Everything that is wrong with America…
November 9, 2012
Captain America’s been torn apart
Now he’s a court jester with a broken heart
He said, turn me around and take me back to the start
I must be losing my mind, are you blind?
I’ve seen it all a million times
So, this has nothing to do with the election…
(at least the first part doesn’t)
First of all, it has to do with the New York Marathon.
As you probably know, after Hurricane Sandy put a serious hurting on the Northeastern U.S., leaving many without homes and many more without power, the New York Road Runners, organizers of the event, decided to cancel this year’s marathon. New York City’s Mayor Bloomberg favored moving forward and continuing to hold the race. Due to overwhelming public criticism, however, the Road Runners decided to cancel the event. Seriously?
I understand that Sandy left many people devastated with the loss of family, homes and whatever else you can think of. And if the marathon were held and it’s organizers didn’t offer to somehow support the Hurricane Sandy victims, we could surely criticize them then and call them insensitive and/or greedy. But who are we, the whiny American public, to demand that an organization like the New York Road Runners should suffer an even greater hit than what Hurricane Sandy had already delivered.
Instead of putting the marathon in a position to help, this decision, based on public criticism, is potentially costing the marathon millions in lost revenues, refunds to runners, and refunds to sponsors and television broadcasters who paid for an event that didn’t happen. Not to mention all the money spent by runners, many of whom traveled to New York, only to then find out that the event was being cancelled.
Have we really become a country of “poor us”, “poor them”, “poor me”..? And once someone cries “poor me”, then everything else is fair game, regardless of who gets hurt? If this were a smaller, or less well-funded, organization this cancellation could put them out of business. I guess no one cares about that and all the goodwill that the marathon generates every year. Shame on us – the whiny American public.
Next is the No Doubt video…
You know No Doubt… Gwen Stefani… Possibly the coolest hot chick on the planet?
Well, No Doubt released a video for their new song, Looking Hot. (Yes, Gwen – you are.)
Gwen Stefani “Looking Hot”
After watching the video, I’m convinced that Gwen and the boys were making fun of old cowboy/western movies but apparently the Native American community found the video offensive. Seriously? How is this video offensive? Oh, that’s right… It’s the whiny American public again or, in this case, the whiny Native American public.
I know – there go my chances or ever running for public office.
God forbid that I exercise amendment given right of freedom of speech.
Maybe I don’t like Sterlin Harjo’s portrayal of white people in his film Barking Water. Aaron Riggs plays the part of Elvis in the film. Is Harjo saying that all white people from Tennessee remind him of Elvis? …or is he making fun of white American heritage? I’m offended either way – or – is it possible that I’m just being a little overly sensitive? You know, like the turmoil over the No Doubt video.
Aaron Riggs as Elvis
BTW… Nothing personal, Sterlin, I was just trying to prove my point.
So, in the end, No Doubt took their video down down from their official Vimeo and/or YouTube sites and issued an apology stating, “it was never our intention to offend anyone”. Of course, you weren’t… This whole ting is silly. The good thing is that, although the video has (technically) been “pulled”. I found it here…
http://en.musicplayon.com/play?v=775232
Hopefully it stays up for a while there.
So now, you watch it and you tell me…
Do you find this potentially offensive in any way?
Whiny America wins again.
By the way, once upon a time, right after the first No Doubt tour, Gwen Stefani dyed her hair red. Apparently she didn’t like it but that shouldn’t stop her from being this week’s Redhead of The Week…
And now, onto the election…
Neither candidate really addressed the issues surrounding our nation’s debt crisis. That’s probably because it is spiraling out of control and no one really know what to do about it. Not talking about it is a good political strategy because, to solve it, all Americans will have to feel the pain and we the whiny American public doesn’t want to hear about that. So let’s ignore the problem and see if it goes away. My bet is that it will not.
