Poe and Headstones. Allgood in the Hood in 2011

1-10-11
Hello…

There is a picture in every word that comes to mind when heard or seen. Edgar Allan Poe wrote…“Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.”
I think today is a nice little reminder that it is what you SAY that shapes you...it is what you DO that defines you. We are surrounded by Carnival Barkers who don't realize the folly of their words weigh heavy on the sheep in the fields where they land. Just thought I’d throw that out there in this little field…did you get a picture?

Common Sensical:
If I were a politician I might refrain from any 'gun talk' or 'Cross hairs' or maps with scope-like insignia and …Bullseye patterns are definitely ...'sooo last year.!'

“What’s up?” I love when people ask me that. “Not much” I usually say…but what I want to say is… runaway balloons, atoms, the hole in the ozone…taller people, the Moon, Big Bird and space junk.

2011 …a new decade to realize that I’ll probably be working right up until I meet the maker…(that’s always been a funny phrase…’the maker’?...like a baker …or Play-Doh…) …yep, when I finally retire from that Greeter Position at Wally World… I’ll probably get hit by a runaway cart that somebody didn’t put back in the Cart Corral. My Headstone will read… ‘ For his part , it was a runaway cart…that helped him depart this planet earth…that dream of a beach…never reached…it was a wiggly wheel that ended the Deal…not enough money to even have a ‘Will’ ” …

Yup …it would be appropriate though…as much time as I spend at the old Wal-Mart at RimRock. Every time I go to 'Rim Rock'…I expect to see flying Pterodactyls and Fred, Wilma and Pebbles…the name just lends itself to a 60’s cartoon about a Prehistoric ‘phamily’ (who doesn’t love using ‘ph’ instead of ‘F’ whenever possible.)
If you ‘dig’ prehistoric stuff…how bout a guard dinosaur ? Check out this link to a Robotic Triceratops… 

http://io9.com/5728954/in-the-future-you-will-defend-your-house-with-a-robotic-triceratops

New year’s resolutions? I’m still trying to finish last years resolutions! I am Resolute...

Don’t make resolutions? Well, shame on you! They’re free! Why not? Here’s a little nugget for you! They Say: 

“While a lot of people who make new years resolutions do break them, research shows that making resolutions is useful. People who explicitly make resolutions are 10 times more likely to attain their goals than people who don't explicitly make resolutions:” Source: proactivechange.com

So …why wouldn’t you at least dip your tootsies in the pool of positive expectations?

Okay…My favorite old song for your pleasure…'Count on Me' ...Jefferson Starship…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOMuK7YYxeg

Have a Great Day…

Dave Allgood

The Moose 100.7, The Vault 92.3 , The Allgood News
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9-3-10

Hello...

...and ...goodbye. Blogs are sooo Blasé...and for this boring guy who is in bed every night by 10...they are stuff of other, more worldly people! My Life is as interesting as Snails on a racetrack and wondering why there are so many stars...Too slow and too many questions that nobody really cares about. The importance of my life is truly only important to me. Which is the way it should be. Starting out with a Blog, I felt like I had so much to say...so much advice that would change the world, cure the common cold and have us all shaking the hands of Aliens from other planets...turning water into 'Gold and Gasoline.' Reality is ...I don't have much to say. I like to write...but as a recipient...I realize advice is like Crock Pots and a Fondue Dip Bowl...everyone has one...and they’re always trying to pawn them off on somebody else. Crock-pot is sooo Close to ‘Crackpot’. And Fondue is so close to ‘SNAFU.’
I Facebook and if you must read about me or my cat or my Gnomes or a bike ride every now and then...or a Travel Show I do in Georgia called...oddly enough...'Georgia on a Budget'...just friend me on the Book of Faceness...I'm there.
I like to write...I do it all the time, fiction, non-fiction...pop-up books and even some scratch and sniffs.
Books and writing take you no place ...anybody else can go...your MIND.

