Flippant Friday 3: Valentine's Edition.

In New York, the concrete jungle, you do not have the changing of the leaves in the fall to indicate the change of seasons. Instead you see the passing of the seasons through the changing of the store windows. Yesterday, every bodega and corner store seemed to be blooming with fresh cut flowers, indicating not the arrival of spring, but of Hallmark's favorite holiday, Valentine's Day. About every fourth person on the street had a bundle of plastic wrapped roses or gardenias in their hands, and the street vendors did their best to convince the other three people to stop by for their own flowers.

While walking home, I passed what has to have been the most clever New York Valentine's Day sign. In front of one of the flower-packed stores was a sign that read:

Get your Valentine's flowers here.
No Valentine? Liquor specials in the back.

I stopped in for a bottle of wine. That guy deserved my business.


And, your flippant Friday's video, a 1970s era news report about the exploding whale.