Friday, April 21, 2006
What are you doing with your life?...the ad people want to know
Have you ever really watched daytime television? Have you really noticed what’s being broadcast and cablecast? You have the usual reruns of shows that weren’t very good or funny the first time they ran and they still aren’t any good, but you also have obnoxious and terrible commercials, most of...
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Are there any cop shows that are better?
The TV police drama has been around ever since television showed its face 60+ years ago. You had the street-wise cop (remember Sgt. Joe Friday on Dragnet?) who knew everything there was to know about his neighborhood and how to solve crimes. The genre has become more and more sophisticated over the...
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Lost beyond belief
In referring to the symbolism in his novel, The Old Man and The Sea, Ernest Hemingway – arguably the greatest American writer of the 20th century – noted, “There isn’t any symbolism. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The sharks are all sharks no...
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Tuesday, April 18, 2006
The cost of doing business...Ain't it quaint?
Unless you ride a horse for transportation and live in the wilderness you would know that gasoline is sky high and expected to rise even more, thanks to the robber barons in the Middle East and in American corporate offices. It’s now about $2.80 a gallon in New Jersey – and our prices are the...
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I still will not deliver the mail!
Many years ago I made a pact with the U.S. Postal Service: I won’t deliver mail if they don’t set editorial standards. Apparently, the service reneged on the agreement yet I don’t see myself going from house-to-house delivering letters and packages in protest. So I’ll let them get away with this...
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Who are those people?
When we first got married my new bride and I started taking pictures to record our life together. We wanted to make sure we would remember where we had gone and whom we had seen. Then when the kids came we took stills and movies (later videos) to record their every move. We wanted them to know, as...
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Friday, April 14, 2006
Obnoxious? Yes. Knows what she's doing? Without a doubt.
Is it just me or do other people find Martha Stewart obnoxious and hard to take? I really believe she was railroaded by the courts and sent to jail for allegedly lying about her stock manipulations. I admire the way she has bounced back with her company and her TV shows and is probably the only...
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In the eye of the beholder
Art, as with beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. I know little about what makes a painting or mural great (I know something about the written word) but when I see a piece of art I like, then it becomes great to me. Thomas Kincade is an example of that. He is an artist – the Painter of Light, as...
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Friday, April 7, 2006
Do we really own anything?....Think about that
Do you really own anything? I mean, do you really own anything of extreme value that you can call your own? I'm not referring to jewelry or your TV set. It's your car or your home I'm alluding to. Do you own your car? I don't think so. If it's brand new and cost $30,000 or $40,000 or more, you don't...
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Stop the unfair taxes
We are always bitching about taxes: too high, doesn't make sense, and so on. But how about unfair taxes (as if there are fair taxes)? Whenever we make a claim on our insurance - house, supplemental health - or if you win a settlement in court, you never pay a tax on the money you get. It's yours,...
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