March Media
Fewer entries this month as college basketball and spring break sucked up a lot of my time. Shows and Movies Don’t Look Up Reviews for this were so mixed, with some people loving it and others straight-up hating it. I was finally encouraged to watch by two different friends who told me they really enjoyed it. It’s certainly not high…
Jayhawk Talk: CHAMPIONS!
Once again…WHAT A GOD DAMN GAME!!! So many mood swings. So much frustration at halftime. So much yelling in the second half. So much happiness when that last North Carolina shot grazed the front of the rim and fell short. I honestly don’t know how my family didn’t come check on me after I nearly blew the roof off our…
Planes, Marbles, and Automobiles
Events have lined up so that it makes the most sense to combine what should have been two posts into one today. I’ll try to be as brief as I can to both get it out and make it readable. Spring Break ’22 Spring Break in Siesta Key, FL was largely a success. The weather was mostly good-to-great. We had…
Stats
March 2022 Gang of Youths – 76 R.E.M. – 51 Eddie Vedder – 31 Bartees Strange – 19 Beach House – 18 Complete stats available at my Last.fm page.
Rock Chalking to NOLA
What a god damn game! (Excuse the blasphemy.) KU never makes it easy in the Elite 8. It’s a hard-ass game in a killer tournament where one bad performance can wreck a season of excellence. For every Kansas-Duke in 2018 and KU-UNC in 2012 – wide-open, flowing games where the teams exchange big shot after big shot until one finally…
Friday Playlist
A slightly larger playlist this week, as my pool of songs to share has grown and there will likely be no list next week as I enjoy my spring break. Bad weather in Siesta Key could always change that. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4CYo6KNA1sx5zyPkjFedlM?si=883bdd8e66b447c3 “Heavy Heart” – Bartees Strange Strange’s debut album was terrific and showed great promise. This first peek at what most…
Sweetness
Ahhhh, Sweet 16 week. I’ve always said this is the best week of the tournament for the real hoops fan. Provided your team is in it, of course. The frenzy of the first weekend has been thinned out and we can get down to some real, serious hoops. There’s always an interesting story or three for the national media to…
Freak of the Week
It’s been awhile since I’ve had a run-in with a local freak, for lack of a better term. You know them: the random, semi-crazy appearing/acting people who engage you in conversation without an invitation. My favorite such encounter was sometime in the mid–90s at a Dillons in Lawrence, KS with one of that city’s most notable weirdos. I was attempting…
Reader’s Notebook, 3/22/22
Damascus Station – David McCloskey I believe this is my third espionage novel written by a former CIA employee in recent months. And it was, by far, the best of that bunch. Set in, wait for it, Damascus, Syria, it is the story of an American CIA officer who recruits a member of the Syrian intelligence service and gets pulled…
So Much Hoops
Jayhawk Talk It happened! It finally happened! A highly seeded KU team played a less talented team in the round of 32, saw that team go nuts from behind the 3-point line, and still managed to gut out a win and advance to the Sweet 16. The Creighton game was not a lot of fun to watch, at least as…