Oh, I Think So

It's time to relax, be calm, watch Chris Rock host the Oscars and maybe have a couple of laughs. I am going to start the relaxing thing right now.

I am not the craftiest person in the world.  I enjoy crafts like jewelry-making, especially bracelets, and papercrafts, like putting together small books.  These things do not come easily to me as I have almost no art talent.  My art talent has increased as I've gotten older but it is more my ability to stick with it and be willing to learn the craft than actually being able to sit down and just do it.  I went to a bookmaking class once where I struggled to finish the project by the end of the allotted time while there was one hyperactive, hyper-talented art teacher who made two of project simultaneously and left early.  (Her husband was out of town, she said, and she never got to do things like this when he was home.)  I have to plod along in my own fashiion and let it register in my own way and then it certainly sticks and I can do it forever. And then we have crochet.  I've started various projects over the years but have never had the ture stick-...

Hooray for Peyton Manning, the Denver Broncos QB who got the job done.  He was not the MVP (because he wasn't the most valuable) but the man ended his season -- some speculate his career -- on a true high. But, of course, hooray for us because we had Lady Gaga singing the Star Spangled Banner.  Here and now we agree and Lady Gaga has true talent.  She looked and sounded pretty as an All-American girl. The halftime show was great!  All Americans Bruno Mars, Mark Ronson, and Beyoncé brought it and what would an All-American show be without a little British invasion?  Coldplay -- Chris Martin especially -- looked so excited to be there.  I was excited to watch!  Past Super Bowl halftime shows have been missing something because the artist looked damn bored about being there.  Not this time. This next one is from the point of view of someone in the show.  It's a whole different vantage point on the halftime performance gig.  And wh...

Courtesy of the NFL For 49 Super Bowls, the NFL has insisted that the Super Bowl be called by number but displayed as Roman numerals.  It should have been a fabulous lesson for people everywhere on the usage of the ancient numerals but it probably wasn't.  Super Bowl 33 = XXXIII.  Like Roman gladiators. You get what I'm saying. But this year, it's Super Bowl 50.  I wondered what made the NFL, those old, rich guys who love to hang onto a tradition until its proven to be deadly and then still won't let it go.  I was privately referring to it as Super Bowl L but this week I read an article that explained the NFL's point of view. Make an L with the thumb and index finger of your right hand and hold it up to your forehead.  Yep!  You got it!  The NFL doesn't want people to think "loser."  The NFL has reasons that are simple, elegant, self-serving.  As always. Doesn't mean you're not a bunch of losers, old, rich NFL guys!...