Temperatures reached the boiling point in Washington
last week and it's not even August. SHOCK & AW
came to The District compliments of Michael Moore in
the form of Fahrenheit 9/11.
By now you've probably taken a glance at the movie
poster on the left and by now you're probably
thinking I'm going to go on and on and on about
this movie. But, I'm not. Actually I'm trying to fool
you......although I doubt my readers can be
fooled.
You do know what they say about fooling don't you?
"There's an old saying in
Tennessee... well, it's an old saying in Texas, I
believe also in Tennessee. "Fool me once..."
"... shame on you".
"Fool me..."
"I won't get fooled again."
Geez, did I say that?
It was also a week of literary overkill.
Let's see...there was Bill Clinton's "My Life", Bill
Clinton's "My Life" and Bill Clinton's "My Life". Then,
there was Bill Clinton's "My Life" on audio and Bill
Clinton's "My Life" on CD. It's exhausting.
Anxious buyers camped out at Politics and Prose the
night before its release because it went on sale at
midnight. They paid $35.00 for "My Life", I went
to Costco.
All the latest best-sellers were there: "Eats,
Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to
Punctuation"; "Dress Your Family in Corduroy and
Denim"; "The Five People You Meet in Heaven"; "My
Pet Goat"; "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the
Night-Time"; and "The Secret Life of Bees".
The one I liked best though was "Michael Moore is a
Big Fat Stupid White Man" and Al Franken didn't even
write it. The reason I liked it was because the
authors dish back and I like to see 'fair and balanced'.
I was actually there to pick up a book for my friend
Jodi whose birthday it is on Thursday. We're going
to celebrate even if Al Franken says no one should
do that after eleven. It's not that I'm cheap, but
$19.95 is better than $35.00 and she's an economics
editor and don't want her to think I'm that stupid.
There was a problem though; I only had
seven minutes to make up my mind, having a busy
schedule and all. It was tough, but in six minutes
flat narrowed it down between "My Life" and
"My Pet Goat" and then spent the last minute on the
final decision.
Decisions, decisions,
decisions.....sometimes I really hate making
decisions. Where's the Secret Service when you need
them?
Oops....gotta go, someone's at my door.
Temperatures reached the boiling point in Washington
last week and it's not even August. SHOCK & AW
came to The District compliments of Michael Moore in
the form of Fahrenheit 9/11.
It was also a week of literary overkill.