I’ve had quite enough of Bob Roll. The guy is annoying for TV. I’ve read some of his stuff and enjoyed it (although now that I’ve seen and heard him, I may have trouble with this in the future.) The gap between his front teeth is a distraction and all those exaggerated hand gestures are a distraction too. It is pronounced Tour Duh France not Tour Dee France, that may be OK at home, but when you are doing a nationwide television show at least try and pronounce it right.
Not only is he all over every cycling publication, but now he is hitting the mainstream mags. Yesterday when we left the gym I spied an Esquire magazine on a table in the waiting area and can you guess who was on the cover? My Men’s Journal came in the mail today, guess who is on the cover? To add icing to the cake he even has a cool rockstar girlfriend. Oh yeah, OLN is back up on cable tonight, so I watched a couple of interviews with him and a few minutes of him riding today, some footage of him leading the team yesterday and a couple more interviews of people who knew him or coached him or cleaned his pool. Plus, there are all those contests running….enough already! He is going to suffer from the Hootie Syndrome* soon.
*Hootie Syndrome: Become so poular that it is hip to hate you. Named after Hootie & The Blowfish that early 90’s music sensation that had like 5 of their songs in the top 10 at one time.
I can’t see how the latest join the Army commercial, that is running during the Tour de France coverage, can make anyone want to join up.
Your mission is to track enemy movement from deep cover. You have supplies for 5 days. It is day 12, do you have what it takes?
What it takes to go willingly on mis-planned and ill-equipped missions? Am I that gullible?
I complained the other day about how I knew that the commercials on during the Tour de France would be the same and get tiresome easy. Well today was day 2 and it has happened already. Not only is the coverage focusing on Lance, but also he is in all the commercials. Several of the ads are hocking contests involving Lance – got to our web site and enter to win a ride with Lance, win Lance’s bike, win a trip to the Tour to see Lance ride, win Lance’s sweaty used lycra shorts….
…in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.
The Master’s Miata Club was “hosting” a cruise in at the Sno Cap Drive-In in North Augusta tonight. We had about 8 of our cars and a smattering of other cars in attendance. About halfway through the evening, in pulled a blue Miata that wasn’t a club member. Hey, wait a minute, that car looks familiar. Sure enough, it was our old car. I went over and said hello to the new owner Shannon Vick and her son. She and he were in North Augusta and he suggested going to the Sno Cap for something to eat. They had no clue that we would be there. Boy that sure is a pretty car.
You must remember this;
A car is still a car,
A sigh is just a sigh ?
The fundamental things apply
As time goes by
I’m reading a book called The Circle by David Poyer. Mother-in-law brought it back for me from a recent trip to the used bookstore. It is about a freshly Annapolis minted Ensign on his first cruise aboard an aging WWII destroyer. Fairly interesting so far, but it is obviously written by someone who was in the Navy. The book takes place about 5 years before I was in Uncle Sam’s Yatch Club, so the language and especially the slang terms are taking me back 20 years to when I was in. This is the most realistic book about the Navy I’ve read since Stephen Coonts’ Flight of the Intruder. Excuse me, but flight ops are over so the smoking lamp is lit, I’m going to head back to the fantail to burn one and watch the line of trash bags stretch to the horizon.
I got my new electric pencil sharpener. This puppy’s got a cord, no more wimpy, battery operated, hold it just so, slow poke. This thing wil make dust of a full size pencil in just under 2 minutes. I know, I timed it.