This weekend I experienced probably the best thing I ever saw on a screen and also the worst.<\/p>\n
The worst was Saturday night (actually Sunday morning), as my temporary team (that would be the Duke Blue Devils) lost its semifinal game against the Houston Cougars. A Duke win would have sealed my position at the top of my “company” bracket challenge, a position which carried no monetary prize, just bragging rights for a year. Way better than money. Duke’s collapse was up there with Mike Mussina’s near-perfect game, Game Seven of the 2001 World Series, and Tom Watson at the 2009 British Open. Soul-crushing. And setting up the final no one wanted to see.<\/p>\n
At the other end of things, perhaps the greatest thing I ever saw, occurred for me Sunday afternoon, mere hours after I was crushed by the outcome of a basketball game.<\/p>\n
I was at Alamo Drafthouse for the 5:00 showing of\u00a0A Minecraft Movie<\/em>, and damned if it wasn’t like the greatest movie I’d ever seen. I couldn’t explain to you the plot, couldn’t tell you a thing about Minecraft, but somehow it was ambrosia on the screen in a 1960s theater of the absurd sort of way.<\/p>\n It was also just what I needed.<\/p>\n (Pause for effect.)<\/p>\n And yeah, Alex Ovechkin’s record-setting goal was pretty good too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This weekend I experienced probably the best thing I ever saw on a screen and also the worst. The worst was Saturday night (actually Sunday morning), as my temporary team (that would be the Duke Blue Devils) lost its semifinal … Continue reading