This is an I'm-Too-Tired-to-Properly-Write-a-Post offering. Because, Daylight Saving Time. Which means my body tells me that midnight is looming, while my little alarm clock on the nightstand claims it's just about 11:00. My body says to the alarm clock: LIES!
Had a nice extended weekend, but that's all done for now...although there is a holiday weekend coming up after this week.
I can't remember if tonight is Bonfire Night or that's tomorrow night? [Edit: Bonfire Night is the night of the 5th, see below.]
I could look it up but I can barely muster up the energy to type right now, so Internet research is just asking too much. Now, tomorrow is
Guy Fawkes Day so expect to see something about that in the news maybe. Probably lots of quotes from the movie based on Alan Moore's graphic novel, minor mischief from Anonymous and people who will be referred to by CNN or Fox News as "hackers," those types of things. Which I'm sure will do nothing but add to the atmosphere of this election cycle, which is already rivaling 2000 in terms of overall nutball levels with the rush to vote early and all of the stories of waiting in line for hours and attempts at voter suppression, all of the polling and robocalling, the increase in neighborhood canvassing. I may spend Tuesday night watching the results roll in. If I do, there will be Live Tweeting* and a drinking game may have to happen.
Guy Fawkes Day is of course traditionally followed by Bonfire Night:
On the very night that the Gunpowder Plot was foiled, on November 5th, 1605, bonfires were set alight to celebrate the safety of the King. Since then, November 5th has become known as
Bonfire Night. The event is commemorated every year with fireworks and burning effigies of Guy Fawkes on a bonfire.
Some of the English have been known to wonder, in a tongue in cheek kind of way, whether they are celebrating Fawkes' execution or honoring his attempt to do away with the government
And in such a way, Londoners and Britons as a nation are reminded to "Remember, remember, the Fifth of November..."
So sleep is waiting, and this week promises to bring some interesting developments at work. :yawn: G'night!
*One of the reasons I still cling to Twitter is the communal experience that often takes place during major events and television program viewing.
2 comments:
celebrate for me! I love that movie.
I have sparklers and a fire pit. I can probably burn printouts of Guy Fawkes masked internet kids. That's as far as I go. I'm a Passive Anarchist. The Humanist side of me keeps it in check.
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