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Heck, it's all entertainment. Just don't get into that Wrestle-mania
Little old ladies throwing folding chairs at steroid cases...how shameful...
posted by
majroj
on November 14, 2004 at 7:56 AM
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Friar Tuck, the Republicans chose the term 'flip-flop' to describe Kerry,
our Democratic candidate. He never did flip-flop, but they chose to describe his various explanations of one point or another, at different times as flip-flopping and had the news organizations use the term more than one hundred times a day, to try to make it appear to be a real phenomenon. It became such a pointed criticism, pathological in its repetition, that I had to turn the news programs off.
No, not a Filipino term at all...........ours and proud of it!!!! Tulrn Coat, a term that they would have used, but it would have seemed too archaic and complex for our simple population to fully embrace and comprehend, so flip-flop it was. We are a simple people, for all of our power and might and will, we average citizens. Catch phrases work best with us, like the phrase "Vote or Die" which the young tossed around to get young people to register to vote. I think the churches might have secretly called Kerry the anti-Christ in their private moments, but we never heard it in public.
These elections were very emotional, more than most elections, and we are all still like doggies with the hair on our backs up and ready to fight, unable to calm down as yet. Pray for us all, padrecito, as America needs all the intercessions it can find.
How is your new government doing? I know that things were touchy just after the elections ended. Peace on Earth and goodwill towards all men, my philosophy.
posted by
benzinha
on November 14, 2004 at 1:45 AM
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maj, it's true, sometimes Animal Planet rips my heart out. Sigh......
It sounds like I missed a good episode of ER. I've had the t.v. on Harry Potter and a few other films instead of the news or anything else real or quasi-real, as the news often is.
posted by
benzinha
on November 14, 2004 at 1:35 AM
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Flip Flop in Politics?
Do you use the term in the States, too? My, I think that is a Filipino original! Americans used to say turncoatism. Or am I wrong?
posted by
Friar__Tuck
on November 13, 2004 at 10:36 PM
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"Animal Planet" would be too much like reality here!
Three cats, a dog, two aquariums, and wild critters I watch out the windows and disturb in my yard.
No, "E.R." takes real elements and sculpts them into a tv show. Sometimes it is sheer soap opera. Not this time. This episode had an alcoholic ex-con dying of an esophageal bleed, zipping between his point of view, second and third person views, touched on patients being talked over and not to, people's prejudices and how it can affect patient care, the realities of transplant availability and some life-saving measures, and grace in the presence of death.
posted by
majroj
on November 13, 2004 at 9:31 PM
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maj, no ER, too real for me. I like Peter Pan and That's my Baby on Animal
Planet, I can't disagree with anything in those shows.
I would rather dream over HGTV's re-doing someone's garage, than watch things which are too close to life when looking for my Mommy in the ER or my daughter last week.
Naw, but I'm very glad that you've found your refuges, though why you'd like to watch more of your own work (ER) when you're supposed to be resting and relaxing and getting away f rom it all, I'll never understand. Plague Dogs, huh? I just finished Dirty Work about two Viet Vets in a hospital, one for one week and one for decades and they help each other out, in a way.....scary good stuff. Too real, tho'.
posted by
benzinha
on November 13, 2004 at 3:31 PM
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Gracias HOly Grail, it WAS the essence of my post that you found!
posted by
benzinha
on November 13, 2004 at 3:25 PM
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Talion, I have switched to more radio listening and music playing and
audio book reading and mucho menos t.v. and I feel better because of these choices. Thanks for commenting.
posted by
benzinha
on November 13, 2004 at 3:24 PM
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Wiley, big type, yes and NEVER SELL CANADA, just a suggestion.
Where would our disgruntled and fearful and upset citizens move to and find something peaceful and wonderful and close, if you sell and it 'becomes us', just like all other places here??
posted by
benzinha
on November 13, 2004 at 3:22 PM
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"Liotta".
(Sorry, Ray, in case you're reading this).
posted by
majroj
on November 12, 2004 at 9:48 AM
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Co-inkeedink: I'm re-reading "Plague Dogs".
THAT Mr Adams had a lot stuck in his craw when he wrote that.
Did you catch "ER" tonight? Realistic (according to my own experience), had that "Emmy" smell all over it. Good to see Ray Liota (sp?)get the lines and direction his talent requires.
posted by
majroj
on November 11, 2004 at 11:50 PM
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I enjoyed it all - the flip-flopping, doggies and peas!
posted by
Holy_Grail
on November 11, 2004 at 9:05 PM
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benzinha
My political views are strong and passionate, yet invisible in my writings here. I save my rantings for television. Whenever I see a feature that runs contrary to my views, I scream at the TV until I'm blue in the face, then turn it off. I win every argument.
posted by
Talion
on November 11, 2004 at 3:58 PM
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Abuleita
Morroccan one please, I want the taste of Maroc again!!
Aw, c'mon luv it's all I can do to stop myself on using flip-flop on ya, Grrrrrrrrrrrrr, okay already, I'll be good.
Love your blogs, not just for the excellence of you story telling, but also because you are so considerate about using the large type.
I can truly relax in my big black chair and settle down to read you with hot coffee in hand, without having nose prints on my monitor.
And I have the feeling it's more likely Canada will be part of the U.S. more than anywhere else I think. That possibility becomes very real when you think of the necessity of North American survival and our use of natural resources like oil and water.
Oh that isn't being disloyal to Canada I don't think because I see on the news today, China is going to own our largest steel producer I think, and three other foreign nations have purchased three more of Canada's largest corporations. My short memory, I can't remember the three others.
Heck if were going to sell the country I'd rather sell it to the Americans I think.
posted by
WileyJohn
on November 11, 2004 at 3:30 PM
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beachbelle, somedays, it's just enough for me that you take the time to
read and leave a foot print....................
posted by
benzinha
on November 11, 2004 at 2:12 PM
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Benzinha. There you are at last.
I am not sure where to pitch in on this comment - I will be back in a bit with something
posted by
beachbelle
on November 11, 2004 at 1:25 PM
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