Pachelbel Bedtime

My friend Sara wrote:
“I am not a particular fan of youtube or cute parental tirades generally, but I rather enjoyed this and thought you people might too.”

I have a bit of a weakness for You Tube myself, in the same vein as some kind of food you think you don’t care for so much, easy enough to resist, but if someone happens to hand you an open package of it and you happen to taste one, you pretty much finish the whole lot of whatever it is—gummi bears or Cheez-its or Girl Scout Thin Mints—in spite of saying with each bite, This is the LAST one.

Anyhow, this song is really quite clever and likeable, the musician talented, and I think it’s about time for more on the rhapsodic end for this blog.

How Sports Can Be Sublime

There’s a lot to be grumpy about out there, the general theme of this blog, but the subtheme, the stuff to rhapsodize over… man, it beats all. It’s when I have things to share like this little You Tube clip from a bicycle race in France that I wish I had a proper lively blog with a big viral audience. This is so inadvertently uplifting! Ah well. Pass this along if you find it as delightful as I did. You don’t need to love or even know cycling, and it’s probably even better if you don’t understand French. Even with the crappy video quality, it’s an etude on the wonderful surpringness of the world. Or if not an etude, some other musical term. Capriccio or something.

C’est beau!

Charming Invective

Just want to direct attention to a blog of infrequent but delectable updating. The author Suzanne is a friend of my friend Sara. We’ve never met but I feel like we have. She began her blog to chronicle her move from San Francisco to New Orleans in midsummer 2005, thus the blog name SF to NOLA.

Besides her mordant writing, she gives a different view of New Orleans than you can easily find elsewhere.

Virtual Journalist

Well, call me cynical, but at least this is distracting me from the daily horrors of news that seem literally beyond belief of late. I refer mainly to the recent rumblings about U.S. attacks on Iran. Nuclear attacks. Uh-huh. How to win friends and influence people, all right. Even the reports countering that news is not encouraging. For example, today’s Houston Chronicle says:

President Bush on Monday dismissed as “wild speculation” reports that his administration is considering a nuclear strike against Iran—a statement that some experts noted fell short of a denial.

Feels like 1980 all over again.

So, something funny instead. Funny in a gloomy vein.

Learning to be a journalist: http://www.sparko.com/news/vj.htm