Today's Tids Issue 5,338
Above the Fray:
There is a special beauty in the starkness of a winter’s harbor. A peace that settles in after the summer sizzle. Cold waters that never leave but adjust to the days and seasons that pass by.
I sense that “Streaming” has had its day... already. There are now way too many streamers, and it costs way too much to produce content for audiences fractured by too many choices. My guess is that a lot of these shows that opted for steaming over continuing their success on mainstream cable did not drag along their audience with them. The answer will be contractions with the bigs buying up the little upstarts that are killing profits for mother corporations. And by startups I’m talking about cash consuming Disney+ and some of the shows under the Discovery umbrella.
Hey, there are tons of people who love a daily infusion of love mush on the Lifetime regular cable channel.
Math is the only subject that counts.
It didn’t take long for me to stop watching the College Championship Football Game last night. 65-7... Wow! There goes the opportunities for smaller college conferences to break into the power-five gangs in the near future.
The Question:
Why did the guy decide to sell his vacuum cleaner? Bonus: Why can you never lose a homing pigeon?
The Headlines:
--Markets look Decent at Mid-Morning; Investors Await Wirds of Powell Now Attending Conference in Sweden.
--Classified Fiels Found at Biden Private H Office; Bidens Handlers Say Yes, Biden’s are Different than Trumps (Duh)?
--California Rains Forcing Over 10K from Their Homes.
--Georgia Romps Over TCU 65-7 for Consecutive Championship.
--Bed, Bath & Beyond To Close 150 Stores in Wake of Disasterous Christmas Season Report.
--Repubs Now facing Obstacles to Governing.
--Musk Eroding User Trust in Twitter.
Humble Pie, Department:
A couple of additions and corrections: Super coach is Lute Olsen, not Luke as I had it. Sorry Lute aficionados. And another biggie – on my list of greatest athletes I listed several of the great soccer stars but omitted one we of the greatest ever, Argentina’s Diego Maradona.
I think we all try to be like a calming sea.
Weathering the storms.
Flowing with the tides.
Rolling on.
Have you noticed in TV shows how when they gather together a bunch of actors in one conversation scene, we are often subject to carefully programmed trite lines equally distributed between them all. It becomes totally not a sense to reality. But I guess that is the new national mantra, equality over quality at any cost.
Never trust an atom. They make up everything.
Or for that matter, a Tids writer.
I think that Farner’s Almanac predictions of a snowier than average winter were about the upper middle west extending into Buffalo.
This weekend marks the midpoint of January already. Wasn’t New Year's Eve last night? I’d better get my green fleece ready for Saint Pat’s Day.
Say what you want about deaf people...
The pull back on streaming is reflective of a lot in the business world of 9 months ago. With willy-nilly investments based to a large degree on winning a technology lottery or, as in the case of streaming, keeping up with the Jones. Where the Jones were having credit card problems.
The ceiling isn’t my favorite part the house, but it’s up there.
I always liked to walk around Bed, Bath & Beyond. The problem is I never bought anything.
The Answer:
The guy decided to sell his vacuum cleaner because all it was doing was gathering dust. Bonus: Why you can never lose a homing pigeon: If your homing pigeon doesn’t come back, what you have lost is a pigeon.
I sometimes envy a seagull hovering in the winds and gentle breezes above a glistening sea. I feel the ultimate in calm and relaxation. And I dream.
I always liked this Neil Diamond effort. But you never hear much about it anymore. Sit back.
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