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You’ve Made Me Dumb 

Teh stoopid is strong with this one.

Back on March 9th, I blogged that some LA Bloggers should get together and blog on Opening Night at LACMAs Jazz series. Unfortunatetly, I dropped the ball on actually promoting it, so I can’t say many people know about it. However, we will still be there, since we were going to go anyway. If you know of any LA bloggers, let them know and maybe we’ll see you there too.

Some details from my previous post:

The event starts at 6pm and ends at 8pm. We usually wind up at Farmers Market or Koreatown afterwards in the cooler months. During the summer, we usually frolic around Hancock Park. Early arrival is necessary to secure chairs and tables. I plan to get there to secure tables around 5pm. If you choose to visit the museum while there, you will have to pay to enter.

So, besides meeting other bloggers what can you expect? Here’s the opening act for the season:

Ernie Andrews
April 4th, 2008

The 2008 Friday Night Jazz season opens with one of jazz’s living legends and L.A. treasures, vocalist Ernie Andrews. For over sixty years, Andrews has been thrilling audiences around the globe with hits recorded with such giants as Harry James, Cannonball Adderly, Gene Harris and Ray Brown. In a recent review, Los Angeles Times critic Don Heckman said, “[H]e blends a hard-swinging, outgoing vocal style with a quick-witted sense of humor . . . he does so with a rich timbre, a gift for drama and a singular capacity to stimulate an audience.”

What are you doing April 4th? Nothing? Great? Then you can attend the opening night of LACMAs Friday Night Jazz series. Most of you are aware that I’ve been attending these Friday night concerts for the last 8 years. Why not join me and my family? Not only can we all meet each other, but it will be interesting to get various viewpoints on the same concert.

LACMA changes the rules every year, so off the top of my head, items you can’t bring: food, alcohol and your own chairs. I’m assuming that I won’t be stuck in Aliso Viejo or Fontana on a Friday afternoon. You can buy food at the restaurant and cafeteria onsite, they also have bars set up in the courtyard. However, last year, the beer and wine sold at the bar was $0.50 - $1 more than in the cafeteria.

The event starts at 6pm and ends at 8pm. We usually wind up at Farmers Market or Koreatown afterwards in the cooler months. During the summer, we usually frolic around Hancock Park. Early arrival is necessary to secure chairs and tables. I plan to get there to secure tables around 5pm. If you choose to visit the museum while there, you will have to pay to enter.

So, besides meeting other bloggers what can you expect? Here’s the opening act for the season:

Ernie Andrews
April 4th, 2008

The 2008 Friday Night Jazz season opens with one of jazz’s living legends and L.A. treasures, vocalist Ernie Andrews. For over sixty years, Andrews has been thrilling audiences around the globe with hits recorded with such giants as Harry James, Cannonball Adderly, Gene Harris and Ray Brown. In a recent review, Los Angeles Times critic Don Heckman said, “[H]e blends a hard-swinging, outgoing vocal style with a quick-witted sense of humor . . . he does so with a rich timbre, a gift for drama and a singular capacity to stimulate an audience.”

So. Are you in? Email me.

Well, look at me…yesterday I got to me the blog owner of Just Kat Stuff and her little Mr. I’ve been trying to post this, but my computer is out of space and the modem is acting wonky.  That’s why I haven’t been posting as much.

We had way too much fun and somehow managed to forget to take a picture together. You think Kat is funny online? She’s hilarious is real life. Baby boy is adorable and so funny. He had these two trains that he would not release for nothing in the world. Even to swing.

I’d post a lot of pictures, but most of the pictures I got came out blurry, but I do have this adorable photo of Kid Kat:

Here’s my monster sliding down the slide.

My daughter was upset that Kat didn’t have a girl her age, so she tagged along with some other people at the park. Occassionally, she’d come back over so I could put her on the swing.

And you can see that Kid Kat thought Ilia swinging was funny.

I finally visited his blog and saw one of the best posts written so far this yea.  B-Serious asks us to wonder if certain situations in this presidential campaign were a little different:

• What if Obama lost all of these states by such huge margins (we’re talking 25-35% in many states)?
• What if it was Obama who, despite running on name recognition as the inevitable candidate, could only claim his home state and California as major (hard fought) wins thus far?
• What if Obama had negatives in the low to mid 40s?

There’ s more thought provoking questions over there like:

• What if Obama lost a majority of the swing states on Super Tuesday?
• What if Obama trailed in PLEDGED delegates and could only claim a slim (misleading) lead by counting super delegates (party insiders who can change their mind at the drop of a dime and show loyalty through political favors)?
• What if Obama lost 6 out of 8 primaries (perhaps even 8 or 9 in a row) as Hillary Clinton is expected to lose this week?

You have to visit his site.  There’s more questions B-Serious posits.  So readers, what you do think would happen?  What do you think the media narrative would be?  What would the DNC do? Wouldn’t you expect to see someone like Sen. Reid or some Congresswoman on TV bemoaning Obama’s string of losses?

All those whiners who are complaining that Sen. Clinton gets such bad press, do they honestly think the media would treat Obama so tenderly, just putting out the press releases from the campaign with no serious questions asked?

Is it me, or is Marcy pretty much running the blog on her own? Not that I’m not interested in emptywheel’s posts, it just that the others kinda of gave the blog some balance. I’m trying to think back to a time when it wasn’t all emptywheel, and I can get back to summer.

I was on my sitemeter and noticed I got hits [shudder puke] from a blog of nutjobs. Those of you in liberal blogdom will know that site as a bunch of people unnaturally obsessed with what’s going on on other blogs. I mean, it’ s like a sad, pathetic little blog of gossip about gossip on other blogs. Wrap your head around that.

Well, I’ve managed to ignore the horde of nutjobs over there. Over the summer, looking for a post I did a few years ago, I found that they talk about me over there. It’s odd. I mean, out of all the names on that particular page, I only recognized one. That didn’t stop the other from talking shit, but it’s kinda creepy, ya know?

Well, I mentioned it to someone who was like, “Oh yeah, they say you’re like “one of the favorites” or part of the “in crowd” at dk.” Me. Me? LOL…that should give you some inkling as to just how delusional most of those people are. It would be almost sad, if they weren’t so holier-than-thou. From what I understand most of those people had been banned at dk, so it seems that they generally don’t play well with others, but still…isn’t it kinda of weird to read a blog you’ve been banned at, then blog about what’s going on there and THEN act sanctimonious about the people who are still there, like you left willingly? Is it me, or isn’t that just a bit…crazy?