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Thursday, December 21
The semester is over!
In case your wondering what I've been doing for the past five month, click here, where you can see the stories I've written for school. If you want to publish them somewhere, just let me know.
Anyway, happy Hanukkah (starting tonight -- for seven days only!), merry Christmas and joyous Eid ul-Fitr.
See ya next millennium ...
posted at 5:36 PM by Timothy J. Gibbons | link
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Wednesday, December 20
The wishes for a happy holiday, delivered with actual warmth and good cheer, surprised me.
I stopped by Macy's yesterday The madhouse scene confronting me was amazing, as frantic shoppers clogged the aisles, snatching up sale items like they were Santa's understudies. The employees, though, were shockingly cheerful in the face of the onslaught.
I've served in the holiday retail trenches before and can, as much as anyone, keep a plastic smile glued to my face while dealing with people who obviously have trouble with the entire concept of shopping: The woman in line with me yesterday, for example, who wanted to find a "Regis" tie to match the shirt she was holding. It took the clerk four tries to make her understand where the ties were -- just off to the right, under the freakin' huge sign that said "Regis ties."
But to say "Have a Merry Christmas" and mean it ... well, that's nothing short of amazing. The combination of cheerful clerks and last night's snow-covered trees has actually put me in the Christmas spirit before Christmas Eve. Shocking.
posted at 6:12 PM by Timothy J. Gibbons | link
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It's snowing! It's snowing!
posted at 8:39 AM by Timothy J. Gibbons | link
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Tuesday, December 19
I saw this story (go ahead, click the link; in testimony to my HTML coding skills, it will open in a new window) a few weeks ago, and my first thought was "when will this happen in New York?" (Well, my second thought, actually: My first was something like: "Look at those wacky Germans!")
So I'm walking down the street yesterday and pass a bus stop shelter where one of these posters previously hung. The side of the shelter was smashed to bits, with fragments of glass sprayed across the pavement. The advertisement was, of course, gone.
There's another copy of the poster at a bus stop across from the J-School. I give it about a week.
posted at 6:51 PM by Timothy J. Gibbons | link
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Monday, December 18
The late election looniness made for some interesting television, ranging from concession speeches to wacky SCOTUS demonstrations (who even knew GOP-sters knew how to demonstrate?) to the now-infamous pictures of senior citizens peering at punch cards.
One of television's most interesting bits of election stuff came yesterday when, in a bizarre coincidence, the Sci-Fi Channel showed the election episode during its Batman marathon. For those few who don't remember this classic of American theater, this was the episode in which the Caped Crusader, played by Adam West, faced off against the Penguin in a race for mayor of Gotham City.
Biff! Wham! Socko! Holy election fraud, Batman!
Needless to say, the dark scourge of the underworld won (though just by a few thousand votes -- the east side of the city went overwhelmingly for the Penguin.) -- but just to make sure no easy analogies were drawn, Batman gave a speech about every vote counting while the Penguin called for a recount.
posted at 7:52 PM by Timothy J. Gibbons | link
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