Some other random thoughts:
1. I've noticed that every female driver between the ages of 18 to 28 or so is either engaged in the act of texting or at least is reading a text--in all kinds of traffic, including on the interstate. Speak to your daughters about this. It will do zero good but at least you will have done it.
2. Saw "Get Low" with Duvall, Murray, and Spacek this past Saturday. So-so. Worth it to watch Duvall and Murray but the story didn't develop like it could have and should have.
3. So far, I give empty nesting high marks and endorse the practice. Freshman daughter will return on Saturday evening along with three of her new found coed friends, so we'll suspend the practice of dad walking naked from the laundry room back to the master bedroom (the wife will be grateful for this).
4. Football season is here, more particularly, the college variety which is the better game. Hard to explain that statement when obviously the best players are in the professional ranks. It's just better in the sense that the players are mostly all strongly committed as are the schools and alumni and t-shirt alumni, and the game itself is just more interesting to watch than what shows up on Sundays. Anyway, it's back after about 8 long months of exile and the nation rejoices.
5. Going on a dove hunt tomorrow--a customer thing--and will probably repeat last year's performance of not firing a single shot while mostly tracking down the truck driving around the ranch that has all of the iced down beer.
6. I "liked" Texas Tribune on Facebook for the sole reason of posting a question asking why they bill themselves as "nonpartisan" when they are nonpartisan in the sense that the New York Times or National Review are nonpartisan--they're not. Got a lot of snotty responses from their largely hipster and humorless reading audience to the tune that I just don't get it. You know, I don't get a lot of things but on this, I do. The TT, the NYT, and their enthusiastic reading audience are both smart and fascinatingly tone deaf--they'll look at you with a quizzical gaze of wonderment if you even mention that there's some bias there--always amuses me. Same thing with the Austin American Statesman and other rags that pretty much report whatever the NYT or AP sends them, and they do that dutifully and in a spirit of earnest Christian labor in order to pass on the gospel to the faithful. Whenever some apostate questions something, they're labeled a reactionary or just a poor soul needing enlightenment and direction. Funny stuff.
7. I never want to go to: Russia, China, or India. Call me whatever you want or just plain unadventurous but I'm almost 53 and I like having a nice place to take a shit. I don't have a problem with outhouses when I'm hunting or even having to squat over a downed mesquite log if there is an imminent situation but I really don't want to pay to visit a country where having a clean, comfortable place to take a dump is an issue. All that said, taking a leak outside is one of life's great pleasures, especially if you're hosing down a fire ant bed or the fence of the neighbor you don't like. John Wayne once pissed into Ward Bond's whiskey flask to the immense enjoyment of John Ford. Ford was so inspired that he cast both in "The Searchers" and the greatest western of all time resulted--urination can be so inspirational. We'll devote a future post to urinals and piss troughs and to the larger world of male urination--let me know if there's something you want me to include.
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