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This is National Procrastination Week. Somebody’s doing their job; I didn’t find out until late Wednesday night.
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The website of one of the country’s leading public relations and communications firms (according to the firm itself on that very website) advises us that its training in public speaking can help people with their annunciation. It really is a successful PR firm, so apparently they rely too heavily on computerized spell checking. As far as I know, they mean enunciation. Also as far as I know, the angel Gabriel is heaven and earth’s only specialist in annunciation. This firm couldn’t have done PR for Gabriel. It hasnt been in business long enough for that.
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The apple tree in back of my aunt’s house was easy and fun to climb. The pear tree in my back yard isn’t. If I was a lot younger, it still wouldn’t be.
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According to Garrison Keillor, March is the month designed by God to show people who don’t drink what a hangover is like.
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According to Rush Limbaugh, Everybody should love baseball. If everybody did love baseball, I’d have a hard time getting a seat for the game.
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This morning on the Joe Scarborough radio show, one of his guests was Rafraf Barrak, an Iraqi woman whose story is told in a new book, Saved By Her Enemy. She worked as an Iraqi-English translator for NBC news. Since she is a native of Iraq, I expected her to speak English with a pronounced accent, but she sounds like a native speaker of English. She even used the word like excessively, as if she were born in the United States within the last thirty or forty years. I haven’t read it, but based on the interview, the book sounds interesting.
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In the classic book 1984, George Orwell predicted the end of privacy, through interactive cable TV, although that medium had not been invented when he wrote the book. I’m sure Cablevision and WABC TV both have valid points and invalid ones too in their battle over fees and rights, but it really gripes me that Cablevision has reset my cable boxes so when I turn on the TV, I get their diatribe against WABC TV, even though I don’t want it. I set the boxes again so they turn on to whatever channel I was watching when I turned them off. Well see if that sticks.
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I was watching the closing ceremonies for the Winter Olympics. I don’t know why. They were boring. All of a sudden, the ceremonies were interrupted by this new show called “Marriage Refs.” After only a few minutes, I realized I didn’t have enough giblet gravy or cranberry sauce to continue watching that turkey.
