So Much For That

 Greetings. Remember when I wrote a few days ago that this upcoming week would be crucial for me? Well, so much for that. Miss Thang is still with her abusive fiancée, and I got a snarky comment when telling her that I wasn't going to see her next week as a result. So, I'm back to square one, just as I have always been throughout almost the entirety of my adult life. So,no Charlie Brown, that little red-headed girl of my dreams indeed doesn't exist. Good grief.

Oh, and one other thing while I'm at it. Phuck Philly.

BS

Some Radio Stuff I'm Pondering About/Football Picks

 Hello, everyone. Earlier this week, I was doing something I haven't really done much of since 2016; listened to terrestrial radio. It was a niche station that covers the Nature Coast (Pasco/Hernando/Citrus Counties in Florida) called Hits 106, WGHR. I think one of their personalities is known as Marvelous Marvin who, for those you are reading this in the Tampa Bay area, once worked for I believe Q105 and Mix 100.7 in the past. The station primarily plays classic pop songs from the 1970s and 1980s. 

Most of the music played on said station is pretty much what you would expect from them; songs from those two decades that were monsters on the Billboard Hot 100, but I heard a rogue song at the time I was listening to the station; "Smooth," the classic from Robb Thommas and Carlos Santana, which was released in the summer of 1999. I thought for a minute that the song didn't quite fit the format for the sheer fact that it wasn't a 70's or 80's song. Then I thought about it further; 1999 was TWENTY-FOUR years ago, and when I was growing up in the 80's, songs from that long ago from that point (1960s) were considered oldies. I mean my two sisters were raised on The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Clapton, etc. 

That got me to thinking, what songs from the 1990s and 2000s would fit the format of Hits 106? I imagine it probably wouldn't be based off the Hot 100, as during the 1990s and beyond (especially after 1994) that chart was definitely skewed towards hip-hop and some country. Moreover, some of the songs from those two decades were, let's just say not radio friendly. So, I guess we'd have to make a determination of which songs would make the cut based on Radio & Records CHR/Pop charts from that era. Fortunately, I have such a list that I have compiled over the past decade or so. So, I'll have to check said lists out, and make that determination. Something that I will be working on over this weekend as well as the week following, so stay tuned.

Week 7 NFL Picks:

Thanks to a last-minute touchdown from Christian Kirk, I started this week on a winning note, as Jacksonville defeated New Orleans to raise my record to 58-36. Will I have as good a record as I had last weekend (12-3)? Doubtful. But at least I'm not throwing in the towel this season as I did last year. Recent events in my personal life have given me a second wind. Next week could be crucial for me, that's all I'll say for now. As for my picks:

BUF over NE
WSH over NYG
CLE over IND
DET over BAL
LV over CHI
TB over ATL
LAR over PIT
SEA over AZ
KC over LAC
GB over DEN
PHI over MIA
SF over MIN

Byes: CIN, DAL, HOU, NYJ, TEN

Buh-bye: CAR

And for college games Saturday:

Penn State over Ohio State (upset special)
Navy over Air Force
Oklahoma over UCF
Arkansas over Mississippi State
Memphis over UAB

East Carolina over Charlotte
Oregon over Washington State
Alabama over Tennessee
Connecticut over South Florida (at least Beth Mowins isn't calling this game, Bulls fan)
Missouri over South Carolina

Illinois over Wisconsin
Iowa over Minnesota
Wake Forest over Pitt
Texas over Houston
North Carolina over Virginia

LSU over Army
Michigan over Michigan State
Florida State over Duke
USC over Utah
Clemson over Miami

Washington over Arizona State
UCLA over Stanford

Mercifully, Colorado has a bye week, so we get a break from the overblown hype express. Enjoy your weekend everyone!

BS 

What A Weird Weekend

 Hello everyone. Was it just me or were things feeling off this weekend? I know we had Friday the 13th happen this weekend, and a solar eclipse. Still when it came to this weekend, things felt a little off, dontcha think? 

Starting off with Friday night, which happened to be homecoming night for both high schools I attended, Hoke County, NC and Apopka, FL. It was in the realm of college football and involved Overhype University (aka Colorado) and their home tilt against lowly Stanford. At one point during the game, in which Colorado led 29-0, the person in charge of the music/sound effects that sometimes play between downs got a wee bit carried away, and the referee was not having any of it. Now did it have an effect on the performance of the Buffaloes going forward? Maybe. Because after halftime (remember it was 29-0 Colorado), Stanford inconceivably stormed back from said deficit to capture a 46-43 overtime victory. 

You know what this kind of reminds me of? The Houston Oilers of the late 1980s and the Atlanta Falcons of the early 1990s under Jerry Glanville. For those of you old enough to remember that era in professional football, remember how ridiculously hyped both those teams were, and how they had all sorts of celebrities coming out to their games, and Glanville was featured in that hideous "2 Legit 2 Quit" video by MC Hammer (which should be included in my "Jukebox From Hell", which I should make as a future subject on this blog)? Well, how many championships did those teams win? Zero. And after a while it fell apart, in fact in the case of the Oilers, they wound up moving to Nashville. Yet most people are on board the Deion Sanders hype train as if they want to hand them a College Football Playoff National Championship. A cautionary tale to remain humble in any endeavor one partakes in. 

