I’m flying solo today on Math and Musings, talking up the pre-release of my new album, I paid for this Christmas party! Tomorrow you can listen to one track, Track #3 as a matter of fact, and if you’re feeling especially generous you can buy it for a dollar-twenty-nine. I think. I haven’t actually bought music online since about 2010.
But I do know a lot about the music business. And I’m showing off today on the pod.
After four weeks in this NFL season there are only two teams with undefeated records.
And two teams who haven’t won a game.
One of those latter teams, the Chicago Bears, plays tomorrow night down the road from me against my hometown team, the Washington Commanders. Formerly the Football Team, formerly the blankety-blanks.
Here’s to keeping the Bears’ streak intact, and my hometown team celebrating this upcoming holiday weekend.
For those of you keeping track, it’s now called Indigenous Peoples’ Day.
How appropriate.
Cox Farms is the best fall festival in a hundred-mile radius of Washington, D.C. It’s the Inn at Little Washington of fall fests.
Not unlike its analogous restaurant, the allure of Cox Farms is not its majesty or opulence but its delightful humor. Little touches here and there of well-placed whimsy justify this “farm” that sits on about a trillion dollars’ worth of suburban terrain. If the choices are farm, condos, and a corn maze… I’ll take the corn maze.
And hayrides and apple cider donuts.
Not exactly the Inn at Little Washington, but you get the idea.
At the risk of being shown up yet again, I’ve got a guest on today’s episode of Math and Musings.
In classic O’Connell fashion my son starts with math and, well, it ends as cat jokes. Go figure.
I don’t know where he gets it from.
Today I learned that Snickers this Halloween is going green.
Not the usual way one does such a thing these days, for it has nothing to do with protecting the environment.
The green in question is green-tinted nougat filling those candy bars to celebrate the holiday.
Amazing.
Not even Willy Wonka thought of this one.
Good job, Snickers.
Is it better to lose a heartbreaker or better to have no shot from moment one and lose by a million?
I had both experiences this weekend, each of the teams I jinxed last Friday on the podcast taking really different paths away from victory.
That would be the previously undefeated Fighting Irish of Notre Dame and the previously undefeated Washington Commanders.
Pressure’s off I guess.
My beloved Fighting Irish of Notre Dame have a marquee matchup (that’s the phrase everyone is using) tomorrow night in South Bend against the pesky Buckeyes of the Ohio State University.
TV execs are salivating.
Not every college football contest though brings millions in advertising and prestige. I recently attended a game at Cooper Field on the campus of Georgetown University where the Hoyas were taking on the Skyhawks of Stonehill College.
(Pause for effect.)
Not sure?
It’s in Massachusetts.
And for further details, check out today’s episode of Math and Musings.
Recently I wrote that the only two good shows on TV were How To with John Wilson and Winning Time. Now there are none.
Even more disheartening is that both shows seem to be done done, as in, like, no more episodes ever. How To is definitely out, and Winning Time‘s Season Two finale tied up an unfortunately satisfying number of loose ends. They even did the Animal House bit at the end with so-and-so later did such-and-such for all the characters.
And thanks for that, by the way. Because none of us can check Wikipedia to see what actually happened after 1984.
The basketball season, not the book.
Thanks again.
Thirty years ago today Rudy was released in theaters. (That’s where we watched movies before we streamed them at home.)
I was 11 years old at the time, a perfect age to watch a movie about college football.
Well, not just football.
Notre Dame football.
If you want to know what my childhood was like, just watch Rudy up to the point where Rudy enrolls at Notre Dame. We’re the Ruettigers.
For further details, check out Friday’s episode of Math and Musings.
I’m flying solo on today’s episode of Math and Musings, making the journey from summer to fall, a.k.a. baseball to football.