Saturday, November 5, 2005

‘LOUSED’ RECONSIDERED and THE ‘GREAT DAY’ RECONSIDERED….. ————– by Steve Nadis

Yesterday, I was too harsh on “LOUSED,” I mean “LOST.” An astute reader encouraged me to give the show a second chance, this time while putting down the dishrag. Other things she said leads me to believe she has extremely high credibility, so I’d like to take the extraordinary step of retracting my previous criticism and doing as she suggests. (Author’s note: It takes courage to admit it when you’ve made a mistake–something a lesser man might not have done, something our president seems to have a hard time with. But I don’t want to get all political here. We’re talking about a TV show, after all, and it’s not even reality TV. It’s the opposite of reality TV in that it purports to be ‘mythology TV.’ Well, that’s about all I have to say on this first point. Shall we move on then?)

As for the “Great Day,” I tried hard to live up to the pressure my 3-year-old put on me yesterday when she told me to have a great day. When I showed up at my weekly handball game at 5pm, my opponent (who is a fierce competitor known to emit loud screams in the middle of a point) asked me how my week had gone. He’s never asked me that before in the 8 years we’ve played together, which I found slightly odd in view of my daughter’s pronouncement earlier in the day. I told him I’d get back to him in an hour. After whipping him and one other player (we sometimes play ‘triples’) in the first game, I answered the question decisively: “It’s been an excellent week, thank you.”

And the rest of the week (and perhaps beyond) is already shaping up well. My three-year-old has promised to wake me up every morning with a song. With a start like that, how bad can a day be?

Posted by Snake at 12:38:18
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4 Responses to “‘LOUSED’ RECONSIDERED and THE ‘GREAT DAY’ RECONSIDERED….. ————– by Steve Nadis”

  1. Windfall Woman says:
    November 5, 2005 at 5:41 pm

    Sounds like an excellent day to me! What does she sing? Umm, I don’t like Lost. To me, it is like "24" and "Alias" which I used to watch. Too much happens every week! Life is not really like that. I don’t like being exhausted watching a show.

  2. Snake says:
    November 5, 2005 at 9:21 pm

    Hi Windfall — It is a great way to start the day though sometimes I’d rather not start it at 6am. I know what you mean about the show; it’s definitely not relaxing.

  3. Catherine says:
    November 6, 2005 at 1:22 am

    If only my powers of persuasion were as convincing with the leader of the free world. But to this point, my ideas have fallen on deaf ears.

  4. Snake says:
    November 6, 2005 at 4:25 am

    Hi Catherine — You’ve already helped turn around one pig-headed person (me). So that’s a start, and you can build from there.

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