Today's Tids Issue 3,249
Opening Stuff:
The Day is over and
if you’re like me, rest is the greatest gift for today. So much goes by so
fast on Christmas Day that you need a contemplative day to revisit all of the
special moments of laughter and love, to slow them down and absorb. Have a perfect, do nothing day everybody.
So, this is what
a country run by a Community Organizer looks like.
I was going to go
back and do a Best Tids of the Year column, but my mind doesn’t go back far
enough! Then I realized that each of those 4500-5000 annual Tidlets may have
some value, maybe a special meaning for someone and that would be most important
to at least one person. And that’s really what this is all about everyday, not
winners and losers.
The Question:
Name five great films about the Olympics.
The Headlines:
--Shoppers Return To Stores To Spend Gift Cards; Retailers
Hoping It will Make Their Year.
--Hackers Hit Sony Play Station and Microsoft Xbox; Fathers,
And KIds Seen Crying.
--Baby Jesus Stolen From Massachusetts Church Crèche;
Replaced With Severed Pigs Head.
--Ukraine Cuts Train Service, Power To Crimea; Russia GDP
Down 4%.
--GHW Bush In Hospital.
--Duh: The Interview Is Top YouTube Attraction.
One of the reasons
I have no trust in FaceBook is that just about every other day they Send an email,
”Richard, you have 11 notifications” And every day it is a lie.
The opiners are going
crazy on the NYPD issue and the Mayor has been in full CYA mode , which
involves reordering history. He did say one thing interesting about the
murderer being a lone deranged unstable gunman (NAACP Spokes-people across the
nation are using the same tact.) Well,
without realizing it, he hit the nail on the head – police must be prepared for
the most dangerous situation. A mentally deranged man, an aggressive 300 pound teen
gang enforcer. So thanks Mayor Bill DiBlasio for putting need for extra diligence, responsiveness in perspective. Police are only
called to crime scenes, and every time it may be lightening in a jar.
Speaking of Best of
the Year, the USA Sports writers association listed their Top ten “Sports” Stories,
and they are barely about sports at all. The first four in fact are about “Wife
Abuse”, Racism (Sterling ), LaBron’s Search and Gays in Pros. They are social
issues or celebrity fanfare involving sports people. What about great
descriptive stories on a pennant chase in October, the intensity of a
Pro-Football playoff game, a grueling tennis match. Whatever happened to: “Outlined
against a blue-gray October sky, the four horsemen rode again. In dramatic lore
they are Death, Destruction, Pestilence and Famine. Their real names are
Stuhldreher, Crowley, Miller and Layden…”
Mark January 28th
for the return of The Americans on Fx. This marks the beginning of the real TV
season which also brings, among others, Justified and Fargo. Of Course House of
Cards is also just around the corner. And, who knows, maybe some new surprises.
I don’t know about you, but I’m ready for good TV again.
Perhaps the new History
Channel Series, “Sons of Liberty”, should be a part of USA Middle School education.
It looks at the lives of the people who formed the country that the world had never
seen – like, Paul Revere who was far
more than a man on horseback shouting, “The British are coming”; Samual Adams far
more important than a beer label. In fact, maybe this is the refresher course
all Americans need. America was built against the Tyrannical imperial governments.
America waddles
on Dunkin’.
In the event you want
to go crazy today, consider that the average baseball no cut contract salaries
for 2014 was up $500K to $3,818,000.
Reading Between the
Lines Movie Reviews:
--Hollywood is loving Into the Woods. I will probably go to listen
to the music. I hope they didn’t weird it up too much.
I had o go to the WSJ to find a review of patriotic film The
Sniper. It is gripping story of a man, a Seal harboring his feelings so he can successfully
do his job as an expert sniper. It is a good film about his coping; coming to grips
with himself.
--I’m liking the Gambler with Mark Wahlberg, where a
novelist, arrogant assistant professor slides down into the bottomless black whole
of the loan shark gambling universe. He didn’t meet Alice.
--Selma is another Hollywood darling, and it is well done.
You know the story.
--Unbroken is about another kind of hero, a tale of a kid
from nowhere who made it to the Olympics and eventually became a pilot in World
War ii. This is the story of his courage and anguish at the hands of Japanese
captors. Could be hard to take. The book was hard to read for many.
--Oh, The Interview is a typical Sophomoric (Brainless),
Lowbrow romp which somehow managed to stop the world. If you don’t know the
story you’ve been in a Coma.
The Answer:
For me, Chariots of Fire comes to mind first. Others are
Miracle about the 1980 Ice Hockey win, Personal Best, which I liked, the
Gripping Munich, the beautiful International Velvet, With Out Limits, Believe
in Yourself, Blades of Glory and The Cutting Edge.
For participating
in the greatest all time movie promotion, Kim Jong un is getting a lifetime pass
to the Sony movie vault. His dad would be proud.
I’m there.
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
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