OK, I’m going out to get something to eat, and, when I get back, I expect there to be really great comments waiting for me…
Seriously, let’s pretend for a while that this is your blog… What would you be writing about?
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How about thrash covers by pre-pubescent kids?
http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=7657
Sorry, I don’t have anything to write about as I’ve been watching the new Tarantino Grindhouse trailer.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=bUuuBe4Glmk
I would however like to read more about Gilligan’s Island like the Seven Deadly Sins theory e.g. Ginger is lust, Gilligan is sloth, etc. or how the show is just one big indictment of class struggle. I wrote about this in college but my teacher was unimpressed.
Dear Mark,
ADDISON Technology has finished the evaluation of Fluke Networks
SUNDAY NY TIMES MAGAZINE cover story about significant familial/generational changes in elephant herds in Africa and India … various causes … but bottom line creating a breakdown in behaviors leading to rampages against encroaching humans, other elephants, rhinos, other animals … gang behavior among young males … culled herds’ losses of mothering females and aunts leaving young elephants without female nurture and fatherly direction … etc.
Seems familiar … from the urbs and ex-urbs to Uganda and the Punjab … a very distrubing story.
How I have too much pride to beg for comments from my thousands of loyal readers…
The Lion and the Mouse (attributed to Aesop):
A mouse was scampering along the jungle floor, not paying much attention to where it was going. In an instant, a huge lion grabbed it by the tail and dangled it above his enormous mouth.
The terrified mouse, certain it was her last moment on earth, managed to squeak out a plea:
“Mighty lion, please spare my life. Who knows? Maybe one day, I can do *you* a good turn.”
The lion hesitated just long enough to consider the mouse’s words. He was hungry–and now kind of embarrassed– and that annoyed him.
“Yah, right,” he says, “A little mouse. You’re gonna do me some big favor some day. Ok, fine,” he huffs. “Get out of my sight.”
The mouse assures him he won’t regret his kindness, and before the lion has a chance to reconsider, scampers away as fast as she can.
Then one day, to the mouse’s surprise, she hears the lion roaring loudly in pain, and runs over to see what the trouble is. A thorn is caught in the lion’s paw and the poor creature can’t remove it. Of course, it proves an easy job for the small, dexterous mouse.
Some time later, the lion gets caught in a hunter’s net. He growls frantically and, once more, the mouse hears his call. Remembering the lion’s prior kindness and gratitude, the mouse gnaws at the netting until there is a big enough tear that the lion can free himself.
The moral of the story: It’s easy to be nice to bigshots who look as if they can help you. But be nice to the small and powerless, too, because fortunes change, and because you never know who may be able to help you under what circumstances. (And because it’s good karma.) Life is strange.
Ah, let me add one of my favorite fables: Ambrose Bierce’s version of the old Aesop favorite.
THE GRASSHOPPER AND THE ANT
One day in winter a hungry Grasshopper applied to an Ant for some of the food which they had stored.
“Why,” said the Ant, “did you not store up some food for yourself instead of singing all the time?”
“So I did,” said the Grasshopper; “so I did; but you fellows broke in and carried it all away.”
Ah, let me add one of my favorite fables: Ambrose Bierce’s version of the old Aesop favorite.
THE GRASSHOPPER AND THE ANT
One day in winter a hungry Grasshopper applied to an Ant for some of the food which they had stored.
“Why,” said the Ant, “did you not store up some food for yourself instead of singing all the time?”
“So I did,” said the Grasshopper; “so I did; but you fellows broke in and carried it all away.”
The best 80s movie soundtrack ever. Was it Xanadu? Short Circuit? Valley Girl? I’m not going to admit that I’d consider Dirty Dancing among them.
Skinner:
I LOVE Bierce. Ask Mark. I sent him a copy of the Devil’s Dictionary.
You should write about what happened to the siamese twin boys who married siamese twin girls, then there was law passed that defined marriage as a union between one man and one woman, and how they struggled against the system, and eventually the girl twins got elected as president and vice-president, and it was a glorious triumph.
Thank you all for your comments and your links. They’re really helping me make it through this cold… Please send more if/when you can.
And, unless I’m forgetting something, the best 80’s movie soundtrack is “Athens, Georgia – Inside/Out.”
I’d blog about two articles in today’s Ann Arbor News.
One that discloses the
earnings of EMU faculty (they FIOAed the numbers).
The second reports that our deer David
Kircher was found guilty. Sentencing is Dec. 6.
I’d blog about two articles in today’s Ann Arbor News.
One that discloses the
earnings of EMU faculty (they FIOAed the numbers).
The second reports that our deer David
Kircher was found guilty. Sentencing is Dec. 6.
And, given that Mark cheated by selecting a music documentary, I cast my 80s soundtrack vote to Repo Man.
It had Iggy.
And, given that Mark cheated by selecting a music documentary, I cast my 80s soundtrack vote to Repo Man.
It had Iggy.
I’d be blogging about the David Hasselhof/Wayne Newton conspiracy.
Duke Duke Duke Duke of Earl Duke Duke Duke of Earl Duke Duke Duke of Earl Duke Duke
There’s a David Hasselhof/Wayne Newton conspiracy!!!
[OK, excuse me now while I go running off to see if there’s some kind of hidden message to me in the lyrics of “Duke of Earl”… Or, did they perhaps use that song on the Repo Man soundtrack? It’s been 20 years since I’ve seen it… I hate it when I don’t get references.]
Chelsea! Many of Bierce’s fables can be found online at http://www.analitica.com/bitblio/bierce/fables.asp. Even more can be found in S.T. Joshi’s compilation from Ohio State University Press: a wonderful edition.
Another topic for discussion: the “NY Times” story Friday about China’s proposed laws to crack down on sweatshops and labor abuse — and opposition to it from US and other corporations.
I hope that cold’s better. I hear absinthe helps.
Chelsea! Many of Bierce’s fables can be found online at http://www.analitica.com/bitblio/bierce/fables.asp. Even more can be found in S.T. Joshi’s compilation from Ohio State University Press: a wonderful edition.
Another topic for discussion: the “NY Times” story Friday about China’s proposed laws to crack down on sweatshops and labor abuse — and opposition to it from US and other corporations.
I hope that cold’s better. I hear absinthe helps.
Thanks, Skinner. Much appreciated.
Cheers,
C
Chelsea — Happy reading! And keep an eye out for that Joshi edition; it has over 400 previously uncollected fables. Most are strictly topical, but there are many gems.
I keep wanting to set up a reading of “Oil of Dog” (one of my favorites) for Halloween. Maybe the Ypsians can take up the idea.
Chelsea — Happy reading! And keep an eye out for that Joshi edition; it has over 400 previously uncollected fables. Most are strictly topical, but there are many gems.
I keep wanting to set up a reading of “Oil of Dog” (one of my favorites) for Halloween. Maybe the Ypsians can take up the idea.
The porn shop we just put out of business on Michigan Avenue was, oddly enough, called “Oil the Dog.”
For those interested,