tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-294898682024-03-13T23:14:26.004-04:00CheekierMeSlyBe of cheek. Don't suck.CheekierMeSlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12142260712230852504noreply@blogger.comBlogger317125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29489868.post-19106523580607756162010-12-07T07:42:00.001-05:002010-12-07T15:13:04.340-05:00The dog days are overTwo years since my last post.<br /><br />The dog days are over ... no more running away from happiness.<br /><br /><object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/iWOyfLBYtuU?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/iWOyfLBYtuU?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object><br /><br />Blog hibernation is over. Watch this space!CheekierMeSlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12142260712230852504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29489868.post-17297907022164277912008-12-25T21:42:00.001-05:002008-12-25T21:52:36.438-05:00Merry Ho Ho<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfER7xRyWlCDgeB-EIE60xpEm9RVc41Xk74yVtI-IWcAMBEr_Boj0edo9hIu8oJS8zk_cv0L5BdTYXN1Cu4L2JGfTpVShh_8jqaLi5Qr2rtkIGbz3hdT6UnWyANWKiVLU5HoaG/s1600-h/Christmas+Wrapping+-+James.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 197px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfER7xRyWlCDgeB-EIE60xpEm9RVc41Xk74yVtI-IWcAMBEr_Boj0edo9hIu8oJS8zk_cv0L5BdTYXN1Cu4L2JGfTpVShh_8jqaLi5Qr2rtkIGbz3hdT6UnWyANWKiVLU5HoaG/s400/Christmas+Wrapping+-+James.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5283923998914551586" /></a><i>From Mark Tonra's <a href="http://tonra.com/james_01.html">James</a></i><br /><br />Holidayz at CarolinaMom's this year find Cheek in the happy chaos of toddlers. I wish you all glad tidings of comfort and joy and stuff.<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Sle2_E_Xt-c&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Sle2_E_Xt-c&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><i>Sarah Maclachlan performing Gordon Lightfoot's "Song for a Winter's Night"</i>CheekierMeSlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12142260712230852504noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29489868.post-62435454167195034092008-12-22T07:42:00.001-05:002008-12-22T07:59:06.683-05:00Welcome, Winter<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRK6ZSa3YG0JKrAM6_Cao1Ny18-vWmlFOGx83-Cg9fOwx_u8e6_sqZaa8df1RZVNmXRp3sUknZyyWFBwApAeQJUWA5Qn794HMsc_K3AZLyLHttQlc52XbVHWGRUJnB-ESx2wIr/s1600-h/Fall.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 134px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRK6ZSa3YG0JKrAM6_Cao1Ny18-vWmlFOGx83-Cg9fOwx_u8e6_sqZaa8df1RZVNmXRp3sUknZyyWFBwApAeQJUWA5Qn794HMsc_K3AZLyLHttQlc52XbVHWGRUJnB-ESx2wIr/s400/Fall.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5282596787812034626" /></a><i>From Mark Tonra's <a href="http://tonra.com/james_01.html">James</a></i><br /><br />A strange fall. Chock full o' transitions. The fickle weather thwarted my usual April to October sandals / October to April boots pattern. The Merry Ho Ho toes saw sandals this past week. <br /><br />Happily, a few days of brr Nellie cold will lend themselves to fires and hot cocoa ho-ness. Send some of your winter wonderland stuff down here, <a href="http://www.sheenavision.blogspot.com/">Sheena</a> and MontanaMan.<br /><br /><i>"Feeling tired <br />By the fire <br />The long day is over <br /><br />The wind is gone <br />Asleep at dawn <br />The embers burn on <br /><br />With no reprise <br />The sun will rise <br />The long day is over"</i><br /><br /><i>Norah Jones, "The Long Day is Over"</i> <br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/S22n1VVZ6g8&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/S22n1VVZ6g8&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>CheekierMeSlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12142260712230852504noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29489868.post-7121238958023731372008-12-19T07:42:00.000-05:002008-12-19T08:16:19.591-05:00e.e.'s words of the day<i>To be nobody but myself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.