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Remember that scene in The Jerk, with Steve Martin running through the street proclaiming “the new phonebooks are here!”? Yeah, that was me over the weekend. Sports are getting real again. … Continue reading
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I know I’m five years late on this, but I get it now. Hamilton. Is. Great. Can we make all other hit Broadway musicals available at home basically for free? … Continue reading
Love how folks are so upset that July Fourth is on a weekend (and hence getting no extra day off) that they’ve taken it upon themselves to take today off instead. Like we need to get a jump on getting … Continue reading
Baseball trivia question… What do the Binghamton Rumble Ponies, Fredericksburg Nationals, Scranton Wilkes-Barre RailRiders, and Loudoun County Boys League E Team 6 have in common? Unfortunately they are going undefeated this year. … Continue reading
Nineties redux continues at the O’Connell household, no trouble for my wife and me (who lived through the era), but sometimes a challenge for my son. Who was born in 2014. Video games have brought him to the last century. … Continue reading
AAA World, the bi-monthly publication of the American Automobile Association (that would be “Triple A”), has a section I gloss over in each issue called Public & Government Affairs. This month’s headline: “Traffic crashes and fatalities drop with stay-at-home orders.” … Continue reading
Anyone else think “the start of the baseball” season is beginning to feel a little like Lucy holding the football for Charlie Brown? (If I could draw this is where I’d place a picture of Lucy bent down holding a … Continue reading
It started with The Last Dance. Then it was Fuller House. Yes, the time is now for a full-on ’90s revival. Think about it. Society has only about 30 years worth of material. About one generation, right? In the ’80s we had … Continue reading
Those who take time to measure such things tell me today is the last day of spring. I say good riddance. Spring 2020 was probably the worst season I’d ever experienced (through no fault of my own I might add), … Continue reading
Summer vacation feels a little bit different this year. Not as good, in a phrase, as the usual benefits of summer remain off limits ’round these parts. I’ll be honest, too, with the way the schoolyear was cut short I … Continue reading