Friday, September 30, 2016

Four for Fridays

Cheri is out of town and asked me to do 444.

1)  Who is your favorite singer, musician, or group?

2)  Will we see snow by November?

3)  Will the Packers make it to the Super Bowl?

4)  Have you ever water-skied? 

Have a great weekend everyone!

Open Blog - Thursday


Thursday swoops in to save the week.

Wednesday, September 28, 2016

Dear Madame Zoltar

 Hello, winners and losers!  How are you?  Our temperatures are in that phase between seasons when one day will be hot and the next day cool.  We're getting less and less daylight, too. Slowly but surely, the s-word will be here.  I hate that stuff.  And it probably hates me.

It was good to see our Green and Gold heroes whop the Detroit Lions.  The upcoming week is a bye week for the Packers.  I don't like it when the bye week is so early in the season. Just call me superstitious.

Here are the standings of the Irregular Football League:

   
It's obvious we need to get some work done, and we're doing it.

I boycotted Party on the Pavement again.  Sooner or later, they'll realize what a great act I have.  It'll be too late then. I'll be connected to another venue then.

There is so little happening in my life, I can't come up with decent subject matter.  Or indecent.  Maybe it's the time of year.

You know that I love you all.  And thank you to those who reciprocate.

Check madamezoltar@jtirregulars.com for all of your needs.

Thanks, again, to all of my lovers and haters for stopping by. 

Tuesday, September 27, 2016

"Up to Here"

From Shepherd Express:

By Art Kumbalek 2 minutes ago


I’m Art Kumbalek and man oh manischewitz what a world, ain’a? So here, I’m watching the debate the other night and I’ll tell you, listening to ArmagedDon Trump talk about nuclear stuff would be like me explaining the rules of cricket. Both could be summarized in three words: Not a focking clue. OK, four, what the fock.

After the debate, I’m guessing a lot people yearned to know the difference between a supposed wealthy-ass candidate for political office and a sack of manure—I figure it’s got to be the sack, ain’a?

And I was reminded that, hey, I’m still a candidate for office and I should’ve also been planted on that presidential podium ’cause I can make up bullshit just as easily as the Hair Ball can, I kid you not. 

Now, early voting has started and if you’re still, unbelievably, undecided as to where to stick your vote, you’ve come to the right place, you betcha. For those of you’s who can’t figure out exactly what candidate Art Kumbalek would do for the people, let me be the docent to explain and cipher the big-ass picture we’re gazing at here in the political arena, if I may, and I will.

My dream is that when it comes to your political needs, I would be your one-stop shopping—call me the Art-Mart for the Great Unwashed Public. I could be your county sheriff, mayor, alderman, judge, senator, ambassador, coroner, crossing guard, president; and all under one hat, orange that it be. How convenient would that be for you’s?

No matter what kind of bug-up-your-butt you got, be it local, state, asshole neighbor, nation-wide, wife/girlfriend or worldwide, you just come to Art-Mart and I would sure-as-shootin’ take care of it. With me in all the hallowed halls of offices, you would no longer have to dick around with the County Courthouse, City Hall, town-hall meeting, Madison, D.C., the Hague and who-knows-where. Fock no. Just come to me. Come to Art-Mart where you’ll find value for all your political needs, I kid you not. All you got to do is get off your ass and vote.

How ’bout that. Still undecided? OK, let’s talk about an issue, say, the highway robbery on prescription drugs. Get a load of this: 

The Kumbalek Fix: Need a prescription? Write it yourself and then tear it up ’cause you won’t need it, no sir. We’re going to have way-affordable over-the-counter drugs available 24/7 at every supermarket and 7-Eleven from coast to coast for whatever ails you. I especially insist on pills and capsulets to help the focksticks who can’t keep their yaps shut during the motion picture at the movie theater as well as pills to prevent those knobs from waiting until every single focking item in their grocery cart crosses the scanner and be bagged by the plastic-paper consultant before they start fumbling for their checkbook and wad of coupons. And the pot what-they-call-the-marijuana? You bet. You’ll find it in the seasoning section $9.95-an-ounce over by the baking accoutrements. Hey, it’s green, and it comes from the earth just like your tomatoes, cauliflower and daffodils, so how can that be bad for you? You tell me.

