Author: Stephen J Frankenberry

A Cat Curls Friday night. Partay!!!

I know you might be saying to yourselves (probably not … yeah, most probably not) “Whoa, Frankenberry … back it off a bit dude! Jesus, this guy?! Think of the neighbors! You’re getting a bit old for the wild ‘n crazy now aren’t ya? Plus, no one’s gonna be postin’ bail for you this time ‘round after another rager of yours, these are tight times for everyone and they’re tired of your shit anyway even if they did have the money”

“You’re right, I’m not young anymore, I just can’t keep up that pace of youth”

“Seriously, tone it down a bit will ya?”

“Will do … apologies … but I’m not taking off my favorite party shirt”

A Cat Curls Friday night. Subdued.

Only going back to March here on this one but seemed a bit pertinent.

(to Elvis Costello’s “Pump It Up”)

Mock It Up

Jim Jordan feels import

Says this is of utmost

Importance of a sort

He gets to what is his real sport

Saying gov is weapon sent

While he’s Jim sweaty bent

Fig’ring new distractions

Nothing else matters

—

Mock it up

Even though we don’t need it

Fog it up

Distractions we feel it

—

Says gov weaponized

But not in the right right light

If you’re gonna weaponize

We want it with a left left prize

So we can order lives

Get “others” all in line

—

Mock it up

We’ll fake it and sell it

Fluff it up

Distractions fall for it

—

Hey!

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Jims been a bad girl

Livin’ in his Trumpy world

Does what he can

To make truth go in a whirl

Living Trump bat ass unhinged

This’ll truly make ya cringe

Sycophant I’ll call you sir

Run through border walls I’m yours

—

Mock it up

We work in post truth now

Muddy up

Jim Congress waste time now

—

Now in a passion show

Start demanding DA’s show

Papers bout the real blow

To great leader you should know

We’ll keep him above the law

Not right to hold him account

He came to us from down the mount

We’ll make sure law for him don’t count

—

Mock it up

We work in post truth now

Fog it up

Jim Congress waste time now

—

Mock it up

There’s only our truth now

Muddy up

Making point to waste time now

—

Mock it up

We will make up the rules now

Fuck it up

G O P new false truth now

—

New post truth now

Different set of rules now

New post truth now

—

Call ourselves Ruth now

Hit homer for Trump now

Clear bases of truth now

—

Prayer call the lord and how

Charlatans gather up now

Cause god is Trumps cow

—

Call for pro-tests here and now

Insurrection again now 

Been watching “One Piece” this week, the live action version of the anime swashbuckling Pirate tale that I have never seen, know nothing, knew nothing of until now.

What fun.

What fantastical, funny, dramatic, graphic, heartfelt, hopeful, dangerous, whimsical, seat salt-edge, silly, fairy tale-esque kinda fun.

I don’t normally watch things all at once, I don’t “binge”, but I just kept letting that little slide at the bottom of the screen “slide” to the next episode as I have since I first started watching on Tuesday or Wednesday and where I also had to stop myself with a “you’ve still gotta go to work tomorrow Steve” then a slide for at least five more minutes before a sigh of bedtime.

I also don’t usually keep to the regular on a Friday night so excited to have the week behind me with some shitty words in front of me instead that I leave that usual aside to just what ends up being some even shittier words than I thought possible, to save with even shittier titles that clog up my desktop telling themselves they will get organized and make sense soon into proper folders at some point but never do.

Man, my desktop is a mess.

But Cricket reminded me earlier, in her usual mournful sounding meows around my feet (she may be blind but she has a clock and a nose for her Steve and a memory of chairs and Steve feet spots – and she really does meow in the most mournful sounding of ways by the way ways – what a cat funeral might sound like if cats had cat funerals)

“How’s abouts you just watch that next episode? Of that show? Ya know, that one of the rubbery guy with the straw hat you’ve been watching instead of a shitty Friday? The one who could be King of the Pirates. I could use a lap, or some feet”

Alright girlfriend. Episode seven it is then cat.

Grab a spot while I lean back.

New Friday.

Took today off to extend the weekend a little bit. Now, I don’t take vacations, single dudes don’t take vacations or if they do there is probably something going on that involves the word “hedonist” and I ain’t going there. Too tired and out of shape for that kind of thing.

