Its an old movie, Video, DVD.

by Joe B.

A commercial is running with trucks, snow and happy working people last year.

Who would've ever thought that carrying the mail by foot or car would be a heroic act.

That’s what happens when U.S. Postal workers, innocently doing their jogs openning mail [normally bare handed] die from opening mail laced with the Anthrax powder.
[I tried working as a mail carrier but couldn’t pass the address-to-map directions-you know the most efficent way of getting to and from areas in the time al owed or matching zip and codes I think.]

I always felt like an idiot because I could never get those damn things right.

Looking back my rotten sense of direction may have saved my life! God’s protection of fools, fate, luck, a fluke of diving providence, I’ve no idea but its great to still be breathing even with my faulty sense of direction.

You shouldn’t die from doing such a vital though to many of us would seem a mundane chore.

I am sure their families, friends, and most American certainly see them as unsung heroes in the wake of 9/11/01 tragedies.

In 1988 a movie "Working Girl" starred Harrison Ford, Melanie Griffith, Sigourney Weaver, Alec Baldwin, Joan Cusack, others I don't remember.

Anyway the"Let The River Run" song was written and sung by Carly Simon.

"W.G. is about a pretty and brainy secretary (M. Griffith) her friend (J. Cusask) S.Weaver, Melanie’s evil, silver tongued, vixen who may or may not have slept her way to the top of her current position of power in a pressure cooker of corporate business.

Then their Harrison Ford playing a cool, savy, executive in the same Corporation the three women work in.

The song's original theme was for women in the workplace competing in a man's world.

Its an upbeat, rousing, emotional tune of pride, loss, and keeping your freedom and integrity inspite of all the hardships people go through.

At the start of the firm dark night to dawn and early moring is seen as the audience is treated to an above sea and sky birds-eye sight of New York’s Manhattan skylight and superstructure buildings.

All this came to mind as I heard the familiar soundtrack from the Movie.

I kept hearing it but always missing the promo for the music then realized Ms. Simon may have have give her consent to U.S.P.S. (The United States Postal Service)
The public service announcement shows postal employee’s doing their jobs inspite of these new dangers showing them in a new heroic light - in the wake of the death of these postal employee’s anthrax tainted letters that caused illness, near fatal, and fatalities of stricken postal workers.

Maybe there is nothing wrong on its face honoring fallen workers but still it’s a bit confusing when one knows the origin of this from a movie about a woman doing her best and if she fails she’d have to suck-it-up and find another into the business route.

I expect the late ["Freddy Mercury"] lead singer of England’s Super band "Queen" will be heard singing "Who Want’s To Live Forever" with video clips of New Yorks World Trade Towers, air traveler’s, then cut to the blue gray smoking hults of the tower’s and bodies all over the ground minus bodies free-falling from the burning buildings?

He might approve given the seriousness but then again the band has their say also they might not want Mr. Mercury’s
used this way; who knows "Under Pressure" with Mr. D. Bowie’s vocals in the background could be better.

I don’t know if I should look or listen to these mixed media messages, spanning different era’s, meanings, now seeming so interchangeable.

It could be there universal hence interchangeable.

Just a few random thoughts for this first month of a new year.

You got questions, answer’s, thoughts, a few mind-bent, unhinged rants… look below. Have a better 2002 ‘cause 2001 is through.

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