Or is working for someone else? I feel like I should write a wanted ad:
Looking for Mojo
If found please return to Xty
Reward: Virtue
(It being its own reward,
or so my mother said.)
But this being the internet age, I see someone has beaten me to it, but they were perhaps funnier:
Mojo would be a great name for a dog, especially if he or she was easily distracted, so you could go around asking people if they had seen your Mojo, while calling out “Mojo, where are you? Come Mojo, come!” And if she were a sheepdog or other working breed, people could ask you if you had got your Mojo working.
I have often wanted to name a dog Taxi for the same reason. Walking through the woods calling “Taxi!” has a certain bizarre appeal. I remember a comedian doing a routine about bad things to name your dog including the classic, Sit. Or Stay. “Come, Stay!”
Not wanting to step on too many toes, but there has been a trend it would appear, or maybe one is just more exposed to the vast underbelly of the world these days, to give children ridiculous names. River for example. How about Tree? Probably been done. Since Dale is a name and a place, I suppose one should accept River. Better than Swamp, or Bog. I think River would be a nice nickname for a baby that peed a lot, but lacks something in a public setting. Wind would be a poor choice. “That Wind, always breaking … something.”
Although maybe names should be used to give some clue as to personal characteristics, as with the seven dwarves, leading to the oft repeated line,
“Somebody woke up grumpy.”
“Should have left him sleeping.”
But at least in novels you can often know what to expect from a character. Like Dickens’ Uriah Heep, the obsequiously repellant shyster in David Copperfield. So good in fact that Uriah is used as an example of the meaning of obsequious in the first Google hit when you search that word [to make sure you are not making an ass of yourself, ed].
Real life rarely affords such moments. But the other day, watching terrible TV which I secretly love, in a hotel in the morning, a terrific show called “I am Pregnant and so is my Teen” [and so was my mother, probably, ed.] came on. The girl’s name was, I kid you not, LaSonia. No matter how you try, it just sounds like one big dish of pasta, and no matter how you try to accept that it is judgemental to consider someone responsible for their weight when you do not know their story, she looked like she might well enjoy large dishes of pasta, on a regular basis. LaSonia. Did her parents not have ears?
When we bought our house we had new kitchen cabinets installed, and the fellow in the cabinet showroom had a last name that was, if I remember correctly, Hadasheet. I distinctly do remember him telling us to just pronounce it once and get it over with. He had a nice first name, and we just used that. At least he worked kitchens.
But if you should hear any lost soul out in the woods calling for her Mojo, it is just me, hoping you have seen her and will return her, post haste, to her owner, or should I say just pal, in case she is reading this and takes offence.
I can just see the cynic sites making hay out of this one today, so might as well get the rebuttal out there front and center. Those guys can all blow me. Is that too harsh? F’ em. I assume some of those goons are monitoring this site, so they need the education wherever they can get it.
http://www.businessinsider.com/report-on-unemployment-rate-being-faked-2013-11
My mojo is working just fine, thank you very much.
And…First! Second! and Third!
Put this in your pipe and sort of shake it around a little bit. Hypocrisy everywhere…
Medicare Part D: Republican Budget-Busting.
Xty – my mojo is missing too. i am trying to be patient. it will return.
try to find one thing today that is awesome in your life. you surely won’t have to look far.
a comment from EO’s article posted above reminded me of a dying blog site with a similar outlook on the world as Zero Hedge…
“Have you read the comments on Zero Hegde ? Look i want an economic depression as much as the next hardcore Zero hedge Reader , but at my core i don’t hate people , i don’t WANT to see others suffer , at least not needlessly …
The commentators at Zero hedge don’t simply want an economic depression , they want to be proven right , they want to see everyone suffer and they want to rub it in people’s faces … There’s no humanity at their core … They are evil people …
I love my country and i love our people …. i don’t hate people …
i am opposed to those individuals , i think they need to be detained in the event of economic collapse , i think they will not only sow social discontent , but i think that many of them will become violent in their deluded world view that society itself will stop existing in the event of an economic collapse .
Economic collapses happen , no need to get bent out of shape over it , it’s part of the natural functioning of capitalism , our country will not cease to exist , humanity will not turn into mad max .”
once upon a time, he was k
inda cool, .
and the 70’s were really 40 yrs ago? EO you have too much time on your hands and should really paint that northern wall.
Stock Market Update:
Happy days for sure in equities. “The trend is your friend”, so stay with it. Just don’t be greedy and keep your bug-out bag close at hand. “Mean reversion” can be mean indeed.
In response to the woodpecker’s “new world order” comment on the prior post:
I think this article tries to do too much at once. The middle section about those trade talks is an important issue, that is not getting anywhere near the coverage that it should be getting from the media. The last section discussing the traditional left-right axis is excellent. But unfortunately the first section just makes the eyes glaze over as soon as it starts talking “Nation”, “State”, and “Global Over-Class”. The reader has to really really want to plow through this in order to get to the good stuff, and most won’t.
I’m not saying it’s not all related, but the article could have been more to the point.
Adherents to the traditional left/right paradigm can easily see much to agree with here, and then split on who to blame. Accuse the other side as being tools of this new global over-class, of course. Divide and conquer? Hmmmm……
Single digit temps (farenheit) coming up for the weekend. Blech. 😥
Roughly -13 C. Thanks a lot, Canada!