{"id":13702,"date":"2016-08-03T23:16:55","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T03:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/?p=13702"},"modified":"2022-08-01T07:43:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T11:43:00","slug":"tots-at-lodge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2016\/08\/tots-at-lodge\/","title":{"rendered":"Tots at Lodge"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2022 If Donald Trump is the “national embarassment” that GOP Congressman Richard Hanna says he is, then so must be the 36% of registered voters who are solidly<\/a> behind Trump, none of whom read this blog.\u00a0 Most of my relatives don’t read it either, which is an even worse embarassment.<\/p>\n

\"Tweesting<\/a>\u2022 I went on Twister the other day and tweeted for the first time.\u00a0 At first, I felt really stupid getting down on my hands and knees, but then I started to enjoy making cuckoo sounds and taking up contorted positions.\u00a0 Now I understand why Donald Trump goes on Twister — he likes to do the very same thing.<\/p>\n

\"Stylized<\/a>\u2022 Leonard Cohen, composer and performer of songs such as So Long Marianne<\/em>, Suzanne,<\/em> Hallelujah<\/em> and The Future<\/a><\/em>, will soon turn 82.\u00a0 I\u00a0never saw him perform live (other than live on video) but wish I had… though I could say that about hundreds of performers.<\/p>\n

Former co-workers, with whom I played poker once a month way back when, mocked me for having the temerity to play a Leonard Cohen album one night.\u00a0 They would remind me of my affront to their sensibilities on many poker nights afterwards, but I went on playing.\u00a0 (Leonard, however, would not be played again).\u00a0 To quote Cohen from Beautiful Losers<\/em>, \u201cMy\u00a0interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.”<\/p>\n

\u2022 What?\u00a0 Oh it’s Twitter<\/em>, not Twister.<\/em>\u00a0 That’s different.\u00a0 Never mind.\u00a0 Love, Emily Litella.<\/p>\n

\u2022 I am pleased to have a new friend, Enrique, whom I have not met in person but hope to one day.\u00a0 I encourage you to introduce yourself to Enrique, via his diverse and eclectic blog Prior Probability<\/a> or his personal, revealing bio, “The Evolution of a Latino Law Professor<\/a>.”\u00a0 It is so nice and unexpected to encounter kindred spirits at my age.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The “fresh” fruit sold in Asheville supermarkets sucks. \u00a0 Yes, I know, we live in the hills, not the citrus belt.\u00a0 Still, the produce in upstate New York supermarkets was much fresher than what is available here.\u00a0 Take plums, for example.\u00a0 \"Image<\/a>Here, even when you buy them in the middle of summer, our plums are hard, reddish-black orbs that must be allowed to “rest” in a fruit bowl for three days.\u00a0 But even after that, the outsides have become mushy, the insides mealy, and the juiciness, to put it tactfully, compromised.<\/p>\n

I love fruit, but I think seasonal fruit was better in the 1960s.\u00a0 It may have been available only a few weeks a year, but those weeks were memorable and juicy.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Seems that I’ve fallen out of the photography habit over the last few years.\u00a0 I no longer feel compelled to record every scene of natural beauty\/graceful decay or every intriguing composition that is presented to me.\u00a0 More often, it seems, the eyes suffice.<\/p>\n

\"An<\/a>\u2022 Do you know what extra-virgin coconut oil<\/a> is good for?\u00a0 It’s good mostly for lining the pockets of people who sell coconut oil.\u00a0 Coconut oil is a commodity that costs 75 cents a pound in bulk but goes for ten times that much when it is sold in a jar with a colorful label at the local Walmart. The\u00a0designation extra-virgin<\/em> means nothing<\/a>, by\u00a0the way, but doesn’t it sound impressive?<\/p>\n

\u2022 To my dismay, almost every time my wife and I spend an evening with another couple, the conversation will devolve into separate man-to-man and woman-to-woman threads, no matter what effort I make to promote or restore groupwise discussion.\u00a0 I like listening and talking to women as much as men — why do I get pigeonholed?<\/p>\n

\u2022 What?\u00a0 Oh it’s Thoughts at Large<\/em>, not Tots at Lodge<\/em>.\u00a0 That’s very different.\u00a0 Never mind. Love, Emily Litella<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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