Short Subjects

Over the past week and a half I've thought of half a dozen topics about which I would love to blog.
They include

• Jessica Savitch
• why clocks are a big deal in southwest Ohio/Cincinnati
• avatars
• FaceBook
• Paula Deen
• 6th graders learning to do the fox trot
• the time Tim Allen rented the casita next to ours at a remote Mexican resort

Trying to decide which to tackle first?

Long may you run

Conan's last musical guest is Neil Young, singing Long May You Run.
I could be wrong but wasn't this song used as a commercial>

Well, it's been a while.
I'm going to try to commit to blogging once a day.
Tonight, I am sad. Erich Segal died.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/20/books/20segal.html
Erich Segal was the author of Love Story. I just posted my opinion of that book --and really, the subsequent movie on FaceBook.
Here's what I wrote:
I'll never forget Love Story. I went under protest, so ready to roll my eyes and laugh dismissively at the schmaltzy plot. By the times credits rolled, I was grabbing the leftover concession stand napkins to wipe my eyes. I still remember the beautifully photographed images from that film. (Okay, Boston IS pretty photogenic.)
And, the comments on FaceBook?
From my friend Joyce McMillion Teems: I remember the snow.
To which I replied: Loved those scenes -- and also the one where Oliver's little sports car is racing along the thoroughfare in Boston.
And, then my former anchor guy, Tracy Rowlett: He was a pretty popular guy for a while and admitted using a tried and true formula to write "Love Story" because he needed the money. Always appreciated his honesty.

More in moment.

January 3

It's a blue-gray winter day, rapidly devolving into a bitterly cold dusk.
We're three days into the new decade and cozily wrapped in our cocoon, watching the Dallas Cowboys next to a lovely fire beneath a mantel stripped of its Christmas greenery and now adorned with eight votive candles and Aunt Grace's bust of the Egyptian princess Nefertiti.
It's the Feast of Epiphany (celebrated early this weekend) and it's looking good for the Cowboys