'...livin' crazy that's the only way...'

- 'Off the Wall' from, Off the Wall, which I think I have rediscovered as the greatest summer driving tune of all time!

Wacko Jacko is no more... RIP fella.

The man may or may not have had a dark side, but he undoubtably had a weird side.

You can't blame him I guess. Sorry, you can, you can empathise to a degree with the factors that contributed, such as the ultimate 'pushy parent', the total lack of privacy, the demand to be his friend from every crazy in the street to the crazies known as 'Heads ofState' etc, but the choices were his.

Even his end has a tinge of bizarre to it, from the disappearing Dr to the final 911 call... how calm is the caller when The King of Pop lies dying within feet of him!

I will happily admit that he had more talent in his little finger at the age of FIVE than I do today in my whole body!

As a tribute, I think that I will learn to moonwalk like him.

Seeing as I can only find 4 cd cases and 3 cd's of his, I may use this little video blog in the background to play some of his tunes.

In case I get too carried away with the wave of emotion I may visit this site to remind me of his facial history!

To see some bizarre mixed with nerd you may want to check this out...

Lastly, I found this absolute gem of a site which has mug shots of famous celebrities (including Jacko) when they get arrested, brilliant!

Thanks for the memories Wacko...

"Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone"

That's not my favourite Picasso quote, but is the most appropriate for this post.

You see, I'm torn at the moment. I have discovered these things called generators, some of which I have blogged about before. In a nutshell, you take a picture - sorry, not physically take, well yes you do, but this is afterwards when the picture that you have taken is sitting somehwere on your desktop. So you take the taken picture, put it through this 'generator' and voila, you have a piece of art... or at least a picture with an effect of some kind.

Going back to being torn, I've done the hard work, I've trawled through the net, night after night, day after day, now I want the recognition and glory. I want to use these generated pictures and wow people. I want them to say 'that's brilliant' and and ask me how it's done. I WANT MY 15 MINUTES OF FAME GODDAMIT!

Trouble is, I don't have the time to deal with any increase in fan mail, and to be honest, it's been several months and I am still to use any of these generators.

That changed a few days ago. A friend of mine had an issue. To be honestly he regularly has issues, but he has his own blog which he uses as a release valve and I'm pretty sure he appears normal to the rest of society.

Finally came my opportunity to use some of my secret generators! I set up a Facebook group specifically for the purpose and posted several photo's on there. As an aside he later said that this was one of the nicest things that anyone had done for him. That made me feel a bit guilty as I didn't do it totally for altruistic reasons!

So, do I continue to piggyback on the angst of my fellow bloggers and Facebook friends or do I stay true to the vague point of this blog and give you something to do for yourselves? You got it, here are some non picture necessary generators;

The Bus

The Chinese Takeaway

Bart's Chalkboard

My favourite Picasso quote by the way could be one of the following

"I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else. "

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life "

"Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not. "

But it's probably;

"When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll be the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso."

Good job he didn't use his full name... Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso!

"I know God won't give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much."

Now quite obviously, I am no Mother Teresa.  I'm still alive for starters, and wearing anything on my head causes it to ache.

I do have compassion and I do care about you, my dear reader though.  

With that in mind, I thought that as well as trying to expand your mental faculties in my little corner of cyberspace, I would also do my utmost to keep you in tip top physical and spiritual condition!  

WAIT!  Don't go, don't navigate away, it's ok, I'm one of you, Mother Teresa without the wrinkles remember.  You don't have to stray far from your own particular portal to the world to do it!  That's right, when you hear that ping to announce an incoming email, you'll never be more than seconds away from viewing it!  See, it's ok.

Lesson one is Yoga!  According to the blurb on the site that I'm about to direct you to, 'these exercises will strengthen your abdomen, deepen your breath and reduce the possibility of blood-clot formation!' There's videos of how to do it, so there's no excuse for getting it wrong...

Want to tone that butt?  Of course you do!  Here are some 'deskercise' tips and a video to help you do just that...

Finally for now, these folks at Diylife.com have collated a similar list to give you even more resources...

Maybe I'll put up a before and after picture of me so that you can see the miraculous transformation, anyone interested?

So there you go, how good am I (although not as much as Mother T!).  Although in my defence, even Mother Teresa is not Mother Teresa anymore.  She is in fact Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, ie, 3/4 of the way to being a saint!

I'll leave you with one more Mother T (or BToC as she should now be known) quote:

"Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin."