Post #2421. Kids. They let the ten-year-old watch cable. Mom's upset that the kid wants the Dexter action figure. Dad's unhappy that he wants a dolly. Me, I know the great-grandson and I'm not worried about him. What worries me is that there
is such a thing as a Serial Killer Action Figure (dolly,) and youngsters whine and scream until their parents buy it for them.
I liked this, (may have to enlarge to read it)
another bit of evidence that we don't have to worry about the machines just yet. That machine "read" the text and "realized" it said something about UPS, so naturally it loaded a UPS advertisement. Caution: although we don't have to fear them yet, don't forget that they are our enemies, they intend to take over and get rid of us and they make little inroads every day, e.g., Kodachrome film, Twitter, etc.
Several recently discovered lovely names for our file,
Bokeem Woodbine
Courtney Clonch
Keith Hogsed
A. Rauf Butt
and some special people having birthdays this month:
Gloria Stewart - 99
Mitch Miller - 98
Eva Marie Saint - 85
How about that, huh? Bless their hearts.
It was reported recently that President Obama has an affinity for Urdu poetry. That was a surprise to me since Urdu poetry can be so grim, especially when read in Urdu.
Rick Macherat
posted by Rick at 10:13 PM
Post #2420. Sloopy. The other night I happened to see a slice of concert by The McCoys, performing their megahit, "Hang On Sloopy." Every so often the camera would pan over the audience as they sang along, and most of those faces were not even close to old enough to remember the actual Sloopy Event in the last century. I have many happy sloppy memories of Sloopy - street dances and other crazy nights. Wonder why they don't make fun silly songs anymore. The music seems so serious, at least I think it's serious
If it was only the outer voice of sky
And cloud, of the sunken coral water-walled,
However clear, it would have been deep air,
The heaving speech of air, a summer sound
Repeated in a summer without end
And sound alone. But it was more than that.
though only a twenty-something would be able to tell for sure. Back to the McCoys - they were so desperately
old, standing up there trying to rock on. Reminded me of how hard the 60's and 70's were on all of us, but how is it they can still draw crowds? It would be like my going to a concert with music from the Roaring Twenties. We were so self-absorbed that nothing earlier than 1958 or so had any earthly relevance at all.
Speaking of words that escape me, get a load of this book review in Time magazine
The title nods to her love of duality, but how could this measure up to the quiet audacity of that novelistic one-two punch? By working in opposition, it turns out. If her paired novels demonstrate that - e.g., a retelling - can be more, Both Ways shows how less really is too.
Whuuuuuuut!? Is this what the summer girl laying out there on the park grass is reading? Oh sure, mosey over and strike up a conversation why dontcha.
You are aware that you're a complete Cave Man? Yes, yes I am.
Rick Macherat
posted by Rick at 10:13 PM
Post #2419. Nice to be back. My excuse is that if one could not type something good about Michael Jackson, then one shouldn't type at all until a decent period of time has passed. I know this is just plain awful, but with the video of the burning hair and all and it going all smoky when he spins around, well, in a way it's kind of funny like that judge getting shot in the face by Vice President Cheney. I mean "kind of," like teenage chortling, that sort of thing. Not funny to me, or us, of course.
Tonight's cartoon shows some teenagers of the future, our children's children actually, racing across a lake in a powerboat, throwing beer cans and plastic bags over the side. Laughing their asses off at us. The first one shouts over the noise of the oil-and-smoke belching engine,
What a bunch of dorks, huh, our parent's parents? Another replies,
Sure were. They shouldda known the sun was going to become a red giant and toast us right along with all the crap we threw away. Whoopee! Pass me some more bags. Rick Macherat
posted by Rick at 11:18 PM
