Your Bag of Nothing for Monday, November 4, 2024

  • I’m sorry for the lack of posts last week.
  • I voted on Friday. I was in and out in about ten minutes. Electronic voting is no longer an option. There wasn’t an option to do single-party voting, which I miss. I was instructed to turn off my phone and put it away. The longest part of the whole process was filling in the roughly square centimeter box next to the candidate I was voting for. It’s kinda like a Scan Tron we used in high school, but the boxes are much larger. They always give you a ballpoint pen to do this, and it takes forever. I wish a pencil could be used, but I’m sure they want the ink because it’s permanent, and there’s no question of who you voted for. But, could they at least give us a felt-tip pen to fill those things in faster?
  • Tuesday can’t get here fast enough. I can only hear Collin Allred tell me he played football at Baylor so many times.
  • Channel surfing on November 1, I noticed three separate channels aired nothing but Christmas movies.
  • I saw SMU is now ranked 13th in the AP. I never thought I’d see the day.
  • In 1889, Ingersoll Lockwood wrote short adventures about a boy who could time travel named Baron Trump. Baron Trump lived in NYC in a palace on 5th Ave. His mentor was a man referred to as “The Don.” Lockwood also wrote a dystopian novel called “The Last President.” It’s about a populist leader who is elected President and kicks off the destruction of the US.
  • In this Lin-Manuel Mirando interview, he says that if he were forced to play Hamilton again at a moment’s notice, he’d remember about 70% of the lyrics.
  • In an Instagram post Friday night, Chappell Roan shared a throwback Twitter post from 2011, when she still went by her birthname, Kayleigh Amstutz.Here she is playing The Pink Pony Club in front of a small crowd before she was famous just trying to get people interested in her music. I don’t know much about the girl, but I’m just really happy for her that she got to play that song she wrote before hitting it big on SNL.

    And, she killed it. I loved the “Live from New York, it’s Saturday Night!” she adlibbed at the end to make her dream of yelling that iconic phrase from that stage come true.

  • If you are an SNL fan, this Vogue article on the woman who runs the wig department will interest you.
  • I have a new favorite quarterback to watch in college football. Walter Payton had this reputation for not running out of bounds and taking a hit to pick up additional yards. The game has softened up to protect quarterbacks, who are always taught to slide and protect their bodies. This guy says screw all that and runs over an Aggie defender who now may never get drafted because of the embarrassment the quarterback just put him through.

  • It’s getting ugly out there – Teenager wearing Trump shirt charged with punching Harris supporter, 70
    • A 17-year-old boy — wearing a T-shirt featuring an image of Trump raising his middle finger in front of an American flag background — punched the Harris supporter, knocking her off her feet, according to police and the woman, Stuart resident Kathleen Tomasko.
  • This is disappointing.

  • For their age, these are some great throws and great catches.

  • Idiot coaching.

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Your Bag of Nothing for Tuesday, October 29, 2024

  • I thought I knew a lot about Benjamin Franklin, but it wasn’t until yesterday that I learned he was the Governor of Pennsylvania from 1785 to 1788.
  • As a 49-year-old man, I shouldn’t care what others think or seek approval from anyone, but I still do. For instance, I wrote about my confirmation experience yesterday. The week before, I emailed my closest and oldest friends about it. I told them I didn’t expect them to be able to make it, but I wanted them to know about it. We have gotten better at keeping in touch and sharing what’s going on in our lives. Of the five, one attended, and that meant a whole lot. Two replied, but it wasn’t a ringing endorsement. Two are SBC pastors; one went to seminary. I didn’t need their approval, but I hoped to have their blessing. There is a bit of a history to all this. I’ve always felt judged or felt they were concerned when I brought up things not directly Evangelical Christian related or endorsed, like my love of U2. In high school, when Billy Joel’s River of Dreams was released, I mentioned how I liked the religious imagery and how I connected with it. My youth director then told me I need to be careful what I listen to especially since Billy Joel is Catholic. I think my step into the Episcopal church is Catholic Splenda to them.
  • I can’t catch a break. I wanted to buy a replacement television for my bedroom. My goal was at least 40″ and no more than $100. After a few weeks, I spotted a 43″ on Woot, but it lacked a remote. That would work since it will just be in the bedroom, and I don’t mind using my phone. The TV arrived last week, but I just unpacked it, and sure enough, there’s a bloody remote. Remember, Woot stated it would not include one. So, now, because I’m ethically bound, I have to pack the television and remote back up and send it back and ask them to send me another TV without a remote. Like I said, I can’t catch a break. Or, I guess I could just keep it and consider the included remote as a small win, but I’m not sure if I could live with myself.
  • Why? Kids aren’t even old enough to vote.
  • Ain’t no way you will ever get me to use the Hussaini Hanging Bridge Pakistan.

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Your Bag of Nothing for Monday, October 28, 2024

 

  • I was so happy things worked out so that BoyGeeding and I could watch the unforgettable ending of Game 1 of the World Series. I fondly remember watching Kirk Gibson’s iconic home run with my father, and I have a feeling BoyGeeding will carry the memory of Freddy Freeman’s HR much the same way.

