I thought I’d drop by for a visit while I’m waiting for my paint to dry. If you try to rush watercolors they’ll twist your twanky.

Livingston is singing its song today. Lots of wind. The tree limbs are whipping back and forth as though trying to unscrew themselves from the ground so they could go dancing in the breeze.

Some days always wear a smile.

Did you ever notice that crows won’t look you in the eye? Today male birds are dancing, hopping and tweeting –that’s their version of Joey’s “How you doing?”

Most dogs smile at you, and their face is always filled with expectation.

The mine pits in Butte are so deep that if you lean in far enough you can hear Chinese voices.

Even if you are a Republican do you really think corporations are people?

Are you aware that America now has more people in prisons than Joseph Stalin ever sent to Siberia and his deadly camps? We have more prisoners than soldiers, and it costs us $30,000 per year for each convict. We put more people in prison than China — and they have a billion more people. What the hell is going on?

Remember, under it all a diamond is just a rock.

Why is it that all the people fighting against abortions also fight against offering help to the resulting unwanted children?

Up here the nights are so quiet your ears think you went on ahead without them.

E.B.White said it: “We are being nibbled away by the mice of time.”

While I’m at it let me drop a few more of George Carlin’s thoughts on you:

“In the expression Topsy Turvy, what exactly is a turvy?”

“Do you ever open the dictionary right to the page you want? Doesn’t that feel good?”

“Do you know the good thing about all those executions in Texas–Fewer Texans!”

“Why do they say’raw sewage’? Do some people actually cook that stuff?”

“In Rome today the pope took off that little hat and revealed that he had a map of Tombstone, Arizona, tattooed on his head.”

“After the hurricane, where do people put all those sheets of plywood?”
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I’ll see you later. My paint’s dry.

How about a few giggles today?

I have been re-reading some old George Carlin books, and didn’t realize how much I missed him.
Here are a few of his wonderful goofy thoughts:

Does Queen Elizabeth have a sweat-band in her crown?

How do primitive people know if they’re doing the dance correctly?

How come no one serves dessert at breakfast?

After a lion escapes from a circus in Africa, how do they know if they caught the right one?

How come grownups never get to wave bye bye?

Have you ever noticed that in movies when people buy something they never wait for their change?

George says we have trouble naming things and using words that mix things up. Which is best: Slow down or slow up? We say something is invaluable when actually it is very valuable. Or should we say “From here on in” or “From here on out”?— Fire departments don’t bring fire.They should be called Extinguisher Departments.Does wrinkle cream cause wrinkles? Do pain pills give us pain?

I never eat sushi, because I won’t eat something that is just unconscious.

“I don’t give a hoot, and haven’t given one since 1955.”

“Meow” means “woof” in cat.

What exactly is a diddly squat?

George Washington’s brother is the Uncle of our Country.

The day after tomorrow is the third day of the rest of your life.

If all our national holidays were celebrated on Wednesday we might conceivably have nine-day weekends.

Long before man discovered fire he had sand and water to put it out.

And, finally, “When you look at some of Picasso’s paintings it makes you wonder what kind of woman he visualized when masturbating.”
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Wherever you are George, rest in peace.

It’s a bit snowy and chilly today so I thought I’d just sit here and ramble for a while.
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This is the fourth day since my cataract surgery, so I’m still feeling my way along life’s path. I had the left eye done Thursday, and the right will be done on Feb. 6 — in the meantime my glasses are as useless as breasts on a firetruck.

The vision in my left eye is really coming along nicely. It should be healed and ready to go in another week or so. It’s already much better than the pre-op vision.

By the way, if any of you kiddies ever have to have such surgery, don’t sweat it. Despite the fact that they were inside my eye chopping the old out and sticking the new in, it was totally painless. I’ve had more discomfort while getting a haircut.
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I’m upset by the announcement that we are selling 84 of our fancy jet fighter planes to Saudi Arabia. We will also give (SELL) them helicopters, missles, bombs, delivery systems, radar, and night-vision goggles–and they will pay us 60 billion dollars for all those deadly toys. Who gets all that money? Does any of it come to you?
It makes me nervous when we sell boom-booms to Muslim nations. Too often they come back to bite us on the ass. Most of the arms that bin Laden used against us were made in the USA, back when we considered him one of the good guys. Even if the friendly purchasers don’t use the armament against us directly they seem to like selling the stuff to people who are inclined to look upon us with disfavor when we invade their country and kill their men, women and children — and then pee on the bodies.
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Have you ever taken a close look at bird’s eyes? They are proof that they are the direct descendants of dinosaurs. Look into the eyes of an eagle, owl or hawk and you see something that would like to gobble off all your most tender appendages.
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I’m always anxious to excuse some of the silly things we do, and to believe that we are still the greatest country on Earth. Then I see the TV ratings and learn that most Americans get their news and analysis from Fox News! FOX NEWS! No wonder most of the rest of the world thinks we should be kept in a cage.
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When I wrote of Christopher Hitchen’s great quotes I forgot to include one of my favorites: “If Jerry Falwell had been given an enema at his death he could have been buried in a matchbox.”
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I read this morning that four more of our soldiers were killed over there. It was reported that “Our brave boys gave their lives…” Bullshit. None of those kids wanted to give their life for that foolishness..Those young lives were TAKEN not given.
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Don’t forget your coat.