Bored meeting addendastrictly editorial

April 5, 2007

Up and back to New York for a board-bored meeting yesterday, in the cold pouring rain more typical of late February or early December than April, thanks very much. Washed away the cherry blossoms, thanks very much again. One digresses ...

She —name being cloaked to protect the innocent— did try to put him —name being cloaked to protect the guilty— on the spot last night, due perhaps to my formal terse protest. It was fun. It unified everyone openly against the bombastic inarticulate nit. Eye met and rolled. Sideways smirks were almost in step. No formal reprimand, of course, that being beyond the scope of some people's text, alas. Thick skins, even greater alas, are not likely to get the point and step down as MAL. One wonders, suddenly, about stirring discontent in the ranks, such that electoral ballots might be written in to oust all bombastic inarticulate nits, of which we seem to have only one, mercifully.