For two weeks there, the Portland Trail Blazers were truly red hot and rolling.
Category: Casual Rambles
They stand secluded.
Two persons—ostensibly men, ostensibly Native American—remarking on some portent. One stands cross-armed, the other holds what was a fir branch, now broken and removed, and motions it toward the distance.
Routines are difficult. And they’re even more difficult when a person has to reckon with attention-deficit-hyperactivity-disorder.
The Portland Trail Blazers defeated Damian Lillard and the Milwaukee Bucks on Tuesday, 125-112. Pack it up, everybody. This was the only game that mattered this season and the Blazers can stop winning now.
But what do we do if they don’t?
I have no idea why I am writing this post. I had no plan to write it. But I figure that because I’ve started writing, there has to be a reason.
The passing of the calendar year into 2025 came without much fanfare for me. But I must admit, I’ve not been in much of a celebratory mood. Instead I took a moment to reflect.
Well, I promised I’d write about Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes and, despite it taking a while—so long in fact, that I had to rewatch the film—we’re here now.
I wanted to write this with 13 games gone. But the Portland Trail Blazers are here now, sitting at 8-18. So let’s bang a gong and get it on!
Heads up, if you haven’t guessed, this concerns a lot of politics and economics and social critique.
Look, I get this is a bit late, but I saw two movies in mid-November, Gladiator II and Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes.
The Casual Ramble 