Friday, September 13, 2024
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Midnight for the Master’s Margaritas*
The ABC’s of Logos … Networks!
Today's previous post presented historic logos of
the ABC that is the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
An exact quote from tonight's broadcast on an American
ABC network —
"I meet with people all the time who tell me,
can we please just have discourse about
how we're going to invest in the aspirations and
the ambitions and the dreams of the American people…."
— Blue Party candidate
Her debate opponent, the Red Party candidate,
might well have replied . . .
"I meet with people all the time who tell me,
I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it any more!"
Related art from this journal:
The September 5 post Make Hollywood Sane Again —
Wednesday, January 13, 2021
Hint
From The Queen's Gambit , by Walter Tevis (1983) —
"She stopped and turned to Beth. 'There is no hint of a
Protestant ethic in Mexico. They are all Latin Catholics,
and they all live in the here and now.' Mrs. Wheatley
had been reading Alan Watts. 'I think I’ll have just one
margarita before I go out. Would you call for one, honey?'
Back in Lexington, Mrs. Wheatley’s voice would sometimes
have a distance to it, as though she were speaking from
some lonely reach of an interior childhood. Here in Mexico City
the voice was distant but the tone was theatrically gay, as though
Alma Wheatley were savoring an incommunicable private mirth.
It made Beth uneasy. For a moment she wanted to say something
about the expensiveness of room service, even measured in pesos,
but she didn’t. She picked up the phone and dialed six. The man
answered in English. She told him to send a margarita and a large
Coke to 713."
Mirror, Mirror
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