Apparently people on the West Coast are vastly annoyed that they’re seeing the Olympics on tape delay from NBC. Welcome to my world. It wasn’t until ESPN took over Monday Night Football in 2006 that the game was shown live in Hawaii. When on ABC it had been delayed until 6:30pm local time. Now, I …
The Olympics motto is “Swifter, Higher, Stronger.” Here are songs from my iTunes library which have those words, synonyms, or root forms in their titles: Fast Company — The Eagles The Fast One — Linda Ronstadt Life In The Fast Lane — The Eagles Higher And Higher — The Moody Blues I Want To Take …
I have a hard time doing so. It’s my empathy gene, I think; I feel so badly when somebody falls and four years of work goes down the tubes in a split-second that it’s nearly unbearable. But, you say, don’t you feel that way about skiers, too? And yes, I do, but somehow it’s not …
Bad blogger! My neighbor was cutting branches of his avocado tree, and since it’s huge we were concerned that some of those branches might fall on our roof. None did, but now we have a sackful of yet-to-ripen fruit, which will undoubtedly all be ready to eat at the same time. Can you make guacamole …
“The Substitute” Locke goes in search of help to further his cause. Oh, thanks, ABC. What the hell is his cause, at this point? And he’s not Locke now anyway; Locke’s dead! Ryan Alan Sepinwall Entertainment Weekly preview of tonight’s episode. Link to the post-episode post will be there, I imagine here.
A new book purports to be the definitive history of that calamity. Terry Gross interviewed the author today, and he says he tried to be neutral and balanced. Well, maybe. I don’t think this is exactly balanced: The decision to move from Whitewater to Lewinsky, Gormley says, “altered Ken Starr’s legacy as a prosecutor.” “There …
Evan Bayh, two-term moderate (Blue Dog) Democratic Senator from Indiana, announced today that he won’t seek re-election this fall. Why? In his remarks, Mr. Bayh expressed frustration at what he described as an increasingly polarized atmosphere in Washington that made it impossible to get anything done. Well, that sounds very high-minded. On the other hand, …
Mr. Francis, who wrote 38 mystery novels, a collection of short stories, and an autobiography, has died at 89. He spent nine years as a jockey before retiring in the late 1950s and published his first book in 1962. I don’t remember how I first came across him, but I’ve been a fan since the …
In the lead-in to the Opening Ceremonies, there was no need for NBC to show that horrific accident which killed the Georgian luger three times. Nor was there any need for my local TV station to do the same. I liked the ceremonies. The cynics always say these things are hokey, and maybe they are, …
No, not the advent of spring training, but the annual car inspection and subsequent payment of registration fees to the City & County. $155.33 this year for a 1997 Geo Metro with 52,000 miles on it.