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Mar. 20th, 2003 10:28 amA few small life lessons acquired yesterday evening:
--If you're going to play the War Coverage Drinking Game, be thoughtful about the ground rules. Setting it up as "Take one drink every time they go back to a set shot of that weird triple-gothic-arch thingie in the traffic median" means you will get schnockered far too quickly. Try instead, perhaps, "Take one drink every time at least four stations are simultaneously showing the same set shot of that mosque with the weird phallic tower."
--If you are doing the War Coverage Drinking Game (with whatever rules), do *not*, after a few hours of play, decide to use the great big very sharp chef's knife to cut the plastic wrap off a slippery block of cheese.
--If you do decide to mess around with the great big very sharp chef's knife, take a moment first to lay out some bandaids, unwrapped and with the backing peeled off, because it is extremely difficult to unwrap/unpeel standard-issue bandaids with blood gushing from one's index finger.
And two questions:
--What the hell *was* that weird triple-gothic-arch thingie in the traffic median, anyway?
--Was I completely woozy from Jameson's and blood loss, or was that actually the contemptible Oliver North broadcasting live! from the front lines! with a gas mask and everything! on Fox News last night? I mean, it's not like I had any respect for Fox News to begin with, but *that's* just ... despicable.
--If you're going to play the War Coverage Drinking Game, be thoughtful about the ground rules. Setting it up as "Take one drink every time they go back to a set shot of that weird triple-gothic-arch thingie in the traffic median" means you will get schnockered far too quickly. Try instead, perhaps, "Take one drink every time at least four stations are simultaneously showing the same set shot of that mosque with the weird phallic tower."
--If you are doing the War Coverage Drinking Game (with whatever rules), do *not*, after a few hours of play, decide to use the great big very sharp chef's knife to cut the plastic wrap off a slippery block of cheese.
--If you do decide to mess around with the great big very sharp chef's knife, take a moment first to lay out some bandaids, unwrapped and with the backing peeled off, because it is extremely difficult to unwrap/unpeel standard-issue bandaids with blood gushing from one's index finger.
And two questions:
--What the hell *was* that weird triple-gothic-arch thingie in the traffic median, anyway?
--Was I completely woozy from Jameson's and blood loss, or was that actually the contemptible Oliver North broadcasting live! from the front lines! with a gas mask and everything! on Fox News last night? I mean, it's not like I had any respect for Fox News to begin with, but *that's* just ... despicable.