"Use All The Crayons!" ... (mostly) randoms
Ahoy!
Video of the week: I invited some of my core supporters — and I consider those of you who are reading this to be core supporters — to the Tin Lizzy last week to see if they had any ideas about how I can fix my problems of chronic empty pockets. I think it was fruitful and hope everyone had fun. Here’s the first three minutes.
Of course, I welcome your input or philanthropic gesture. I’m broke. How broke? I had to give up my vehicle because it was unsafe. That was the car so embarrassing I was reluctant to leave it unattended in front of the HS lest administrators confuse it for one of those tax deductible cast off schools use to scare kids straight.
Principal: “See, kids, this is what happens when you grow up and become …”
Kids: “A drunk driver?”
Principal: “No! This is what kind of car you drive when you become a … a writer!”
Now, I’m without a vehicle. Can’t afford one. As the humiliations continue to rise, imagine me beseeching my 17-year-old daughter to let me have the keys to her car. “Promise not to drink? Put gas in the tank?”
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Blog of the Week: “It’s high time we put a woman on the moon”
“Take me out to the Ballgame!”
It’s Opening Day in Pittsburgh at 4 pm. I’ll watching from the splendor of The Tin Lizzy. I thought I had enough items to make a decent topic. Wrong!
• There are many times I’ve been colder in April watching baseball than in January watching football. It’s forecast to be 40-degrees today for the first pitch.
• Urge Major League Baseball fans to get behind the idea of starting an MLB Steroid User Hall of Fame. Suggest the hall have injection ceremonies instead of induction ceremonies, lab coats instead of blazers, etc.
• Who’ll be the next player to enter the MLB Hall of Fame as a Pittsburgh Pirate and has he or she been born yet?
RANDOMS …
• How different would rock and comedy histories be if instead of John of The Beatles, Yoko had fallen for Moe of The Stooges.
• I wonder if parents of children named Hunter are disappointed if Hunter grows up to be vegan, and if vegan parents have ever dared a statement name by calling a child Gatherer.
• I wonder what they told instead of knock-knock jokes before the advent of doors.
• I remain naive in the ways of high finance, but aren't most trust funds really don't-trust funds?
• I for years referred to myself as a struggling writer. I now realize that's wrong. Writing's never been a struggle. What am I? I'm a struggling earner. I'm sure many of you can relate.
• Bible says my body is a temple. Could it still be so if it's absent of any devoted worshippers?
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