From a high level meeting I attended at work, during which we had an hour long debate about a difficult and political situation regarding budgets (if you haven’t done the corporate thang, then know that nothing gets hackles raised like budget conversations).
At the end of the meeting, the Financial Analyst said to the Senior Director,
“So, do I make it so?”
“No.” He replied, sternly. “Make it subtle.”
I had to write it down, it was just so good.
So Friday May 29, 2009 is the end of another era in the history of The Tonight Show.
Jay Leno breathes his last as host.
And to that I have to say…it’s about damn time.
I’ve not ever really been a fan of Leno and really wasn’t into it when he took over the show. But against my own negative opinion, he’s done his schtick and done it successfully for the past sixteen years.
But in my mind, he’ll never be the king of late night that Carson was.
And I wonder if his departure will be anywhere near as classy?
Remember Bette Midler’s appearance on the second to last Carson show? Memorable. She made Carson cry…I was watching that night.
In case you don’t remember or are too young, YouTube is there to pick us up.
Unsure that Conan will do much to fill the shoes of Carson, or even Leno.
Hard to watch. So I won’t.
Ah well, watching that vid brought back some happy memories. Ah the magic of YouTube.
If you are a GenX’er and REALLY want to sashay down memory lane, try out this one…link love to NewMexiKen for this voyage in the wayback machine.
It took fifteen innings for what I already knew would happen to go ahead and happen.
The #$%&ing AL beat the NL in the All Star Game.
I’m a devout NL girl. I loathe the Designated Hitter. I love that using the pitcher’s lack of hitting ability can become a strategy.
But even I have to admit after watching many of the interleague games this year…and last year…and years past…oh and most of the World Series for the past ten years…the AL is, probably, the stronger league.
*gah!* It gives me agita to actually say that out loud.
At least the NL made it sporting this year…
There were a few bright spots. The Giants entry to the fun, Brian Wilson, a closer coming in as middle reliever, didn’t embarrass us!
(Atlee Hammacker anyone?)
Our star boy, Tim Lincecum was a no-show after being admitted to a New York hospital with flu issues.
I was a bit sad about that, I would have loved to see Prince Tim pitch on the big stage. Oh well, he’ll continue to be our little ten-game-winner-at-the-All-Star-break secret.
Highlights were also the Rocky I love to Hate, Matt Holliday, depositing one over the fence. Also the NL battling themselves out of two innings with bases loaded and no outs. That they got FIVE outs in a row at the plate is really something.
Low light was the Marlin’s entry, one Mr. Dan Uggla. Nice three errors in two innings, meat!
*sigh* And so tonight, a day off for MLB. No baseball.
But something too look forward to: The Good Man and I got KICKIN’ seats for Friday’s game at AT&T Park.
C’mon Friday! Probable starters are CC Sabathia and Matt Cain.
w00t!
/geek out
Yup. There you go. The Good Man and me are legally licensed to run off like two crazy kids and hitch our lives together, willy-nilly without regard for consequences!
YIPE!
juuuuuust kidding!
The good news is that the county produces this handy illustrated booklet to help us get through “the rough patches”.
Last evening, we solemnly flipped through the pages.
Who knew that keys to a happy marriage included regular exercise and washing your vegetables before consuming?
Ah well…: plugs nose and jumps in :
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PS: ok, that’s not the *actual* license above, rather a pretty souvenir the State of California provides…the real one is quite ugly…form-like, in triplicate and all that governmental schtuff.
–noun
satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else’s misfortune.
Yup. American society, in general, seems to love them some schadenfreude.
Some coffee fans get grim delight in Starbucks woes
Really? Why?
I mean, if you say to me, “Well, I don’t really care for Starbucks coffee because it’s too strong/weak/bitter/strange for me”, then great. No one says you gotta like everything.
But if you say “feh! F–k ’em because they became so successful”…well that’s just mean. And elitist.
So while the coffee snoots are busy scribbling bad poetry in their local coffee shop, feeling superior that Starbucks seems to be faltering, they seem to forget it was the coffee snoots themselves who made Starbucks what they are.
Starbucks used to be the low-down cool thing. It used to quietly be the “in” thing, where the coffee snoots went for a cuppa and conversation. Starbucks was filling an unfilled need. Or they created a need.
That is capitalism at it’s finest!
So suddenly they go from being good to being dirt because they are worldwide? And making money? So neener neener now that you’ve come upon hard times?
As a Starbucks stockholder, I see this retrenching as a good thing, actually, for the long term health of the company.
It blows that people will be out of work and stores will pull out of neighborhoods, but I honestly believe “getting back to core competencies” is the right thing to do in this down economy.
Ah, that’s just me being rational again. I hate it when I get like that…
(note to my favorite New Mexico Barista: Hang in there friend!)
