“Have you ever lost something very dear to you?” “Well, yeah. Yeah, when I was twelve, we had this dog…” “I was thinking more along the lines of a massive sum of cash.”

broderic on September 26, 2020

It’s been a long while since I remembered a dream that I had. I woke up this morning with one that was all too vivid.

I was at the locally renowned steeple chase to cheer on that girl. She was participating and she was the favorite. I watched her walk the course and inspect the fences. Then they lined up at the start. I had wanted to call out her name, but instead waved to her and gave her the thumbs up hoping that she would see me. She had a different last name which made me wondered if she was remarried. I wondered if she divorced her husband as well.

Anyway, she didn’t see me surrounded by her parents and fans and the other riders. The gunshot to start goes off and away they go over the first fence and gone from view. I chase after, but pause anyway because it would be pointless. I’m left to wonder the outcome of the race.

After a bit, I hear the cheers and wonder if she had won. I say her name out loud and I say to myself I should’ve done something about it.

That’s when I bump into my best friend from grade school. He was there to support her, too. We chat for a bit and part. I feel loneliness and regret. I wish to have not lost touch with a precious friend, so I go running to find him. I ask if we can stay in touch. There is some anger for not doing so all these years. I exchange contact with him, but he’s still using a flip phone. The shock of which finds me waking up.

I feel loneliness and regret.

To remember friends who I’ve long abandoned to my memories is painful. I wish I had been a better friend to have stayed in touch. I’m hoping they are both living happy fulfilling lives.

“It’s been a while, Stargate Defender.”

broderic on September 17, 2020

Will it be the same as Pizza Box Saga?

I got another email the other day from one of the package delivery services. Again I wondered what I had ordered. This one’s coming from somewhere in this state which peeked my interest. I don’t think I’ve ordered anything.

Perhaps, it’s for my birthday? It is soon. One time my cousin sent me something, so I was thinking that this was like one of those things.

Turns out it wasn’t. It’s from the Orioles! It’s a bobble head for being a season ticket holder in this terrible season. I wonder how many of these things do they have. But now I have one… do you want it?

“You know, you and me are a lot alike. You’re a Hollywood tough guy, and I’m a New York radio tough guy.”

broderic on September 11, 2020

No idea why I am subscribed to this Norwegian sailor, but I find his adventures out in the seas around his home compelling. He hadn’t been producing any videos for a bit. Now I know why. He spent the summer venturing out in his sailboat around the Arctic. Nuts.

It’s his first video for this trip. He’s tooling around the Norwegian coast before heading out to open ocean. Every place he weighs anchor makes me envious. I wish I could visit those far flung islands he sailed to. Just plain gorgeous. I did not think that there were places out there like that. I mean the world is big and there are places you’ll never see. Thanks to this fellow we can.

“I’m an air traffic controller. It gets very stressful, so once a year I flip out and punch my fist through a radar screen, and I get sent here.”

broderic on September 9, 2020

Bill & Ted Face the Music is the first movie that I have seen in a long while. I did not see it at the movie theater. I paid to watch it at home.

Paying for first run movies this way is going to be the wave of the future. We’ll never go back to sitting in the dark with a couple dozen strangers staring at the large silver screen. Who wants to laugh and then inhale someone else’s COVID-19? Sadly, I would as I think the experience of watching it at home on my television diminished the awe. It was literally watching television and not a film.

So the third installment finds Bill and Ted needing to write that hit song that would unite the world. They had spent 20 years not writing it. They thought they had, but it wasn’t it, so we got the sequel to the sequel. Again some time traveling hi-jinks ensue. Add in their daughters and more historical dudes and the phone booth, which is very anachronistic nowadays, and you have a righteous romp back to simpler days.

The film very much would like to make these troubling times better. It wants us to feel that we can overcome these roadblocks. It was written for us to have fun in the days of Trump, but now after it was delayed, it was written for us to smile in the Covid-19 Days. That’s what I felt. Some happiness to spend time with some characters that I sort of been attached to for most of my life. I need it. We need it. Bill and Ted make it happen.

3 of 5 stars.