The Pompatus of Love

Here is some advice to send you on your way

Don't let your Halloween fun be a flash in the pan....


Don't let your new persona get to your head...


And remember you eat the candy...not the children...




Don't dream it...be it today! To all of the witches and warlocks and other friendly folk out there....Happy Halloween......

And howdy CsB. I knew you would find your way here.

Pumpkin Carving Practice

You will need Flash to make it work.

I added a cool moon thingie (technical term) for my wife.

I found it here at CalculatorCat.

Check it out in the sidebar up toward the top if you missed it...

A football coach that I love just got thrown under a speeding bus by his best friend, Baltimore Raven head coach Brian Billick.

Read the Thinking Man's Arrogant Coach's Dear Jim letter here.

Howlingly funny.

Congratulations St. Louis. You beat the Mets. Now you get to entertain Rock City and The Gateway to America, while the rest of America watches college football and Desperate Housewives. I am sure the Fox sports executives are halfway through a case of tequila right about now. Yummm. I used to love tequila.

This just in---Congratulations Red Birds on your World Series victory. 10/27/2006. Detroit Riot Police may now stand down.

Below are some links to the previous posts on the blog, along with some interesting links.

Links:

How much is the war in Iraq costing us in real time?

You Tube: Just type what you like and you will probably find a video about it.

Peace in My Neighborhood: Harford County (MD) Citizens for Peace

Posts:

The first post which is a mini-biography and state of the cowboy report

What the US looks like to the rest of the world

A High School Meme (The answers to some questions about me)

The Passing of An American Institution, Buck O'Neil

New York Yankees : April 2006- October 2006

Ray of Light:Library Style

Man Rules Part One

Who Am I?

Cowboy as Dancing Machine(at WORK!)

In honor of the parent company of this blog's host purchasing YouTube:
Epic 2015

A near future vision of cyberspace. You will need Flash to play it.

Be inspired? Be afraid? Be awed?

Thanks VM for pointing this out to me.

655,000

Let that number sink in for a minute.

Roll it around your mind.

655,000

According to the ACLU knee jerk liberals at Maryland's own Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health that is the number reported killed in Iraq since the beginning of our time in Iraq. Full text here.

Way more than were killed in the year before the US restored freedom and democracy to the Iraqi people.

And Osama is still out there.

Take a look right under my profile to see how much Iraq costs us in real live time.
Click here to see the site that created the counter and how much it costs your neighborhood.

"Shut the (expletive) up!" Streisand bellowed, drawing wild applause. "Shut up if you can't take a joke!" - Barbra Streisand (as quoted on yahoo.com)

What was she doing that engendered such a reaction to a heckler? She was trading barbs with Dubya look alike on the stage. Full Text here.

She happens to be a great singer, pretty decent actress. has not worn a bra since the sixties, and most of all a leftist with a whole pile of f*@& you money.

Of course she is from Brooklyn, the home of all good things.

Check her out at barbrastreisand.com.

Thanks KS for the reminder.

Part Two of the Man Rules. Part one, along with a detailed explaniation can be found here.

Please note . . . these are all numbered "1" ON PURPOSE! (Its long, but FUNNY. And I comment in italics-- SC)

1. Yes and No are perfectly acceptable answers to almost every question.

1. Come to us with a problem only if you want help solving it. That's what we do. Sympathy is what your girlfriends are for.
All men can listen and be sympathetic. Its just that sometimes I need to fix not just listen.

1. A headache that lasts for 17 months is a Problem. See a doctor!
I am lucky. When my wife has a headache, she takes Tylenol.

1. Anything we said six months ago is inadmissible in an argument. In fact, all comments become null and void after seven days.
Fireworks, Cheering, Personally circled by me.

1. If you won't dress like the Victoria's Secret girls, don't expect us to act like soap opera guys.
Ok, maybe I am an exception. I HATE Victoria Secret Girls. Toothpicks with hair. Now if you are talking Lane Bryant or Roman's intimates girls, you have my attention in several places.

Part three tomorrow...Comment below...

My library's staff day 70's disco dance contest.

And the winner is....

Me. Yeah me. Light on my feet and cutting a polyester shag rug.

My wife and I were surfing cable when we came upon this gentleman's visage on screen. The we got to thinking where else have we seen him.










He tried to be Candy in the 70's, got Fluffed, Popped and Pimp-smacked in the 80's and stood taller than a famous couch jumper in the oughts. So do you know who he is? Answer below if you know. Bonus if you can name the referenced movies.

Ok, admission time.

I normally hate chain email. My mom sends them to me. I usually delete them. Friends send them to me. I sometimes delete them. Co-workers who are also friends send them to me. I sometimes delete them. However, one or two sometimes catch my good eye.

This is one of them: The Guys' Rules -- At last a guy has taken the time to write this all down.

