In Case You Were Wondering What I Was Thinking
• “Hell on Wheels” officially jumped the shark this past Saturday night. U.S. Grant arrives to sit in on a meeting? The writers are out of gas.
• The only distinction among all the women providing business, traffic, and weather reports on TV is the color of their hair. Otherwise, they all look alike, thanks to a pound of makeup and cemented hair. Do they really believe they’ll stand out by looking like stereotypes?
• A restaurant should ensure you’re asked if you’d like a drink within two minutes of seating and the drinks within five. How hard is that?
• There were 115,000 people in the stands during the prime time, Saturday night Michigan/Notre Dame game. Any doubts why football revenues create athletes who don’t graduate and scandals that are reluctantly uncovered?
• The TV ads from law firms, urging people to call them to sue someone in order to get a piece of the settlement, strike me as terribly slimy. They occur during football pre-game shows several times an hour. I recall some lawyers reported in the newspapers handing out business cards at the scene of an air crash.
• If you ever wonder about the intelligence of people we put in the legislatures (and the voters who keep returning them): In Rhode Island it’s illegal for a motorcycle passenger to ride without a helmet, but not for the driver.
• Why do we need sideline reporters in football games? Full employment?
• The government is afraid that the American Airlines/USAir merger will pose an unfair competitive threat? To what, mediocrity?
• The next time Taylor Swift holds a note for three seconds with vibrato will bet the first time.
• When someone else’s opinion, contrary to your own, causes you to cancel a subscription or drop a membership, you should wonder just how you’re going to learn and grow without dealing more candidly and maturely with differing opinions.
• Are there any people needier than the ones on Facebook asking that you write a comment to prove that you’re reading their posts? In second place, are the poor souls who have to tell you how much audiences liked them and repeat every random compliment and survey rating.
• Diana Nyad’s swim is like the people who attempt to row across the Atlantic, or fly a hot air balloon around the world, or hop on a pogo stick for 24 hours. So what? These people seem obsessed to me, and I don’t see the reason for all the adulation.
© Alan Weiss 2013
