TROUBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE
Retired educator / military officer(Army Colonel) - Current Ops Div Chief (G333), HQDA / married / political progressive / ED.D. and Army War College Grad. 3277
Joined Nov 2017
YA GOTTA KEEP MIXING IT UP
Morning Routine Peeps,
Ken-Dogger: Hey Brutus
Brutus: Ah, Dogger, a little help…I’m not that big.
KD: Maybe not in size, but in heart, you’re big.
B: You ready to start the week?
Get your routines started?
KD: You makin’ fun of my routines?
B: Dude, you’re so predictable.
KD: Routines keep me regulated, what’s the issue?
B: Are your routines becoming routine?
KD: When they do, I mix ‘em up…routines should never become routine.
THERE ARE FORCES IN OUR WORLD BEYOND OUR CONTROL
Roscoe: Okay Juul, watch how Buster stealthily goes up and gets us a cookie
Juul: And this is how we train?
Roscoe: Yep, this is Doggie training son
Juul: Would you look at that, Mommy liftin' Buster clean out of that area...And no cookie
Roscoe: I did NOT see that coming...important lesson - there are forces in the world beyond your control
Juul: Got it
IT'S FALL...SPECTATE THE SPECTACULAR
Ken-Dogger: Morning Chelsea…
Chelsea: Hey Bro, look at me.
KD: You having fun rolling in the leaves?
C: It’s my fave Fall thing.
KD: Wondering what kind of change we’ll see this year in Utah?
C: Not sure, do you think it will be spectacular?
KD: Nature does spectacular all the time…We just don’t always see it.
C: Well then, I’m spectating the spectacular…
SOMETIMES, WE DON'T KNOW WHY WE'RE DESERVING
Spot: Since you went away I've been hanging around, I've been wondering why I'm feeling down
Dot: You went away, it should make me feel better, but I don't know, oh
Spot: How I'm gonna get through, baby, what have I, what have I, what have I done to deserve this
Dot: How I'm gonna get through, baby, what have I, what have I, what have I done to deserve this, how I'm gonna get through, baby
(Homage to Pet Shop Boys)
Morning Peeps,
BELIEVIN' THE SHITE THEY'RE FED
Ken-Dogger: Morning Roscoe, what are you doing?
Roscoe: Staring at a horse…
KD: A horse? That doesn’t look like a horse.
R: What do you think it is?
KD: Looks like a tulip to me…
R: Huh, I’m saying it’s a Horse.
KD: Okay, but I think you’re mistaken.
R: Hey, if peeps can believe whatever the Hell they want to, so can I…
KD: And there you have it.
GREAT GOOGA MOOGA
L'il Wayne: People all over the world are shouting end the war and the band played on.
Jazzy J: Round and round and around we go, where the world's headed nobody knows.
L'il Wayne: Great googa mooga, can't you hear me talkin' to you, just a ball of confusion that's what the world is today
Jazzy J: Let me hear you, let me hear you, let me hear you
Ball Of Confusion that's what the world is today
(Homage to Temptations)
Ken-Dogger: Morning Cleo, what up?
Cleo: Looking up dangerous words…
KD: Really, what did you find?
C: Happened upon this one, FREEDOM…
KD: Oh yes, heard about it…
C: Is it the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint, or is it the power of self-determination attributed to the will; the quality of being independent of fate or necessity?
KD: It’s both, but seems it depends on where you live.
C: That’s why it’s dangerous, it’s not absolute.
SOMETIMES, YOU FIND YOU'RE COURTING A CAPITALIST
Tate: You say you fear I'll change my mind, and I won't require you, never my love, never my love
Sade: You say that stuff now, but...
Tate: How can you think love will end, when I've asked you to spend your whole life, with me (with me, with me), never my love, never my love
Sade: Uh huh, I hear ya, spend the rest of my life huh, gotta ring?
Tate: I'm bleedin' my heart to a capitalist...sheesh
(Homage to The Association)
TRUTH...Most of us sense it
Ralph: I bought a ticket to the world, but now I've come back again, why do I find it hard to write the next line?
Ken-Dogger: Ah, could it be there is an assault on truth right now?
Ralph: I want the truth to be, I want the truth to be said
KD: (Ha-ha-ha, ha-ah-hi), I know this much is true
Ralph: (Ha-ha-ha, ha-ah-hi), I know this much is true
KD: Truth is something you feel Dude, something you feel...
(Homage to Spandau Ballet)
WE ARE STILL FREE...
Freedom: Redemption Song, is all I ever have, Redemption Song…
KD: Whoa fella, Marley in the Morning?
F: Just emancipating myself from mental slavery, freeing my mind…
KD: From What?
F: Categorization…Da Man calls us Anarchists.
KD: For Speaking our minds?