</i> <br />-E.E. Cummings, poet (1894-1962) <br /><br /><i>From <a href="http://wordsmith.org/words/">A Word A Day</a>'s "A Thought for the Day"</i>CheekierMeSlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12142260712230852504noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29489868.post-14914985725560225792008-12-18T23:42:00.001-05:002008-12-19T00:30:08.818-05:00Flowchart Explaining FlowchartsWay, way too relevant to my work life.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFoWvaR8FYx7ae9B57VSz9L4paXvogqhHSC73UkJeOJbdRYG6W8bP2eIWIwQNP71UFN02dOIzwsh19ikmY-HuKTIdHuPSO1jy86-3mkGAJZLrlEvPrKNobMZm9lljneVJ-E49q/s1600-h/flow_charts.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 289px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFoWvaR8FYx7ae9B57VSz9L4paXvogqhHSC73UkJeOJbdRYG6W8bP2eIWIwQNP71UFN02dOIzwsh19ikmY-HuKTIdHuPSO1jy86-3mkGAJZLrlEvPrKNobMZm9lljneVJ-E49q/s400/flow_charts.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5281369208566251906" /></a><i>From Randall Munroe's <a href="http://www.xkcd.com/">xkcd.com</a></i>CheekierMeSlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12142260712230852504noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29489868.post-50031117675468419622008-12-15T21:42:00.002-05:002008-12-15T22:12:40.949-05:00Boundaries. Latecomers are a b*tch.<i>"It is our choices that define us, far more than our abilities."</i> <br />- J.K. Rowling<br /><br />You're born to a family that puts the fun in dysfuntional. Let's face it: we all are. <br /><br />You learn not to need. You learn to please. You succeed to please.<br /><br />Fast forward decades and you learn at a professional workshop that your key conflict resolution methods are avoidance and accommodation. You are not surprised.<br /><br />You spend years in a relationship with the kindest person you've ever met. You have needs, but are schooled to subvert them. He has needs, but is schooled to not voice them. You part.<br /><br />You date. You meet compelling people. You learn. What you want. What you don't. What is compatible. What isn't. That it's a triple-punch of intellectual, physical, and emotional attraction (for you, in that order) that resonates with Clive Staples Lewis' idea: "What! You, too? Thought I was the only one."<br /><br />You get distracted. The intellectual attraction is the bite. The physical attraction is the hook. But the emotional attraction? Continues to elude. <br /><br />You get lost in the first two at the expense of the last. But the cost of the loss of that kindest person is the reminder you need. That if the collapse of that emotional attraction boundary was worth it, for anyone, it would have been for that kindest person.<br /><br />You have intellectual and emotional chemistry with your peeps. You just don't want to jump their bones. You hope. That finding the attraction trif*ckta is possible. Until then, solace. With the peeps. Whose bones may not be jumpable, but whose hearts are unyieldingly authentic.<br /><br /><i>"There is good. And there is evil. Right, and wrong. Heroes, and villains. And if we're blessed with wisdom, then there are glimpses between the cracks of each, where light streams through. We wait in silence for these times, when sense can be made; when meaningless existence comes into focus, and our purpose presents itself. <br /><br />And if we have the strength to be honest, then what we find there, staring back at us, is our own reflection bearing witness to the duality of life. That each one of us is capable of both the dark and the light - good, and evil - of either; of all. <br /><br />And destiny, while marching ever in our direction, can be re-routed by the choices we make; by the love we hold on to; and the promises we keep."