Hello, Life? Yes, I'd like an order of the Serendipitous Synchronicity, with a side of Schadenfreude.

[Penalty, on the offense. Bad Alliteration. 5 yards and loss of down.]

Having finished with the nightly news, and reading the summaries thereof from the many sites listed on my blogroll, I turned to my Tivo Time Warner Cable Digital Video Recorder to watch the Simpsons (on twice nightly hereabouts.)

Admit it — you do it too. Or you would, if you had a Tivo TWCDVR.

As it started, I thought I'd made a mistake programming the recorder. I was watching the CBS Evening News:

The following tale ... is true. And by true, I mean false. It's all lies, but they're entertaining lies, and in the end isn't that the real truth?

Actually, it was The Simpsons episode "The Springfield Files," introduced by Leonard Nimoy and guest starring Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny.

Hello, I'm Leonard Nimoy.

The following tale of alien encounters is true. And by true, I mean false. It's all lies, but they're entertaining lies, and in the end isn't that the real truth? The answer... is no.

Sometimes the really tasty bits of Life just fall out of the sky and land on your plate, just in time for dinner.

Update: It's nice to get a tasty bit here or there. An Instalanche would have been nice, too.

Posted by Russ at 07:53 PM, September 15, 2004 in Politics