Official statement: “I have never had sex with Senator Larry Craig!”

roblimo | Humor, Politics | Wednesday, August 29th, 2007

Yes, I know some of the men who are supposed to have had sex with Senator Craig are still anonymous, I would like to stop the rumors that I am one of them right now!
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The World’s Largest Miniature Circus ~ a child’s eye view

roblimo | Bradenton/local | Monday, August 27th, 2007

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This is a guerilla video of the Howard Bros. Circus Model at Sarasota's famous Ringling Museum, shot from a child's perspective. 

Grunt Rock by ‘Tomorrow is not a Promise’

roblimo | Bradenton/local, Music, Videos, Village of the Arts | Sunday, August 19th, 2007

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Some years back, when rap first got popular, I predicted that if we could have “music” with no tune, we’d soon have “songs” with no words.

Ooh uh uh. Geh grr ug ug!

I called my hypothetical wordless songs “grunt rock.”

And there I was, at C.O.R.E. in Bradenton, Fleriduh, one afternoon, when six young men who called themselves ‘Tomorrow is not a Promise’ got up on the little stage and started loudly pumping out… grunt rock!

Adults either shook their heads or left, but a small corps of teenage girls sat there, enthralled.

Wow. These guys were totally accomplishing the two mission of any high-quality disaffected-teener band: repelling adults and attracting girls.

Ooh ugh Wah Fuh! Boo huh rah mah?

This is great…. no need to waste time and brain cells learning lyrics. Just get up there and grunt!

Florida peace activists try to tell Rep. Vern Buchanan how much the Iraq war costs

roblimo | Bradenton/local | Saturday, August 18th, 2007

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People from a whole bunch of Florida peace groups tried to give Congressman Vern Buchanan some data from Moveon.org showing the cost of Bush's Iraq shoot-em-up, were happy to suggest better uses for the money.

Unfortunately, senior Buchanan staffers refused to listen, and the Congressman himself was someplace that couldn't be revealed due to (shhhh!) security concerns.

Ah, well. It was a worthy try by some concerned citizens to change a Republican's mind. Maybe it'll even succeed if repeated often enough.

One can hope.

Now Those Damn Liberals Want To Screw Up… CHESS!

roblimo | Humor, Politics, Stories | Wednesday, August 15th, 2007

It seems some liberals don’t like calling the least-powerful chess piece a “pawn” and feel “self-employed scout” would be less demeaning. Or something like that. And they want “bishops” to become non-denominational.
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Why Mitt Romney Scares Me

roblimo | Humor, Politics | Sunday, August 5th, 2007

So you’re a nice liberal American who prizes truth, justice, hard work, thrift, fairness, and other once-lauded values. You want a president who is a proven executive and isn’t beholden to the Rush-O’Reilly loonies. Mitt Romney looks pretty good. He presided over passage of the Massachusetts experiment in universal health care, seemed okay with gay marriage, supported women’s rights, and was a strong gun-controller while in office. Then you learn that he drives across the country with his dog in a crate strapped to the top of his car. And now supports the NRA’s “Everybody should have lots of guns” political position. And is now as homophobic as fellow Republicans who get caught buying blowjobs in park restrooms. Wow! Suddenly this Romney guy is scary. (This is a companion piece to Why Barack Obama Scares Me.)
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