It's taken me a while to get around to this post because I've been channeling my energy into my other writing. I'm basically a monotasker when it comes to creativity. (I haven't even been to the gym lately, because, like I said, it's hard for me to do two things at once.) I don't want this blog to just sit idle, though, so here are some random thoughts about this and that and the other thing and this thing over here. . . .
The Seattle Seahawks are 0-2 this week. I think this is a good thing, because as a fan I get tired of all this win, win, win stuff after a while. It's nice of Pete Carroll to mix it up now and then.
I thought I knew what the most unintentionally hilarious bad movie was, but I was wrong. It's something from the 1960s called "Manos" The Hands of Fate. This movie is such a gutbuster that the Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode it was featured in was only marginally funnier. Both versions are available on YouTube. You have been warned.
Possible title for a horror movie: If You Lived Here, You'd Be Dead Now.
The best teriyaki restaurant in Boise just closed its doors for good. Yokozuna Teriyaki on 8th Street downtown is no more, and gourmands have been leaving wreaths and lit candles out on the sidewalk all week. Of course, there is another Yokozuna Teriyaki farther south on Vista, which is only, what, a couple of miles away. That's not the point, though. I can't eat there and still watch the browsers strolling by the 8th Street Public Market on Saturdays. Maybe I should feel fortunate that this is the biggest tragedy in my life right now.
Does Lorne Michaels really think he can make Donald Trump any funnier when the new season of Saturday Night Live debuts?
Best artificial scents: jasmine incense, Yankee Candle Spiced Pumpkin, Glade Cashmere Woods room spray.
I read in the news this morning that a female motorist who saw a spider on her shoulder in the rear view mirror leaped from the car in terror while it was still moving. I didn't read the rest of it carefully, but I believe the spider took the wheel and was last seen doing 95 in a school zone (or was it doing 25 in a school zone and the kids were doing 95?).
The GOP is once again threatening to shut down the government if it doesn't get what it wants. That's a simple declarative sentence based on numerous news sources; you can't refute it. What I want is for presidential candidates, Democrat and Republican, to promise this: "If elected, I will never shut down the government if I don't get what I want." Anyone who doesn't gets a time out until November 2016.
OK, that's it for now. At this length, I think I can handle one of these every week or two. See you then.
Nice movie title.
ReplyDeleteIt will be interesting to see how the newer Seahawks fans react if we have a bad or so-so season. Since Russell Wilson arrived they've gotten pretty used to expecting miracles every weekend.
I think everyone's just holding their breath, but if the team goes 0-3, expect suicide hotlines to light up around town.
DeleteI found a word change in your spider story paragraph. See if you can find it. Also, did I tell you about my spider dream the other night? I saw a big spider crawl into my granddaughter's back pack and when I went to retrieve it by turning the backpack upside down, out fell a large fluffy dead cat with a big fluffy tail. In the front pocket of the backpack was another fluffy cat tail, but no cat. That tail was also dead. I never did find the spider because obviously he had escaped to go terrorize other school children! I don't even want to know what that dream meant.
ReplyDeleteOh gosh, that mistake went right by me! Thanks for mentioning it.
DeleteYour dream was interesting, to say the least. The evidence points to more than one cat, so maybe the spider is a serial killer. If I wrote a story about it, I might call it "A Tail of Two Kitties."
That's a great title and gave me a great laugh. Trust me when I say I needed it today.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad the timing was right. Hope everything's OK.
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