No, just a day for a day, a “my” mini vacay extended holiday weekend if you will, with a half day tomorrow as well. I still though got up around my regular time earlier (freakin’ internal clocks) something I’m sure we all do on vacays, however much we may tell ourselves throughout weeks upon weeks upon weeks of expectation “Man, can’t wait to just sleep in?”

I did though at least grab an extra hour from the usual.

Anyway, just a post leading to a picture. A pretty good reason for an extra day.

Just to sit … with a cat … in the sun.

And another So Then Sunday.

(refresher – a So Then Sunday is like a Throwback Thursday just on a NOT Thursday as I am not a fan of them, a Thursday once said something bad about my Mom plus it”s a just tease of day anyway and with so many shitty one hit wonders.

From a few years ago, three actually and a personal fave, the first time I took an instrumental from our music production site at work and just went with it. Nothing political, no parody, just some fun.

And it inspired another couple of tunes continuing the story of my hapless criminal pals.

One for the holidays

And another for just two guys sittn’ at a bar

More to come … as long as the coppers don’t nab me. Don’t believe whatever they tell you if they do by the way.

“I was framed I tell ya!” would be the standard.

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Moved in fast

Wanted to grab cash

Had an inside

Point us to the stash

All gassed up

Had some cool masks

Famous baddies from

Old time gangster flicks

–

I was Cagney

Tommy was Edward G

No weapons though

Way too much the risk

Just a bluff

And the fear that goes with

Work the room posing threats

Now that’s biz

–

Grab the loot scoot

Back door left ajar

Plan was ticking

Like a really expensive watch

Into the alley

Out of sight of cops

Billy couldn’t be far … right?

–

“Hey, where’s Billy?”

“I don’t know man”

“but he knew the plan, we practiced, He knew this alley”

“I told you we shouldn’t let Billy the drive the car”

“hey, you agreed man!”

“I had no choice, he’s your brother and I ain’t pissin’ off your mother”

–

Why’d we let Billy Drive the car

Mom always said he wouldn’t go very far

I wanted to just prove her really wrong

Was always singin’ the same ol’ tired song

Told her the plan no guns and just commands

Protect Billy In the best way that we can

Give him the wheel and just wait out the plan

–

We lit on foot then

Tommy and me we ran

Plan had been rocking

But now we’re on the lam

With nothing even resembling a plan

Other than shucking and really ducking now

Hidin’ round corners

And peakin’ round some bends

Trying keep the coppers

From their ends

Cursing Billy to the hell he will attend

All in my head while we ran and ran and ran

Just tryin’ not to end up in the can

At least that’s if we had another plan

–

Why’d we let Billy Drive the car

Mom always said he wouldn’t go very far

I wanted prove her to be really wrong

Was always singin’ the same ol’ tired song

Told her the plan no guns and just commands

Protect Billy In the best way that we can

Give him the wheel and just wait out the plan

–

We shouldn’t have let Billy drive the car

Tommy said that we wouldn’t go very far

Except the slammer that’s just right up the state

But poor Billy he just could never rate

To the ones who always judged the most

A lost cause on their paper notes

He’s the one they say see ya later to

And I had no couch for that

–

“Oh shit Tommy, tell me that can’t …”

“I don’t know man …  I don’t wanna think about it”

–

“Billy, where you been?”

–

You were so right to let me drive the car

Coppers been sent a little way out far

Tripped an alarm at a different spot

An inside knew a perfect wild goose

At your plans on your wrist’s spot

Ticking along with your planned depart

I waited knowing just where your legs would stop

–

We were so right to let Billy drive the car

Tossed our masks and cash into the back

Cagney and Edward G they’d be so proud

And ode to gangster’s legends of the old

A new chapter maybe in that gangster ode

Of Tommy and me a new story be told

A one to finally make my momma proud

Of when we let Bill-lee drive the car

Of when we let Billy drive the car

Minority Rule

(to Tears For Fears “Everybody Wants To Rule The World”)

Popcorn anyone?

