“Let It snow, let it snow,
let it snow.”
We are supposed to get more of the white stuff this weekend and into next week.
“Don’t let it snow, don’t let it snow, don’t let it snow.”
I hope the forecasters are WRONG.
Last winter was great, because we hardly had any snow … which of course was a season completely ruined by the coming of the coronavirus, so I would have rather had the snow, but we got a pandemic instead.
Enough said about the snow.
Today is February 5, the 36th day of the year, a year that has not gotten off with a bang, but I guess we now have some hope for at least some normalcy in the months ahead.
What we were talking about at this site in previous years on February 5, when the pandemic was a word that was not yet in our regular vocabulary.
Let’s go back and see …
On February 5, 2010, in Rant #188 entitled “The Day the Music Died-Two Days Later,” we looked into the tragic plane crash that took the lives of seminal rock and rollers Ritchie Valens, the Big Bopper and Buddy Holly on February 3, 1959, so when we looked into this horrible incident, it was the 51st anniversary of the crash.
Eleven years later, at what is now the 62nd anniversary of the tragedy, it still is incredible that so much talent went down in that crash.
As Don McLean later said in his opus “American Pie,” it was truly “the day the music died>”
On February 5, 2013, in Rant #898 entitled “Sounds Fishy To Me,” we looked into McDonald’s introducing its first new Happy Meal in a decade, one that included something called “Fish McBites,” a fish alternative to the standard Chicken McNuggets that kids gobble up.
Well, I checked out McDonald’s current menu, and eight years later, it does not appear that the little white fish bites ever caught on, because it isn’t on the menu.
You can get a Filet-O—Fish sandwich, but you are going to have to cut up the fish yourself if you want them in bite-sized bits.
I guess that this idea went the way of the Ham-O into fast food heaven … or hell depending on your feelings about fast food.
In Rant #2,077, dated February 5, 2018 and entitled “It’s Over,” we spoke about Super Bowl LII—Super Bowl 52 to us peons—finally being over and done with.
I am not a football fan, I still don’t care about who wins or loses the Big Game, which puts me in the minority of people, as most of us seemingly care about this game for one reason or another, with most of the reasons not having to do with football per se.
There is plenty of betting and partying, but of course, even three years ago there was no way we would ever suspect that officials far and wide are telling us to tone done all of that to a stir, if even that, for our own protection.
What fun is the Super Bowl if you can’t party like it’s 1999?
And what were we talking about last year on this date, or right before the pandemic swept our world?
Oh, a couple of things that don’t seem to be very important today, not compared with what we are going through right now.
In Rant #2,519, dated February 5, 2020 and entitled “So Long,” we looked into the firing of Steve Mills as president of basketball operations with the New York Knicks; Steve Cohen might not becoming the future owner of the New York Mets; and Jay-Z and Beyonce finally giving us a reason why they did not stand during the playing of the National Anthem at the Super Bowl;
The column ended with a popular refrain that I have used in this column many times when things don’t make any sense at all:
“Who’s on first? I don’t know. Third base.”
And at this point in time, none of those subjects are relevant> Nobody cares about Steve Mills anymore, Steve Cohen has, in fact, become the majority owner of the Mets; and who really cares about the political stance of these celebrities anyhow with so much else going on.
Funny, for the fun of it I just checked out what we were talking about the very next day, and all I can say is that what comes around goes around, or what goes around comes around.
On February 6, 2020, in Rant #2,520 entitled “The End,” we spoke about the end of the process to impeach then President Donald Trump. All attempts had been exhausted, and the president came out of it in better shape than he went into it.
I mean, at this point, nothing could upend his presidency, could it?
Little did we know that in what amounted to a month’s time, his presidency was in the process of collapsing under its own weight, and primarily from the weight inflicted upon it by the pandemic and his administration’s response to it.
And a year later, we are talking impeachment again, although I think the end result will be the same: even though there are some valid reasons for impeachment this time around, it won’t go through, and his popularity among some will, as a result, skyrocket while with others, as a result, he will be seen as sinking to a new low.
That is how the ball truly bounces in our world today, and as I have said many times over the years:
“Who’s on first? I don’t know. Third base.”
Have a great weekend, and I will speak to you again on Monday.
