Nonesuch #221 Let Phil Sing

From PhilLesh.net

What do I have in common with Rudy Giuliani, John Kerry, Bob Dole, Joe Torre, Nelson Mandela, Sean Connery, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Emperor Akihito of Japan, General Norman Schwarzkopf, Colin Powell, Quincy Jones, Roger Moore, Sydney Poitier, and Robert De Niro?
Like them, and along with thousands of other men, I have been diagnosed with prostate cancer.

Since my liver transplant, my health has been monitored by a crack team of doctors; in the course of this program, I have periodic blood tests and clinic visits. At my last clinic, my doctor noticed that my PSA (Prostate Specific Antigen) levels had increased over the last period. He recommended that I see a urologist, and a biopsy confirmed the diagnosis. I have decided to have it removed in early December with da Vinci robotic surgery. Since we’ve caught it very early, and it’s small and slow-growing, I fully expect to have a rapid and complete recovery.

I am feeling energetic as always, and all my scheduled appearances will occur as planned.

As you know, I urge everyone to become an organ donor to help save lives. Now, I am also urging all men: speak to your doctor about having periodic regular PSA screening for early detection of prostate cancer- you may save your own life.

-PHIL




Here is to a speedy recovery, Phil.

Nonesuch #220 what you talking about Jonathan?

Just a list of things in my head on a rainy day:

It is a good soup day or chilli would be good as well. *

The owner of my house put a new roof on it this week. Today it is raining. It is it's first test. They did a good job with the roof but left trash in my yard that I am not going to pick up. Coffee cups, cig boxes, roof tile wrappings. I guess that is better than having nails all over the yard I could step on or roll over with my car and get flat tire(s).

Will be getting new windows come December. I have much cleaning to do so they can get into the rooms to install the new windows. I hope they are those thermal replacement, swing inside to clean windows.

Do not want to do much on a rainy day. Plus I worked last night and I am always off-kilter the next day. At least it is Friday. **

I want a big sit down meal, like steak and potatoes type meal. I may treat myself to one this evening. Also in mood for chinese food as well. Good eggdrop soup would be good right now.

I had a late breakfast but still hungry early. I have leftover sub from subway upstairs for lunch. Sometimes they are better the next day.

I have many pecan trees in my yard. Last year, I had a lot of pecans and they were huge which means this year, I will not have as many. That is why I always freeze a few gallon bags for use later.

So need to go to grocery store. I am out of almost everything.

Do not see me doing anything for halloween this year. Used to dress up, hand out candy but no one has come to the house in years. I feel like I have typed this before. If it is a repeat, I apologize.

If you have not checked out Magazine Man(see list of blogs ---->)check him out. He consistently has awesome posts, usually with a cliffhanger, that are engaging and entertaining. And he and his wife are expecting their third child.

I did not respond to russian girl as joie and I have coined her from the other day. Something just not right about it. I have I guess 4 profiles up at various sites but I just do not care. I am getting nothing from them. Maybe if I get responses from some of the girls I email I would be more positive about the whole experience. Perhaps I am just not good at dating. It does take practice like anything else.

Read a girl's blog about bad boy vs nice guy and it made me think, well, at least for a few minutes. She was saying she would rather have the bad boy than the nice guy for reasons I cannot remember right now, other than that nice guys were weak, didnt have any energy(sexual? im not sure) and were always wanting to please the woman they were with. Did I miss something in dating school? Do not girls want to be treated nice, with respect etc? My comment to her was: "This is fine and all but do not complain in your next blog post that some bad boy hurt you." I just dont know. By the time I figure women out, I will be too old to do much with the knowledge. And yes, I know, maybe I shouldnt think too much and do more. Perhaps that is what the girl above was meaning. All I know is I am lonely.

I was going try to give Anne some advice about her dating situation but realized what can I give? I cannot even keep a relationship myself so whatever I would say would be meaningless. Bottom line to Anne: Do what makes you happy and keeps you smiling.

PBS has had some great shows on this week. They must be offering alternative programing to the World Series.

Random picture:



I may do some baking this weekend. I made brownies last weekend but I think they made me so sick on Monday but not sure. I threw them out. I have some apples something applish may be in the works. ***

And Happy Halloween/Happy Harvest/Happy Samhain/Happy Dia De Los Muertos/All Saint's Day and as I say x'oween to everyone.






*(did I spell chili right?)
**(do people use off-kilter anymore?)
***(is applish a word?)

