Well, for North Americans, this Thanksgiving is gonna have a LOT more on the plate then these:
Yes, sports fans…this year, November 2022, in addition to traditional Detroit LIONS’ and Dallas COWBOYS’ games…we’ll be treated to football (round ball, not elliptical) in 8 spanking new stadiums:
Yes! From the blazing hot sands of the Middle East Persian Gulf!
Behold! Green, lush new environs. ‘Miracles in the desert” accommodations:
The 1962 Classic Epic Film “Lawrence of Arabia” is one of the rare movies that delves into what happened at the end of WW1, as the Ottoman Turkish Empire was ‘split up’
Leaving the globe, the ensuing wars and skirmishes which remain, to this day, over a century later.
In case the Oscar winning film has not been ‘flixed’ at your abode…here are some quickie clips from it:
(with ‘cheeky’ British humor delivered by Peter O’Toole)
Note: Stay for #1 Quote: “It’s clean!”
So, let’s desist from any more “Oliver Twist’ tactics of Presidents, Prime Minister, and Potentates:
The pleas, not for a bit more soup, mind ya
But more tankers full of oil, gas…hydro-carbons
Many ladles full of LNG, now attempting to off-load, in Western European ports, as this brief report illustrates:
as ‘all bets are off’ on some recently laid down tubing on Baltic seabed
costing billions of EUROS
now just ‘blown up’ pipelines
Great Scot! Burns, was it, that penned:
‘the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry’
Yep…cheap…plentiful, low cost, European…gas and oil
BAM! Up in puff of smoke! Now, merely a Pipe Dream!
By Golly Miss Molly! Even an aspiring sci-fi writer trying to sell a script with these scenarios…would have been sent a Rejection Notice, with the Advice to seek some Professional Mental Health Help.
Forget the head shrink’s couch…
For, diversion has a better feel, than even reality TV..
How I miss this giraffe
and not the other “Jeffrey”….setting all kinds of records.. streaming and screaming??
so let us not fall into despair, or depression
…and focus on the benefits…and the diversions
The Beautiful Game will afford us, for 2 weeks.
To prove, once and for all, (at least, for another 4 years) which NATION has the best kickers and goal tender, in the world!!
How I miss the 80’s!! When MTV was created!!
And stuck to MUSIC videos…including some edgy songs…cutting songs, against the grain of modern culture…incising like a surgeon’s scalpel…
THE CLASH, as recently mentioned…
Or even DEVO…with their moniker
Are we not men? We are DEVO!! Flying in the face of the common notion, that we are evolving, and actually getting better…All the time…just need a bit more TIME…to Arrive at Full Potential…as ‘gods”?
DEVO, as some other groups… did the equivalent of throwing a custard pie, as vaudeville comedians of yesteryear, and threw it smack dab into the face of other stage actors:
NOW, DEVO did the equivalent of Mr. Soupy Sales…
Via electronically enhanced songs (forerunners of WHAT is VOGUE….nowadays)
And sardonic lyrics:
Vibes with what prophet Isaiah had to say
Verse 6 Chapter 1.
It’s a world w/o SOUNDNESS…sick, from head to toe.
Needs Divine Doctoring
But, are many listening? Paying attention to the diagnosis?
Much less, hanging around to hear the prognosis…likely course of disease or ailment.
And, following or rejecting, the treatment plan, or procedures recommended by the Doctor for full recovery of health.
To be continued
The Gray Panting
