Wednesday, December 15, 2004

 
Or: Lady Hawk?

Re Re "The Arab Street" and the previous "highway of death," I frankly can't remember where I read the following story (thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2004581089,00.html)yesterday regarding the "Costa Rican street."
(Fast breaking(ball)news-about a minute ago Rich Lowry described a warning by Bush to Syria as a "brush-back pitch." Nice, but of course, we'd all really like to see all Baathists ejected from the game...)
And the "Arab street" is not your "Basic Road," an actual street in Henderson that I recall seeing many times when driving from to and from Boulder City, Nevada and Las Vegas.
Reminds of a Letterman or Leno bit about a sign in a NYC cab which read "Driver carries only twenty words of english."
And I suppose a tabloid could have as a headline "Hail of Cab Ends in Hail of Bullets."
One wishes that someone would call up Costa Rica's Senor Sandoval and inform him that he has "won the Travis Bickle Award," even if he might not be steeped enough in yanqui movie lore to respond, "Are you talking to *me*?"
Well, enough of this charade(pretending that anyone reads this site, that is), and trying to remember another: -it may have been on the Dick Van Dyke show(or The Lucy Show)-a couple was playing a game of charades with their neighbors with the background of some petty, but smoldering quarrel-after some nasty, insinuating clues given by one of the characters, his/her spouse shouted out the correct answer: "On The Street Where You Live!"
And speaking of MTM, -caught part of a smugnacious criticism of the dismantling of a hawks' nest which had been used by a pair of (what else?)red-tailed hawks for many years. Later, although I don't often tune in Limbaugh while driving, I heard him tear a tear a new Audubon in those New Yorkers(who, one supposes had finally met a hawk or "Pale Male" that they could like)when he reported that the assertion that the nest threatened the integrity of the building's facade was credible because it weighed "200 lbs."
Now I haven't the foggiest about MTM's political beliefs, and shouldn't make much of memories of a talk for the public given by the Minnesota marxist Professor Marquardt(spelling?)many years ago. He ended his oration with an invitation to a meeting of some young commie league or whathaveyou at "the Mary Tyler Moore house." -not MTM's actual house, of course, but the one for the series set, tho not filmed, in Minnesota. The show's sole Republican, I believe, was the moronic anchorman, "Ted Baxter."
-enough loose accusations and associations for now.....