by Bob Sparrow
“Hey, a blog about nothing, this should be good!”
It’s one of those weeks where “I’ve got nothing”. OK, another week where I’ve got nothing! I am in the desert this week, but I’ve told you all about my escapades there, bad golf, fine dining and not-so-fine drinking, but plenty of it. Let’s see, Russia-Ukraine, of course, has the headlines and everyone feels pretty much the same about the atrocities happening there. Covid is somewhere between ‘old news’ and ‘what’s the new variant” and the stock market is just a barrel of laughs.
I’ve been reading those ‘good news’ sites I mentioned a few blogs ago, and I find that I’m already bored with all good news. On that subject, I’ve become less attracted to ‘Squirrel News’, but love Morning Brew, very entertaining If you sign up and tell them that I sent you there, they send me a tee shirt or a coffee mug, or maybe it’s just a tee shirt with some coffee stains on it.
I’m sitting here with a blank computer and a mind to match. I’m thinking of Jerry Seinfeld’s television series, that he described as ‘a show about nothing’. I’m wondering if I can write a blog about nothing. I’m guessing that there would be a number of people out there who would say that I’ve written a number of blogs about nothing.
Nah!
So, if you’ve got something important to do, nah, it doesn’t have to be that important, I’d skip the rest of this blog and go do it. Ahh, wait a minute, here’s something. I just discovered that it was exactly ten years ago from last Sunday that Suzanne and I abandoned our idea of writing poetic tributes. Yes, some of you remember the old ‘Red Posey’ business that was augmented by our just-developed blog, All the News that’s Fit to Rhyme, where we followed a USA Today newspaper format by writing a topical poem about World News, Sports, Business and Entertainment – we published it EVERY WEEKDAY!!! You can still find them at the beginning of our archives on this site. From a financial perspective, the business failed, but what we found out was that Suzanne and I enjoyed working and writing together, so on March 20, 2012, we had apparently run out of words that rhyme and launched a prose version called ‘A Bird’s Eye View’, which we had to immediately change to ‘From A Bird’s Eye View’ because A Bird’s Eye View was already taken. Originally, we posted twice a week, but somewhere in the middle of 2012 we transitioned to every Monday, sometimes twice a week if we’re traveling to an interesting place. The blog’s been posted weekly, without fail, since then. We’ve posted somewhere around 600 blogs and have received over 4,000 comments, although I’d have to admit that the majority of those comments came from the same two people – thanks Pam and Janet!
As I’m fretting over what to put in the blog this week, Linda says, “Why don’t you just skip a week?” I look at her like she’s got two heads and remind her that Suzanne’s and my father was a newspaper man, so it’s just in our blood not to miss a deadline. She shrugs like she doesn’t really understand, so I try to bring it home to her and say, “Your father was a dairy farmer, so did he ever decide not to milk the cows for a week, or for a day, or for a morning?” She had walked away by then, so I’m not sure she got the point, or was interested in the point. So, I’m still rambling here. Hey, this week is the first week of spring, which doesn’t mean much to those of us in southern California, since we’ve already had days in the 90s, but for those in the northern environs it will mean warmer weather and for all of us, longer days; well, technically the days we still be 24 hours, there is just more daylight.
I’m reading a really good book, The Beatles, remember them? It’s by Bob Spitz and it starts from the very beginning – really a detailed commentary on everything Beatles – very interesting. Unlike this blog!
