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Ned Sonntag

Where the Occult meets the Concrete
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Posin' at PAAM Last Weekend!

A photo-op arose as the Grateful Dead Guy and I attended the Alice Brock exhibit at Victor's, a Group Show at PAAM, the Joey Mars opening at Whaler's Wharf, and the Scream Along With Billy cabaret at Enzo's!  Any excuse to dress up and wear one of my more sinister fedoras...  http://www.wickedlocal.com/provincetown/fun/entertainment/arts/x880801146/Photo-Gallery-Art-openings-on-Oct-29  Photo by Richard Hopkins!Ned & GDG at PAAM

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11/08/09 @ 6:32 pm
bipr [Member] writes:
Oh, you handsome devil, you!
11/09/09 @ 8:45 am
Solon [Member] writes:
I think I know the guy in the middle!
11/09/09 @ 8:56 pm
Monponsett [Member] writes:
"Here it is...PAMM.. and you say 'God Damn.... this is the dope jam.'"
11/11/09 @ 2:43 pm
margebunny21 [Member] writes:
Hmmm...let's take a look at this photo...

I see:

Benjamin Franklin, Hunter S. Thompson, and Willie Nelson.



Sorry......that was cold.
11/11/09 @ 3:42 pm
maverick [Member] writes:
Ned...you overdressed for the occasion.

Your partner has sneakers on. Are you getting taller or is your hair getting shorter?

Are the bow legs from riding horses or something else?
11/11/09 @ 3:52 pm
margebunny21 [Member] writes:
Ned DOES NOT have "bow legs".

And the gesture he displays is purely instructive.

Do take note of this, Maverick...
11/11/09 @ 3:55 pm
Buzz [Member] writes:
You've gotta like the look...it's like Wyatt Earp meets Annie!
11/11/09 @ 4:19 pm
maverick [Member] writes:
Let's hope he has the guts to pull the trigger.

Then he might resemble the guy in the middle and this blog can return to normal.

As in the good folks can misspell, voice opinions that differ from the freaks, share honest thoughts without the WTF from the Nerdster and above all respect all thoughts and opinions from wherever.
11/11/09 @ 4:34 pm
bittersweet [Member] writes:
Wow.
I was making a joke yesterday, but man---you really are despicable maverick.
What a horrible thing to say.
AS IF you respect other people's opinions? Here's a clue: you don't.

You know, I've lived in Maclean Virginia and Eastham , Mass., but NEVER seen such freaking slime as you. bunny.karent.
11/11/09 @ 4:40 pm
maverick [Member] writes:
"You know, I've lived in Maclean Virginia and Eastham , Mass., but NEVER seen such freaking slime as you. bunny.karent."

bitter...what does that thought have to do with me?
11/11/09 @ 5:21 pm
maverick [Member] writes:
bitter...please put your drink on the table, turn down the TV, put CCToday on hold and tell me how I am in any way related to your last irresponsible comment.

Fair is fair, slander is unforgivable.
11/11/09 @ 5:38 pm
bittersweet [Member] writes:
"Slime" is slander, but hoping someone kills themselves is "all in good fun"??

Nobody says anything worse to you then you do to them.
Only you make it personal. You go for the jugular. And what- you want niceness in return?

And I was telling you i have lived all over, but not "met" people as nasty as you. karent. bunny. What's so hard to understand?
And don't EVEN get into a compare and contrast insult match with me---cause your side would LOSE. You all are the winners for nasty...hands down.

ps: I put the drink down ten years ago this past sept. 24....you would have really hated me when drunk.
11/11/09 @ 5:56 pm
maverick [Member] writes:
bitter..."ps: I put the drink down ten years ago this past sept. 24....you would have really hated me when drunk."

sweet...when you were drunk I would have fallen in love. Have a great night, sweet dreams and relax.

We only have to do this for one lifetime.

Enjoy,
Jack
11/11/09 @ 11:00 pm
Ned [Member] writes:
I will never understand the ferocious hostility of Irish-American humor... thank Christ I'm only half as Irish as my dad; he's ALWAYS threatening to shoot people. My mom, who's Scots-Irish blew her brains out summer before last as some of you may recall. And 2 years in, Reilly still can't grasp the difference between a Blog and a Blogsite... or get it together to put up his own Blog. Basically a parasite.
11/11/09 @ 11:10 pm
Ned [Member] writes:
Reilly as a Conservative Christian THINKS he's off the hook after one lifetime. As a Hoodoo-Buddhist I see all sorts of gnarly hells and culturally-educational reincarnations in the offing, or shall I say the snuffing. Somebody's coming back as a tuna.
11/12/09 @ 12:44 am
Ned [Member] writes:
"Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em,
And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum.
And the great fleas themselves, in turn, have greater fleas to go on,
While these again have greater still, and greater still, and so on."
-Augustus de Morgan
11/12/09 @ 7:11 am
Peter Walker [Member] writes:
Hey Jack, could you give us the proper spelling of your last name one more time?