And then I’ll tell you that I learned that Don Donald does believe he’s quite the businessman, but just so you’s know, I believe that the ability to run a business does not automatically translate into the ability to govern. For either endeavor, I prefer a guy or gal who’s been there, done that. If I’m putting a band together and I need a clarinet player, I’ll look for a clarinet player and not some blowhard conductor who says he can play clarinet even though he doesn’t know a #2 ½ Rico Royal from his ass from a hole in the ground.

And please don’t forget those Republicans for office, those folks always shooting their mouths off about “limited government and spending,” somehow the last time in power, and the time before that, they managed to grow the bureaucracy to the magnitude of good-golly, and jacked-ass up the spending at a rate no calculator could calculate.

Tax cuts for the rich, so they can reduce the size of government’s helping hand. Yes sir, whittle the helping hand down to a finger—the middle one, which they’ll gladly raise to anyone who could use a little help, now and then, here and there, what a world, don’t forget, what the fock,

Come to think of it, forget about Art-Mart, because I do believe that the Trumpeter does fashion himself to be quite the job creator, and the job he’s created for you and me is to go to the polls on Nov. 6 and vote Democrat top to bottom, what the fock, ’cause I’m Art Kumbalek and I told you so.

Read more:  http://shepherdexpress.com/article-28508-up-to-here.html

Related:  https://theshepstore.kostizi.com/

Monday, September 26, 2016

Saturday, September 24, 2016

Friday, September 23, 2016

Four for Fridays!

Good morning everyone how was your week for me it went by to fast. I hope you have a good weekend. Here are your questions for today.

1) When was the last time you took a road trip?

2) Would you ever want to take to a trip to outer space?

3) If you took a trip to outer space what planet would you like to visit?

4) What about nature fascinates you the most?


Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Dear Madame Zoltar

Hello my dear friends!  How are you?  I'm broke, so when a call came in from the Bahamas from one of my best customers, I flew there.  I just got back a few hours ago.  So that's why my blog is late.  And it's a crappy day out there, cold and wet.  I know that the landscape needs the rain, but it's depressing.  And I'd swear that some of the rain drops were actually s-word.  I know, I know, were headed that way whether we like it or not.  Put me down for "not."

I look to local news but all I see are political lies and gore.  It's way beyond depressing in that area.  Criminals and fools are the best the local news can do.  I swear, someday I'm going to get a job at the Journal Times and change everything.  That's right after I fix the rest of the world.

Everybody's fighting somebody.  There's so many players on the field that I can't keep track of them.  Or, rather, perhaps I don't want to.

Just like I don't want to believe that our heroic warriors Green Bay Packers were laid low by the Minnesota Vikings.  The tune will change this time, as Lambeau Field hosts the Detroit Lions, at noon, Sunday, September 25.  Murder da bums, boys!

Here's the standings from the Irregular Football League:

  
I guess that neither I nor Mr. OrbsCorbs have anything to brag about.  We'll see what next week brings.

I can't take the drone of the political ads and interviews and "events."  My mailbox is stuffed almost daily with political ads.  The television spews their bile regularly.  It's only going to get worse as election day approaches.  Also, those oversize, high gloss, political ads barely fit in my mailbox.

And the thing is it's almost all bullshit.  In any case, most voters decided who they're to vote for months ago.  Wouldn't the money expended on these mailings and TV ads be put to better use helping the lowest in our society?  Of course it would, but you'll never see it.  The candidates will all come out with some bullshit plans to help the poor.  They'll talk on and on, BUT the poor rarely see a cent.  More importantly, it robs them of a chance at a job.  That BS money could help train people for the jobs of today.

If I ran for president, I think I'd keep it at a very low key.  I wouldn't go around the country promising lies to each group I met.  I wouldn't send out any political mailings.  I'd announce my candidacy, and have copies of my master plan available.  If any reporters want to talk to me, they have to come to me.  I'd have an online base of operations with said master plan available for downloading.  I guess I'd have  to go to the debates, but I'm not a performer.  I'll say what needs to be said.  I might even win.

