Two days of home improvement, three days at the beach. Quality summer vacay.
Now, let the never-ending tour continue… commence summer session!
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I’ve said it before but I’ll say it again. The funniest outgoing voicemail message I ever heard went like this…
This is XXXX. I’m on vacation. If this is an emergency, call someone who cares.
Pretty much, yeah.
I told my students every day for the past two months the Golden State Warriors would take the NBA Championship.
And one day into summer vacation they did.
Shoot.
Good thing I gave them this blog as their summer reading.
Quiz on August 25.
It was mildly annoying waiting two and a half weeks before I had a night free to see Top Gun: Maverick. Then again, I’ve been waiting for 36 years, so what’s another two weeks?
(Pause for effect.)
And for the second time this week (see Wendy’s strawberry Frosty)… worth the wait.
And this one’s even better than a Frosty.
Top Gun: Maverick is one of the best movies I have seen in a long time. Definitely worth the investment, too, of seeing it in the theatre.
A little cliched and predictable? Yeah, pretty much.
Did I mind?
Nah. This film has enough of, well, everything to make it awesome. It has good vs. evil, youth vs. age, man vs. machine, a sort of Moneyball angle of old school vs. new. (Except in this one you root for the old school method, kind of like late-model Bond.) There’s also fast jets, a bitchin’ soundtrack, and a Tarantino level of cool.
Top Gun: Maverick is going to make the list for my forthcoming book, The 365 Greatest Movies and the Days You Should Watch Them. This will be the newest movie on the list, and the last one included.
Look for the other 364 this holiday season.
Stay tuned for details.
Proof again that life keeps giving us things to enjoy (things to buy, really, but damn some of them are delicious), I did partake of the new Wendy’s strawberry Frosty this weekend.
Why it took them 53 years I couldn’t tell you, but yeah that thing is just pink heaven wrapped in polyethylene.
Nice job, Wendy’s.
Hold page one… this is news.
In the 21st century’s ongoing race to provide unusual snack items there is now this.
Wendy’s. Strawberry. Frosty.
Whoa.
Took Wendy’s 37 years to figure out vanilla, now only another 16 to discover this third stream.
Sign me up for this.
A full report will follow.
You may have heard a rumor that yesterday I turned 40 years old.
Eh… perhaps.
For further details, head here.
The scales of justice and common sense have turned, and my faith in the Cosmos has been restored. The Golden State Warriors have tied the series in the NBA Finals with a trouncing of the Boston Celtics Sunday night in Mission Bay.
And in other news, water is wet, fire is hot, and in a recent development, the earth revolves around the sun.
Hope you didn’t go to bed early last night.
Those of you who went to sleep after three quarters of Game One of the NBA Finals woke up to quite the surprise this morning. Spoiler alert: the team that was up by 12 going into the last frame actually lost by 12.
Whoa.
As mentioned recently, this is why I don’t bet on basketball.
But I’d still take the Warriors.
Game One of the Western Conference Finals of the NHL Playoffs: Colorado 8, Edmonton 6.
The game was in Colorado.
Possibly at Coors Field.