• Welcome
    • Curriculum Vitae
    • About Me
  • Publications
    • Work in Progress
  • Blog
  • Provocations

ZOMBIE NIGHTS  IV    OR         The Yellowed Letter and the  Google Challenge

4/25/2017

0 Comments

 

Picture

The Yellowed Letter and the  Google Challenge
It was just getting light when I got up to pee.  On the way back to bed I stumbled over the pile of dirty laundry.. (Don’t worry, Mom, I will keep my New Year’s Resolution and go to the laundromat,, real soon.)   On the floor between the pile  and the door I saw a yellowed, grimy envelop, addressed to me in a spidery hand. Uh oh! It had to be from Zombie! More trouble.
Sure enough,  above the big Z which Zombie used for a signature,  was this message, “ Dumbo my love- You think Trump is a demagogue not a  populits . See what Google thinks..
 Love Z. ”
 
OK. OK I turned on the old IBM CPU which my parents had given me  fifteen years ago when I was applying to college , made a cup of coffee, , waited some more for it to boot up,  then Googled .  “Trump populist.” Did you know there are about 10,600,000 results for this search? For ”Trump demagogue” a paltryy  418,000.. 
 Vox popul, vox sapientiumi! Zombie will gloat.
What a terrible way to start the day,  I’d ben totally outvoted. Add that to being broke, living alone in this lousy garret, amid a stinking pile of laundry, my only friend a zombie ...   Well, you get the point.   Maybe something will turn up before Friday night when I have the rendezvous with Zombie at the mausoleum. I sure hope so.  


 

0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Archives

    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    November 2017
    October 2017
    August 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    October 2014
    June 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    January 2014
    October 2013
    September 2013
    August 2013
    July 2013
    June 2013
    May 2013
    April 2013
    March 2013
    February 2013

    RSS Feed

    Picture