Hah!  Imagine OrbsCorbs with his finger on the nuclear trigger.  I might just take everybody, a city or country or two, out of circulation.  If the French don't like it, fuck them.When's the last time you heard about the French winning a war?  I'd pull all of our troops out of other countries.  If something flares up, it's their business.  If they insist upon making their business our business, we nuke 'em.  After a couple of those, the world just might be a finer place.

Well, thank you, my dears, for stopping by to read my blog and maybe share a comment or two.  I love getting readers, and I love you.  We are family.

Who is going to win this weeks match ups in the Irregular Football League?  Ask madamezoltar@jtirregulars.com

Don't forget to stop by next week.  We'll be here with new and interesting content.  Heck, just about every day has that on the JT Irregulars.  We love you.

Tuesday, September 20, 2016

Citizens FUnited

From Shepherd Express:

By Art Kumbalek 4 hours ago

I’m Art Kumbalek and man oh manischewitz what a world, ain’a? So listen, I hear our Governor Snidely Whiplash’s billionaire-boat, the USS Pay For Play, has sprung a leak, what the fock.

Here’s what I know, and it’s the strangest thing. Some days ago I thought to check my dinky email inbox. I only get about a handful per week—messages from Sears about their latest sale on men’s socks, and like ilk—but I couldn’t get the goddamn thing to open. So me, being a regular Mr. Dell Jobs, assumed the logical thing to do would be to curse a blue streak whilst rapidly hammering random buttons along with a flurry of combined random buttons. Sha-focking-zam! Not only did the inbox pop to life but I had way, way over 1,000 new messages to gander at, I kid you not
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None of them were for me. All were addressed to and sent by people I’d never heard of. Jeez louise, had I accidentally hacked into someone else’s schmutz? So of course I began to open these babies so’s to take a peek and maybe get a fix on what the fock was going on here.

The first one I opened said this: Hey, since the Governor is so ecstatic that our lead paint provision passed the Legislature, should Scooter’s new nickname be ‘Sherwin’ or ‘Dutch Boy’?

The next one: OMG. The Guv confessed to me that he had a HUGE crush on Bea Arthur when he was younger. Wasn’t she one of those transgender types?

And: To all: The Governor reiterated to me to remind you that at the risk of immediate termination, to never, ever mention to absolutely ANYONE that he always roots for the Bears.

Holy focking cow, ain’a? But before I could open another, the mysterious emails vanished, along with the few older ones addressed to me. Was I hacked? Beats me, but a few moments later a new message popped up. It had no identifying info or text or attachments; however, in the Subject box was this: “Cheerio, Mate.”

Anyways, anybody hear anything about Bart Starr’s latest stem cell treatment down Mexico way? Yeah, me neither. And why the poor guy has to go to a foreign country south of the border, I’ll never focking figure out.

Hope it goes well, although I am surprised there hasn’t been more hubbub about it, in a righteous negative way. Cripes, I remember not that many years back when a whole bunch of citizens were clapping their hands and waving American flags (the special flags, the ones with a 51st star for the State of Ignorance) on account that a U.S. district judge put the kibosh on federal funding for all embryonic stem cell research. These were the people whom the lord told that that glob in a lab dish is a human being and oughtn’t be dicked with.

And what a life, ain’a? I tell you, if that were me flat on my would-be ass in a Petri dish, I’d say who needs this bullshit. All around me I’d hear the lab guys and gals making lunch plans, going out for a smoke break, making plans for the weekend and all the time there I am, stuck in a dish. That’s no way to live, I don’t care who—or what—you are, or were, I kid you not.

As one sitting in a dish, I sure as shootin’ would want the scientists to get their butts in gear and figure out the way to grow me into some kind of human tissue, so I could replace the crappy cells inside a real, live, walking-around human being. Now that would be sweet.

Yeah, get out of the dish and get planted into some guy who’s going to start feeling a whole lot better because of me, and then watch out! We’ll take in a ballgame, have a couple, three ice-cold bottled beers.

Maybe take a walk along the beach, or decide to screw it and just stay home, make a nice baloney sandwich and watch us some TV. Or wait, best yet, we’ll go get us a wad of singles yea-thick and head on over to the nearest gentlemen’s club and research the female form. Now that’s what I call living.