    Yup, in a sea of Dodger blue and Yankee blue, one person behind home plate wore a red MAGA hat. Fans speculated she was a plant as she never lifted her head up from her phone the entire game. Hey, I get it; it’s her First Amendment right. But we are down to single digit days until election day and the political environment is toxic enough. People are escaping to sports to get away from the real world for two to three hours. It’s a selfish act and shows you are inconsiderate of others. And this might sound strange, but if it were a black hat that blended in, I would feel differently about it.
  • I’m not sure when the Dodgers started to play I Love LA after a win but I love it. Yeah, I’m definitely rooting for the Dodgers this time. Speaking of LA, that place will do just fine hosting the Olympics. All of this was going on Friday night without a hitch. What an amazing city with all those major sports venues.
  • Pete Rose died on September 30, 2024 and there’s yet to be a funeral. Personally, I think burials or cremations should happen within two weeks, preferably less than a week.
  • I love AI.

  • I’m convinced I can do this with Coca-Cola.

  • I suppose this is the start of a new chapter in my life—a letting go of the past, a small, uncertain step towards an unknown and unpredictable future. May the Lord thy God help me, for I have no idea what I’m doing and lack a compass and map for this journey we call life.
    I believe I’ve mentioned the tall dude before. He’s the ninth-ranked offensive guard in the country and will be a freshman at the University of Oklahoma this fall.

     
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Your Bag of Nothing for Friday, October 25, 2024

  • The Army and Navy service academies both have undefeated football teams. Yesterday, I learned they can’t partake of NIL, making their undefeated records even more impressive. I also learned that with all the college conference changes, they are both in the same conference. Their annual rivalry game is considered a non-conference game. However, depending on their win/loss records and conference, there can be a scenario in which they would play each other again the following week. That brings up all sorts of questions regarding tradition and the Commander-in-Chief’s Trophy (CIC Trophy).
  • Speaking of the Army-Navy game, I left a message on the Hardline Helpline about it last night, referencing that it’s never called Navy-Army and that we should never hear the Red River Rivalry called the OU-Texas game. It just doesn’t flow or sound right. And yes, I ended it in typical Helpline fashion using that word that starts with a Q.
  • Why did villains in silent movies always tie women to train tracks? I mean, of all the options, why a train track?
  • What is a sports equinox? Here’s when MLB, NFL, NBA and NHL will come together in 2024 – Oct. 28, 2024, will be the 31st sports equinox in history.
    • Oct. 28, 2024, is one of the rare dates on the sports calendar that will feature professional baseball, football, basketball and hockey games. From the World Series to Monday Night Football to the NBA and NHL seasons, there is action across the board.
    • The first one occurred on Oct. 17, 1971, with a World Series Game 7, 12 NFL games, three NBA games and six NHL games. Nine sports equinoxes occurred between 1971 and 1980, another fell on Oct. 27, 1985, and then it was 16 more years before another one happened again on Nov. 4, 2001. There has been at least one sports equinox every year since 2015, including three in 2022 and one in 2023.
  • Stacey Williams, the former Sports Illustrated model who accused Donald Trump of groping her in 1993 with Jeffrey Epstein witnessing, is originally from Dallas. At least, that’s what her Wiki page said.
  • Reading this was maddening. It proves McConnell has no spine and is nothing but party over country.McConnell says ‘MAGA movement is completely wrong’ and Reagan ‘wouldn’t recognize’ Trump’s GOP
  • “I’m not at all conflicted about whether what the president did is an impeachable offense. I think it is. Urging an insurrection and people attacking the Capitol as a direct result … is about as close to an impeachable offense as you can imagine, with the possible exception of maybe being an agent for another country,” said McConnell.

  • He called the rioters who entered the Senate chamber, “narcissistic, just like Donald Trump, sitting in the vice president’s chair taking pictures of themselves,” adding it was a “shocking occurrence and further evidence of Donald Trump’s complete unfitness for office.”

  • McConnell also expressed support for special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into Trump’s actions around the 2020 election and the insurrection. “I think it was the single most – in a category by itself – of how wrong all of it was and there’s no doubt who inspired it, and I just hope that he’ll have to pay a price for it,” said McConnell. “If he hasn’t committed indictable offenses, I don’t know what one is.”

  • But he does know what he’s talking about:“Trump is appealing to people who haven’t been as successful as other people and providing an excuse for that, that these more successful people have somehow been cheated, and you don’t deserve to think of yourself as less successful because things haven’t been fair,” he said.
  • I wonder what prompted Helen Mirren to say this; it seems so random:
    • “I always say it’s so sad that Kurt Cobain died when he did because he never saw GPS as it’s the most wonderful thing to watch my little blue spot walking down the street. I just find it completely magical and unbelievable,” she said.
  • True in 1984, true today in 2024, or at least, should be.
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