All that said, President Obama ran a brilliant campaign. He kept focusing on the fact that Romney was a rich guy who had made a lot of money and pays less taxes than you do. Of course, the taxes part isn’t true but political campaigns are mostly immune to whole truth in advertising thing. So, if you’re not a rich guy, it’s pretty easy to hate rich guys – after all, they have everything. If on top of that, he pays less taxes than we do – then he’s just a self-centered lyin’, cheatin’ bastard right? Of course he is.
Then there’s the part where Romney wanted to fix healthcare, medicare and social security because the mathematicians will tell you that the current system is going to fail soon. Well, it was easy to say, “Look – the rich guy wants to change everything and screw you out of the things that you’ve been promised”. So, instead of taking responsibility for these things, let’s just stay the course, ignore the problems, and hope they go away. My bet is that they will not.
At the end of the day, President Obama brilliantly targeted the whiny American public and said, “poor you, poor me – please don’t let the rich guy run our country. Instead, I promise to take from the rich and give to poor you” …and the whiny American public voted.
Now, let’s put the election behind us and start “the real work”. Let’s figure out how to unite Americans on common ground and form a new major political party. Let’s focus on the things we all want and throw out the things that divide us and should have anything to do with our national government. I believe more than 60% of America will join us if we do this properly. Then our country can really start to make progress and end the ridiculousness which defines American politics today.
You can start today. Obama was re-elected. Now let’s see if he’s willing to start fixing things. Weren’t you tired of watching the dirtiest election campaigns in history with all the lies and negative ads? Thank you to the Supreme Court and Citizen’s United for that. Well, again – let’s see if we can fix it. Let start here. By signing this open letter to the President.
https://www.unpac.org/dear-mr-president/
Thanks for reading…
Thanks for caring…
– Arch
For those about to rock…
January 27, 2012
We salute you.
It’s time, my friends. It’s time to get serious.
I mean, I love to goof around as much as, if not more than, the next guy but…
This ain’t no party, this ain’t no disco
This ain’t no fooling around.
This ain’t no mud club or C.B.G.B.
I ain’t got time for that now…
OK, maybe we can goof around just a little.
Also known as, there’s always time for a quick story…
So, I did a little traveling in the past few weeks. And, if you’ve been following my adventures over the years, you know what happens every time that I get into an airplane. Well, there I was… Sitting in seat number 11D. An aisle seat, in coach, on the starboard side of a Conti-nited Seven Forty-Airbus Something or another. Yes. I continue to prefer aisle seats, in spite of the inherent dangers. Mostly, the risk of falling asleep and then getting smacked in the side of the head by the hips of a flight attendant who doesn’t quite fit down the aisle.
See "Jiggly Butt" at http://www.illwillpress.com
I think Conti-nited has been poaching employees from US Air. But anyway…
There I am in my aisle seat. Some guy is sitting at the window. And we have an empty seat in-between us. As you probably know, an empty seat next to you when flying coach these days is like winning the lottery. Usually, at the last minute, just when I think I’ve won, a huge smelly guy shows up, carrying two backpacks, three laptops, and a four-foot Subway party sub.
Well, this time, something amazing happened. About the prettiest girl that I can remember ever seeing randomly enter an airplane is standing in the aisle next to me. She points to the empty seat and says to me, “hi…excuse me. That’s my seat.”
Of course, I look at her all confused like. “What? Yeah. Probably not.” But she seems pretty convinced, so I let her in and she sits down, settles in, flips her hair, makes the area smell all pretty, then starts to read a trade journal. I think it was something like Supermodel Today.
I look over and the guy at the window is dancing in his seat as if he were listening to the soundtrack from a bad 1970’s porno-flick and dabbing on some Old Spice. I think he’s feeling randy, baby… Then he gives me a side glance and makes that face that Butthead makes when he says to Beavis, “Heh, heh… We.. are going to score.”
But suddenly, the needle scratches off the record and there’s a giant woman standing in the aisle, holding the world’s largest duffle bag, three sandwiches and some left-over vegetable lasagna, and she says to our supermodel, in a shrieking voice, “you’re in my seeeat”.
