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Uncle Jay’s word for the day is Faux and Faux Pas.
Last night, when I returned from a 12 Step Meeting, some of my family was an hour into a program hosted by Matt Lauer about two accident victims that were mistaken for one another. One died and the other survived, while being attended to in the hospital by the other’s family. Very interesting story, and you just got the jist of it in ten seconds!
These “news” documentaries drive me crazy! They took two hours to tell you fifteen minutes of information. During that time they showed the same photos and footage over and over again. Part of me wishes I had taken the time to analyse how much time was allotted to, first, reviewing what they’ve already told you, then baiting you for the next segment, not to mention repeated attempts to sell you something and finally, at everlastingly long last, actually informing you of something. But, the other part of me, thinks even that would be a waste of my precious time. If you’re that interested in the outcome, listen long enough to get the names, Google it and be done!
I don’t care how much of a couch potato you are, there has got to be something better to do with your time than being spoon fed five minutes of “news,” over the course of two entire hours!
Let’s make a list together of better things to do, shall we? Maybe we have a few readers that just aren’t sufficiently imaginative to come up with alternative activites on their own. Lets restrict the list to things you could do with just a spare two hours that might some how be less inane than watching the tube hash, rehash, rerehash, rererehash, rererereadinfinitumhash, the same stuff we could easily, conveniently, consume in a fraction of the time.
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Get acquainted with the next door neighbor
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Visit your mother on the phone or in person
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Prepare a meal and sit down with the family at the dinner table
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Go for a long walk
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Take a kid fishing
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Deliver an empty refrigerator box to a four year old and crawl in it with her
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Cuddle up with a good book
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Switch the channel and finds some real entertainment
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Attend a 12 Step meeting and get sober (it appears staring indiscrimately at the tube is an addiction)
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Please add your ideas….
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Uncle Jay’s word for this week is HUBRIS.
Tonight show begins around 6:45 with a total eclipse, lasting about an hour, occuring at about 8:00 PM. These times are for here in the West. The local forecast where I live predicts clouds, so I might not get to see it. You’ll see the full moon darken to red as the earth blocks direct sunlight to the moon’s surface. So many of us have been complaining about cabin fever this late in a long winter. Lets get out then, and enjoy the majesty of nature tonight.
For more details visit NASA’s Lunar Eclipse page.
“I hate to see people get all caught up in national elections. The Presidential election is, as CNN puts it so well, a Ballot Bowl, analogous to the Super Bowl. It is a marketing extravanganza for centralized government.” — Arnold Kling
“Vote: The only commodity that is peddleable without a license” — Mark Twain
IN ONE DAY!!!!!!!
Carpe Crustulum had over 1000 Hits Today. Don’t know if anybody cares, but it seems like someone out there likes my blog. The numbers of visitors has been climbing steadily, but until recently, I never dreamed it would get this busy.
Thanks to everyone who’s stopped by, and keep coming over to see what I’ve go to share next.
