Bonus for the Attention Deficit Minded: Random Observations and Wordplay

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Unforgiving Revisionism 


One theme that I keep coming back to is the tyranny of the present or as Ken Burns put it, “the great arrogance of the present.”


We in the future look back and criticize what was done in the past. But those in the past were looking forward and trying to anticipate what the future would bring, to create principles and ideas that would last and stand the test of time. We don’t seem to have much sympathy for those in the past who are doing your best for their time in place. I wonder will those in our future have sympathy for us?


Time Tax


In the future, will there be a memory tax? That is, asking your outsourced digital memory to remember an event for you?


Always collecting memorable names from history 


Members of the 18th Century Ohio Company of Associates included

  • Ebeneezer Sprout

  • Anselm Tupper


Band Names


  • Curds and Whey (imagine an English retro folk band)

  • Seditious Syntax

  • A Wilderness of Monkeys 

    • (credit to Shakespeare's, The Merchant of Venice)

  • Divine Robots


Song lyrics looking for a song:


Guess I’m looking forward to the past


Sad songs make me happy


Miscellaneous Observations and Dead End Notes


When you think about it, they really are no endings things just go on and on


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You don’t know how complicated your life is until you move houses. 


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Straw man comes to live in the Potemkin village 


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A missed 70s supergroup: Bob Dylan, Bob Denver, John Denver


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Mr. Killjoy and Ms. Spoilsport were arrived at the party at the same time.

Laughter was always in the next room. 


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Actual piece of legislation in Massachusetts: The Old Diluter Satan Act 1647.


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Actual road sign seen in Michigan: Beware of Smartphone Zombies.


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My soul is buried out there somewhere in Lake Superior—Bugsey, Marquette sunrise photographer


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Churches in barns seem to have evolved into gift shops and party venues


After my 45th High School Reunion


Long-term friends can be a like time capsules 

where you’ve buried artifacts from your youth

they know things from decades ago 

and can go back in time with you as a co-adventure



Misreading Signs


A patron of the ants. 

Chicago Institute of Ant 


Conjugate Fop


Foppish

Foppery

Frippery 


An Illegal Assonance 


Ali Baba and Elena Habba came to Escanaba 


Book title needing a plot: Nine Letters in Nine Years 


Me Explaining My Wordplay


How do I select a word? Sometimes it is the thought and sometimes it is the sound.  


One More Digital vs. Analogue Debate


One effect of digital now that we’ve got everything off paper into the digital world. I think it will be out of sight out of mind digital pictures are probably more likely, forgotten the faded old photo album on a bookshelf. One more reason books may survive. 



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