Author: Vince
Guilt and Chanel No. 5
I am not the target audience for Gilmore Girls.
Gilmore Girls was on the WB, was ostensibly about a mother/daughter (Lorelei/Rory) who were best friends, and had a lot of talking. A lot of talking. Enough talking to make Aaron Sorkin look terse. Scripts for the show were famously 50% longer than any other show on TV because there was SO. MUCH. TALKING.
All of that means the target audience was a third to half my age and a different gender.
And yet, were I to have to choose between my heretofore favorite comedy (the first five years of Cheers) and GG for the infamous desert island, I would be hard-pressed to pick.
Their Hearts Will Ache
To Sin By Silence
While watching an episode of Burns’ “Vietnam” tonight (unbelievably compelling, by the way), I saw the first sentence here on a sign, attributed to Lincoln. Intrigued, I went spelunking on the interwebs. As is so often the case, the attribution turned out to be wrong; it was written in the very early 1900’s by poet(ess?) Ella Wheeler Wilcox. The entire poem from which it was taken is remarkably relevant today.
To sin by silence, when we should protest,
Makes cowards out of men. The human race
Has climbed on protest. Had no voice been raised
Against injustice, ignorance, and lust,
The inquisition yet would serve the law,
And guillotines decide our least disputes.
Protesting the Protests of the Protest
protest (prō-test), n., an organized public demonstration expressing strong objection to a policy or course of action adopted by those in authority.
I was going to stay out of this; there are way too many talking heads out here already. But then I read yesterday morning that the pastor of FBC Dallas felt the need to weigh in.
These players ought to be thanking God that they live in a country where they’re not only free to earn millions of dollars every year, but they’re also free from the worry of being shot in the head for taking the knee like they would be in North Korea.
Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes
Since I had some time on my hands, I’ve made a few changes to the site. The biggest you (hopefully) won’t notice; I converted the WordPress theme to a child theme to make it easier to update. I also made a couple of cosmetic changes that only the most a-r of you will notice, which means if you call them out you will be so labeled.
Lastly, I added a plugin that lets you hover over “footnotes” to see the text, instead of having to click on them and go to the bottom. It makes for an easier reading experience, IMO.