happier man <em>We know the world is doomed. <br />We know that life is cursed. <br />If you berate the hand of fate, <br />you'll only make things worse. <br /> <br />Know your limitations. <br />Formulate a better plan. <br />Modify your aspirations. <br />Be a happier man.</em> <br />- Bertol.t Bre.cht, <u>The Thr.eepenny Ope.ra</u> tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6469865 2005-01-27T15:13:04Z Blogger
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 happier man 2005-01-26T15:00:10-05:00 2005-01-26T21:06:10Z 2005-01-26T20:15:09Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6469865.post-110677050925559960 old letters I <p>My father sent me a box of old photos and letters that have been in storage for about 2 decades. I'm transcribing some of the letters for record keeping. For the hell of it, I'll post 'em too, because they make me smile. <blockquote> Friday May 15, 1981 [13 days before my 6th birthday] <br /><br /> Dear Jeff- <br /><br /> Got your letter today and sure glad to hear from you. So now you are visitin in Bartlesville [Okla.] with Grand Mother and Grand Father Cranor. Bet you are having a good time and getting a lot of good things to eat! <br /><br /> You may get fat! <br /><br /> Then you will be my fat little dipstick. B-Mom and I are going over to Shot Gun Sams and eat pizza tonight. Then we'll come home and watch Dukes of Hazard. Be nice to all the boys and girls in Bartlesville and give Grandmother and Grandfather a big hug and kiss. Tell them hello for me. <br /><br /> I love you, <br /> Pa-Pa </blockquote> happier man 2005-01-26T09:35:19-05:00 2005-01-26T14:46:19Z 2005-01-26T14:46:19Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6469865.post-110675077971300111 where is kill bill????

Words cannot describe my disappointment in yesterday's Oscar nominations. Not a single nomination for Kill Bill Vol. 2. In the post-LotR lull of 2004, KBv2 stood out above most of the plainjane award-bait epics. But Uma and Carradine and Quentin were all left out -- not even a wink and a nod to the freaking make-up artist.

Forget Condi Rice, folks, we need to get to the bottom of the conspiracy against one of 2004's best movies (i can't possibly put it above Napoleon Dynamite).

PS: RAY???? Are you kidding me???

 happier man 2005-01-26T09:28:52-05:00 2005-01-26T14:34:52Z 2005-01-26T14:33:26Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6469865.post-110675000608757812 i have finally reconciled personalities

Happier Man and The Structuralist are finally one! The separation of identities was about as flimsy as Superman adding a tie and glasses to (somehow) fool everybody into thinking Clark Kent was a TOTALLY different being. Anyway, my problem was mostly just laziness.

Well..

I guess the excitement of this moment wore off a little more quickly than I thought it would...

SSsoooooo... What's... up.... with you?

happier man 2005-01-24T17:10:17-05:00 2005-01-24T22:11:17Z 2005-01-24T22:11:17Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6469865.post-110660467730243952 i heard there are noxious gases in uranus

It's just what I've heard... That's all I'm sayin'.

 happier man 2005-01-17T10:31:14-05:00 2005-01-17T15:33:14Z 2005-01-17T15:33:14Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6469865.post-110597599452604247 why i give change to the homeless

Last week in NYC, I gave a dollar to a homeless man. He smiled and said, "Hey man, let me tell you something. I bless the fuck out of you. Happy New Year!"

Then I laughed. Then he laughed louder, and I felt it was a dollar well spent.

 happier man 2005-01-06T15:06:18-05:00 2005-01-06T20:10:18Z 2005-01-06T20:10:18Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6469865.post-110504221817818188 favorite thing overheard in texas

While driving to the in-laws' place in Houston over the holidays, I heard a caller to some AM talk show (read to yourself in an east texas accent):

I don't see why we have to send so much money over to them countries for their tsunami or whatever. It's not like those countries came to help us out when we had all them hurricanes in Florida.

Well, the next time zero people die in Palm Beach Gardens during a hurricane, I'll make a phone call to Sri Lanka and see if they can help rebuild a couple of winter beach homes. Hopefully there are still some people alive that not only have a couple of bucks to spare ("just skip one of your twice-weekly rice dinners"), not to mention a telephone.

 happier man 2004-12-24T13:16:52-05:00 2004-12-24T18:18:52Z 2004-12-24T18:18:52Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6469865.post-110391233201320143 happy christmas-like holidays

Wish baby jebus a happy birthday tomorrow! Happier Man will return the week of Jan. 3.

Also, Baby Jebus did not approve of that dirty show you were watching on cinemax back when you were 12 years old and just discovering your "thing." Don't do that ever again.