A very special Monday post in which we begin with...What Will's Watching, Super Bowl LVI. Were we not entertained? A solid game with tonnes of tension at the end. For reasons unexplainable we wanted the LA Rams to win. We felt bad for Rams wide receiver Odell Beckam when he got hurt. We felt great for Ram's QB Matt Stafford who spend a decade suffering in Detroit. We have no major coaching criticisms. The halftime show was a boring disaster in which they tried to cram as many acts into fifteen minutes as they could. It wasn't about the show but about nostalgia. For an example of a good halftime show, see The Weekend last year or dare we say, Prince in Super Bowl XLI performing Purple Rain in the rain. The commercials were remarkably un-woke. 3/4
A special LA Rams Monday not Metal:
For most American NFL fans this is truly the beginning of winter. There's nothing but six weeks of dreary weather and nothing to look forward to on the weekend. We don't care about basketball and have only a passing interest in the NHL. Sorry, moose eaters.
We were working with The Great Nuclear War of 1975 MS and had major technical problems. Man, one can take all the pills one wants and still get worked into a rage so bad one wants to rip the refrigerator out of the wall and toss it into the back yard. The formatting seems to have been resolved.
This blog anticipated that Roll Canada would be the last bit of Soviet collusion we wrote for some time, maybe ever. But there's been no invasion yet...comrades. We'll plan on writing something this week. What to do? We write about what we think is interesting. Here's our post-Super Bowl article from last year.
Over the weekend we boxed up more of the library. That's 30 banker's boxes in all. We'll need 30 more. After carrying the books to the utility room post Ida (cunt), and having to put them on the remains of our book cases when a bad storm was coming and we weren't sure if the sump would work, and finally stacking them in the corner, the books are all jumbled without rhyme or reason. We're tempted to sell them to one of those outfits that resells books by the yard for decorative purposes. We did find the Saddam and Kremlin books and set them aside. We think we'll toss the print on demand books we used for Pershing in Command. These were hundred year old out of print books whose copyright had expired and frankly, an eyesore.
Below, the Stroock's Books Valentine's Day Spectacular, Freak me baby, awww yeah!:
Dearly beloved...CBS* had a pleasant distraction last Saturday with its Prince tribute concert. We enjoyed it thoroughly. A musical savant, genius and guitar god, Little Richard crossed with Jimi Hendrix. Here' Prince singing Purple Rain in the rain at the Super Bowl:
What a performance, love the inclusion of the band and chorus.
The halftime show's Prince tribute was a nice touch, a wonderful touch. Were he alive, Prince undoubtedly would have been the hometown halftime act.
Prince managed to combine Little Richard and Jimi Hendrix for an utterly unique sound, a kind of dance-synth tinged with searing guitar riffs. The man's music was both interesting and deep.
Frankly, if you don't appreciate Prince you don't appreciate music.*
