State of the Union, The Race and The Teddy

LIFE IMITATING ART MOMENT OF THE DAY:

Orange construction draping weaving through Central Park--acutely reminiscent of the orange gates put up by Christo and his wife who always insists that she be given co-creator credit and whose name I can never remember.

IRONY OF THE DAY:

That Barack Obama might fail to get the Democratic nomination not because of the racism of white Americans but because of the racism of a minority group of Americans: Latinos. When Hillary's people say they are confident that they have a Latino-American firewall in most of the big states, one suspects they are speaking less of that group's high regard for Hillary than that group's negative feelings toward her African-American opponent. Or should I say, their negative feelings towards the African-Americanness of her opponent.

AMUSEMENT OF THE (OTHER) NIGHT:

Watching Cheney behind W during Bush's utterly pedestrian State of the Union address becoming visibly exhausted by having to repeatedly stand up for the innumerable Republican applause lines ....while the younger, fitter Pelosi had the advantage of being able to sit through more than half of them.

He'd never make it through a Yom Kippur service.

MUSICAL OBSERVATION OF THE DAY:

Stairway to Heaven is the Nessun Dorma of pop music.

PHENOMENON OF THE DAY:

The perils of the conference call self-muting button. As one gains in one’s confidence in one's inaudibility, one grows more and more brazen in the kind of comments one makes. And then that mortifying moment arrives.

SIGN OF DEPRESSION OF THE DAY:

When you’re in the elevator with some people and you suddenly notice that your fly is totally unzipped and your immediate reaction isn’t “Oh my god, my zipper is down!!!” it’s “Whatever. I’ll deal with it later.”

CLARIFICATION OF THE DAY:

The preceding in in no way relevant to me.

CONSUMER OBSERVATION OF THE DAY: (Courtesy of D.)

The huge box for my 40" HD TV still sits in the middle of my floor. "40 TV Flat Screen TV" is printed really large on the box but for some reason instead of printing an actual size image of the TV, they have made it somewhat smaller. To compensate for this and to avoid any possible misunderstanding about the size of this prized consumer object (even though, as I say, the box is absolutely enormous and the words "40" Flat Screen TV" are printed in like 100 point type upon it), they have a rather petite woman curled up comfortably next to the TV--just to remind us how manly and massive it is.

LFAQs:

Is it possible to get motion sickness listening to someone talk?

What tasty treats are Hillary and Barack offering to Edwards for his endorsement right now? Veep? Attorney General? A gift certificate to Frederic Fakkai? (Yes, there are two Americas: One in which Edwards is Obama's Vice President, the other in which he Hillary's Attorney General).

Have I mentioned how manly and massive my HDTV is lately?

MAGAZINE IDEA OF THE DAY:

Teddy Vegas LIVING. Articles would deal with the labelling of boxes, the shifting of piles from surface to surface, the turning of empty cardboard boxes into temporary tables etc.

NOTE FROM LATERAL THINKING PURGATORY:

He was trying to stay on task, cutting off ever sprouting tangents in his mind like Theseus hacking off the heads of the poly-headed Hydra. (This sentence was one of the tangents that he missed).

RANDOM SINGLE SENTENCE PORTRAIT OF THE DAY:

Where some people inflect their statements to sound like questions, he managed to do precisely the opposite--posing inquiries in a way that sounded like bold assertions.

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