Oh, and...
IMHO, golf's four annual majors run in order of appeal, as far as watching on television is concerned. The Masters is at the top because it's The Masters, and the U.S. Open, which started today, is the most mentally gruelling on the guys. The British Open has its fun quirks and it's kind of a different game, and then by the time the PGA Championship rolls around, I'm already thinking about football.
But anyway, about this week's U.S. Open...it's at Pinehurst, which for me makes it about as good a U.S. Open as can be. Donald Ross (died 1948) courses have one thing in common: they all have character, and each hole looks like a natural part of its surroundings. Each hole inspires you to hit your best shot. And even if you think you've hit your best shot, the green finds a way to trick you in the end. Even if you can't stand watching golf, check it out this weekend. I'm sure you'll watch longer than you figured.
Help me understand why all those starfucker rags at the grocery checkout counter appeal to the masses. Who are these masses, and where can I meet them? I'd like to look them up and down. Take inventory. Ask them a few questions. Maybe deck a few—for their own good, of course. I just can't fathom having any interest in Who's Horribly Fat Now, Who's Cheating, What Former Child Star Is Having Quadruplets, Who Hates Whom in Hollywood, and of course, the ubiquitous Life Of tales featuring Tom Cruise and/or Brad Pitt.
I like Brad Pitt as an actor, especially in the great great Fight Club, but his personal life is no more interesting than your neighbor's. Okay maybe a little more interesting, but not enough to merit a magazine cover "story". I was just at the grocery store and I watched closely to see if anyone would even show a lick of interest in the rag rack. Nobody did, which was heartening. But they're there for a reason. People are paying $3.75 or more to read BS about the lives of strangers who some think they know, or would like to know, because they see them in the moooveees. I don't get it, I don't get it, I don't get it.
Why Why Why Why Why Why Why Why Why Why Why Why?
So Pac Man is 25. Feel old? I still remember the first time I heard about it. I was ten. One day, my twenty year-old sister Amy came home from wherever, excited to tell me something. She had just seen The Coolest Game Ever, and she knew I'd need to know about it.
She told me about it in her room, which I guess didn't have any spare sheets of paper because she drew a picture of the Pac Man screen on the hardwood floor with a standard Bic pen. I think it's still there at my mom's house. At least I know that it was as of 1993, the last time I saw it. I hope it is. This might sound corny, but if it's still there I'll probably take a picture of it and hang it on my office wall. It has that level of meaning.
Anyway, happy anniversary, Mr. Pac Man.
3 Comments:
Ms. PacMan was better.
6:45 PM
It's never a good thing for golf, especially the US Open, when the guy wearing the absolute worst clothing on the course wins.
7:55 AM
Those "starf--" rags, depending upon which ones you mean, are my guilty pleasure. I like to read People and Us when it happens to be in the Ladies Room at work.
As far as Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt are concerned, I think they're both pigs.
I don't know how much People costs because I've never purchased it. My fiance bought one once for me when I was sick.
You ask "Why . . . Why?" and I couldn't tell you why. It's a combination of things for me, I think. First, there's the fashion aspect. Towards the beginning of the magazine, you see what people are wearing to premieres or out shopping. These aren't outfits that the wardrobe department put together, or stuff that's been sewn to fit them perfectly. These are usually off-the-rack items of clothing. It's heartening to see that the clothes sag in all the wrong places. It's also fun to see what's the new trend. I'm not a trendy person, so I am always amused by the latest hot fashion tip. Ugg boots, dangly chandelier earings, really-really long tops over blue jeans, purses that look like suitcases, etc.
Second, I like to read about some people. Others I don't. Why do we have biographies if it isn't interesting to read about other people? We have books like The Founding Fathers that are nothing if not accounts of the goings-on of some men. Of course, I understand that these men contributed way more to society than, say, Naomi Watts. But it's the same idea, only the subjects aren't dead yet.
6:11 PM
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