ok,i know that a lot of my journal entries(‘blogs’. i really do hate that word)have been political and serious lately.i do hereby vow to make my journal entries(‘blogs’, i really, really do hate that word. did i mention that already?)a little bit more pithy and ribald and light-hearted on occasion, and not always so doom-n-gloom-the-world-is-coming-to-an-end-gwbush-is-a-corrupt-tyrant- etc.
the only problem is that when i write pithy light-hearted journal entries(…)i tend to write about dogs and food and weather and hellboy.which are all great things.maybe i should cast further afield in a search for pithy light stuff? should i broaden my horizons and stop being such a provincial new yorker?
am i becoming woody allen as i get older but instead of elaine’s i have teany and instead of the knicks i have the dog park?
new york, huge international city, does kind of encourage a sense of provincialism in it’s denizens. we walk everywhere. we distrust things that come from beyond the rivers.
and isn’t there some way that nyc could become it’s own country? or a principality, like monaco?
at the very least this might decrease the likelihood that we would be attacked by terrorists, which is good.
‘the principality of new york’.that has a nice-ish ring to it, no? everyone would still be welcome. and maybe we’d even be neutrally aligned, like switzerland. don’t the swiss call their country ‘the helvetic confederation’?
how did ‘helvetic confederation’ become ‘switzerland’?
what’s a ‘switzer’? a type of mountain goat?
and how did ‘deutschland’ become ‘germany’ in english and ‘alemania’ in spanish?
and how did ‘koln’ become ‘cologne’?
‘munchen’ become ‘munich’?
and really, what’s a ‘switzer’?
ok, time to go play with dogs and eat greasy food and look at the weather(cloudy, cold).
moby