Back from my summer break and time for some cold hard truths.
Cold Hard Truth #1. Is the eye black that baseball players wear really useful? We’ve all seen MLB players sporting eye black under their eyes. The alleged purpose of this stuff is to eliminate the glare reflected on their cheeks. Guess what? Eye black does NOTHING to help ball players cut down on glare. It really is just for show. Playing baseball through above the high school level I can attest to eye black being completely unnecessary; except maybe as war paint. The same goes for football players.
Cubs star Christopher Morel goes with the 2 stripes of eye black. And they don’t serve a practical purpose.
Cold Hard Truth #2. Speaking of glare. Recently, I re-watched the movie “Wild” starring Reese Witherspoon as she portrayed novelist Cheryl Strayed. Back in 1995, Strayed hiked the 1,100 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail solo in 94 days. She endured wild animals, brutal heat, snow & cold and of course blazing sunlight. But as authentic as Reese Witherspoon tried to make the film, her character never wore a pair of sunglasses. Not once! Forget about ‘suspension of disbelief’, no shades when hiking that brutal trek is a joke. Reese produced the film and let’s be honest. She didn’t wear sunglasses in it because she wanted her full uncovered face on screen for the entire film.
“Wild” was a fine movie but Reese Witherspoon trekking 1,110 miles on foot without sunglasses was the stuff of science fiction.
Cold Hard Truth #3. Women love wearing nude colored or skin toned dress shoes for one reason and one reason only. Sporting those shoes gives the optical illusion that their legs are longer and thinner than they’d look in shoes of different colors. I get it. The fairer sex wants to look as good as possible. Fine by me. Watch any TV news show and you’ll see most women in dresses and wearing those skin toned shoes to give off that ‘endless leg’ illusion. I see it often in everyday life too.
The reason for women wearing nude colored shoes is to accentuate the length of their legs and make them look slimmer and sleeker. Fine by me.
Cold Hard Truth #4. While it went on for several more years, the hit TV series “Big Bang Theory” should’ve ended with the year that had Wolowitz marrying Bernadette on the season finale. After that season, BBT started pushing secondary characters like comic store owner Stuart and fellow university nerd Barry Kripke. Also, in so many episodes the plot scenes featured almost every cast member in the same room so they could all get in their funny lines. Folks, comedy is NOT a Democracy. Not everybody gets equal screen and laugh time. Years ago, M*A*S*H suffered the same comic malady from the season when Radar left til their very end.
Back to Big Bang Theory for a second. When Wolowitz married Bernadette, actress Kaley Cuoco NEVER EVER looked prettier. Kaley wore a beautiful shiny dark pastel colored bridesmaid gown and her hair and make-up were done perfectly. Even when we saw pics of Kaley’s real life weddings, she didn’t match the stunning look she had on that season ending show.
NEXT BLOG- Just a few more Cold Hard Truths.