Happy New Year's Eve. The last time I greeted a New Year w/a sense of optimism THIS was state-of-the-art technology. pic.twitter.com/jjynCbByFd
— ∙annie∙ #CruzCrew (@bloodless_coup) December 31, 2015
Happy New Year's Eve. The last time I greeted a New Year w/a sense of optimism THIS was state-of-the-art technology. pic.twitter.com/jjynCbByFd
— ∙annie∙ #CruzCrew (@bloodless_coup) December 31, 2015
If you’ve never seen this, please take less than one minute and watch it. It’s very, very cool. It’s the video that surrounds you, literally from your feet, to above your head, on all four walls all around you, inside the elevator, on the way to the top of the Freedom Tower in New York City. It shows lower Manhattan from pre-history to today; from bedrock to swamp to colonial times to modern times. Mike & I saw it in person last fall when we stopped in New York on the way up from dropping Leigh at school in Savannah. Like everything in New York City, it’s insanely expensive, but if you can, go do it. It’s a bucket-list type of thing. You can find more on it here.
This was SO FUN! I literally laughed-out-loud! For real and heartily!
Kevin D. Williamson is a writer I respect enormously. We don’t agree on everything, but many things, and either way, he makes a logical, Socratic, fact-based case for his position, which I appreciate in the era of feeeeeelings over critical thinking.
Anyway, I follow Kevin on Twitter, have interacted there with him before, have posted his work here before, and he saw the following tweet (from a third person previously unknown to me), responded to it (which is when it showed up in my Twitter feed) and… well… it was off to the races!
Enjoy!
I am sonata fan of instrumental music
— Steven W Skinner (@SkinnerSteven) December 9, 2015
What the fugue? https://t.co/dPXwxghn3s
— Kevin D. Williamson (@KevinNR) December 9, 2015
I used to listen to it on my Victrola. But it Baroque. https://t.co/FsoDqlKvVy
— ・ⓐⓝⓝⓘⓔ・ (@bloodless_coup) December 9, 2015
You should put a new one on your Chopin Lizst. https://t.co/G0pvbZREjo
— Kevin D. Williamson (@KevinNR) December 9, 2015
I think I can Handel that. https://t.co/D0B96kC0NJ
— ・ⓐⓝⓝⓘⓔ・ (@bloodless_coup) December 9, 2015
.@KevinNR @bloodless_coup If you guys keep this up, there’s gonna be some violins.
— David Gaw (@davidgaw) December 9, 2015
That’d would be fine in my love shack but the acoustics are better in my Dvořák. https://t.co/Xt0tyj7l7z
— ・ⓐⓝⓝⓘⓔ・ (@bloodless_coup) December 9, 2015
(Now back to the discussion of the Victrola)
@bloodless_coup Those things are heavy: Lift with your legs, not your Bach.
— Kevin D. Williamson (@KevinNR) December 9, 2015
True. It’s less science and Mozart. https://t.co/cintuz2UO4
— ・ⓐⓝⓝⓘⓔ・ (@bloodless_coup) December 9, 2015
@KevinNR @bloodless_coup Let’s be Franck; not many people lift things properly.
— Chelie in TX (@ChelieinTX) December 9, 2015
I was told to stand up straight and Nocturne but it hurt. https://t.co/14sUnOUbKT
— ・ⓐⓝⓝⓘⓔ・ (@bloodless_coup) December 9, 2015
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Can we just… not? Please? Stop it. Stop it, America!
The media works itself up into a frenzy over nothing all the time, but that impulse has mutated into something infectious to Tea Party Americans and I’m getting tired of it. People are freaking out over things that normal people in normal times speaking in normal tones would regard as “Oh, I see what happened here. I get it,” then move on.
Just two examples, in no particular order (with full disclosure I’m supporting Ted Cruz for President, just so everyone knows where I stand.):
So, in summary, like the Carson thing, it’s obvious what happened here: Trump conflated 14 year old memories of the overseas celebrations with the homeland celebrations and got “thousands,” but the sum and substance of what he said was materially, largely true. There are other examples, but those are the two loudest & most recent.
So shut-up, America. Put your big-boy pants on and calm the frig down. We’ve got bigger fish to fry.