That Moment...

Not very effective I guess.

 

A friend of mine visited Istanbul with her father. They got in late and didn't realize their hotel was right next to a mosque. When the morning call to prayer blasted her dad out of bed at 5am he panicked because he thought it was some sort of disaster alert.

 

The closest thing we get to a siren in California is the amber alerts blaring from our previously silented phones at entirely random times. Yes, it is a wonderful and effective application, but it's also scary as hell when suddenly in a theater everyone's phone starts screeching and buzzing.

 

Aah, Amber alerts. My cable company used to carry CNN International out of Singapore. They swapped that for CNN USA. The first weekend after the change a little girl went missing in Oklahoma and we got 24 hour coverage for days...

 

TMW Richard Grieco is the top bill in a 2020 film, you just know that puppy is headed for an Oscar nod, Merchant Ivory territory.

 

Okay... Let's disagree here. For fun. My sense of humor often gets misunderstood online. So it is better to set a disclaimer right off the bat. This is all in a cheerful spirit and I do not intend to hurt anybody's sentiment.

I am sorry but which sport do you not find bland? Tennis? Two guys hitting the same ball with the same rackets to and fro. . . Soccer. . . one ball and twenty two people running like what . . . for what purpose? To put it in a hole in the air that is too big for the ball and yet they have to struggle so hard. If you like American football why not just watch wrestling? That serves the purpose of physical violence better.
Test cricket on the other hand is a thing of beauty. I remember happy, elated days filled with excitement about the slow progress of the score. It is like reading a long novel instead of a small joke. You don't even have to watch. You can do anything. Read. Write. Cook. Clean. Whatever. Even work at office for that matter. And watch from time to time. See if excitement has set in. The rhythm of how a test match moves forward is testament to the beauty of the idea of contest. From the incredible difficulty of saving your wicket from falling on West Indian/English pitches to the incredible difficulty of taking a wicket on an Indian wicket. . . there is a range of ways in which the pitch behaves. What other sports compare with this? The stamina of players to endure a single match for five days? What other sports last this long for a single match?

 

TMW you check you word count and find that you might slightly be OC.... because the '4' in the Word Count bothers you

 

I would go adverb hunting immediately.

 

There's an old passenger car in Spokane that someone turned into a diner...Frank I guess his name was. It's sort of an icon on the culinary landscape. To enhance the old timey vibe they put mannequins dressed up as railway employees behind glass along one wall--do you know how unsettling it is to have a mannequin conductor staring at you while you eat? Goodbye appetite.

 

Say what? All authors are multimillionaires living in fancy lofts and solving murders on the side...

 

And/Or committing them... just saying.

 

Watching a video lecture and the lecturer keeps turning on a 180 axis and it's funnier the more I notice it. She keeps shifting like she's talking to two or three different people and is changing between them.
I feel like shouting "who you looking at?"

 

That moment when you're happier about the match your team lost 5-1 than the one they only lost 1-0.

Football is a strange game.

 

Tmw a guest warns you about an elderly gentleman and his strange lack of coordination...

Spoiler: Trigger Warning

30mins later we had to call 911 because said elderly gentleman fell down the marble stairs and cracked his skull

So much blood. He was unconscious when the ambulance came and when they took him out.... It was bad

 

Tmw you find out that he died this morning

 

Sorry to hear that.

 

He is in a better place now.

 

TMW the music you listened to in high school is played on the 'oldies' station.

 

TMW cats piss off Newton by both pulling and pushing your fingers at the exact same time with the exact same paws.

 

That moment when you aren't really paying attention to the show you're watching and then Bill Kurtis says, "it wasn't for her murder, but for her sex toys."

I did not rewind.