{"id":3704,"date":"2010-08-06T06:28:01","date_gmt":"2010-08-06T10:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=3704"},"modified":"2010-08-06T11:05:48","modified_gmt":"2010-08-06T15:05:48","slug":"friday-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2010\/08\/06\/friday-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My shoulder has gotten really bad (down into my elbow now), so I can&#8217;t really type much (which should make work really pleasant today).  Too bad, too, &#8216;cuz I could talk about the Jets training camp (and who wouldn&#8217;t want to hear about <strong><em>that<\/em><\/strong>) and how Joe Namath (who is responsible for the mostly miserable 45 or so years I&#8217;ve spent as a Jets fan, and who is still a hero to me &#8211; OK, not hero, really, but I thought it was pretty goddamn funny &#8211;  for getting hammered and hitting on Suzy Kolber on national teevee) was here (well, not <strong><em>here<\/em><\/strong>, here, but in Cortland, which is close enough to here to call here) talking about bringing a Super Bowl Championship back to NYC (well, to NJ really, but close enough) after last year&#8217;s AFC Championship game appearance (never mind they kinda backed into the playoffs &#8211; thanks to losing 6 out of 7 games in one stretch &#8211; courtesy of the Colts, which is rather ironic given that whole Super Bowl III thing).  <\/p>\n<p>Speaking of NYC, I could also have talked about how Ed Koch will be in town today to promote his Albany reform group &#8220;New York Uprising,&#8221; which I find kinda odd, &#8216;cuz I didn&#8217;t think Ed Koch even <strong><em>knew<\/em><\/strong> there was anything north of Hoboken and west of the Hudson, let alone lower himself to actually come up here (except for during his ill-fated, Rupert Murdoch-backed &#8211; or at least encouraged &#8211; run for Governor back in the 80&#8217;s, when he talked about Upstate residents &#8220;wasting time in a pickup truck when you have to drive 20 miles to buy a gingham dress or a Sears, Roebuck suit&#8221;).  <\/p>\n<p>Sorry, Ed, but I&#8217;ve got a Hyundai, it&#8217;s less than a mile to the closest Sears (I can even walk there, but I gotta be careful crossin&#8217; the Boulevard, what with all them dang old pickup trucks whizzin&#8217; by ever&#8217; whichaway), and anyhow, I buy my suits from JC Penney and Granny buys her gingham dresses off that Interwhatsit thing all the kids are talking about.  But good luck with that whole reform thing, &#8216;cuz I really respect your f*cking opinion, old man.  <\/p>\n<p>If it wasn&#8217;t such misery to type, I might even have mentioned Elana Kagan being confirmed as the next Supreme Court Justice (and how she kinda looks like she could be Rachel Maddow&#8217;s &#8220;Aunt Laney&#8221; or something; can&#8217;t you just picture the two of them together smoking cigars and playing poker or out in a boat fishing?).  <\/p>\n<p>Or I might tell you that Granny dropped something or other on her foot, so between her foot and my shoulder (talk about a precarious position), last night the two of us were gruntin&#8217; &#038; groanin&#8217; (in agony, not ecstasy &#8211; get your minds outta the gutter), cursing (lots-o-cursing) and hobbling around like a couple of ancient cripples, putting ice packs on our various afflicted parts (a little bit of ecstasy there) and lamenting about how it sucks to get old (if I ever start talking about how my BM was this morning, somebody just shoot me). <\/p>\n<p>I would probably also mention that today is the 65th anniversary of the first time nuclear weapons were used in war, as Pilot Paul Tibbetts (played by Sidney Poitier in &#8220;In the Heat of the Night&#8221; and its sequel, &#8220;They Call Me Mister Tibbetts!&#8221;) and the Enola Gay (named after his mommy; what a good son) dropped &#8220;Little Boy&#8221; over Hiroshima, ruining what by all accounts was a very pleasant morning.  <\/p>\n<p>But my shoulder&#8217;s killing me, so this is about as much as I can manage.  And, speaking of ruining a perfectly pleasant morning (other than the shoulder agony, of course), I reckon it&#8217;s about time to head off to work.<\/p>\n<p>On the bright side, at least it&#8217;s finally Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My shoulder has gotten really bad (down into my elbow now), so I can&#8217;t really type much (which should make work really pleasant today). Too bad, too, &#8216;cuz I could talk about the Jets training camp (and who wouldn&#8217;t want to hear about that) and how Joe Namath (who is responsible for the mostly miserable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3704"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3739,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3704\/revisions\/3739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}