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What’s Coming this Week
A few things: Victoria Day on May 23, Towel Day on May 25, and (hallelujah!) the final week of what is, nominally, the Johnny-Depp-versus-Amber-Heard defamation trial but what is, actually, an egregious mash-up of the worst aspects of celebrity culture and cable-TV obnoxiousness.
Video Memory of the Week
Posted: 2022 May 21
Photo Memory of the Week
Music of the Week
Version with lyrics chosen to compensate for the general mush-mouth-ed-ness of the singer. Or maybe my ears are just getting old . . .
Posted: 2022 May 20
Words of the Week
"A watched pot has never delivered such excitement." - Joe Ray
Source: Wired, 2022 May 13Posted: 2022 May 20
Tweet of the Week
What an interesting coincidence that the people who believe Western civilization is uniquely terrible turned out to be uniquely terrible at running Western civilization
— Michael Shellenberger (@ShellenbergerMD) May 20, 2022
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Category Archives: Day-to-Day Encounters
The Clerk, Fleming, and Me
There’s always Door #1. Continue reading
Posted in Day-to-Day Encounters, Feeling Clearly, Laughing Frequently
Tagged Attitudes, Business, Conversations
8 Comments
A Year Ago
Looking back; looking ahead. All in complete befuddlement. Continue reading
Don’t Ask
I want the old normal. Continue reading
Posted in Day-to-Day Encounters, Feeling Clearly, I Have Lots
Tagged Community, Food & Drink
10 Comments
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena
Better than throwing things against the wall . . . Continue reading
To Be and Not To Be
Maybe it’s a new riff for the Bard. Continue reading
Posted in Day-to-Day Encounters, Feeling Clearly, Laughing Frequently, Wired
Tagged Attitudes, Technology
6 Comments
For Just a Second
Sometimes that’s all that’s needed. Continue reading
The Beet Goes On
When first we practice to market. Continue reading
Viewer’s Choice Awards
Highlights of the last year? Nope, just the last 10 days. Continue reading
You Do It
Help-wanted ads, here I come. Continue reading
Posted in Day-to-Day Encounters, Laughing Frequently, Mortality, Wired
Tagged Aging, Technology
8 Comments
