I don’t know how to break it to you other than to just say it:
Super Bowl LI is NOT being played in Long Island, as you might have thought.
Let them think you were born that way.
”It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.”
~ Ernest Hemingway
…and the winner is…
Both the Screen Actors Guild awards and the NFL Pro Bowl are on tonight. I’ll be switching back and forth between the two, which may result in me seeing an award for Best Acting in Exaggerating an Injury on the Field.
Surviving 2016
The new New Years Eve tradition:
BURNING THE CALENDAR FOR THIS YEAR.
We SURVIVED YOU, 2016.
Deaths in 2016
Yeah, I know. Years are just an arbitrary way of delineating things. BUT — THIS particular arbitrary delineation is an outlier. I take note of deaths in the course of a year. I keep a list. Not just celebrities, but others I know; it’s just a form of remembrance.
I had to look, just to satisfy my curiosity. How many have there been this year, and how many last year, just to pick a convenient year for comparison.
Last year, there were 70 on my list. The most notable one for me was Leonard Nimoy. This year, I counted earlier today, was 87. Now adding Debbie Reynolds, 88. And there are a LOT more highly notables, and many before what could conventionally be considered “their time” — too young.
So, 2016 is worse than our collective most recent frame of reference, 2015. And not by just a little.
Weather report, Oswego, December 15, 2016
When I was in Oswego today? When there was a blizzard warning? And I ran into absolute whiteout conditions? And I was carrying boxes to my car and when both hands were occupied with car keys and boxes, my hat blew off my head and my reading glasses blew off my face? And even with holding the car door, I was worried it was going to rip off?
I found out tonight the winds were 84 mph in Oswego. That’s more than the hurricane I went through with Stephen Hunter. Good times.
Reversion, though, implies a lower plane…
I just got an e-mail inviting me to join a spiritual organization whose beliefs include reincarnation, and who said “And if you are interested kindly revert back to us for more details”.
Hmm. If I did that, what would I be reverting back to? What do they know that I don’t?
(I don’t believe in reincarnation. But my past self did.)
I’d… rather not, thanks
The local radio news reported at the bottom of the hour that we are “about to get another taste of Old Man Winter.” Ewww.
We, the favored
I like the way they worded the snowfall prediction in one forecast:
“Heavier amounts in favored snowbelt locales.”
I feel so… special.
#blessed
The plot thickens…
Just exactly how does ‘the plot thicken?’ Do you use cornstarch or flour or arrowroot, or do you just cook it down like a reduction?