I'm not sure what I did before GPS, other than get lost a lot. The service is a blessing, even if it does sometimes send us around the world to get around the corner.
I couldn't find a copy of it to include here*, but back in the day there was a distorted cartoonish map of New York City that made it appear the city was 99% of the United States. The rest of the world to the west was compressed into a sliver of land. It may have originally be a New Yorker magazine cover.
It came to mind this morning when I heard about some event occurring in New York in which the woman being interviewed on the radio said visitors were expected from all of the city Boroughs, New Jersey and even Connecticut!
I've heard news reporters express the same astonishment, saying such and such a person had traveled to Alabama all the way from California, as though that's another planet, as opposed to a State a few hours away.
Everything is relative.
Some people are coming to Alabama all the way from New York today to march from the Alabama State Capitol to the Governor's Mansion in protest of the Immigration Bill. I can only hope they've brought their passports.
And a promo: I'll be anchoring the news on CBS 8 (6:00 and 10:00) and FOX (9:00) tonight, and we'll have coverage of the march and the rest of the day's news.
* (See comments)...here's a link to the map I was talking about, and it was a New Yorker Cover! Thanks Trent!
I couldn't find a copy of it to include here*, but back in the day there was a distorted cartoonish map of New York City that made it appear the city was 99% of the United States. The rest of the world to the west was compressed into a sliver of land. It may have originally be a New Yorker magazine cover.
I've heard news reporters express the same astonishment, saying such and such a person had traveled to Alabama all the way from California, as though that's another planet, as opposed to a State a few hours away.
Everything is relative.
Some people are coming to Alabama all the way from New York today to march from the Alabama State Capitol to the Governor's Mansion in protest of the Immigration Bill. I can only hope they've brought their passports.
And a promo: I'll be anchoring the news on CBS 8 (6:00 and 10:00) and FOX (9:00) tonight, and we'll have coverage of the march and the rest of the day's news.
* (See comments)...here's a link to the map I was talking about, and it was a New Yorker Cover! Thanks Trent!
You're anchoring on FOX? Really?
ReplyDeleteYou know, Tim, that that network carries faux news.
Speaking strictly of the stories you hear me report, it will be Vera-News all the way. (-:
ReplyDeleteThis might be the New Yorker cover you were thinking of:
ReplyDeletehttp://archives.newyorker.com/?i=1976-03-29