Maybe a song someday… Lyrics: Sittin’ in the house, waiting for the storm. It’s moving northeast in blizzard form. Well, maybe not a song. How about a phrase of what is supposed to come? Hmmm, not even that! The recent winter storm track for the northeast keeps changing, at least where I live. It’s too bad for the ski mountains in upstate New York who need natures fluff to help their winter business. My friend’s south of New York City will get the worst. My…
Remember this blogpost from July 28th? I don’t know if you’ve noticed on your television programs how many times a commercial comes up saying that the nuclear treaty deal with Iran is a bad idea. It’s very well produced and cites negative facts that Iran has violated over the years. I saw the same commercial five times in a two-hour span in my television market. That’s called saturation and it is designed to subliminally influence our thinking. In very small print at the bottom of the…
Some things I remember. Television programs were free. You bought the TV, hooked it up to an antenna and you watched television night after night. It was free. Nobody sent you an outrageous cable bill each month. In the small towns and rural areas in which I grew up nobody locked their doors. Everyone dressed up for church on Sunday. Lawns were mowed with push mowers. Bench seats were common in most cars and seat belts did not exist. On a teenage date you went…
This post will be both a small rave and a longer rant. United Airlines. I flew with United Airlines from Aspen to Chicago to Newark the other day coming back from my meetings on participating in a documentary on the “spirit” of the late and great singer John Denver. More on that in later posts. United Airlines! From my perspective is the “cattle call” of airlines. In most of their terminals they have boarding group lines from one to five. Depending on your group number,…