Saturday

[monk222]

Ms. Deloric writes, "I like Cat Stevens and NPR and nonfiction books and hiking and rivers. Is who I am defined by what I like?" ... ... Mr. Heer Jeet opened a Twitter discussion thus, "I want to talk about why Canadian fiction has so many stories about people having sex with animals & vegetables." You know Sugar must have loved it. I wonder if the only reason she didn't crack open a six-pack of whip-ass on him is because he is supposedly the senior editor at The New Republic. You don't know when you might want to offer a piece to be published there. ... ... I was thinking about trying a new network show that premiers on Monday, "The Good Place". A woman dies and mistakenly gets sent to heaven and tries to stay there. It's a comedy. Seeing the preview made me laugh a few times, but I don't think I'm up for a comical treatment, having kind of wanted too seriously an afterlife and a heaven. Ted Danson is a star in it. Remember, he was Sam in "Cheers". He is a really old guy now at 68. I trust this will be his last foray into television. Oh, maybe not. I forget that the 70s can be pretty good for a person. It's not so unusual. Although this is not the determinative factor in my blowing cold on the show, I don't really want to watch an elderly Ted Danson. It's too depressing. That's poor spirit on my part, I imagine. If anything, it ought to be a plus for the show for me, for the nostalgia. I guess I am just not aging gracefully. ... ... As we come closer to election day, the media is taking a more exacting tone on Trump. In a tweet, he lashes out at CNN in particular: "CNN just doesn't get it, and that's why their ratings are so low - and getting worse. Boring anti-Trump panelists, mostly losers in life!" He does have a style about him. He kind of reminds me of Charlie Sheen. ... ... Greg Sargent tweets, "Trump is now slamming Maureen Dowd. If there's anything that will finally get certain media types angry, that's it." ... ... There was a suspicious explosion in New York tonight, an area called Chelsea, something set in a dumpster. No one was killed, and the explosion seems to be rather week for an act of terrorism, but this is still the suspicion. One person tweeted, "The world is just scary, man. I'm really hoping all my friends in NYC are safe." ... ... I've discovered a new way to work off some Internet restlessness: just search Twitter, stick in a word or name, or click on what is trending, which is how I came upon the Chelsea incident. I clicked on 'Chelsea' thinking it was about Chelsea Clinton. Just about the whole world seems connected to Twitter, from celebrities to high school teenagers.