A Separate Peace
Sep. 17th, 2007 09:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vovat1. First of all (which is why this item has that number one in front of it), does anyone want a free month of Netflix?
2. The satellite is apparently still out at work, so today they were playing a regular soft rock radio station that played a lot of the same songs, but with commercials. I know that kind of music is typical of places of business, but am I alone in preferring to work to something a little more upbeat and/or varied? But anyway, the reason I bring this up is that an announcer was talking about a wheat shortage in Italy, and prefaced the story with, "You know how Italians love pasta!" Stereotype much, Mr. Radio Man?
3. I also learned something that the rest of you pretty much already know, which is that O.J. Simpson was arrested for armed robbery. I guess he didn't want to just ride one crime for the rest of his life. Too bad for him that Johnny Cochran is no longer around.
4. I can't explain why, but there are times when (to use a rather trite metaphor) a wave of peace and contentment will wash over me. But it's usually a fragile calm that can be shattered quite easily, especially when I'm in a chaotic place. Does that ever happen to anyone else, or am I just weird in that respect? Or is that how other people feel most of the time?
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bethje and I watched a few more Simpsons episodes with commentary last night, and I was disappointed to find that they didn't really say that much about the decision to make Ned Flanders sixty years old in "Viva Ned Flanders," despite the fact that this is a clear contradiction of what was established in "Hurricane Neddy." At least with "The Principal and the Pauper," they addressed the fact that a lot of people didn't like the concept of the episode, even if they were really defensive about it. The thing is that, while the controversial idea was the whole plot in "Principal," it was a minor plot device in "Viva," and you'd think they would have come up with something else. I guess it's just another example of how fans care a lot more about continuity and such than actual writers tend to.
2. The satellite is apparently still out at work, so today they were playing a regular soft rock radio station that played a lot of the same songs, but with commercials. I know that kind of music is typical of places of business, but am I alone in preferring to work to something a little more upbeat and/or varied? But anyway, the reason I bring this up is that an announcer was talking about a wheat shortage in Italy, and prefaced the story with, "You know how Italians love pasta!" Stereotype much, Mr. Radio Man?
3. I also learned something that the rest of you pretty much already know, which is that O.J. Simpson was arrested for armed robbery. I guess he didn't want to just ride one crime for the rest of his life. Too bad for him that Johnny Cochran is no longer around.
4. I can't explain why, but there are times when (to use a rather trite metaphor) a wave of peace and contentment will wash over me. But it's usually a fragile calm that can be shattered quite easily, especially when I'm in a chaotic place. Does that ever happen to anyone else, or am I just weird in that respect? Or is that how other people feel most of the time?
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bethje and I watched a few more Simpsons episodes with commentary last night, and I was disappointed to find that they didn't really say that much about the decision to make Ned Flanders sixty years old in "Viva Ned Flanders," despite the fact that this is a clear contradiction of what was established in "Hurricane Neddy." At least with "The Principal and the Pauper," they addressed the fact that a lot of people didn't like the concept of the episode, even if they were really defensive about it. The thing is that, while the controversial idea was the whole plot in "Principal," it was a minor plot device in "Viva," and you'd think they would have come up with something else. I guess it's just another example of how fans care a lot more about continuity and such than actual writers tend to.
