Home run

 

Dodgers got the pennant. Yea!

I'm a bit conflicted, though. My grandmother and her sisters spread out: 2 in Sparks, NV., 3 in Palo Alto, CA., and 2 more in Anaheim, Ca. The northern contingent rooted for the 49ers and the Giants. The southern contingent rooted for the Dodgers and hated football.

If I accidentally said something nice about the Dodgers, Grammie refused to talk to me. If I said something nice about the Giants, Great-aunt Lottie refused to talk to me.

Their silent treatment prepared me for the real world where other mean-spirited people tried it on me. Hah. Got a lot of stuff done while the Silent Treatment Queens punished me.

Back in the day, I worked with Bob, who played minor league ball in the Dodgers' organization, until he blew out both knees. Then he went into the team's major league operation. One year when the Dodgers made the Series, Bob got free tickets and abruptly took 10 days off. His World Series Championship ring was stunningly ugly but he loved it.

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Something smells

 

Proof I watch way too much TV:

Elelventy-seventy commercials lately for body deodorants, for male and for female. And not just for armpits, as indicated by rhyming replacements for anatomical labels. I sense a sign of the times, with everybody twisted into knots by inflation, hurricanes, wildfires, death threats against FEMA workers, DJT's dubious dancing. And a thousand other conditions. Stinky feet might be the only thing somebody can control in their life.

Ad for Domino’s pizza shows people rushing out to get a special low price, while the words/graphic at left says “online only.” Bursting out of your bath while covered in soap won’t get you the deal, dumb ass. And your phone won't float, either.

Beards are everywhere. I know it is a style that will pass, but jeez I hate beards. What’s the man hiding? My attitude might be genetic: The time my father came home from a month on a fishing boat with full beard and shaggy hair, his mother refused to recognize him or let him in her house. “I don’t take in hobos,” he said she said. He had to go to his brother’s and clean up. Then she welcomed him in with open arms, tears of joy and all that.

Local PBS station is running, for the umpteenth time, “Broadchurch” from 2013. The episode that caught my attention had four “Doctor Who” actors: David Tennant and future TARDIS travelers David Bradley, Arthur Darvill and Jodie Whittaker.

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