Pepperpotpourri

For the time being I have a normal body temperature & am able to function at 73%. I am back in Ohio & catching up on all the news that happened while I was fevrile & singing old show tunes with Care Bears.

Poor Gerald Ford. Isn't it just so Ford of him to die right after the Godfather of Soul went nipples up? They can close the post offices & show memorials, parades & burials on all the major networks, but people will still be talking more about James Brown than him. The poor guy. He walked into an Oval Office of shame & did the best he could, with all the dignity he could muster, while Chevy Chase was portraying him as a clumsy dunderhead on SNL. I'll give him this, he had great taste in women. He married a sassy dancer, he should get some props for nailing Betty down. Nonetheless, his death is rather anticlimactic after we lost the Hardest Working Man in Show Business. It reminded me of when Michael Kennedy skiied into a tree & died at Aspen, then Sonny Bono did the same thing shortly after. The nation was all talked out about the dangers of skiing where there are trees, so Sonny was just a deja vu news bit. To make matters worse, they did not have dignified deaths. Kennedy & Bono met with Wile E. Coyote endings that probably sent them both to Cloud 13, along with people who stuck their tongues in light sockets.

Oprah Winfrey has opened a 30 million dollar school in South Africa, for girls! Fat white men everywhere should be feeling spine tingles these days because they have something before them that has never been seen....a feminist with her own money. She doesn't have her daddy's money, her late husband's money, she has her own mother-grabbing money & she's using it to create educated women. That Oprah is one smart cookie. She knows that it is pointless to try to get the powers that be to enact change, so she is creating a master generation of cognitively charged women who will do it themselves. I'm glad Oprah has all the money. She knows what to do with it.

Since Synergy was a wasteland last night, I also got to check out some movies. I offer a quote from each:

"I'm not a pessimist, I see the glass as half full. But I believe that it is poisoned." (Woody Allen in Scoop)

"Why is the rum always gone?" (Captain Jack Sparrow)