Wow, I wish the Super Bowl would just get here already so we can put an end to all of these journalistic fluff pieces about the players and focus on the game. It seems that everywhere I turn, I run into Tom Brady’s grinning mug — and it’s getting pretty annoying. Turn on the TV [...]
Archive for January, 2008
Yesterday was Media Day for the Patriots and Giants, the annual circus where players and coaches alike usually end up answering dumb questions posed by journalists from around the world. Case in point: a female “reporter” from Spanish-language station TV Azteca wore a wedding gown to the event and proposed marriage to several players, including [...]
I just read about a small Japanese company that offers its workers “heartache leave” to help them get over relationships gone awry. According to this Reuters article, the founder of Hime & Company, a cosmetics marketing firm based in Tokyo, thinks that heartache leave is important because it gives workers a chance to deal with [...]
I was going through my son’s backpack today, when I found a memo from his preschool. Apparently, there’s a new little girl in his class who has cerebral palsy, so the teachers are going to give a talk about the whole “differently abled” concept on Wednesday. Parents are invited to attend as well, which is [...]
I used to be a huge fan of AMA Supercross, but in recent years, the sport has become supremely boring to me. I think it’s because there always seems to be one rider who dominates each year and runs away with practically every race, making the sport similar to golf or tennis in that respect. [...]
Even though we’re on the national Do Not Call Registry, we still get sales pitches from time to time. For instance, just this morning someone called in wanting to know if we’d like to subscribe to a TV-related trade journal named Screen Digest or something (I wasn’t paying too much attention). First of all, I [...]
Seven years ago today, Jerry and I said “I do” at a small oceanside chapel in Honolulu. A lot has happened in those seven years — most of it good. In fact, I would go so far as to list my marriage as the most stable part of my life right now. No matter what [...]