Saturday, was the eclipse, and I didn't go outside to see it, there were some clouds in my area from what I understand, but a few people did get some pictures of it locally. I wound up sleeping most of the early part of Saturday, but I did wake up to catch Florida face South Carolina, and I thought the Gators would lay another dud on the road, but lo and behold they rallied from a ten-point deficit in the final five minutes to come away with a crucial 41-39 win. That wasn't the only thing on Saturday, not by a long-shot. You had Illinois hitting a game-winning field goal in the face of the Kevin James meme at Maryland. You had douchebag extraordinaire Logan Paul beating an even douchier bro in the boxing ring, then calling out Rey Mysterio afterwards. Guess I'll be watching Smackdown this Friday, but be careful what you wish for, Logan. BOOYAKA! Then there was whatever the hell was going on with the Lightning in Detroit. Not only did the Bolts lose 6-4 to the Red Wings, but TV analyst Brian Engblom had something weird going on with his hair. 

Thomas Dolby, is that you?

Other things that happened on Saturday were North Carolina beating Miami and Duke beating NC State, but most notably, who was this that I saw at the Miami-UNC game? By the way, as far as my Saturday picks are concerned, I went 13-4 (I TOLD you that South Florida was going to lose!).

Wrapping this up because I don't want to reach the TLDR point of this entry (and my computer is acting up again), but on Sunday, man was the NFL weird. A flag fest in London for the BAL-TEN game. The Niners losing to the Browns, my Bucs laying an egg on their creamsicle jersey day. Dumb decisions in the NY Giants-Buffalo game. The Eagles losing to the J-E-T-S JETS JETS JETS for the first time ever. Despite all of that, if you include the win on Thursday night, I came away with a 12-3 record to give me a season total of 57-36. Not too bad if you ask me. Also, the Lightning laid another egg, this time in Ottawa. 

Monday was highlighted by seeing the most passionate fan I've seen this year during the Monday Night game between the Dallas Cowboys and the LA Chargers, and now she's my newest crush. So, Samantha, Sarah, and Amy, I'm sorry. You're going to have to make more room for her:

 

my newest crush.

Unfortunately for our heroine, her Chargers came up short, as usual, and she was as you could imagone crushed (kind of like I was when you know who got back together with you know what; I'm still holding out for a miracle by the way).

Seriously, if you want to know more, check out my Twitter page because I want this to be an extension of this blog, and vice versa. Until later this week, take care.

CT

Post-Friday the 13th/Pre-Eclipse Blog

 Hello again everyone, except for Elon Musk and Mia Khalifa (who ought to be named "Beirut Barbie"). I started this entry about two weeks ago, but thanks to depression (Hooray) I have put this off until this late Friday night. Speaking of which, nothing weird happened as it was Friday the 13th, and tomorrow around midday, we're supposed to have a solar eclipse. The last solar eclipse we had in August 2017, I was stuck in a hospital bed recovering from my stroke. I don't plan on being outside for this one either because I think the weather here in Spring Hill is supposed to be cloudy. Then again, I haven't checked the forecast for the weekend. Speaking of the weather, we had some pretty bad storms, including tornadoes earlier this week.  Fortunately, there was no damage in Spring Hill. 

Yes, I'm still doing my football picks, although last week I had to place them on X Twitter (DAMN YOU MUSKRAT, IT'LL ALWAYS BE TWITTER TO ME, YOU APARTHEID-LOVING, RUSSIAN SYMPATHIZING FREAK!!), but if you'd like to see how I did last week, click here. I picked the Thursday night game correctly for once, so this week is off to a good start. More important than that, the Bucs are wearing their creamsicle throwback jerseys against the Lions on Sunday. Makes me wish that the franchise wasn't absolute dog crap between 1982 and 1996, when they ditched the creamsicles and became the pewter pirates of today. Anyway, here's who I'm picking for this week.

BAL over TEN
ATL over WSH
SF over CLE
HOU over NO
MIA over CAR
CIN over SEA
JAX over IND
MIN over CHI
LV over NE
LAR over ARI
PHI over NYJ
DET over TB 💔
BUF over NYG
DAL over LAC

Bye; PIT
Buh-bye: GB

Some college picks as well,

Georgia over Vandy
Alabama over Arkansas
Florida State over Syracuse
Ohio State over Purdue
Michigan over Indiana

Navy over Charlotte
Florida over South Carolina
Tennessee over Texas A&M
Washington over Oregon
Florida Atlantic over South Florida (Beth Mowins is calling the game, not a good sign)

Iowa over Wisconsin
Louisville over Pitt
Auburn over LSU
USC over Notre Dame
North Carolina ove Miami

UCLA over Oregon State
Duke over NC State


My computer has been acting really bad lately. It can't go an hour without shutting down because it's overheating. I think I need to tell my sisters that I need a new computer. One that will actually allow me to connect a microphone to it so I may be able to do podcasts or YouTube videos in the future. As if anyone is going to listen/watch them anyway, but you never know. Update: it took a dirt nap again while trying to write this.

The League Championship Series in baseball is here, and it's stupid. None of the five best teams in the regular season are in it. Major League baseball, fix your shit.

I won't go into it too much here, because there are so many articles and opinions on it already, but this whole situation that was erupted in the Middle East in the past week has gotten out of hand. As a song I used to listened to asked, "whose side are you on?", my answer is I'm on the side of peace. Oh, and Mia Khalifa, shut up.

That's all I have this morning. If I feel like it, I'll have more this weekend.

More to Come (I hope)

Bony