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It's raining. You know what this means: It's not snowing. This is a cause for much rejoicing and much celebration. Or it's the cause of that huge puddle on the street. This also means that some of the snow should melt away, leaving us with only five foot snow banks instead of the ten foot banks we've had all winter.
Dave and Dan both have colds, sore throats, sneezing, raspy coughs. So who wants to start a pool for when I get the cold? Wednesday? Thursday? I'll put ten bucks on Wednesday at midnight!
Since Monday is depressing, and rainy mondays are also depressing, even if the rain means winter is mostly over, here's a neat little game to make monday a little less grey and a little more colourful: An interactive collection of Mad Al Jaffe Fold-Ins. just place the mouse on the right side, drag and drop and see the fold in magic! Back in Mad Mgazine's golden age of 1965 to 1985 the fold in were one of the many highlights of the magazine. Always brilliantly and cleverly executed they always conveyed a pointed and often timeless message. Years later many of these fold ins are still relevant to today's news stories. Number two, where the bloodiest battles are being fought, was originally referring to vietnam, today there is still relevance in the Iraq/Afghanistan debacle the world finds itself in, having learned nothing from vietnam. And the election battles this time are just as brutal. Some of the mid sixties early seventies fold ins are quite trippy and reflect how mainstream drug culture had become in that era.
We still have a bunch of old Mads hanging around somewhere, dating from 1968 to about 88. I can't bear to throw them out even though they have been read and enjoyed to shreds. The kids read them when they were teens. We all noticed how similar the Lord of the rings Movies were to Mad's long ago "The Ring and I" musical, and they loved Star Wars, the empire strikes Out and some of the other stories and cartoons. Mad is but a shadow of what it once was, the edge is gone, the bite is more like old man gums rather than shark tooth sharp.
We didn't do much on the weekend. We turned off most of our lights at eight o'clock, Dan had to use his laptop by candlelight...so many of these so called "grass roots" eco drives seem to be nothing more than pissing in the ocean, if you'll pardon mon Francaise. On the news there was some little kid parroting what he heard at a school's Earth hour assembly, something about a home using the same amount of electricity in one day as a McDonald's sign uses in one hour and that's why we had to turn off our lights for one hour. I'm not sure about his facts, but it seems to me that the problem isn't home lighting, but too many McDonalds (and others) signs gobbling up too many kilowatts simply to tell us Billions and billions served bad food. I's quite ironic That Branson...the guy from Virgin started the big "flick off" campaign, when his store signs are huge electricity wasters. Something not right, somehow the blame is being deflected and attention taken away from the biggest electricity wasters. Changing home light bulbs to those awful buzzing popping flickering compact fluorescents is not going to help when the biggest consumers and wasters of electricity is business and industry. Do those office towers and shopping centers and stores really need all the lights on all day and all night?
So that's all i have to say today. not much, i know. but the snow is melting and I have started some flower seeds, so that's good, isn't it? Later!
