Thursday 4/4/24
Walked down to the harbor to see what things looked like. Being a man of the sea who was born on a boat and a New Englander down to my DNA, I'm not one to complain about the weather, but today's air does take a bite into you. There was a female mallard swimming by herself, and I gave her a bit of a start--I'm sure no one else went down there today--and this unperturbed seagull trying its luck at fishing. Seagulls are completely invested in being seagulls.
Ordered a package of dental floss and three tubes of toothpaste. I use Tom's of Maine, because I am such a New Englander that I like to pretend I am using a toothpaste made from some forest sluice of the region. I am not exactly sure--yet--how toothpaste is made, but this is the visual I opt for. Surely water has to be involved in the manufacture of the stuff, no? Then what could be better than that from a Maine sluice?
The Celtics won their sixtieth game. What did I say they were going to win? 63? Right on track. I do not think they are going to win the championship, though. I hope I'm wrong. Feed me those words. I don't think they can win close games late. They don't have the closer, the man, the stud, the dealer of the dagger. They have a guy who forces it because he wants so desperately to be Kobe Bryant in those moments, but Kobe he ain't. The way for them to win: Blow people out. Win by ten or twelve.
The Pittsburgh Penguins are still somehow alive for the playoffs. Granted, they have to leap over three teams: the Capitals--who they play tonight--the Red Wings, the Islanders. They need to win tonight's game, or they're edging up to mathematically done. Here's what I was wondering, though: With this Wild Card format, has there ever been a situation where two teams were playing on the last day. One team had a one-point lead over the other for the final Wild Card spot, and held the tiebreaker between the two teams. That is, if they finished tied for points, they'd make the playoffs and the other team wouldn't. Let's say that two teams are tied with five minutes to go. The team trailing in the standings by a point would then pull their goalie, since they'd need to beat that other team in regulation. I don't think this has ever happened, but it could, and it'd be very cool.
I listened to Complete and Unbelievable: The Otis Redding Dictionary of Soul because I'm thinking about doing an Otis Redding thing. Stellar album--the second side with the Redding originals is Otis doing the blues. I'm trying to track down like 100 albums and am going to have to ask my buddy Howard for his generous help. He can find just about anything. If he doesn't already have it. Listen to that Steve Cropper guitar tone on "You're Still My Baby." Some guitarists don't need to solo--Johnny Marr is another--to just dominate on their instrument and help make the music in the elevate-the-music-even-higher sense.
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