Bag of Randomness

I spent about a third of my Sunday tuning up some neglected back-end stuff on this blog. Hopefully, it loads more smoothly for you.

Let’s start off the week with a grateful mindset. Jameis Winston has really impressed me with how much he has matured since his college days. I’m proud of the man, and hope I can be more like him.

If you are a fan of AppleTV’s Severance, you’ll appreciate the Easter Egg on the back of Britt Lower’s acceptance speech.

I also admire the Northwest football team for being imaginative and doing their darndest to get students to attend their games.

BoyGeeding’s class is taking a field trip to the George W. Bush Presidential Library in early October. I thought it would be a cool thing to chaperone, since the school is always asking for volunteers, and I love presidential history, with a soft goal of visiting all 15 of them, I thought I’d tag along. But first, I wanted to ask BoyGeeding if he was cool with it. I told him how I wouldn’t be hanging around him and his friends, I’d just be doing my thing. But I also told him I understand that having your parent around for such a thing can feel uncool or take away from the experience. He asked me to stay home, and I shall, and will save the embarrassment for another time.

A few things have caught the public eye as of late, and they’ve got me thinking about restraint and character. It’s easy to critique someone and say you would have done such and such, but we really don’t know what we’d do unless we were actually put in the same fire.

We’re all familiar with how the father of a young boy handled himself when Philly-Karen jumped in the man’s face, accusing him of stealing her home-run ball. He was praised for his restraint and for showing his kids how to de-escalate an issue when something abruptly blows up. I’d hope I’d have acted similarly if put in the same situation, though I suspect my initial reaction at being grabbed and yelled at in the face, while holding my son, would not have started off well.

A video posted to Twitter trended on Saturday caught my attention. A man was arrested for indecent exposure at an AMC theater in Arizona after urinating during an animated movie and splashing a nearby child. All we see is a father beating the living piss out of the pisser until the house lights come on and someone finally pulls him off the pissing perpetrator.

As with the other example, the father was praised for how he handled the situation, but this time for not showing restraint. Honestly, I don’t know what I would have done if put in the exact same spot. I can justify the violence; heck, I even praise it. And in this case, showing restraint and simply notifying an employee doesn’t feel like the immediate right thing to do. This is one of those situations I’d love to have a deep conversation about with a variety of men, just to hear their perspectives and justifications.

Going back to the Philly Karen. This AI video, based on the “Most Interesting Man in the World” commercials, gave me a good laugh, and I hope it does to you.

Does anyone remember when former Texas Rangers manager Bobby Valentine was managing the Mets, got thrown out of a game in 1999, and then came back out in a Groucho Marx disguise?

Well, this happened over the weekend during the Mets Alumni game. Bravo, Bobby V!

Impressive Swiss engineering. I suppose it’s worth the setup time, but I’m sure drivers are happy not being delayed.

I’ve always respected Matthew Dowd’s political insight, even when I used to disagree with him all the time. But it’s absolutely ridiculous for him to get fired for speaking nothing but rational common sense. But I was surprised to learn he’s been dating Maria Shriver for about twelve years. It’s also beyond belief that wrestler Ava Raine is getting heat for what she said about kindness. Thankfully, she doubled down on them.

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