Thursday, January 05, 2006
As a favor to a friend of a friend, please vote for Magic the Standard Poodle. It's actually a trained "service" dog who helps an elderly woman.
Watching the last part of the Paul Anka concert on PBS, I know how his kind of showroom act heads into the last turn & down the home stretch., & it's fun watching a pro, he's entitled. The tribute/duet with Sammy (a strange song Paul wrote for aTV special closer); the "ringer" with the cell phone that sets up a comedy bit he does in every show: & I wonder how often a tall woman makes in on stage for the dance with Paul segment - "I picked a woman my own size." Naturally the tribute/duet with Frank on "My Way" for the standing ovation. Exhorting everyone to stay standing for "New York, New York." I'm a willing participant to this point. But then asking me to put my arm around a total stranger next me as Paul ends the show with "Tears In Heaven" dedicated to victims of terrorism (I think that's who he meant), in a moment of communal spirituality Vegas-style, & I'm not even all there with the Love Hug in a church, baby.
About every other month I have to walk through downtown Elizabeth, which gives me an opportunity to check how our insane trade deficit with China is going. Walmart correctly gets blamed for much of the retail part of this deficit, but there's a lot of Chinese stuff downtown you won't find even at the Supersize R Us Store. & the working conditions & wages in the places that sell it are often lousy. Fortunately for me, The Contrarian has already browsed Elizabeth to find The finest products Chinese slave labor has to offer, in two blog posts that are among the best I read in 2005.
Watching the last part of the Paul Anka concert on PBS, I know how his kind of showroom act heads into the last turn & down the home stretch., & it's fun watching a pro, he's entitled. The tribute/duet with Sammy (a strange song Paul wrote for aTV special closer); the "ringer" with the cell phone that sets up a comedy bit he does in every show: & I wonder how often a tall woman makes in on stage for the dance with Paul segment - "I picked a woman my own size." Naturally the tribute/duet with Frank on "My Way" for the standing ovation. Exhorting everyone to stay standing for "New York, New York." I'm a willing participant to this point. But then asking me to put my arm around a total stranger next me as Paul ends the show with "Tears In Heaven" dedicated to victims of terrorism (I think that's who he meant), in a moment of communal spirituality Vegas-style, & I'm not even all there with the Love Hug in a church, baby.
About every other month I have to walk through downtown Elizabeth, which gives me an opportunity to check how our insane trade deficit with China is going. Walmart correctly gets blamed for much of the retail part of this deficit, but there's a lot of Chinese stuff downtown you won't find even at the Supersize R Us Store. & the working conditions & wages in the places that sell it are often lousy. Fortunately for me, The Contrarian has already browsed Elizabeth to find The finest products Chinese slave labor has to offer, in two blog posts that are among the best I read in 2005.
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