Should really read: "Another" Crisis at the Federal Jail in Brooklyn:
https://www.npr.org/2017/01/16/505315466/for-female-inmates-in-new-york-city-prison-is-a-crowded-windowless-room
"a critic of the Amazon deal, and has been nominated to sit on a state board that could kill it"
Isn't it amazing that Amazon hasn't just shifted plans, or is it because of money that it already spent so far? :) The Don McLean classic cover of "On the Amazon"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nQX5YqV0Zw
is looking more and more on target with no word changes! I'm assuming the bomb scare at 1:50 in that concert video is staged since he starts singing where he left off so perfectly afterwards, and even that seems to fit the current Amazon deal.
[I've wondered if Don McLean had a sense of humor about how his song title "American pie" was used so raunchily in the movies; seeing this, I now think he must have. We listeners took his music so seriously, like debating every phrase of "Starry Starry Night (Vincent)" for extra depth and meaning; maybe more seriously than he did.]
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I would raze Little Lord Fauntlerorange's childhood home and turn it into a neighborhood park-ette called "Resistitude".
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@Flahooley, this shows that truth again: If it's in life, "Pufnstuf" had it covered. (regarding "Fauntlerorange")
"Oranges Smoranges"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwZOcwkiKZM
(You can costume Billie Hayes all you want, but what a singer and dancer!)
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You claim, "I am not a robot." That is exactly what a robot would say! You totally are a robot!
I would demolish Trump’s home and put in a community garden named after President Obama.
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In the spirit of turning lemons into fabulous lemonade I’d take his boyhood home and put it to good use as a homeless shelter or halfway home or wounded veterans’ independent living home.
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"It is devoid of fine architectural detail, unless you count the gold-trimmed Jacuzzi."
I'd say your life has to be going really really great if you can be anywhere and not count a gold-trimmed Jacuzzi. (There was a Jacuzzi trimmed with pineapple and tropical fruit at the Polynesian when we got a surprise upgrade at Disney World, and even for that, we were like hogs to a trough. One morning, I was almost ready to let the group go to the Lady and the Tramp restaurant without me.).
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And don't forget to watch the first televised debate for public advocate tonight on NY1 and NYC Life (city owned public Access channel).
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Per the Metro Dairy, I like that verb/adjective (?) "perplexed". I have been trying to improve my vocabulary, and I use "confused" much too often--plus it does not always seem to fit the sentence and intent. "Perplexed" is a goodie. Thanks, I'll find a way to use it two or three times in the next few weeks until it becomes natural to do so.
PS--I had tried picking new words alphabetically, but try using "aardvark" two or three times in a fortnight!
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@Billy You're right, "perplexed" is a good word. I don't know that I've ever used it, but I'll try to use it now. I used "incorrigible" yesterday for the first time in my life. It just popped out in the sentence. Nice surprise.
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@Billy, recalling the greatness of Lorenz Hart, when Rodgers & Hart were often as smart and sophisticated, as Rodgers & Hammerstein were often smart and folks-next-door (whether your neighbors were nuns in Austria or a sales lady on Bali Hai):
"Perplexed" was the simplest of the three rhyming words and it sounded so natural when Ella sang it
In "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered" - and it was a word everyone knew, like "rotogravure" in Berlin's Easter Parade, or they learned it when the song came on the radio.
"Hexed again, Perplexed again, Thank God, I can be oversexed again. Bewitched, bothered and bewildered am I." (Madonna sounds like a virgin compared to Ella sometimes, LOL! As a music director said of pop lyrics back then, Porter's "If Baby I'm the bottom, you're the top" didn't suggest anything - it just came right out and said it.)
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"Some major news outlets are using machine-generated news. (The Times is not. I am not a robot.)"
That's exactly what a robot journalist would say.
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@jake
If you got a real answer to your comment, that would prove Azi is not a robot.
@Jake, this highlights once again there is nothing in this world that wasn't addressed at some point in "HR Pufnstuf" - Jimmy (Jack Wild) doing "the robot" as:
The Mechanical Boy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_7WIt9A9gA
"I do what I'm ordered, I never ask why!"
"I follow directions, whatever I'm told!"
Only drawback for the 2010s: Pufnstuf himself seeming to play to the back row even in close-up. As someone snarked on YouTube, "Hey, Pufnstuf, Jar-Jar Binks is calling. We all love you, but your over-reacting for the laugh track is even getting on HIS nerves." (But he was still what we all wanted: "I got, you got, everybody do not someone who cares."). Missing the artistry of Jack Wild, who died so young.
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What would I do with Trump's childhood home?
Raze it.
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@Lifelong Reader
I would like to agree with you, but then the seller would profit. The house sold for $1,390,500 on 12/29/16. Then the current owner paid $2,140,000 on 4/6/17. And now it is for sale for $2,900,000. My wish is it remains unsold. I do not want to see the current owner reap a profit.
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