Bears, Beets, Battlestar Gallactica
Listening to Michael Hedges' music always clears my mind. Similarly, a trip to the Hirshorn Gallery or the East Building at the National Gallery of Art, or MoMa -- you get the picture. It's a cleansing experience, and makes me appreciate art and what good it does for us. On the other hand (it's always the other hand that gets in trouble) it clears things up for me and allows me to see the incongruities (geez) in life and the things that we take for granted. Like today --- Hundreds (thousands?) of people s tood in long lines at Build-A-Bear Workshops to get a bear for the price of the age of their child. For those of you doing math, that means that a 4-year-old could get a stuffed bear for --- four dollars. Need I go further? Inexplicably, more than half of the bear-enthusiasts were turned away because ... well, they ... um ... over-booked. Yes, the company did not anticipate that huge numbers of humanity would stand in line for several hours to...