Iris was a messenger of the gods. She traveled from Mount Olympus on her trademark rainbow bringing news to the masses. She was most famous for falling in love with a hunky mortal. She asked Zeus to let hunky man live forever, but she forgot to ask Zeus to give hunky man the gift of eternal youth. So hunky man kept getting older and older, while Iris stayed eternally young and beautiful. Hunky man kept shrinking and shrinking, as the old tend to do, and eventually he turned into a cricket. By then, Iris was pretty much glad to be rid of him. She could be that way.
But today I want to emphasize Iris's messenger role. The news of the day is that Iris is turning in her newspaper delivery van for a Twitter account. And, of course, if you don't need the van, you don't really need the papers. So...the Rocky Mountain News, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Los Angeles Times: It they're not dead, they're quickly becoming crickets. Shush! If you listen, you might hear them squeak.
Alas, Iris has moved on. She can be that way.
(R.I.P: The California Section of the LA Times. Died: March, 3, 2009)
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