Verbal Jazz Highlights and Low Notes of the Week
adapted from the weekly newsletter
Curfew: Verbal Jazz just found out that he, and the rest of the state of Massachusetts, will be under virtual house arrest during the Democratic National Convention. So far the security plan calls for a curfew within fifty miles of the convention site, and residents within that fifty mile radius will be allowed to stretch their limbs from 7:15 am to 7:25 am. The rest of the time we will be force to be inside. According to state officials, they may also close off the "information superhighway" in addition to the regular highways going into and out of Boston. Presumably this is to keep people like I photographed on May 19 away from the Fleet Center (The photo was taken just outside of the Fleet Center).
The emptiness: In addition to the Democratic Convention upsetting my life for a whole week, the rest of the world is turning upside down: first "Friends" and now "Frasier" have both said, "Good-bye." But it hasn't felt real until just now, the void left by their departure. I've built a whole life around watching these shows, and now this. This emptiness will fill me for a long time. I'm inconsolable.
Hangman: Accountability! You can bank on it. This week, the first of the Abu-Ghraib Courts Martial led to a guilty plea, a one year sentence, a demotion, and a dishonorable discharge for the army for Jeremy Sivits. Tough day, especially after conceding to a plea bargain. I keep wanting to call him Sivits cat, but that is my own digression. In the "Mallard Fillmore" war watch, Mallard once again avoids any war commentary, instead focusing on a high numbers of students who admit to cheating. Groundbreaking commentary there. The cause for all this cheating? Liberal educators, of course. Even for Mallard this argument is a bit of a stretch. But where is the war? This all leads to one word that would hang up George W. in a game of "Hangman:" "quagmire." He wouldn't be able to recognize the possibility that the word exists.
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Curfew: Verbal Jazz just found out that he, and the rest of the state of Massachusetts, will be under virtual house arrest during the Democratic National Convention. So far the security plan calls for a curfew within fifty miles of the convention site, and residents within that fifty mile radius will be allowed to stretch their limbs from 7:15 am to 7:25 am. The rest of the time we will be force to be inside. According to state officials, they may also close off the "information superhighway" in addition to the regular highways going into and out of Boston. Presumably this is to keep people like I photographed on May 19 away from the Fleet Center (The photo was taken just outside of the Fleet Center).
The emptiness: In addition to the Democratic Convention upsetting my life for a whole week, the rest of the world is turning upside down: first "Friends" and now "Frasier" have both said, "Good-bye." But it hasn't felt real until just now, the void left by their departure. I've built a whole life around watching these shows, and now this. This emptiness will fill me for a long time. I'm inconsolable.
Hangman: Accountability! You can bank on it. This week, the first of the Abu-Ghraib Courts Martial led to a guilty plea, a one year sentence, a demotion, and a dishonorable discharge for the army for Jeremy Sivits. Tough day, especially after conceding to a plea bargain. I keep wanting to call him Sivits cat, but that is my own digression. In the "Mallard Fillmore" war watch, Mallard once again avoids any war commentary, instead focusing on a high numbers of students who admit to cheating. Groundbreaking commentary there. The cause for all this cheating? Liberal educators, of course. Even for Mallard this argument is a bit of a stretch. But where is the war? This all leads to one word that would hang up George W. in a game of "Hangman:" "quagmire." He wouldn't be able to recognize the possibility that the word exists.
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