</i> - Heroes, 15-Dec-2008CheekierMeSlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12142260712230852504noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29489868.post-48633710030901287632008-12-08T21:42:00.000-05:002008-12-08T21:51:52.574-05:00Thanks, SheenaYou cannot know how much <a href="http://sheenavision.blogspot.com/2008/12/sheena-changes-wallets-and-loses-her.html">your post</a>, read today, touched me. Incredibly timely, and very relevant.<br /><br />So much so that I have to share the same song. And hope its message is heard.<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/bj1w0vxCC2w&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/bj1w0vxCC2w&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br />I know your fear, Sheena. I share it. But I also have faith, that we will have that happiness and peacefulness again. In fact, we already have it. If not in the arms of another, then in the hearts of friends.CheekierMeSlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12142260712230852504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29489868.post-33243229764408198662008-11-12T07:42:00.001-05:002008-11-12T17:17:22.934-05:00It's Dentist Time<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUJCKEdk173WEEqaNDGSAkYMrm5PVYxcrleXzw76K_lscUNPM_BAanzUIlvbRT0tJAJgSXFxwNxuZ5aP0QLednbrzYmrrTwhBv8ZBwRjKkkbVnmhZGOBH5e2o4U9F52XRdp2Xo/s1600-h/Picture+24.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 186px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUJCKEdk173WEEqaNDGSAkYMrm5PVYxcrleXzw76K_lscUNPM_BAanzUIlvbRT0tJAJgSXFxwNxuZ5aP0QLednbrzYmrrTwhBv8ZBwRjKkkbVnmhZGOBH5e2o4U9F52XRdp2Xo/s400/Picture+24.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5267898238591271378" /></a><i>From Tony Carillo's <a href="http://comics.com/f_minus/">F Minus</a></i>CheekierMeSlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12142260712230852504noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29489868.post-86313612283118162832008-11-11T11:42:00.001-05:002008-11-11T12:01:41.037-05:00I Will Remember YouSheena's <a href="http://sheenavision.blogspot.com/2006/11/forgotten.html">Remembrance post</a> says it all.<br /><br />Family members and loved ones who served, and who are serving; countrymen and countrywomen who have served, and are serving; I salute you.CheekierMeSlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12142260712230852504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29489868.post-9551660204211052982008-11-01T11:42:00.001-04:002008-11-01T11:51:25.299-04:00CSAK<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig42h2K7dq5K0DSqGVItfZiqXXx-mWgOsf7-38Xik3KNXRQGLNttS7r80Y04WNpISq0Ev-Bo73bmCHzoFCD-ABEI8CkKZ-xAg5qJcD0v571SBgwqOTGsjf-UUaPW9IZ29VUc13/s1600-h/Picture+19.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 295px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig42h2K7dq5K0DSqGVItfZiqXXx-mWgOsf7-38Xik3KNXRQGLNttS7r80Y04WNpISq0Ev-Bo73bmCHzoFCD-ABEI8CkKZ-xAg5qJcD0v571SBgwqOTGsjf-UUaPW9IZ29VUc13/s320/Picture+19.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263717204434400450" /></a><i>From <a href="http://www.toothpastefordinner.com">ToothpasteForDinner.com</a></i>CheekierMeSlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12142260712230852504noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29489868.post-7207232937277245052008-10-21T06:42:00.002-04:002008-10-21T09:28:04.591-04:00How to Win at the Game of JazzSpecial spanks to Pid for alerting me to this - on this, his horse's ass day.