If you are a gear head this video will fascinate you to the point of being mesmerized. Just the sound of this thing is beautiful music. Read the description below the video and then be captivated.
And if you're not a gear head just skip this altogether. You won't get it, and that's OK. I don't understand pedicures.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXzSZVgQwts
Why was Chris Christie in Dallas, in the owner's booth, cheering for the Cowboys??
He is now off my list of acceptable candidates for any public office.
I check the news for Grand Rapids, MI every morning to see what's going on in our old home town.
To my Michigan friends, I am SO sorry.
I didn't get much done on the truck today. I've realized I didn't identify some of the parts I need to complete the under-dash assembly, so I didn't order them with my most recent order last week. I can't install B until I have A which goes behind it. So I painted some things that get rattle can treatment (AKA aerosol) and sorted through parts stored in boxes on the patio. I'll place an order later tonight and then wait for last week's order to show up and install the parts from it that can go on now.
I've given up on Meet the Press. It was the best of the lot when Tim Russert was host so anything after that was going to come up short, but I thought David Gregory did OK. Then he was gone, dumped. I recently read the backstory to his sudden departure and it isn't pretty. He was getting a lot of pressure from the newly-installed NBC news head Deborah Turness who wanted to update the program's format with stylistic changes -new set, amped up graphics and the embarrassing experiment with comedians as panelists (after her effort to snag John Stewart as host failed). Gregory pushed back, the ratings tanked, and he was shown the door so unceremoniously that they not only bought out the rest of his contract, which ran for another six months, but paid him to sign a non-disclosure agreement that kept him from speaking disparagingly about the network, for a total of $4 million.
I like Chuck Todd, Gregory's replacement. He's been the network's primary political correspondent and has an easygoing, engaging style. But this latest version of MTP has all the marks of Turness' vision on steroids. I'm ADD and I find it rushed and jarring. Panelists get 2-3 sentences before Todd breaks in and moves the discussion to the next of the group. After three of those cycles he gets up from his chair, walks to another area of the set, and quickly interviews a newsmaker or three. Then back over to the panelists. These segments get interspersed with his trips over to the fancy huge flat screen where poll results are displayed with splashy graphics.
Pedantic is bad. Frenetic is no better, especially in a news program that promises a more in-depth coverage of important stories than the nightly news provides. I don't need hip in a Sunday morning news show.
So next Sunday I'll skip recording MTP and try out Face the Nation. Bob Shieffer has the gravitas and bones, let's see if the show has substance.
3 comments:
I haven't watched a Sunday political show since David Brinkley moved on from "This Week."
...and that was also about the same time I stopped watching any sort of news (other than sports) on TV. I get all my news from print media.
I like the Sunday morning discussion segment where I hear diverse analysis of topics. It's one of the few places on TV where you get civil conversation between people who aren't extremists but come at an issue from various angles. My news I get from a half dozen sites, from the networks to Politico to The Beast....
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