The Warped Woodturner (TWW) is a local artist traveling his artist's journey in a suburb of Springbrook, WI (pop. 536). TWW's creative calling is to use a wood lathe to make useless objects from locally-sequestered organic carbon for tourists to bring back to the city to give to people they had to buy something for but do not like that much. His target market is the senior citizens since their vision is not as good as it used to be so cannot see the defects as well. His marketing jingle is: “Bowls as simple as their creator”.

Thursday, October 15, 2009

Our LEADER to the rescue

"Social Security to announce no COLA as Obama calls for 2nd round of $250 payments for seniors

By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER , Associated Press

Last update: October 15, 2009 - 6:20 AM

WASHINGTON - The Social Security Administration makes it official Thursday: There will be no cost of living increase for Social Security recipients next year, ...as President Barack Obama ... call for a second round of $250 payments to more than 50 million seniors..."

read the rest of the good news in the Mpls paper: : http://www.startribune.com/business/64349832.html?elr=KArks:DCiU1OiP:DiiUiacyKUUr

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Maceration for the masses

You have all heard the slogan about excrement does not run up hill. By now you also must know our LEADER can make excrement run up hill since it is one of the miracles being used to get him his sainthood. But did you know you too can make excrement run up hill? You can buy a macerating system from the Northern Tool catalog and make it run up hill in your house too just like it does in the White House.

Source of hot link: http://www.saniflo.com/images/homepage/brochure.gif

Kids singing about our LEADER

Want to hear the song where school kids sing in praise of our LEADER?. See this link: http://www.breitbart.tv/youtube-post-shows-unidentified-kids-at-mystery-school-singing-anthem-to-obama/ Well, sorry but you cannot hear it. Our leader has decided it is not good for you to hear it. Talk radio is also not good for you so changes there are in the works.

Sunday, October 11, 2009

TWW takes Mrs TWW on life enrichement drive

Notice the ATV prohibition

This used to be a flat parking lot.

Notice the ATV damage. They cut a hole in the parking area by driving round and round.

Notice how the ATVs threw sand up on the posts

They need more of this out in the Barrens

Visitor center

Tracks from some sort of monster

Today TWW took Mrs. TWW on a drive to see the colors of fall. He also thought he'd stop by the Namekagon Barrens Wildlife Area to get some pictures for a new web site he is tinkering with. He promised Mrs. TWW there would be lots of leaves. That was sort of true until they got near the barrens. They don't call the land a barrens for nothing. There is nothing there.

After getting lost on the bumpy sandy roads he then had to deal with a disappointed wife who thought she was in store for a life enrichment experience. Once he got his bearings the whole way back home all he heard was "you drag me into the middle of no where and don't feed me" (quoting MLA who made the words famous 45 years ago on a trip to New York). Well, on the next trip she cannot say it is the worst trip of the marriage or can she?

Sainthood for our LEADER

Someone in the Huffington Post beat TWW to a great idea. Our LEADER has accomplished so much good and has at least one certified miricle (he got elected without being qualified) that sainthood is now in his future. Here is how the Huffington Post said it:

"Barack Obama on the Path to Sainthood by Kelly Nuxoll

On the cusp of the Texas and Ohio elections, Barack Obama is dangerously close to becoming a bona fide charismatic leader. .... I mean a charismatic leader in the tradition of saints and martyrs, who owe their larger-than-life personas as much to the imagination of their followers as to their own capabilities............Consider the phenomenon of Amadou Bamba, who lived a hundred years ago in Senegal, West Africa. ........ Bamba's message took hold not just among his disciples, but across the country. Bamba's reputation swelled. He was a holy man, an agent of salvation sent only once every hundred years. (One can almost hear the echo: "The one the Democrats have been waiting for.").......a moderately ambitious man meets a public's moderate appetite for leadership, and the two suddenly become larger than either would have expected. They feed on each other, spinning a narrative of a great man at a fateful moment. At some point the balance tips, and the crowd begins creating the character, endowing him with such esteem he starts to walk on water. Voila the charismatic leader.....what the public wants in these times is not a chief but a vessel. If Obama can channel the public's enthusiasm into even half the civic engagement and self-governance Amadou Bamba's brotherhood displays, he will indeed have what the Senegalese call "charisma"--a word that just happens to be baraka.

Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kelly-nuxoll/barack-obama-on-the-path-_b_89657.html"

Saturday, October 10, 2009

Another new cottage industry in the land of our LEADER

See their website: http://www.impeachobamacampaign.com/wp-content/themes/corporate_10/images/logo.png

Winter - fact or fiction?

Friday, October 09, 2009

Have you heard the latest 'dumb Norwegian' joke?

Wikipedia says: "The Nobel Peace Prize (Swedish, Danish and Norwegian: Nobels fredspris) is one of five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel. According to Nobel'swill, the Peace Prize should be awarded "to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses."

^{And the winner is our LEADER for saving the world in only nine months and we haven't even lost in Afghanistan yet !! (note: Henry Kissenger got the prize right before we lost in Vietnam)}

Have you heard any other Norwegian jokes lately? Post them as comments.

Wednesday, October 07, 2009

Backup bowl

A backup bowl? Well you have to call it something. This bowl (only one of them for both the gallery and the doublewide markets) came from a tree knocked down by the guy who delivered the ten cords (now cut up and split thank heavens) last winter. TWW cut the downed tree up and made the crude bowl above from that red pine. It has one coat of walnut oil on it. Perhaps poly would be better but then some people would not want to use it for their cereal in the morning.

Recipes needed

TWW harvested the autumn bounty of green squash now has to figure out what to do with them (bait for deer?). Anybody have any good recipes?

Tuesday, October 06, 2009

The Buddha said

Suffering comes from attachment (suffering means exaggerated not wanting to be separated from someone or something). If you do not think this is a great religious truth, then talk to a Green Bay Packers fan today. (Favre and the Vikings won last night)

Monday, October 05, 2009

First annual blend-off

TWW and GAGA were the only contestants in the first annual GM Blend-off where contestants both use blenders in a race to make the fastest Ice Cream Brandy Alexander. GAGA was the self-proclaimed winner this year.