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<\/a>This graphic, about Spurs’ coach Gregg Popovich and Tim Duncan, sent me into crying over overdrive. Photo by Karen Salkin.<\/p><\/div>\n
The worst one is that my beloved San Antonio Spurs<\/strong> went down to the Oklahoma City Thunder<\/strong> in the Western Conference Semi-Finals of the NBA play-offs. The Spurs have been my favorite team for a long time now; they\u2019re always-classy, and, because their \u201cBig 3\u201d players (Tim Duncan<\/strong>, Tony Parker<\/strong>, and Manu Ginobli<\/strong>) are so old, (center Tim just turned forty, which is ancient in basketball-playing terms,) I really just want to see them play for awhile longer. I\u2019ll be crushed when they retire, (which I pray isn\u2019t right now<\/em>!)<\/p>\n While that<\/em> torture was being lived out on Thursday evening, I looked on-line to distract myself from the pain, and found-out that my favorite show, (not just of this<\/em> year, but of all<\/em> the ones since The OC<\/em> went off the air!, which I still haven’t gotten over, by the way,) The Grinder<\/em><\/strong>, was cancelled! Mr. X and I are really sick over it. It\u2019s one of the very shows we watch together. Fred Savage<\/strong>\u2019s delivery is the most brilliant since Bea Arthur\u2019s on The Golden Girls<\/em>. To me, he\u2019s the best actor on TV. (Even though I can hope we\u2019ll see him on another comedy soon, it just won\u2019t be the same. The Grinder<\/em>\u2019s ensemble worked together so perfectly. And who would have ever guessed that Rob Lowe<\/strong> is so funny?!)<\/p>\n The Grinder stars, Rob Lowe and Fred Savage.<\/p><\/div>\n To pile on, so were several other shows that I watch all the time, including Nashville<\/em><\/strong>, Castle<\/em><\/strong>, and the one that just got even more interesting\u2014The Family<\/em><\/strong>. What is wrong with these network execs??? (Yes, I know that now I\u2019ll have more time in life, without being married to those shows, but not ever seeing them again is making me very sad. Wait\u2014here\u2019s an idea!: Perhaps Nashville<\/em> should look into having that country music channel pick-up the show for next season!)<\/p>\n The icing on the pain cake was an epiphany I had about many of the people I know.\u00a0 It dawned on me at that time, as it does about once a year, just how only-out-for-themselves most of my Los Angeles pals are.\u00a0 My friends in New York, Ohio, Aspen, Austria, New Zealand, Australia, and other places, are so kind, as we should all be. Years ago, one of my male friends listed five things about me that he especially likes, and, even though one of them was \u201csexy,\u201d my favorite, by far, was \u201ckind.\u201d I wish all my friends were.<\/p>\n But I don\u2019t think about things like that very often. That realization just hit me on Thursday night, right at the same time as all these other depressing happenstances. So, it was just another part of the piling on.<\/p>\n I was going to publish this on this past Monday, but I knew I needed to work on it a little more. (I realized it was getting a tad dark. And I wanted to have at least a few pals left after they read it.) But on Monday, it got a bit worse, actually, but just in shallow ways, so please don\u2019t alert the depression police.<\/p>\n Wanya Morris with his pro partner, (who Mr. X gets the biggest kick out of,) Lindsay Arnold.<\/p><\/div>\n First, the Golden State Warriors<\/strong>, whom I love, (and whose winning ways are one of the few things we can all count on these days,) lost Game 1 of the Conference Finals to the Oklahoma City Thunder, whom, as I stated earlier, I detest. On the heels of that<\/em> disappointment, I switched over to watch Dancing With The Stars<\/em><\/strong>, only to see Wanya Morris<\/strong> be eliminated, when he totally deserved to either win the whole shebang, or at the very least, come in second! Sickening. And creepy Ginger Zee<\/strong>, (whoever that<\/em> is,) gets to be in the Final. It\u2019s all because she\u2019s on an ABC\u2019s sister show, Good Morning America<\/em>; without that, and with<\/em> the hunched-over not-great dancing she does, she wouldn\u2019t ever get many votes at all, because she is far from graceful. And she\u2019s no fun at all. No personality, except for being full-of-herself. There\u2019s really nothing to recommend her in life. (This rant will continue on Monday, the day of the final vote for that show\u2019s champion, which, I\u2019m telling you now, had better be that little girl fighter. But I think we all know it will be the deaf guy.)<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a>