I wasn’t sure I’d find the time to write anything this week while traveling to visit my mother in Indiana but somehow, I managed. My thoughts are a bit more scattered than usual, if that’s even possible.
So, I’m all for manufacturing returning to the US, but people have forgotten what came with it. Serious pollution as I recall, and people often forget what they don’t want to remember, don’t ’cha know…
Gary, Indiana, just came to mind (on the road from Indianapolis to Chicago). It was impossible to drive through in 1961 since you had to close all the windows, in our ‘61 Chevy Biscayne, manufactured in Detroit. The horrendous smell really permeated the car, so we kids pinched our noses shut, but it still got through and just wouldn’t stop.
Finally, we all rolled into Chicago, leaving the stench behind. Off to the Chicago Zoo, the Museum of Science & Industry, and the Museum of Natural History. Pollution was out of sight and out of mind, until we got back home to Indianapolis, where the Rock Island Refinery spewed out foul smoke 24/7!
Shall we change the channel? Let’s…
Looks as if we’re seeing fewer arrows gracing YouTube thumbnails these days, thank heavens! Glad you asked about that other silly craze…all those thumbnails sporting that “I’ve just been electrocuted!” look.
Such is the world of social media, so very much like the supermarket tabloids (rag sheets) of my youth.
PeriscopeFilm has a YouTube channel with a huge archive of classic videos. I was reminiscing this week about my Indianapolis high school daze, so films from my 1970 driver’s education class were on the menu…like “Mechanized Death,” “Highways of Agony,” and “Signal 53,” all terribly bloody and gruesome!
I couldn’t watch the films then and found I still couldn’t. The worst part? The screams for help emanating from those trapped inside the mangled wreckage.
As Shakespeare wrote in Act 1, Scene 5 of Hamlet, “O horrible! O horrible! most horrible!”
On the lighter side, I watched the latest Dylan Hour, and the guest was Tony Award winning producer, Alyah Chanelle Scott. I was pleasantly surprised how comfortable Dylan Mulvaney is in the podcast medium, a real natural…
If I were personally in charge of the show, though, I’d have my own way of doing things, don’t ’cha know…I’d keep a lot of the current features but would shorten the broadcast to ½ hour, and add a greater variety of guests.
Including scantily clad, hunky men bringing Miss Mulvaney her cocktails. Did I mention that part?
YouTube’s Panic Button is just plain funny. Those two love to trash Lily Tino (aka Miss Congeniality) and recently came up with some very creative suggestions for Miss Thing. Seems Lily is bewildered about why she’s constantly being “misgendered.”
Yes, Miss Congeniality, you do need vocal training and the sooner, the better.
My advice to you, if you’re so repulsed by the thought of vocal coaching, is to simply…WHISPER, WHISPER, WHISPER!
“Oh, my goodness, I’ve just come down with a terrible case of laryngitis, and I can’t speak a single, solitary word!” That line, delicately delivered, should work, if that’s even possible. Face it, girl, you aren’t exactly the poster child for daintiness!
Furthermore, always remember to wear black, which has a thinning effect. Come to think of it, why not imitate the Lady in Black that visited Valentino’s grave, and wear a large black veil over your head?
If you keep the veil on and don’t say a word, bet no one would ever misgender you. Don’t ’cha think?
Until next time…