Skip to main content

Sunday Sundown Rundown - 1/8/22


3 Up

1. New Year - Happy New Year to you all! I've written it in a bunch of emails, mainly to be courteous, but I really do wish you the best for you. I hope 2023 is a great one for all of you DP readers. 

2. Buffalo Athletic Trainers - Let's give it up for the Athletic Trainers of the Buffalo Bills who performed with courage, steadfastness, and urgency in regard to Damar Hamlin. We should be celebrating those trainers more. 

2A. Athletic Trainers - And because I'm always around them, let's give it up for Athletic Trainers in general. They do so much and very much go unnoticed in the space of sports, athletics, and performance. 

2B. Damar Hamlin - Praying for Hamlin and his family...

3. Broadway Bounceback - We all like to believe we're back from COVID, but we're not. But it's news like Broadway having its biggest week of sales since the pandemic began is some nice news. Everyone in the theatre industry deserves it. 

3 Down

1. Damar Hamlin Situation - Horrific. I stumbled upon the game when it was already in suspension only to learn of the situation through a quick Twitter check. The game of football and our obsession with it has so many holes and needs that we (and the league) overlook. I'll leave it at that for my soap box rant...

1A. Damar Hamlin Public Response - What has happened to sports media? I honestly can't tell the difference between TMZ and certain sports shows/outlets/popular heads. Ugh. 

2. Speaker of the House Process - The entire process for the vote on the Speaker of the House was embarrassing. It really was. It really, really, really was. 

3. COVID - So there is now ANOTHER variant. Even more intimidatingly named, XBB 1.5. Just great. Wash your hands, folks. 

3 Interesting

1. Citizens hit a 15-year High - America is thriving with new members as citizenship in our great land has hit a 15-year high. Interesting that neither party discusses this, and continues to fearmonger about immigration status without any action. 

2. Abortion Pills Available - So yeah, this certainly will complicate a hot topic. 

3. George Santos - On top of the Speaker of the House process, we've got Santos lying about basically who he is and getting elected to office. Politics suck right now. Maybe they always have...but it's so hard to have faith in these "representatives". 

Cover Photo

Fireworks light up the London skyline over Big Ben and the London Eye just after midnight on January 1, 2023, in London, England.
Labels:

Recently Read

Quick Ponder: Man Love

"A man is only loved under the condition that he provide something"  - Chris Rock  Feeling that these days,  with the understanding  of privilege,  and responsibility. 
Read more

Dome Pondering - 2024 Year in Review

2024 felt exhausting. It was shifty in many ways, but the word "exhausting" keeps coming back to mind as 2024 felt like a constant crisis in areas that truly aren't crises, on top of the already occurring crises.  That sentence was exhausting.  As mentioned in my Most Fascinating Things of 2024, the year felt like it was about culture and society, and we surely battled and attacked everything. Like, everything! EVERY. SINGLE. THING! And of course, we lived through an eventful political season that was the Presidential election.  Exhale...breathe...wheeeewwwww! 2024, you're even tiring in thought.  Before we get to it all, as always, I would like to thank all of you for your continued support and reading of this little site called Dome Pondering. I've somehow come full circle where I punch the keys whenever life allows, and truly from a place of freedom (since the pressure for "content" is via social media). I appreciate all of you for sticking with thoug...
Read more

AEW Full Gear 2024 Review: "the potential that resides in this company"

I attended my first AEW show in Full Gear 2024, as the event made its way to the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey. The event was even more special as it was the very first live wrestling event for my son who has very much caught the wrestling bug. One would think being around my interests would be the spark, but I genuinely believe he understands the beauty and magic that is pro wrestling. All of it is evident in his "universe" within his wrestling action figures and his constant intrigue in searching throughout Peacock and TNA+.  All of that to say, neither of us are big AEW viewers. Yes, I have my gripes with the company which I'll share. Also, AEW isn't the most suitable for a six-year-old to watch, so there's that. As a dad, I appreciate WWE and TNA's approach to their product. It doesn't have to be PG, but feeling comfortable leaving my son in front of your product unattended is a big plus. Again, more on this... Back to AEW Full Gear, it was a...
Read more