Not too late to train for traditional foodstuffs marathon
Published 3:07 pm Friday, November 21, 2014
Be sure to pace yourself on Thursday. Peak too early and risk missing pie. Carbo-loading the night before may or may not help, depending on your stuffing tolerance. Let’s review the headlines for (mostly) suitable Thanksgiving dinner table topics.
“100-year-old woman sees the ocean for first time in her life”: Ruby Holt spent her entire life in Tennessee until this trip to the Gulf of Mexico, thanks to her assisted living center and the Wish of a Lifetime organization. She said she was always too busy picking cotton on the farm or working in a shirt factory to travel, and that her family had not been able to afford a trip.
Just in case you were having some trouble working up some Thanksgiving gratitude.
“Comcast announces Talking Guide, a Siri for your cable box”: Hopefully she/he has been programmed to withstand every imaginable incarnation of verbal abuse, especially in case Talking Guide caused someone to miss a Big Game or Beloved Movie.
“?‘7 Minutes’: Austin Review”: A very favorable review in The Hollywood Reporter about a movie shot in Everett about an ill-fated robbery. The second paragraph provocatively opens: “Filmed in the evocatively desolate town of Everett, Washington.”
Discuss among yourselves. (Thanks to My Everett News.com for this headline.)
“Couple married 50 years have never seen each other”: But like so many couples, they do, in fact, resemble each other more than a little bit. (When explaining your theory on this phenomena, try to avoid the “people who look like their pets” comparison.)
Bellevue’s first pot shop tries to lure Microsoft, Eddie Bauer set”: Ah, leave it to Bellevue to have a genuinely upscale “pot shop.” Say what you will about the state’s fifth-largest city — yay or nay — it’s difficult to deny that it is evocatively well-to-do.
“We’re losing the war for the smart home”: Whatever. More important, we are obviously losing the effort to get writers and copy editors to stop misusing the word “war,” for crying out loud.
“Mattel pulls book, apologizes for portraying Barbie as inept computer engineer in picture book”: Long story short, Barbie, stumped by a virus that caused Skipper’s homework and music files to be lost, immediately seeks the help of “Steven and Brian” to fix the problem. Steven and Brian? Whatever happened to Ken? Anyway, quick fix: Have Ken play Barbie’s role in the story and let Barbie be Brian.
“Study says men are nicer to women wearing sexy shoes”: Like when they fall down? Or just in general? In general. Too bad only Barbie’s foot is actually designed to wear high heels. Which might be the result of flawed plastic DNA, and explains why she’s so eager to get Steven and Brian to do her work.
Use “evocatively” in a sentence this week.
Carol MacPherson: 425-339-3472; cmacpherson@heraldnet.com
