A Bloy and his Blog

Anyone who knows me, knows that I tend to lean toward the left politically and consider myself a progressive. Those of you who have similar views will enjoy WhiteHouse.org. There you can read why President Bush replaced the traditional Easter Egg Hunt with a scavenger hunt for 10W-40 motor oil, find out how to sponsor a reactionary ideologue for only $20,000 a month, read the Ten Commandments of Patriotism and much more.

And for those of you who lean more toward the conservative side of politics, lighten up and visit the site. It’s April Fool’s Day!

It may not look much different, but this site has now been re-tooled with XHTML. In addition to the changes under the hood, I also took one of the better dynamic javascript menus on the net and modified it for use on this site (look for it in the upper right hand corner of most of the interior pages). Many thanks to Peter-Paul Koch for his excellent web site QwirksMode and his outstanding DHTML menu which he makes available.

And if you’re not interested in web design stuff, take a look at my about me page. There you’ll find some interesting info on the origin of the Bloy name which I posted recently.

I’ve discovered that as I get older I have some seasonal rituals which I always do. Okay, the word ritual might be a little strong, maybe I should call them traditions. Anyway, today I performed one of my Spring rituals. Usually on one of the first warmer, sunny days of spring, I head out the door for a long vigorous walk with my walkman attached to my belt and the headphones in my ears. The CD I always end up listening to on this first walk of Spring is African Shadow Man by Johnny Clegg and Savuuka. It’s a definitely an album to listen to in the springtime with its blending of African and Western pop music styles. In my mind, it’s not Spring until I listen to that as I breathe in the fresh air and walk along the parkway with the sun on my back.

Today’s entry comes to you courtesy of the band Cracker. They’ve always been a band with a great sense of humor and their new CD, Forever has plenty of examples of that. On that disc I heard my favorite lyric of the year so far:

You are so beautiful,
you should be guarded by monkeys.

 

I’ll just let you sit back and contemplate that for a while.

My thought for Earth Day comes from an old proverb:

“We don’t inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.”

The wonders of the universe we live in never cease to amaze me. Today NASA released spectacular pictures taken from a new camera recently installed on the Hubble Space Telescope. Looking at those breathtaking images brings several questions to my mind. Will humans ever see beautiful scenes like this in person? If so, how long until we do? Are there beings out there pointing their telescopes toward our galaxy and pondering these same thoughts?