Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

"I've discovered that in show business you find some of your best costars on the dinner plate." -- Kermit the Frog, discussing how he met Pepe the King Prawn on a salad, on The Late Late Show with Craig Furguson, 2005-05-12 (wee hours on East Coast; not sure which side of midnight it airs in other time zones). Quote approximate, as I wasn't taping it.

Still not feeling well, not enough energy for the Must-Do things, even less for the Really-Want-To-Do list (so yah, I'm behind on reading my friends page again). Of three rehearsals this week, I've missed two so far (but still entertain a sliver of hope that I'll get to tonight's, and to the gig on Saturday).

But I really feel like whining about something else for a while, for a change of pace. Okay, more snarking than whining -- just changing subjects isn't enough...

(I'll try to get around to posting something in honour of "post good news on LJ day" later, but most of this entry was already typed up, and I've got more urgent things on my plate, so no promises.)

From the "suspension of disbelief" department:

%twitch% "Satellite photos show that the man who ..." [cut to a photo taken from about chin-level, with enough resolution to show laugh lines]. %sputter% If the satellite's shooting at that low an angle, it's lucky that there were no trees or buildings in the way, and gosh that's an awful lot of atmosphere to look through. Television folks who don't get camera angles? (Okay, in hindsight the intent could've been "satellite photos show it's this guy, and here's a better photo of him than the reconaissance photos." So maybe my problem is more the dialogue than the camera angle.)

From the "where in the world?" department:

This morning I got email advertising an oud concert. That seems an unlikely topic for spam, so I read farther looking for a location. I found the name of the hall but not the city ... but the fact that the admission fee is in pounds instead of dollars suggests that maybe, just maybe, it isn't local. A global mailing to advertise a concert? An announcement to a mailing list or newsgroup I could see ... or even an advertisment of an international tour ... but this is just too much a reminder of the canonical-example "car for sale in NJ" post with a worldwide distribution on Usenet, y'know?

And in the "not a snark, more a reminder to discuss later" department:

Looking at patterns in my speech and writing, I've noticed a technique I've been using a lot, which when I looked at it more closely I realized is the idiomatic 'like' construction familiar from parodies of 1980s/1990s youthspeak, with the 'like' implied instead of written out. There's a little rearranging to compensate, but it's a similar method of joining memes. I wonder how intelligible my writing would be to a reader from a hundred years ago.