You know what, Banks, YES I HAVE!
Tweet of the Week – January 29, 2022
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Best Quotes of the Week – January 29, 2022
“If we can do a better job to remember that we’re all created in God’s image, ‘b’tzelem Elohim.’ If we could all do more to tone down the rhetoric in politics and on talk shows and remember that we can debate ideas. We don’t have to agree. We also don’t have to attack one another personally to get our point across.”
Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker, who was taken hostage at gunpoint for 11 hours along with three other congregants at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas on January 15
The phrase ‘b’tzelem elohim,’ means “in the image of God”.
“We depend upon one another whether we know it or not and we are made better when more of us are seen and heard and helped. So many tiny-tribe people have been fooled into believing that someone else’s gain is their loss; that this existence is competitive when it is actually supposed to collaborative, that we take care of our own. That is a sad way to spend the brief time here that we have. I want something better.”
John Pavlovitz, in “Yes, This Is All About Tribalism”
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February 2022 Book Marketing Opportunities
A writer’s job is never done. That includes marketing – which most of us hate. We’re writers – not salespeople! At least I’m not. Regardless, we scribes HAVE to take every opportunity to sell our writings and we HAVE to use any means necessary – preferably those that fall within the bounds of legality. The Marketing Deities have established unique reasons to mark every day of the year. With February close upon us, here are some prime marketing opportunities for each day of the month.
- February 1 Spunky Old Broads Day
- February 3 Feed the Birds Day
- February 4 Bubble Gum Day
- February 4 Thank a Mailman Day
- February 5 National Shower with a Friend Day
- February 5 National Weatherman’s Day
- February 6 National Chopsticks Day
- February 7 Send a Card to a Friend Day
- February 9 Toothache Day
- February 10 Umbrella Day
- February 13 Get a Different Name Day
- February 13 National Wingman Day
- February 14 Ferris Wheel Day
- February 15 Singles Awareness Day
- February 15 Susan B. Anthony Day
- February 16 Do a Grouch a Favor Day
- February 17 Random Acts of Kindness Day
- February 20 Love Your Pet Day
- February 22 Be Humble Day
- February 26 Open That Bottle Night
- February 26 Tell a Fairy Tale Day
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Retro Quote – Bernard Williams
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Word of the Week – January 22, 2022
Tsundoku (積ん読)
Noun
Japanese (slang), 19th century
Acquiring reading materials and letting them pile up without reading them. It combines elements of tsunde-oku (積んでおく, to pile things up) and dokusho (読書, reading books). As currently written, the word combines the characters for “pile up” (積) and the character for “read” (読).
Example: My vast tsundoku looks overwhelming, but it’s still comforting to me.
Image: Ronnie Filyaw – Whomp!
Cartoon of the Week – January 22, 2022
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Video of the Week – January 22, 2022
Who knew that local television reporting could be dangerous? Tori Yorgey of WSAZ-TV in Charleston, West Virginia could provide some insight. Yorgey was reporting on a water main break in nearby Dunbar during an evening broadcast on January 19, when she was struck by a white S.U.V. and knocked down. The camera fell to the ground as well, and from outside the shot, Yorgey could be heard telling her in-studio colleague, “I just got hit by a car, but I’m OK.”
Regardless of Yorgey’s nonchalant demeanor, it was a frightening episode.
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Tweet of the Week – January 22, 2022
Kentucky U.S. Senate candidate Charles Booker responding to a Tweet by Sen. Rand Paul
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Worst Quotes of the Week – January 22, 2022
“I saw a large group and made a joke. Sadly when Democrats see the same they demonize my family for a year straight.”
Rep. Lauren Boebert, trying to explain her response to a group of Orthodox Jewish visitors to the U.S. Capitol
The group, whose members donned traditional yarmulkes, was meeting with Rep. Tom Suozzi. Boebert’s remark came just days after a hostage-taking ordeal at a synagogue in Colleyville, Texas.
“And the solution is as simple as the problem. Here’s the solution, stop putting up with it. Say no. No, you can’t smoke meth in the park. You’re not allowed to crap on the sidewalk. Pull up your pants and get the hell out of here. Go somewhere with lower standards. Head for a place where politicians don’t care about their people, because we do care and that’s why we’re hauling your tent to a landfill and cutting off your checks today. You are a drug addict. Get a job or leave. This is our city, you are not allowed to wreck it; you didn’t build it.”
Tucker Carlson, suggesting how to deal with homeless people
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Best Quotes of the Week – January 22, 2022
“The best thing to do when faced with voter suppression – and my friends, this is what voter suppression looks like – the best thing to defeat it is to go vote. The best thing to do is fight back.”
Dana DeBeauvoir, Travis County, Texas District Clerk, offering advice to voters
“Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Jr., and Ivanka Trump have all been closely involved in the transactions in question, so we won’t tolerate their attempts to evade testifying in this investigation.”
Letitia James, New York State Attorney General, in a statement released January 18 in which she alleges former President Donald Trump and his family inflated the value of his properties and misstated his personal worth in representations to lenders, insurance brokers and other players in his real estate empire
“History will not remember them kindly.”
Martin Luther King III, the son of the late civil rights leader, comparing Sens. Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin to the White moderates his father wrote about during the civil rights battles of the 1950s and 1960s – who declared support for the goals of Black voting rights but not the direct actions or demonstrations that ultimately led to passage of landmark legislation
“COVID is real; COVID is a threat. But even more serious than COVID, as real and scary as it is, is to see thousands and thousands of thousands of voters not being able to vote, and it was on our watch. We refuse to stop. We refuse to turn around.”
Rev. Adolphus Lacey, a pastor in New York’s Brooklyn borough, announcing ongoing voter registration efforts despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic
“This case is a disaster for the rule of law and a grave disservice to women in Texas, who have a right to control their own bodies. I will not stand by silently as a State continues to nullify this constitutional guarantee. I dissent.”
Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Supreme Court Justice, condemning severe abortion restrictions established by the state of Texas
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