Linking the past days together— It’s Super Bowl Sunday, and I didn’t know. Isn’t that usually in January? I don’t pay attention to professional sports, and some years my only clue about when that event occurs is the date they tell you the winner of the Publishers Clearinghouse Sweepstakes will be announced, which doesn’t apply to me, since I don’t enter. If Ed McMahon shows up at my door it’s more likely to be about Neighborhood Watch, or because he just spoke to Johnny Carson and he’s heard I have an interest in contact with the other side.
I’m looking forward to the Winter Olympics, though, and I plan to subject Ken to hours of figure skating on TV.
I was saddened this week to hear of the death of Betty Friedan, and I take comfort that the Mystique lives on. My condolences to those who knew and loved her.
Coretta Scott King will be deeply missed, and I’m heartened by the hope that she and her husband are enjoying a blessed reunion. Their messages and dedication to civil rights made this world an infinitely better place. I hope we can ensure their work continues here without them.
During the past few days I read an excellent post on Mark Coggins’ blog about the Frey fray. I liked Gore Vidal’s State of the Union message better than President Bush’s . I’ll be happy when solar power is available inexpensively to anyone who needs it (thanks Dave Pollard for those two links), and I’m glad I don’t live and drive in Kakadu, Australia, where the salties have taken to flying into cars. But then I guess anywhere you choose to live you’re bound to face the danger of some kind of natural disaster. If it isn’t hurricanes, volcanoes, or earthquakes, it’s flying supersized crocodiles.
Speaking of hurricanes, a synchronous event took place in the blogosphere when three of my favorite bloggers mentioned things in their posts that also occur in my current mystery. Reenie’s Reach compared a person to a hurricane, Jason at Wildhunt mentioned a woman who wears a pentagram in a coffee shop (only the woman in my mystery is there to read Tarot, not serve coffee), and Eric Mayer wrote about his male cat with a feminine name. I mention this because I don’t want you guys to think I’m swiping ideas from your blogs for my story. I won’t go into the details of those bits of my novel, because then you’d have less reason to read the book. I’m just saying—are you telepathic or something?
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Your Ed McMahon shtick was marvelous! Laughing smiles!
Your mention of current events spoke to me, because Brian and I were out-of-town for just a few days and so much of significance happened. It was surreal when we returned.
Oh pish posh regarding the intersecting ideas showing up in your manuscript. Darlin’, I consider it a vicarious publishing opportunity for me! How interesting you experienced the triple cross-referencing. Recently, one of my posts mentioned rose petals strewn on beds (no point in elaborating my hit on that again). One of the responses mentioned that my post reminded him of an Eddie Murphy routine he once heard. I panicked that readers might think I had stolen the idea, because it all came from my own warped head. But apparently in Eddie Murphy’s too!
Ahhh, all these intersecting brilliant minds. xoxo
Comment by Reenie — February 5, 2006 @ 4:58 pm
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Heck, stealing from blogs is probably OK. I think we tend to end up reading blogs by people we share at least one channel with. Being as I am kind of a Buffalo fan, from my days in Rochester, or maybe support the Giants or Jets, having lived in both New York City and NJ, I had no Superbowl rooting interest. Pittsburgh the western part of my state. Further than NY! A foreign country.
Comment by Eric Mayer — February 5, 2006 @ 7:28 pm
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Yes, the Super Bowl is usually in January, on or about my husband’s birthday. Makes for a really easy birthday party. A few buddies, a few beers (Guinness is the favorite) and the football game of the year. What more could a testosterone-drenched group ask for?
Meanwhile, I wanted to thank you for your comments. Germane, intelligent and insightful. (All words with “g” for some reason).
Women’s lib was a flash in the pan, I’m afraid. Now it’s back to flirt and play down your intelligence and hooray for the younger women. We made some progress, but we’re paying for it.
Comment by Sarah — February 6, 2006 @ 3:12 pm
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It’s an interesting experience working in high tech (what industry did you work in when you were still a technical writer?). Although lots of people at work claim to have watched the Super Bowl, most of them say they did so for the commercials, rather than for either the football game or the entertainment.
I would have opted for the Puppy Bowl on Animal Planet, but I have my very own one of those going on at home right now, and I get to pick up all the “touchdowns.”
Comment by blogdog — February 9, 2006 @ 7:12 am
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Blogdog asks what industry I worked in as a technical writer. I wrote and edited aircraft repair and maintenance manuals for about fourteen years. Later I managed the office that distributed those manuals.
Comment by Barbara W. Klaser — February 11, 2006 @ 12:49 pm