SUNDAY MORNING (CBS) March 8, 2015:
There were several reports this morning and I won't cover all of them, just the ones that were particularly moving, amusing, astounding.
DOPPELGANGERS: A famous photographer (Forgot his name already) was being interviewed because he has been locating and photographing people. The piece opened with some of his pictures, all twins. Oh, so this about twins. Ok. Well the people in the photographs are not twins, not related, they just look like each other, Doppelgangers. They interviewed three or four sets; the one most striking were the two blond women who were blond, heavy set, short thick necks, same eyes, face, height and separate unrelated parents. The gentleman will be publishing this photographic project in a book soon. I really want to pre-order that on Amazon. I also got to thinking about all these look-a-likes and wondered if the entire race on earth is starting to become homogenized so that similar DNA types pop up more frequently until we have evolved to look basically like our neighbors. And I do wonder if there is another Royce somewhere. I don't know if I could stand her.
CARL REINER: He is going on 93. His career came into prominence on The Show of Shows. They aired one bit; he was interviewing Mel Brooks who was the 2,000 year old man. Carl asked him if they practiced polygamy. Mel replied, "No I was perfect". Next question was how many wives did he have. Mel replied that he had seven wives. Well how was that? Oh, it was terrible!! When I came home from work, I heard "You're late for supper, supper, supper, supper, supper, supper, supper!" I screamed in laughter, I had never heard that one before.
HAMILTON: This one was a bit astounding. An actor/author (sorry short term memory, no name) has written a play about Alexander Hamilton and the dialog is all in Rap, Hip Hop. Ugh, not my favorite song genre. However, the story is quite wonderful and after a bit I started nodding my head in time with the rapsters and it was all cool, very cool. Now the show has been off Broadway and is soon to debut ON Broadway. As I will likely never go to New York in particular for a Broadway show, I sure would like to pre-order the DVD on Amazon.
DAISY A DAY: There was a piece from On The Road. Two park workers in Fond Du Lac Wisconsin had started clearing the snowy path in a park when they noticed a senior citizen sitting in his car unable to get out because of the snow bank. The park had a bench at the end of the walk way with a picture of a woman on the bench. The gentleman comes to that bench each day to leave a daisy in memory of his wife and sings her favorite song, "I'll Bring You a Daisy a Day, Dear". Big Sniff.
SELMA: President Obama gave his speech at the rally and it was quite impressive, speaking in past, present and future phrasing with his distinctive soft/hard S sound. There was none of his famous hesitation before almost every word as he thinks to say the appropriate word. Well done, my Speech class teacher would have been proud.
MONARCH BUTTERFLYS: A man in Nebraska has let 44 acres of his farm land go unplanted with the local commercial crops. He has allowed native plants, grasses and flowers to grow, especially skunk week. He has done this in response to aid the annual migration of these beautiful insects. Hooray for entomology.
The program closed with a silent picture of nature as usual. It was a Snowy Owl. Very pretty.
There were several reports this morning and I won't cover all of them, just the ones that were particularly moving, amusing, astounding.
DOPPELGANGERS: A famous photographer (Forgot his name already) was being interviewed because he has been locating and photographing people. The piece opened with some of his pictures, all twins. Oh, so this about twins. Ok. Well the people in the photographs are not twins, not related, they just look like each other, Doppelgangers. They interviewed three or four sets; the one most striking were the two blond women who were blond, heavy set, short thick necks, same eyes, face, height and separate unrelated parents. The gentleman will be publishing this photographic project in a book soon. I really want to pre-order that on Amazon. I also got to thinking about all these look-a-likes and wondered if the entire race on earth is starting to become homogenized so that similar DNA types pop up more frequently until we have evolved to look basically like our neighbors. And I do wonder if there is another Royce somewhere. I don't know if I could stand her.
CARL REINER: He is going on 93. His career came into prominence on The Show of Shows. They aired one bit; he was interviewing Mel Brooks who was the 2,000 year old man. Carl asked him if they practiced polygamy. Mel replied, "No I was perfect". Next question was how many wives did he have. Mel replied that he had seven wives. Well how was that? Oh, it was terrible!! When I came home from work, I heard "You're late for supper, supper, supper, supper, supper, supper, supper!" I screamed in laughter, I had never heard that one before.
HAMILTON: This one was a bit astounding. An actor/author (sorry short term memory, no name) has written a play about Alexander Hamilton and the dialog is all in Rap, Hip Hop. Ugh, not my favorite song genre. However, the story is quite wonderful and after a bit I started nodding my head in time with the rapsters and it was all cool, very cool. Now the show has been off Broadway and is soon to debut ON Broadway. As I will likely never go to New York in particular for a Broadway show, I sure would like to pre-order the DVD on Amazon.
DAISY A DAY: There was a piece from On The Road. Two park workers in Fond Du Lac Wisconsin had started clearing the snowy path in a park when they noticed a senior citizen sitting in his car unable to get out because of the snow bank. The park had a bench at the end of the walk way with a picture of a woman on the bench. The gentleman comes to that bench each day to leave a daisy in memory of his wife and sings her favorite song, "I'll Bring You a Daisy a Day, Dear". Big Sniff.
SELMA: President Obama gave his speech at the rally and it was quite impressive, speaking in past, present and future phrasing with his distinctive soft/hard S sound. There was none of his famous hesitation before almost every word as he thinks to say the appropriate word. Well done, my Speech class teacher would have been proud.
MONARCH BUTTERFLYS: A man in Nebraska has let 44 acres of his farm land go unplanted with the local commercial crops. He has allowed native plants, grasses and flowers to grow, especially skunk week. He has done this in response to aid the annual migration of these beautiful insects. Hooray for entomology.
The program closed with a silent picture of nature as usual. It was a Snowy Owl. Very pretty.
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