Viral Vicissitudes

  “Shaken, not…deterred” Olympic trials and a tribute.  While we await, the final results... not so much as to who will be the next 007, but who will be the next high profile so-called "Bond girl" --,there's just about as much anxious anticipation as to how long it will take, for her to heal, after yet another two projected surgeries which now total more what all the other heartache, all the gut punches, his X's endured. While most of his co-stars became stars in their own right, for us there will always be the one and only that scares "The Living Daylights" (1987) out of us each and every time...she announces her retirement. I swear I overheard her, while being airlifted, "Put me down, over there...anywhere but home, James...who says You only Live Twice...?" The comeback kid - - our one and only Vonn girl! "Last one up, is a rotten egg!" Here comes yet another challenge, issued as she is (momentarily) confined to her hospital bed. 

"Potentially dangerous..."  "Sorry to interrupt this move..." It's not actually what comes out of the wrestling ref's mouth, but the casual manner in which he/she says it, when one competitor has the other in a 'predicament' that, if not interrupted, could tear a muscle, break a bone, which is why they force them to break their hold... Dangerous… potent even ,  when taken too seriously, (e.g., about serious mental health conditions being eradicated by adjustments in food intake) - but if you can learn how to tune out, at least limit what you take in, on his recommendations that come from non-refereed sources, it could render him im-potent… "No Siree Bob!"  A shortened form ("You're no Jack Kennedy...Robert"), and a message to the messenger - “It's not so much your spasmodic dysphonia, but the phony content of your speeches, that's turning me off"  

Life of a special teams coach - a SB afterthought (get the point?!) Special moments that call for special forces… “ Give ‘em a swift kick"   In order to launch them, otherwise provide an up-lift off the bench, given the amount of time they’ve been… sitting idle. While there is no I in Team there’s certainly a T, which is the whole (extra) point in the matter. As in “T it up…on the T, and if the wind keeps blowing it off, have a team member give you the finger” Now, you get the point, why it's called the 'pointing' finger...?  Special T's - as well as jerseys, depending on the field conditions, at the time they are called in. The sweat absorption types when kickers, while maintaining a cool countenance are “sweating bullets” and, on the other hand, when the other team calls a time out to “freeze” the kicker….Punters are pretty much indifferent (“what’s the point?”)  to the changing conditions. The other special tease include the most common “just step back, let us h...

"Right out of the gate...!" Points of controversy... can't have an Olympics without dramatic moments, right? And rumors that take on a lot of momentum (how apropos to the setting). Not just whether or not, she should have been able to slap them on, after tearing it up...but here, in the midst of flight, we have another new one on me (or, more accurately him, him, and him -- the Norwegian coach, the suit maker, the wearer) - - an exclusive (just what you've been waiting for, stopping him in mid-flight) the unprecedented "Crotch gate"! No, it's not the old "size matters" argument but amount of material covering this particular area that otherwise allows the wearer to "air it all out!" Butt, after further study (as in search and seizures😖), lots and lots of talking heads, finger wagging, turns out, like so many other myths of this type, to have originated out of the imaginations of some crotchety old men.  (Speaking of wagging fingers.....

All out a-salt on asphalt! Yet another pyramid scheme... but around here, on "roads less traveled" ...where the salt hits the road, before the tires hopefully do, is fondly called the "snowplow protocol" where "getting plowed" is not only socially acceptable, but a prior condition, for "clear sailing" to work for most commuters in our region. De-icing on the cake... is. ironically, found many layers below...the surface, here in the motor city. And, as it turns out, whether or not you use it on a regular basis, salt does not (are you ready for this?) actually melt the snow on ice, but simply impedes the ability to form solid ice crystals...lowering the freezing point of water...prevents the formation of the bond between pavement and snow or ice, so that roads can be cleared more quickly and easily by the road crews. Some food for thought as you clear the table, wipe the excess NaCl spill, as part of the post dinner cleaning crew...   Rock salt... ...

Same old song and dance - SB LX, "West Side Story" in revue East meets West Siders, only in "America"🎜  Only fitting, as if the organizers had this scene and location in mind, when they orchestrated, choreographed, and chose the performers. It's as if all of it was predetermined. Can only happen 309 miles north of LA -- close enough as in just a small stretch of CA highway, and even a smaller stretch of the imaginers from Hollywood, to reach back to the prototype for such a matchup from 1961 (“Sharks and Jets”🥴), which has played out on thousands of stages. Talk about staging a comeback!  Schemes and memes - mostly offensive (“East, West Coast 🏈”) whereas this turned out to be a pretty defensive engagement (where even the MVP came up empty handed, as far as TD’s were concerned). But speaking of what else the fans came out for, it turned out to be a throwback to an earlier era, where a previous engagement... Boy meets girl... and totally bowls her over, with a...