Yes, No, Maybe, Please

Wounded Marine veteran Lt. Col. Ty Edwards, wheelchair bound, managed to stand in respect for the flag during game two of the Stanley Cup final. Yes!

Marv Albert has officially called the last game of a legendary 55-year broadcasting career. A shout-out to one of the all-time greats who means so much to generations of NYC sports fans. He was one of us: Brooklyn born, graduate of Lincoln H.S., which, as a proud Lafayette grad, I won’t hold against him. Thank you, Marvelous. “Yes!”

Interesting headline from nypost.com: “US priest: Exorcisms on the rise as demons now haunt victims by text.” I immediately thought of The Exorcist (1973). Perhaps a remake is in order. The devil sends a note to Father Karras: “Your mother…” Maybe.

Memo to Silicon Valley and tech mavens coast to coast: Stop playing politics and concentrate on thwarting cyber attacks. Please!

Pro golfer Bryson DeChambeau, whom many players and fans love to hate, fired his long time caddy before this week’s stop on the PGA tour. He missed the cut. Yes!

Here I go commenting on Combat! again. Can’t help it. Last night the Heroes & Icons channel, 9–4 on ota in NYC, ran The Impostor, Season 3, Episode 10, first aired in 1964. Lt. Hanley must carry out a mission despite knowing a Nazi infiltrator is among his group. What distinguishes the episode is that only a single shot is fired. It relies totally on suspense, captured expertly by director Sutton Roley and writers Kay Lenard and Jess Carneol. Lenard and Carneol contributed eleven scripts to the series, and scores to others. Lenard shared an Emmy with fellow scribes in 1976 for her work on Days of Our Lives. Roley was at the helm of hundreds of popular shows, 15 of Combat! Yes! Here’s a still from the episode:

Very sad headline from foxnews.com: “Target, Walgreens close early due to thefts in California stores.” Hours now 9–6. No!

The weather was infinitely better than expected, perfect for selling stuff curbside. My thanks to the kind folks who bought and swapped Russian books, and to the Bill Brown, author of Words and Guitar: A History of Lou Reed’s Music and other fine books, who purchased Doing Nothing: A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers, and Bums in America by Tom Lutz; and to the young man who overcompensated me for Death in Venice by Thomas Mann and To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Yes!

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