A September Lyric

I am reminded of the lyrics put together by one of the Triple Deuce Lt.s just before we boarded the boat to Viet Nam. I may have already posted this but since only a handful read this blog they have probably forgotten that I did so. It was to the tune of "See You in September."*

I'll be alone each and every night
While I'm away don't forget to write

Bye, bye, so long, farewell

See you in September
See you when the war is through
There we were saying goodbye at the station
LBJ's nation has taken me away

Bye baby, goodbye [thrown in at various times as I recall]

While we're alone each and every night,
Counting the days and the hours too,

Have a good time
But remember
There is danger when the darkness falls
Will I see you in September
Or will the VC have me by the balls.

* "See You in September" is a song written by Sid Wayne and Sherman Edwards.

My Big Bang Theory

Our society thrives on an acquisitiveness for multimedia-enabled smartphones and pads. The now "normal" use of these devices so isolates a person as to create a disinclination to leave that isolation to directly interplay within the immediate human reality. Try to find eye contact with another person as you walk across a college campus. There is generally an indifference to seek out entertainment other than "app" choices that "take you anywhere to do anything." Even at, for example, a sport's event a substantial number of people will be engaged more with the glowing object in their hand than all around them. This self-imposed isolation also creates a laziness to the expression of human emotional response outside the Wi Fi capability. The movement of a finger to express LOL, 182, OMG, AML, ILU, BWL, and, of course, ROTFLMAO is now sufficient effort at emotion.

I write this now with a single complaint in mind. "The Big Bang Theory," a well written, very funny television sit-com is debased and ruined by a ridiculous and unnecessary laugh track undoubtedly targeted toward an audience too lazy to laugh on its own. LLTA .