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Super Bowl LVII

Here is what I think about the Rihanna performance. It wasn't catastrophic. But if people are debating about quality, several weeks later, then something didn't work. There is a whiff of defensiveness, if you're insisting, "She was AMAZING!"


I stayed in and watched Dial M for Murder.


The next day, my husband tried to introduce me to highlight clips, and I thought about Grace Kelly. She never won an Oscar with Hitchcock.


"Poor Mahomes," said Marc. "He has this exhausting game, then he has to truck his family to Disney World. But wouldn't you want to be in the crowd? Look at this parade!"


People say that Dial M was a kind of audition for Rear Window. Hitchcock had an interest in confined space, and he needed the Stewart/Kelly combo before he could say what he really wanted to say.


Marc showed me a sea of red tee shirts outside the KC train station. This was terrifying; it made me think of the Russian Revolution, in 1917.


"Do you need any merch?" he asked.


A shame that Rihanna skipped "I Love the Way You Lie," which is about one writer's toxic relationship with the recording industry. That's just a really excellent title. The song writes itself.


"In the NFL," Marc said, "there are spending caps. You can go over the cap, but then you accept a fine. In baseball, there are no caps. Which is why you hear about the Red Sox, and the Yankees, year after year after year."


"That's nice, dear."


"Do you know what's odd? People no longer talk about Tom Brady's deflated balls....I guess people decided it wasn't a really big deal. And now it's done. He is done. He had left retirement because he was still an excellent player. Sure, he had reached his forties....which is like being 99, in football years...."

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