Brrr. Not complaining; just noting. Flower-slaying frost expected, which really is too soon. All that work, and they perish in a night.
Okay, I am complaining.
Not enough for a dirty bomb, but perhaps enough for a lightly-soiled one?
I’m still haunted by the Donkey Down the Well. Did they fill up the hole? If the donkey wanders off again and tumbles down into the pit, I’d hate to be the owner. Don’t think he’d get much sympathy from the firefighters this time. You get one donkey-down-the-well per year, I think.
On the other hand, there’s something odd about that picture, isn’t there? The more I think of it, the more I wonder how the donkey managed to move around into a sitting position. It’s possible that the donkey was placed there by subterfuge. Also a block-and-tackle. This might be a ploy. Maybe someone’s shopping the rigths to Hollywood as we speak. The entire fire department is in on it. Who’d suspect? We see a donkey in a well, you have one thought: poor donkey. It overrides the journalist’s innate skepticism. I'm keeping my eye on this one.
Bus driver suspended for drinking on job. Good. We mention this only *because* this story from KAAL TV “seems” to be striving to *mimic* TV reporter emphasis through "novel" punctuation.
Seeing a movie this weekend? An ad in today’s paper touts DRAGON WARS, which concerns dragons, and their war on humanity. Another Merchant-Ivory production, I assume. Below the title, the ad says: “D-WAR.” That’s nice of them: they’ve provided a helpful hip, knowing abbreviation for the target audience. Those in the know call it D-WAR. Hey man, you want to see D-WAR? Nah, I’d rather see J-EYR at the Guthrie. I mean the G.
More later, or not; slow day in buzzland. Which is a good thing, when you think about it. If a dragon falls down a well, though, we’ll be on it in a sec.
TV news story
That story about the bus driver was not only filled with odd, annoying punctuation, someone neglected to capitalize "Grand Meadow High School" and "Mower County." I've noticed that the web site for one of my local news shows is in desperate need of an editor, too. It must be a common problem.
Re: Dragon Wars...it looks like one of the worst movies ever, on par with Starship Troopers, which I thought was just unbearable. My husband read up on "D-WAR" and says that it is based on a Korean film, and that there is actually a plot in there somewhere. I don't plan to watch it to find out.