General Stuff and a problem solved.

First of all, this morning I've burned about a dozen of my monthly allotment of archived articles from my New York Times Select reading back columns from the writer Sarah Vowell. If I ever fancied myself living in New York and writing a funny, smart, cut-the-bad-guys-to-the-bone column, I would be dreaming of being Sarah Vowell. To be honest, I saw her interview on The Daily Show last night - and was so smitten that I had to check out her columns I'd been over looking. I am even considering printing the lot and mailing them to the Old Lady. She likes political commentary ala Molly Ivins - and she, like Ms. Vowell, is something of a pessimist. I have to include the last paragraph of a column titled "The Pessimism Deficit"

"Alas, I see my initial worries about the current administration as the greatest betrayal in my whole life by my old pal pessimism. I attended the president's inauguration in 2001. When he took the presidential oath, I cried. What was I so afraid of? I was weeping because I was terrified that the new president would wreck the economy and muck up my drinking water. Isn't that adorable? I lacked the pessimistic imagination to dread that tens of thousands of human beings would be spied on or maimed or tortured or killed or stranded or drowned, thanks to his incompetence.

I feel like a fool. All those years of Sunday school, and still the apocalypse catches me off guard."

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Next issue: I have finally come up with a resolution to the Geezer issue. I want to be considerate of those who waste precious moments reading my blather but I also want to maintain my control over my blog and keep it uniquely me. Afterall, pandering too much would lose the point of reading the musings of a humanized monkey, wouldn't it?

So, I've decided to change Geezer's name. Geezer will now be known as Uncle Rico.

I have this little brain child idea. I know that I've used color to enhance Sparkle. I am willing to add color to other people's names upon request. To be honest, there was a long while there when I was so intent upon getting the blog written, that I stopped using color. Now that I've relaxed a bit, I've decided to resume taking the time to enhance the blog in colorful ways. So, if you have a color preference for your name, let me know - in what ever way you find easiest. Word of warning - since I'm terribly fond of changing templates, and back ground colors, if you pick too mainstream a color, it may someday be changed or lost in the back ground. I will do what I can to avoid such mishaps.

So, good night, Chick, Preacher lady, Miss Grassy Creek, and Uncle Rico.