Major League Baseball, always on the lookout for new ways to separate fans from their money, came up with this idea of "Players' Weekend" a couple of years ago. The teams are togged out in alternative uniforms, and then the money rolls in when fans break their necks to purchase the official caps and jerseys. Not so bad, but this year some genius came up with the notion of having monochromatic uniforms...one team would wear blinding white, and the other would look like they rolled around in a charcoal bin all week. AND each uniformed man was allowed to choose a nickname for the back of his jersey. This shot shows overly large Yankee pitcher C.C. Sabathia, on the right, and bullpen coach Mike Harkey, remonstrating that he is indeed not C.C. Sabathia.
We saw this water tower while traveling down to our sunny Southland along I-85. That stretch of highway has, every ten feet, signs advertising the ready availability of peaches, pancakes, and pornography. It's nice that they chose to adorn the water tower with a peach, all things considered.
The swear jar of old, where people who dropped curses had to drop quarters, now only takes folding money. Inflation!
We have come to learn that cats of all sizes will use anything handy for a pillow.
In 1964, for 15 cents, you bought this little magazine to tell you what was on any of the three channels you could get on your TV.
Speaking of our sunny Southland, this famous American was born in Macon Georgia, as was my paternal grandfather, whom I never met. One of them is famous for saying "Wop bop a loo bop a lop bom bom!" Richard turns 87 on December 5, and it's time to get his card and gift in the mail.
I tried to act like I just hadn't rolled into town on a head of cabbage the day that Peggy and I went to the Milton Inn for our 20th anniversary and I was served a seafood dish on squid ink pasta. PS: It tastes just like untinted pasta.
Do young people still pluck daisy petals and chant, "She loves me, she loves me not, she loves me..." or is there an app for that now?
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