26 september 2006
THE AA NEWS'S "On the Move" business column makes Y. roll her eyes a little bit. You can tell that the items were submitted by the person they described. Do we really need to know that "Tiffany Yusko has joined the Ann Arbor office of RMT Inc.?" Call me picky, or sniveling, or just an old crab, but one gets an impression of boasting.
Y. proposes an entirely new, juicier approach to this column. People should submit items exemplifying how they are On The Move in more interesting areas of their lives. Examples:
"Ypsilanti gardener Ypsidixit sat out in her back yard for 20 minutes last night, envisioning a staggeringly ambitious plan for a giant food garden next summer, highlighted by habanero peppers and purple beans."
"Linda Mushmelon worked up the nerve to tell off her obnoxious and selfish boyfriend and go find better things to do with her time, such as trimming her nose-hairs."
"Leslie Schnicklegruber received in the mail an adaptor, or, de-daptor, that allowed her to place a tinny telephone call on her 1947 bakelite telephone, the crown jewel in the empire of telephones covering most surfaces in her home."
That I would read. Of course, there's plenty of space in "comments" for kind readers to create their own such On The Move column, with any tidbits they'd care to divulge...
Posted by ypsidixit at 26 september 2006 12:09
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Well, I can report that my over-the-fence neighbor Eamon, age two, is truly on the move learning about earthworms: how they feel when you squish them, how they dangle upon a stick but also fall off pretty easily, how plentiful they are in the soil right now, how they wriggle . . .
It's very gratifying to observe.
Posted by: Elizabeth at 26 september 2006 14:19
That is an adorable On The Move report! Just the sort of thing I was hoping for! And I've seen his name on a certain local midwifery blog.
Posted by: Laura at 26 september 2006 14:25
or how Ziglviet b. schtook is on the verge of the creation of a latex paint that is also safe as a mouthwash ...no more having cans of non-recycleable latex paint behind the garage waiting for the day that cat litter can actually absorb all is poo poo qualities out, so it can be heaved into a landfill ...now we can just spit it down the drain..... or if you swallow it you will be "on the move " more'n'likely to the lavatory
Posted by: joe friday at 27 september 2006 08:50
Please keep the posts on your phones coming. I enjoy reading about what you are up too.
Posted by: The Listener at 27 september 2006 10:17
Thankee, Listener. I hope you saw Murph's link to the Port-O-Rotary.
Posted by: Laura at 27 september 2006 10:18
Mr. Friday: Now, that is good news! Amazing what scientists can do these days! I look forward to trying it.
Posted by: Laura at 27 september 2006 10:20
If you look at the newspapers of the 1800s, you'll see lots of columns like the one you're describing. "Mr. Adam Smith was sick this Saturday passed, being sick with a fever. His wife reports he is better now" and stuff like that. Also, they used to report the addresses of everyone involved in news articles and in the 20s and 30s would publish pictures of fugitives who'd been shot by police. People seem to have been less private back then, I guess because their privacy wasn't as threatened as ours is now.
Posted by: Anna at 27 september 2006 20:56
Two nephews have been spotted as of late on the walk home from school stopping on Box Elder Bug Hill to document the life cycle of said bugs, some as small as a head of a pin, to the speedy adolescent bug to the slower but brightly colored elder. Impending frost may bring an end to this popular stop, as the beetles were last seen this morning converging on a big rock in the sun, huddled tightly together. "And so it goes...", their mother was heard to say.
Posted by: guess who at 28 september 2006 10:41
Anna: That's true, I've seen that many a time in olde papers while filching microfilm printouts at Halle Library at EMU. I wonder about the addresses. That is strange, now that you mention it.
Posted by: Laura at 28 september 2006 10:46
GW: What a charming report!
Posted by: Laura at 28 september 2006 10:47
It is reported that beavers have moved into new digs in burrows along the Huron River, on the north bank along Zeeb Road. Said beavers are altering the landscape by chomping standing trees and other beaverish merriment. --As reported by the Huron River Watershed Council.
Posted by: Magick Nature Womon at 28 september 2006 12:34