Making good on that revised resolution! (Plus a shamelessly self-promoting Note to My Readers!)

TECHNOLOGY REVIEW OF THE DAY:

The New Super Thin Mac Air Laptop. Very cool, but i think i'll stick with my slightly more corpulent MacBook. This one's a bit too thin for my tastes--like an anorexic model. In fact, I suspect it pukes up data when no one is looking.

ENTERTAINMENT EXPERIENCE OF THE DAY:

On "American Gladiator "(Yes, I watched it at the behest of two friends...and yes I enjoyed it! I confess! And yes, I sort of found a few of the muscled women really hot. And yes I thought it was cool that they competed to "make each other wet" by trying to throwing each other from their precarious battle perches into a pool below.) ), a Jewish guy named Adam "The Hebrew Hammer" Goldstein got injured in the first few seconds of competition and had to be replaced in the competition. No, my point is not that it was a crushing setback for the cause of Jewish virility. My point is rather that he was replaced by the alternate competitor: Mike the evangelical Minister. And that Mike claimed, in the build up to the big competition against Sharrhad the black guy: "We Christians are taught to be humble. But I believe that trash talking is my God given gift ."

RANDOM THINGS UNCOVERED DURING OFFICE CLEANING TODAY:

My Bovine Mood Chart (Mad Cow/Disgruntled Cow/Not in the Best Mood Cow/Laughing Cow.)
A plastic nose.
Suede cleaner.
A miniature zen garden.
Some poems from a friend who asked that I destroy them and never mention them again. (Sorry).
A porcelain duck.
A kangaroo handpuppet.
A heartbreakingly sweet card from my old girlfriend.
A heartbreakingly sweet photo of me with my old girlfriend.
Some Vicodin
Football shoulder pads.
A hairbrush.
An unsent Father's day card for my father.

CLEANING INSPIRED IDEA OF THE DAY:

Take my kazillion stray scribblings (analog rather than digital napkins) and send them to Bangalore to be transcribed. And then publish whatever came back to me on the blog.

TEDDY VEGAS INTERACTIVE FEATURE OF THE DAY:

Which is the best bumper sticker?

a) Honk if you hate bumper stickers.
b) Honk if you 'heart' honking.
c) Honk if you 'heart' noise pollution.

FRUSTRATION OF THE DAY:

That I can't find the 'heart' symbol on this keyboard.

POLITICAL COMMENT OF THE DAY:

I actually admire McCain's willingness to tell the good people of Michigan the unpleasant but undeniable truth: Namely that those automotive jobs are gone and they're not coming back. And that they're going to have to retrain themselves for new jobs and new careers to meet the challenge of this ever evolving global economy. I really admire the willful act of political suicide in the name of truth. And I think he almost takes a perverse pleasure in taking these principled steps against his self interest.

PHENOMENON OF THE DAY:

Recent studies show that clowns are considered universally disturbing to kids. It's weird: When I was a kid, most kids liked clowns and only a few found them creepy. I guess more and more creepy representations of clowns have permeated the popular cutlure. I think it's time for the clown council to put together a good PR campaign. They are a minority population that's been really discriminated against. Speaking of clowns:

SHORT VIDEO IDEA OF THE DAY:

Open on a young teen boy at the family dinner table saying "I want to be a doctor or a lawyer."

We stay on his face as we hear his father sternly reprimanding him: "No child of mine is going to be a doctor or a lawyer! I will not allow you to disgrace our family in that way!"

We pull back and see that the father and mother are clowns and we've been witnessing a conversation at a clown family dinner.

MOMENT OF TRUE FEELING OF THE DAY:

Twilight. I step into a friend's baby-proofed car. In the flicker of the dashboard lights, I feel the ignition of an aching nostalgia...for the sheltering enclosure of a world and the mystery of being within it.

PROPS OF THE DAY:

To the staggering truth of impermanence.

RANDOM SINGLE SENTENCE PORTRAIT OF THE DAY:

His life was a series of naps punctuated by intense bursts of lethargy.

NOTE TO READERS OF THE DAY:

I was excited to see how many people read the last post in the first 24 hours after it was posted and it got me thinking "Wow. It'd be fun to have more people read the blog (or at least see higher numbers at the bottom of each post--even if it's only accomplished by some technological trickery)." So if any of you likes this blog and knows any people who might enjoy it too, I'd really appreciate it if you'd tell them about it. (www.nyc.com/people/Teddyvegas/blog). Or if you know of any cool ways of hacking into the counter at the bottom of the posts to artificially inflate the readership numbers, that'd also be great. It would just be nice to experience the blessed illusion of progress.

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