National Absurdity Day

Che bella! Headline from nypost.com: “Italian village offers $1 homes to Americans bent out of shape after Trump’s landslide re-election win.” Will there be any takers?

Turning the clock back to the 1930s, from NYP: “Chilling warning in Berlin to Jews, openly gay people to watch their backs in Arab-majority neighborhoods.”

Among today’s celebrations, it’s National Pay Back Your Parents Day. It’s a debt I never repaid. And it’s also National Absurdity Day, which is every day, really.

They’re back. In January, during a colonoscopy, the doctor did a banding procedure, fastening a rubber band around my hemorrhoids, which fell off a couple of days later. My primary physician warned they might return. For the first few months it was heaven. Then there would be occasional blood, no big deal. Now there’s blood every day, not as bad as it was at its worst, but I suspect it will be shortly. Fie! Still, the ten-month hiatus made the procedure well worth it, especially since it was done at the same time as the colonoscopy.

Headline from foxnews.com: “Netflix’s ‘Mary’ attracts social media backlash for casting Israeli actress as mother of Jesus.” It’s acting, boneheads.

Here’s an interesting list: 12 Bands That Got Rich Off Just One Song by Victoria Omololu at msm.com: All have been used many times in commercials, TV shows and movies:
House of Pain — Jump Around
Norman Greenbaum — Spirit in the Sky. Least surprising of the bunch.
Right Said Fred — I’m Too Sexy
Bobby McFerrin — Don’t Worry Be Happy
Chumbawamba — Tubthumping
Baha Men — Who Let the Dogs Out
Dexys Midnight Runners — Come On Eileen
Modern English — I Melt With You
Soft Cell — Tainted Love
a-ha — Take On Me. One of the few videos I’d dub great.
Ram Jam — Black Betty. This is the only one that surprises me.
4 Non Blondes — What’s Up. Rousing, though the “I try” refrain comes off as comical to me. Photo from Google Images:

Given the forecast for at least two days of rain, knowing I wouldn’t be able to leave books hidden in the garden, and suffering a dearth of sales, I put in some overtime at the Anti-Inflation Book Shop on this pleasant, overcast, windless day. It paid off. My thanks to the woman who bought two cookbooks and a Russian-English dictionary, and to the teenage girls who purchased Twilight by Stephanie Meyer and The Origin of the Species by Charles Darwin; and to the woman who took home this massive pictorial:

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