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Current Mood: bouncy
Watching Adam Gase coach the New York Jets makes me wonder where Rich Kotite is, now that we really need him.
There is no future for Gang Green with Gase coaching.
Lure Bill Parcells out of retirement. Bring back Rex Ryan. Get Jim Harbaugh out of Michigan. Make a play for Lincoln Riley. Please, please, please. Anything, anyone. I cannot bear the shame.
A friend sent me this cartoon, which I think is very cute.
Unfortunately, it isn’t true. For whatever reason, our neighborhood gets almost no trick or treaters. Damned if I know why. It’s a safe enough neighorhood, and Parris and my minions and I always stock lots of candy.
This year was the absolute nadir. We got no one at all, not even people we know with a kid in tow.
A pity. Halloween used to be my favorite holiday when I was a kid. I usually went as a monster of one sort or another, and I was fearless trick or treater, prowling late into the night and knocking on doors blocks and blocks from home, on streets I seldom visited during daylight hours. That brief glimpse into the homes of strangers when the door was opened was part of the thrill. In those days you got the usual candy, sure, but also cooler treats, cookies and home baked pies and brownies and little cakes, the caramel apple (no razor blades, that urban myth was years in the future). Nor would it ever have dawned on me to bring my mother along. I would have been mortified. All Hallows Eve was for ghoulies and ghosties and kids.
Halloween isn’t what it was, alas.
Current Mood: melancholy
My tortoise Morla and Master P, the visiting peacock, are both unaccountably fond of the kale we put out. (They’re more than welcome to my share)
Current Mood: amused
I am tickled to report that GAME OF THRONES has taken another award.
This time it’s the MTV Golden Popcorn Award.
Here’s the list of this year’s winners.
http://www.mtv.com/news/3128177/2019-mtv-movie-tv-awards-winners-list/
The trophy just arrived, and it is certainly eye-catching. (And heavy!)
I usually take butter (real butter please, not “golden flavor”) on my popcorn, but gold makes for a nice substitute.
Thank you, all.
I want my MTV.
Current Mood: bouncy
This weekend’s NFL games were more agony.
The Jets are down to their third string quarterback.
And the Giants, as of this morning, are benching Eli Manning.
I hope the new kid quarterback does well. But I must confess, it looks premature to me. I would rather Daniel Jones sat on the bench for a year to learn, as Patrick Mahomes did in KC.
Yes, the G-men are 0-2 so far… but let me point out that they were also 0-2 in 2007, the year they upset the undefeated Patriots to win the SuperBowl.
But the die is cast now.
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Current Mood: sad