VMAs, Etc.

I forgot to tape the VMA Awards, so I missed lot. I understand that J Lo gave a hell of a performance on the night she won the coveted Video Vanguard award.  It was not all sweetness and light however, like the Nicki Minaj / Kylie Jenner contretemps and Madonna getting shit for cultural appropriation when she wore her North African garb.  I understand she celebrated her 60th birthday in Morocco.  The last time I was there I got a stomach bug.  The same thing happened when I watched Madonna’s Aretha Franklin tribute.  But I don’t want to focus on the negative.  Oh my, the outfits!  There were too many fantastic ones to comment on, but my favorite was this understated number.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-craziest-and-best-looks-from-the-vmas-red-carpet/16

Besides for being a pop culture maven, I do have a very interesting private life, of which I’ll share a few tidbits. The Binghamton triumvirate got together at The Wig’s Inverness compound last weekend.  I was supposed to pick up Dr. Joe and wife at SFO, but The Wig stepped in and took charge, since I had a critical work call.  Being a telecom magnate is not easy.

Friday night we had dinner in, featuring my brisket.  Everyone raved.  We did a lot of catching up as the three boys had not been all together for four years and the ladies even longer. We racked out at a reasonable hour.

Saturday, we headed to the beach.  The Wig and I stayed there while the other four took a rigorous hike.  I managed to trash Wig’s NYT crossword puzzle.  I fancy myself a wordsmith sometimes, but I was just making stuff up then.

We got back to the abode about mid-afternoon and waited for the younger generation to show up, along with Franklin the Dachshund, who is now my BFF.  We headed down to Saltwater Oyster Depot for dinner.  We got a prime spot outside.  They turned on the heaters and my wife renewed our discussion about getting one for our house.  I generally say if it is too chilly outside, go inside.  She disagrees.

OK, I’m not going to give you any more info on the weekend, but I do have a question for you. How the hell does Pandora put a Bon Jovi tune on my Jackson Browne channel?

Has anything much been going on with Trump this week?  I did see that Ainsley Earhardt really grilled him during an interview.  That woman is relentless. And I thought he only did softball interviews.

Lastly, if you are not my FB friend, you are missing all the fun.

Almost A Month

I need to be careful or people are going to refer to me as an ex-blogger.  I’ve been called worse.

What do you write when you got nothing to write?  The Kardashians are always doing something.  They were all dolled up for Kylie’s 21st birthday.  There was a nice pic of them giving the finger to the camera, mommy included.  Scary monsters all.  Fortune Magazine referred to Kylie as a “self-made billionaire”.  What horseshit!

I had a bit of scare recently.  There was some noise about mayonnaise being dead, killed by millennials.  Fortunately, it appears to have been a false alarm.  During my extensive research on this topic, I also discovered that there is a mayo ice cream.  Now they can kill that.

My active social life continues.  I’m having coffee with my bud The Exec tomorrow.  I have not been to the Starbucks by the PJCC, so I’ll be distracted from his dull conversation by the new surroundings.  And I am visiting The Wigs along with Dr. Joe and his bride this weekend.  More about that later.  And I just found out today that The Poughkeepsie Kid and wife will be staying with us come October.  Unc and Mashie will join us as well.  DJ and his distaff side are like the Bay Area restaurant scene.  You have to make a reservation a few months in advance.

I was pretty worn out from my Singapore vacation, so I took another vacation earlier this month.  We went to DC to buy our kids and their pals a couple meals and then take them up to the in-law’s NJ beach house.  Fun was had by all, but the place is now on the market, so it might be our last go round.  My nephew, their youngest, is heading off to UCLA in September. We plan to have him for some upcoming Thanksgivings.

I have to admit I’ve been suffering some lately.  No, not from travel constipation, although that is a thing.  As do most of my friends and family, I have Trump Derangement Syndrome. And Omarosa is not helping.  I did see that Fox and Friends said she outsmarted him.  Since Trump loves that show, I’m sure he went ballistic.  I’m awaiting the tweet.

I apologize if I gave celebrity news short shrift to discuss my quotidian existence.  There was another nugget I wanted to comment on.  I saw that Richard Gere is having another kid at 69.  I was thinking he could organize a play date with Billy Joel in about five years.  Just Gere and Joel and their kids, Gere and Joel’s nurses and the kids’ nannies. I think it is a little rude to send your kids off to college from your death bed.

As far as stupid trends are concerned, there was one about snorting condoms from a few months ago.  I would have brought it up sooner, but I am a lousy and infrequent blogger.  I guess they were trying to come up with something slightly less toxic than eating Tide pods.  It really is a tough choice between those two.  It suggests a question I asked on my 8/2/14 post.  "If you were up to you neck in puke and somebody threw a bucket of boogers at your head, would you duck?"

Though it may not be the best segue, let’s talk about my friend The Wig.  As I’ve mentioned, he is dwelling in Marin for the summer.  We have already been up to spend a night with The Wigs. There was also a fine dinner at Marlowe in SF with them and their offspring.  Friday our old Binghamton roomie Dr. Joe is flying in and we will take over their abode this weekend.  We all are on pins and needles for this reunion.  We were last together at Dr. Joe’s daughter’s wedding several years back. I plan to get a good post out of this.  I’ll be taking copious notes this weekend.

Our roomie moved out today, headed back to grad school in Indiana.  My wife and I can go back to yelling at each other.