Sunday is usually a spiritual day today, so I'll continue with something called the Super Bowl.  Of course, this event is not today, for Super Bowl 59 will play next Sunday.  The game itself, for me, is incidental to what I drink and eat before and during the TV spectacular.  I do this for special TV sports events like the Kentucky Derby. A long time ago, growing up in Honolulu, I listened ( only radio available ) to the San Francisco 49ers.  So they were my team. Then, I went to Stanford University in 1958, and I was pleasantly surprised to see that the 49er's games were televised in our dormitory TV.  In black and white. Returning home to work in Hawaii, games were not televised live. 1965/6/7 was a monumental period for  viewing football. The  first color broadcast of a regular-season NFL game occurred on Thanksgiving day, 26November 1965 . On  19November1966, Hawaii received our first live television broadcast  from the mainland, and it w...

 Saw two movies on Amazon Prime last night.  the first was the 2015  Love and Mercy,  the troubled life of the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson.  Rotten Tomatoes ratings of 89/85.  It was a good film with their songs.  The one gripe I would have is that both Paul Dano and John Cusack play Brian, and they don't look at all like each other, or Brian Wilson.  I won't say much more except to indicate that  I saw the Beach Grandads perform at the Hawaii Theater last year, one of my highlights of 2024 .   But this was not one of the best films I've ever seen.  Maybe around #1500 of the 4000 or so movies I've watched in my life.  Sounds like a lot, and the number could well have been 3000, but I've seen a lot of them over the past 84+ years. So anyway, after watching  Love and Mercy , the time was past 10PM, when I normally go to bed.  However, just before turning off Prime, I noticed several films on the screen, and one was th...