July 30, 2024
I was wearing a cardigan today, and it kept falling off one shoulder, looking ridiculous. I thought, “I wish there were some way to make this look fashionable. People always go for weird looks.”
Then I remembered Jennifer Beals in “Flashdance.”
Maybe I can make this work!
July 29, 2024
I was on a road trip the other day, flipping radio stations, and I came across a country station. I didn’t know the song, but I enjoyed it. I actually felt comforted, hearing it. Why?
Because country music is pretty reliable. People sing without synthetic voices. They do sing with a twang, but the voice is all theirs. The lyrics are witty enough to make you laugh, and the songs, at least on the stations I listen to, are not vulgar. Although purists will tell you that there is “new country” and “old country”, the basics never change.
So I settled back and listened with pleasure to a good, reliable source of music until the station faded.
July 26, 2024
A school board in Missouri is deciding on which criteria they can use for deciding which books can be removed from school libraries. Some contenders include letting the public ask to the board to removed books that, are in their opinion, “obscene” or “vulgar”.
I’m actually wishing I were in that district. If so, I would pull any book that uses the word “fart” (I even hate typing that word), or booger, or butthead…so many words, so little time.
(I wonder what would happen if somebody tried to pull a book that a board member actually liked—if they like any books at all. It could be quite entertaining.)
In any case, I’m all about ridding the world of vulgarity.
So, heck yeah, sign me up.
