BUSHY EYE BROWS AND SOME OTHER STUFF

IRONIC (IRANIC?) RESEMBLANCE OF THE DAY:

Examine the eyes and brows of the President of Iran--seen here during his interview with Mike Wallace on 60 Minutes. Is it just me or does he look just like George W. Bush? As I was watching it I was thinking: Hmm. Dubya's gotten tanner working out there clearing brush. And who woulda thought Incurious George could speak Farci so well? Anyhow, this Iranian predisent guy is obviously a manipulative cookie--but I have to say that he said a number of things that struck me as quite reasonable. Which made me realize it wasn't George W. Bush after all.

FOLLOW-UP OF THE DAY:

Thoughts on the naming challenge: Here are the leading contenders so far for describing the phenomonon of feeling like what happened that morning was so distant as to belong to some other day.

Einsteining.
Einstein Syndrome
Daysorientation
Yestertardation.
The yesterday syndrome.
Day Ja Day
Day Warp
Day Dazed
Distant Morning Syndrome
Whoomphing.
Fogging.
Splooshing.
Day expansion
The day away syndrome.

QUESTION OF THE DAY:

Speaking of deja vu: I see another news story: "Sharon's condition deteriorates." How many more times can Ariel Sharon's condition deteriorate before he is dead? Is it like Achilles and the tortoise? Can one's condition deteriorate an infinite (non) number of times? Is the number of possible deteriorations asymptotic to death? Can one stay alive eternally by endlessly deteriorating? Or perhaps--as observation of Keith Richards would suggest--it's possible to deteriorate past the point of death.

CONCEPT OF THE DAY:

A revival of "Hair" with only bald men. It would lend a certain poignancy to it.

DESCRIPTION OF THE DAY:

His failure temperature was 98.6 degrees.

WORD THAT IS SINGULAR BUT SOUNDS PLURAL OF THE DAY:

Congeries (n.)

ONION-ESQUE (SHALLOT-LIKE) HEADLINE OF THE DAY:

Despite ex-girlfriend's warning, man gets hit in ass by door on way out.

QUESTION OF THE DAY #2: (We're feeling inquisitive today).

By the end of the summer will there be more planets officially in the solar system or brown haired teenage girls who admit to having slept with New York Mets' catcher Paul LoDuca?

TELEVISION COMMENTARY OF THE DAY:

I surfed around for about an hour: Here are a few of the things that I experienced:

*FASCINATION--via the rivettingly self-congratulatory insipidity of Michael Eisner interviewing Billy Crystal.

*SURPRISE: Who would have thought that the first Mets player in 8 years to hit three home runs in one game would have been the diminutive Jose Reyes?

*EPIPHANY: The realization that while C-Span is often somewhat tedious, it is --given the live feed single camera broadcast and the complete absence of editorial intervention--the most likely place to see something truly compelling happen on television. A senator farting. Someone falling asleep during a book reading. A heart attack mid-filibuster. Etc.

*DISORIENTATION: On the Colbert Report I heard the guest, Dave Gergen, claim that Nixon was too liberal to run for president as either a Republican or a Democrat today and after initially dismissing it as a hyperbolic provocation, I realized he was probably right.

OBSERVATION OF THE DAY:

Jews for Jesus makes about as much sense as Hamburgers for Vegetarians. Or War for Pacifists. Nothing against the teachings of Jesus--but this is simply stretching a term to the point where it ceases to have any meaning.

IRAQ GOOD NEWS OF THE DAY:

There were no reports of celebrity break-ups in Baghdad today.

REFLECTION OF THE DAY:

The way the meaning of a dream becomes apparent only once we look upon it from afar--when we are no longer lost in its imaginary fabric and can see the larger architectural and symbolic form. Or perhaps see the meaning of a name or a word we were lost inside of. Like the pigeons that nest in the letters of a sign in some childhood story I cannot remember. The something of Times Square. In any event--a thought about the blinding force of nearness. The things we can only see from afar.

SINGLE SENTENCE RANDOM PORTRAIT OF THE DAY:

One had the feeling he existed in three eras at once--and none of them was the present.

CARTOON WITHOUT ILLUSTRATION OF THE DAY:

VIS: Vendor holding a giant cup.

Sorry, but our largest size is medium.

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