{"id":573884166,"date":"2012-11-18T23:56:33","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T05:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573884166"},"modified":"2012-11-21T03:13:42","modified_gmt":"2012-11-21T09:13:42","slug":"catching-up-88","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2012\/11\/18\/catching-up-88\/","title":{"rendered":"Catching up"},"content":{"rendered":"

The place where we add extra pictures to make it through the weekend. Dive on in.<\/p>\n

The Yankee said “That guy was wondering what you were doing, taking his picture.”<\/p>\n

“Oh he knows,” I said.<\/p>\n

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Some genius set fire to Toomer’s Corner early this morning. The media have been using the expression “caught fire” which suggests that the trees spontaneously combusted. I submit that no blaze would have been created without the presence of an arsonist with low mental acuity.<\/p>\n

It has become difficult to go down there and not be disgusted with people in general. But we drove by last night. At the red light I rolled down the window and took this picture blindly. Managed to get Samford, the old eagle and the tree all in one frame. If I never get to do it again, that isn’t a bad one:<\/p>\n

\"Toomers\"<\/center><\/p>\n

Said the same thing the last time I rolled it, after the national championship.<\/p>\n

Great light at the homestead:<\/p>\n

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I see this poster every so often. I want to own a copy of it, but you can’t find it for sale. Ah well:<\/p>\n

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So we’re at Bed, Bath and Beyond, because we like to buy multi-dimensional things. Also, they have a good kettle corn we like. We were there to pick up a few bags, but we found that it was all — gasp! — beyond the “Best by” date. And not just barely beyond the date, but four whole days beyond. <\/p>\n

I point this out as a joke to the young cashier. She is mortified. <\/p>\n

“I can’t sell you this!”<\/p>\n

Yes you can. And I want to buy it.<\/p>\n

She calls her manager, who is quickly brought up to speed and is equally chagrined. I insist on buying it. I’d only mentioned it to make a pretend scene, not a real one. And now, for the first time ever, the act of scene making has actually done something.<\/p>\n

The manager calls in her regional distributor. And he conducts a straw poll of Bed, Bath and Beyond shareholders and spectral bodies. They finally decide they can sell me the popcorn. But they will only do it for half price:<\/p>\n

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We opened the bag that had aged beyond the “Best by” stamp. It was merely sufficient. <\/p>\n

These were all the movies we could have watched instead of Twilight:<\/p>\n

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Note that the debuting film isn’t even on the marquee. I think the theater was embarrassed by the act of showing the movie. Not so embarrassed they wouldn’t take your money, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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