Taking a breather from his job as a web researcher of music sites, Scraps sends this tidbit:
"From the intro text to a Celine Dion website:
Her music is so covetous of wonderful writings on a special sheet tucked
inside her musical soul that she offers emotion by emotion with every note.
Nothing is still, yet seems so very much to be, and, then, a sweet
surrendering denotes any further loosening with every motion, every mood.
Album by album her image is to be a defining moment in a melody pleasure...
... listening is like our hour and singing is her fairy cherry for us."
Exactly.
Work was one long miasma of trips to Disneyland and Las Vegas. I got awfully mixed up over which honeymoon couple was which after the fifth booking. One client, not a honeymooner, got mad at me because he didn't like the prices I quoted him. They weren't in the brochure he looked at so he figured I was in cahoots with the vendor to rip him off. He quibbled, he moaned, he peered at me suspiciously. Sheesh. There's nothing more irritating than a client who thinks I'm trying to cheat him with prices. Sorry, not in my job description. You want to be ripped off, go buy it on the street. Which is what this fool wanted to do. He was planning on showing up at Disneyland and trying to buy partially used Disney passes from scalpers at the gate. He wanted me to assure him he could do this, in effect guaranteeing him the savings.
Infra dig., old bean.
It's shocking what I have to convince people of, actually. Not only am I not a charlatan but I'm not stupid. If I tell you it's dangerous to go to a particular destination you should believe me, or at least check on your own to see why I think so. I have had two sets of clients within the last month who wanted to go to Indonesia because they heard it was a great bargain thanks to the political unrest. I am, frankly, appalled. It's true that the official warning has been amended to a public announcement. Yes, there is still a fragile tourist industry there. But there is also a frightening amount of killings, "disappearances", torture, looting, thuggery, and violence going on while the government and economy are in flux. Tourists aren't the main target, but how can you justify holidaying while the locals are fleeing their homes? Think it's all over because it's not front page news anymore? Ask Amnesty International. Your tourist dollar will be of more use to Indonesia later when things have settled down. You'll still get the bargain, just not at the expense of human rights.
Oh, all right, I'm getting off my soapbox. Maybe I'll try to make the world a better place through music. Heck, look at how much Celine Dion has accomplished. Peace, love, and a bottomless cache of sappy ballads. Some days a girl needs a bit of fairy cherry to make everything all right.
