Sunday, March 10, 2024

Playing, looking directly, describing

At a half-time show in 2004, Janet Jackson had a moment when her left breast was exposed.  I didn't actually see it happen but I heard about it.  I was impressed by my first experience of hearing the incident called a "wardrobe malfunction."  Something came loose, something broke and oops!  Pants fell down!  Breasts were exposed!  Try to relax.  A great many of us are males.  We can "see" you without any obscuring fabric all the time. Don't purposely engineer an exposure but don't be too embarrassed either.


Elon Musk and his crew are about to launch a Space X rocket into space.  They are hoping the launch goes more according to plan than the last try when their rocket suffered a "rapid unscheduled disassembly", exploding in an unwanted way at an unwanted time.


I recently re-read Robert Frost's famous poem "Stopping by woods on a snowy evening".  t.ly/ZsrHA  He describes driving his horse and wagon thru a woods and stopping for a moment to enjoy the scene and the sounds.  He says his pony is a bit confused.  They never stop at that spot.  Why are they stopping?  The pony shakes his harness and bells at the puzzle.  That little moment of a shake has been immortalized, much like the rapid unscheduled disassembly and the wardrobe malfunction by some poetic thought and effort.

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