<br /><br /><embed FlashVars='videoId=188875' src='http://www.comedycentral.com/sitewide/video_player/view/default/swf.jhtml' quality='high' bgcolor='#cccccc' width='332' height='316' name='comedy_central_player' align='middle' allowScriptAccess='always' allownetworking='external' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' pluginspage='http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer'></embed><br /><br />I saw Wynton Marsalis last year in concert with the Lincoln Center orchestra - one of my top 5 concerts of all time. He does not suck.<br /><br /><i>Update: Apparently, Canuckians aren't worthy to view Comedy Central streaming: try <a href="http://watch.ctv.ca/the-colbert-report/episodes/the-colbert-report---october-16-2008/#clip103645">here</a> instead. Spanks to <a href="http://wnandrt.blogspot.com/">Cap'n Noise</a> for the link. </i>CheekierMeSlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12142260712230852504noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29489868.post-74906875669656327482008-10-20T09:42:00.000-04:002008-10-20T10:26:01.787-04:00Holding On<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgduMLiswj0HYJnjNnO2IjsfBjQtZG7D249TKgvntBiPQlWY2aJznuW-psKczvupILYY9lvlWWs16LfHnMblFFtW3R71KQL7se3sIjEYfaIKqzwPpAaJWGkNiyqlUjRzMSKwLwH/s1600-h/Hold+On+to+What%27s+Important+-+James.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgduMLiswj0HYJnjNnO2IjsfBjQtZG7D249TKgvntBiPQlWY2aJznuW-psKczvupILYY9lvlWWs16LfHnMblFFtW3R71KQL7se3sIjEYfaIKqzwPpAaJWGkNiyqlUjRzMSKwLwH/s400/Hold+On+to+What%27s+Important+-+James.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5259241880044025506" /></a>From Mark Tonra's <a href="http://tonra.com/james_01.html">James</a>CheekierMeSlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12142260712230852504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29489868.post-65187639171587286732008-10-19T22:42:00.000-04:002008-10-19T23:06:24.670-04:00For my favourite liberal blogger<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/101808/neo-con-nightmare.gif"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;" src="http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/101808/neo-con-nightmare.gif" border="0" alt="" /></a>From <a href="http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/">Toothpaste for Dinner</a><br /><br /><a href="http://sheenavision.blogspot.com/">She</a> knows who she is.CheekierMeSlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12142260712230852504noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29489868.post-58591866307303869552008-10-17T07:42:00.001-04:002008-10-17T09:54:15.795-04:00Don't bugger it again, Florida!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPbM1Gx0EcT9aall6OtzJbgOpH0rVr0g6oCSt-klxInWhpYi8dBfzwxD3_Ai5YJMLY3J47MmEryQUb0PNii6mZc2fHmTFKQuiXOeN_yqpyEvdSMuQUbDky6cPqASOmEqQBfTyJ/s1600-h/1_01.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPbM1Gx0EcT9aall6OtzJbgOpH0rVr0g6oCSt-klxInWhpYi8dBfzwxD3_Ai5YJMLY3J47MmEryQUb0PNii6mZc2fHmTFKQuiXOeN_yqpyEvdSMuQUbDky6cPqASOmEqQBfTyJ/s400/1_01.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5258120735867470386" /></a>Caution - potty mouth language in this most excellent video on <a href="http://www.thegreatschlep.com/site/index.html">The Great Schlep</a>. Sarah Silverman rocks!<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/AgHHX9R4Qtk&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/AgHHX9R4Qtk&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>CheekierMeSlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12142260712230852504noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29489868.post-59332294807500806802008-10-09T10:42:00.000-04:002008-10-09T11:40:20.837-04:00Sleeping In<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaQDer_aNIaKIn9rYKktgqfag4GXxnefPYPmKVv9Btn448Tn_aUMgUxbpTNVZGQtSqSo8glZZupdfyq9zoISjxYM6Jk4Unx8VbecKRv9wHF-wt1We8eynILl901525rIWNHlEW/s1600-h/Picture+5.