F: No, for thinking and acting like We have a VOICE, like we’re free…
KD: WE ARE FREE…
F: Remind Da Man, we aren’t standing aside and looking.
Bowser: Don't you feel it growing, day by day, people getting ready for the news, some are happy, some are sad, oh, we got to let the music play
Cuddles: What the people need is a way to make 'em smile, it ain't so hard to do if you know how, gotta get a message, get it on through, oh now mama, don't you ask me why
Chorus: Whoa listen to the music, whoa listen to the music, whoa listen to the music, all the time
(Homage to Doobie Brothers)
AT TIMES, THE QUESTIONS DO RUN TOO DEEP
Plato: There are times when all the world's asleep, the questions run too deep, for such a simple man
Ken-Dogger: Plato, dude, you're kinda heavy this AM my man...
Plato: Won't you please, please tell me what we've learned, I know it sounds absurd, please tell me who I am
Ken-Dogger: Dude, you're a pup becoming a dog
Plato: Whew, this thinkin' stuff is hard...
Lady Day: Hey Dogger, you okay?
Ken-Dogger: Yes LD, but a little sad, My Dad would have been 107 today.
LD: He led an exceptional life…WWII vet, first college graduate in his family, and went on to be a big deal in Education.
KD: Yes, a stellar life…He accomplished much.
LD: What do you like to remember about him?
KD: His humanity…He never forgot how his struggle to succeed is everyman’s struggle.
LD: I hope I’m remembered for my dogmanity.
KD: You will be Lady, you will be.
SOME THINGS YOU CAN'T TELL 'EM
Buster: Take a message to Mary, but don't tell her where I am, take a message to Mary, but don't say I'm in a jam
Peaches: Dude, what should I tell her?
Buster: You can tell her I had to see the world, or tell her that my ship set sail, you can say she better not wait for me, but don't tell her I'm in jail
Peaches: What was that again? What not to tell her?
Buster: Oh, don't tell her I'm in jail
(homage to Message to Mary by Everly Bros)
COMMITMENT...FOR THE WIN
Morning Heroes,
Ken-Dogger: Whoa, Shock Jock, you all ready?
Shock Jock: Yep, heading out.
KD: Big race today, World-Class peeps here.
SJ: Hence, the suit Bro, lookin’ my best.
KD: These athletes are amazing, strong commitment.
SJ: They’re in prison?
KD: No, they are committed to their training.
SJ: Gets them over their hurdles, doesn’t it?
KD: Commitment to perseverance to success, simple strategy, heroic effort.
SJ: But everyone can be a Hero…
LOVE...it rocks your world, if you let it in.
Whitie: I can hear her heart beat for a thousand miles, And the heavens open every time she smiles, And when I come to her that's where I belong, Yet I'm running to her like a river's song
Brownie: He loves me unconditionally
Whitie: She give me love, love, love, love, crazy love
She give me love, love, love, love, crazy love
Brownie: Love rocks my world, yours too if you let it...
Morning,
Ken-Dogger: Hey Chex, what’s going on?
Chex: Dude, fighting at Europa League match, belts and fists
KD: Well, shucks, peeps are getting out of hand.
C: Naw, this is just European ‘goon’ soccer…The Fans provide their own sport
KD: Fans get so amped anymore, what do you think it is?
C: Misplaced anger, it’s always misplaced anger
KD: So, anger just needs to get placed correctly?
C: Anger needs to seek its source and deal with that.
KD: And this is why misplacement continues…
GIVE & TAKE
Ken-Dogger: Hey Rex, morning, a question?
Rex: Well yes, are you my friend?
KD: What kind of question is that? Of course, I’m your friend. I help you, I give you food, and I keep you healthy, I’d say that qualifies.
R: Wow, didn’t realize it was all that.
KD: It’s not too much, it’s a friendship cost.
R: Oh, you mean sometimes you give a little and then you get a little…
KD: Yes, mutuality…a balance between, not a layering of things done.
R: Hmmm, I like friendships.
YOU DON'T LOSE YOUR DNA
Ken-Dogger: Hey Butkus, where you been?
Butkus: Did a little vacay with my peeps
KD: I see you're reacquainting with Bopsie...
Butkus: Dude, I did vacay, I didn't lose my DNA...
WE ALL START SOMEWHERE
Ken-Dogger: Hey Chuckie, what’s up?
Chuckie: I’m not coming out.
KD: What’s going on? You scared?
C: I am, there’s some crazy shite going on all around.
KD: And you think staying there will help you deal with this?
C: This is how I cope, it’s the best I can do.
KD: But you’re not overcoming your fears, you’re giving in to them.
C: We all start at certain points…
TROUBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE
Retired educator / military officer(Army Colonel) - Current Ops Div Chief (G333), HQDA / married / political progressive / ED.D. and Army War College Grad. 3277
Joined Nov 2017