Nada or Just a Small Segment

Nothing exciting happened in my life today, so this will probably be a experiment in writing about Nothing. Perhaps I will end up doing a James Joyce mental streaming segment in which whatever is in my mind will emerge in print. We will see. I did finally watch The Big Bang Theory on CBS. Funny, but not a show that will be remembered in the History of Creative Television. The actors are working their nuts off bring their nerd characters to life, but it is a throw-away show. The big news in the heartland is that Oprah is coming to Des Moines on Dec. 8 to campaign for Obama. It will probably be the high point of the local political season. Maybe she will get a motorcade through downtown. The local Walmart today had a widescreen tube showing Shrek 3 in HD; Very bright sharp picture quality, but the local cable company will probably raise rates next winter when we have to go to HD. I could use the extra bucks monthly put into my nestegg instead of having super sharp picture. We will have to see what happens. I found a copy of Charles Peters' book on the 1940 campaign between FDR and Wilkie. Interesting account of a topic I knew very little about. An interesting angle of the history is that Wilkie was an alchoholic. That leads to some interesting speculation on what would have happened to the course of WW2 if he had beaten Roosevelt in '40, with a booze problem. I know--Churchill had the same problem as Wilkie. Last night I wrote some stuff about the goofy video I bought called Sonny Boy. I should mention that the bad people in the movie cut out Sonny's tongue. Now I wil reveal that a good doctor gave Sonny a monkey's tongue, and he was able to talk then. I did rent the other night a video of 7 Brides for 7 Brothers--which I have never seen, except in little clips of the dancing. I was very disappointed in 7... Yes, it had Howard Keel and Jane Powell--but the music was not really very good, the Michael Kidd dancing segments were not all that impressive, and the ending was not done very well. I just have never been as impressed with most of the MGM musicals I have watched over the years that film buffs think are great cinema art. My critical opinion! This is going to be all for right now. This is not going to be looked upon as one of the great bloggings of all time, but eventually I will create a total masterpiece. Till then, you take care. Di di mau!