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A few weeks back Monica asked: “You are stranded on an island and will be there for six months. What three things do you want to have with you? (They can’t be people, food or electronic devices.)”

1. A sea-worthy sailboat.
2. “How to Sail for Dummies” (w/ pop-up sextant!)
3. A nautical map of the area

Tragedy! Horror! Despair! I no longer have a bowl-full of cherries!

There are no cherries this year!  For the first time in my 31 years of existence, my family’s orchard will not be selling cherries by the roadside.  Who is to blame?!  Global Warming?!  Mysteriously Vanishing Bees!?  Democrats?!  YOU?!

No.. Turns out there was a windstorm mixed w/ a late-spring freeze which prevented the bees from coming out of their hives to peak pollination time.  As a result the bees didn’t work their brand of tree-luvin magic this season.  Lousy good-for-nothing won’t get outta bed cuz it’s too cold bees!

What the bees fail to understand is that the annual cherry harvest is an institution in my life.  As a kid I helped pack and sell the cherries in our roadside stand.  As an adult, I completely reworked our marketing and selling practices to drive-up sales and replace antiquated notions of cherry selling.  (trust me, it’s complex.)  Never in all my years have we NOT had any cherries to sell.  There will be no cursing at each other, no long hot hours under the sun for next to no $$.  There will be an abundance of free time to run, jump and climb trees! (or not)

Strange… Strange…

I feel a strange connection w/ this guy… you pick which.

A few weeks back (damn! Will I ever catch up?!) Amy asked “If you were running for President, what would your policies be and what would you say to get elected?”

This question brings to mind a Douglas Adams quote which I enjoy…

“Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”

I think with the rarest of exceptions – Those who become president, do so on the shoulders of shady dealings, corporate special interest groups, back-room deals, blatant pandering and hollow campaign promises.

With that said, I think the office of the presidency would be completely incompatible w/ my personal code of conduct. I may be many things, good and bad, but I always try to be honest, straight-forward and fair; even to a fault. I value results over action. When I make a promise, I damned-well do my very best to keep it.

While this may sound like a good platform for a campaign, the key difference is that I actually believe in it. It’s more than marketing jargon, campaign politics or election-year pandering.

There is also the problem of my personality. For the most-part, people dislike me (neutral or worse) on first or early impressions. It’s been a problem I’ve struggled with all my life. As people get to know me, they come to like me as a true friend, someone they can depend upon and someone they enjoy being around. Or… they completely and totally hate my guts. I’m a very polarizing figure. I could go on and on about why I think that’s the case but I’ll save that for another post. As it relates to my electability; it would take a while for people to warm-up to my personality… if they ever did.

So… Don’t vote for me, I don’t have a snowball’s chance in hell.

A PSS from Kim this time – She asked us to press Random on our Ipod and show the tracks which come up. I’m a little odd in that I don’t have an ipod or use itunes. I used to use Napster but just switched over to Rhapsody this week. But I should be able to play along anyhow.

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1. Ziggy Stardust – David Bowie
2. Whatsername – Green Day
3. Under Pressure – (with Queen) – David Bowie
4. Wonderful Night – Fatboy Slim
5. Don’t Box Me In – (With Stewart Copeland) – Stan Ridgway
6. Space Oddity – David Bowie
7. Cinderella Undercover – Oingo Boingo
8. Sweet Rain (Album Version) – Euphoria
9. China Girl – David Bowie
10. Blue Monday – Flunk
11. Praise You – Fatboy Slim
12. Only You (Radio Twist Mix) – Captain Jack

So I’m a big TMBG fan, but never knew about this video which I completely FREAKING LOVE.  Thought I’d share.

Several weeks back Other Kim set the PSS theme of:

“If you had a patronus what would yours be and why?”

I’ve muttered and groaned about this theme for weeks. I simply do not want to answer it because I HATE Harry Potter. In my view everything in the Harry Potter world feels recycled from older and better works. It’s tweaked just enough, then repackaged and sold as “original”. Mix that with a largely ignorant public, some easy reading and a good publishing agency and you have a smash hit for the decades. Bleh…

Am I claiming plagiarism? No. In the same way “Mike E. Mouse” does not plagiarize “Mickey Mouse”. It simply highlights a lack of creativity and originality of thought. And like the kid who’s running around w/ a Mike E. Mouse doll, I can’t help but feel sorry for those who think Harry Potter is some great, hugely original and creative work of literary fiction. Umm.. sure. I mean, is Mr. Pibb really as good as a Dr. Pepper?

The Patronus is a good example of what I’m talking about. In most literary works (including those of William Shakesphere) this type of being would be described as a Familiar. But – okay. I’ll just dig down to the core of the questions. If I had a Familiar Patronus what would it be?

It would be a Gorilla. Because, like me they are big, smart, grumpy and quick to anger. And… Occasionally I like to throw poo at my enemies.