Hi everyone:
So Timmy graduated from grammar school this week. Of course as we live in this crazy time period, it was a virtual ceremony.
The class president recorded a speech, as did the principal and the superintendent of the school district. The teachers read out some awards and then they read the names of the kids. Not fancy, but the best they could do under the circumstances I suppose.
A couple of days later, they had us drive around the school so the teachers could say goodbye. It was bittersweet. They let the kids come back an hour or so later to take pictures.
There have been so many just awful things that have happened because of this pandemic. Obviously the saddest and most horrible is losing a loved one to the disease and not being able to properly say goodbye with a wake/funeral. Nothing is worse than that.
But to me the kids who lost out on their last years of school is right up there on the list of heartbreaks. Timmy will get to graduate again two years from now, so it's not the worst in the world, but the kids who are graduating high school and college are really getting a raw deal.
Most of them are taking it in stride. A few parents of kids I know who are graduating from high school were saying that the kids aren't taking it as hard as the parents are. I don't know if that's good or bad. Maybe these kids have been through so much shit in their lives already that this is just another thing to deal with.
Timmy's been a trooper throughout this whole thing, and if he feels like he's being gyped he hasn't said anything to that effect. As parents, I think Tara and I are taking it harder than him. We just have to hope we are in the last throes of this.
TELEVISION: Sopranos Ending Revealed?
Sopranos creator David Chase, participating in a round table discussion to promote his new book The Sopranos Sessions, described the infamous final scene of the series as "the death scene." By describing it as such, the feeling is, that Chase slipped up and revealed what happened to Tony in that New Jersey diner.
Chase didn't deny it when it was pointed out that he referred to it as the death scene, instead saying F-you to the rest of the panel.
I was always one who didn't think that Tony got whacked, at least not there. Had Chase chosen to show Meadow coming in the door and then cut to black, I would have said yeah he got killed. But the last shot was Tony looking up, so based on that, how can you say for definite?
I have to be honest with you, if there was more things going on now, I wouldn't have even brought this up. 13 years later, I'm still furious at how the show ended. I rushed all the way home from Kevin and Trina Woods wedding, no radio or anything, so I could watch the finale off our DVR. I felt like I was taken for a fool after that. I still do.
I'm still not totally convinced Tony was whacked at the diner, I'm also not totally convinced David Chase accidentally slipped up. I think he's got a book coming out and sometime early next year, a Sopranos prequel The Many Saints of Newark will be out, so I think this is just some cheap promotional work.
God Bless him, its working.
That's about all we got here this week folks. Again, I said what I had to say about the COVID-19 for now, and as far as the racial tension in the country, I'm only using my listening skills and not my words.
Have a Great Week
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