Superficial Thinking
Just sitting here on day one of 2015.
Time is a weird concept. There are people out there today who will sit down as the day ends and think:
"There's one good day! I just need 364 more!!"
But it doesn't work that way, does it?
Don't you hate chapped lips?
We've had a bad time here in Buffalo if you dig deep behind the fact that the Quarterback and the Head Coach quit the team after the Bills went 9-7. (More on that later).
I'm talking about the murders.
There has been gang unrest in the city and one man after another is being shot to death on the city streets. It's weird how that goes to the back pages. We had one murder in the town I grew up in as a kid and I can remember every second of that day.
Now there's barely a second glance.
Do you scrape all the ice and snow off your car or just enough to see?
Speaking of death...there's a story making rounds about a 2-year old who shot his mother to death in Wal-Mart. The kid grabbed the gun out of a compartment in the woman's purse and from his seated position in the shopping cart he pulled the trigger on the loaded gun and dropped his mother.
"Sounds like Stewie Griffin," Sam said.
Yet reading the story left me really perplexed.
"We are treating it like an accidental shooting," the lead cop said.
Really, Columbo? You don't think it was a premeditated event?
And there's just way too much to think about in this tragic scenario. The woman was a gun right's advocate. The gun was legal. She carried it with her because she's afraid of other people who have a gun.
Well there's an old writing adage that was taught to me by my fine editor:
"If you introduce a gun to the story, it better get fired."
The comment sections below the telling of that horrible story turned into an argument about rights, of course, but what good are your rights when you're dead?
Just life here in what is becoming the old west.
Break any of those resolutions yet?
Two years ago the Buffalo Bills hired a coach. He was an unknown, relatively speaking, and the fans of the team got used to the idea real quickly.
"New blood!"
"I'm glad it wasn't a tired old guy! I love it!!"
Cut to yesterday.
Marrone quit after two uneventful seasons.
"I hated him!"
"Can't believe they hired him!"
I find it fascinating that people forget about their convictions. The next guy will be ushered in.
"I love it!"
"Playoffs here we come!!"
And I know that it works that way. People want to Billieve.
Yet there are all things coming out now.
Reporters are willing to say that they never liked the guy, and that he was ornery, in-over-his-head, and woefully unprepared to handle his job.
Yet if Marrone hadn't quit we'd be hearing about how hard he works.
It's hard to read between the lines, I guess, and in the grand scheme of things football doesn't matter as much as your convictions.
Say what you feel and mean what you say.
That's all for today.
Just catching up with you.
Time is a weird concept. There are people out there today who will sit down as the day ends and think:
"There's one good day! I just need 364 more!!"
But it doesn't work that way, does it?
Don't you hate chapped lips?
We've had a bad time here in Buffalo if you dig deep behind the fact that the Quarterback and the Head Coach quit the team after the Bills went 9-7. (More on that later).
I'm talking about the murders.
There has been gang unrest in the city and one man after another is being shot to death on the city streets. It's weird how that goes to the back pages. We had one murder in the town I grew up in as a kid and I can remember every second of that day.
Now there's barely a second glance.
Do you scrape all the ice and snow off your car or just enough to see?
Speaking of death...there's a story making rounds about a 2-year old who shot his mother to death in Wal-Mart. The kid grabbed the gun out of a compartment in the woman's purse and from his seated position in the shopping cart he pulled the trigger on the loaded gun and dropped his mother.
"Sounds like Stewie Griffin," Sam said.
Yet reading the story left me really perplexed.
"We are treating it like an accidental shooting," the lead cop said.
Really, Columbo? You don't think it was a premeditated event?
And there's just way too much to think about in this tragic scenario. The woman was a gun right's advocate. The gun was legal. She carried it with her because she's afraid of other people who have a gun.
Well there's an old writing adage that was taught to me by my fine editor:
"If you introduce a gun to the story, it better get fired."
The comment sections below the telling of that horrible story turned into an argument about rights, of course, but what good are your rights when you're dead?
Just life here in what is becoming the old west.
Break any of those resolutions yet?
Two years ago the Buffalo Bills hired a coach. He was an unknown, relatively speaking, and the fans of the team got used to the idea real quickly.
"New blood!"
"I'm glad it wasn't a tired old guy! I love it!!"
Cut to yesterday.
Marrone quit after two uneventful seasons.
"I hated him!"
"Can't believe they hired him!"
I find it fascinating that people forget about their convictions. The next guy will be ushered in.
"I love it!"
"Playoffs here we come!!"
And I know that it works that way. People want to Billieve.
Yet there are all things coming out now.
Reporters are willing to say that they never liked the guy, and that he was ornery, in-over-his-head, and woefully unprepared to handle his job.
Yet if Marrone hadn't quit we'd be hearing about how hard he works.
It's hard to read between the lines, I guess, and in the grand scheme of things football doesn't matter as much as your convictions.
Say what you feel and mean what you say.
That's all for today.
Just catching up with you.
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