And you know what? Apparently it’s not too late to help these human beings stuck in lab dishes get a real life. Write all your bonehead politicians and tell them you demand that they either push real hard to get the green light for unlimited funding for this eggs-cell-ent research (there’s money to be made in eradicating disease, what the fock), or you’re going to conduct your own research on replacement politicians to better serve the body politic come next election (early voting starts in a couple, three days, don’t you forget), ’cause I’m Art Kumbalek and I told you so.

Read more:  http://shepherdexpress.com/article-28471-citizens-funited.html

Related:  https://theshepstore.kostizi.com/

Monday, September 19, 2016

Saturday, September 17, 2016

Friday, September 16, 2016

Four for Fridays!

Hello everyone I hope all of you had a good week. I just can not believe how fast the week has gone because next week Saturday is my sons wedding. Well here are your questions for this week.

1) Are you enjoying the nice cool weather we are having?

2) Is anyone watching football this year?

3) How many phones do you have including cell phones?

4) What kind of camera do you have?

I hope everyone has a great day!

Thursday, September 15, 2016

"Registration of jtirregulars.com successfully renewed"


After THB and Drew were nice enough to pay for our domain renewal, I sent, online, the money to Google, expecting it to renew our registration.  But nothing showed up there.  I received a receipt that referred me to my documentation number.  It's big time getting anything done over there, especially because they hide telephone numbers and email addresses.  Finally, today, I received the above.  Hallelujah!  We're legit for another year.

Thank you Drew and THB for another year.

Wednesday, September 14, 2016

Where Did Summer Go ?

 
 
 
I'm so sorry to see Summer Go.   I couldn't wait until it came.   As we get older time seems to pass us by.    What did you do this Summer ?   Gets dark earlier.   What's you favorite pass time to do at night ?   Myself I like to do research & reading on the computer.  

What are your Favorite Memories Of Summer ?   Any songs that keep your Memories Alive?   Mine is Come Saturday Morning.   Wishing you the Best in the Coming Fall.  

As you know all the Holidays will soon be here.   Then 2017 not far off.    Enjoy,  Carol Lynn 

Dear Madame Zoltar

Hello, my loving boys and girls!  How are you?  It's supposed to be a relatively cool day today.  Fall marches on.  To be honest, I like the days with warm temperatures and cool nights.  But ir doesn't last forever.  Enjoy it while you can.  And I hope you don't have a huge yard to be raked of leaves this fall.  I love oak trees, but they can keep bunches of leaves well into winter.  Maples produce some autumn leaves, but none like the Norway maple.  In any case, it's all a guessing game, When is the best date to rake up your leaves?  Ask Mother Nature, she oughta know (ha-ha).

Well, the NFL full season has started, and our invincible Green Bay Packers beat the Jacksonville Jaguars.  We're off to a good start, but I don't think any NFL expert can say we're loaded with talent.  This Sunday's battle is against the Minnesota Vikings, at the Vikings, 7:30 PM, on NBC.  Let's see if we can't pull out another win.

As to the Irregular Football League, check it out:


I'm sorry I can't make it larger, but if I do, portions of the right side become chopped off.  The Racine Irregulars are in first place, with the Fighting Mongrels chasing them from second, while the Orbliterators  hold third.

The one thing I like about football season is that it burns a lot of Junior's energy,  School keeps his brain occupied (hopefully) and football takes care of his body.  He's a letter man at school.  He's hot stuff, as long as there's a mother behind him taking care of things.  I love him and I hope that sports give Junior some of the "fathering" he didn't get when he was younger.

Speaking of Mr. Z., I haven't heard from him in a long time.  Probably because he's so behind in child support.  Thanks for nothing, Mr. Z.  Go rot in hell.

As for my regular and irregular readers, I feel nothing but love.  Crowd around and hug each other.  You never know what can happen in a crazy world like ours,  Keep the faith.

How do you "keep the faith?"  Ask: madamezoltar@jtirregulars.com

I love you all.  Enjoy the weather while you can.  Fall is a great time to tackle chores that were just too damn hot in the summer.   It's also a great time to check out the trees.  Whatever you do, do it carefully.  We want to keep you around here. 

