GLEANINGS
…In a recent piece, a newspaper reported on a smuggler of exotic birds, animals and flora who was trying to get on a plane. One of the Birds of Paradise escaped from under his coat and crashed around the ceiling, colored feathers drifting down on heads. Because of this startling event, and the man's erratic and seemingly twitchy impatience, the guards made him undress and discovered two miniature monkeys nesting in his crotch. They didn't seem any worse for wear.
"I was one of those skinny, young men in scary glasses and thrift store clothes, whom you see in Boston or Brooklyn subways, young men who look like they possess massive amounts of data about small-label rock bands or avant garde literature or video technology; the very size of these data sets offering a kind of psychic protection." Jonathan Franzen, "Mr. Difficult," The New Yorker, 9.30.02
An old quote, from whence we do not know: If women didn't have -----, there would be a bounty on their heads.
Analogy Time: Politically, we have promoted the mailroom boy to CEO.
Raise you hand if you know what linqua franca means.
Question in passing: Why do Republicans never wear horn rims or black rimmed glasses? Goldwater excepted.
The L.A. Times send out a warm and fuzzy announcement about how they had upgraded their paper. It sounded exciting. The net net: They folded one entire section into another, so one has to slog through endless movie reviews to get to the features and columnists that were in the lost section. They reduced the body type at least one full point. Now near-sighted people who never needed glasses to read the Times, need them. They re-designed & condensed the TV listings so that one must track horizontally from clear over on the left side of a page all the way to the right, reading mice type, to get times and programs.
Why didn't they make more friends by saying something like this: "In these trying times, we must attempt to economize, just as you are doing. But you will still recognize your old friend….sort of."
Just the facts, Ma'am: Men like sex more than women do because men get more out of it.
3:38:17 PM 
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