Twice in the past week and a half my music has been featured on the Tony Kornheiser Show podcast, a feat for which I have received much adulation and praise. I’ve done many things in life, but really I am most proud of two… the above mentioned, of course, and my 2000 triumph in an online trivia contest sponsored by Turner Classic Movies, subject: Frank Sinatra.
I’ve never been more happy or complimented more extravagantly over two more insignificant achievements.
#itsthelittlethings
Don’t look now, but even with the slight setback last night my hometown Washington Nationals are only four and a half games behind the reeling LA Dodgers for the best record in baseball… and homefield in the playoffs!
The Nats host LA for three games this weekend, by the end of which we could very well be speaking of a standings flop between those two teams.
Of course the Cleveland Indians will never lose another game so I guess it’s all sort of a moot point.
Football’s back, but I didn’t really have much to cheer about this weekend.
The few glimmers of sunshine I allowed Notre Dame to fool me into thinking they could actually win Saturday night?
Or the fleeting moments in which I thought my hometown NFL team (the Washington you-know-whos) would actually improve over last season and move from average to good among the pro set?
Well, it was one weekend. And at least there is baseball, sweet baseball, where my hometown MLB team (that would be the Washington Nationals) are in to the postseason with yet another division crown.
This really is the best time of the sports year, no?
Oh NFL, sweet NFL. I forget how tired you make me each fall. You now own three schoolnights a week, you know.
Well, it’s all worth it, I suppose, and somehow you never seem to disappoint.
Kudos, again, to those who bring me things to watch on TV.
Monday night I watched one of CNN’s new original programs called The Reagan Show. Yup, CNN doing a special on Ronald Reagan. I wasn’t exactly expecting it to be complimentary, but jeez Louise, could they have tried to make Reagan look any more silly? “Hit piece” is about the way I’d describe it.
Trouble is, for CNN, it just didn’t come off. Try to make Ronald Reagan look silly and the spell gets reversed back upon you. Ronald Reagan does not look silly. He’s the James Bond of presidents. He could be riding a moon buggy in Las Vegas (watch Diamonds Are Forever) and would still look cool doing it.
Nice try, CNN. You just made me like Ronald Reagan that much more.
Happy most ironically named holiday, everyone!
I have the day off today, as most people do. Of course many people do not, including my beloved New York Yankees, who have to turn around from a marathon win against the Boston Red Sox last night to play a day game today… in Baltimore!
Labor indeed.
Thirty days hath September,
Pennant races we remember,
Some fondly, some…
Not so well.
So begins another September, and my favorite American League team and favorite National League team are in line for postseason berths. The Yankees could do themselves a big favor this weekend, of course, with another couple wins against the Sox, and as long as the Nationals don’t implode I think they’ll be okay in the NL East.
So with such a comfortable lead, what do we think about here in Washington? The slumping Dodgers (read: human) have but a 10 1/2 game advantage over said Nationals for the best record in baseball, totally surmountable with a month to go in the season.
Hey, we’ve got to fret about something, right?
For the past several days, of course, our news media has been saturated with coverage of Hurricane Harvey. Pretty steep price to keep Trump off the headlines, and I think we all look forward to the day when the man and his haircut are again our most interesting new story.
Obviously I’m grateful I live in a part of the country completely unaffected by the storm. Actually, that’s been the pattern my whole life, even when disasters have hit close to home for me, my home has always been spared. Just lucky, I guess.
I read today that the number of people killed by this storm had reached 22. That’s an unimaginable tragedy for the families of those 22 people. But it wasn’t that long ago that literally thousands of people would have been killed by a storm such as this. Even today, in less-developed parts of the world, unthinkable numbers of people are wiped out by hurricanes and floods and tsunamis. With the forecasting we have today, the ability to move out of the way of danger, and the capacity of our engineers and builders, even Biblical storms are manageable, and for that we should all be thankful every day.
Thought you could use some good news today.
Sports, sweet sports, keeping me up two nights in a row, and now this work week looks hard. Well, given everything that’s going on in the world (and when can’t that phrase be said) I suppose it’s a welcome distraction. I’ve been lucky my whole life to have basically a series of useful distractions from war and poverty and disease and all that, and I am truly thankful.
This week’s message of gratitude sponsored by sports, sweet sports.
I know, I know, it’s just a PR stunt. But if someone offered me anywhere near the amount these guys are getting tomorrow night to get in a ring and box (or whatever Conor McGregor plans to do), I’d be right there, of course.
I’m sure the whole thing is a great affront to boxing purists and MMA purists (is that a thing?), but who cares. This is TV. This is great reality television, actually, because here’s this thing and you don’t know what’s going to happen. This is why we love sports, after all, even silly exhibitions with guys who don’t even play the same sport.
I, for one, am all in. And hey, it’s gotta be better than that lackluster “eclipse” I saw the other day. Just sayin’.