It is unfortunate that many kids and adults these days...can't get past the first sentence of a paragraph without being interrupted by a 'beep' or a 'buzz' from a smart phone message...the constant interuption that is making their IQ shrink faster than their 401K plans. That's just fine really...The degradation of our society can be found simply by looking at the letters to the editor of your favorite paper...or maybe that open forum for the brilliant here in the Daily Sentinel called the 'You 'done' said it’. It reads like the rant area of Craigslist...a non-verbal forum for people to spew idiotic and wax stupid from the comfort of anonymity and the basement of their parent’s house. And poor Duffy Hayes and Staff...I have read some of the 'shit' people comment on here...and its not fit for human consumption and is rated NC-17...no one under 17 years should see them ...and the people who wrote them? They have a '17' IQ.

My Step-dad or maybe it was Moe from the Three Stooges said..." if you had any Brains ...you'd be dangerous..." there are a lot of dangerous people out there...! So ...a word of 'advice' from this Recovering Alcoholic...oh...not advice...now we call it 'a little dip into the 'Crock Pot'  of cerebral Goo...'  'Your intelligence is measured by those around you...if you spend your days with idiots...you have sealed your fate...' When i Got sober...one thing i heard in the rooms of AA that really stuck with me was..."Stick with the Winners!" Simple...hang with people you aspire to be ...not ...people who conspire to confound and bring you down. Ta da!  Anybody else want a little Crock Pot  of Advice...its really cheap.

Thank you Duffy! You know how I feel…Grateful for the outlet. I’m available. Just turn on your radio…you’re bound to hear me…not because of anything other than …doing more jobs…getting paid the same. Thus, the sign and sound of our times.

I like things that make me think…people that can write in a conversational style…and the mindless pleasure of the NFL. I love baseball and I like NPR…Life is simply about heroes and villains and damsels and knights…Black and White and that elusive ‘gray’ area. Looking at the stars and taking out the trash. Asking why and understanding you will never know the answers. Life is about trying to find true love and realizing... most people you know would probably leave you in a burning car and watch a stranger come to your rescue. True friends and love are elusive…rising to the occasion is easy…the situation dictates that…its the follow through where most people fail…cause...That takes work.

So I go through the mental Rolodex of my life on a daily basis…remembering what’s important in life…and that my friends...is simply being happy on the inside.
So when I find true friends …I let them know how special they are …and when and if I find true love? I'll treat it like the child I've never had…with care, respect and a lot of mental and physical hugs.

I have shared a lot of my intimate thoughts on this foreign blog-o-sphere…my mother, my sobriety…my feelings on self-control or lack of…and stupid people, (I have a lot of personal experience on the latter), My cat Kramer and just randomness... This all started because I wanted to Blog about doing 'Ride the Rockies'…a liberating and amazing bike ride across Colorado…a week long excursion where time gets lost and Mind, Body and Spirit become one ...and...meeting so many wonderful People…

I like to laugh...and I have found that life and Honesty is ususally pretty funny Stuff..."No one ever thought Clint Eastwood funny...but he was and is"...did you see Gran Torino? The Outlaw Josey Wales? How bout a guy on the corner asking for change with a sign that reads 'will smile for cash'...The 'Bump It' and people who put fins on the back of their cars...clothes for dogs and tubes for hamsters...polyester jump suits and gold chains. Spray tans and gold teeth. Toupees and men in mini-vans. Women who shave their eyebrows and tramp stamps...Yogurt cups with lids...Funny...at least to me.  

My Blog now ends…time has run out and principle has gotten in my way.

Self worth can only really, truly... be found in Self. Simple.

I journey in my mind... all the time... to the stars and the cosmos and to what’s just beyond the next mountain…I trust you will do the same.

Dave Allgood

FYI:

I will be Blogging on My Personal Website Starting on Monday Sept.  6th 2010.  

http://allgoodlife.com

A Blog Fog…Friday is Bye Day.

8-31-10

I have enjoyed my little Stint here on the Sentinel's Website...and for those of you that have popped by every now and then...Thanks. Hopefully we will dance one more time...

Friday, September 3rd...will be my last Blog Entry with the Great Folks here at the DS...

See you then...

DAVE 

FYI:...

Starting September 6th, 2010 I will be Blogging Exclusively on my Personal Website:

AllgoodLife.Com   http://allgoodlife.com

Hey College Freshman…for what it’s worth….

Welcome to College ...kids...

Some Simple advice I wish I  would have had heading to an Institution of Higher learning...

