Prompt: "A song that starts and ends with the same letters that your Day 5 song's title started and ended with (respectively)"
Selected by Nate
"Milk of Human Kindness"
Chat Pile
Cool World, 2024
One of the goals set for the year nearly to wrap was to shoot 1,000 free-throws. At time of writing, the total tally sits just under 300 on the year, with the snow about to come and cut-off any outdoor options for ball. So it comes down to 700 free throws in the next four weeks. Assuming that an alternate-day YMCA trip isn't too ambitious, that means one would need to shoot about 45 free throws at every gym visit. That doesn't feel impossible, but it will butt up against the pickleball freaks and the weird teens who come to the Y to ball. This resolution is IN JEOPARDY, but not yet undoable.
Speaking of the snow, there is a Buffalo Bills / San Francisco 49s football game tonight at 8:20 PM that is expected to take place in 30-degree temperatures and under several feet of snow. This is one of many pervert games that take place in Buffalo every year, games in which no fair-weather or smart-minded fan would ever find themselves and only the truly depraved/unemployed would date attend. The order of the day is layers. Long johns as a base, purchased a size too small and squeezing flab like a sausage casing. Socks, doubled-up and pulled shin high. Ditto with gloves. T-shirt under a long-sleeve shirt under a sweatshirt under a hoodie under a jacket. The warmest boots available, and maybe chuck a hand warmer in there. Get hammered drunk, maybe, but know that particular balm won't last past halftime and will be made worse on the ride home. Get back into bed by 2 AM, frozen and exhausted. Sleep until six, get back to it. This is certainly a way to live, though who would choose it, and who would choose to get their older brother tickets for his birthday, are considerations better left alone.
Later this week: The 2024 Titus Andronicus Song Bracket. Watch this space on Saturday.
1 comment:
Things I like: the idea of more Titus Andronicus discussion; the idea of the Eagles crushing the Bills in the Super Bowl; the idea of Nate obsessively bringing a marble composition book to the Y to make a hashmark for every foul shot that he takes, hopefully indicating which shots were baskets and which were misses.
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