Monday Morning Musings

Posted on September 29, 2014 under Monday Morning Musings with 2 comments

Sometimes you just have to have a big breakfast

Can you believe the weather we had this past weekend? It was absolutely sensational and perfect for The Antigonish After Dark event. We went down to Main Street on Friday evening. It was a soft, warm night, just like one might find in the middle of July. The street and the various venues had lots of curious onlookers and admirers. The amount of work that goes into an event like this is quite staggering. Hope everyone feels as grateful as I do, to the organizers and the volunteers. This was a premium event.

Ok. So what if I watched about 18 hours of television this weekend. No, I wasn’t on Netflix watching multiple episodes of a television program. I was watching the Ryder Cup which is an amazing made for television golf event pitting a team of Europe’s best golfers against their peers from the U.S. Typically golf is an individual sport but this is a team affair which provides compelling story lines. The Americans took a good old fashioned butt kicking.

I was thrilled to hear that Bernie “Bo” Chisholm will be elected into the St.F.X Sports Hall of Fame in a few weeks time. I have known Bo forever. We were even next door neighbors for a period of time. Here’s hoping that the local running community will jog on over to the Keating Center for the awards dinner. Anybody can go.

I have finished up three brand new stories which will be unveiled at the fundraiser in Heatherton on October 26^th. Spoiler alert: one of the stories is a follow up to “Lou’s Last Laugh,” a story I did about the infamous skunk in Lou’s grave when he died just over a year ago. Actually, it’s more like a prequel.

When I was at the Antigonish After Dark event, I watched a screening of an excellent short film by Corrine Dunphy at the Capitol Theater. The cool thing is that it wasn’t on the big screen inside. It was projected on the exterior wall of the theater facing the library. As I watched, my mind drifted back 50 years ago when I used to go to the movies on Saturday afternoon. Usually it was a new release from “The Three Stooges,” a Western or some superhero flick.

In 1964 there were some memorable and not so memorable movies. It ranged from “Mary Poppins” to “Sex and The Single Girl.” That is a pretty “broad” spectrum if you ask me. I dusted off the computer keys and wrote a story about movies of the early 60’s. It’s actually more about the experience of going to the movies rather than the films themselves. Coming up soon, “ A Capitol Idea.”

And later this week, ( Wednesday to be precise ), the story of my brief football career with the “blue and white” oh so many years ago will appear here and in The Casket. I could have titled it “Black and Blue.” It’s actually called “Run For Your Life.”

Hope everyone has a great week and let’s salute the weatherman ( weatherperson ) for dishing up one more scoop of summer this past weekend.

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