Week In Review (and some links)

In a brand new feature, I will be analyzing significant personal and cultural events of the past week.  You may think that this has been done a million times by a million different people, but I hope to bring you a fresh angle.  Analysis by someone who thinks that being a hermit is a viable, perhaps preferable, life choice.  It would also help if when you read this, you imagined James Earl Jones was reading it to you.

• The Chicago Cubs won the World Series this week.  This proves that billy goat curses either have an expiration date, or Theo Epstein (who has been involved in breaking two different curses now) wields some kind of strong black magic.
• I will grudgingly admit that the Cubs winning the series is an important sports event.  I will not, however, go out of my way to congratulate them or their fans.  Why?  Because I am a real sports fan.  I am not a Cubs fan.  All other teams except my team are inherently evil.  A little secret.  If I have ever congratulated a fan from some other team on winning a championship, I didn’t mean one word of it.  Whenever my team is eliminated from the playoffs, I start hoping that all the other teams left are somehow magically disqualified, because they are obviously cheating somehow.  How do I know this?  Because I am a real sports fan.
• My oldest got out of the shower one night this week and started yelling for a towel. Because he lacked the forethought to grab one before he got into the shower, I ignored his pleas.  Eventually he got cold enough to patter to the linen closet to get his own towel. As a family we refuse to throw any towel away until it is literally threadbare, we have a gazillion towels.  What does my son grab to dry himself with? A floor mat.
• More than a year and a half ago we cut cable.  Because of this, I am just getting to season 6 of The Walking Dead.  The binge watch has commenced.
• The best thing to happen this week?  My dog finally got over his case of the trots.  Ever since he had to have surgery to remove a squeaky toy from his stomach he has been more susceptible to intestinal issues.  So, for four or five days I get stuck making special meals of chicken and rice for him.  Yes, I have to spend more time on his meals than I do on my own lunches.  I get no discernible thanks for this process.  Well, at least he’s handsome, and not a cat.
• Halloween came and went on Monday.  My kids went out and got candy dressed as Indiana jones and some kind of Star Wars storm trooper with no mask and a Nerf Gun. As an adult I have figured out a better way to get candy on Halloween than going door to door and counting on the kindness of my neighbors.  I just buy all of my favorite candies and then I  hand out as little as possible.

LINKS

• It has been 35 years to the day since the beginning of the Iranian hostage crisis.  CBS has an interesting photo retrospective.
• A Cubs fan drove from North Carolina to Indiana to listen to game 7 at his father’s graveside.  Real sports fan.
• Everyone can relax.  The Monkey King just let us know who would win the election.
• The Bataclan Theatre in Paris, sight of an Islamic terror attack one year ago, will be reopening with a concert by Sting on November 12.