I will be vacationing in California for the next week. Guest blogging will be…no one. I need to get one of them. Or get a Guess Blogger:
MONDAY
“A tiger?”
TUESDAY
“Patrick Swayze?”
WEDNESDAY
“Ooh, I got it. Seigfried & Roy!”
Update: “Really? Damn.”
The original title for this post was “Water: The Silent Killer.” I’m trying to be more alarmist in my life. For example. today I am going to write “‘Death” on lots of slips of paper and tape them to my roommates’ unhealthy food. “Death Pockets.” “Death-a-Roni.” “Death by Death by Chocolate.” Then when they throw their food away, I’ll pluck it out of the trash and put on the real label: “Sucker Pockets.”
But then I realized water isn’t a silent killer. If you were actually killed by water, like by choking after taking a drink from a water fountain, it would be a noisy death. Lots of gurgling and arm flailing. It would be ghoulishly ironic too, killed by the source of all life.
This NPR story, “Five Myths About Drinking Water,” is not alarmist at all. It’s very good, in fact. The myths are actual myths, not the usual “myths” that are debunked like “Sea water is salty because fishes fart salt. MYTH: NOT TRUE.” (Thanks, Dateline NBC!)
I don’t think it’s possible to know whether a movie will be good by an ad in a newspaper. But I do think it’s possible to know whether it will be bad by that ad.
Case study: Superhero Movie, a spoof on superhero movies starring Leslie Nielsen.
Sounds promising, yes? The superhero genre is a rich vein to mine, and Leslie Nielsen is a funny guy. But I fear the movie is absolutely horrible, based solely on an ad for it that I saw in The Washington Post. Read the rest of this entry »
