Electric Josh

"When GM goes down, it will take us all down with it."
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Lib is sick, and has written a one-act play about colds.
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You may have heard of the Blizzard of 2006, which just finished pillaging the eastern seaboard, burning hospitals and firing shots at passerby. There was, indeed, a snowstorm. About a foot of snow fell, and it was pretty windy. I went for a quick walk during the height of the storm, and I required a hat and gloves, along with a long-sleeved coat. We spent the afternoon indoors. When the snowfall started to taper off, I went outside to brush the snow off the car and push it off the driveway with a shovel. I chatted with the neighbors, then came in for dinner. It was terrible! Generations hence there will be reverent whispers of that storm to end them all—the one that demanded three hours of live television coverage: snow in New England!—The Blizzard of '06. (When I'm old I will call it "aught-six" in order to seem more grizzled.)
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So NBC has the rights to the Olympics, which probably cost them billions of dollars to secure. What, I ask you, then, is the local NBC affiliate showing? I'll tell you: live coverage of a snowstorm, reported live! by reporters standing live! out in the snowstorm and reminding us live! not to drive too fast. Live! Mind you, this is the same snowstorm that we can see by looking out the window, and if we really wanted to see live pictures of people standing around in the snow we'd put our cranky two-year-olds out in the snow and look at them. But that's not what this space wants to spend naptime doing; we'd like the poor child to sleep. This space really just wants to have a nice cup of coffee and watch the Olympics on the local NBC affiliate. Kind of a catch-22, I guess.
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A weblog entitled DFL. "Celebrating last-place finishes at the Olympics. Because they're there, and you're not." This is ingenious. (Here is what DFL stands for.)
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Reporters and parrots.
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So I didn't even notice this space's fourth anniversary going by yesterday. Um, I can't possibly have had that much interesting to say...
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