I only remember seeing it a half dozen times or so and certain bloggers have an obsession (as in 2 n's not 1) about making sure their "name is spelled correctly." WTF?

And thank you for your service to our country?
11/12/09 @ 10:29 am
Ned [Member] writes:
It's Service if some useful result is achieved. Otherwise once you strip away the religious hoohaw it's Labor. Probably Reparations are due... at least some treatment for those Mood Swings...
11/12/09 @ 10:50 am
r-five [Member] writes:
I find the concept of making Reparation for what I've done pretty amusing...

Thanks...

R5
11/12/09 @ 10:51 am
margebunny21 [Member] writes:
RE: "WTF from the Nerdster":

Ned posted:
"Reilly as a Conservative Christian THINKS he's off the hook after one lifetime. As a Hoodoo-Buddhist I see all sorts of gnarly hells and culturally-educational reincarnations in the offing, or shall I say the snuffing. Somebody's coming back as a tuna."

This is sheer poetry.
If only Rod Serling were here to read this.

The whole thing is right-on-target because
Ned's just blown the Cap't out of the water
with a missle that won't even impact until
it's far too late, and the Capt's on
"the other end" of the charterboat business.

The Capt's strategy is self-paralyzing/defeating
as well because his mind will register this
tragically-accurate forecast as
"WTF from Nerdster + the freaks".

God, if only Rod Serling were here.

This is too good...
11/12/09 @ 11:08 am
Ned [Member] writes:
Actually I was thinking of Reparations FOR damaged NamVets who were after all legally required to jump into the Meatgrinder.
11/12/09 @ 11:19 am
r-five [Member] writes:
I'm grateful for the clarification.

Thanks.

R5
11/12/09 @ 12:22 pm
maverick [Member] writes:
marge..."it's far too late, and the Capt's on "the other end" of the charterboat business."

Is there any chance I can come back as a Great White Shark and swim at South Beach starring in a movie "Jaws Revisited"?
11/12/09 @ 12:46 pm
Ned [Member] writes:
The answer to the Cap'n's question would have to be answered a lot higher up on the Cosmic Chain Of Command than CC2day...
11/12/09 @ 1:12 pm
maverick [Member] writes:
WB has assured me that he is at the top of the Cosmic Chain Of Command and is reviewing my request. I sent him this video to support my desire to be shark vs tuna.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7fZyrcwrRs
11/12/09 @ 1:28 pm
Ned [Member] writes:
So Walter is telling you that he is Master Of The Universe. The fact that you believe that... well, better Brooks than Beck I suppose.
11/12/09 @ 1:41 pm
maverick [Member] writes:
"Master Of The Universe"! Has a nice ring to it. Thanks.

My nominations for the top five Masters are as follows:

#1...WB (sentimental vote)
#2...Walker
#3...possee
#4...buzz
#5...r-5

PS...cru and bitter. Still love you but I have to be honest when it comes to deciding the future of mankind. And I almost included Dali but didn't want to offend my constituency in Chatham.
11/12/09 @ 1:55 pm
Ned [Member] writes:
I'm referring to a book/film BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES by once-hip Manhattan-Institute-mouthpiece Tom Wolfe...
11/12/09 @ 5:06 pm
bittersweet [Member] writes:
if your kind keeps making the decision maverick, there won't be any future for mankind...we'll all be blown away or polluted to death.
11/12/09 @ 6:17 pm
margebunny21 [Member] writes:
Maverick wrote:

Is there any chance I can come back as a Great White Shark and swim at South Beach starring in a movie "Jaws Revisited"?


Don't worry about this at all, Mav- Dr. Margie has already appraised your case and it has been forwarded to our Cosmic Control Center for further evaluation.

Some friends I went to college with work at the main desk, so your case is getting "rush" priority...

It seems that the Karmic reaction for aiding/abetting the slaughter of thousands of fish
(all those search-and-destroy missions you went for on the boat)
carries a bit of a high price tag, meaning that you'll have to reincarnate
for each fish you killed and have the same thing done to you.

Not exactly a "stroll down Picadilly Lane", as one might say.

We have however, found a wonderful
"loophole" by which you can minimize
and almost nullify the karmic reaction:

