CBS Sunday Morning Power Rankings

Sorry I'm running behind on these posts. I found myself in the Valley of the Sun last week on business last week and did not even watch the November 14th episode until late last week. Postcards from Phoenix I told myself I was going to finish the Halloween post in my downtime. Assuming you can accomplish anything in your downtime on a trip, be it for business or pleasure, is an idiotic notion unless the purpose of your trip is to accomplish said thing - in which case it's not downtime, it's just regular time. Maybe I just need more time. I was trying to work out some kind of relativistic time dilation scheme, but methiniks that only works if I stay put while everyone else who watches Sunday Morning and/or reads this blog between is moving at a significant fraction of the speed of light between Sunday 10:30 Eastern between airings. Make sense? No? Maybe this will help and maybe it won't. I also maybe got a little bogged down with sorting out my holiday plans for Thank...

I feel bad about not having time for last week's episode, but last week was hectically busy. Perhaps that's a bit of an overstatement, but I could have used that extra hour of sleep right around Halloween. And I'm not really even a Halloween person. Last week's episode was good, so I'll make time for it soon. Usually I spill way ( way ) too many words by way of introduction. Since nobody reads this blog (except for David Pogue, occasionally) I don't worry too much about alienating readers with inane blather they don't care about. You come here just wanting an episode recap? Usually I'm going to make you go through a couple thousand words about tennis or music or biking or whatever. I sometimes share little tidbits about myself - enough that you could probably track down who I am in real life if you wanted to. Eeven though I am a private person, I'm not too worried about that though. That would take time and effort that I assume most people do not hav...

The CBS SUNDAY MORNING POWER RANKINGS The September 5, 2001 edition of Sunday Morning was an emotional roller coaster. There were stories that made me laugh and smile and stories that made me cry. Alright, I'm not really much of a crier. But things got a little dusty. 1) Martha Tiechner 2) John Dickerson We'll start with the stories that made me cry. If you want a way to memorialize the 20th anniversary of the 9/11, Martha Teichner's and John Dickerson's segments are reflective and somber as befits the occasion. It's hard reliving that day, rewatching the footage of a plane smashing into the World Trade Center, even from someone who experienced it from afar. I'm not sure this is what the mean when they say, "Never forget," about 9/11, but here is my recollection of the day: (For what it's worth, I remember all the names of everyone in this story, but I'm not going to use them despite it lending extra verisimilitude because I don't know ...

It's another one of those weeks. You know like we just had a couple weeks ago, where I can't be arsed to post a recap blog in a timely fashion. First, don't say I didn't warn you this might happen when summer started. And second, I feel like I have a valid excuse. Last weekend, I took a little trip to the Baltimore/D.C. area. Why? Why not. Maybe it's personal. Maybe I just wanted to live out the first track of the The Postal Service's first (and only) album, Give Up: To catch up on a couple things: Olympics recap : When not traveling, I did spend the majority of the last two weeks watching the Olympics. I am the reason why networks pay billions of dollars for broadcast rights. Does that make me culpable for the rampant corruption that accompanies pretty much every games? Like climate change, some things feel like an intractable problem. Shall I stop driving my car and start living in a yurt? That's not a completely facetious question by the way. Every Olym...

Not that anyone is actively following the CBS Sunday Morning Power Rankings , but I know I'm behind. Look, it's officially summertime. This past Sunday was probably the nicest day of the summer, low 80's, sunshine. I spent most of my time outside. I rode a bike. I grilled out. I even cooled off in the pool while I could enjoy the outdoors without it being oppressively hot and muggy. Also, I had a home improvement project I needed to knock out. Not that I did that on my own. Shout out to my pops (I never previously referred to him as such.) for helping me out with said HI project. Anyway, I've been saying these things since May, right? I don't get paid to do this, so I could just stop and move on with my life, but my goal is to stick with it for at least a year. Hopefully, I'll continue on, but I also hope to have other another writing project off the ground by then and I don't know if I'll have time for both. There. I wrote it down on the internet, which...