Hey, I haven't done a sandbox column in a long time, so the time is now, seeing as how I have an attention span of a disconnected gnat this week.
So here we go with a bunch of riffs on a variety of subjects. Hope you can keep up, because I know I won't be able to.
I had one entry in my smartest person in Estevan file this past week. But I had to disqualify her, she only had three children and one husband so what could be so difficult in organizing those lives and holding down a full-time job?
Watching and listening to Kid Rock sing and do stuff the other night and came to the conclusion that he has to be the one rock singer in North America with the most ordinary voice I've heard in a long time. The guy has no particular range, pitch, mellowness or excitement surrounding his vocalizing. In other words he'd never make it past the first audition in American Idol. He just sings, and kind of holds a note and that's about it. But he's famous for doing all kinds of other things that are not singing, so he's one of those B-list celebrities who is famous for being a celebrity.
Do you think we got enough 9/11 stuff last weekend? Pardon the expression, don't mean to sound too crass, but I believe it was a bit of overkill. It seemed every channel you surfed to on television between Friday and Sunday was positively filled to the hilt with 9/11 stuff. There were docu-dramas, actual footage of events, re-enactments, interviews, analysis, speculations, conspiracy theories. I was thankful for the 'Rider-Bomber Banjo Bowl on Sunday as an escape hatch.
As one radio listener-pundit noted on Monday morning after a complete over indulgence of 9/11 during the previous three days ... "about 3,000 people died in this tragedy. How many have died in Iraq? About one million."
How many died in the Japanse earthquake and tsunami? Was it over 30,000? But because it's America and we love our neighbours ... we participate in the over indulgences. They know how to do up memorials.
Speaking of over indulgences ... I'm ready for hockey again. I mean it's been over a month since we viewed the last Stanley Cup game, and they've cleaned up the streets in Vancouver, so let's get on with it Mr. Bettman, what's holding things up?
I see they finally got on with the regular NFL season this past week too. That's also one league where the pre-season stuff seems to last longer than the actual season.
I just can't catch the excitement of the NFL brand of football. The field is so small and the players are sooo large and the rules are sooo stifling. I managed to watch about 13 minutes of NFL football on the weekend (when I wasn't being subjected to 9/11 demand viewing) and was pretty bored whereas I pretty well watched all three CFL games in their entirety. They were all blowouts, but at least they provided some action worth watching. Now if I was involved in an NFL pool, I might change my tune, but probably not. The NFL is just too cookie-cutter style football, too many time outs. Heck even the fat guys can catch their breath between plays in that league.
So that's it for the scatter-gun comments column for this particular week. I promise you, dear diary I'll find one subject and stick to it next week, but I just had to get these little niggly things out of my mind's filing cabinet this week.