Now things are making sense. Sure enough, the blond supermodel had confused seat 11B, across the aisle, with 11E, next to me. Naturally, the easy thing to do would have been for the woman still standing to take seat 11B. However, based on her size and the size of the people in 11A and 11C, not only could they not all fit in the same row, but it would have probably capsized the airplane. So…you guessed it…
Out with the supermodel and in with the vegetable lasagna.
Austin Powers was not happy. I quickly fell asleep, as usual.
And we can all rest assured knowing that all is normal in Archie Travel Land.
Now, let’s get down to business!
Did you watch the State of the Union address?
I did.
Do you know how easy (and fun) it would be for me pick apart the speech? Well, I’m not going to do it. No more distractions. El Presidente delivered a very nice election year speech. He said a bunch of stuff that got his fellow party-following-drones all excited. He said a bunch of things that, undoubtedly, moved some on-the-fence Americans to believe in his leadership. He even went as far as to say…
America is back. Anyone who tells you otherwise, anyone who tells you that America is in decline… /…doesn’t know what they’re talking about.
Wow! I guess, while I took a few days off to visit the Vegas strip…
View from The Mix @ Mandalay Bay
Do a little skiing with my friends, Stonsey and V-Nap, in Steamboat Springs…
Stonsey, V-Nap and Archie @ Steamboat Ski Resort
And watch a little football action in San Francisco…
Giants vs. 49ers NFC Championship Game
…President O must have balanced our national budget, figured out how to pay down our national debt, corrected our trade deficit, made us competitive on the world market, and put a few million Americans back to work. Excellent. This means that none of us should have any trouble selling our houses, obtaining financing for a new home, or asking our employers for a raise. Party time! Someone send that guy an intern (in a blue dress, of course).
But hey… I’m not here to criticize the President, the Democrats, the Republican candidates, or the Republicans at large. The reality is that, I don’t care who wins in 2012 because, at the end of the day, it won’t matter.
As long as the system is broken, and we continue to be distracted by politics as usual, we’ll never fix the root problems. Power will continue to shift from side-to-side and Washington will remain broken. We have to focus. Let’s fix Washington first. We can worry about electing the right candidates later. Right now, it just doesn’t matter. In fact, for the first time since I turned 18 years old, I may not vote this year. Why should I waste my time?
Root Cause Analysis
Right now, Washington is broken. Instead of making sound decisions to get our country back on the right track, Washington just backs the special interest groups that have purchased our politicians in an auction. In order to stop the extraction of America, we have to loosen that financial grip. Today, 96% of the time, the politician with the most money win. Essentially, the position is bought. That doesn’t sound right. That doesn’t sound like the plan that America’s founding fathers had in mind, but it’s the plan that we have and we need to change it.
In his State of the Union speech, President Obama mentioned that many Americans believe that Washington is broken, but he failed to mention the primary factor in the breakdown. That’s because he is one of them and therefore, avoids the topic of campaign reform. He is dependent on their money for re-election. As will be the next President and the next President, until we get the money out of politics.
Our only hope is focus.
I truly believe that our two major political parties constantly work against us. They purposely keep us divided. They pick issues that many people get very passionate about and they bring those issues to light, in order to distract us and prevent us from teaming up against the real issue that is keeping our country down – bought politicians.
They always want to talk about religion, abortion, gay rights, healthcare, military spending and national defense, jobs and social security. Some are excellent topics that should be discussed. Others are purely personal issues that have no business in the politics of a free society. But they are all topics that deeply affect many Americans, in one way or another, and the two political parties don’t see eye-to-eye on any of them. The parties are divided and therefore the nation is divided. And I know we’ve all been taught that divided – we fall.
This is brilliant on their part. As long as the general population continues to foster this “us vs. them” mentality, and we continue to root for our party, as if we were rooting for our favorite football team, we will never get together enough support to pass a constitutional amendment to get the money out of politics. So the AIGs, Enrons, Halliburtons and the like will continue to buy their politicians and continue to profit at America’s expense… at YOUR expense.
