EDIT: I fixed it. I am so cool.
It is really bothering me. Why is there a stray white line running the course of this blog? I don't know. I think that something is sized wrong somewhere, but GAH! Stupid white lines. Yesterday, all afternoon long I kept saying, "I need to mow the grass." And yet the grass never got mowed. I really didn't feel like mowing it. My flowers are hurting this year b/c I just have been giving them much love lately.
Speaking of white lines, I wrote that title and it looked like a drug reference. Shooter Jennings, Waylon's son, has a song out called "Little White Lines" that's all about cocaine. I like his style, but that is the first song of his that I really like. There is also a song by Butterfly Boucher I think is called "White Lines." It was out last summer. I bought her cd and my goodness it's bad. I liked the song, but after I listened to it for a while I decided it was a really stupid song. Anyway, the jist of the song is she was watching the little white lines on the road go by as she drove or was riding as a passenger.
Both of these singers though don't get regular radio play. But thanks be to the glories of technology, me and my XM Radio can hear them across the country. I love my XM. Yesterday I was sitting here at the house and listening to BBC Word Service. I don't have cable and my tv is rarely ever on. I get a lot of cable news channels on my XM so I don't miss out on their coverage. But I can't stand to listen to most of the cable news programming. It is mindless. Several months back I was listening to Fox News and a guest host was filling in for Brit Hume. I can't stand Brit Hume. As I listened I realized it was an excellent interview and news piece. The reason it was well done was the host allowed the guest to actually speak. The host didn't lead or put words in the mouth of the guest. He actually allowed the guest to speak. I was shocked and impressed.
Now back to the Beeb. I was listening and realized how much I enjoyed it b/c I actually learned stuff. The programs were interesting and informative, well written and produced, and on a broad range of topics. It really is the Word Service. Why can't American cable news outlets cover stories from across the globe that are meant to inform and educate. You can enterain as well. There was piece on some guy composing music inspired by Rembrandt. I didn't pay a whole lot of attention to that piece, but the parts I did were really fascinating. See, now there was an entertaining piece that actually informed me. (Willie Nelson rocks!)
I know why American news can't cover these other stories. They don't involve an 18-23 year old white, single, attractive, blonde woman who went missing in shark infested waters while walking her toy sized dog through dog-eating-alligator territory. They are also missing a parent who stops living so they can pop up in front any available video camera wearing an 8-10 full color photo of their missing child, who would never do something to endanger their life, to spew conspiracy and venom b/c they haven't been interviewed in the last five minutes or b/c someone didn't babysit their grown child and then failed to deliver them from their own stupidity.
I've got to mow the grass.
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