We live in a time of untruths, half-truths, and spiritual nervousness. The French of three generations past faced a similar decline, but they had a work of literature to mark their fall from grace: The Stranger, a sharp-edged study of nihilism and apathy by the novelist and essayist Albert Camus, who died in an automobile accident half a century ago today, on January 4, 1960.

DALLAS, Texas — “Kim Welch and Sally Bradley are two of the best at what they do. They are … Injectors! And today, they are making a house call …

The video explains more about the new “Cosmetic Care Concierge.”

Your phone will tell you when you’re in love.

Extraterrestrial life will be confirmed or conclusively denied within a generation, etc.

We all procrastinate once in a while, I imagine. It’s only those who do so habitually and to the detriment of themselves and others who give an otherwise innocent foible a reputation hardly better than outright vice.

I did not know, however, that there is an identifiable class of persons who put off, not irksome chores, but pleasures. But there is, as reported lately in the New York Times.

From my 4-Block World site.

NOTE: The quality of this clip is bad, but the Candid Camera skit it features is very funny.

Each Saturday we highlight a humorous and sometimes poignant video, comic, or skit concerning different “careers,” past and present. From W.C. Fields to Rowan Atkinson, from classic films and commercials to Monty Python—all and everything will be tapped for this look each week at various professions and pastimes.

Click here for all of the videos and careers highlighted to date.

From Obama to Octomom …

Sarah Palin to David Letterman and Tiger Woods …

Tonight marks that rarest of events, not just the opening of a new year and a new decade but also the heralding of those events by a blue moon.

A blue moon is defined as a full moon that occurs twice in the same calendar month …

The Great Ocean Road is one of the most spectacular drives, view-wise, in Australia and is up there with the best in the world. It stretches for hundreds of kilometers along the southern edge of the state of Victoria’s rugged coastline.

This curvy drive is reminiscent of the Pacific Coast Highway of California — except for one thing, here, you’re driving on the left side of the road…so you may want to take care when gazing off into the ocean that you don’t end up in the ocean. My friend Kay and I rented a car for two days and took to the open highway to experience it all for ourselves.

Someone has to put the pop in the snap, crackle, and pop, we suppose.

Even so, it may come as a surprise that The Rolling Stones, the dangerous bad boys of rock, once lent their talents to selling a popular breakfast cereal.