Imagine the United States without dependency on foreign oil. That’s not going to happen until we end the flow of dollars from oil company lobbyist into Washington. The oil companies are making too much money. Being dependent on foreign oil is bad for you and me, but it makes the oil companies filthy rich. That is the primary reason why our cars don’t already get over over 50 MPG and why we don’t have competitive fuels at the pumps.
We could go down the list and hit banking, the financial markets, trade – everything that extracts money from our citizens, sends our money overseas and ultimately ends up in the pockets of the tycoons, we could fix. We can get America back on track. We just have to stop lining political pockets with cash and restore a sense of doing what’s right for our country first. If the rich want to get richer, they’ll have to invest in our new America, led by innovation and the drive to be self-sufficient.
So what do we do?
Here’s Archie’s roadmap:
1. If you really want to vote in this year’s elections, join Americans Elect. This organization has now earned the right to be on the ballot in a number of states. They expect to be in all 50 states by the November elections. The goal is to get a candidate on the ballot by Americans, not by a political party. This may seem silly but this would be a major step forward in showing that America is tired of political party driven politics as usual. Check it out. I was skeptical at first, but it’s an awesome and growing idea.
http://www.americanselect.org/
Also, their tour ends in the next few days and they were only going as far South as Orlando but, it would have been great to catch the Crash the Party tour. Check it out. Maybe you can still make it to UCF on Monday…
http://crashtheparty.org/
2. We have to reverse Citizens United. If you don’t understand it, read about it. Learn about it. Stick it into GoogaBingHoo. If you trust me to give you some reasonably unbiased articles, you can read this one.
Citizens United Turns Two: Democracy is Not a Game
Read this article to understand why I will NOT be voting for Mr. Romney…
McCain Goes Off Message: Predicts Unlimited Political Giving Scandal
3. Do something. Tell someone. Educate someone. Get involved.
There are a number of organizations out there fighting for the same cause.
Be careful. Remain focused. Let’s get the money out of politics first.
We’ll fix everything else later.
While I hate to endorse what may appear to just be another website trying to be point-counterpoint. I am behind the folks at United Republic. This is a non-partisan group, trying to report the facts as they see it and trying to create a national movement to get the money out of politics and regain control of our country.
http://unitedrepublic.org/
My favorite, however, is… Move To Amend – http://movetoamend.org/
You should join Move to Amend. If not, at least read through the website, watch the videos, understand what we’re talking about about and help us get the money out of politics.
I love these guys. They just recently organized Occupy the Courts on the two year anniversary of Citizens United. Unfortunately, I was traveling.
Otherwise, I would have been at my local court house.
Read more: http://movetoamend.org/OccupyTheCourts
Well, I think that’s all I have for today.
Although, have I put you guys onto Lissie yet?
Barnsley! Have we played Lissie yet?
Barnsley?
He was just here. You’d think after going back to England for a month he’d be paying attention to the show. Hmmm..?
OK. I think I haven’t played Lissie for you, so here she is… Normally, I would be highly offended by anyone trying to remake any Metallica song, but when it comes to Lissie, I’ll make an exception.
First of all, she’s a pretty girl…
Lissie
Then, I think she has Ashton Kutcher in her band…
Not Kutcher
Finally, take a peek at her remake of one of my favorite Metallica songs…
Nothing Else Matters
And I think by the end of the video, you’ll agree with me.
She’s talented and…
“I need me some Lissie.”
Anyone else feel tingly?
I think it’s the smile at the very end that does it for me. Too cute.
And did you get my subliminal messaging…?
- Let’s get the money out of politics.
- Nothing Else Matters
Thank you.
That is definitely all the time I have for today. My apologies for not posting more often. Unfortunately, life has been busy and it doesn’t seem to be letting up any time soon.
