Author: ssw15

So, Boston Red Sox and Chicago Cubs are out, and NY Yankees and Florida Marlins are in. If one didn’t believe in curses before, I do wonder if watching these baseball playoffs would provide some corroboration for the idea of curses against the two teams that get plagued for so long. Real or not, the mystique continues.

It is 9:10pm, EST, andI must say, it’s exciting tv – Chicago Cubs’ Kerry Wood made an unbelievable homerun, helping out his own game. Wow. This just doesn’t happen too often.

And, yes, Yankees v. Red Sox continues…

[Ed. note: Watch the advertisement at the AT&T reachout website]

AT& T Wireless’ latest cute ad: you’re watching a couple in silent turmoil. They watch other couples in happiness, while they’re gloomy and doom-stricken. Is the relationship over? Is the despair temporary? The woman is sitting by, absently at her meeting, when she sees her mate appear out of nowhere. He’s holding cue cards – “I’m sorry.” It turns out he’s not actually at her meeting; he’s sending a text message to her. “Me too,” she sends by text messaging on her little Nokia cell phone. Without words being said out loud, their relationship is on its way to being repaired, the fight resolved, so the viewer hopes.

Notably (to me anyway), the couple is a bi-racial – an Asian female and a white male. Both yuppies, if I interpret correctly from the suits they were wearing. Hmm. Television is coming a long way to reflecting reality, I guess. Or is it just looking for new ways (particularly of the eye-catching variety) to make us use text messaging? Either way, it was something interesting to watch.

Yanks v. Red Sox continues…