what I am.
I know that I am not a category
I am not a thing - a noun
I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process-
An integral function of the universe.
All:
So high
In my
Lovely Ivory Tower of Babel (babble, babble, babble, Babble, babble, babble, babble)
high above theRabble (rabble, rabble, rabble, Babble, Rabble, babble, babble, rabble, babble)
Greatest mind of history
Solving life's sweet mystery
So listen to me (so listen to me)
Know how life should be (know how life should be)
Oh, what does it matter if they don't agree?
I really like this song, too. Not that I agree with the philosophies stated therein, but I like that it gives you a glimpse of what beliefs have been aspoused by these people. Plus, I love that it gives you that hint of the chaos in Babel.
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from Godspell
Socrates:
I honor and love you. But I shall obey God rather than you. This is my teaching. And if this is the doctrine that corrupts the youth, then I am a mischeivous person.
Wherefore, O men of Athens,I say to you:
Therefore, acquit me or not
But whichever you do
I shall never alter my ways
Never adjust my approach to this maze
Never reform til the end of my days
Even if I have to die many times.
Thomas Aquinas:
God is apprehended by imagination, intuition, reason, touch, opinion, sense, and name - and so on.
While on quite the other hand, we find we can't begin toUnderstand him, so to some it seems a shame
To go on
But he is all things in all
And he is nothing in any
He is often found in one thing small
Conversely, he is often missed in many.
Martin Luther:
God almighty has made our rulers mad
God almighty has turned our people bad
For the German nobility, with typical agility,
Have so applied their skill at egregious laws
That the people are lead astray; they feel beholden to obey
I may be just the German way, but God, it gives one pause.
(On the following... they overlap and stuff... so I'm just splitting it up with the way it pasted here...)
DaVinci:
Gibbon:
The rise of man...Was natural... Man is so levitable! Instead of admiring
Man's filling of the void.We should rather be surprised
That God had man so tyrannized... Man will be strong
So long
The decline of Rome...Was natural...And inevitable... Instead of inquiring
Why Rome was destroyed... We should rather be surprised
That Rome remained so strong
So long
Frederic Nietzsche:
What...Is noble
Nowadays?
Jean Paul Sartre:
Atheistic existentialism
which I represent is
More coherent - I do believe it...
Buckminster Fuller:
Man is a complex of patterns, of processes...
Jean Paul Sartre:
There is no such thing as human nature,not in all or few men,
Since there is no God to conceive it...
Buckminster Fuller:
Man is a complex of patterns, of processes...
I live on Earth at present, and I don't know what I am.
I know that I am not a category
I am not a thing - a noun
I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process-
An integral function of the universe.
All:
So high
In my
Lovely Ivory Tower of Babel (babble, babble, babble, Babble, babble, babble, babble)
high above theRabble (rabble, rabble, rabble, Babble, Rabble, babble, babble, rabble, babble)
Greatest mind of history
Solving life's sweet mystery
So listen to me (so listen to me)
Know how life should be (know how life should be)
Oh, what does it matter if they don't agree?
I really like this song, too. Not that I agree with the philosophies stated therein, but I like that it gives you a glimpse of what beliefs have been aspoused by these people. Plus, I love that it gives you that hint of the chaos in Babel.
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Big River soundtrack, Big River
Waitin' For The Light To Shine
Alright then, I'll go to hell. I'll take up wickedness again, which is my line, being brought up to it. For a starter, I'll steal Jim out of slavery again. And if I can think of somethin' worse, I'll do that too. 'Cause as long as I'm in and in for good, I might as well go whole hog!!
Well, I have lived on undirected life
A cloudy way I know, the only way I knew
And so the things I've done
In fact each and every one
Is the way that I was taught to run
I am waitin' for the light to shine
I am waitin' for the light to shine
I have lived in the darkness for so long
I'm waitin' for the light to shine
Far beyond horizons I have seen
Beyond things I've been
Beyond the dreams I've dreamed
Are the things I've done
In fact each and every one
Are the way that I was taught to run
I am waitin' for the light to shine
I am waitin' for the light to shine
I have lived in the darkness for so long
I'm waitin' for the light to shine
I am waitin' for the light to shine
I am waitin' for the light to shine
I have lived in the darkness for so long
I'm waitin' for the light to shine
(these lyrics are courtesy of... http://www.allthelyrics.com/lyrics/big_river_soundtrack/big_river/-75076-lyric/ )
Just thought I'd share these... I love Huck's honest about how he feels, albeit misguided and "hurt". Big River is a Broadway musical based on the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. I highly recommend it if you've never read it... classical literature...
I've got another set of lyrics to post for you... hold on...
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Waitin' For The Light To Shine
Alright then, I'll go to hell. I'll take up wickedness again, which is my line, being brought up to it. For a starter, I'll steal Jim out of slavery again. And if I can think of somethin' worse, I'll do that too. 'Cause as long as I'm in and in for good, I might as well go whole hog!!
Well, I have lived on undirected life
A cloudy way I know, the only way I knew
And so the things I've done
In fact each and every one
Is the way that I was taught to run
I am waitin' for the light to shine
I am waitin' for the light to shine
I have lived in the darkness for so long
I'm waitin' for the light to shine
Far beyond horizons I have seen
Beyond things I've been
Beyond the dreams I've dreamed
Are the things I've done
In fact each and every one
Are the way that I was taught to run
I am waitin' for the light to shine
I am waitin' for the light to shine
I have lived in the darkness for so long
I'm waitin' for the light to shine
I am waitin' for the light to shine
I am waitin' for the light to shine
I have lived in the darkness for so long
I'm waitin' for the light to shine
(these lyrics are courtesy of... http://www.allthelyrics.com/lyrics/big_river_soundtrack/big_river/-75076-lyric/ )
Just thought I'd share these... I love Huck's honest about how he feels, albeit misguided and "hurt". Big River is a Broadway musical based on the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. I highly recommend it if you've never read it... classical literature...
I've got another set of lyrics to post for you... hold on...
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Thursday, February 03, 2005
Okay, guys and gals... this cracks me up... Go to Google and search for "Prattville basketball brawl"... look at ALL the entries and note ALL the states that have at least one station covering this!! If you want the whole scoop and stuff... go to WSFA and check it out. They're the local NBC affiliate and, IMO, the best station in town. This story was mentioned on The Today Show this morning and CNN and MSNBC have picked it up... I hope the people who started it are thoroughly embarrassed now!! I know they're in trouble!! I'll let you know if I find that I taught one of these guys when I did my internship at Stanhope Elmore High School back in Fall 2000.
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