I'm sorry for not giving you any closure regarding the postcards from around the world series. In fact my parents are back in the country. And here is the real closure, our new Moroccan rugs that resulted from the trip:
Our local public radio call-in show has a program each month where they assemble a panel of experts who do a sort of radio Antiques Roadshow. As you might imagine, this is painful on many levels, which I will now detail for you. First, people call in and describe in exquisite detail the odd things they have around their houses, I presume in piles interspersed with years of newspapers and kitty litter. Things like tobacco tins, bar pins, Civil War memorabilia, and machine tools. Actually the guy who called in with the machine tools said they were only 5-10 years old, for which the group recommended craigslist. E-bay and Google are also frequently prescribed. At one point they were pretty much just hawking the Internet and counseled an elderly woman about how helpful the nice librarians are with the computers. Then the women complained about all the kiiiiiiiiids at the library. If the Internet is not the answer they ask a series of questions along the lines of "Is that made of one kind of metal, or two?" "Now would you describe the color as aquamarine, teal, or blue-green?" "If you look three millimeters in from the left side do you see a ritualistic engraving of a sheep horn" and so on. Perhaps the problem is mine as I am always excited to hear that this particular program is on.
Our local public radio call-in show has a program each month where they assemble a panel of experts who do a sort of radio Antiques Roadshow. As you might imagine, this is painful on many levels, which I will now detail for you. First, people call in and describe in exquisite detail the odd things they have around their houses, I presume in piles interspersed with years of newspapers and kitty litter. Things like tobacco tins, bar pins, Civil War memorabilia, and machine tools. Actually the guy who called in with the machine tools said they were only 5-10 years old, for which the group recommended craigslist. E-bay and Google are also frequently prescribed. At one point they were pretty much just hawking the Internet and counseled an elderly woman about how helpful the nice librarians are with the computers. Then the women complained about all the kiiiiiiiiids at the library. If the Internet is not the answer they ask a series of questions along the lines of "Is that made of one kind of metal, or two?" "Now would you describe the color as aquamarine, teal, or blue-green?" "If you look three millimeters in from the left side do you see a ritualistic engraving of a sheep horn" and so on. Perhaps the problem is mine as I am always excited to hear that this particular program is on.
1 comment:
Wow. Those rugs are GORGEOUS. If I ever come over you better hide them or they might come home with me :-P
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