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaQDer_aNIaKIn9rYKktgqfag4GXxnefPYPmKVv9Btn448Tn_aUMgUxbpTNVZGQtSqSo8glZZupdfyq9zoISjxYM6Jk4Unx8VbecKRv9wHF-wt1We8eynILl901525rIWNHlEW/s400/Picture+5.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5255177555136754466" /></a><i>From Tony Carillo's <a href="http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/fminus/">F Minus</a></i><br /><br />Sleeping in sure sounds good right about now. Need to work on that. Leaves starting to fall in Hotlanta, and color kicking in. Still very warm.CheekierMeSlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12142260712230852504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29489868.post-85997633249704956562008-10-05T19:42:00.000-04:002008-10-05T19:54:53.042-04:00Reflux Throated Hurlingbirds<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0kAUqG8hAeCRpSUBO_HKBjfbXAkvEpI0T7oy9Oah99AuhTMnk35A2ECgvNHkGPbkxjmfXOgXnX1NW4UJh8fqWaYrNgXRHBS0ctccUZotA5hN_yp4GNb0CDUf1-oiPoKVlJJ19/s1600-h/Picture+1.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0kAUqG8hAeCRpSUBO_HKBjfbXAkvEpI0T7oy9Oah99AuhTMnk35A2ECgvNHkGPbkxjmfXOgXnX1NW4UJh8fqWaYrNgXRHBS0ctccUZotA5hN_yp4GNb0CDUf1-oiPoKVlJJ19/s400/Picture+1.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5253821641412465778" /></a><i>From Darby Conley's <a href="http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/getfuzzy/index.html">Get Fuzzy</a></i><br /><br />Heh heh.CheekierMeSlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12142260712230852504noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29489868.post-39410844539705994422008-10-02T05:42:00.003-04:002008-10-02T07:12:09.878-04:00Tunage. Shows. Youth. Memories.Cap'n Noise <a href="http://wnandrt.blogspot.com/2008/09/private-i-da-know.html">posted</a> recently on concert attendance for a band from his past. Have not had the same reaction to seeing live music from youthful influences or enthusiasms. For me, these events incur positive nostalgia. <br /><br />CarolinaMom and I saw Johnny Mathis at Chastain Amphitheater a couple o'years back here in Atlanta. Wow. That man's voice is still buttah: late in "Misty" when he sings "On my own" an octave higher than the rest of the melody gave me goose bumps. I cried a bit with "The Twelfth of Never," as it's one of my Mom's favorites. We sat next to two women my Mom's age, and the 3 of them waxed on about their teenage crushes, other popular music at the time, etc. <br /><br />I've seen James Taylor many, many times. His music framed my childhood, and I shoved countless quarters into the jukebox at Anna's Pizzeria in Hampton to play "Handyman".<br /><br />But these music tastes were my parents' and became mine by osmosis. The ones I sought out myself as Noise did, in 'tween and teen years, and seen recently? Many still bring it. But they weren't as frantic or punk or alternative as Noise's B52s. My sister and I saw Peter Frampton, and I heard no tales from her about feelin' old 'n'stuff, or that Frampton was any less intense as a balding older white dood. He still showed the way (just watch <i>Almost Famous</i> - he and Nancy Wilson wrote the original music, and the movie brings that time's feel back in spades.) <br /><br />Crowded House last fall at The Tabernacle was one of my top 5 concerts, ever, and their musical chops had only improved with time. More subtlety and complexity. Neil Finn's age couldn't have shown more, what with his son opening the show and all. But it didn't have me finding Neil an old fart, nor did it make me feel similarly old-farted with being closer to Neil's age than his son's.<br /><br />How much NEW live music do you witness, Cap'n? Vampire Weekend at Variety Playhouse in June drew a multi-generational audience vividly engaged to each of the 75 minutes played. Why only 75? Well, they've only the one album, dontcha know. Fans from age 10 to age 60 in the demographic spread, with density in the college-age. Plenty of boozing and dancing in the crowd. I was transported to 1983 and Coyote having me listen to the Violent Femmes.