Nonesuch #219 A stolen meme

Stole this from Real Kidd who stole it from someone who stole it from someone and so on and so on...I feel guilty that I stopped doing t-shirt tuesday so I felt I had to make up for that by doing this.

[1] What is your middle name? charles
[2] What color is your mailbox? green
[3] Are you available? huh?
[4] Have you ever hit a deer? no. but one has jumped over the front of our car when we went to visit Mammoth Cave in Kentucky.
[5] Do you have to drive over a bridge to get home? no
[6] Do you get the paper delivered to your house in the morning? no
[7] Who checks the mail in your house? me
[8] Do you have a small driveway? yes
[9] Do you know anyone with the same ringtone as you? dont use a ringtone, keep it on vibrate since I work in a library. Crazy thing is you can still hear it as it vibrates.
[10] What do you do first in the morning? turn on the tv
[11] What brand is your printer? canon
[12] Do you enjoy fighting with people? no
[13] Is your hair naturally straight or curly? straight
[14] Who was your kindergarten teacher? Mrs. Bowens.
[16] Are you taller than your mother? yes
[17] Do you have a favorite word? not sure
[18] Are you God? sure
[19] What do you do to get over a broken heart? drink
[20] Do you have a deep dark secret? yes
[22] Do you enjoy writing in colored pens? no
[23] Does anything hurt on your body right now? yes, too many to name
[24] Do you often cry during a movie? no
[25] Do you hate your life? no
[26] Do you get mad easily? no
[27] Where's 27? trick question?
[28] What is your biggest pet peeve? People not taking responsibility for their actions.
[29] What is your away message? im not here
[30] Do any of your friends have kids? yes
[32] Who should pay on the first date? me
[33] How many years older than you are you willing to date? no more than 5 years.
[34] Do you have any friends? a few
[35] Do you have any mean friends? no. the ones that were mean to me in the past are not my friends anymore
[36] What is the ugliest color in your opinion? dayglo anything
[37] Have you ever liked someone who all your friends couldn't stand? yes, dated her 4 years
[38] Have you ever felt like driving off a cliff? no
[40] Do you itch your ears? not lately
[42] What brand are the pant/jeans you're wearing right now? khakis
[43] How tall are you? 5'7"
[44] What is the closest green object? my shirt
[45] What is on your feet? rockports
[46] Do you like watermelon? no. yes I am from the south.
[48] Do you want to have kids? not sure
[49] What is the brightest color you're wearing? green
[50] Who is the friend you have that you would never have expected to have gotten to know? not sure
[52] What's your mothers middle name? Arlethia
[53] Stupidest movie you ever saw? so many, so many
[55] Do you like your dad? yes
[56] Do you have any TV shows on DVD? yes, battlestar galactica, veronica mars
[57] Are you wearing makeup? um no
[58] Do you have a tattoo? no
[61] Do you know how to draw? sort of
[63] Who is your hero? We can be heroes, just for one day
[64] Who did you last IM? Sally
[65] Do you work a lot of hours? sort of
[66] What do you do when you are stressed out? drink, play DDO
[67] Who was the last person to call you? a professor
[68] Is there anything you regret? I regret that I have no regrets
[69] Do you know where your family name originated from? yes, scotch-irish.
[70] Is there an animal that creeps you out? no
[71] What was the last thing you did for fun? played DDO
[72] Last time you cried? sometime this year.

Nonesuch #218

Got this email from one of the online dating sites I still go to. I had to post it here cause I am just not sure if this is for real. What do you guys think? I changed her name just to be on the safe side.

Hi dear stranger! First I would like to describe
myself, because you must to know who had written to
you. I am charming, mild, caring woman. I am a good
listener and achieve the aims I set forth. I hope
to find a man who I would give all my love and
care, and get his love, protection and support in
return. I am a very sociable, thoughtful, kind, and
optimistic person. I am joyful and charming, kind
and intelligent, caring and gentle. I like to go to
the movies and theaters, I like to rest in the
forest. O, yes of course my name is D. To me 28
years. I think that the Internet it only means for
the beginning dialogue, and I very much hope that
we with you shall find common language, and that we
with you can start long relations. I very much want
that ours with you relations do not become banal
correspondence of people far from each other, I
want the greater!!! I shall wait your answer to me.
And I want tell you that to me more conveniently if
you will write to me on my electronic address.
It:(removed) Writ me I will wait
you letter !
D

Not much going on these days. It is 2 months till Christmas Eve, better get shopping. I have two gifts already for my parents. 3 weeks till my birthday, 4 weeks till Thanksgiving. It is all downhill till the end of the year. 1 week till Halloween. I used to dress up give out candy on Halloween but after a few years of having no one come to the house just not sure I will do anything this year. May wear a costume to work but I am not feeling that this year either. I did get some candy corn earlier this month.

