2 <dusting off pants and boots>
3 <cough, cough>
4 Rough road.
5 I feel like I just climbed down off a horse.
6 I feel like I just blew in from Utah.
7 All these John Ford images.
8 No idea why, but I finally settled in to hang up my saddle and write this stuff.
9 I took my chafed and calloused hand, grabbed the remote and turned on TCM in hopes of a good John Ford flick. Hell I'd even settle for Howard Hawks.
10 <basketball buzzer>
11 Little Women.
12
13 I'm not gonna lie.
14 I'm not EVEN gonna lie.
15 I got the jits.
16 Don't get me wrong.
17 I've watched it before.
18 I'll even confess to having enjoyed it.
19 It's just that I pulled off my boots and felt ornery.
20 One boot at a time.
21 It's that expectation thing, and the grand irony that it ain't gonna happen.
22 Ah, that's life. I even worked my big toe through the hole in my sock. Ain't gonna happen. Ain't gonna work.
23 No cowpokes. No brawls. No stagecoaches. No racing horses. No John Wayne.
24 Moving On, Part One: The closest I got to John Wayne all day was when I discovered a CLEAN Lil' Wayne video on You Tube that featured, or so it boasted, a rap on Parallel Structure.
25
28 What did I know?
29 Before I listened to the music I thought Lil' Wayne was a weather report.
30 Anybody lookin'?
31 It was a lark. They were sophomores who not only had to drag themselves to school early while everyone else got to arrive late, but also had to take bubble tests all morning.
32 I LOVE my sophs and I could see when they arrived to my room after lunch that they wanted no more.
33 The test they survived was the California High School Exit Exam, or CAHSEE, which everyone seems to pronounce CAY-see even though we live in CAL-ifornia and not CAIL-ifornia.
34 One of those little things that irks me, like Little Women being on when I wanted Stagecoach.
35 And so it goes.
36 Moving On, Part Two: I feel like I'm being whiny.
37 There are so many worse things.
38 Ah whatevs.
39 Moving On, Part the Thoid: While I'm on the subject, has anyone seen the short film about the refs cheating the 49ers?
40 I'll preface by saying that sort of thing usually is the result of sour grapes. The better team won. Live with it. Bad calls are made on both sides of the ball.
41 I watched it anyway. I left the sound off because if you think Little Women annoys me, you oughtta see me with Joe Buck.
42 Anybody lookin'?
43 It was a pretty revealing video. I didn't attempt to analyze it as I'm sure someone will make a rebuttal.
44 I do wonder about rigged games though, especially with the amount of gambling monies that change hands each game, sometimes on each play.
45 I'm generally a non-gambler, so I never understood gambling. I'm way too stingy with my money.
46 As a non-gambler I can't believe how much of sports and sports' talk revolves around odds, overs, unders, lines, and all the rest.
47 It does leave all sports WIDE open to fixed games.
48 I had to wonder, for example, how Denver's center hiked the first play over Manning's head and into the end zone. Was he the world's stupidest player? How did they have ANY confusion whatsoever on the first play of the game?
49 I'll step down.
50 It's February and I have no business standing on a flimsy soapbox.
51 Interesting video though. It's worth a look if you're a Niner fan.
52 A word of advice: don't holler "We Wuz Robbed!!!" into any canyon.
53 You'll hear echoes of your own voice followed by silence.
54 Time to move on.
55 I just clicked on the TCM guide. Little Women is evidently going to run for approximately six more hours.
56 I'm thinking of jumping off the roof of a Cube.
57 I gottago.
58 Have a GREAT day.
59 See you again.
60 Peace.
~H~
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