<br /><br />Feist at Masquerade this Spring blew me away. No Kate or Cindy or alt punk feel, but I felt no age distance between myself and the teenage urchins I chaperoned. Neither did my concert consort, Kimplicated. The sound harkened be effortelessly back to Boone introducing me to "new" chick music during college: The Cocteau Twins, The Sundays, The Innocence Mission, Sarah McLachlan. <br /><br /><a href="http://www.sheenavision.blogspot.com/">Sheena</a> baptized me with The Legendary Shack Shakers in Tallahassee in 2005, and Cap'n, they done did bring zany. And let's not forget my aforementioned serendipitous newish <a href="http://cheekiermesly.blogspot.com/2007/02/when-serendipity-strikes.html">crush</a>.<br /><br />Speaking of Kimplicated, another of my top 5 concerts is seeing 311 with her at Lakewood Amphitheater. They brung it hard, but my fondness for the event was witnessing Kimplicated's unmitigated joy and thrash dancing so hard that her specs went flying a few rows in front of us (rescued with a mad dash forward). The dancing was contagious. I bounced up and down and happily remembered the ghosts of shows past: A Flock of Seagulls, R.E.M., Oingo Boingo, The Cure, U2.<br /><br />And then there's <a href="http://efohio.com/">Eddie From Ohio</a>. My passion for their music fully integrates my parent's osmossissing, my teenage discoveries, and my adult acoustic penchants. In their harmonies I'm back on a long trip in the station wagon, the 8-track player booming Peter Paul & Mary, The Kingston Trio, John Denver, and my folks and us urchins singing 5 part harmony. In their joy for entertaining I'm transported to meeting <a href="http://robbieschaefer.com/">Robbie Schaefer</a> in high school at a variety show audition, and seeing his band Knightly Jest whip teenagers into frenzied (albeit mostly sober) dancing to The Stray Cats and The Who. In their wit I'm hanging out with Robbie in college at JMU, meeting Michael Clem, and am in the thick of late night banter and Jellyfish Blues Band gigs. In their soulfulness and Julie's passionate voice, I'm back in Mr. Boren's choir at Cocoa Beach High School, singing 8 part a capella harmony with my brother and Otter and Coyote. And then I'm in The Swede's kitchen after an EFO gig at Variety Playhouse, drinking beers with the band and reading our names on the back of a high school regional chorus competition album: me, Robbie, Julie, Chad of Knightly Jest, and Robbie's peep <a href="http://www.vernyip.com/index.html">Vern</a>.<br /><br />Mayhap it's my frequency of live music worship, but Cap'n my Cap'n, I'm not taken where you go. I lose myself in appreciation of the sound, the shared enjoyment, and a bevvie or two. The experience connects me philotically to youthful show going joy. It's a communion. It's part mind-, part heartf*ck. It's social object enthusiasm enjoyed best when shared, not solo'd, and always connects me with my peep music influencers.<br /><br />Getting old does not *completely* suck, Cap'n Noise. It may *mostly* suck. But it does not *completely* suck.CheekierMeSlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12142260712230852504noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29489868.post-40921384041196300142008-09-30T06:42:00.000-04:002008-09-30T07:01:01.867-04:00Swedish EnglishToday's <i><a href="http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/">Toothpaste for Dinner</a></i> can't help but shout out to the Swede as well as to my longer-term <a href="http://cheekiermesly.blogspot.com/2007/02/my-swedish-passion-finally-requited.html">Swedish stalking target</a>.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbyFYzSrM3cR9Icdndc5pRWqNIFtdf-cA9bxGJdTgu3pnQRYNy0gSMF7Zj_jj2CBaLDSBkP1OrxyWqZ9XZsauEunjljndV3Su-Ym-JKnYo24FNFswM4gPHwQnXANM9lC70mSMd/s1600-h/Picture+4.