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| February 26, 1997 |
Circulation 77 |
Vol. 1, No. 32 |
OH MY: I'd been lookin' 'round
the World Wide Web for some layman's guide to seein' the
comet ... Hale-Bopp that is ... when I finally found a
halfway understandable page ... surprisin' since it's
part o' the guv'ment ... http://newproducts.jpl.nasa.gov/comet/
... check it out if you're interested in this sort of
thing ... but even if you could care less ... get up a
little early tomorrow mornin' ... step outside 'round
quarter of six ... face North ... if ya don't know which
direction that is then jes' stand there long enough 'n
moss'll grow on one side o' you ... turn to face that
direction ... or if you know what the Big Dipper looks
like then you can find that ... turn to your right a quarter
of a turn ... you should be lookin' about where the Sun's
gonna come up ... the comet oughta be purty easy to spot
... I was shocked when I found it without much effort
this mornin' with my naked eye ... then I put it's little
shirt back on 'n we went back in the house.
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NO REDEEMIN' VALUE!: Last night
was great night for the end of 'sweeps' month ... I think
it ends tonight ... with all kinds of people promisin'
to die or OD on drugs ... Melrose Place, Beverly Hills
90210, Family of Five ... really pushin' the envelope
... of lunacy ... but yesterday's fare'll be hard to top
... we warmed up with a full hour of the worst police
chases caught on film ... those kind where you're bein'
pulled over by the cops for somethin' ... the thought
races through your head that you could outrun 'em ...
avoid the ticket ... but you don't ... well these maniacs
did! ... run anyway ... only one of 'em got away 'cause
he got to the border 'n jumped the fence into Mexico ...
each segment got better ... the next to the last was of
a bus that got stolen ... drove around for 4 hours before
finally runnin' into a house ... but my favorite ... 'n
the last one ... was the guy who stole a tank ... drove
it down the streets ... runnin' over cars parked along
the curbs ... takin' out light poles ... bad, bad man
... (but it sure did look like a fun way to get through
traffic jams!) ... this was jes' a prelude to the Worst
Disasters ... these were of the man made variety ... as
opposed to the nasty stuff nature throws at us ... of
course I was only watchin' to ferret out the moral message
buried deep inside somewhere ... expect things to calm
down startin' next week.
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COLORS: This'll be fun ...
the parkin' gate's been vetoed ... to keep all the vagabonds
out of our office buildin's lot ... now we'll all be issued
little hangy tags to put on rearview mirrors ... there's
only one catch ... we have enough office space to qualify
for a certain number of "paid-for parkin'" which
is less than the number of people we squeeze in ... the
rest'll get 'visitor' tags ... that means you gotta park
out in the boonies ... we'll see a repeat of the "Star-Bellied
Sneetches" ... the 'blue tag' folks'll have their
noses in the air ... while the 'green tag' folks'll be
waitin' for that careless moment when a 'blue tag' forgets
to lock their door ... do a quick swap! ... I think we
oughta have a little parkin' lot train ... like at Disney
World ... we could have Goofy drivin' it ... makin' the
rounds ... pickin' up all the distant parkers ... at the
same time ticketin' the violators ... callin' the tow
truck ... that'd be great!
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"What would you be doing different
today if it was your last day on Earth? How do you know
it isn't?" -- Mikey, Thinkin' Too Hard
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| Mikey's Muse(tm)
is published weekdays as a commentary on stuff. Editor,
Michael T. Rusk. Copyright © 1997 by Michael T. Rusk.
Printed in the U.S.A. This publication may be distributed
freely as long as there is no charge. Commentary is loosely
based on actual events and may contain embellishments,
bits of fiction, and editorial liberties (lies) under
the guise of poetic license. All characters portrayed
in my writing are purely fictional and any resemblance
to any person, company or animal is purely unintentional.
If you don't get it, you just don't get it. Don't blame
me for anything I say and don't do anything I say, either.
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