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Blogging might well be the 21st century's form of journaling. As a writing teacher, I have always advised my students to keep a daily journal as a way of organizing their thoughts for future writing projects, a discipline I have unfortunately never consistently practiced myself. By blogging, I might finally be able to follow my own good advice.

The difference between journaling and blogging is that the blogger opens his or her writing to the public, something journal- writers are usually reluctant to do. I am not so reticent.

The trick for me will be to avoid cluttering the internet with more blather, something none of us need more of. If I stick to subjects I know: sports and literature, I believe I can avoid that pitfall. I can't promise that I'll not stray from time to time to comment on ancillary subjects, but I will make every attempt to be interesting and perhaps even insightful.

Saturday, February 14, 2026

OLYMPICS, STUPID BOWL & MORE

 I say it and say it proudly: Bad Bunny Rules, sticking it to our fake presidant. Donald's response,,"I didn't unserstand a word." Awh, gee whiz, Not a word? Poor baby. What the F--k? Bad Bunny was singing and rapping in Spanish, you moron. A side note: I'm a huge GA GA fan. 

The game itself was a bore made so particularly by the SeaHawks staunch defense and so many commercials that the game itself felt like an afterthought. Yawn! By the way, has any company ever done their own independant servey of how much their ad on Super Sunday improved their sales the next day or week or month or year. The Ad biz has been perpertrating this Emporer's New Clothes hoax for decades. I do have to say I appreciate how the ad companies have bought in to racial equality. Must drive a guy like Trump nuts to see mixed race couples buying mattresses. 

Norway rules the Winter Olympics, but Ilya Malinin rules Men's figure skating. A back flip on on one skate? Snow boarder Cloe Kim wins the silver in the half pipe. She's Korean American. Just sayin' if Donald Rump doesn't know. I was saddened by Lindsey Vonn's injury, but she was heroic even giving it a shot at her age. 

I'm getting slightly sick of hearing all the sides trying to find solutions to teams sitting stars. If the NBA and owners and players would get off some of their profits - to say the money is extraordinary is an understatement - the solution is easy: Reduced the season by ten. Forget Play-ins. They just water down the meaning of the regular season; reduced the first round of the playoff back to best of five; rule that no player, including super stars shall sit out games unless verifiably injured, variable by a doctor who could lose his/her license. Eventually the leaugue is going to have to face doing what's good for the game or good for their money. 


                                                   TIP OF THE PEN

About dialogue: It is often a good idea to attribute your own philosophies about life to one of your characters rather than present them to the reader as an omniscient voice. This is true even when you are writing from an omniscient point of view and it's easy to sound God like. Or as someone once told me, look at me, look at me, see how profound I am. 

Here's a short poem haiku style about the Winter Olympics Men's Free Style figure skating:

Malinin,
 Golden Boy, falls
Twice on his ego




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