More thoughts that don't have the steam (or maybe I just don't) to be their own blog entries.
--Completed 200 pages of my novel manuscript, and we're rolling right along.
--Sox's text polls are actually advertisements for AT&T and for whatever options are available. For example, today's poll is for the fans to vote for their favorite non-Sox event at Fenway Park. Options are Picnic in the Park (happening soon), Frozen Fenway (advertised heavily throughout this game), concerts (several coming up) and...well, you get the idea. Each text is $.99 for AT&T, of course. So the sponsor makes out, and the Sox ownership, which also owns Fenway, makes out. A win-win. And they show which option leads by using percent scores, so an option that has 10% could have 100 of 1000 total votes--or 1 of 10 total votes.
--I'm looking forward to seeing Boardwalk Empire and The Following. What shows are you looking forward to?
--Just in the past two weeks, a 1 1/2 year old baby in a stroller, and a 1-year old baby in her babysitter's arms, have been shot dead, the latter yesterday in New Orleans. What the hell is going on? Defense exhibit 256,348 about why I mostly keep to myself and stay in my own cave. It's a crazy, dangerous world out there.
--And, oh yeah, an 88-year old World War II vet was beaten to death by two teenagers, one of whom said the old man was trying to cheat him on a crack deal. Camera footage clearly shows the youths beating the snot out of the old man, and does not show anything at all that would indicate a drug deal.
--Reading a good book slows down this very crazy world. Or, it seems that way to me.
--I've got a bet with a friend that Jerry Remy will return this year to NESN to broadcast games for the Sox. My friend says he'll never return, not even next year. I think, and hope, that he's wrong.
--The nighttime darkness falls like a heavy curtain now, at least in my neck of the woods.
--The latest iPhone commercial is yet another example of how most commercials are better without a set, typical script. Music and images that highlight the use of the product make great commercials.
--I don't know if striking Syria is what we wanna do. I say this while knowing admittedly nothing at all of the situation over there. But the latest I heard, the Syrian attack on its own civilians--while despicable, of course--have not been a danger to this country, and / or our allies. I suspect there's something that went on, or that has been threatened, that we don't know about, but we're spreading ourselves sort of thin already. Does Syria have WPDs, or has it threatened terrorist attacks here? If I'm severely out of line, or misinformed, please (nicely) let me know.
--I told someone today that horror movies don't scare me. The daily news, however, horrifies daily.
--Nice to know someone else famous felt the same way. From Robert Frost's "Desert Places" (and, whoa! As I type this, a car commercial's narrator says the phrase "the road less traveled." Scary symmetry, man...):
They cannot scare me with their empty spaces
Between stars–on stars where no human race is.
I have it in me so much nearer home
To scare myself with my own desert places.
(Me, again.) Is it me, or is Frost saying that the human race is the scariest thing in the universe?
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