That's Life
I don't usually pay much attention to celebrities (unless they're running for President), but damn if Mia Farrow's son doesn't look more like Frank Sinatra than Woody Allen.
Shack Of Sit Furniture Showroom
I cannot believe that this domain name is still available.
The NFL Research Center For Player Safety: Preventing Concussions
The league is conducting extensive testing of helmets prior to the start of the 2016-17 season.
Atari "Space Invaders" Championship Tournament
Everything old is new again. Likely there are dads here of new generations of gamers.
Atari’s National Space Invaders Championship in 1980
Back Bay Boston Before The Pru
Back before there was a Prudential Center on Boylston Street in Back Bay Boston (and the Massachusetts Turnpike running underneath it), there were rail yards. Lots and lots of rail yards.
Knowing When
After the Primary debates ceased to be fun anymore and I suspended my political campaign, I've been getting more and more excited about the upcoming NFL season.
Outside of rooting for my fellow Penn State alum Christian Hackenberg to get drafted by a decent team tonight, I care as much about the NFL Draft as I do about fantasy football. Which is zero.
With the almost-certainty of Jimmy Garoppolo playing quarterback for the New England Patriots while Tom Brady serves his four game regular season suspension, I can't wait for the new season to start.
NFL training camps will open in about ninety days, just after the Republican convention in Cleveland. TB12 will only have played his first couple of regular season games and we will have a good idea of whether or not this will be the "Fuck You" season that Patriots fans had hoped for last year, one that ends with another Super Bowl victory.
And not long after Brady returns from his suspension, we will finally know whether the next President of the United States will be Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump.
As it was for me during the late 1960s, I am once again blessed to live in interesting times.
Rhyming History
History may not repeat itself, but it does rhyme when the topic turns to TV careers and Republican politicians. From 1956 to 1962, Ronald Reagan hosted General Electric Theater and had his image beamed into more than 20 million homes every week. The successful run on TV gave Reagan a connection with American voters that his movie career never could. By the time Reagan ran for governor of California in 1966, the GE host was a household name. Reagan’s landslide victory shocked elites in and out of the political class and launched a conservative revolution that would last a generation.
50 years later, that revolution is being undone by another TV star who has been underestimated by elites while being elevated by working-class voters. The question now is whether Trump can prove his critics wrong again by winning the nomination and then defeating Hillary Clinton in the fall. The odds may be long for the New York developer and reality star, but no longer than the ones he faced last June when he first sought the GOP nomination.
[Joe Scarborough in The Washington Post today.]
What Ever Happened To Spanking?
Somehow, I don't think scenes like these from a classic Hollywood spank reel stand much of a chance of being included in contemporary movies, or television. Of course, there is always Fifty Shades Of Grey...
Welcome Back, Tyrion
[To Cersei] "You love your children. It's your one redeeming quality - that and your cheekbones."