The truth is half of you won't do what you came here to do...the other half will struggle... and a fraction of you will actually get to do what you LIKE to do in life...Nothing replaces effort, hard work and common sense...Dumb cannot be corrected.

Avoid CREDIT and CREDIT CARDS..."Credit  is just Debt... waiting to happen. if you have school loans?...Be smart and start paying them back with a part-time job  while you're in college. And if you have to get Credit?...Pay back EARLY AND OFTEN.

If a beer bong and shot glasses adorn your dorm room...I'll see you in a few years in an AA meeting ...not a business meeting or Board Room.

Don't equate success with money...Achievement is nothing more than smiling at work...paying your bills and hopefully being better than the guy next to you...Remember Risk is not a whim...It's a calculated  'room for error' judgment call...

Don't be afraid to go the edge of the cliff...and Jump as high as you can on nothing but the Faith of your Foundation...! That takes courage!...But...what's smart ...is packing a parachute... Carpe diem!

Good Luck.

Dave Allgood

The Big Picture…Spinning and Spinning.

 Where am I? In the Moment and that is some consistent change for Mr. Allgood. 

      The World keeps spinning with or without me. The toughest lesson learned in life?....Realizing how insignificant I am in the big scheme of things. I am but an ant in the solar system of flying comets, asteroids, whirling planets, exploding stars and black holes that adorn the walls of the great universe. The sun is but a lamp that lights my mornings provides me ‘mood’ lighting in the evenings….it burns my dashboard and my fair skin…it shows me the way and then disappears into the ground. The sun knows how to put on a good show and come and go. The sun is truly a STAR with nine adoring fans who do nothing but revolve around what is …the center of their universe. Being a star is tough business…what with all the pressure to perform day in and day out…but consistency I have found…allows me growth and change…my personal Sun to flare and wane and shine …all at the same time. That seems so inconsistent…but that ‘wobble’ in my axis…is consistent with my life now in the direction in which I flow…and the result of some tired knees.

Mark Twain said “What, then, is the true Gospel of consistency? Change. Who is the really consistent man? The man who changes. Since change is the law of his being, he cannot be consistent if he stick in a rut.” Consistently wise…and white suits…impressive Mr. Twain…if that’s your real name!

      On these Sunday mornings …I have no idea what I’m going to sit down and type …and I commit no more than an hour to this Blog…sipping my coffee…I’m inspired by whatever jumps in my head ‘right now’. The shadows of the rose bushes are dancing a silhouette sonata just beyond the obnoxious big screen of my Apple…the sun peeking over the fence toward my desk. My room taking on an ‘ever changing’ look, although nothing has moved. The shadows climbing up the walls and the wind creating movement where there was none just moments ago… and now?...there is still with a hint of more to come…My fingers jerkily scamper over this ‘ergonomically’ friendly keyboard built for big fingered typists like me who have to look down and look up and look down and look up…never quite trusting what the fingers might say…putting an ‘E’ where an ‘I’ should be…a ‘u’ instead of a ‘V’.
I never want to commit to a topic on Wednesday that might be on my blog on this Sunday, August 22nd, 2010. Because my mood is affected by my …mood. And like a stream flowing into a river into an ocean…rocks and bends and twists and a slip of the wrist can affect what comes from my head to this imaginary piece of paper. And this morning …this is it. I am small…that is the topic boys and girls. And this Blog is just an outlet for the few of you reading and who have actually made it this far… looking for insight, outside yourself to fill an inner need and possibly a connection. Because as much as I don’t want to belong…I do want to connect and shine a little light on the world I affect. Because for years I did nothing but take. And that makes for a lonely universe.
Giving…for whatever reason and in whatever form…makes the Galaxy a better place. And isn’t that what it’s all about? I am but a single man in a single house with a single cat and a plant. I don’t always get it right. But …these days…my little sun shines a sprinkle brighter than it did 3 and a half years ago…and the planets that circle my teenie, tiney Globe…actually don’t mind hanging out in Dave’s galactic solar pad of fun time, introspective spinning goodness. Because as much as I have changed…these days …consistency is the name of the game. And for me... that’s a BIG BANG theory… of change…in my world.

DAVE