Klarinet Archive - Posting 000804.txt from 2004/07

From: Kenneth Wolman <kenneth.wolman@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Political Rant - do not open if you are offended
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 21:55:42 -0400

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At 01:41 PM 7/17/2004, Lelia wrote:

>Ken, I shouldn't wish a political career on a nice guy like you, but I'd
>vote for you. My main problem with the feds managing health insurance is
>that they might do it about as well as they managed the new and improved
>warfare lite.

Why, thank you. Maybe my kids would too. My ex-wife would just to torture
me:-). However, since all politics is truly local (Tip O'Neill nailed it),
I've had the opportunity in this itty-bitty Borough I live in (pop. 1800)
to observe the local councilpersons. Uh...no, thank you. Besides, I'm one
of those people who has an interesting enough "past" in the public record
that I'd probably be exposed in that apex of journalism, The Asbury Park
Press, for the horrid person I am:-). "And he sometimes squeaks in the
altissimo register!!!"

A sidenote on Sea Bright, NJ. It may still, but surely used to, hold the
record for having the most per capita drunk driving arrests and convictions
in the United States. The town's main summer income is bars and what
happens after you leave them with a load on. One of the jokes about Sea
Bright I just learned after 4 years here: "Sea Bright: come on vacation,
leave on probation." No lie.

>I wrote,
> >When I finally left the hospital for good, the excellent
> > surgeon, who knew I was a horror movie critic, put on
> >his best leering "mad doctor" face and said, "I wish I
> >could autopsy you to figure out why you're still alive."

I just got it. Even before the explanation. Whoops.

>He perceived that surgeons and horror movie critics
>have a similar fondness for morbid humor.

Or music critics, particularly the ones whose beat is the opera. Or
sportswriters who get paid to cover the Boston Red Sox's annual el-foldo
(oh, am I gonna catch hell for that....)

> I teased him back by addressing
>him as Dr. Phibes, Dr. Mordrid, Dr. X, Dr. Syn, Dr. Faustus, Dr. Blood, Doc
>Savage, Dr. Cyclops, Dr. Death, Dr. Mabuse, Dr. Morbius, Dr. Frankenstein,
>Dr. Humpp, Dr. No, Doc Holliday, Dr. Doolittle, Dr. Moreau, etc..

I like Dr. Moreau. Did he turn people into animals or the other way
around? Either one works in the current medical system. You left one
doctor off your list: Dr. Giggles, the institutionalized psychopath and
multiple murderer played in a fairly trashy film by Larry Drake, who HAD
been superb in LA Law as the mildly retarded office assistant.

Faustus isn't bad either, selling his soul to the devil. Dr. Frankenstein,
though, had good intentions--they just got a little out of his
control. "It's not NICE to fool with Mother Nature!"

> (He knew
>who most of them were, too.) He and my husband were about the only people
>who carried on normal conversations with me in the hospital. Most others
>acted as if they might as well get an early start on sitting shiva.

If the doctor had walked into your room wearing a tallis and t'fillin you
might get just a little scared, especially if it was after the hour for
morning prayers....

Ken

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39. Not observing the imperfections of others, preserving silence and a
continual communion with God will eradicate great imperfections from the
soul and make it the possessor of great virtues.
~St. John of the Cross, Maxims on
Love (The Minor Works)
Kenneth
Wolman http://www.kenwolman.com
http://kenwolman.blogspot.com

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