Your Mom and I dropped the “season ticket routine” for UW Badger games this year. One reason was that schedules are dictated by ESPN. The Badgers are rated No.12 in the Country. The next game for the Badgers is at Camp Randall against No.2 Ohio State. Because it is a highly rated game, it will be played at night with a 7:00 PM kickoff to appease ESPN. That same game years ago would be a “day” game. Night time in October means cold weather. The game will end around 11:00 PM. That means getting home at 2:00 AM or staying overnight at a motel. Really? I guess I’ve lost the zest that goes with youth. I’m relegated to watching the Badger-Buckeye game on 60 inch HDTV with a stocked refrigerator. Yes, it is a painful alternative.
I mentioned Kimberly High School’s football team and it’s quest for win No.49 in a row last time. Kimberly got the record. Sunday’s Post Crescent had an article about Kimberly’s program and the reason for success. It was an insightful article. I cut it out and hand delivered it to our resident family High School Coach, Grasshopper No.4. It was old news. He had read the article days before it hit the newspapers. I tried!
I see that a student of the film industry who graduated from Lawrence University has made a horror “short” movie similar to the Blair Witch Project called “Gags”. The star is a really gruesome looking clown named Gags that presents himself at creepy times. To promote the movie “Gags” has been showing up around the country at night at places like playgrounds, outside movie theaters, churches and cemeterys. Creepy. You can bet with Halloween coming, the story of Gags will develop further. It’s almost as creepy as Hilary and Donald costumes.
I watched a Johnny Carson rerun including guest comedian Charlie Callas. It is a name from the past but he tells the story of two hunters (one stutters and the other shakes). It is hilarious. YouTube, Charlie Callas, the Hunter.
Love,
Dad