Do you ever wonder where the days go? They start off bright, or dark, or overcast, as they do. And then you sit down to do some task, and then stand up to take care of an errand, or go over to handle a chore, and then the day is almost over.
Sometimes I am aware of the passage of time only because I realize how quickly it seems to be going. I need more windows in my life, I guess.
And, perhaps, naps.
I did a thing. IUS does a sports show and from that they’ve created a talk show, The Toss Up, which is usually pretty darn smart. And after they tape that show we sit around and talk about it, and a lot of great subtopics appear. One night I said, we should do an after-party. Just a live stream where you fill out the rest of the conversation. A more casual and funny thing. Now we only need a name.
And someone said, “The show is The Toss Up. At the end you say “Toss it up, see if we can catch it.”
Which led to The Catch:
That was the first one. Also, I threw the wadded up paper back into the shot at the end.
I also took a selfie in the reflection of the lens of the jib camera:
And after we were done with recording the show, and the after-show, we had some studio time left, so I grabbed a few people and we had a little anchor practice:
Before you know it, they’ll be off doing cool work. But for now, I stand there thinking “How cool is this, that you can do this? And how cool is it that, at 8:45 on a Wednesday night, you want to?”
This is a 1979 SI cover. Or an illustration on a poster. I found the real one online, I might have to pick it up:
And now, because it is 10 p.m. and I feel these things these days, I’ll probably go read myself to sleep.
