Monday, April 30, 2001
My weekend was filled with coincedence and synchronicity.
First, on Saturday, I spent some time reading (or trying to read, it's hard for me to read surrounded by lots of people) "The Travels of Marco Polo", a translation dating from at least the 1930's because that's when this edition was from. I decided I need to find a more modern translation because this one is soooo hard to read. When I got home, I realized I had never opened the new National Geographic that had come this past week, and lo and behold, the cover story was "Marco Polo: Venice to China".Then during X-Files last night, the group of us began chanting during a commercial break, in Elmer Fudd-ese, "Kill the Vi-wus, Kill the VI-wus, KILL THE VIIII-WUS!" We couldn't breathe from laughing when, during the next segment, the communications equipment starts blaring Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries"! Someone on staff must have been thinking the same thing during production.
