The boys of summer are back....

And when they're not testifying before Congress, they actually have been playing some ball.


Photo by Tony Klimas, Copyright 2005


Of course Congress has been pretty busy lately. When not holding perfectly timed hearings on steroid use during the start of the pro baseball season, they've been busy trying to circumvent seven years of court rulings in the case of Terry Schiavo. There is another election coming in 2006, so this is not at all surprising. I am extremely disappointed that they have chosen this agenda, especially when there are more important issues like fixing the social security system which will cease to function as a tax and wealth transfer mechanism about the time I'm about ready to have some wealth transferred back my way in retirement. Hey - at least it will stay around long enough for me to keep paying into the system, keeping my boomer friends and the greatest generation in good shape. What's this have to do with baseball? Well, sports are a religion in this country, and therefore the opiate of the masses.

Cars are People Too......

I had an interesting weekend. Lots of portrait sittings - several involving people, and one involving cars....


Photo by Tony Klimas, Copyright 2005

The cars were pretty easy. Once their owners backed them into the right spot, they were just there. No tilting the head here, twisting the body over there, just a hunk of metal sitting there, waiting for me to get my shot. Yet the owners of these cars (myself included) don't think of them this way. These cars are alive, with lubricants and gasoline pulsing through their veins. 348 cubic inches of heart, and a digital brain that would make the most overacheiving parents proud. We pamper them and talk to them and sometimes push them a little bit over the edge. They protect us, and reward us, and plaster a s**t eating grin on our faces when we mash the accelerator to the floor. To paraphrase Toby Keith....."I like my truck, I like my girfriend, I like a movie now and then...but I love my car"