Nobody 857

Sunday, March 13, 2011

Nobody # 857

Nobody Asked Me But:

In all of its terrible wonder

Nature wreaked havoc last week

Huge quake hit Japan

Showed man’s puny plan

Like reactor had sprung a bad leak

That Was The Week That Was – As always, each of these short verses is based on a news event that happened during the past week.

Congress convened on the Muslims

As if all were a motley crew

If they’ve time for play

Why not check KKK

And the White Supremacists too

Pastor Rob Bell has written a tome

Where he takes a provocative look

At heaven and hell

And he hopes it will sell

Later this month on the Nook

At 60 degrees in the Quinniplac Poll

Michelle is the warmest this season

Nobody’s hot

Plenty are not

And Nancy Pelosi is freezin’

We’re democracy’s friend, said POTUS last week

We want folks to have their say

But we’ll not abort

Our dictator support

If their say doesn’t go our way

W B finally fired Charlie

Who claimed he was still in his prime

Most common folk

Thought the whole thing a joke

And a horrible waste of their time

Not the brightest nor bravest was this guy

Who thought house breaking was fun

But the owner most scary

Made the intruder so wary

It was the breaker who called 911

Micky-D’s catering weddings

In Hong Kong, believe it or not

After groom gets his kiss

Time for reception bliss

Where super-sized fries hits the spot

We don’t want hurt feelings, the PAC said

So for all-stars we’ll always pick ten

A basketball team

Has a 5-player scheme

But we never learned when to say when

Don’t blame us said the companies

Gas prices are driven by need

But the public cried liar

Put their feet in the fire

We think the reason is greed

The Tea Party’s all white, racist xenos

Some found Schiller’s words most uncouth

But let’s not be dense

In his defense

He can always plead telling the truth

Repubs are back on attack

Unions they say are a curse

Sometimes they’re right

But it’s not black and white

Not having them would be much worse

What next for Wisconsin’s Scott

Is it true that there is more to his scheme

To expand his urge

Force the Packers to purge

And kick union members right off their team

The NFL owners are adamant

At the union they cast dirty looks

The future may bust us

And you’ll have to trust us

Because we are not opening our books

Mass animal deaths are back

Is nature this far out of whack

On the beach dead sardines

What all of this means

There will be fewer in tin cans to pack

The Pres drags his fleet on “no fly”

Sometimes he can’t tell wrong from right

Wrong wears away

At one’s conscience each day

While right helps you sleep through the night

The heat’s on the Heat from Miami

Is this super team’s feet made of clay

They were hard to assemble

And they don’t resemble

The team thought to win going away

Mike Tyson on telly last week

Said, “Look, I’m the Michigan man”

Uh, that’s Michelin, Mike

I know they sound ‘like

But learning the difference you can

David Stern went after Van Gundy

For you who may think that was odd

This Comish discourse

Is par for the course

The man really thinks that he’s God

REVIEWS AND OTHER THOUGHTS

As we move solidly into March Madness, I look back on a season with its usual oddities. Perhaps the oddest of all was that in their early season loss to Notre Dame, the California Bears scored only 5 points in the first half.

As for the most boring game of the year so far, how about Penn State’s win over Wisconsin Friday by the score of 36-33?<<<

The Adjustment Bureau – Mat Damon has become one of my favorite – dare I say actors, rather than action stars? Yes, after his performance in True Grit, I dare. He delivers his usual excellent job in this odd combination of science fiction/love story. In the film, free will is pretty much an allusion. An Adjustment Bureau led by the man from upstairs, downstairs, somewhere, guides humans in the correct direction. For Damon, it is towards the Senate and then, eventually, the presidency. But Mat has other ideas. He wants the free choice to give it all up for love. Good story, good acting, profound choices. This is my kind of movie.

And finally, this movie tribute:

When I consider great small films

I often think of Fargo

I cannot deny

On my list it is high

But it’s still way behind to Key Largo