Tuesday, September 13, 2016

"Charges dismissed in 2015 child sex assault case"

From The Journal Times.com:

CARA SPOTO cara.spoto@journaltimes.com

"RACINE — A case against a Racine man accused of sexually assaulting a 5-year-old girl last August has been dismissed.

"Orlando Deleon, of the 1600 block of Holmes Avenue, was charged on Sept. 2, 2015, with first-degree sexual assault of a child, after it was alleged that he assaulted the girl in his home.

"According to a criminal complaint, the victim, a 6-year-old friend and her 8-year-old sister were playing with Deleon’s cats when the victim stayed behind.

"The 6-year-old allegedly told investigators that the victim went back inside, where Deleon is alleged to have given the girl a dollar because 'she had played a game.'

"As part of the 'game,' the victim later told investigators that she was blindfolded and walked to a bathroom where the assault is alleged to have taken place, the complaint states.

"The victim’s sister told investigators she saw Deleon place a blindfold on the victim and guide her to the bathroom. The older sister also allegedly heard Deleon tell the victim: 'Don’t tell anyone.'

"Deleon told investigators that he had merely asked the girl to close her eyes and then placed a spoonful of applesauce in her mouth.

"Deleon was jailed on his charge and given a $100,000 bond. The case was proceeding towards a Sept. 13 trial date when the state on Friday called for the charge to be dismissed on a prosecutor’s motion.

"Asked why the state had asked for the dismissal, Racine County District Attorney Rich Chiapete stated that there 'were burden of proof issues.'

"The prosecutor handling the case, Assistant Racine County District Attorney Robert Repischak, had recently reviewed the entirety of the case with the victim’s family, including the Child Advocacy Center interview, Chiapete said, and based on a meeting with the victim and her family it was agreed that the case would be dismissed without prejudice.

"'ADA Repischak indicated that they met at length and that the family understood the issues with the case,' Chiapete wrote in an email. 'If additional information or evidence is received that impacts this case, it could be re-issued.'

"Deleon had faced up to 40 years imprisonment if convicted on the charge. It is not clear how long he spent in jail while the case was proceeding.

"To Explore Strange New Words"

From Shepherd Express:

By Art Kumbalek 3 minutes ago
I’m Art Kumbalek and man oh manischewitz what a world, ain’a? So listen, as our state legislature extends its egregious efforts to make America’s Dairyland the Mississ-focking-ippi of the North, so as to rank near or at the foggy bottom in every measurable category from your soup to your nuts, I’m reminded of a little story:


On Friday afternoon, the entire state legislature of a state located not-even-close to either coast was aboard the official state bus touring a remote rural area when the driver lost control and crashed the bus into a ditch. Sometime later, a local farmer sauntered by and, upon finding the politicians lying in the road, buried them. 


It was reported that county sheriffs then arrived on the scene just as the farmer finished tamping the dirt down over the last member of this state’s legislature. Upon questioning the farmer about the wreck, a sheriff asked, “So you buried ALL the politicians? Were they all dead?”


The farmer reportedly answered: “Well sir, some said they weren’t, but you know how them politicians lie.” Ba-ding!


Cripes, I almost forgot that I’ve got such big news I could almost focking squee. A friend of mine alerted me to the fact that the Oxford English Dictionary (“the definitive record of the English language,” just so’s you know) whipped out their list of new words they’ve recently added to their very fat book. Among such what-the-focks as yolo, biatch and spanakopita, the OED finally got with it and added a word dear to my heart: focking, I kid you not. Here’s their low-down:


focking, adj. and adv.: A. adj. Used as an intensifier, expressing annoyance, frustration, hostility, etc. B. adv. Intensely, extremely. Also simply as an intensifier.


Focking-A, ain’a? Although, I must admit to being a tad jack-offed that my name is not mentioned as the word’s foremost godfather. Still, to have a word that you nurtured and heard grow for more than 30 years to be listed in the Ox, hey, that’s some hoity-toity company focking be now keeping, you betcha.


And speaking of words, perhaps you’s have heard somewheres that the newspaper business seems not to be exactly a bed of leaf-love, lo, these days, what the fock. And me being a newspaper guy chagrined by the alleged dire straits this industry be floating upon, I figure the best way to offer assistance is for me to attract more readers to my cozy newsy nook back here in this paper. One small step for man, one kind-of leap for peddling products you don’t really need, or an “experience” soon to be forgotten.


