Hamlet: "The air bites shrewdly; it is very cold."
Horatio: "It is a nipping and an eager air."
Yes.. it looks like Summer/Autumn is over, so let's get used to it.
I have one hour to dispense fantastic information to the world; well, maybe just to the 2 or 3 folks who read these words. (I wonder if those Japanese English students are still using my blog as an English lesson?)
01. Bzzzzz!
I'm looking at a picture of Burt Shavitz, the co-founder of Burt's Bees. The ad copy says: "Wise and wry, ornery and opinionated, the reclusive Shavits is committed to living off the land and keeping true to his humble beginnings, despite his celebrity status."
I see a lot in his picture:
1. He wears a New Bedford scallop shell belt buckle as I do, on occasion.
2. He lives in a log house, similar to one that my long-lost brother helped his friend to build in Bucyrus, Ohio.
3. He has a gray and white Robertson beard that needs trimming.
4. Gigantic Maine pine trees surround his house. (If you go to Maine, you will get the wonderful constant smell of pine trees in your nostrils. Marcel Proust would let you know that this smell will bring you memories of Maine for the rest of your life.)
5. He is wearing a New Bedford Whaling Museum cap. It is arranged so the logo doesn't show, but we cognoscenti know that it is there, just above his hair line.
6. His house is raised from the ground so that bears and other wild animals can't make it inside.
7. He is seated on a caned Shaker chair made near Springfield, Massachusetts.
8. Harder to see, are the millions of Maine mosquitoes attacking every inch of his bare skin sticking out from under his red and white Maine shirt. (At the time of this picture, his famous bees have retired to their hive for a nice quiet sleep.)
02. Freedom of religion?
Harper's Index says that 30 countries require their rulers to belong to a particular religion.
03. Freedom of location?
Doctor Kushner says that if I don't start to lose weight, I'll have to apply for my own zip code.
04. Lower your blood pressure?
The Harvard Heart Letter: A new device called the Rheos system may lower blood pressure by as much as 35 points. It works like a pacemaker.
05. Encounter?
Mufon Journal: Udo Wartena (1903-1989) said that he once encountered an alien crew that landed in Montana. He says he was invited onboard while they extracted a large quantity of water from a stream. He says he was told that they live among us from time to time to monitor the "progression and retrogression) of earth society. These folks could easily pass as humans.
06. Catholic Viewpoints.
Catholic University Student, Jeffrey Peters, says that the recent job switch of conservative Cardinal Ramond Burke was not retaliation by Pope Francis for not agreeing with his supposed modified view of abortion and same sex marriage. He says this "erroneous viewpoint" was dispensed by the "left-wing media."
In my opinion, based on my readings of Jeff's periodic writings, he will make an excellent conservative priest, but not a person with the ability to look past his own perceptions. I wonder what he would say about the Transgender Day of Remembrance, to be observed by Cedarhurst Unitarian Universalists.
07. Hello! Are you there?
When people complain about their telephone service, I would refer them to the recent call from the robotic probe, Philae.. which sent photos and data back to earth from a comet 300 million miles away!
08. Get me 'outta here!
Harper's Index reports that 5 inmates in Quebec, Canada prisons have escaped by helicopter in the last 15 months.
09. Opinions on The Human Race.
Jon Winokur lists in the Funny Paper:
H.L. Mencken: "The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal."
Mark Twain: "Such is the human race, often it seems a pity that Noah didn't miss the boat."
Anatole France: "The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever."
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Enough!
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