Thirteen for the Thirteenth  |
| Rocket Ship Galileo (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
Lately I've had so many things that I've wanted to blog about, but I can't motivate myself to write the posts. Ideas keep coming to me--ideas that interest me. Do they interest anyone else? But, alas, I don't post and I don't even visit other blogs like I used to. And I'm still cleaning my garage.
This being Friday the 13th, I thought I might post 13 random thoughts that have passed through my mind of late...
1. Here's my defense of Harvey Weinstein.................................
2. This Weinstein thing could take several directions. Wherever it goes, this story could get mighty big going way beyond Harvey. Unless there is some kind of cover-up.
3. By the way, what's happening with that Mandalay Bay shooting? This is starting to get weirder and weirder--as though it weren't weird to begin with.
4. I'd never seen the 1950 film Destination Moon until recently. I was impressed by the accuracy of the science in this cinematic version of Robert Heinlein's Rocket Ship Galileo. Sure there are gaffs and absurdities, but keep in mind this movie came out nearly 70 years ago.
5. Girls in the Boy Scouts just doesn't seem right. When I was a kid I used to like the official BSA magazine Boys' Life. What would they call it now?
6. I don't care what the Boy Scouts do, but please don't mess with the Girl Scouts. Gotta have those cookies. What the heck do Boy Scouts sell anyway?
7. Now and then I tune into CNN just to see what they are reporting. Has anyone else noticed how whenever they do a story about President Trump they lead-in with something negative? I'm sure it's a psychological tactic, but that's one reason why I don't watch much CNN.
8. I watch even less MSNBC--only now and then out of curiosity to see what they are talking about at that moment in time. My moments with MSNBC are usually fleeting.
9. Lately I've been tuning in more to One America News Network (OAN). They present a wider range of news stories than one finds on the other networks. This network reminds me of CNN in the earlier years when it was almost exclusively news stories with little to no opining.
10. Going through a box of cassette tapes that I found in my garage, I reboxed them more neatly, looking at each one as I put it into place. I remembered them all. So many great memories of listening to taped music in the 80s and 90s. The Soundtrack of my Life during those years would be very long, lasting for hours. That box represents a mere fraction of all the cassette tapes I own.
11. I haven't heard too much in the media about the Rohingya "Crisis" in Myanmar (Burma). When I have heard reports they don't seem to correctly jibe with what I've understood about the situation. This problem has been going on for some time and I think it started with the Rohingya people so I don't have much sympathy for them.
12. Halloween is coming and that reminds me of my old job as well as many other memories. My earliest posts on Tossing It Out were all related to Halloween.
13. Sometimes I daydream of moving to some place where I have no connections. Lately I've been monitoring the housing market in Marion, Virginia. Anyone know anything about Marion, Virginia?
Please be sure to come vote on my Battle of the Bands post that will show up on this blog space on Sunday October 15th. This round I'll be picking a song that is Sunday appropriate.