And so I need to attract not just any kind of reader, but better readers (no offense intended), the correct kind of readers who quote the Oxford English Dictionary as opposed to the ’til-now usual low-rent scrubby rabble that turns out for my weekly oracle, the kind most likely to spend a Saturday evening riding the bus, talking to themselves, what the fock.


Hey, I need the reader who’s with it, on top of it, lives it, breathes it, eats it, full of it: I want “today’s” reader—today lends me ten bucks; tomorrow, can’t remember. Yeah, that kind of reader, the kind of focking reader I can turn around over, under, sideways down to advertising types who will then solicit my contractual John Hancock and turn me into a mega-media pitchman, so’s I can commercially endorse their fine products to you whom I’ve herded to the marketplace. Boner pills, anyone?


OK, so talking about the right kind of readers I need, I ask this: Gents, how do you measure up? Ladies, how do you stack up? Fock if I know, but let’s find out with this brief exercise in analytical reasoning. I got to know from you’s what you think the following animals, vegetables, minerals and stuff got in common. Here’s the catalogue: Forbes Field, the pie-billed or pied-bill grebe, Dick York, sulfuryl chloride, the Treaty of Ghent, caulk, trinomials, Paul Gonsalves, sufferin’ succotash, compound umbel and Parcheesi.


Take a couple, three minutes to figure. I’ll go have a smoke.


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Ready for the answer? If you guessed “not a thing,” or more accurately, “not a focking thing,” you are abso-focking-lutely correct sir, or madam. Random material in a random universe. Welcome aboard. And if you’re still working on the exercise above, forget about it. The best I can do is save you a seat on the bus. Try the No. 30 on a Saturday night. You’ll recognize me. I’ll be the one, right rear, talking to myself ’cause I’m Art Kumbalek and I told you so.

Read more: http://shepherdexpress.com/article-28431-to-explore-strange-new-words.html

Related:  https://theshepstore.kostizi.com/

Birds!

Well like I said with the Fall pictures we went to Horicon Marsh this past weekend and I thought I would share some bird pictures also. So here are some pictures.

                                                          These are Trumpeter Swans.

                                                         This is a Downy Woodpecker.

                                                                  This is a Great Egret.

These are Cattle Egret flying over Hwy 49 when we first got to Horicon Marsh. There was about 30 of them flying over us.

I hope everyone enjoys the pictures as we enjoy going out and taking the pictures.

Monday, September 12, 2016

Fall Colors!

This past weekend Drew and I took a trip up to Horicon Marsh. The colors are starting to change up there and I have some pictures to share with everyone. Here are the pictures.




Saturday, September 10, 2016

Happy 8th Birthday to the Racine Mirror

Although I suspect the majority is done manually around there and not online, Happy Birthday to "The Racine Mirror:" https://theracinemirror.wordpress.com/  "The Mirror" is one of those free magazines that you find at food store doorways, most gas 'n' go joints, etc.

I got my printed copy at Mialecki's Piggly Wiggly yesterday.  Eight years, just like the JT Iregulars became earlier this year.  No, that's not fair.  They are much happier.   

Friday, September 9, 2016

Four for Fridays!

It just seems like the weeks keep going quicker I just can not believe it is Friday already. I hope everyone had a good week. Here are your questions.

1) Do you like to do your shopping online or go to the stores?

2) When you do your shopping at the stores do you like to go during the day or in the evening?

3) When you do go to the stores do you have a hard time finding what you are looking for?

4) Do you have to travel far to get to the stores?

I hope you have a great weekend!

Thursday, September 8, 2016

Happy Birthday Okie!

I just want to say Happy Birthday to a very special friend Okie. I just wish I could be with you to celebrate this day with you. We hope you have a great day today.

Wednesday, September 7, 2016

"HobNob is finalist in supper club online vote"

From The Journal Times.com:

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"SOMERS — HobNob Restaurant & Cocktail Lounge is one of 20 state restaurants in the Travel Wisconsin Supper Club Showdown, an online voting contest.

