Hammer Mill Days

What do you suggest we do, Gertrude? What's done is done, right? What? No, no... that's not an option. Besides... he's too old to be any good in a stew. Bound to be stringy as hell. Oh, hi, friends (or as John McCain might say, " my friends"). Sorry... I was just on the phone with someone at our label, that vice president of marketing and coercion person. She's all bent out of shape. So are we all, frankly. Yes, that's a metaphor. Though in the case of Marvin (my personal robot assistant), being bent out of shape is a serious matter and one that has been plaguing him since his invention by Mitch Macaphee some few years ago. (Marvin is bent just slightly out of shape, as perhaps you can tell from his photos.) I have to say, I don't like it when people yell at me over the phone. I kind of worry they'll hurt their throats and have to talk like Miles Davis for the rest of their natural lives. (Not that there's anything wrong with that....) Okay..

Pretty bizarre to hear McCain complaining about the media and how they treat him. It's kind of like grousing about your family or your best friend. For chrissake, they freaking love the guy. Why else would he be running nearly even with Obama in the polls? His campaign is amazingly flat-footed and visionless, he gets details (Czechoslovakia, for instance) wrong repeatedly, he has yet to demonstrate any awareness of our economic crisis, and he thinks Iraq shares a border with Pakistan. Speaking of Iraq, he has been as phenomenally wrong and boneheaded as the administration he has so frequently embraced. His pronouncements about the "success" of the "surge" reek of desperation, like an arsonist telling the judge he helped put out the fire he started after the building had already burned to the ground. The mainstream press challenges almost none of his positions, blithely passing along the campaign fiction that he is an expert on foreign and security policy. They