Doug Van Pelt

Hillary Clinton, Hayley Williams, and Tony Dungy

If I were Hillary Clinton's speech writer, I'd be preparing the "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em" punchline. I think they're going to be on the same ticket come November, don't you? It'll give some paranoid conservatives something to worry about if they get in the White House. Obama might pick someone else as a running mate, but it's hard to imagine that after this tightly contested battle, isn't it?

Listening to Paramore's Riot album on the way to work. Both my kids like the band, and I think I just passed the 100th play milestone. It feels like it. They say "familiarity breeds contempt," but I think that was primarily aimed at and composed by college roommates, and not necessarily about getting sick of an album you play all the time.

Our resident donkey, Douglass, was courting (and constantly stalking) the Shetland pony here on the ranch, but now that the big Alpha Male tan horse has returned, the Shetland is always close by this horse and the poor donkey is off to himself in a far away field. I wonder if he's composing any blues songs about rejection while he chews on the grass out there. Perhaps I should collaborate with him. I might be the first human to co-write with a donkey. I think the whole Shrek movie was all animated and thus fictitious. I'm talking alt-country reality, here.

I'm reading Tony Dungy's book, Quiet Strength. It's great reading a football book in the off season. I should do this every off season. Come to think of it, I probably do that already.

I signed up for a twitter account over the weekend. Once again, I'm behind the curve, but the tech geeks are once again far in the lead. I haven't figured out how to get it on my cell phone text messaging thing. We'll figure it out after deadline. I watched Jumper over the weekend. Interesting flick. I also saw several Criss Angel Mind Freak episodes. I wish I knew his secrets. I finished transcribing the War of Ages cover story. Now I have to wait for the new photo shoot to happen later this week, so I can lay out the cover and cover story. This issue is another double-flip cover, so the Kutless cover is designed. The story's finished, but I haven't laid it out yet. I have to put together a story on The Famine and This Fires Embrace before I start the fun layout process. I have a few albums and DVDs to review, too. It's looking like a busy week. If you walk past my cubicle this week, I'll be like that guy in the Fed Ex Ground commercial, shouting, "Busy bee!"

And, in one last thankful comment: I don't really work in a cubicle.
:?)

Posted by Doug Van Pelt at May 12, 2008 08:52 AM