The Dang Apology 2.0

I have fashioned myself as something of an armchair expert on apologies. I’ve gone so far as developing an assembly guide for a good apology. And using my little scorecard, I thought a certain San Francisco chef put together a pretty good apology after he was rude and dismissive of someone his business partner had invited to review their restaurant.

If only the San Francisco chef has kept his mouth shut.

(Spoiler: He did not keep his mouth shout.)

And so I have gone back to the lab to add a step to my recipe for apologies.

I was in Barnes & Noble on the Upper West Side of Manhattan on Thursday afternoon when I heard what might the most eloquent summary of how this city is both fairly advanced yet utterly filthy:

That fact that I was in the process of picking out a book on how to improve my writering writing only makes this funnier. What that clerk said might be the single strongest sentence I read this week.

Remember my story about how I wound up giving a poop bag to Tea Leoni last weekend? Well, my weekly segment on Mitch Levy’s podcast started out with some questions about that, and the whole thing somehow got even weirder after that.

I don’t know if it was good or bad. I just know we didn’t talk about sports very much, but we did talk a whole lot about my feelings including one time when I got really mad with a co-worker during a radio show.

The Mariners had more rain delays in Baltimore (2) than victories (1) during their three-game series against the Orioles. In fact, Seattle avoided getting swept by a matter of feet as Ryan Mountcastle narrowly missed homering off Andres Munoz in the first game of the series, which Seattle won 1-0.

Someone more pessimistic than myself might dwell on the fact that Seattle wound up losing five of six to the Orioles this year and is now entering the tough part of this road trip with three games against the Mets starting on Friday night.

I’m not that pessimistic, however. I’ll wait until after this weekend to start freaking out.

This one is a bit old, but a classic. Paul Felder is a former UFC fighter and now a commentator. He’s also part of the series “Hacks” on HBO, which stars Jean Smart (who is a Seattle native!?!? I only recently learned this).

Felder was known for mixing it up with trolls on Twitter. This back and forth will always earn a chuckle from me.