Saturday, October 30, 2004
Aaron contributes to "Overheard In New York"
click here to see my brilliant contribution of humorous overheard dialogue!
Aaron Gets Web-Published!
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Friday, October 29, 2004
My Dad and A Frog
1968 was a nail-biter. My folks of course were rabidly anti-Nixon. His win would be disastrous. 8-year-old Aaron's joke, told that anyone would be better, was to invent examples like, "even a frog would be better." Then Nixon won, and it was scary. But my Dad wisely said to me, "The world isn't going to end, this just means that the country isn't going to be governed the way we'd like it to be." That stuck with me.
French Fri Day later / Vendredi Français d'ici peu.
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Thursday, October 28, 2004
Likely Voters and Lena's
This is my Aunt Lena, a great aunt in both senses of the word, at a ripe young 23 on her 1918 wedding day in Lowell, Mass. This, of course, was the year the Boston Red Sox last won the world series (Go Sox!, Go Kerry!), just weeks before the end of "The War To End All Wars." How time files when you're having fun...Anyway, I'm very happy indeed for my hometown, its population, its team, and its candidate. What a wonderful year for Massachusettes! Free to get married, have my team win the world series, and hopefully, watch my brother Bostonian take the oath on January 20. Cross your fingers! Cross your toes! Cross any other digits that you can make cross!
Peace, Aaron
Cartoons:
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Wednesday, October 27, 2004
303962702 28th 75th
My voter serial #, election district, and assembly district, in case any of you want to 'challenge' me at the polls next Tuesday. I'm prepared.Right On, Maude! Few TV shows (pictured left) call to mind better the liberal milieu in which I grew up. Secular humanists rock!
Don't have much to say today, or time to say it. My eye aches from reading earnings releases. I'm good at shoveling the tide with a pitchfork. : - )
Cartoons follow. French and Spanish summaries return Friday & Sunday, promise... Peace - Aaron
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Tuesday, October 26, 2004
The Slings And Arrows
Of Earnings Season
Blurry here.. It's raining earnings releases, which must be studied and judged, and i'm spending long days juggling and multi-tasking. That explains my spotty blog postings. Well, at least I have cartoons... : - ) I also have this lovely photo of Hanoi's Vietcombank, in case you missed it on your last Vietnam trip.
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Monday, October 25, 2004
Florida Is The New Florida
The cliché of the decade so far is to say 'X is the new Y,' with X and Y being, if not opposites, than contrasts. Examples: 40 is the new 30, about age. Quiet is the new Loud, Steak is the new Pasta, etc. It's kind of a reflection of how dramatically the canvas of our life changed, mostly for the better, through advances ranging from smart cell phones to anti-depressants... Anyway, these are my deep thoughts for the morning.At left is a manatee, a lovely water mammal that inhabits Florida's fresh waters, or what's left of them. Manatees have a rough time these days, and are constantly being hit by speedboats. However, they remain majestic and noble. They are also reputed to have ghastly breath.
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Sunday, October 24, 2004
Hey there. Still kind of sick, and laying low. I turned to Netflix for distraction, and watched the 1949 classic All The King's Men, the Oscar- and Pulitzer-winning tale loosely based on the life of Louisiana's populist/demagogue Governor Huey Long. He may be the closest thing the US ever had to Perón : - ) Great performances all around - very different, much better than I expected.Not much else to report. I gave Thomas my ticket's to last night's triple-bill electronica concert of Mouse On Mars, Ratatat, and Junior Boys. Can't wait to hear what a laptronica band actually does up there, since the music's entirely programmed... : - ) Enjoy the rest of your weekends. Go Sox. Go Kerry!
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