Finally, the guys' side of the story. We always hear "the rules" from the female side. Now here are the rules from the male side. These are our rules! Please note . . . these are all numbered "1" ON PURPOSE! (Its long, but FUNNY. And I comment in italics-- SC)

And away we go!

1. Men are NOT mind readers.

Check.

1. Learn to work the toilet seat. You're a big girl. If it's up, put it down. We need it up, you need it down. You don't hear us complaining about you leaving it down.

My wife, people I work with and my old roommate G. have all probably heard this one from my mouth.

1. Sunday sports. It's like the full moon or the changing of the tides. Let it be.

Here I am lucky. My wife: football fan (GO RAVENS!), partly because she loves the action, and partly because they are large, athletic, black men on the screen at all times (lucky me!)

1. Ask for what you want. Let us be clear on this one: Subtle hints do not work! Strong hints do not work! Obvious hints do not work! Just say it!

I am a man. I sometimes subtle does NOT work. Not all of the time mind you. Some of the time.



More Tomorrow...

While this is not my library, it does show the diversity of jobs that work to bring the latest books, DVD, videos, talking books and videos to you, the library customer. And it is fun too. These creative folks are from the St. Joseph County Public Library (IN)

(Thanks for the link, VM)

I have been a New York Yankee fan since the early 70's. I have seen many great teams and even more "cover your eyes" bad teams.

The Motor City Kitties opened a 5 gallon can of fine Midwestern WhopAss on us. Congratulations to you Detroit. Now don't burn the city down if you win the World Series. Just Kidding.

So, there will probably be some big changes coming to Pinstripers. We need good young pitching. Lots of it. We need other things to, but we will probably be stuck with some overpriced might be lucky to be mediocre pitcher ( Mr. Carl Pavano, please step into my woodshed!)

See you in the 2007 World Series. I am now in mourning.

So this NFL..what's that all about? There is a team in Baltimore? And who is this T.O. guy? Is he a team leader?

I am a sports fan. Really big sports fan. My first love in sports is baseball. I have loved it since becoming a New York Yankee fan in the early 70's. The Yankees, Police Woman, Electric Company, Schoolhouse Rock, and Wonder Woman are part of my childhood memories. Faked being sick to watch the Yankee-Red Sox playoff game in 1978, too.

I also love the history of baseball and will argue that all records set before the 1950's should have an asterisk. No Blacks, Very few Latinos. No Valid Records.

Back then, you had to find a Negro league team to find the best black and Latino baseball players playing for meal money. They suffered and tried to eeek out a living with a game that they loved.

Buck O'Neil was the last living link to the Negro leagues. He appeared on Letterman, the landmark Baseball PBS Series and was an ambassador for a game that he loved. He showed bushels of class this past Hall of Fame Induction ceremony when he asked that people not feel sorry for his falling one vote short of induction (AND every sportswriter that did not vote for him should be taken out and..) and then lead the crowd in a beautiful song that brings tears to my eyes as I write this. The link is in the right column and worth playing.

He passed away today probably from a broken heart more than anything else.

I'll be in the corner silently sobbing and keeping his family in my thoughts.

Update: from a post I did on Dan Shanoff's Son of the Quickie (my nickname) Blog:

Rarely do I cry at the loss of a professional baseball player, but he was way more than that to many. Crying shame that he will probably make the hall of fame when dead for being the greatest living baseball ambassador.

Death is not fair. -sc

I wrote this to some of my classmates from high school. I thought I would share it here:

This is to catch us up on what we have been doing since high school 21 years ago.

Name: Spaced Cowboy
Name 21years ago? Same
How many times have you moved since high school? Eight
How many cities have you lived in since high school? Brooklyn, NY, New York, NY and Edgewood MD.
What were you doing 10 years ago? Living in Brooklyn, Joining Brooklyn Monthly Meeting and Working for a NYC non-profit.
Where do you live now? Edgewood MD
Alone? No.
Spouse? Yes
Kids? One, 21(step-son)
Grandkids? Yep, he is 3 and a half.
Own or rent? Own.
What do you do to earn money? Technology Trainer for Co. Library
What hobby have you continued since high school? Cooking
What hobby have you picked up since high school? Golf
One guilty pleasure? Summer afternoon naps while watching baseball
One good habit? Listening well
One bad habit? Ice Cream
One favorite toy? Dell Axim handheld computer
Favorite thing to do on your day off (besides spending time with kids/family/spouse/significant other.) Auctions.
George W. Bush? I am not a fan.

Welcome to The Pompatus of Love a blog by a guy named the Space Cowboy.

I am a black guy living in a sometimes white world, married to a white woman living in a mixed neighborhood in the Maryland suburbs.

I am a Quaker, get paid to train people how to use comptuers, have many passions and like to crack crabs every now and then.

I see my using this space like most in the blog sphere, to have my own damn soapbox in the world... besides my dining room table...