May
4
2010
- We need to put an end to this overused “controlled chaos” idiom. I read an article today written by a library intern on his experience distributing books to prisoners on Rikers Island. The headline promised it would be about “controlled chaos” but the actual account proved the converse— a prison book cart is even more of a boring, streamlined system than ordinary public libraries. Anyway, isn’t everything in life “controlled chaos”? To give a mundane job that label is self-important and superfluous.
- “Jersey Shore” is filming its second season this week in Miami. Wish I could be down there to fistpump alongside Vinny and Pauly D.
- That girl who was missing in an Orlando swamp confirmed what I speculated when she was first found: Within the first hour of her adventure she had already become so lost she couldn’t find her way out for five days. Florida woods are DENSE.
- Did the swine flu pandemic kill the social handshake last year? If not, when will the unsanitary madness end and be replaced with fist bumps (or anything else)? Our current greeting norm is controlled biological chaos.