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbyFYzSrM3cR9Icdndc5pRWqNIFtdf-cA9bxGJdTgu3pnQRYNy0gSMF7Zj_jj2CBaLDSBkP1OrxyWqZ9XZsauEunjljndV3Su-Ym-JKnYo24FNFswM4gPHwQnXANM9lC70mSMd/s400/Picture+4.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5251767453017501026" /></a>CheekierMeSlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12142260712230852504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29489868.post-16651465036966557002008-09-29T08:42:00.002-04:002008-09-29T08:47:25.680-04:00Universe<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/height.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;" src="http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/height.png" border="0" alt="" /></a><i>From Randall Munroe's <a href="http://www.xkcd.com/">xkcd.com</a></i>CheekierMeSlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12142260712230852504noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29489868.post-45680146344600128432008-09-29T08:42:00.001-04:002008-09-29T08:42:22.403-04:00EarwormsRumor has it my folks took us urchins to see John Denver at the Hampton Coliseum. His tunage was part of my childhood's soundtrack, so I don't mind these earworms.<br /><br />If you don't like him, just be happy you weren't RickRolled.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaWszFC-Ny54eMcAPLjI_xoEYgxRVzrDFbJ2CMYojCSAHY3nZT-LErurbRL8giWezrbfH9Ri5pT27mc8o3lJ7L5sUK_vhvqLQGnIQHGwQ5n5gBQC7Wd5qL9YJIy8lvk0zTrri8/s1600-h/Picture+1.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaWszFC-Ny54eMcAPLjI_xoEYgxRVzrDFbJ2CMYojCSAHY3nZT-LErurbRL8giWezrbfH9Ri5pT27mc8o3lJ7L5sUK_vhvqLQGnIQHGwQ5n5gBQC7Wd5qL9YJIy8lvk0zTrri8/s400/Picture+1.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5251422285033399842" /></a><i>From Stephan Pastis' <a href="http://www.comics.com/comics/pearls/">Pearls Before Swine</a></i>CheekierMeSlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12142260712230852504noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29489868.post-17591955160202379742008-09-19T07:42:00.000-04:002008-09-19T08:16:21.331-04:00How are you celebrating the day?Happy <a href="http://cheekiermesly.blogspot.com/2007/09/shiver-me-timbers.html">holiday</a>, matey!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFwcA9FoN8svhqB-zLg7MYkl4lHe8Ta1hBJTKGj8YGxmqTjcyXZvhnpjO_aKsEMk8Ov4bCLxd3wPnjh2poWw9SmNKfprsIY91vUeS5UiTArkxryu-3sIpzEGYB0qJclt-nk25r/s1600-h/Picture+207.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFwcA9FoN8svhqB-zLg7MYkl4lHe8Ta1hBJTKGj8YGxmqTjcyXZvhnpjO_aKsEMk8Ov4bCLxd3wPnjh2poWw9SmNKfprsIY91vUeS5UiTArkxryu-3sIpzEGYB0qJclt-nk25r/s400/Picture+207.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247704845393487298" /></a><i>From Stephan Pastis' <a href="http://www.comics.com/comics/pearls/">Pearls Before Swine</a></i>CheekierMeSlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12142260712230852504noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29489868.post-11556110020260810732008-09-16T11:42:00.000-04:002008-09-16T12:32:39.875-04:00Flip Chart ArtMany peeps have alerted me to Demitri Martin's Flip Chart Art. Two of his bits shout out to Cheek peeps:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_ErY10JEz4pzreT4UhdCpJi17MRLm4q5sa9rft4Zy7MGiV4GZIbsVjwx44gBMW0X0ghdo_i8NTPDFws17h3dJCEYTwmv2eud_eGeKX_OZYLclHZHDLSodTGtcUQFSFoFapMT0/s1600-h/Picture+203.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_ErY10JEz4pzreT4UhdCpJi17MRLm4q5sa9rft4Zy7MGiV4GZIbsVjwx44gBMW0X0ghdo_i8NTPDFws17h3dJCEYTwmv2eud_eGeKX_OZYLclHZHDLSodTGtcUQFSFoFapMT0/s320/Picture+203.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5246657248442794434" /></a><a href="http://www.sheenavision.blogspot.com/">Sheena</a>, does your own FUH2 survey data confirm Demitri's stats?