The most recent was a few hours ago, while stumped on how to explain the Occupy Wall Street movement in my Finger Lakes Times column. I'm in good company because just about everybody is stumped.
But I realized - as I donned my shoes to take a walk to clear my caffeinated brain - that media and everyone else is having trouble because we haven't seen anything exactly like this before. It's almost alien (as in not-of-this world, not the immigration type) in what we see.
And if what you see doesn't look like what you have seen before, well, you end up babbling like the airheads on Fox & Friends.
So my best shot in my column, and damn tricky to work in, is that the Occupy movement is a unicorn. It just can't be there, so we try to say it's a horse or a zebra or anything but what we can see right in front of us.
That's the way denial works.
And the other 'ah-ha' moment?
While having breakfast Sunday with an amigo, we chatted about our new iPads and how we needed some photographic equipment to go with them.I'd say more, but a prototype is being put together and maybe coming to an Amazon.com near you sometime after a patent gets issued.
Quite the ah-ha moment because I told him I would buy one on the spot for a lot of money if he actually had started manufacturing.
In the meantime, I need to get back to writing about unicorns.
