I’ve been trying, unsuccessfully, to disengage from the election circus. All of the hopefulness that accompanied the Obama victory of 2008 has been systematically dismantled and replaced by a pervasive agenda, scripted and presented by the dumbest among us. Au contraire, you may reply. There are some big-brained, well-funded political and corporate…
Life was obviously better before the InterNet. We all had much more time each day for other frivolous activity, (real surfing rather than the sedentary kind), Wikipedia and -leaks thankfully didn’t exist, Spam© was still mystery meat, I had a wonderful, flirtatious telephone relationship with my cool travel agent, (what’s-her-name),…
I was just finishing the last bite of a yummy cheese enchilada when the last of the Chilean miners reached the surface. The fact that the hole-in-the-wall Mexican restaurant’s TV was tuned to a Spanish language station didn’t make the drama any less emotionally compelling. (I would, however, have to…
I imagined that today’s alignment of tens would have prompted clever marketers around the globe to come up with all manner of celebratory events. However, Googling all related ‘ten’ combinations did not mine many hits. In Saratoga Springs, some shyster preacher is trying to fill SPAC for a 10-10-10 prayer…
I remember that the first time I read Marshall McLuhan’s famous discourse, one of those evolutionary bells went off in my head. It was the 60s and color TV was still relatively new, radio was still more than drive-time ranters and ten-song, force-fed playlists, newspapers and magazines were mostly written…