aliens among us

Subtitle: Monday is what’s wrong with you aliens day.

I like to be spontaneous. It’s a habit I’ve developed over the many months I’ve spent blogging. So I thought I’d start planning my blog out a bit more. Maybe doing pieces of it in advance so that I don’t have to spontaneously come up with all of it at once.

Hey, don’t blame me, blame Anna Meadows. She gave me the idea in her post on the 23rd where she announces that she is taking a week off. That was last Wednesday, so I guess she’ll be posting again in a couple of days. So I still have time to ambush her! (grin)

Anna made two bad decisions here. One was to take a week off. The other was to write “back up blogs”. Since I like and admire Anna, and believe her blog is more popular than mine, I can’t help but take advantage of her today. This being “Monday is what’s wrong with you aliens day” day. More of what’s wrong with all of you, not just Anna, after the more break. (grin)

Part One:

In the spirit of what’s wrong with you aliens day, What’s wrong with you, Anna (nothing really. I like her blog a lot. But like Donald Rumsfeld once said, “as you know, ah, you go to blog with the material you have—not the material you might want or wish to have at a later time”, or something like that. grin)? This first idea goes against everything we know You Must do to Blog Correctly! Oh wait, is that the right link? Oh well, y’all know what I mean.

Don’t you know you work for Scott Williams? The Local Ninja of How not to have a Blog Disaster? I’m sure Scott was shaking his head over this decision(and yes, I know my link doesn’t go to one of Scott’s many “how to blog well” posts. Hang in there with my method-madness. grin) You have to blog every day! Being a blog stat addict, I’ve noticed that while I took a week off to go on my last vacation ever, my stats page suffered a dramatic loss of uphillness. Little bitty hills of hits. Ahh! I need to blog immediately!

Anna has a built-in answer to my criticism of this first one. It’s another brand spanking new idea called “back-up blogs“. Before you all jump to Anna’s defense, allow me(grin). Anna is NOT the first person to talk about these two ideas. Just the first one I thought of while trying to spontaneously come up with this material, since I read her post last night before going to sleep while trying to catch up from my vacation week.

I’m sure that her post is somehow responsible for my weird dream, that combined elements of Breaking Bad, learning to speak Islamic, and rapid switches between being male and female. While not an unusual dream for the paravane, I don’t try to make sense of them, I try to lay blame for them. (grin)

Anna, I read your blog, thought that both of these ideas were suspect, but that I like you so I won’t call you on them, and then watched the latest episode of Breaking Bad and went to sleep. When I woke up this morning, I knew that somehow, this is all your fault! Don’t ask me where the transgender and Arabic lessons come in, I’m not sure. (grin)

Part Two:

This part of Monday’s blog is going to have some links. There’s no rhyme or reason for why I picked it other than I just feel like it. And I planned to do it in advance. (grin)

1. Breaking Bad On AMC Sundays at 9PM Central. – I know. Yer already saying “here goes jimmy with his weird, we can’t watch it because it’s about sex, drugs and violence TV show recommendations. Seriously though, don’t let the kids watch, but you should check out this show. It’s about a man desperately trying to deal with his impending death, how it affects his marriage, his relationship with his disabled son, and his career choices. Oh, and he cooks Meth. Just thought I’d mention that last one before you click on the link(be sure to play with yer mouse clicks. you’ll see why). What? You already did? My bad. (grin)

2. Bloggers Anonymous – OMG, I can’t believe none of you found this one before me! Did any of you find this one before me? “Top 10 Signs that you might be a Blog Ragaholic: 10: You own a voodoo doll that says “Die, Seth Godin, die!” Need I say more, I mean quote more? I mean seriously? I have to put this on my blogroll immediately! If this guy isn’t an alien, can one of you convert him quick? My blog IS supposed to be about aliens. It’s why I don’t list Seth Godin’s blog. Oh wait, is he an alien? (grin)

3. Mars Hill Diggings: Raising Heaven Again - I found Methodman J’s blog(I bet you thought I wasn’t going to list any aliens sites. grin)! Remember, I talked about the J man in my “An acceptable risk” post, but didn’t have his blog link? Here it is! Although I gotta say J, I’m much more intrigued by Dark Energy than Dark Matter. If 98% of all the matter there is is Dark Matter, how much of all the energy there is is Dark Energy? Ok, that’s not a legit question, but I DID get to use “is is” twice! (grin)

4. transplanting me – Her title is in small caps, she’s an alien blogger in Thailand, her blog pictures make me hungry, she commented to me while I was on vacation and I haven’t had a chance to respond. Oh! And I don’t know her name! I’ll just call her tm, since that is a trend on her blog (grin). tm, how could you think you scared me off somehow and I’d gone into blog stealth mode? Silly rabbit! I blogrolled you(oh, and she blogrolled me. Yes, it really is that easy to get me to blog about you. grin)!

Besides, you can’t scare me. Everybody knows the only thing that scares the paravane is meeting you in person. Unless I plan it that way of course. And I don’t think I’ll be in Thailand anytime soon. Too bad for me. I loved Thailand! (grin)

That’s the Monday Link List for this time. If you didn’t make it, feel free to comment on why you should. Oh, and send me lots of cash by clicking on my GodPal button…you know, click there and be God’s Pal? What? I still haven’t got that up on the blog? Man…I really have to get on the ball with that. Hey, I could use that picture of Jesus with the big grin doing the thumbs up! That would rock. (grin)

Part Three:

‘But Jimmy!” I can hear you saying, “in Part One, you didn’t say why Anna was suspect because of her idea of “back-up blogs”! We all do it too! Why is that suspect?” It’s just fishy to me. I mean come on, this is blogging, not book writing! Be spontaneous! Have you figured out that’s my word for today? It’s because of Top Chef. My wife’s favorite chef, the Dyke, got voted off because of the spontaneity elimination challenge. What? I can say dyke. I’m Family friendly. I’m allowed. If you don’t know what I mean by “Family friendly”, obviously yer not and yer not allowed to use it. (grin)

OK fine. If you people want to spoil my perfectly good excuse of pointing at all of the rest of you for not blogging every day as to why I don’t either, be that way! See if I care! And so there! (grin)

“But Jimmy!” I can hear you saying, “you didn’t talk about Reverend Wright at all in this post! What’s up with that blog title?” Silly rabbit, tricks are for kids! I qualify, so it’s a trick! I’m actually saving the Right Reverend Wright for tomorrow’s post because the subtitle for tomorrow is:

Subtitle: Tuesdays are why you aliens are wrong day. (grin)

But just so you have a head start on yer defense, here’s a few links to prepare with:

• Why Is It So Quiet After the Moyers-Wright Interview?
• Bill Moyers Journal: The Transcript & The Videos
• Obama responds to Rev. Wright interview – MSN Video

So get ready kids, and I’ll see you in the funny papers. “But jimmy!” What? Go away already! “What’s with the picture of Top Chef? I mean, we usually like your pictures because they have something to do with your theme! But we don’t get it this time.” What? You don’t like Top Chef? I mean come on! It’s a picture of a guy holding a meat cleaver behind his back! Oh never mind. I was just being spontaneous. (grin)