<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF6dY8smXEplrp-ntrxNxLIaFTvI6lpH_aCYiTw9B3Y_w4SKew-_2l9kEhfxugyyCtwsd8a7WlVIbPgOxdjapnQhJYxzgZv9tQxEt68mOz6y8pXzOgDSIzP5nD6bYZLNt_R4ox/s1600-h/Picture+204.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF6dY8smXEplrp-ntrxNxLIaFTvI6lpH_aCYiTw9B3Y_w4SKew-_2l9kEhfxugyyCtwsd8a7WlVIbPgOxdjapnQhJYxzgZv9tQxEt68mOz6y8pXzOgDSIzP5nD6bYZLNt_R4ox/s320/Picture+204.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5246657642461942594" /></a>Coyote, this just screamed your name! <br /><br />Watch the whole piece here:<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/qhmahD_EbHY&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/qhmahD_EbHY&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>CheekierMeSlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12142260712230852504noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29489868.post-83432514809686955762008-08-29T07:42:00.001-04:002008-08-29T09:54:16.569-04:00Who do I have to . . .<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPLChvGK8W_EUzV48gMZ7X1x2lja-4oiGDnDTqKzTMKDmWYbaJ-3eghNgiiQ_ouPccguiNgQEEWRbVRy5NjGsoV5kNPveD86IXcTM_hTQrufOzsU6FduELPwIA3sf2kTNx7B00/s1600-h/Picture+194.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPLChvGK8W_EUzV48gMZ7X1x2lja-4oiGDnDTqKzTMKDmWYbaJ-3eghNgiiQ_ouPccguiNgQEEWRbVRy5NjGsoV5kNPveD86IXcTM_hTQrufOzsU6FduELPwIA3sf2kTNx7B00/s320/Picture+194.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239937055564956354" /></a><i>From <a href="http://www.nataliedee.com/">NatalieDee.com</a></i><br /><br />Seriously! Not a Burpee Ford nor a Turberville Melon to be found! R.L. would be VERY disappointed.CheekierMeSlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12142260712230852504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29489868.post-4615591841818995462008-08-26T11:42:00.000-04:002008-08-26T12:34:18.245-04:00Give me your cheeky. Your contrary. Your catalytic.<i>A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill. </i><br />-Robert A. Heinlein, science-fiction author (1907-1988) <br /><br />(From today's <a href="http://wordsmith.org/words/apograph.html">A Word a Day</a> by Anu Garg)<br /><br />Funny. Some of my best peeps are troublemakers. The good kind. You know who you are.CheekierMeSlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12142260712230852504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29489868.post-62923072125128151892008-08-25T07:42:00.002-04:002008-08-25T10:33:39.865-04:00One More Gold for Team USAMichael Phelps hogged the gold medal glory for media attention. Don't get me wrong. This former tyke swimmer is all pro-Phelpsian and just about peed her PANTS when <a href="http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/summer08/columns/story?columnist=forde_pat&id=3529125">Jason Lezak pulled out the stops</a> in the last leg of the 4X100 free relay in the ultimate assist in Phelp's quest for 8 gold medals. <br /><br /><i>/rant mode ON</i><br />The effing asshats at NBC won't post the footage of the race for our viewing pleasure, and has chased down any vidsters who posted it. Argh! But I digress. As is my wont to do.<br /><i>/rant mode OFF</i><br /><br />In case you missed it, Team USA won a gold medal in basketball yesterday, coached by Mike Krzyzewski. I may be a Carolina Tarheel basketball fan, but there's no dissing Krzyzewski's coaching. He rocks.<br /><br />Nike's superlative ad fetting the team to the tune of Marvin Gaye's rendering of the national anthem: fantastic, and an unsuck listen.<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/rbZTmcIfdBQ&color1=11645361&color2=13619151&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/rbZTmcIfdBQ&color1=11645361&color2=13619151&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br />And now, back to regular sleep cycles.CheekierMeSlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12142260712230852504noreply@blogger.com0