"Wisconsin’s state tourism agency invites people to vote for their favorite to win the Travel Wisconsin Supper Club Showdown Champion title. As of Wednesday afternoon, HobNob, 277 S. Sheridan Road, was No. 11 on the leader board with Schwarz’s Supper Club of New Holstein leading.

Dear Madame Zoltar



I'm so sorry.  I forgot about today's blog.  I blame Labor Day.  I don't know what day it is . if you do, please let me know at madamezoltar@jtirregulars.com.  I love you all.  Please have a safe week.

Tuesday, September 6, 2016

"A Category Pour"

From the Shepherd Express:
 
By Art Kumbalek 1 hour ago
 

I’m Art Kumbalek and man oh manischewitz what a world, ain’a? So listen, I hear another Labor Day holiday has come and gone, that day when we honor the workingman by pissing the day away drinking beer in the backyard or a picnic park somewheres. How ’bout next year instead we pay tribute by working twice as hard and twice as long that day? Yeah, that’s what I thought.

But so here we are, September, what the fock. I’ve been trying to cool my heels for this month since April, and now finally I hear my favorite season coming up the stairs to knock on my door, I kid you not.

And speaking of the fall, I also hear we got an election coming up right around the bend and that the Democrats have a shot at taking back control of the Congress’ Senate chamber. Which reminds me of a little story:

So this guy rubs a genie out of a lamp who says he’ll grant the guy one wish. “I want to live forever,” the guy says. “No can do,” genie says. “I’m not allowed to grant wishes like that.”

“Dang. OK, then I wish that I want to die after Congress gets their heads out of their asses,” the guy says.

“You crafty bastard,” says the genie.

Anyways, my time here this week is tighter than Superman’s leotard. Next week I plan to dish out some sound advice as to which way you ought to vote come November. And if you don’t think I’m able to pass out swell and constructive advice, let me give you an illuminating example from some years back when I was the Shepherd’s advice columnist for one week. It went something like this:

I’ve been having this problem of hearing voices in my head. For example, just the other night I’m in bed lying next to a certain female, and a voice inside my head says, “Relax...you’re not the first doctor to sleep with one of his patients.” But then a few minutes later, I hear another voice reminding me, “Richard, you’re a veterinarian, for crying out loud.” Can you please make these voices stop?

Doctor Not Feel Good

Jeez louise, pally. Hearing voices can be a bitch, I tell you, ’cause who the heck knows where that kind of nutbag stuff may lead, ain’a? In far, far too many cases of voice-hearing I’ve heard about over the years, seems one day some guy’s hearing voices, the next day he’s out carving up Cub Scouts, I kid you not. I’m no expert when it comes to hearing voices, but listen up ’cause I got two words for you: Ear focking plugs. OK, maybe that’s three words. Sue me.

But Richard, before you get the earplugs, please allow my voice to remind you that no matter what one’s profession may be, remember that one is allowed to have a personal life. From your letter, I can only assume that yours includes a sexual attraction to—perhaps even preference for—another species. In this conservative Christian voodoo age, a regular guy can feel like he ought to get fried at the stake just for checking out JC Penney’s latest bra ad.

I admire the courage inherent in the matter-of-fact manner in which you describe your problem—that is, you understand that your problem is not the fact that you’re boning a Doberman, or sheep, or even a goddamn chimpanzee for all I know; no sir, that’s not your “problem.” Your problem is simply only with these voices you hear. Good.

Cripes, I know I don’t think I could take the raised eyebrows the New Puritans would give me if I showed up at a cocktail party or after-hours business function and my date was a focking barnyard animal. And you must remember this: If you ever begin to feel blue from any kind of harassment like that, I can only suggest patience. Remember that medical science makes a bunch of breakthroughs every day, even as I speak. It may seem like only yesterday—when, in fact, it wasn’t—that it seemed really unusual and focking weird that guys could go to Sweden and come back as gals.

So hey, stick to your peccadilloes, Richard, ’cause one day doctors will perfect the species-change operation and then Richard can be Rover and everybody’ll say big focking deal. Now roll over and play dead ’cause I got to go, ’cause I’m Art Kumbalek and I told you so.

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