TheObsoleteMan
- Location
- Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
- Birthday
- November 26
- Title
- Occupant
- Company
- Please
- Bio
- I am an X-Man. I’m an ex-photographer, ex-artist, ex-musician, ex-husband, ex-business owner. But I am in the process of renewing and reviving those atrophied abilities. I am an average man from the Midwest with simple childhood memories of ol’ Grandpa chasing me around the barn with the power tools. I am an analog guy in a digital world. I enjoy comedy, music, art, and art photography. I enjoy good friends, good food, and good drink, I dislike bad friends, bad food, and bad drink and people who use the word "like" 25 times per sentence. I have lived long enough to know that I know very little except that it is impossible to say "ebay" in pig Latin.
MY RECENT POSTS
- Black History Month:Lesser
Known Facts
February 22, 2011 10:06AM - Beauty: repost for Little
Kate's poetry challenge
February 14, 2011 01:06PM - Valentine's Day Fun Facts You
Should Know
February 14, 2011 11:49AM - Happy New Year ! You are now
one year closer to your death
December 30, 2009 02:01PM - A Christmas Poem by Paul
Gilmartin
December 23, 2009 12:23PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “This just in: James
Franco announced that he knows
the
rehearsal stank but
promis…”
February 28, 2011 12:19PM - “This just in: James
Franco announced that he knows
the
rehearsal stank but
promis…”
February 28, 2011 04:26AM - “"Visions of heaven
voiced with choirs of angels"
That may be,
but I
sti…”
February 14, 2011 12:57PM - “I was gladdened by the
fact that musicians, not
samplers, won
the awards this
yea…”
February 14, 2011 12:23PM - “To Christians, the Bible
is like a software license.
Nobody
actually reads it.
Th…”
September 28, 2010 10:57AM
TheObsoleteMan's Links
Black History Month:Lesser Known Facts
Black History month began on February 1st. Also February 1st was National Dark Chocolate Day. The fact that both of these are on the same day seems flagrantly racist to me. It also seems odd that we even have a Black History month. After all what is called Black history is,… Read full post »
Beauty: repost for Little Kate's poetry challenge
for Michelle
You sigh before the mirror
and tell me that
your body is not beautiful
I can only hug you
to let you know
how wrong you are
If you could see yourself
through my eyes
If you could see yourself
through my hands
and through my body
you would know
Beneath my hands
your small breasts
are perfection's pri… Read full post »
Valentine's Day Fun Facts You Should Know
First , A Valentine Question: When a liberal
like Al Franken sends Valentine hearts, are they bleeding?
Valentine's Day Fun Facts You Should Know:
On valentine's day a married woman will spend 1 minute reading the
Valentine's day card from her husband, 13 minutes eating
Valentine's day chocolate, 154 m… Read full post »
Happy New Year ! You are now one year closer to your death
That says it all.
A Christmas Poem by Paul Gilmartin
(note :I did not write this. I just wanted to share the holiday joy)
A Christmas Poem by Paul Gilmartin
Eggnog, tinsel, falling snow
Buttered rum and mistletoe
Christmas trees and hanging lights
The sound of carolers fills the night
Shopping hours long and hard
Visa phones and cancels card
Unpaid bills and… Read full post »
Christmas Fun Facts You Should Know!
"It's a Wonderful Life" appears on TV more often than any other
holiday movie. The holiday movie that appears least? "The
Creationist's Scientific Christmas" in which the baby Jesus is
eaten by dinosaurs.
The word Christmas is Old English, a contraction of "Christ's
Mass". Or a contraction of the repl… Read full post »
Black Friday Death At Walmart: A Mere "Incident"
Incident n. 1, an occurrence or event; a casual
happening.
One year ago a temporary Walmart employee, Jdimytai Damour, 34, of
Queens, New York was trampled to death in a stampede of sale crazed
shoppers. The annual rite of retailing known as Black Friday turned
chaotic and deadly, as shoppers scramble… Read full post »
Blind Fog: for Fiction Friday
Blind Fog
"What’s that, Riley? You went outside with grandpa to feed the dog and you couldn’t even see the doghouse from the porch? I know! It’s a blind fog! We were lucky to have gotten to grandpas before it moved in! What’s that, Riley? Well yes… maybe this is like… Read full post »
Sarah Palin Was A Drug Mule for Rush Limbaugh
(the fourth installment in a series of inaccurately headlined random synapses)
Fun Facts You Should Know!
The mask used by Michael Myers in the original film "Halloween" was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white. In the original film "Smokey and the Bandit" Burt Reynold's mustache was actually Wi… Read full post »
Nun Leaves Convent After 22 Years to Wed 15 yr old Student
Fun Facts You Should Know!
