NOBODY
ASKED ME BUT.......
1)
I
am always awed by the multi-faceted talent of so many of the people I have met
through the auspices of WFDU. They have
such talent and I am just a conduit and one of my interviewees kindly said to
me—“...being a conduit requires a talent and is important or we stay in a dark
cave...”
2)
I
finally got to see the film “Margaret”.
It should surely win an award for obscurity, rambling, and over 2 hours
of pretending to make some sort of a point which, in the end, is not made and
was leaning toward the wrong one (if there even was one)
3)
My
guilt trip is over when I tear up the unending mail from WNYC for
fundraising. I have donated but am
disappointed in the waste of money in all these mailings. With technology today they surely know who
pledged. I do love their slogan
“...Never Turn It Off..” Would they
would do that with their mailings.
4)
I
am having trouble in dealing with the numbers when the budget and the items are
mentioned. I was so surprised to hear
that Foreign Aid was only a small fraction, that Medicaid was one of the larger
ones, the military was way less than 40%, and---well, Big Bird and PBS were
only 1/10 of 1% (but, hey, tabloids love headlines) so having a major candidate
spew out this nonsense tells us more about him and reaching the Tabloid crowd
(or as a novelist once put it---“The Great Unwashed”)
5)
The
budget is, of course, an accountant’s dream of obscurity. Better yet, a magician’s dream of
prestidigitation given all the loopholes, changes of categories, and
bifurcation that may be used.
6)
The
“debates” are not, by definition, debates.
Yet, Biden/Ryan was pretty close and plaudits to the moderator for
focusing and insisting on answers.
7)
When
did VP candidates become so important?
Was it not Garner who said the Vice Presidency is not worth a bucket of
spit (he actually said “piss”==ah, but we are puritanical”)? Perhaps part of the problem is “W” and his
weak and ill informed terms in office that allowed his VP to become the influential
vile miscreant he always was.
8)
One
has to wonder what makes people on Facebook interested in certain topics. It seems that many times items regarding
minor health issues, spotting of a spotted yellow pretzel bending warbler (ok
that is rare), or a bodily function gets more response than a topical comment
regarding serious events. Feel free not
to not read further as I have a bodily function---will, surely, post it on
Facebook
9)
Why
is it that some people feel the need to pronounce their names in, seemingly,
strange ways? For example---James Levine
(of the Met Opera)---LeVine, the folks
singing group The Levins—The LeVins. By
the way---I have played them on my show—“The Levins”. I am thinking of promoting a talking rabbit---commonly
known as Mr. RaBit. Let us never forget
the famous Sean Ferguson who got that name because at Ellis Island he said---“...Oich, Ich hab
shoin vergesen..” when asked for his name.
Hence, Sean Ferguson---not the immigrant from the potato tsuris but from
the pogroms of Russia.
10) We have Jon Stewart, Stephen
Colbert, and very few others. I do hope
that we can be favored with some new topical comedians in times to come in the
mode of the Richard Pryors, Robert Kleins, Lenny Bruces, Mort Sahls, Dick
Gregorys,George Carlins, and many more as opposed to the “crap” one has to
endure in the name of comedy by the likes of such as Tosh O (wherever he
crawled out of and whoever thought of putting his “crap” on TV), most comics
who do obscenity for shock effect and with no point and , dare I say, most of the alleged comics on Comedy Central.
11) I am part of a study with
the Nathan Kline Institute for the causes of memory loss and Alzheimer’s Disease.
On the positive side I am quite normal.
So, the above is valid and I stand by it----all of it. I remembered to add that. Shows you I am still there---check tomorrow
for updates. If I can recall them.