I got a ticket on my way to get my car inspected last week. My running lights were out and the sun had not come up yet. I dont think the police officer believed me that that was where I was going when he pulled me over. So, court date in November or I could pay off the ticket and be done with it.

Nonesuch # 217

Just a quick post today that may turn into a long one as that is they way I can be sometimes. I feel I have nothing to say and then it just flows out from somewhere.

I did not have an mri. 3 weeks ago I had really bad excema on my hands, arms and neck. So bad I couldnt sleep and had to get a few steroid shots and steroid cream to combat it. We (dr and I) that it was caused by a reaction to a chemical in the air but most likely an allergic reaction to neosporin. But my skin is better and they think that the pains I was having in my back and legs are connected to my skin problems and not ms, for now. It will be looked at in the future but not right now.

Been playing alot of DDO, having a pretty good time but I seem to get my characters up to 6th, get bored with them and then start a new one. It is something I have done with pen and paper D&D. But I have a rogue that I want to continue in the levels as the game will soon be expanding to 12 levels.

I have a messy house, just not caring at the moment but I plan to clean more this weekend.

Thinking of joining/doing things with SCA. Went to a fighter's practice last week and it looked cool even though I do not see myself getting into armor and being hit with ratan weapons but I did like the rapier combat and throwing weapons and archery competitions and brewing and cooking. To be honest, it really will be determined by the people I meet. Just too old to deal with bullshit.

Well, it ended up shorter than I thought. I guess it didnt flow as it has in the past.

Nonesuch # 216

"The rain on my car is a baptism, the new me, Ice Man, Power Jonathan, my assault on the world begins now."

Nonesuch #215 Dear Great Pumpkin, I got a rock

My second favorite Charlie Brown special.

Nonesuch #214 Got skills I'm a Champion of D and D

Very cool interview with "Weird Al" Yankovic at the onion. I knew he was cool but after reading what is playing on his iPod he has reached an even higher point on the coolness scale.

weird al


artists include:
ben folds and the beatles

And if you have not seen the "white & nerdy" video or even heard the song:
"white & nerdy"

Nonesuch #213 WOXY returns ... today

From popcandy

WOXY returns ... today

The late, great Internet-only radio station known as WOXY.com returns to the airwaves today at 10:10 a.m. ET, so grab your headphones. All seemed lost last month when the operation ran out of money, but swift help arrived from folks at

I posted last month the top 100 songs from their Modern Rock 500 as a tribute to this great station and now it is back. Big fuckin thanks to lala.com's entrepreneur Bill Nguyen who wanted keep the woxy mojo going.

Also popcandy does a podcast and this week it is all Battlestar Galactica, the amazing show on Sc-Fi network. Saw the 3rd season premiere last Friday and it was just fantastic. I don't have cable so how I will be keeping up I have no clue. The DVD release cannot come too soon. Hmm, iTunes sells the episodes a few days after it is shown on sc-fi, that may be the way I get my fix.

Nonesuch #212

Drove downtown in the rain nine-thirty on a tuesday night,
Just to check out the late-night record shop.
Call it impulsive, call it compulsive, call it insane,
But when Im surrounded I just cant stop.

Its a matter of instinct, its a matter of conditioning,
Its a matter of fact.
You can call me Pavlov's dog.
Ring a bell and Ill salivate. howd you like that?
Dr. Lendy tell me youre not just a pedagogue,
Cause right now im


Lying in bed just like brian wilson did
Well Im lying in bed just like brian wilson did.

So Im lying here, just starting at the ceiling tiles.
And Im thinking about what to think about.
Just listening and relistening to smiley smile,
And Im wondering if this is some kind of create drought
Because I am

Lying in bed just like brian wilson did
Well Im lying in bed just like brian wilson did.

And if you want to find me Ill be out in the sandbox,
Wondering where the hell all the love has gone.
Playing my guitar and building castles in the sun,
And singing fun, fun, fun.