Enjoy. Keep up the fight. Peace…
– Arch
When it pains, it roars…
October 21, 2011
OK, so…
It took two weeks to come up with this…but you have to admit, my last post easily embodied at least two weeks worth of content, n’est-ce pas? Oui. For the first time in the six months (or so) that I’ve been back, last week was the first week where I just couldn’t make a blog entry (and the network said that we can’t do re-runs). Perhaps I was a little derailed… I was told by several readers that I seemed depressed. I was also told that I was getting “difficult to read”. Someone else said, “this is no Mariachi Static”.
Hmmm…? So, I decided to take a week off and reflect.
I also had to prepare for the final day of destruction, which, by the way, is today, October 21st 2011. This is according to Harold Camping, who originally said that true believers would be raptured, which I believe means “swept up to heaven” on May 21st of this year, while the rest of us would enter a period of judgement, until the final day of destruction – today.
That’s great, it starts with an earthquake
Birds and snakes, and airplanes, Lenny Bruce is not afraid
I don’t know about you but, I have a few friends who I haven’t heard from in months. Sure. It’s possible that they’ve just been busy or stopped talking to me after reading my blog but, I’d like to believe they were raptured. Seriously, if only “true believers” were raptured, how many people is that? Would we miss them? Would any of us file a missing persons report? And as part of the investigation, would the police ask questions like, “was he a true believer?”
Well, anyway, I hope you’re not reading this blog, because if you are, then maybe the world hasn’t ended, and now I’m going to be in a heap of trouble, thanks to Harold Camping. You see, I owed the IRS a pile of money and had to send it in by October 15th, but I thought that, since the world was ending on the 21st, I’d just tell them to take a hike and instead, I blew the money on cheap booze and expensive women. In fact, Brittney even named her latest album after our time together…
Shouldn’t that be “’til the world ends”, like short for until? I don’t think till is a word.
So, hey… Britt, just in case the world doesn’t end today. Uh… I should be home around supper time but, we should probably discuss an annulment. Oh and, until then, you’re going to want to file separately, even if it costs a few extra dollars.
Getting back to my “depressing” blog entries…
I guess there are two things at play here. 1) You really lose something when your read what I write, instead of listening to me. If I were to read this to you, which is unlikely to happen, you’d hear the way I intend for it to be read. You’d hear the sarcasm and you’d get that even my most serious statements contain an air of comic relief. 2) Although I fully expected to take a break from my political commentaries, I’m not sure if I can do it. These are political times that we live in. Things are bad… and we need to fix them.
We live in a country that is supposed to be run by elected officials, who we elect as our representatives, to do the things we want them to do. Instead, they lie, cheat and steal from us, and they make decisions based on money and the wishes of whoever is putting the most money into their election (or re-election) campaign.
Last year, the Supreme Court ruled that money = freedom of speech. They said that giving a political candidate money is equivalent to voicing your support of that candidate and therefore, making huge political contributions is protected under freedom of speech. Is that bullshit or what? It just leads to having bought politicians.
Congressmen now spend 50% of their time fundraising instead of doing the work that we sent them to Washington to do. Every day, they have to attend a fundraising lunch or dinner or spend time on calling campaigns. Reason being, 94% of the time, the candidate who raises the most money wins. So, they have to spend most of their time chasing money and, of course, whoever gives them big dollars, gets decisions in their favor. Essentially our goverment is bought.
Special interest groups, such as the petroleum industry, defense contractors, and Wall Street bankers are bankrupting middle class America by keeping us addicted to fossil fuels (while getting shitty gas mileage), keeping us involved in foreign military operations costing billions of dollars, and manipulating the banking system to rake in maximum dollars, while the average American can’t sell his house or even get a loan to buy a new house. Instead he just sits by watching his 401K go down the drain.
Yep. It’s two weeks later and… Nothing has changed.
But is that really true? Maybe some things are changing. At least, it certainly seems like I am not the only person enraged with the way our country is being run. First of all, I have to praise each and every person who has participated in the Occupation Movement. I love the people who have been out there, every day, for weeks. And I love when you say, “we may not (specifically) know what we want but we know that we don’t bankers and politicians running our lives or getting rich at our expense”.