You have to become a Hare Krishna...
11/12/09 @ 10:23 pm
balognasamich [Member] writes:
'Master of the Universe' has that Seinfeldian ring of derivaty.
Domain control aside, Ned, I'd love to hear your thoughts on the Tom Wolfe-Manhattan Institute connection.
11/13/09 @ 9:22 am
Ned [Member] writes:
Very briefly~ Wolfe had been involved with AMERICAN SPECTATOR Magazine which had been concerned since '77 with creating 'Neo-Con Humor'... a frame of reference for nudge-nudge wink-wink among hip konservative kontemporary kommenters... Wolfe was the white-suited jaundiced eye on psychedelia, surfers and maumauing since ELECTRIC KOOL-AID ACID TEST and RADICAL CHIC... but I digress... been meaning to do a Blogpost for years about Wolfe's late career as an artiste making the lives of other artistes more difficult...
11/13/09 @ 9:30 am
Ned [Member] writes:
In '93 I was watching C-SPAN... under the aegis of Vartan Gregorian Wolfe had spoken at Brown University... the first draft of VANITIES follow-up A MAN IN FULL was set in Manhattan not Atlanta, and Wolfe had become alarmed that there were "40,000 Leftie artists Running Around south of 14th Street on Rent Control and Food Stamps, Getting Grants to produce art Promoting Socialism!" He borrowed Andrew Jackson's phrase, that this was a "Nest Of Vipers That Must Be Rooted Out".
11/13/09 @ 9:35 am
Ned [Member] writes:
In '89 the NEW YORK PRESS debuted... a free-of-charge right-wing mirror-image of the VILLAGE VOICE~ edited by a gin-blossomed fellow(brother of a major downtown landlord) calling himself The Mugger~ fullscale Pushback against the greying Beatnik art-scene had begun in earnest...
11/13/09 @ 9:38 am
Ned [Member] writes:
Check out the Manhattan Institute's website and Facebook page... the spider at the center of that web is Henry Kissinger... it's all about salvaging the reputation of the old War Criminal...
11/13/09 @ 10:45 am
balognasamich [Member] writes:
Thanks, Ned.
Lot's to digest here. I always liked the writing and 'Bonfire' was prescient.
Have you read 'Charlotte Simmons'?
Peace.
11/13/09 @ 10:49 am
Ned [Member] writes:
Is that his one about the college girls? That sounded prurient if not pedophilic. He crashed and burned after BONFIRE. Had a stress-related heart attack while writing FULL, knowing he was running on empty.
11/13/09 @ 1:45 pm
Ned [Member] writes:
"maverick [Member] writes:
bitter..."ps: I put the drink down ten years ago this past sept. 24....you would have really hated me when drunk."

sweet...when you were drunk I would have fallen in love. Have a great night, sweet dreams and relax.

We only have to do this for one lifetime.

Enjoy,
Jack" So much for my theory that the Cap'n's grammar and spelling improved shortly after my arrival because The Bride was called in for spellchecking him. Simply put, improved Mental Hygiene...
11/13/09 @ 1:50 pm
maverick [Member] writes:
Ned...just trying to throw a ray of sunshine to bitter. She always sounds unhappy. We all have our moments. I would just enjoy hearing bitter smile once in awhile.
11/13/09 @ 2:23 pm
Ned [Member] writes:
Hearing a person smile... the Cap'n's tunahunting abilities may be in part due to Synaesthesia... M-K-ULTRA experiments... I too was subjected to them at Nazi Rocket Science Prep as dramatized in the first season of Fox's FRINGE...
11/13/09 @ 2:41 pm
maverick [Member] writes:
I knew you would comment on..."Hearing a person smile...".

Just takes a little visualization, intuition and understanding of an expression. Whether written or spoken.

Kind of like watching Fox and knowing if someone is happy, sad or truthful.

Forget FRINGE, stick with Beck.
11/13/09 @ 3:18 pm
bittersweet [Member] writes:
This makes me smile: (google)
Mr Methane - Britains Got Talent 2009 Ep 5
11/13/09 @ 3:47 pm
maverick [Member] writes:
"On the Senate floor in 1977, Senator Ted Kennedy said: The Deputy Director of the CIA revealed that over thirty universities and institutions were involved in an "extensive testing and experimentation" program which included covert drug tests on unwitting citizens "at all social levels, high and low, native Americans and foreign." Several of these tests involved the administration of LSD to "unwitting subjects in social situations." At least one death, that of Dr. Olson, resulted from these activities. The Agency itself acknowledged that these tests made little scientific sense. The agents doing the monitoring were not qualified scientific observers.[7]"

Might this explain the mood swings?
11/13/09 @ 4:01 pm
Ned [Member] writes:
I'd need a little more info on the cycles of your mood swings to venture a guess although I have noticed a certain rhythmic pattern from your Comments. Are you seeing a Health Care Professional? My mom blew her brains out in June '08 and I seriously feel that you are likewise at risk.
11/13/09 @ 4:21 pm
maverick [Member] writes:
Ned...I was referring to yours. Mine are directly related to when I can be on the water and not. Such as now when we are in the middle of a gale.

Your hero Ted K mentioned LSD. Ring a bell?

Not to create any consternation on your part but my Mom is 95 and will drive herself to my house on Thanksgiving Day for dinner. We do just fine when surrounded by normal folks. We are not at risk.

11/13/09 @ 4:38 pm
Ned [Member] writes:
normal is as normal does... gonna be long winter.
11/13/09 @ 4:49 pm
maverick [Member] writes:
Ned...truly sorry about your Mom.

Jack
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ned_196Ned Sonntag is an artist who lives and works on Cape Cod. His genre is nearly impossible to describe because it's "Sonntag-specific." It's a little like India or anchovies: you either love it or hate it. We love it. He has called himself a "Subculture-Pop Culture Crossover Cartoonist."
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