It has been a pleasant day. We finished a translation of a short story and made progress on a couple of others. The Czech Republic beat Poland 1-0 in the European football championships in the pouring rain, but here in Prague it was a sunny day.
After a Hard Day of Acting and Debauchery, a Girl Needs a Bit of Relaxation
And pretty much nothing at all of any importance happened in the news of the world.
My favorite story was that some conservation types in Austria who had a camera hidden in the forest, probably to try and get some candid shots of rabbits or squirrels, got footage of a politician doing the woodland wild thing. The nature loving folks who planted the camera were decent enough not to reveal the name, the sex or the political affiliation of the politician. Also, whether the sex was heterosexual, homosexual, onanistic or in any way kinky or weird.
So, here is a story in which nobody did anything bad (outdoor sex is a fine thing, I am 100% in favor) and it’s kind of funny. Harmless, and more newsworthy than a couple other stories I read today.
President Obama went for a walk. He and his family strolled from their family home in Chicago to a friend’s house a few blocks away and managed to elude the press almost the whole way, although I’m sure they were covered by secret service, and the only reason they managed to elude the press is probably because the press were all too busy staring at their laptops looking for stories they could link to and steal from each other.
Really, that was the whole story. The Obamas went for a walk.
The other major non-story of the day was “Lindsay Lohan Found Unconscious in Hotel Room.” Which would have been fairly unsurprising in any case, seeing as how it was Lindsay Lohan. However, the real story, the part in 10 or 12 point type face that’s underneath the headline, was even less spectacular. She was discovered unconscious in her hotel room and paramedics were called. They revived her (woke her up), determined that (asked her if) she was O.K., and left. A more accurate headline would have been “Lindsay Lohan Falls Asleep.”
“Found Unconscious” sounds so much more dramatic, though.
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