Monday Night Blogging

“Monday Night Blogging”
I’ve finished my 4113YE lesson plans (you guys are good). I just watched my Red Wings get their collective asses kicked by the worst team in the NHL, the Philadelphia Flyers. I’ve still got a wicked head cold and I have only one more day of antibiotics to take. What to do? I poured myself a Lamb’s Palm Breeze (ah, nectar of the gods) and maybe see if that doesn’t give this damned cold a lethal, albeit illegal, body blow. But I digress (If you do not know it yet, that is my signature phrase).
As I sit here at my laptop nursing my rum and diet coke, I’m watching, sort of, “Batman Begins” with Christian Bale (an impressive actor, I think). I highly recommend you read James Wolcott’s latest offering at his blog (interestingly enough called James Wolcott). Google it and you will see what an acerbic, trenchant fellow he is. His adult job is with “Vanity Fair,” an American monthly, I believe. He is given to commenting intermittently (alas) on all things great and small. He is particularly adept at skewering (what a great word!) politicians, other writers, and TV shows.
I’m going to share with you something he said about George Bush this past July. It was prompted by another crisis facing the American government (there are so many) and, of course, Bush was out riding his mountain bike). It is truly priceless and so devastatingly accurate. Here it is:
No doubt exercise helps clear his brain, but if it were any clearer, it'd be a patch of blue sky. He needs to unclear his brain, and let a little reality intrude, and wipe that barbecue grin off his face.
07.15.06 1:11PM ·

I warn you, however, once you’ve tried Wolcott you will be hooked. Having said that, I hope you are not fans of “24,” the hit TV show. My daughter and my son-in-law love it; I’ve only watched part of one episode. James absolutely annihilates it in a Wolcottian tour de force. See Google above. Good night and happy reading and working on all those lovely assignments that professors so assiduously assign.

Paul