Two of my favorite musicians of all time are Paul McCartney and Beck.
Imagine my surprise in discovering this week that those two have combined forces on a new single. It’s called “Find My Way,” and yeah, it’s available everywhere.
Available. Not one I need to listen to often.
Still like those guys.
Better as friends than as a couple.
Still trying to find their way.
(I couldn’t decide which closer I liked better so I used them both.)
There are a billion things wrong with this year’s NCAA Tournament (and COVID life in general), but this one they got right. Due to travel restrictions or time needed to disinfect the courts or some such thing the third and fourth-round games of this year’s tournament are being played Saturday-Tuesday, not Thursday-Sunday.
Why does this matter? Well, it means there’s still more basketball tonight and tomorrow.
Ordinarily I’d balk at the idea of playing games until midnight on a school night…
Spring Break, baby!
Gotta hand it to long-established, big-name brands still experimenting with new creations decades into their existences.
Reese’s putting pretzel bits in their peanut butter cups? Safe choice, but no less delicious.
Coca-Cola mixing orange and vanilla to its classic blend? (Actually I’ve been doing that one for years.)
And the good folks at Nabisco, putting out… wait for it… Strawberry Donut Oreos.
Wow.
The world just keeps getting more interesting all the time.
New treat for the day is “party cake”-flavored marshmallow Peeps.
Party cake.
Either birthday cake is copyrighted, or the Peeps peeps just want to be inclusive of everyone. You know, for like people who don’t have birthdays.
I finally got my hands (and mouth) on that new Ginger Ale Lemonade from Canada Dry.
Big Lots, of all places.
Verdict?
It’s almost as good as either ginger ale or lemonade.
One year ago I started a “quarantine goal” of reading–yes, reading–every single issue of Playboy magazine cover to cover. Issues started in December 1953. So far I’ve made it to August of 1961.
Yeah, I’ve still got a ways to go. I forgot that those early issues are like full-length novels. Indeed, there are in fact some full-length novels serialized in those early Playboy issues (Fahrenheit 451, anyone?).
Luckily we’ve got a little more quarantine to go.
And let’s face it, this one isn’t exactly a chore.
Among other oddities regarding this year’s NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament there is this: three schools from upstate New York (real upstate New York) are dancin’ in 2021.
The last time Syracuse, St. Bonaventure, and Colgate all made the Big Dance?
Anyone?
Yup. Never!
Add in “upstate” New York Iona (it’s upstate if you live in the city or “way the hell upstate” if you live on Long Island) and you’ve got a new Tobacco Road along the Hudson-Erie Corridor.
This is basketball country.
Last year I totally got cheated out of this thing we call “March Madness.” (Is that copyrighted? Can I say that?)
Not this year, baby!
Georgetown! Iona! Mount St. Mary’s! And those giant-killers from the America East Conference, the Hartford Hawks.
Oh, this Dance is gonna be good.
There’s no official date that the COVID-19 Era began, but there is for me in a way. It was March 12, 2020, that I received a 5 a.m. phone call from our school district’s superintendent saying that schools would be closed that day, the next day and–get this–the whole following week!
Ha! A whole week! How ridiculous!
I was ecstatic for about 10 minutes as I contemplated what was basically an extra Spring Break. Yeah, it started to sink in a short while later what this all really meant, but those 10 minutes were glorious.
Come to think of it, everything in my life before then was pretty damn good too. I just took it all for granted.
Won’t make that mistake again.
Experts say it’s now the Brooklyn Nets, not the Lakers, who are NBA frontrunners this shortened season. With the addition of Blake Griffin they’ve now got a team of all-stars, and are poised to overtake the Sixers atop the Eastern Conference.
A little farther out the LIE the New York Islanders sit atop their division as well. Is Long Island the new sports mecca?
Short-lived reign, Tampa Bay.