Under a Gibbous Moon

Every year, around Thanksgiving time, we are asked what it is that we are thankful for. I personally, am thankful that I am not a moron. Intelligence seems to a rarer and rarer commodity these days as the following will show.

Pat Robertson has said many crazy things in his life but this is just bizarre, he is apparently unaware of Mac & Cheese.

I guess he’s one of those rich guys who pays people to go to the grocery store for him.

Are you worried that your turkeys are not Christian?

Well, Pamela Geller sure is.

And since turkeys are apparently Muslim here’s more fire for the conspiracy.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone and remember, a mind is a terrible thing to waste.

In this country, sports in general and football in particular have become their very own religion. People so strongly identify with their teams that they get into fights over whose team is the best. Players are granted special privileges and get away with types of behavior that would land the rest of us in jail.

Of course, as has been recently shown, the Religion of Football is not above sacrificing children in the name of victory. To so many people, it seems, sports trumps all other concerns. The current case in point is this piece of news.

He’s been raped and abused and now he’s bullied out of school because, of all things, he being blamed for getting Joe Paterno fired. It seems that they believe that just because the man covered for a child molester as far back as 1998 that he doesn’t deserve to lose his job.

For years I’ve watched as people obsess endlessly over sports. While many people say they were shocked at the events of Penn State I can honestly say that I am not. Sports have become a god and this type of behavior is the end result.

This photo was taken at the aquarium in Camden, NJ. I don’t remember what kind of fish this was but it lives somewhere in the Amazon. It was just floating there staring and staring at me when I took this picture. No flash and a black and white filter give it the look of a monster peeking out of its lair.

I took this photo while sitting on the back porch of a cabin in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Georgia. Like most of my really good pictures, I wasn’t trying very hard when I took it but the composition turned out perfectly. I gave it a kind of dark sepia filter with center weighted highlights.

I took this a a rather dreary day at a “pumpkin patch” a ways up north. The place was rather deserted and, despite being in current operation, looked as though it had been abandoned for the last couple of years. I was standing by one of their “attractions”, a gutted school bus that had been turned into a sort of playground, when I noticed a really nice looking cloud formation coming in that lined up well with the old fence and the abandoned looking carnival rides in the background. I washed out some colors while sharpening others to give it a nice retro aged look.

The most interesting thing about all three of these pictures is that they were all taken with a cellphone. No fancy cameras here. While they are certainly limited in the types of pictures that can be taken, a carefully framed photograph can still come out looking great.