There’s Got to Be a Morning After

“Look, I really don’t want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you’re alive, you’ve got to flap your arms and legs, you got to jump around a lot, you got to make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death. And therefore, as I see it, if you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy, or at least your thoughts should be noisy, colorful and lively.”

American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter, Mel Brooks, was born on this day in 1926.

I didn’t watch the debate last night.

If you did, do you feel more secure about our country? Do you feel more secure about your candidate?

I will say that, based on the commentary and the memes (glorious memes) it was not a good night for Joe Biden and the Democrat Party. That’s as far as I’m going with that…for now.

As a recovering political junkie, you never quite get over it, part of me wants to provide my own commentary. But I don’t want to play that game.

I’m probably getting a little too close to it by the links I post at the end of these articles.

I was supposed to see a theater event last night, and as the wife also had a music rehearsal, she picked up am Asian dinner on the way home. I promptly had a violent reaction and spent the evening with chills aches and nausea.

I’m better this morning, just very week.

Sort of like the rest of the country feels after the debate.

Too soon?

I won’t name the establishment that made me ill. Let’s just call it Speedy Black and White Bear.

It’s the weekend and there is much to do. Today I’m sort of recovering from last night’s experience.

Sort of like the rest of the country.

I’ll be fine.

I hope the country will.

IN OTHER NEWS

BIDEN’S DISASTROUS DEBATE: Democrats in ‘full-on panic,’ openly discussing replacing Biden before convention after ‘extremely feeble’ performance
Joel C. Rosenberg at All Israel News
President Joe Biden on Thursday night delivered the single most disastrous debate performance in American political history.

Trump Indicted For Murdering Elderly Man On CNN
The Babylon Bee
ATLANTA — Tonight’s presidential debate ended abruptly when Donald Trump was served with papers notifying him that he had been indicted for the murder of an elderly man on CNN.

This woman says United kicked her off a flight after using the “wrong pronouns” for a flight attendant. Watch her interaction with airline staff.
Not the Bee
There still could be some alternative explanation here, but having it on video is pretty compelling.

How ‘Enter Sandman’ became the most electric entrance in college football
HokieSports.com
Regarded as college football’s greatest entrance, ’Enter Sandman’ dates back to Aug. 27, 2000, when

Photo: KD Fantatics

Virginia Tech installed the first videoboard in Lane Stadium. A new videoboard means a new walkout song, and ‘Enter Sandman’ won out over ‘Welcome to the Jungle’ by Guns N’ Roses and ‘Sirius’ by The Alan Parsons Project.

Cedar Fair and Six Flags announce closing date for merger
QCN Morning News
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) – Cedar Fair and Six Flags executives announced Wednesday that federal regulators approved the companies’ merger and the deal will close on July 1.

 

 

ALSO BORN ON THIS DAY

1491 – Henry VIII of England (d. 1547)
1703 – John Wesley, English cleric and theologian (d. 1791)
1932 – Pat Morita, American actor (d. 2005)
1946 – Gilda Radner, American actress and comedian (d. 1989)
1948 – Kathy Bates, American actress
1960 – John Elway, American football player and manager

Available on Amazon.

 

BENEDICTION


 

Thursday Inspiration

Not listening! IYKYK

If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you’ll never be a novelist.

Neil Gaiman

True story: In high school I thought I was a poet.

I was not.

It’s also true. I have unfinished novels that sit on a shelf or in an external hard drive waiting for inspiration.

But I was also inspired to start a new one last night. One that might actually get finished.

The lack of inspiration also applies to blogging.

Regular readers (both of you) may have noted that I did not post yesterday. I tried. But by about 9:00 p.m. on Tuesday, it just wasn’t happening.

It’s a challenge because, as you may or may not have noticed, I’m expanding the information on this blog with a few sidebars, some extra notes and items that may or may not be of interest.

Time. Consuming.

At least once a day I ask myself it it’s worth it. I think it is. If for no other reason than to keep me in the practice of putting words on a page.

It’s also helped that I’ve mostly stopped the television binging. Earlier in the spring I binged This is Us which I highly recommend. Then I re-watched Suits which started out great but I had to force myself to finish it out of stubbornness and because I’d never seen the last season,

This summer’s writing is helped by the fact that Dr. Who is finished for the season, and there’s only one more episode of The Chosen which was delayed until Sunday because of some debate or something.

No, I’m not watching that either. I’m going to the theater.

I’ve given the second season of House of the Dragon two episodes. I’m not sure they’ll get three.

And no, I’m not going back to The Rings of Power.

Lest you think I’m avoiding the writing because I’m binging television and movies, those shows are generally on in the background while I work on another project.

Maybe it’s the age of the Internet and social media, but I can’t simply sit still and watch something. I have to multi-task.

Which I why I’m behind on several of the Best Picture winners. Subtitles don’t allow me to multi-task.

I’m not sure where I’m going with this. Maybe nowhere.

At the same time, movies and television are often where I draw my inspiration.

You know, like “I can write better crap.”

Let’s go get inspired.

IN OTHER NEWS

Axios omits crucial details about economists who say Trump will destroy the economy
FOX News
The letter’s Nobel Prize-winning signatories show political donations to President Biden’s 2020 and 2024 campaigns. The signatories also donated tens of thousands of dollars to other Democrat candidates and signed previous letters supporting Biden’s agenda, including attacking “selfish and reckless” Trump, a Fox News Digital review found.

 

Squad Gives 21 Fire Alarm Salute For Their Fallen Comrade Jamaal Bowman
The Babylon Bee
The Squad chose to honor him with a fire alarm salute because of his propensity for pulling fire alarms to delay votes

BORN ON THIS DAY

1880 – Helen Keller, American author, academic, and activist (d. 1968)
1927 – Bob Keeshan, American actor and producer (d. 2004)
1930 – Ross Perot, American businessman and politician (d. 2019)
1949 – Vera Wang, American fashion designer
1960 – Jeremy Swift, English actor
1966 – J. J. Abrams, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1975 – Tobey Maguire, American actor

Available on Amazon.

BENEDICTION