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IMAGE OF THE DAY:
Inspired by Jasper Johns' "American Flag", the Twin Towers and, of course, happenstance.
POLITICAL REFLECTION AND SUGGESTION OF THE DAY:
Here's my feeling. If, given the choice between a young, handsome, intelligent, calm, inspiring, articulate, charismatic. culturally-respectful, oratorically-gifted candidate who can play hoops and an old, scary-looking, curmudgeonly, irrascible, ignorant, inarticulate, erratic, uninspiring, occasionally apoplectic war-crazed coot who's got no game, America picks the latter, then it is simply time for sane America to secede from that other America and to declare itself not the Blue States of America, not the Red States of America, and not even the United States of America, but (drumroll please), the Obama States of America.
You heard it here first.
And I nominate myself First Under Secretary and Over Lord of Hoop and Minister General of the Commentariat.
BIRTHDAY ACCOMPLISHMENT:
Eating three forms of lobster in two days: Lobster, lobster roll and lobster ravioli. Also, starting to resemble a lobster. Whether this is primarily due to excessive crustacean ingestion ("you are what you eat" etc.) or insufficient beach side SPF-ing is an open question.
BIRTHDAY INSPIRATION:
On my birthday, Nancy Lieberman, age 50, played in a WNBA game. It was as if the universe were sending me a message. I'm not sure if the message is that I've got a long way to go until I need to hang up my high tops or that I'm getting so old and soft that I can only get my hoopic inspiration from menopausal women. In any event, she got a couple of assists and scored no points. About the same as my production last Wednesday. I'm gonna choose to go with the inspirational rather than the emasculating interpretation. Because with age comes wisdom and there is wisdom in knowing when your ego could benefit from a little timely self-deception.
LFAQ:
Now that Karadzic has been apprehended, when is gonna lose that ridiculous disguise?
SKETCH CHARACTERS OF THE DAY:
The germ-a-phobe naturalist
The spacy obsessive compulsive neatness freak.
QUOTES OF THE DAY:
"We are the change that we're tired of hearing about."
-This Obama bash from David Brooks in the NYT elicited a reluctant chuckle out of me.
"If Godard wasn't a genius, he'd be a college sophmore."
-From a review of new book about Jean-Luc Godard in the NYT.
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Posted on 7/30/2008
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