Stitch in Time

Pauvre Mama!

She sliced her little finger on 12/06 & 2 stitches were taken.

As you may know, although I am the sole creative force behind the MercuryMurphy blog, Mama turns on the computer and sets me up on my chair. [For more about my creative process, including the recipe for innovation-inducing libations, see entry of November 25, 2006.]

Thus there will be a slight delay before my next posting.

In the meantime, feel free to review some of my earlier entries.

I suggest the series of mystery reviews [October 2006], musings on media interviews with Andy Lester [by Chris Matthews], Jerry Seinfeld, and Superman [September 2006], informative essays about global artifacts & pictures of me as a baby [August 2006], and specifics about a dog's life in the Roushanzamir family [July 2006; entry, July 28, a view of my loft].

For another pleasant read, click "view my complete profile" located at the end of "About Me" to the right of your screen.

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Click on "comments" at the end of each entry to record your own.

Til later, my good friends & fans,

Mercury Murphy Roushanzamir/M-squared

Post Script: Mama's suggestion: "go to BBC-America web site for days & times during the week when you can watch the Time Lords of Galifrey program Dr. Who; watch him travel through space & time in his Tardis [time and relative dimensions in space machine--see photos of outside & inside below]," she says.

Pauvre Mama

I have told you quite a bit about my life with Mama et Papa. Now I shall share a little bit about Mama.

She earned a Ph.D. [Mass Communication with a minor in African Studies] from the University of Wisconsin-Madison & had previously attended the University of Michigan [M.A.] and Duke [B.A.].

Thus one might assume she is well read, knowledgable across the social sciences and humanities. You'd think her mind was occupied with the weighty issues of class, race/ethnicity, gender & sexual orientation in a global society & the relationship of mass communication to those variables. Some of her favorite authors might be Raymond Williams, E.P. Thompson, Roland Barthes, Eric Hobsbawm, etc. Her heros, one might justifyably assume, would include Herb Schiller, Hanno Hardt, & Bob McChesney.

How wrong would be your assumptions.

See the picture above for her 2 favorites: Jerry Seinfeld [the comic who does those meaningless routines such as-- "have you ever noticed that when you're getting ready to move all you can think about is boxes?...] and Superman [a cartoon, albeit one pledged to defend our free & democratic way of life-- and he can fly!]. And here they appear together for their interview on The Today Show.

Pauvre Mama. [does this strike any of my loyal readers--as I must admit it does me-- as slightly pathetic?] But at least her preferences are related to mass communication.

Now, for an example of how I occupy my time, see the book review below.