This week I finally broke down and ordered Hulu, pretty much the only online streaming service I hadn’t yet subscribed to already. (Now I’ve got them all.) I figured since I can’t buy anything else these days I might as … Continue reading
In this otherwise sportsless world you’ve got to take it wherever and whenever you can. But I draw the line at UFC. To get my sports fix this weekend I started rereading John Feinstein’s Play Ball: The Life and Troubled … Continue reading
Wednesday evening I watched a new comedy special on Netflix. It’s called 23 Hours to Kill. The comedian? One Jerry Seinfeld. Recorded at New York’s Beacon Theatre (back when we used to get together for such things), our host shows us … Continue reading
If you were watching Jeopardy! last night or the night before you were treated to something unusual. Ken Jennings in the middle. First, Monday… Re-airing an episode that was originally broadcast on June 2, 2004, Jeopardy! went old school, showing the … Continue reading
May the Fourth be with you. I’m not sure the first time I heard it, but it wasn’t that long ago (in a galaxy far, far away), and I’ll admit it was pretty funny. At first. You hear it a … Continue reading
Funny, before a month ago or so I assumed the people of this world (myself included) were just moving toward more and more physical isolation from one another. We walk around with our eyes glued to our phones, we text … Continue reading
This is the last post for the month of April, the most bizarre month, probably, all of us have ever experienced. (Or didn’t experience… what did I really do this month?) My friends and family members assure me the month … Continue reading
Thank God for 30-year-old sports highlights to watch on Sunday nights, even those interspersed with 21st-century melodrama. The Last Dance gives 30-somethings (and up) a chance to relive their youth and actually see some competition that’s not a prerecorded singing contest. Too … Continue reading
In the land where every day is exactly the same, is Friday still awesome? Oh, heck yeah. It’s kind of beyond all reason and explanation. It just is. … Continue reading
They say any port in a storm, but sometimes the port ends up being really awesome. In the sportsless world known as April 2020 there is The Last Dance, a 10-part documentary chronicling the Michael Jordan era Chicago Bulls. The sports franchise of … Continue reading