Today’s theme: “Friday/Weekend”
What would The Weekend be without Daniel Craig announcing The Weekend …
• Still my most talked about blog post of ’21. “My response to a decorated veteran who said I was un-American”
I had a disheartening encounter with an illustrious and once-avid reader this week who declared me as anti-American over — take a wild guess. Yes, it all comes down to Donald Trump. Did you think we were at odds over the legacy of Alex Trebec?
This week’s Instagram medley
Friday/Weekend …
• Bible says our bodies are temples. On Friday nights, mine is more like a honky tonk. Some beer's been spilled, some of the furniture is busted & it smells kinda funny. But the folks are friendly, the peanuts are free and the good music never ends.
• I vow to spend the weekend willing myself to blink more slowly. I want to be able to savor all the things they say go by in a blink of an eye.
• Speculate how Casual Fridays must challenge the intellects of avid nudists.
• Not saying local volunteer fire fighters join for purely social aspects, but it is suspicious the town whore house catches fire every Friday at 8 p.m.
• Does heaven have Casual Fridays and if they do, pray tell, what do they wear?
• I so love the word "hanky-panky" I'm devoting weekend to finding useful meanings for hinky-pinky, henky-penky, honky-ponky & hunky-punky
• It was Robert Louis Stevenson who said, "There is no duty we so underrate as our duty to be happy." Clearly, RLS never spent a weekend in Athens, Ohio.
Unrelated …
• My understanding of human nature tells me that many of the people striving to get to the land of milk and honey will once they arrive immediately begin complaining everything is too sticky.
• Proof of our collective child-raising failure is apparent in that if you ask 100 children what he or she would like to be when they grow up, not one will say, "I just want to be happy!”
• Because the angry word has the potential to be useful during this time of so much neighborly hostility, I propose today every one tries to create a situation where it makes perfect sense to shout "Nottafinga!" at someone with whom you disagree.
• Negative: Projections indicate entire planet will soon be 20-feet deep in discarded styrofoam. Positive: Airplane crash fatalities will be reduced to zero.