NPR
I have mentioned before that I listen to NPR somewhat regularly. I am pretty sure I just mention it in passing when explaining why I don't know modern music but I do fear I may have mentioned it a bit too often on this blog over the years and given the wrong impression. Here is the profile I have in my mind when I think "NPR listener": smart, sophisticated, erudite, socially responsible people who frequent the theater/opera, shop at Whole Foods bi-weekly, are nearly always well put together, including accessories, and give and/or attend dinner parties frequently.
I am not those things. I mean, OK, I'm a bit bright but it's mainly smoke and mirrors and I seem smarter than I actually am. I do use reusable shopping bags unless I am running low on plastic carrier bags (which I need for litter box duty) but I have only today started setting my bottles and cans aside because my apartment complex just installed two recycling dumpsters. I frequent janky Kroger and Wal-Mart that are nearby whilst my sophisticated entertainment takes the form of binge watching Acorn TV, reading, maybe playing a video game, drinking, and puttering around. I went to one party last year, the first get together that wasn't a happy hour that I've been to since 2017, and whilst I do dress appropriately and often look "cute" according to colleagues, I don't know how to accessorize and I pretty much just go out on the bet that no one is going to look at my feet because all my shoes are busted.
I listen to Morning Edition on my way to work unless it is fully saturated with politics. I sometimes listen to the second half of Fresh Air on my way home if I don't have an audio book. If I wake up early enough, I'll maybe tune into Weekend Edition and if I'm cleaning, I sometimes turn on Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, Ask Me Another, and A Way With Words. But I'm not listening to, like, Think With Chris Boyd or Freakonomics or any of those really smart people programs. I'd love to be the "NPR listener" of my imagination but am, sadly, just a lazy, pitiful peasant.
Seen Any Good Movies Lately?
When you don't own a lot of DVDs because you sold them at one point in order to get some cash to help pay off that ticket that you got or because you need money for some reason, it is fun to look at what your collection looks like as you slowly build it back. I was dusting one Friday evening, as one does when one is young and hip, and I cast a side smile at my DVD "library". It presently contains:
Murder, She Wrote - Seasons 1-7
Sherlock (BBC) - Seasons 1-4
5 Day Yoga - Unopened
Miss Marple (BBC Collection)
Murder on the Orient Express
Sherlock Holmes The Complete Series - Legends Series, Television Classics
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Amy Schumer, Mostly Sex Stuff - Birthday Gift from Rabbit a couple of years ago
Indiscreet
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Alice in Wonderland
Aqua Teen Hunger Force - Volumes 1 and 2
Harry Potter - Complete series
Circle of Friends
Observe and Report
Shaun of the Dead
Hot Fuzz
Star Wars - First 6 movies
Indiana Jones - Complete series
I don't know why but that list is just funny to me. The Monty Python I got in the divorce, as I did Shaun of the Dead. Rabbit got The Life of Brian and our original copy of Hot Fuzz. It is obvious from that list that I really, really enjoy Sherlock Holmes yet I don't have the two most recent Hollywood movies. I enjoyed the first and assume I enjoyed the second (I can't remember it) but I never thought to get it. Whatever, it amuses me for some reason but probably no one else. There was another work-out DVD but, surprisingly, I do have some pride and am kind of embarrassed to admit to it.
Apparently, 2020 me has some pride! Look at that! Let's see where that gets me.
I have mentioned before that I listen to NPR somewhat regularly. I am pretty sure I just mention it in passing when explaining why I don't know modern music but I do fear I may have mentioned it a bit too often on this blog over the years and given the wrong impression. Here is the profile I have in my mind when I think "NPR listener": smart, sophisticated, erudite, socially responsible people who frequent the theater/opera, shop at Whole Foods bi-weekly, are nearly always well put together, including accessories, and give and/or attend dinner parties frequently.
I am not those things. I mean, OK, I'm a bit bright but it's mainly smoke and mirrors and I seem smarter than I actually am. I do use reusable shopping bags unless I am running low on plastic carrier bags (which I need for litter box duty) but I have only today started setting my bottles and cans aside because my apartment complex just installed two recycling dumpsters. I frequent janky Kroger and Wal-Mart that are nearby whilst my sophisticated entertainment takes the form of binge watching Acorn TV, reading, maybe playing a video game, drinking, and puttering around. I went to one party last year, the first get together that wasn't a happy hour that I've been to since 2017, and whilst I do dress appropriately and often look "cute" according to colleagues, I don't know how to accessorize and I pretty much just go out on the bet that no one is going to look at my feet because all my shoes are busted.
I listen to Morning Edition on my way to work unless it is fully saturated with politics. I sometimes listen to the second half of Fresh Air on my way home if I don't have an audio book. If I wake up early enough, I'll maybe tune into Weekend Edition and if I'm cleaning, I sometimes turn on Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, Ask Me Another, and A Way With Words. But I'm not listening to, like, Think With Chris Boyd or Freakonomics or any of those really smart people programs. I'd love to be the "NPR listener" of my imagination but am, sadly, just a lazy, pitiful peasant.
Seen Any Good Movies Lately?
When you don't own a lot of DVDs because you sold them at one point in order to get some cash to help pay off that ticket that you got or because you need money for some reason, it is fun to look at what your collection looks like as you slowly build it back. I was dusting one Friday evening, as one does when one is young and hip, and I cast a side smile at my DVD "library". It presently contains:
Murder, She Wrote - Seasons 1-7
Sherlock (BBC) - Seasons 1-4
5 Day Yoga - Unopened
Miss Marple (BBC Collection)
Murder on the Orient Express
Sherlock Holmes The Complete Series - Legends Series, Television Classics
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Amy Schumer, Mostly Sex Stuff - Birthday Gift from Rabbit a couple of years ago
Indiscreet
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Alice in Wonderland
Aqua Teen Hunger Force - Volumes 1 and 2
Harry Potter - Complete series
Circle of Friends
Observe and Report
Shaun of the Dead
Hot Fuzz
Star Wars - First 6 movies
Indiana Jones - Complete series
I don't know why but that list is just funny to me. The Monty Python I got in the divorce, as I did Shaun of the Dead. Rabbit got The Life of Brian and our original copy of Hot Fuzz. It is obvious from that list that I really, really enjoy Sherlock Holmes yet I don't have the two most recent Hollywood movies. I enjoyed the first and assume I enjoyed the second (I can't remember it) but I never thought to get it. Whatever, it amuses me for some reason but probably no one else. There was another work-out DVD but, surprisingly, I do have some pride and am kind of embarrassed to admit to it.
Apparently, 2020 me has some pride! Look at that! Let's see where that gets me.
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