Hectic time of the year for blue collar Americans who work in retail and my feet can attest to the miles I’ve covered hunting down everything from Christmas decorations to jars of mincemeat. Hopefully, within the next few days I’ll manage a somewhat thoughtful blog post, but in the meantime here are a few items of interest.
Malcolm Pollack’s blog – he’s been busier than little Billy compiling a list for Santa, with many interesting links, ranging from fascinating to freakish.
Last night my son, Jeffrey stopped by for a few minutes and he insisted I observe a science experiment in my kitchen, where I provided him with the required candle (experiment #3 here). All in the same evening he pulled out his smartphone and pulled up some app called Speech Jammer, which he insisted I try out. Here’s an article on how Speech Jammer works and of course, YouTube is chock full of videos of people demonstrating how it works.
Another excellent piece by G. Murphy Donovan, “Literary Funambulism” at the New English Review worth checking out.
Time to go face the throngs of oh so cheerful shoppers, who make my holidays so bright, lol. At least the weather’s been hanging in the 70s this week, so I don’t have to contend with irritated Northern implants to the Deep South griping that we don’t have ice scrapers. A few years back, a customer was irate when we got a few snow flurries and he wanted a snow shovel, rofl. Try amazon.com when all else fails is my answer, disloyal as that may be to actual brick and mortar stores. I’ve had amazing luck with amazon.com. And last, but not least, here is a link to Horace Jeffery Hodges book, which I just purchased this morning…. at naturally, amazon.com. Have a nice day!
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