Can I just say that as a cultural snob, I am tired of PBS Pledge Week! What I don't understand is that during the "regular season" Channel 13 (my local PBS station in NY) shows generally great stuff, but during Pledge Week (fortnight) we are subjected to Johnny Mathis, bad folk music a la A Mighty Wind, and more Victor Borge (who I like but is absent 98% of the year) than I can bear.
The worst part is that no 2 PBS stations coordinate their Pledge Drives, so that you are sort of subjected to a nonstop barrage of lame exhortations to give money for endless "Celtic Woman" reruns.
Pledge Week offers really tired Roy Orbison discs, but what I really want is a Frontline box set. Sorry, call me a snob, but when I think of PBS, I don't think of a 15 year old tape of Roy Orbison's Black & White Night (with both Bruce & Elvis Costello!!) . I want Frontline!!! And Charlie Rose.
Friday, December 08, 2006
Followup to previous story
Sitting on my lap today, Grace (in this case clearly her father's daughter) emitted an odor that would have gotten her forcibly removed from any American Airlines Flight in the world. Staggering.
On a related note, potting training is moving ahead in fits and starts. Every time she sits on the loo there is success, followed by much cheering (Yeeeeeeea!) but there is currently no great interest in self starting. Perhaps that will all change sometime before puberty.
On a related note, potting training is moving ahead in fits and starts. Every time she sits on the loo there is success, followed by much cheering (Yeeeeeeea!) but there is currently no great interest in self starting. Perhaps that will all change sometime before puberty.
Wednesday, December 06, 2006
Best. Article. Ever.
America's War on Farting!!
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - It may be one problem airline security officials never envisioned -- a passenger lighting matches in flight to mask odours from her flatulence.
The woman's actions resulted in an emergency landing on Monday in Nashville of an American Airlines flight bound for Dallas from Washington, D.C., said Lynne Lowrance, a spokeswoman for Nashville's airport.
Other passengers reported the odour of burnt matches, but the woman was not forthcoming when asked about it, Lowrance said on Wednesday.
"Of course, she was scared and embarrassed but all the passengers had to disembark, all the luggage had to be searched, a canine team was brought in, and about three hours were consumed in sorting out the situation," she said.
The woman was not allowed back on the flight and barred from flying on American Airlines, Lowrance said.
"Since there was no malice involved and the incident was accidental, she was not charged with anything," she said.
Passengers are permitted four books of paper safety matches on a plane but cannot light them during flight, Lowrance said.
"I've had calls from people all over the country about this," she said. "And I don't have the answer to this problem."
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - It may be one problem airline security officials never envisioned -- a passenger lighting matches in flight to mask odours from her flatulence.
The woman's actions resulted in an emergency landing on Monday in Nashville of an American Airlines flight bound for Dallas from Washington, D.C., said Lynne Lowrance, a spokeswoman for Nashville's airport.
Other passengers reported the odour of burnt matches, but the woman was not forthcoming when asked about it, Lowrance said on Wednesday.
"Of course, she was scared and embarrassed but all the passengers had to disembark, all the luggage had to be searched, a canine team was brought in, and about three hours were consumed in sorting out the situation," she said.
The woman was not allowed back on the flight and barred from flying on American Airlines, Lowrance said.
"Since there was no malice involved and the incident was accidental, she was not charged with anything," she said.
Passengers are permitted four books of paper safety matches on a plane but cannot light them during flight, Lowrance said.
"I've had calls from people all over the country about this," she said. "And I don't have the answer to this problem."
Sunday, November 19, 2006
Shitting the bed (in NY & elsewhere)
Change is in the air. How do I know?
Two of the last three nap days (not an actual nap, mind you) she has literally shit the bed, obviously in protest of being put in the crib in the first place, all the while tellign us she didn't want to go to bed. The clothes come off first, then the diaper (a pull up these days) followed by a Chuck Berry exhibition (no camera however). Luckily, she is well aware that "poop has germs" so we have been spared all of that horror.
It would seem that nap time might be on the wane.
In an unrelated matter, other places that seem to be in a bed shitting phase are Tallahassee & Miami.
Two of the last three nap days (not an actual nap, mind you) she has literally shit the bed, obviously in protest of being put in the crib in the first place, all the while tellign us she didn't want to go to bed. The clothes come off first, then the diaper (a pull up these days) followed by a Chuck Berry exhibition (no camera however). Luckily, she is well aware that "poop has germs" so we have been spared all of that horror.
It would seem that nap time might be on the wane.
In an unrelated matter, other places that seem to be in a bed shitting phase are Tallahassee & Miami.
Sunday, November 12, 2006
It Never Gets Old. Ever.
Grace was in an especially daddy mode this weekend. Plenty of running up to me and hugging my legs & exclaiming proudly "I yove daddy" (still has trouble with L. And the potty).
There was that time out at the farm store yesterday when she simply refused to listen to reason, but that was quickly forgotten, replaced by knee-high embraces & exclamations of undying devotion to both parents - "How much do you love mummy?" "Big."
The feeling is mutual. Bigger.
There was that time out at the farm store yesterday when she simply refused to listen to reason, but that was quickly forgotten, replaced by knee-high embraces & exclamations of undying devotion to both parents - "How much do you love mummy?" "Big."
The feeling is mutual. Bigger.
Sunday, November 05, 2006
Today Dick Cheney blamed Connecticut voters for Iraq mess
You think I am making this up?
"When they (the insurgents) see something happen, such as what happened in Connecticut, when the Democratic Party in effect purged Joe Lieberman, primarily over his support for the President, that says to them that their stategy is working."
"When they (the insurgents) see something happen, such as what happened in Connecticut, when the Democratic Party in effect purged Joe Lieberman, primarily over his support for the President, that says to them that their stategy is working."
Saturday, November 04, 2006
That Whole Gay Preacher Thing...
Call me lily livered, but I feel sorry for the guy. He is trying to deny his existence. Say what you want, but in the end, you cannot deny who you are. Ted Haggard is a man struggling with his sexuality. That is something that cannot be simply switched off. He has spent his adult life fighting this. It must me an epic battle of his soul.
Be who you are.
Be who you are.
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