As always, a collection of random things I thought didn’t merit a post of their own. Enjoy!
One of my favorite podcasts out there is the Trap Draw, a podcast run by two of the guys from No Laying Up as a golf-adjacent offering (as most everything else they do is about golf). It’s really fun and they are often “monitoring” some situations around the world. The most recent episode - which was presumably about football - dropped a bomb to me about Bo Jackson that I can’t stop thinking about. (For those who are young, Bo Jackson was THE modern athlete, playing both football and baseball, and a true freak. The “Bo Knows” Nike ads were legendary.
But here’s the thing - Bo Jackson has had the hiccups for a year.
“I’ve had the hiccups since last July and I’m getting a medical procedure done the end of this week, I think, to try to remedy it,” he said.
Jackson was emphatic when asked if anyone has come up with a reason why he has the hiccups or if there’s any cure.
“Hell, no,” he said.
“I have done everything: scare me, drink water upside down, smell the a-- of a porcupine. It doesn’t work,” he said, as the hosts laughed.
Not remotely joking when I say this is true nightmare fuel. If I have the hiccups for more than a few minutes, I’m genuinely miserable. (Also, what is that about the porcupine?)
Can you even imagine? It immediately made me think of this gem from The Simpsons:
Music Project Update: One band I’ve recently discovered is The Beaches, an innocuous sounding band name that is actually pretty fun pop-punk. It’s four women from Toronto, and I gotta say the song “Blame Brett” absolutely SLAPS. Here’s the video. (It’s worth getting ahead of the fact that the drummer has big Meg White drumming skills, and that’s less complimentary than one might think.)
The song is, presumably, about the singer not being emotionally available for anyone right now - due to being broken up by the titular Brett - but the way the lyrics convey this is both badass and frankly pretty amusing:
I'm sorry in advance
I'm only gonna treat you bad
I'm probably gonna let you down
I'm probably gonna sleep around
So sorry in advance
Before you take off your pants
I wouldn't let me near your friends
I wouldn't let me near your dadBut don't blame me, blame Brett
Blame my ex, blame my ex, blame my ex
Their new album, “Blame My Ex” will drop in September, but the first two singles are really strong stuff.
By the time you have read this, HBO Max will have become Max. I hope you bought supplies, boarded up your windows and notified your next of kin because this ground shaking event is gonna wreak havoc. Question, will they be redoing this great ad with a new one that says “It’s not TV, it’s
HBOHBO MaxMax!”
As the newsletter Morning Brew said, “If you’re an HBO Subscriber already, you don’t have to do anything. Except complain.” So, here we are.
What’s on your mind?
