So, all that stuff is going on. It is difficult to keep track of, and we were expecting a bit of a lull between the Congressional Joint Session and Riot on the sixth, and the Zoom version of an inauguration on the 20th. This morning’s show was unexpected, though it followed some familiar forms. This isn’t the first one of these we have seen- or maybe it is, if you still have Youth and Vitality. I am generally in favor of all of it, at least the first one, but particularly the Y & V. Being under therapeutic care, I am cut off from cable news after 0900 and subjected to the only media I actually understand, which tends to be in B & W. They want to keep me away from the Impeachment hearings on the ground that it might upset me.

I think we survived the calls for implementation of the 25th Amendment, though things being what they are these days, one never can tell.

I have assured everyone that if we could survive Richard Nixon’s departure and Bill Clinton’s remarkable trial, this one would be a piece of cake. This one has a lot of emotion, though. I recall most young people vilified the man from Yorba Linda, California. The media of the day didn’t like him much, and despite the difference in time, this thing about the current President seems oddly familiar.

It was in B & W before, though. Nice thing about new technology. It is much more vivid, almost lifelike. But Management put on a film called “Singing in the Rain” the other afternoon, and I was struck by the power of the colors. There was more- the story line included an inside joke to the technical production- it was about the transition from silent movies to talking pictures. The gimmick featured a subplot in B & W, surrounded by the magnificent penetrating magic of the stunning colors.

Technicolor was the most widely-used color process by the Hollywood Moguls from 1922 to 1952. It was celebrated for its highly saturated imagery, more brilliant than life. As such, it was perfect to be used in 1939’s The Wizard of Oz to dramatic success. I am elusive when necessary, and managed to elude supervision to watch some of the coverage of the impeachment hearings to find out what was so big as to justify making Mr. Trump the only President to be tried twice by Congress.

I was not impressed by the colors on the TV this morning. They were muted and real. You would think something like this could have justified Technicolor, but since the Senate isn’t coming back to town until the 19th, with Mr. Biden being inaugurated on the 20th. The Democratic caucus will control the Senate, no sooner than January 20, 2021, so their first vital matter for consideration will be trying a man no longer in office.

I am sure that is a valuable use of taxpayer resources, and certainly in keeping with the spirit of this technicolor plague year. But at this moment, on this day, Trump is still in office, and there is the possibility that something unexpected could happen before expected. Like 2020.

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