- These 14 First World Problems from the ’90s made me laugh. Numbers 3 and 9 especially.
- Jessica at Momma’s Gone City shares some wonderful ideas at “Travel with Kids: Tips from a Semi-Expert.” It’s geared toward air travel, but several of the tips are applicable to road trips, too. I’m definitely going to be checking out some of her iPad app recommendations.
- I couldn’t care less about LeBron James or Kobe Bryant. (Matter of fact: I had to Google “current NBA stars” to come up with two names.) But Magic Johnson? Larry Bird? Karl Malone? Charles Barkley? I’ll read about them all day long. I was about to start high school in the summer of 1992, when the Dream Team played in the Olympics. I’d love to see the tape of “The Greatest Game Nobody Ever Saw.”
The Dream Team flew into Nice at midnight on July 18 and made a crash landing at the Loews … about 20 miles away. During a security meeting before the team arrived, Henri Lorenzi, the legendary hotel manager, had complained about the number and the aggressiveness of the NBA’s security people. “Do you realize who is gambling in my casino right now?” Lorenzi said to the NBA’s international liaison, Kim Bohuny. Lorenzi ticked off the names of politicians, movie stars and even tennis immortal Björn Borg. “No one will care that much about this team,” he said.
“Well, we’ll see,” replied Bohuny.
When the team bus pulled up, there was such a rush of fans to see the players that some fans crashed through the glass doors at the entrance. “I get your point,” said Lorenzi.
- “The Most Amazing Bowling Story Ever,” and there’s not much more to say about that. (via Unlikely Words)
In the sixth frame, he had another loud, devastating strike. Then another. Then another. With each throw, he could tell it was a strike from the moment it left his hand. He’d watch as the pins were there one second, then gone the next. “It felt like driving and catching a green light, then the next one, then the next, then turning, and still catching every green light everywhere you go,” Fong says