We are supposed to get more of the white stuff this weekend and into next week.
“Don’t let it snow, don’t let it snow, don’t let it snow.”
I hope the forecasters are WRONG.
Last winter was great, because we hardly had any snow … which of course was a season completely ruined by the coming of the coronavirus, so I would have rather had the snow, but we got a pandemic instead.
Enough said about the snow.
Today is February 5, the 36th day of the year, a year that has not gotten off with a bang, but I guess we now have some hope for at least some normalcy in the months ahead.
What we were talking about at this site in previous years on February 5, when the pandemic was a word that was not yet in our regular vocabulary.
Let’s go back and see …
On February 5, 2010, in Rant #188 entitled “The Day the Music Died-Two Days Later,” we looked into the tragic plane crash that took the lives of seminal rock and rollers Ritchie Valens, the Big Bopper and Buddy Holly on February 3, 1959, so when we looked into this horrible incident, it was the 51st anniversary of the crash.
Eleven years later, at what is now the 62nd anniversary of the tragedy, it still is incredible that so much talent went down in that crash.
As Don McLean later said in his opus “American Pie,” it was truly “the day the music died>”
On February 5, 2013, in Rant #898 entitled “Sounds Fishy To Me,” we looked into McDonald’s introducing its first new Happy Meal in a decade, one that included something called “Fish McBites,” a fish alternative to the standard Chicken McNuggets that kids gobble up.
Well, I checked out McDonald’s current menu, and eight years later, it does not appear that the little white fish bites ever caught on, because it isn’t on the menu.
You can get a Filet-O—Fish sandwich, but you are going to have to cut up the fish yourself if you want them in bite-sized bits.
I guess that this idea went the way of the Ham-O into fast food heaven … or hell depending on your feelings about fast food.
In Rant #2,077, dated February 5, 2018 and entitled “It’s Over,” we spoke about Super Bowl LII—Super Bowl 52 to us peons—finally being over and done with.
I am not a football fan, I still don’t care about who wins or loses the Big Game, which puts me in the minority of people, as most of us seemingly care about this game for one reason or another, with most of the reasons not having to do with football per se.
There is plenty of betting and partying, but of course, even three years ago there was no way we would ever suspect that officials far and wide are telling us to tone done all of that to a stir, if even that, for our own protection.
What fun is the Super Bowl if you can’t party like it’s 1999?
And what were we talking about last year on this date, or right before the pandemic swept our world?
Oh, a couple of things that don’t seem to be very important today, not compared with what we are going through right now.
In Rant #2,519, dated February 5, 2020 and entitled “So Long,” we looked into the firing of Steve Mills as president of basketball operations with the New York Knicks; Steve Cohen might not becoming the future owner of the New York Mets; and Jay-Z and Beyonce finally giving us a reason why they did not stand during the playing of the National Anthem at the Super Bowl;
The column ended with a popular refrain that I have used in this column many times when things don’t make any sense at all:
“Who’s on first? I don’t know. Third base.”
And at this point in time, none of those subjects are relevant> Nobody cares about Steve Mills anymore, Steve Cohen has, in fact, become the majority owner of the Mets; and who really cares about the political stance of these celebrities anyhow with so much else going on.
Funny, for the fun of it I just checked out what we were talking about the very next day, and all I can say is that what comes around goes around, or what goes around comes around.
On February 6, 2020, in Rant #2,520 entitled “The End,” we spoke about the end of the process to impeach then President Donald Trump. All attempts had been exhausted, and the president came out of it in better shape than he went into it.
I mean, at this point, nothing could upend his presidency, could it?
Little did we know that in what amounted to a month’s time, his presidency was in the process of collapsing under its own weight, and primarily from the weight inflicted upon it by the pandemic and his administration’s response to it.
And a year later, we are talking impeachment again, although I think the end result will be the same: even though there are some valid reasons for impeachment this time around, it won’t go through, and his popularity among some will, as a result, skyrocket while with others, as a result, he will be seen as sinking to a new low.
That is how the ball truly bounces in our world today, and as I have said many times over the years:
“Who’s on first? I don’t know. Third base.”
Have a great weekend, and I will speak to you again on Monday.
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