Tuesday, September 11, 2007
IN THE NEWS
Coincidence? Surely it is just coincidence that so many of the latest magazines are swathed in foreboding black and white covers of failure, doom, and crunch time. Do these mags spy and then copy each other? The same thing happens with fashion too. Do Ann Taylor, J. Crew, Banana Republic, and the like all get the same email as to what colors to use and whether pants will be flared or straight?
The Mormon Thing -- and is it just my imagination or does CNN.com every day have yet another story on boy teen Mormon cast outs and girl teen Mormon run-aways. Couldn't possibly have anything to do with Mitt Romney running, could it?
If Britney Spears goes off the deep end it will because we have collectively driven her off the cliff. I can think of few pop stars the general public has so relished in seeing go down....
Inspiring college professors who teach 'Health and Wellness' classes (you know those stupid filler elective courses kids' parents pay thousands of dollars for) should better be held to some ethical standards here... It's GREAT that you are teaching my daughter that trans fats are bad -- along with hormone-ridden chickens, overly-processed foods, and grain fed cattle BUT THEN PLEASE GIVE MY CASH-STRAPPED CHILD ALTERNATIVES AS TO WHAT THE HELL SHE IS SUPPOSED TO EAT. Good the hell grief. And it was only yesterday (my childhood) that the best thing a mother could do was to place a nice T-Bone steak on the dinner table.
Off to London, Majorca, and Austria next week. Am particularly looking forward to Majorca.
Coincidence? Surely it is just coincidence that so many of the latest magazines are swathed in foreboding black and white covers of failure, doom, and crunch time. Do these mags spy and then copy each other? The same thing happens with fashion too. Do Ann Taylor, J. Crew, Banana Republic, and the like all get the same email as to what colors to use and whether pants will be flared or straight?
The Mormon Thing -- and is it just my imagination or does CNN.com every day have yet another story on boy teen Mormon cast outs and girl teen Mormon run-aways. Couldn't possibly have anything to do with Mitt Romney running, could it?
If Britney Spears goes off the deep end it will because we have collectively driven her off the cliff. I can think of few pop stars the general public has so relished in seeing go down....
Inspiring college professors who teach 'Health and Wellness' classes (you know those stupid filler elective courses kids' parents pay thousands of dollars for) should better be held to some ethical standards here... It's GREAT that you are teaching my daughter that trans fats are bad -- along with hormone-ridden chickens, overly-processed foods, and grain fed cattle BUT THEN PLEASE GIVE MY CASH-STRAPPED CHILD ALTERNATIVES AS TO WHAT THE HELL SHE IS SUPPOSED TO EAT. Good the hell grief. And it was only yesterday (my childhood) that the best thing a mother could do was to place a nice T-Bone steak on the dinner table.
Off to London, Majorca, and Austria next week. Am particularly looking forward to Majorca.
Wednesday, September 05, 2007
There's that U.S. Open tennis going on right now. Not that we are watching it. Just interesting from the standpoint of listening to John McEnroe give the sideline entertainment. He might or might not remember a brief interlude in New York in 1979 with Anna Bloviations. We hooked up at the Plaza Hotel when the Plaza Hotel was still a hotel and there was a small little boutique called Mark Cross where I worked (later bought out by Coach). In he came and we started chatting and then 'dated' for a bit if you can call a guy so focused on tennis as to be completely bereft of anything one could remotely call social graces (yes, he's come a long way since then, considering). Quite good in bed I recall just for the shear fact that the guy was early twenties and in the best physical shape one could imagine. He got a little touchy about his hair though.... Worried that he was going to go bald and so got bent out of shape if you pulled at his hair during an orgasm. So either he wasn't going bald after all or he has since gotten really great hair implants.