Amen, brothers and sisters.
For those of you who haven’t made it to Wall Street during the occupation, you really should. It’s electric. And way better than all those movies that we saw, when we were growing up, with college students protesting in the 60’s. This isn’t a movie or a history lesson (yet). These are genuine people who are sick and tired of a government whose hands are tied, and prevented from making the right decisions for the people of this country …by money.
I remain focused.
Oh, look a red head..
OK. Maybe more of a Cherry Blossom Pink head?
Alrighty then, let’s talk about my new “friend”, Dylan Ratigan…
You know, when I first heard of Ratigan, I was expecting him to be just another media guy… kind of like me, except that he worked for the mainstream media. So, occasionally, he might fly off the handle with a rant about the state of our country but, in general, I expected him to just be one more media guy, acting like an impartial reporter while trying to push the agenda of one side or another. Afrter all, that’s what they all do.
And maybe, if you were to interview him and ask about his political beliefs, I’m sure that he would have to be categorized as leaning to one side or another. We can all be put into those silos. But I really get the sense that, like me, Ratigan is tired of the democrats vs. republican bullshit, and right now, like many of us, he sees that the system is broken and that we need to fix things and make it a fair system for all Americans, before we can get back to arguing our personal politics. I truly believe that arguing for either side of our bi-partisan system of today is like arguing about which brand of tires we should put on our race car, when we don’t even have an engine. It’s stupid and pointless.
So, I don’t know and I don’t care if Ratigan is a democrat or a replublican, I actually don’t want to know. It doesn’t matter to me. What I do know is that Ratigan is a former financial services guy, who left that industry and went to work covering the finacial markets on CNBC, eventually landing his own show on MSNBC, The Dylan Ratigan Show. And this show, which deserves to be on during prime time, when more people could discover it, could possibly be the most important show on television. As it seems to be all about taking back our country and getting the money out of politics. Amazing. I know.
Here’s an interesting blurb on Ratigan.
By what I’ve seen of his show, so far… He seems to have a string of guests on, democrats and republicans alike, on a number of topics, but if they’re not in agreement that we need to get the money out of politics, he hammers them equally. I love it.
Now, please don’t think that I’m saying that I like Ratigan. Don’t forget, technically, I don’t like anyone. OK, except maybe Stonsey….but he brings me margaritas. Doesn’t count.
We really need to get back to Todos Santos.
But I like what Ratigan is doing and, at least, the conversations that he is striking up.
And get this…
Three weeks ago, he launched this website www.getmoneyout.com to try and collect electronic signatures and, as he puts it, build a digital wave to try and pass a constitutional amendment to get money out of politics. Kudos, again! Again, there is no democrat vs. republican bullshit going on here. This is about ONE THING, ending private interest’s ability to purchase our government in a fundraising auction.
Now the chances of getting a constitutional amendment passed are like a zillion to one. As I understand it, there are amendments on the books from the 1800s that are still waiting to be ratified by the states. But that one in a zillion shot is a shot that we should take. And go see, in just over two weeks, he’s gotten over 200,000 electronic signatures. Now if everyone tells two people, and they tell two people, maybe we have a chance at cleaning this thing up. Yes. It’s a long-shot that a TV show could change our government but just maybe, between this and the occupation movement, just maybe… we can focus enough attention at the root causes to our nation’s problems as to incite change.
I’m with you, Dylan.
Now, you…with the eyes, reading this… go sign the petition.
Here it is again: www.getmoneyout.com
Side note. If you watch Ratigan’s show, he occasionally has on, as part of his Mega Panel, the awfully cute, relatively hot, British accent included, Imogen Lloyd Weber, who talks a lot with her hands – I keep thinking she’s going to smack someone. Imogen is a political commentator, broadcaster, producer, and author of The Single Girl’s Guide. Daughter of composer Andrew Lloyd Weber, Imogen now lives in New York City…
What??? I was just in New York City.
