Time for the Dead Roll Call – “Aggon, Anthony.” “Dead.”

Annette | July 31, 2006

Tony Aggon still dead?
Just checking.
Sometimes you have to make sure these miserable bastards are down for the count. There’s always the matter of the undead, or something like that.
Naw, I’m just kidding. Tony was dead long before they laid him out in his coffin. He died the death of every coward who [...]

See it here first !!!!

Annette | July 31, 2006

That’s right – we got connections here, and we have the first image of Mel Gibson – the notorious bigot and anti-Semite – in all his glory in his Malibu mug shot.
There anything uglier than a drunken, arrogant, really short Jewhater?
No, unless you count the ugly piece of crap he brought forth from his twisted [...]

The temperature’s rising – LET’S COOK!

Annette | July 31, 2006

On a day when the temperature hit 90 before 10 a.m., and there’s just nothing good enough out there to get me dressed and into the air-conditioned luxury of my big sexy American SUV, I am driven to do the one thing that always guarantees a big finger to the incoming heat wave, and that [...]

I AM THANKFUL that I don’t live in Texas ……….

Annette | July 31, 2006

but, if I did, you better believe Kinky would be getting my vote. (He’s already gotten my $$$.)

His latest quote:
“If you elect me the first Jewish governor of Texas, I’ll reduce the speed limit to 54.95.”

Eschew the unexamined life (why I write) ………

Annette | July 30, 2006

T. S. Eliot:
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
Little Gidding (from “Four Quartets”)

The first Tuscan summer …….

Annette | July 30, 2006

The two princesses had their first Tuscan summer, and they loved all of it.

They will return. Their uncle will see to it, that they will always return.
The princesses are perfect.

Hugh Laurie Alert!

Annette | July 28, 2006

My favorite actor in my favorite TV show

is scheduled to appear on “Inside The Actors Studio” on Bravo, Monday, July 31, 2006, 8 p.m., EDT.

This is not a joke ……..

Annette | July 28, 2006

This is the truth. This is reality. This really exists, and it’s being paid for with our taxpayer dollars.
This goes beyond weird, in my estimation. I cannot begin to imagine, in the wildest flights of my very own and quite wonderful fancy, what this person does, what this office is for, why [...]

The Cable Guy Gets It Through The Heart ……….

Annette | July 27, 2006

Dumb cable guy.
Dumb.
Dumb.
Dumb.
He just didn’t behave well, and he didn’t fix the problem, and I was as nice as could be to him, but he insisted on interrupting me as I was asking questions, but I still brought him ice water, and even had to prompt him with a “You’re welcome,” when he accepted the [...]

It’s easy to imagine John Foster Dulles maybe playing the spoons….

Annette | July 27, 2006

… Henry Kissinger doing magic tricks, James Baker strumming a banjo and singing “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” in a duet with Willie Nelson, and now we have Condimima, the incompetent token whore of Little Lord Pissypants’s in-over-its-head stable, er, uh, “Cabinet,” playing her piano after flying all night from Europe to Malaysia to [...]

They all died for nothing …….

Annette | July 27, 2006

This morning’s Post lists the official death count of our military in Iraq (and Afghanistan) at 2,565. It is probably behind in that number, since print publications are always a bit delayed.
It also lists “casualties,” which are, I guess, the ones who are maimed and mutilated, some beyond hope, some who will [...]

Compare And Contrast ………..

Annette | July 27, 2006

This morning, I read this article in the Washington Post, and I gasped at the horror of all this poor kid endured. Eight months with third-degree burns….
Soldier Fought for His Life for 8 Months
For nearly a year after the explosion, Sgt. Duane Dreasky fought for his life and stayed alive — despite the third-degree [...]

You once (I thought) were lost, but now you’re FOUND!!!

Annette | July 26, 2006

Sometimes you think you have left something behind, and, while that’s not how you want it, that’s how it is, and there’s nothing you can do about it. I hate those situations, and I usually end up with a room full of broken things when such situations arise. That’s how you can tell [...]

He’s the best actor in the best show on TV ……….

Annette | July 26, 2006

Hugh Laurie, who stars as Gregory House in the aptly named show that airs on Fox, of all places, every Tuesday night, has evolved from a goofy, but madly talented Brit actor into a hunky dramatic actor over here in the Colonies, and I, for one, find him irresistible. I find myself watching shows [...]

How come ……….

Annette | July 25, 2006

……. there’s this world-wide surge to help the poor Lebanese who are being displaced by the Israelis finally getting fed up with the Hezbollah crap, but no one ever did anything to help the Iraqi people while the Coalition Of The Lied-To invaded their country and indiscriminately and ruthlessly killed thousands and thousands of them, [...]

Little Boy surfaces (again) …………

Annette | July 23, 2006

He’s in the middle of every kind of life change imaginable for an-almost-middle-aged (chortle) man, all of them good, which is a relief, so he’s not been online at all. But, he pops up every now and then, this sweet Marine Lieutenant Colonel who loves his family, loves his Corps, loves his country, and [...]

I own him ……

Annette | July 22, 2006

….. or so he tells me, and he’s got a pretty good grip on my heart, I must say, my sweetbabymissynessofmine fisherman down there in the Keys………

Missing ……

Annette | July 21, 2006

Someone is there all the time, and then they’re not.
They’re missing.
Gone forever.
They’re missing.
But everything that they touched and breathed on and lived remains, and those are the people and places the missing one left behind.
So you begin, when enough time has gone by, to start returning to those places where you always went with the [...]

Hangin’ with my sweet big brother …….

Annette | July 21, 2006

My goodness.
What a shock.
The twentieth century – ‘way back there – is, indeed, a long-ago thing, quite antediluvian in terms of cyberspace and websites.
It’s called “Internet Explorer.”
Does anyone really still use it?
With Firefox available?
Really?
WHY??????????????????
So, just for fun, my big brother clicked onto my website while I was hanging out with him, and, even [...]

How could I have forgotten this picture?

Annette | July 18, 2006

Oh, the things I take for granted – like this fabulous author photo from my first book: