What you see isn’t.

 

Today's Tids Issue 5753 

The Oval Ring: 

 

By God, it's March! The March winds were tepid, but the icy fingers of February interrupted the first day of March jubilation.. Ash Wednesday is this week so we will find out who all the Catholics are. But we’ll have to wait a long time until mid-April to see that wily rabbit hopping down the bunny trail. We will be sucked into madness in a week or so as teams begin their fights for men’s and women’s National college basketball championships. So March will give us Cinderellas and monsters will be smote by Davids everywhere. And then in the end, March will settle down to the glow of crocus and buds of hyacinth; yellow hillsides of forsythia. And, we will smile. Wont we. 

 

My hero Ogden Nash, 

Fond of a made-up word 

Would find AI helpful hints, 

Entirely absurd. 

 

I liked Conan O’Brian’s opener to the Oscars last night. He just proved that good jokes and upbeat presentation always gets a laugh or a smile without inane outrageousness or the “F” word. After Conan I retreated so as not to endure throbbing Celebrity speeches. Anora upset the predictors, and the big vox office smashes barely got a mention. The opening songs were also a highlight. 

 

I was sitting in a coffee shop, and “Bolero” came on. Around 8 minutes later, everything started to un-Ravel. 

 

The Question: 

What was the first meal eaten on the Moon? Bonus: Popsicles were originally called Epsicles. Why. Extra Bonus: Because of their German heritage, during WWI Sauerkraut, Frankfurters and Dachshunds names were changed in the USA. What were they called. 

 

The Headlines: 

--NVidia Stock Slide Plus Tariff Uncertainty Puts Dow, S&P, Nas in Dumpster; March Brings Jobs Reports and Earnings of Big Retail;  Crypto Rising After Trump Talks of Strategic Reserve.  

--Trump Ok’s Beginning of 25% Tariffs on Mexico and Canada Beginning Tomorrow. Trump Says Tariff on Agricultural Imports Begins April 2. 

--Vatican Just Announced Two Repertory Failures of Pope Francis. 

--RFK Jr Kinda-Sorta says Get a Measles Vaccine. 

--US Breaks up Guatemalans Human Trafficking Ring in California. 

--Hegseth Orders Ceasing of Cyber Attacks on Russia; Says Policy Against Russian Cyber activity has not Changed. 

--Russia Bombards Ukraine with Thousands of Drones and 20 Ballistic Missiles; Russia Spokesperson says Moscow is happy with Fragmentation of West. 

--Anora Wins Big Oscar Prize; Best Actress/Actor go to Mikey Madison and Adrian Brodey; Supporting to Zoe Saldana and Kierin Culkin; Conan O’Brien is The Star of the Show.  

 

I think in the next several years we will begin to see astonishing events that will in fact be AI alternative views of what actually happened. But by the time somebody figures it out, who knows what chaos will be wrought. 

 

Will we need to have trained professional cynics working for governments? 

 

I finished up the last two episodes to The Recruit in lieu of sitting through the Oscars. The ending was disappointing. They were obviously setting up next year. So, maybe we’ll get answers then. 

 

Do you ever dream of doing something beyond your capabilities? I had this sense for many years that I would like to write a better ending to Schubert's 9th Symphony. This is a truly great piece of music written by a brilliant young composer of music, but something has always bothered me about the ending not being fitting to its greatness. How arrogant am I thinking I can find a magnificent crescendo then better than Franz Schubert. 

 

But I like dreams.  

 

What happens when a piano falls down a mineshaft? A flat miner. 

 

Having government employees reporting on their weekly activities would move their focus into report creation instead of doing their jobs to the best of their abilities. That's what fear does to the human mind.  

 

Similarly, I have always felt that corporations did better when they were managing the business to develop quarterly result reports for Wall Street.  

 

In the Movie Anora, the “F: word was uttered 479 times. That's enough to drive me away from wanting to see the movie.  

 

Ted Williams, one of the great all-time hitters, had trouble teaching hitting because he didn't understand the limitations of players compared to his own unique abilities. Musk, a genius, has the same problem, trying to understand that a large percentage of human beings aren't equipped to achieve what he can. 

 

OMG!!! I just realized there isn’t a potato chip in the house.  

 

Aren't actors always acting in their public celebrity persona.  

 

The more Listen to that grand National squabble of last week, the more I believe Vance was the perpetrator of what resulted in TV warfare. 

 

Our weather men and women say today is our last col d day of the winter now officially spring. Until it snows the week before Easter.  

 

With all due respect to world crises and fighting in the Oval Office, i am continually irked by the high cost of some of the most menial necessities. 

 

Hey, Trump does the SOTU thing tomorrow before congress. Let's see, I finished The Recruit... Hmmm 

 

Did you hear about the actuary who wouldn’t make whipped cream? She was whisk-averse. 

 

The Answer: 

The first meal eaten on the moon were Bacon, Peaches and Sugar   Cookies.  Bonus: At eleven years old, young inventor Frank Epperson invented the Popsicle in 1905 and called them Epsicles. After he married and had kids, when he made them for his kids, tey called them Popsicles and the rest is history. Extra bonus: These German favorites during WW1 were renamed Liberty Cabbage, Liberty Sausage and Liberty Pups. Hamburger was also changed to Liberty Steak. 

 

I was hoping to have this out really early today, but even when you have nothing to do, nothing can get in thy way too! And no, it wasn't naps.