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I was rather astonished to step outside this morning, half-awake as usual, to find we were socked in with fog. How quickly I grew used to brilliant sunshine and blue skies! Dork dog nearly pulled me off my feet as I stood there gap-mouthed. She was headed down the driveway in her urgent need to potty and smell interesting smells. I staggered along behind her looking upwards as if by somehow glaring at the clouds I could make the marine layer evaporate before I got dressed to head for the bus.
Our Marine Layer. I need to make peace with Our Marine Layer. On those rare days where we hit 95-100 degrees on the coast Our Marine Layer saves my ass. She comes blowing in across the gate waving her SAG card from the John Carpenter film and blankets our hills and valleys with cool, moist wind and cloud cover. She is my patron of living in the Bay Area with no air-condition. Our Marine Layer forgive me for my annoyance this morning.
I have finally succumbed. I fought it valiantly, really I did, but last night I spent two hours glued to YouTube. The annoying thing is that it did not contain what I originally went over there to look for. A few years ago now Nextel had two commercials they used to introduce their walkie-talkie phones. One was a wedding abbreviated down to 60 seconds. The other one was all of Romeo and Juliet (a school play production) boiled down to 60 seconds. In both, all dialog was conducted via the Nextel phone. I have looked *EVERYWHERE* and cannot find those two commercials--yet. I'm certain they will eventually surface.
Meanwhile, I got wrapped up in the nostalgia of old MTV videos. I longed for the days when MTV actually was MUSIC TV. Back then I didn't have cable and I missed a lot of those and so I found myself saving several I'd never seen. I also found opening themes to my childhood such as Super Chicken, The Banana Splits, The big-mac commercial (two-all-beef-patties-special sauce-lettuce-cheese-pickle-onion-on a-sesame-seed-bun) I could recite it BACKWARDS when I was 11 years old. Pinky & the Brain opening song. The Animaniacs opening song. My favorite VW commercials, and lastly, one of my favorite segments from the days when David Letterman had hair!
I'm hopeless. I hope you realize that.
Our Marine Layer. I need to make peace with Our Marine Layer. On those rare days where we hit 95-100 degrees on the coast Our Marine Layer saves my ass. She comes blowing in across the gate waving her SAG card from the John Carpenter film and blankets our hills and valleys with cool, moist wind and cloud cover. She is my patron of living in the Bay Area with no air-condition. Our Marine Layer forgive me for my annoyance this morning.
I have finally succumbed. I fought it valiantly, really I did, but last night I spent two hours glued to YouTube. The annoying thing is that it did not contain what I originally went over there to look for. A few years ago now Nextel had two commercials they used to introduce their walkie-talkie phones. One was a wedding abbreviated down to 60 seconds. The other one was all of Romeo and Juliet (a school play production) boiled down to 60 seconds. In both, all dialog was conducted via the Nextel phone. I have looked *EVERYWHERE* and cannot find those two commercials--yet. I'm certain they will eventually surface.
Meanwhile, I got wrapped up in the nostalgia of old MTV videos. I longed for the days when MTV actually was MUSIC TV. Back then I didn't have cable and I missed a lot of those and so I found myself saving several I'd never seen. I also found opening themes to my childhood such as Super Chicken, The Banana Splits, The big-mac commercial (two-all-beef-patties-special sauce-lettuce-cheese-pickle-onion-on a-sesame-seed-bun) I could recite it BACKWARDS when I was 11 years old. Pinky & the Brain opening song. The Animaniacs opening song. My favorite VW commercials, and lastly, one of my favorite segments from the days when David Letterman had hair!
I'm hopeless. I hope you realize that.
