I wonder, though, why is it called a “road trip” when I’m getting on an airplane? Other bits, this could a be a “Friday Fiver”?
1. I had an interesting e-mail cross my inbound stack of crap, turns out, since I dropped support for older browsers, folks on Web TV and particularly on older versions of AOL client software are having troubling accessing the free horoscopes. Free – as in last week’s news. Not the current scopes, which, I might add, do support older browsers, just the free stuff. Not to draw generalities, but – and don’t all horoscopes deal in generalities – the users on the older systems seem to be unwilling to part with any type of financial resources to help support this site.
Inbound mail?
>I think you’re right about balance in your audio forecast.
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2. More updates:
Fever broke Thursday morning. Not that it was problem, it’s them miracle drugs, I’m sure.
Friday’s goal? Get to the airport on time, get on the plane, get to Midland in an expeditious manner.
3. In other news?
That’s my train (which I wasn’t on).
4. Vague political rumblings:
Two newspapers, from generally speaking, the same area, geographically. One article commented on the brave Tom DeLay, facing up to the obvious politically motivated attacks and charges levied by the Democratic Travis County DA, Ronnie Earle. The paper ran a story about how Tom DeLay is temporarily stepping down from his position while the political witch-hunt in Austin is carried on, and no doubt, will prove fruitless and, of course, a waste of taxpayers’ money. The other paper carried everything but conclusive evidence that the Sugarland politician was tied to highly questionable financial dealings that will, no doubt, prove him guilty of malfeasance on a grand scale.
Prompts two questions, really, one, what’s the real story, without a spin? And two, is it any wonder that “big media” is questionable? Two papers. From the same geographical area, only, the stories – the same source, has two different set of editorial values.
I believe it was Molly Ivins who said she would never be moved to write fiction as long there was politics to cover. Huh.
It was Will Rogers who claimed that, “Oklahoma will continue to vote dry as long as they can stagger to the polls.”
Why I stay away from political commentary, whenever possible.
5. Unrelated lit notes:
Thomas McGuane had a short story in the September 19 New Yorker magazine, I think the story was called the “The Cowboy.” I finished reading the article and marveled at the fiction. Cadence, speech, patterns, all rang true. Just a good short story. At a time, when moments before I was lamenting the sad state of Western American fiction, especially the short story. Cormac McCarthy being the exception to the recent canon of Western American fiction.
As a “Western American Fiction” sidebar, I suppose, and off on a tangent, Walter J. Williams wrote a book called The Rift. Same author as Hardwired, and several other serious series, after that. Now, I can go one of two ways, discuss Walter Jon Williams use of place in his SF, especially his earlier cyber-punk, or what I was really meaning to do, consider the background for the novel The Rift, above and beyond other (c.f., 9/5/99 entry) comparisons, as a foretelling of what might happen again.
