Viral Vicissitudes

Buffalo's got their Bills "No big deal..." As long as they get the kind of high marks they earned last night, they'll easily pay off the cost (2B💲💲-ish) of Highmark Stadium. While it hits the taxpayers right where it hurts, as long as they have our Lions to smack around, the cash paying customers won't hardly notice. In the game of baseball they have the occasional pop-up, which sends the ball about as high in the sky, or as high as the ceiling of the enclosed stadium allows...whereas football is known partly as a game of turnovers, which can be in the form of either fumbles, interceptions, or simply running out...of downs. It's a whole other thing to be run out, of town, with the tail between their legs. If the Bills keep this up, they make it to LA in February 2027, whereas our home team, at least on the defensive side, needs to claw their way back...to preseason form.  A sour grapes postgame post-it note: In our home state, we'll be enjoying apple tur...

Sorry to pop this on you so early... Tie died…pop, goes…the Peter Principle  Psychedelic delight …  Flower power...    Day and night glows  (“vibrant art”😳).  Putting the "Pop" into art …Whose paisley and otherwise "swirling" patterns helped to form a counterculture, including in the world of art.  Keep an eye out … for VW bugs and buses to bust out with a renewed sense of purpose - "Thanks to Mr. Peter Max", who was souly responsible for putting the juice in the Beetle.  (OK, now I'll circle back myself to the "counter measures" post) 

A cure for mid-week, month, life crisis: A place where times are always a-wasting away...  And where students wait it out, while weighing their options ("do I make a run for it...or just mosey on...?) "Halt, who goes there?!" "Well hello, Mrs. Smith..."  “Around these halls, you’ll address me as Madame Monitor…” “But just the other day you served me lunch at your house, as Johnny’s mom” Turn of events…  what a sudden shift in roles can be like, from two perspectives, as in what’s also called a “double take” - walking the walk, in the hallways, while hauling them down...to the office😠😢 A place of gripping suspense ("Dude, let me go...!") as well as double dipping ("I'm only here to supplement my Social Security allowance")  When one school is opened, another door is slammed shut. If you're "late for class!" that is. Thankfully, there's still hall monitors, that supplement the cameras.  (An incomplete, without including...

Life in “The Pitts” reaps its own rewards And awards... if you happened to tune into the Emmy's. While there was little debate that The Pitt deserved its second consecutive award for the Best Drama Series and the leading actor, "Dr. Robbie" (short for Robinavitch, Noah Wylie outside), it's still an active debate around the circle of loyal watchers, as to how it got its name. While "shot on location" is the obvious choice, it's the drama within the drama that is still stirring debate...such as how the docs and staff are up to their armpits in bodies needing repairing, the hospital admin every few epoxides trying to pit them against each other...or every few hours (episodes that capture hour by hour) the lead gets interrupted just as he is trying to finally make a pit stop 😖. But what we all agree on is if you don't get the channel, now THAT would be the pits!  (Just so you know, I know that they're called streaming platforms now but for us boomer...

“Spot on!”  The newest focus…   of yet another “this could be a game changer…it all depends now, on where they, the officials with highly trained eyes…place…the nose of the football…whether it pierces the imaginary line that only those upstairs and the streaming public, can clearly see…” A cause for either great celebration, consternation, but in either case a triggering event… Chain reaction … the chain gang on the sidelines, standing by, hardly flinching, until directed to “move the chains…it’s a whole new set of downs” 😕 Stage crafters … that along with ad crafters may be the real ones behind this new movement (lack thereof as in time standing still until…) “Well, while we’re waiting to see where they finalize, this seems to be a good spot for one of our own…(aka the oldest jock supporter known as the commercial spot)…” that now come in 15, 30, 60 versions, adding up to a lot of lost time…😠 A comeback call of my own …from Macbeth, comes “Act V, Scene I  - known ...

Yale Larry... was a real player, who virtually saved our team on many occasions (ergo "Who needs Hail Mary...?")  Hopalong... first name Howard, surname Casady, curiously given the mantel due to "hopping all over the field like a performing cowboy..." Sure glad he hopped aboard our team bus, rather than going to the so-called America's Team, in Dallas. A bus that took us all, the way to the most recent "Championship!" season (1957). Still standing out as the only Super Bowl era franchise to never attended one, as a team.... The current odds... is that "odd man out" as in breaking up the couple known as "Sonic and Knuckles" (a dynamic duo of Jahmyr Gibbs and David Montgomery, coined by their running back coach, Mr. Montgomery, who answers to “Scottie” as well as the head coach) will be the new curse, keeping us out, of the playoff picture. And they say that baseball is full of them...superstitions, curses, and players with nicknames....