Lots of cool things about the show, don’t get me wrong, although I probably wouldn’t have watched if I hadn’t known one of the cast members (don’t know if I should say who) has a blog on Blogtimore and e-mailed me to guilt me into watching* (which worked out well because the show is interesting, and cakes are yummy, and, y’know, I love Remington!), and, oh my god? The best part? The Dizzy Issie’s bumpersticker on the wall. Can you say “best bar ever”? Plus, shit, they’ve got bumperstickers? I’m so going to get one.
*I won’t need to be guilt-tripped to watch next week. I’d almost like to work there, and don’t think the girl carrying the cake into the place without any help and fearing she’d drop it didn’t call to memory lots of times I’ve staggered into buildings with a stack of twenty pizza boxes trembling in my arms.
From my Shakespeare class, the Christian rules “of the day” governing whether or not war could be waged:
1. Just Cause.
2. Comparative Justice.
3. Intention.
4. Competant Author (i.e., only someone with no political superior - the king - can make the decision to go to war).
5. Last Resort.
6. Public declaration of war.
7. Proportionality - the good that comes out of war must exceed the evil and destruction of war.
8. Reasonable probability of success.
9. Peace is the ultimate objective.
So, a little after twelve, I was southbound on York Road coming past Loveton. I was planning on taking Phoenix Road down to Paper Mill because lunch-rush traffic in Hunt Valley can be particularly atrocious, and the right-hand lane was closed past Ashland making the whole driving situation even worse. Conveniently, southbound traffic has their own turn lane for Phoenix so that the rest of traffic doesn’t get stuck waiting for you to make that left.
So, imagine my surprise when I turned into the turn lane and another vehicle, northbound, turned into the lane too. And whereas I immediately slammed on my brakes, she immediately continued to accelerate.
I woke up yesterday and lay in bed listening to the Ed Norris show on 105.7. Maynard, the show’s producer, commented on O’Malley’s inaguration, “Man, I’d get a truck and move out of state, but I’m sure they’re all booked already.”
Hello, Maynard? The guy was elected over two months ago. I know you were going for “the funny”, but you came across like a fool! Wouldn’t you have gotten a truck and packed and moved before the guy was inagurated, or were you holding out hope that Bob Ehrlich would swing, Tarzan-like, onto the inaguration stage on a rope (vine?) and perform a coup-de-tat? I can see it now: a line of State Troopers providing cover for the now former governor.
C’mon Maynard. You can do better than this. Why not, crap, I dunno: “Well, I was going to move out of state today, but a bunch of Republicans stole my truck so they could move out of state, and they had guns — big ones! — so I didn’t press the point, but I did ask they return it to me with a full tank of gas.”
Yeah, that’s not funny. Then again, neither were you.