I had a dream that I was three hundred pounds
And though I was very heavy,
I floated til I couldnt see the ground
I floated til I couldnt see the ground
Somebody help me, I couldnt see the ground
Somebody help me, I couldnt see the ground
Somebody help me because im

Lying in bed just like brian wilson did
Well Im lying in bed just like brian wilson did.

Drove downtown in the rain nine-thirty on a tuesday night.
Just to check out the late-night record shop.
Call it impulsive, call it compulsive, call it insane;
But when Im surrounded I just cant stop.

Nonesuch #211

If I had a million dollars
(If I had a million dollars)
I'd buy you a house
(I would buy you a house)
If I had a million dollars
(If I had a million dollars)
I'd buy you furniture for your house
(Maybe a nice chesterfield or an ottoman)
And if I had a million dollars
(If I had a million dollars)
Well, I'd buy you a K-Car
(A nice Reliant automobile)
If I had a million dollars I'd buy your love

If I had a million dollars
I'd build a tree fort in our yard
If I had million dollars
You could help, it wouldn't be that hard
If I had million dollars
Maybe we could put like a little tiny fridge in there somewhere
You know, we could just go up there and hang out
Like open the fridge and stuff
There would already be laid out foods for us
Like little pre-wrapped sausages and things

They have pre-wrapped sausages but they don't have pre-wrapped bacon
Well, can you blame 'em
Uh, yeah

If I had a million dollars
(If I had a million dollars)
Well, I'd buy you a fur coat
(But not a real fur coat that's cruel)
And if I had a million dollars
(If I had a million dollars)
Well, I'd buy you an exotic pet
(Yep, like a llama or an emu)
And if I had a million dollars
(If I had a a million dollars)
Well, I'd buy you John Merrick's remains
(Ooh, all them crazy elephant bones)
And If I had a million dollars I'd buy your love

If I had a million dollars
We wouldn't have to walk to the store
If I had a million dollars
Now, we'd take a limousine 'cause it costs more
If I had a million dollars
We wouldn't have to eat Kraft Dinner
But we would eat Kraft Dinner
Of course we would, we’d just eat more
And buy really expensive ketchups with it
That’s right, all the fanciest ke... dijon ketchups!
Mmmmmm, Mmmm-Hmmm

If I had a million dollars
(If I had a million dollars)
Well, I'd buy you a green dress
(But not a real green dress, that's cruel)
And if I had a million dollars
(If I had a million dollars)
Well, I'd buy you some art
(A Picasso or a Garfunkel)
If I had a million dollars
(If I had a million dollars)
Well, I'd buy you a monkey
(Haven't you always wanted a monkey)

If I had a million dollars
I’d buy your love

If I had a million dollars, If I had a million dollars
If I had a million dollars, If I had a million dollars
If I had a million dollars
I'd be rich

Nonesuch #210

I stole this from Léonie so I am not original and as she said it is sort of boring so I dont blame you if you do not read this. I am not even sure if I will finish it, there is a lot to cover.

A is for age: 35

B is for Beer: guinness stout, meal in a can

C is for Career: Archivist/Librarian

D is for Your Dog’s Name: My dog's name when I was growing up was Jane.

E is for Essential Item You Use Everyday: Vaseline Intensive care lotion(will explain later)

F is for Favorite T.V. Show: Dont really have one now. Been watching a lot of NOVA on PBS.

G is for Favorite Game: Dungeons and Dragons(playing this weekend)

H is for Hometown: Burlington, NC

I is for Instruments You Play: Used to play low brass instruments, tuba etc. Been 17+ years since I have.

J is for Favorite Juice: Orange is good. So is grape juice. Does cider count?

K is for Who You’d Like To Kick: Too many people to name.

L is for the Last Place You Ate: upstairs

M is for Marriage: Dont see it happening

N is for Your Name: Jonathan

O is for Overnight Hospital Stays: a few times

P is for People You Were With Today: students and librarians

Q is for Quote: "A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day."
Albert Schweitzer


R is for Biggest Regret: I regret that I have no regrets

S is for Sport: only an armchair athlete nowadays

T is for Time You Woke Up Today: 3:50am

U is for Current Underwear: boxers

V is for Vegetable You Love: potato

W is for Worst Habit: not sure

X is for X-rays You Have Had: too many 6+?

Y is for Yummy Food You Ate Today: reeses' peanut butter cups

Z is for Zodiac: Scorpio. And from personal experience, it is no fun being a scorpio.