Bullets

• The Dark and Stormy Book Club continues to go swimmingly.  We did the show on Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?  yesterday.  A masterpiece that is most of 200 years old is up next.  Come join us.  We’re smart, sexy, fun, and we won’t drink all of your beer.
• My mother pilfered from examination rooms at doctor’s offices.  She’d put three or four gauze pads and a few alcohol swabs in her purse, for example.  I never asked her about it (and now I can’t), but every time I’m waiting for a doctor and glance at the cabinet or drawer I wonder how she would have rationalized it.  (‘Cause, you know, “stealing” is such a nasty word.)
• Lindsey Buckingham is playing a small hall (400-500, maybe) on HDNet as I type, and it’s good enough that I set the remote down.  I was pleased and surprised to hear “Holiday Road” in the set.  I would think that might be a song he would pretend he never did.  Buckingham has never stirred a large amount of fanhood in me, but I do respect him as a talented songwriter and a charismatic performer.  (Plus he screwed Stevie Nicks a whole bunch.)
• I have never watched a James Bond movie from start to finish, tasted pistachio ice cream, or set foot in the state of Louisiana.
• Bad clocks in electronic devices are on the rise, if my experiences are typical.  My PDA, a current Palm model, gains a second every five and a half hours.  That is ridiculous and inexcusable.
• The little-fella soccer team for which we cheer the hardest is the Red Flames.  We play teams like the Blue Lasers and the Penguins.  Just once I’d love to hear a coach introduce his/her charges as the Angels of Death, the Assassins, the Ministers of Pain, the Shrieking Demons, or the Bloodlusters.  (Or, with apologies to Judas Priest, the Jugulators.)
• When it’s Alabama 41, Tennessee 17, then “Rocky Top” becomes a catchy little tune that I love to whistle.  It would be marvelous to add “Chinese Bandits” to that list in two weeks.
• Thank you, person who turned in my watch today after I left it on the sidewalk at AutoZone.

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