13: He’s Making a List and Checking It Twice
1. My new line to get people off their phones: Talk to each other like it’s 1995.
2. My favorite new conspiracy theory: Everything’s gonna be all right. – Seen on Facebook
3. Poets tend to wear berets but they should wear newsboy caps, since they are the world’s town criers.
4. It was a very unusual Thanksgiving. We went to Delaware to spend the holiday with Joe’s 94-year-old mother, but when we got there we learned she was in the hospital with a bad cold that was possibly pneumonia. We broke up our Thanksgiving Dinner-To-Go into small groups, fixing our own plates to warm up, so that someone would be with her at the hospital.
5. She turned the corner, the day after Thanksgiving and we had an epic 3-way Scrabble Game using my portable game that features letters that click into place, making it easy to carry the board from her bed to our chairs.
6. Joe and his mom beat me and his nephew by 100 points.
7. We also saw Polar bear plungers at the beach, a Christmas Tree Lighting and a play at the Clear Space Theatre in Rehoboth Beach.
8. Estella Scrooge: It was a Christmas Carol with a Twist, a musical that was a refreshing modern take on Dickens’ A Christmas Carol and Great Expectations and other Dickens’ novels.
9. The apple pie I brought from The Floyd Country Store was a big hit.
10. I knew we were in trouble when I counted four Grinches in the Floyd Christmas Parade this year. The route was also well represented with Kazim Shriner Clowns who were bound to get in a little trouble. And some clowns were grinches. – More HERE.
11. The real reason that Joe and I wore Santa hats to these holiday events was because we both needed haircuts. – See Making a List and Checking it Twice 2016
12. ‘Please stay on the line’ / is another way of ‘doing time’ / with no human speech / or prospect for release/ with a recording that repeats / with a recording that repeats / ‘All calls will be answered / in the order they’re received’-Read A Hold-Up in it’s entirety HERE.
13. A local indoor heated pool would add 10 years to my life.
__________Thirteen Thursday
November 29th, 2023 2:45 pm
Remember when newsboy hats were all the rage about 40 years ago? I think I still have the one I bought then.
November 29th, 2023 3:07 pm
Never had one but I wore a big floppy hippy hat for a while. Still wear cadet army caps.
November 30th, 2023 3:41 pm
#1. Love your line. I use “Talk to me like it’s the 80s.”
#7. When I was in high school, during the aforementioned 80s, my friends and I traveled north every winter from the wilds of northern NY to the closest we could get to the Arctic Circle in northern Quebec to polar plunge.
November 30th, 2023 5:42 pm
I used to wear hats but I haven’t in a while. Weirdly, though, I sleep with a towel wrapped around my head at night to keep the draft from the heat pump air out of my ears. I can’t wear ear plugs.
November 30th, 2023 6:08 pm
Talk like it’s 1995 is a take-off on Prince’s song ‘Dance like it’s 1995,’ which was in the future when it came out.
I can sleep with only one earplug and the other ear on the pillow and have to change when I turn over. If I use two it gives me tinnitus or I can hear an inner wheeze.
December 4th, 2023 7:57 pm
loved the hold up… and 👍🏻, i do end up wearing hats when i need a haircut and even jackets in warm weather when i go pick up my daughter in my pjs!!