Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Jaw Dropping Gorgeous
It seems Georgia has been attacked by Russia. At first I was worried about our peanut crop and Jimmy Carter but then I realized it was not Georgia in America but the one in Europe. WHEW!! No wonder it was not on the news as much as I thought it should be.
But now I'm reading that the Georgians (who call themselves ქართველები) want help from America.
HELLO!!!!! We have the Olympics at the moment. We're a little busy ourselves!!
If you want to impress your friends at the water cooler just start talking about the 2008 South Ossetia war. Here is what happened. South Ossetia, a State like Florida, declared independence 16 years ago and I guess Georgia just realized it.
So Georgia sent in troops and attacked. Russia, who is like a cat seeing another cat attacked Georgia just because well, it saw another cat, it's what they do. Of course Russia could not stop themselves and went into Georgia by mistake (they forgot to hand out maps I guess).
There is a lot of he said she said and finger pointing and frankly . . . . I got a little bored with the whole mess.
Back to the Olympics!
Hooray for Shawn Johnson. I was tired of her always getting the Silver. She always smiled at getting Silver but you could tell she REALLY wanted a Gold. When she finally won it she could barely contain herself . . . until she was on the podium and the National Anthem was playing and she was making a goofy little face the whole time.
And what's with her little march anyway. Does she always walk that way? Anybody else see that little march she does like a little solder?
So the International Table Tennis Federation wants woman to wear skirts and shirts with more curves to attack (attract - oops) more fans! I feel that something more akin to the beach volleyball outfits would work.
BUT THEN there is the Great Christmas Lights Swimsuit Debacle of 2008. Spain's synchronized swimming team are banned from wearing swimming suits with little lights sewn into the fabric. Can they not make up their minds??? Too much . . too little.
Hey - did I miss this event?? What if you had a little girl whose goal was to be a Olympic Ribbon Twirler. Would you quit your job and move to New Jersey to have some Russian coach train her for the next 15 years?
Is this something that would be useful later in life? Go on tour with Twirling With The Stars.
And what about those Gymnastic Stationary Ring guys. Have you ever tried that? Remember in High School. I would just hang there.
I want o see the legs of those guys - I bet they are scary skinny.
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OK - Jaw Dropping Gorgeous
I received in the mail yesterday Sue's collage poster's and it is beautiful. So beautiful that so far every person I have shown it too actually has their jaw drop. Julie at Julie's Java House said "Now THAT is what I'm talking about". A few people wanted to buy them and the print will soon be made into postcards and another project I'm working on.
I'll have them for sale online - have to get the logistics's going with a new web address. www.PublicEnemiesColumbus.com will soon be up and running.
So - with that I must go!
Rod
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COOL!! Huge congratulations to Sue for creating a masterpiece we can all be proud of! WOOT!
ReplyDeleteHey Rod, you said, "more curves to attack more fans."
LOL--Freudian slip? ;)
LMAO@ your Georgia story. hehehe....thank you for a great blog!
Off I go.
Are you my agent now, Rod???? LOL
ReplyDeleteWow; I'm humbled by the reaction to my original and now the prints (and I haven't even seen the prints yet)!! I'm planning on coming to Kurth's Friday night with the frames and I think Rod will have the posters there too. Hope to see lots of our friends again!
Yup - will be there.
ReplyDeleteBTW - I have other projects in mind and orders already for when finished!.
New - web address is trickling into the system - not there yet though!
PublicEnemiesColumbus.com
I was told by one of my artist friends to get a copyright on the original. I THINK she said if/when
ReplyDeleteI sell it. But I'd better make sure before we get too many more things in the works! I might have to do that soon if these things take off the way you are thinking they might!
Rod! are you going to be a dot com-er too???? We can be neighbors!
ReplyDeleteWoo Hooo!!! Go SUE!!!! ;)
ReplyDeleteGreat Blog! Very funny today Rod!!
Great Blog!!!
ReplyDeleteYou Go Sue!!!!!!!
Congrats!!!
Congrats Sue!!!
ReplyDeleteGreat blog today Rod!!
I can't wait to go and look at the new site!!
Thanks, Suz,Shaken, Robbi, & Blazn.
ReplyDeleteThis all started with Rod's suggestion for the original and he's just taken off running with these other things! I can't thank
him enough!
Maybe I am old and old fashioned. I find not much to LMAO at people being bombed and killed. These are REAL mothers whose children are being killed and REAL children whose parents are being killed.
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SUE! I got to see the real deal in the West James Gallery today when I stopped by to talk to Kim. Gorgeous, my dear!
ReplyDeleteCarol--No, your not old fashioned. We all are concerned about people living in war zones. I know Rod didn't mean anything offensive. Sometimes you have to joke a little to make this crazy and scary world a little bit more bearable.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your comment. It is true that we also tend to forgot how serious this stuff is, since it is so far away.
Prayers to all that live in war zones and those who are soldiers, too. My nephew is in Iraq and I worry about him all the time.
If I recall newspapers in the 1940s always had jokes about war.
ReplyDeleteI apologize to anyone that took offense but even in the worst of times one should find something to smile about.
When I had skin cancer I was always joking about it. It's a way to release tension.
As for making a joke about war - I see no harm in it as long as it is not aimed at any particular group and causes no harm.
I was not joking about death - I was joking about how the act of war is sometimes a joke and how silly it is at times.
Thank you for the comments though - I really do appreciate them.
My son, his wife & three children (6 yr old, 5 year old & 2 yr old) are stationed in the eastern part of Turkey and my son often times has to travel along the Syrian border and travel into Iraq as an escort for high ranking officials and also acts as a body guard. I worry about him and think of him every day, but you are right Rod, we have to keep a sense of humor, often times because we are helpless to do anything else. This son is also the son that was in the Pentagon on 9/11. His older brother is a navigator in the F15E and he was flying the no-fly zone over Iraq at the time. He and his squardron were the first to fly into Afganistan.
ReplyDeleteWe live in a very scary time and the main thing is we can never forget how lucky we are to live in this wonderful country and also know that freedom isn't free, no matter what our political persuasion is. Sorry to take up so much space with this but I was compelled to respond.
Char
Never ever be sorry to express an opinion Char.
ReplyDeleteActually - this times are pretty non-scary for most people compared to when I was growing up.
I can not imagine what my parents went through with the Cuban Missile Crisis.
The only scary thing now is that 50% of Americans wanted this current Administration for 8 years.
BUT - that is for another forum.
Thanks, Michelle! Glad you were finally able to see it! It was a work of "heart"!!
ReplyDeleteMovie Star Wife, I think you expressed it perfectly. Laughter and tears are two sides of how we handle despair, frustration and fear when dealing with situations like war.
"Does anyone else have normally polite elderly relatives who are email-forwarding fiends? "
ReplyDeleteYES! Mary, I do!!! OMG!
I really appreciate your perspective on one of my pet peeves. ;)
I also appreciate all the rest who'e chimed in on these difficult subjects... REAL communication on tough issues is the only way to ever put them to rest, I think. (at least that's what I think at this moment in time, for whatever it's worth!)
It seems Georgia has been attacked by Russia..........
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Julie
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