Six more

Been a while since we've knocked out two posts in a week.

1) I can't say how I knew, but I was really confident that Brian's surgery on Thursday to remove the three smaller tumors would go well. Maybe it's because the last surgery went well, maybe God kind of gave me a clue, I don't know. I just knew it. But it was something about actually hearing the news that the doctors are 99% sure the cancer is completely removed. It made it real. It made it official.

2) Had dinner at Outback on a Thursday. Then on a Friday, I turn on the Food Network and Unwrapped is about starters and appetizers. And they profiled the conception, the creation, and consumption of the Bloomin' Onion. Hellooooooooo! OK, enough alliteration.

3) Something bothered me when I was flipping through the dials. Nothing against Happy Gilmore. I enjoyed the film. But it is on AMC tonight? Am I supposed to think of this film that is best remembered for a brawl between Adam Sandler and Bob Barker as a classic?

Put it this way. Which one of these movies does not belong here?
A The Godfather
B Gone With the Wind
C Citizen Kane
D Happy Gilmore

4) Citi Field tickets have arrived. One month away! Maybe there will be some Mets history on display by then. The fact that the Texas Rangers, not exactly a storied franchise, have a museum at their ball park when they have NOTHING in their whole history to celebrate and the Mets bow down to the Brooklyn Dodgers and ignore their won history as well as the New York Giants makes me want to run my head into a wall.

5) Another TV complaint. CMT's I loved VH1, GAC, CMT and those channels in high school and to a lesser extent in college. But the music shows are essentially eradicated from the lineups. Case in point. Here is the Saturday PM lineup for CMT, the classic country music network along wth TNN.
1-2 Nanny 911
2-3 World's Strictest Parents
3-5 Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
5-7 Captain Ron
7-1 am Repeat as above.

Exactly what in the world does any of this have to do with country music?

6) Had to save it for last. Pharmaceutical company Pfizer announced that it will give “free prescription drugs - including its anti-impotence drug, Viagra, to people who no longer have jobs and health insurance.” How's that for a stimulus package?

Song pick: "I Walk Alone" Marty Robbins. Especially that last note. That is music.