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    Sunday, June 16, 2024

    Rick's List: One Big Resolution edition

    Those of you old enough will remember the national, 24/7 obsession with the O.J. Simpson trial. It only seems, in the cobwebbed attic known as my brain, that everything else in the world stopped or at least became insignificant — like a gnat flying into a snoring drunk’s mouth — during the protracted legal Clown Fest known as the Simpson Trial.

    My New Year’s Resolution is to NOT let that sort of mono-focus happen to me with the alleged monster we call Bill Cosby and whatever myriad trials might be forthcoming now that the legal floodgate is open.

    That’s it.

    That’s my only resolution.

    Clearly, I have little discipline or ambition and, as such, have in the past made resolutions such as A) eat one grape by March, B) on the sunny, pleasant day of my choosing, walk across the street and back, and C) do not remotely consider — even for a minute — reading something like Winston Churchill’s complete “History of World War II.” If I must read something, a romance novel in which one of the characters is an attractive vampire/skateboard champion/rapper should suffice.

    I do wonder, though, what sort of resolutions are made by people who really are driven and routinely accomplish heady and difficult goals. What, for example, must someone like a retired Navy SEAL jot down as “must-do” chores for 2016?

    1. Run around the world.

    2. Summit Eiger backwards wearing an owl costume. Then, using “found elements of nature for ordnance,” blow up the mountain.

    3. Subsist for eight weeks only on burrs and the blood of mosquitoes.

    4. Read Churchill’s complete “History of World War II.”

    WAIT — scratch number four. The SEAL will have already ghost-written volumes two and three for Winston as a favor to the Prime Minister, who was feeling a little “too much Scotch” that week.

    Ah, well, Happy New Year to all. Should be an interesting 12 months. My predictions:

    1. One of those Steve Jobs types will introduce a mechanism by which we can exhale Tweets as we breathe.

    2. Ethan Couch, the “Affluenza” rich kiddie who violated his probation for drunk driving (four killed) and went on the lam with his Mom, will move to Darien to live in luxury with Alex Kelly, the “Preppy Rapist” who went on the lam with HIS Mom. Good times!

    3.The Kardashians will sue Bill Cosby for “stealing” all of the attention.

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