New GOP life

Where they turn their backs

On days of self-respect

Where party stood once

Principles of pride held nature

On their side of legislature

Instead now just a mi-nor-it-y rule

—

It’s par-ti-san times

No working cross the aisle

Instead just to decide

Against the will  

Of most of people

Fascist thoughts now

How they measure false lib-er-ty

Instead now it’s just mi-nor-it-y rule

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There’s a rule of law once stood by

But abandoned in orange broke light now

In his light they will threaten shake down

‘less they get will of despot to own

All of you in his would be new town

It’s all about mi-nor-it-y rule

—

– break

—

They can’t stand your freedom’s visions

Where all could make their own decisions

It’s all now just mi-nor-it-y rule

—

They’ll tell what histr’y can be taught rewritten white now

Tell ya what books you cannot read now  

Maybe even start a fire now  

—

They’ll always lose vote in a straight up

Instead build guards to keep them on top  

To help them thrive in mi-nor-it-y rule

—

They can’t stand your freedom’s visions

Fascist thoughts false li-ber-ty now

We are all not created equal

Must protect king at all costs

So, I have 3 PC chairs.

I know you’re saying “But Frankenberry, you are just one man, with just one ass and two elbows for the resting while PC’ing, how could you possibly need 3 PC chairs? And isn’t this just one more example of grotesque American over-indulgence that we should try to avoid to stop painting ourselves us in some sort of grossly privileged light just in the form of excess computer furniture?”

And I reply “Yes, I am but just one man with one ass and two elbows for the resting while PC’ing … but I have cats”

“Oh well shit! Ok, our bad … you should have mentioned that up front … sorry we judged. This is just practical then?”

“Indeed”

“Genius … apologies again”

“No worries”

“Have we shown you pictures of Mr Bimbles in our PC chair by the way? (though this standing to do our own PC’ing reply here is quite uncomfortable)”

Discovered earlier the actual measurable expense of me being lazy.

Meant, earlier in the day, to head over to Tractor Supply Company on my break to pick up a new bag of pellets, Tractor Supply Company horse bedding pellets as they are labeled, that can serve as a fine kitty litter. Been using them for quite a while now, wonderful things these pellets, well, as far as “wonderful” can be described to something your cats pee and poop on.

On my way home though I suddenly realized that I had not done such, but I realized in time, time enough that I could have made a couple of right hand turns and backtracked a bit to pick them up then instead.

But, after a day that was a day, a headache inducing one, I just wanted to be lazy and keep going straight, wanting none of this couple of right hand turns backtracking nonsense to get to Tractor Supply and then another right and a U-ey to get back on home track.

Rationalization: You can just stop at PetSmart instead Steve, which is on your straight home ride way, they have pellets there too … plus you … ummmm … could use with stopping there anyway for some new Bella and Cricket food right? Oh, ok … yeah, that’s right … need some new Bella and Cricket food anyway (I didn’t) and sure, PetSmart can be rather expensive but you just got paid last week and haven’t blown it all yet on food and rent and hookers and how you will have none of this couple of right hand turns backtracking thing to add unnecessary time to your ride home … right? Oh, right indeed Mr Rationalization!

Actual measurable cost of lazy?

Hold on … math … wow, this shit hurts my head … hold on still … hey math is hard so hold your numbers horses will ya?! … math … math … math … (break out the calculator that you were told you were never going to be allowed to use)

Or word problems … If the train leaves the station carrying Tractor Supply bags of pellets traveling at 45 miles an hour in a car with horses …

Tractor Supply Company horse bedding pellets that can make a fine kitty litter? $8 for a 40lb bag = 20 cents per pound.

PetSmart other brand of pellets? $16 for a 25lb bag = 65 cents per pound.

Lazy and the rationalization that comes to support it? Jesus lazy, you’re an expensive mother f’er!!

Rationalization: But did you get home in lazy good time?

Ok, so there is that but …

Ok, a So Then Sunday

A re-visit here on a Sunday of a post from a Friday about a Friday a year or so ago (can it still be Friday by the way?)

And a tune.

To Cheap Trick’s “I Want You To Want Me”

I like the “Ohhhh’s!”

(link below)

(this one is for all the conservatives out there who somehow feel that THEY’RE being persecuted in their beliefs by not being allowed to dictate how everyone else lives)