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Random thoughts, weekend edition
The Republic of Texas biker rally is my least favorite weekend every year. This is not an indictment on the “bikers” themselves, folks I have found over the years to be rather gregarious. It is the wicked combination of hell-like heat, horrible traffic and the horrific din of rumbling bikes that drive me to distraction and beyond. I made a decision last year to head out of town each year on this weekend and went on vacation. Then I realized I was too poor to go on vacation each year just to get away from noise.
I have never quite understood the idea that a cold beer on a 100 degree day is a nice source of relief from the heat. The first few sips may be good, but all the damn things do is dehydrate you and leave you a withered mess on your couch by 8 pm. Wouldn’t water be the smarter choice in this instance? I guess I am just getting old.
Can we please stop with the comparisons of Kobe Bryant (or any other player) to Michael Jordan? Dude is not a good team leader and MJ would never, ever, ever, ever let his team squander a 20+ point second half lead at home during the NBA Finals, while scoring 17 points. Ever.
I hate when there are historic comebacks in sporting events because it is inevitable that soon thereafter I will have to hear about the Bills-Oilers playoff game in 1993. The day my relationship with the NFL began to die.
Dentists and auto mechanics frighten me. They both have expertise in two things fairly vital to my life that I know absolutely nothing about. The car needs a new water hose that will cost X hundred dollars? Those cavities have to be filled or my teeth will fall out while I endure devastating pain? OK. What the hell do I know? Those people have me over a barrel, and I hate it. And, no, I am not going to trade school or dentist college to mitigate the pain they inflict on my psyche or checkbook.
90% of sports radio folks, both local and national, suck at their jobs. Quasi-knowledge of sports, the inability to engage listeners and zero entertainment value. Many are borderline incompetent, yet they continue to cash checks. In what other field is this OK? Can you imagine air traffic controllers underperforming so egregiously and continuing to work?
Speaking of sucking and getting paid for it. Peter Sellers is rolling over in his grave.
Fathers Day is right around the corner, and I almost always forget to send my dad a card. Generally, if I see him within a month of the holiday, I will take him to lunch or buy him a sleeve of golf balls or something, but I have never felt compelled to go out of my way to celebrate his dadness, a move I generally ascribe to thinking that every day is a day in which you should celebrate the generosity and love of your parents and Fathers Day is simply a Hallmark-inspired rouse. But that is starting to sound more and more like the rationalizations of some weed-smoking contrarian college kid. I wonder if I will feel the same way if I’m ever a dad. Yes, I am getting old. Happy Fathers Day, dad.
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By ayc
June 13, 2008 1:54 PM | Link to this
I like this new column.
And ROT weekend is the worst time to be in Austin.
By Jennifer
June 13, 2008 2:02 PM | Link to this
I don’t care for ROT weekend either.
It pretty much killed audience attendance at The Parish on Thurs night.
All the bands were good but the attendance sucked.
By jenn
June 13, 2008 11:45 PM | Link to this
thanks. now I have to go cry about the damn bills-oilers game. again. when will the heartache go away?!?
By lala
June 18, 2008 3:17 PM | Link to this
“Can we please stop with the comparisons of Kobe Bryant (or any other player) to Michael Jordan?”
For. Real. After last night, the names should not ever be in the same sentence again.