Ugh… Another missed stalking opportunity. I’d be a really bad stalker.
I guess I’ll go “old school”, which means email & Facebook
Hey, Gen… Tweet me.
Other people are welcome to use those too.
Uh… As long as you look a little like Imogen…
Now back to the Occupation Movement.
I’m not sure what this guy is trying to say but, this is pretty funny…
And finally, in the spirit of acknowledging change…
I am, once again, such a PC.
Once a diehard PC guys, about three years ago, I got experimental. I switched teams. I retired my home PC and I got myself a Mac. Now, I have to say, for the most part, a computer is a computer. They are all basically the same. It’s like democrats and republicans, they are mostly the same. In fact, most people have no solid answer as to why they are a Mac or why they are a PC. I mean, seriously… Outside of my friends who like to pickup chicks at the National Republican Convention, when you see a hot chick, do you care if she’s a democrat or a republican? …or do you buy her a drink anyway? Computers are really the same way. You bring’em home, plug’em in, turn on the juice, press the right buttons and you’re ready to download porn. Uh… Yes. I’m talking about computers.
Again, some people pick a computer like they are picking a favorite football team, they don’t even know why. Some people think that having a Mac is like having a Harley and other Mac riders will give you the head-nod as you pass each other on the information super-highway. Whatever. They are both just computers and right now, they are more alike than ever, especially since Apple went to using Intel processors and released a Mac OS based on Linux, instead of the old “whatever it was”.
Anyway, when I first got the Mac, I felt like I still had to have Windows. So, I installed the VMware thingy that let me run a virtual PC inside my Mac. And, at first, I used it all the time. Then, not so much. I got used to using the Mac stuff and I almost never launched my Windows. I really got to like Safari instead of Internet Explorer. And, in general, everything worked as expected, but then came the time that I had to encounter the Apple culture and deal with Apple people.
First, my Mac-mini was incredibly small, cute and compact but incredibly difficult to work on. Once upon a time I went to add memory to it. It was almost impossible to open and Apple actually doesn’t want you working on this on your own. So I had to find some online, third-party instructions on how to do this. It actually told me to stick a screwdriver here, another one there and start prying. Then, “when you’re sure that it’s about to break – pry just a little harder”. Ha, ha.. That worked.
But then came the day when the thing didn’t turn on at all. My only choice was to visit an Apple store. At this store there were countless people doing nothing. However, as I approached the service department, I was intercepted by an Apple drone with an iPad. He wanted to know if I had an appointment. I said, “no”. So he suggested that I make one. I asked if I could make one for right now and he basically laughed at me. Then I asked if I could leave my Mac for them to look at and he explained to me that they don’t work that way. First you have to make an appointment, then they’ll look at the computer with you. Those are the choices.
It turns out that there was a third choice. I threw my Mac-mini into a near-by trash can and ordered a brand new shiny HP with Windows 7, 8GB of RAM and one of those new Intel i7 Quad-core processors. Woo hoo… It’s awesome, crazy fast! My computing life has been restored, things are good.
I’m sorry if you feel betrayed PC world but I’m back and I’m here to stay.
I guess there’s nothing left for me to say or do. Maybe introduce this week’s musical guest and the act like a hockey player. You know… Get the puck out of here.
OK. This week we’re going to listen to Washington.
No. Not Washington DC. And No, this is not a political band.
They are an Australian band led by singer / songwriter Megan Washington.
Check them out. Here’s Washington with Rich Kids.
Want to see more Washington?
I recommend these videos too…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9x3h6-92NGA&feature=relmfu
and for a little live action…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xRTPHA04_A&feature=related
And I think that’s all the time we have for today…
I hope you’ve enjoyed today’s installment. See you next week.
Mo… Fi amanillah.
And to the rest of you… Keep up the fight, my friends.
I believe it’s time for me to fly.
– Arch
Archie Kobain 