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days straight, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. And you still would not have beaten my ex-wife's record.
Every time…
Rediscovering Sex: Part 1. Condoms
When I say "rediscovering" I don't mean I actually lost sex or forgotten where I put my sex. I always kept my hand in the game, if you know what I mean. I mean rediscovering a sexual relationship with another person. Which includes all of the accompanying baggage such as actually… Read full post »
I was a Bondage Slave in the Lolita Nunnery
(the second installment in a series of random
synapses)
Dateline--Providence, Rhode Island
A nursing
home’s pet, Oscar The Cat can accurately predict a
patient’s imminent death by cuddling up to the dying moments
before they pass away. Staffers say that Oscar’s presence
allows the pa… Read full post »
Watching Dad Die
He struggles in his hospital bed. His skin is waxy and ashen yellow, the hue of old newsprint. The paleness accentuates the brown liver-spots on his hands. Those hands are strapped to the rails of his bed to prevent him from removing the oxygen tube from his nose. Tubes and wires… Read full post »
I was Raped by Lesbian Dykes on Bikes
McDonald's French Fries are the only food so good a parent will steal them from their own 2 year old .
On 30 Rock Tina
… Read full post »Faces of the Health Care Poor
In the midst of all of the vitriol surrounding health care in America, at ground zero in the animadversion concerning costs, are real flesh and blood people. Us.
"It is impossible to care for the health care poor without seeing the faces of the people." John E. Curley Jr.:President The… Read full post »
New Orleans: A song for us all
New Orleans. A song by David Rovics about the Katrina disaster and its aftermath.
Loneliness
Loneliness is a clever cunning cat
It waits for the night
When the green silhouetted trees
Go black against the sundown sky
When the blood of the sun
Is drained from the clouds
Leaving them dirty pieces of gray
Loneliness grows
Sending down roots
Into the private parts
Of your mind’s hidden garden
Making… Read full post »
The Humiliation of Sara : for Wally_M
A Jerry Springer Woman
This song is based on the fact that every woman I’ve been with has been a nice stable decent sort - and they always leave my ass. Then I watch Jerry Springer and it’s always the same show- different people but the same show. Some unemployed total loser of a guy is married… Read full post »
Ten Poems That Have Touched My Life: Cyclopic's Open Call
Cyclopic issued the challenge. "Name ten poems that have touched you. And just to make it interesting, work from cold memory. No Googling." Cyclopic also wrote " You may be struck by the lack of poetic sophistication in my choices." That sums it up for me too. So in no particular… Read full post »
Poem With Nothing To Say
This is a poem with nothing to say
No reason to exist but I wrote it anyway
Bored at my desk on a Friday night
I opened my computer and started to write
6 lines, a – a, b – b, c –c
A simpler rhyming scheme there could not be
This poem plows on ponderously
Perhaps,… Read full post »
Beauty
You sigh before the mirror
and tell me that
your body is not beautiful
I can only hug you
to let you know
how wrong you are
If you could see yourself
through my eyes
If you could see yourself
through my hands
and through my body
you would know
Beneath my hands
your small breasts
are perfection's pri…
Dirty Haiku Thursday: Fun With Dick and Jane
This is my infantile response to Mary T. Kelly's post " The Elusive G-Spot...Does It Really Exist?"
http://open.salon.com/blog/marytkelly/2009/07/25/the_elusive_g-spotdoes_it_really_exist
(This will make no sense to those who are younger than 55. But those of us who learned to read with the "Dick and… Read full post »
The Big Sex Talk
The Big Sex Talk
The horror… the horror. I'm 58 and I still haven't figured it all out myself. So how can I explain it to a 13 year old?
I had my 13 old with me for the past three weeks. I am divorced and his mother has primary custody.… Read full post »
Foodie Tuesday: Ginger Poached chicken
One of my daughters (college age) HATES to cook and she can't stand to touch raw meat. Normally she will only make boxed Mac and Cheese and microwave pizzas, but this is one she will do.
BEYOND SIMPLE
Ginger Poached Chicken
a 3 to 5 pound whole chicken
3 cans… Read full post »
TheObsoleteMan's Favorites
Updates
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To the Grandchildren of my Grandchildren
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Chewing a Man's Face Off~
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Deep Space Telescope Reveals Stanley Cup Finals Underway
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Snake handling Pentecost bitten and killed? Holy shit!!!
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Crumpled Paper??? (Extreme Linework Smackdown #2)
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Can I Get a "Fuck Yeah?"
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Since You Asked
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HOW TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN ALL THINGS: Just fake it!
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