It’s been a slow start to the long weekend. We spent Friday visiting friends for dog walks, and today we spent the afternoon drinking with others on the lawn of their apartment building. In one respect it’s become quite civilized – you can have a drink on the lawn & no one looks at you funny, because we are all desperate for maintaining some measure of human interaction we are willing to ignore behaviours that would normally result in raised eyebrows and the occasional call to the police.

The dog content you need right now comes from furloughed BBC Sports commentator Andrew Cotter, who has delightfully decided to post video of his dogs eating,

https://twitter.com/MrAndrewCotter/status/1243539675031232519

and competing for the same toy.

https://twitter.com/MrAndrewCotter/status/1248313303270596610

Truly, an English accent can make any contest sound both more exciting and fair.

Tonight’s … entertainment?:

• NBA 2K Players Tournament | ESPN / TSN3
  • Semi-finals – 5:00PM; 7:00PM
  • Championship – 9:00PM
• The Great British Baking Show – 8:00 PM | PBS
  • The British culinary contest begins with 12 amateur bakers attempting to make Swiss rolls; cherry cakes; and classic British cakes.
  • The very first episode.
• NHL Rewind – 10:00PM | Sportsnet Pacific
  • 2011 Stanley Cup Playoffs – Sharks/Canucks Game #5
    • The clincher that sent them to the Finals against Boston.
• Royal Rumble 2020 – 10:00PM | FS1
  • From Houston.
  • A fairly pedestrian affair until the Rumble match itself.
    • The pop for Edge at #21 is earth-shaking.
• 48 Hours – 10:00 PM | CBS
  • Notorious serial killer Ted Bundy targeted three young Florida women in one of his final attacks.
  • They survived and share their terrifying ordeal and long road to recovery..
• Saturday Night Live – 11:29 PM | NBC / Global
  • The case of SNL performs sketches from remote locations, including Weekend Update.

Finally, I want to personally cheer the return of Beastmode, and his oeuvre “Hard Road To Nowhere“. If you didn’t recognize some of the names, don’t worry. Some of them predate many of us, and date in fact to the exile from the old place. Take this as an opportunity to familiarize yourself with a legend, and go back & read all about how we first ended up here.