"Makers of fine coats."
Sounds about right. Letterman is looking terrible. Hey guest judge on Top Chef, while I respect your ability to put meats inside meats (that wasn’t a double entendre but, instead, an appreciation of the thing he can do), let us not show off our undershirts while wearing a suit. There are two ways to do this—you wear a tie, which is not your style, or you don’t wear an undershirt. I was the U.S. representative at the international competition of shirt-buttoning. It’s as much about presentation as it is about buttoning your shirt. When returning champions go back to more recent Bocuse d’Or competitions, do they lean back smugly and say, “These kids don’t get it. In my day it was about much more about the lampchop woven into a hat.” I lived a block away from where “The Price is Right” is taped for many years. I even went to a taping once as a favor to my brother. (The experience was horrible. I wouldn’t recommend it. Plus, I was so grateful not to be picked because I don’t know the price of anything. When I have to go to a hardware store, I am never sure if what I’m looking for will be twenty dollars or twenty cents.) When I was interviewed before the show and they asked where I lived, I was able to point to my apartment and say, “Over there.” The students from an obscure Texas college in line with me looked gobsmacked and said, “You must come here all the time.” Having lived over there, I learned a few things. Audience members almost always follow up their experience at TPIR by going to the Grove and Farmer’s Market next door and they almost always wear their name-tag out of pride (?) I also know that it is the show’s policy that you cannot put nicknames or jokes on your name-tag. Your name-tag can only say the first name that is on your ID. There are no exceptions to this rule apparently. And that is how, after going to the Grove yesterday, I discovered that there is a man in this world whose first name is, “Sir.” (Image above is the first hit from a google image search of “Sir”. The man looked nothing like Winston Churchill, though I would wish to see how the Prime Minister would do on “The Price is Right.” Probably terribly as prices have changed since he has been alive and he is way more familiar with pounds than dollars.) Will Phillips, a ten year old in Arkansas refuses to recite the pledge of allegiance until gays have the right to marry. How can anyone not want to be on the same side of this issue with the most reasoned ten year old I’ve ever heard. And agreed, I too don’t know exactly what a “gaywad” is supposed to be. Aww. The cart is all grown up. They get so big so fast. I thought my pumpkin looked like Nixon so I painted it accordingly. “People want to know if their president’s a pumpkin. Well I’m not a pumpkin.”
The Price is Right
