Sales Pitch & Friday Five

Friday, Sept. 28, 2007 - 12:31 a.m.

This strange thing keeps happening to me when I watch television.

Whenever I remember to tune in to an episode of 'Good Times', early in the morning on TVLand, it always seems to be a block of episodes that contain the one featuring the character of 'Fishbone.'

This isn't exactly terrible, since Fishbone is played by Robert Guillaume, but it's weird.

Weirder: I never did watch an episode of The X Files during its first run, but the three times I happened across an episode of it in syndication, it was the same one.

Weirdest Of All: The X Files episode I've seen three times is the one called "Monday" -- in which the characters are caught in a time loop.

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So I get an email from a friend of mine that I've known and adored for twenty years, since my Chico days.

He and I went in different directions; he ended up spawning and living in a hippie haven up in the foothills, and I of course came here to San Francisco to be with John.

We're sporadically in touch via the web and so forth -- and I just got an email from him telling me his son was selling fundraiser popcorn.

It wasn't pushy, and I know he sent it to a bunch of people.

But... shouldn't the CHILD be selling me this stuff?

I almost wrote back and said "Dear [Friend] -- Here is my telephone number. Your son is invited to call me and attempt to sell me these items himself, during normal business hours."

My parents would NEVER have done such a thing when *I* was selling fundraising items. I depended on my own guile and shoe-leather to do things like this, and maybe I wasn't the best sales person, but I didn't have any kind of life support attached to my endeavors. When I was a kid, my parents said that if they had gone around asking their friends to buy things from me, it would be just the same as them doing my homework.

So, I don't know about this. I like my friend, and his son is amazing and I appreciate the fact that the profits will be used for scout stuff and charities and so forth in their own city.

But I.. I just... have to think about this one, I guess.

I'm not sure I'm actually angry at this -- but I reserve the RIGHT to be.

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Okay, Friday Five. This is one of the sets that I submitted that hasn't gotten used yet:

Do you have a favorite...

... meal?
Yes. Biscuits and white gravy as done by my grandmother, who passed in the fall of 2003. As for these days, probably my homemade hamburgers with french fries.

... CD to listen to while travelling?
Angel With A Lariat by k.d. lang.

... pair of shoes?
Yes. Sitting in the suitcase from the last time i travelled.

... photograph of yourself?
Yup. Right here. It was a good hair day.

... quote?
Tie:
"Always go too far because that's where you'll find the truth." -- Albert Camus
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid" -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Link is to the left if you want to find other memes to play, or if you wanna see the current incarnation of Friday Five.

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All rightie. Tonight, we're going to go find a new showerhead.. We only need a new one about every six years or so, so it has amortized.

San Francisco tap water from our neighborhood always eventually leaves an orange cast to everything it touches, because it's been traveling through terracotta pipes that are nearly the same color as the Golden Gate Bridge, and that uberfine silt rides up into our sinks and tubs.

The showerhead has lots of nice orange buildup around its spray holes.

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Have a good Friday.

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