It was four years ago that I posted the photo (left) of a rock feature I built to enhance a sculpture we bought at a North Carolina garden store.
But four years is a long time in homeowner-land. Something had to happen, and it did. We now have running water in rich, zen-like stereophonic sound.
Next up: fixing the mailbox post that was sideswiped by a truck back in October 2010.
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• I don’t understand why, after negotiations with the sniper in the parking garage failed, Dallas police decided to use a bomb to kill the shooter instead of, say, tear gas. I wonder whether the minute-to-minute story will ever be told.
• Let’s pretend for a minute that I could prove that Allah/God/Yahweh does not exist. Would such a proof undermine the flimsy rationale for most of our world’s terrorism, violence and oppression, or would the perpetrators just invent another justification for the inhumanities and indecencies they are already wont to commit? I would say the latter.
• Animals are smart, a lot smarter than we are. They don’t have ineffectual politicians telling them where to go to the bathroom and who they may love. No, they simply nip each other now and then, to let each other know who is top dog in the arena. Then, to mark their territory, they piss on a tree. Humans get arrested for pissing on trees. Oh, to have the wisdom of an animal.
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There is the real world and then there is the world of television game shows.
There could be an embassy bombing. There could be a mass shooting at a rally or at a mall, or in an elementary school or at a university. There could be yet another person killed by cops for driving while black, standing while black, or breathing while black.
But in the midst of that, whatever may have transpired today, there are two things you can count on: Wheel of Fortune at 7:00 pm and Jeopardy at 7:30 pm.
Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy are recorded well in advance of their air dates, so we can hardly expect those shows to be topical. But we can and should expect our local television stations to be topical. We should expect station managers, and the owners who hire them, to be sensitive to the day’s events and substitute community-based programming for the time-slot fillers that usually air in the early evening.
But that would be a little too creative. And cost a little too much money.
Some are interested in solving puzzles and answering trivia questions in the wake of police officers being assassinated or the next black person unjustly killed. Who are the escapists who would rather watch game shows than face facts? The answer is too close to home.
Sadly, it’s not like television gets real when Jeopardy is over. Americans can maintain their privileged disconnect from reality by switching to The O’Reilly Factor at 8:00 pm.