'Twas beauty killed the beast

I just finished, once again, watching "King Kong".

I've seen it maybe 50 times over my lifetime.

The original 1930's version.

The 1970's version with Jeff Bridges and "Dwan". Really bad acting abounds.

...and the newest, CGI, slick graphics, tricked out version.

I think I understand the intent of the storyline now.

The metaphor of a huge, enormously powerful beast, capable of so much anger and destruction and yet equally as much caring and love.

Fighting to the end and ultimately giving his life for what he holds precious...a beautiful woman who understands him and communicates with him like no one else can.

I think you have to be a man to truly understand the intent.

It only took me a lifetime to figure out.

But just who is the "beauty"? The attractive, blonde starlet...or the 80 foot, monstrous gorilla with a heart of gold?

It truly is in the eye of the beholder.

Black dang the corn swazzlin' ferd...

Jumbo neolithic kindred flip-flops conjoin tinsel makeshift monolithic avatars bestowing irregularity. Saskatchewan beholds fascist fuscia periodontal misfits. The Gregorian montage subsides eloquently beneath.

"Panorama!" Constellation, triumphantly beholding rectangular virtuosity, amends encompassing cardboard.

"Makeshift exoskeleton tyrannical purple! Rhubarb flatulence regards mightily!"

Spherical protruding autumn exudes prehistoric diversity.

Operatic sincerity hilarium.

Fortress pleasantry denied.

Dating In The Year 2009

In an effort to get myself "back out there", as in attempt to date again, I have posted profiles on several different "dating" websites.

These things are a compulsive liars paradise.

Women regail you with stories of how much they like to jet-ski or parachute or hang glide. They love to travel to exotic locations and spend their summers in Fiji. They have amazing lives filled with culture and color. They are deeply spiritual. They are wise beyond their years.

Their stories aren't just "seasoned", they're outright fictional.

If that wasn't bad enough, they are also apparently delusional about their appearance.

Case in point.

I get an e-mail from this woman saying "Hi cutie!". She claims in her bio that her body type is, and I quote, "Average".....


On what PLANET and in what REALITY are you considered average?????

Oh wait, I get it...the person she just ATE was average.

Do these people have funhouse mirrors in their bedrooms? Because I sure as hell ain't seeing an "average" sized woman here...

I see Shamu.

I just got home from yet another 14 1/2 hour workday. I'm exhausted, but I was "entertained".

I have worked in the hotel industry for many, many years, but never before have I experienced a day quite like today.

We had three large group functions taking place at the hotel, all at the same time...

GROUP #1: A young black girls "Sweet 16" birthday party. There wasn't a White, Hispanic or Asian person in sight. All baggy pants, sideways baseball caps, "bling" and ATTITUDE. Throw in a DJ whose playlist all sounds exactly the same.

GROUP #2: The annual ball for "The River City Gems". A group of about 100 middle-aged, blue collar, cross-dressing men and their "dates". Not a single pair of pants in the room. More ball gowns, hoop skirts, "Scarlet O'Hara" wigs and falsies than "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert".

GROUP #3: "Little People of America". Pretty self-explanatory. Would you believe that a gathering of midgets was the most "normal" group?

Nobody can ever say I don't experience "diversity" at the workplace.

Halloween is coming...

Autumn is here

A gentle, light breeze

Temperature changes
The colors of trees
Goodbye lemonade
Hello hot cider
Stores filled with pumpkins

My eyes growing W I D E R
What should I wear?
What would be cool?
Perhaps a SCARY monster
With lots of drool!
Halloween is coming!
It calls out my name
For without this day
Fall wouldn't be the same
Ghost or goblin?
Witch or vampire?
The kid in us all
Loves a head on a spire!

Drive past the graveyard
Ghouls whisper at night
"Happy Haunting to all,
and to all a good FRIGHT!!!"