My day started in the studio at about 9 a.m., with a show I can share with you on Monday. And it ended in the studio at almost 7 p.m. with another show that will see the light of day at some point in the next week or so. In between, many calls, many meetings.
Here are the shows the sports guys shot last night. Highlights, highlight and highlights:
And here’s the talk show. It’s March, it’s Indiana, they’re talking March Madness.
That show has added extra graphics and, this week, extra panelists. I am encouraging both for all sorts of reasons. The graphics, I know, will stick around. And hopefully the extra talking people will make some timely returns as well.
Tomorrow we’re returning to riding bikes outside. It’ll be the first time since December 11th. Ninety-eight days. There will also be Chick-fil-A, and chatting with some friends. And that’s not a bad half of a weekend. I’ll tell you about it Monday. Until then, have a great weekend yourself.
I’ve been on something of a streak with clothes pictures for no particular reason. May as well push that out one more day. It’s the content I know purveyors of this site aren’t really here for at all, but, like I said Monday, it’s a light week.
Today, I decided to try encouraging this spring to be an actual honest-to-goodness spring with some light pastel colors.
It did not work. Other forces in the universe are more powerful than my pocket squares. I am just as surprised as anyone.
And there’s been a lot of food here lately, which is odd considering this is in no way a food blog. But, again, Mellow Mushroom’s pizza is important. And when we have occasion to be near their nearest — and too far away store — we get takeout, and plenty of it. For the leftovers, like tonight.
Seventy-six miles is far too far to have to travel to get good pizza, but here we are. And here they are not. Thus far my social media campaign for them to establish a new store in this college town hasn’t been successful. But it’s gaining momentum.
What we’ve not done this week is show you any shows. Shame on me.
Here’s the late night show they shot last week. See it takes place at a bar. Which is a TV set. An always changing and never-completed set.
We’ve got your news here:
And your pop culture — and bagels! — right here:
We’ll have some sports tomorrow. And some more stuff, too. That oughta keep you coming back! See you then.
Sports shows! You want ’em, they shot ’em. It’s basketball post-season and only one of Indiana’s basketball teams is making the postseason, that hasn’t dampened the enthusiasm here overmuch. Here are the programs from last night.
I know the women’s team will qualify because they are very good. And I know the men aren’t qualifying because they needed to do something nearly miraculous in their conference tournament to even get a glance, but they went out in the first round tonight. One of our students was at the game, and that required some extra people to step into new rules and they did it without missing a beat. And, I believe, a new star was born.
In other, site-related news, I have updated the front page to reflect the promise of spring. So you’ll see another version of these tulips if you just go to the front page.
I predict they’ll stay there for about two weeks, or until I find something better, or just generally get tired of them, whichever comes first.
And in really important news, tonight we had cookies.
And they were a delicious way to start the weekend. Best part, there will be a few more cookies tomorrow, as well.
Have a great weekend, cookies or no. (But definitely try to find some cookies.)
So this is day two, and I feel fine. My arm is better and I haven’t developed any supernatural abilities beyond the ones I already had. I have two. One is of very limited use and not worth talking about. The other is spectacularly useful, and would be a big hit on the old Whose Line game …
My super power involves always being able to pick the correct size container in which to store leftovers. Very useful. Never going to save the planet from marauding invaders.
This is the one I already had, and I am still waiting for my new vaccine-inspired powers to kick in. And, also, the second dose. I’m also waiting for the two weeks after that, when the magic has really happened. So five weeks. A lot of things happen in five weeks. Some of you have been in relationships that lasted less than that. I’ve watched TV shows with a shorter run. That’s half of a Kardashian wedding! Ethel Merman and Ernest Borgnine were married for a shorter time, too! Five weeks is less than four Scaramuccis! And I’m sure they’ll rush right by so that I can continue to be cautious, but with a bit more peace of mind.
And also some carefully controlled family visits. Looking forward to that, as most everyone is.
Meanwhile, a former student notes Utah is about to join Alaska in opening up vaccinations.
And this bit of news which will be profoundly encouraging, I’m sure.
This will mean so much to so many.
"Nursing home residents vaccinated against COVID-19 can get hugs again from their loved ones, and all residents may enjoy more indoor visits, the government said Wednesday in a step toward pre-pandemic normalcy." https://t.co/459iELGKap
Something else I know you’re looking forward to, the television shows. This is last night’s news show.
And the students also produced this really cool show, too.
One last normal thing … we had the opportunity to watch some racing last year in the middle of the pandemic, which is going to seem a really brazen thing, one day. But this, here, now, feels different. I said it because I felt it.
We've been watching the first three stages of @ParisNice tonight. It just seems so delightfully normal.
Have you found a lot of those things yet? Stuff that just feels regular, somehow? pic.twitter.com/QvheeEwZYO
And the more and more I think about it, I wonder why. What’s the normal part and why? And why is it normal? Have we finally just begun to internalize things? That seems an inherently risky thing, doesn’t it? We could be so close to turning the tide on this thing, and all of our own choices have helped with that in some regard. We shouldn’t toss that aside just yet.
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Two sports shows form last night. Here’s the highlights.
And here’s all the talk about sportsball in the form of baseball.
And, this morning, it was back in the studio again first thing. The handful of Thursdays were we have shows late into the evenings followed immediately by Friday morning shows are reminders that I am not in my early 20s anymore. It isn’t that it is hard, or that a terrible amount is expected of me, but that I am tired. And, look, I’m not even performing in any of these shows, obviously, as they are entirely student productions. But I’m there, trying to lend a hand or get in the way, or provide moral support, or slow things down or speed things up or give notes and what not. Some days the hours get to me, is all. Small price to pay, to watch these nice people work on their craft and start to realize their dreams.
I had to give two studio tours today. That’s something I haven’t done in a year. It’ll all be a function of another new project coming to life. Just another sign, as we tried to explore a little bit the other day, of things coming back to something approaching normal.
They are holding graduation in person this term. That was announced a week or so ago. Family and friends will have to watch a university-produced program, unfortunately, but the students will get the real pomp and circumstance, which is great progress. The word has been passed out that the fall will be more in-person. What it means in practice is still being studied, but I’m guessing the goal is to make 2021 feel a lot more like 2019 than 2020. You don’t sell it that way. It seems a reasonable ambition and realistically feasible.
The show this morning, which isn’t online yet, brought in a guy offering you some workout tips you can do at home, because you’re not going to the gym just yet. I noticed they didn’t frame it as “Get that spring break bod” because our students don’t get a break this year — a concession to the virus and realities of traveling and so on. But they are going to get to watch a basketball tournament in a few days. It’s looking like their men’s team won’t be in the tournament, so it’s definitely a take-your-gains-where-you-can-get-them era.
