Last weekend was a lost weekend for most Arizona sports teams. Remember Ray Milland, the alcoholic in Lost Weekend from a long time ago? Well, that’s what I’ll probably become from watching all these losers in the Valley. The ASU Sun Devils looked more like moon angels in their game against the Stanford Cardinal. This was supposed to be ASU’s chance to show the nation that they deserved to be a ranked team. Didn’t happen. If they’d been a chunk of meat, they’d have been chopped liver, and plenty rank at that. Then there are those rank Arizona Cardinals who not only didn’t give the Saints any kind of battle, they also lost three linebackers for the season, and Calais Campbell is questionable for the game against the Buccaneers next Sunday, as is all-star receiver Larry Fitzgerald and mainstay running back Rashard Mendenhall. And although safety Rashad Johnson had his middle finger tip torn off in that stinky loss to the Saints, he’ll probably play against the Buccaneers, just won’t be able to give anybody the bird. This is going to be another season just like last year when they wound up 5-11. Possibly even worse. I look at their schedule and don’t see many teams they have a chance to beat, maybe the Buccaneers this weekend and the Jaguars in six weeks. We’ll see. And the Diamondbacks just coast along at fifty percent, just like last year when they posted that really boring 81-81 record. They may better that by a game or two, but that still isn’t good enough. Our WNBA Mercury ladies were the only bright spot in the weekend, winning their first playoff series against the LA Sparks. Go like lightning, you Mercurites.
Quick comment about the Emmys last Sunday. Neil Patrick Harris should simply resign himself to doing every Oscar, Emmy, and Tony show. Nobody can do it better. Winners and losers. We regret that so many winners come from the premium channels like HBO and Showtime, channels we don’t want to pay for because we already have too many things to watch. Losers: that So You Think You Can Dance should lose out to Dancing with the Stars in the choreography category is just stupid. There’s no comparison between the choreography on SYTYCD and Stars. Maybe it was because SYTYCD had five nominees and Stars only one. Ditto the winning of The Voice over SYTYCD. No comparison. We were happy that funny man Jim Parsons won for best lead in a comedy. That’s one big bang of a show.
I've always collected errors in diction, things people mis-hear, like "windshield factor" and "the next store neighbors." Years ago, one of my students wrote an essay in which she described the world as being harsh and cruel, "a doggy-dog world." I've since come to think she may have been more astute and accurate than those who describe it in the usual way. My Stories - Mobridge Memories -
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Most of what I've written has been published as e-books and is available at Amazon. Match Play is a golf/suspense novel. Dust of Autumn is a bloody one set in upstate New York. Prairie View is set in South Dakota, with a final scene atop Rattlesnake Butte. Life in the Arbor is a children's book about Rollie Rabbit and his friends (on about a fourth grade level). The Black Widow involves an elaborate extortion scheme. Happy Valley is set in a retirement community. Doggy-Dog World is my memoir. And ES3 is a description of my method for examining English sentence structure.
In case anyone is interested in any of my past posts, an archive list can be found at the bottom of this page. I'd appreciate any feedback you may have by sending me an e-mail note--jertrav33@aol.com. Thanks for your interest.
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