Keeping Your Memory Sharp. 10/13/23

Damn The NY Times! These puzzles and games they keep coming up with are positively addicting. I now do the big crossword puzzle Monday and Tuesday (haven’t yet mastered Wednesday and beyond), and every single day I do the Mini Crossword, Spelling Bee, Wordle and the newest addition, Connections. That’s a lot of time everyday, but I think it keeps my mind sharp (as does coming up with comic ideas with John). And oh yeah, writing blogs. But you don’t have to subscribe to the Times to help keep your mind sharp. I once read that Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner got together every single night to watch Jeopardy, and shout out the answers, while eating their dinner on snack tables in front of the tv. Being Jewish, they either had deli or Chinese. What else? Spoiler alert: Mrs Maisel stole that Jeopardy insight for the last episode of that series when it showed Midge and Susie playing Jeopardy on the phone, at different ends of the country. So we thought Marv and Al would have fun with the same kind of thing. But who needs Ken Jennings when they have each other. Sitcom Theme Songs for $500? Can other games be far behind? The New 60 offers this service to help keep YOUR minds and memories in peak physical condition. You’re welcome.

And speaking of memory, we were supposed to run our comic about triskaidekaphobia, fear of the number 13, on Friday, May 13th, 2022! But we uhh forgot and ran something else instead. John, cool and collected, reacted by saying, “Well the next Friday the 13th happens in October of 2023, so we’ll run it then.” And miracle of miracles, we remembered!!!! What is it about the number 13 that freaks people out? It’s just a number, but if it’s got a name like triska-whatever-the-hell-it-is, it must be a thing. You know what I don’t like? Apartment buildings and office buildings that skip #13. You know, the elevator goes up and you see the floors counting off on a video screen, 10, 11, 12, 14. What happens if you live on the 14th floor? Wouldn’t you be sort of pissed that it’s really the 13th floor? No? Well I would. At any rate have a happy Friday the uhh 14th? And we’ll be back next week when we don’t have to lie about the actual date.

Andy and John