COV74D-19--#OfficialHat2020 Revealed

Placing this here for complete-ness and posterity. (You are welcome future historians.)

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How is your Memorial Day weekend going along?

Today has been a pretty relaxing day but I'm craving some potato chips right now. (Not that you really needed to know that, but I thought I would let you in on that little secret. And the reason I'm craving chips at all is because I just watched a Bon Appetit YouTube in which Claire (the Gourmet Makes host tried to recreate Pringles). 

Do you watch Bon Appetit? That has been one of the new entertainment additions of mine during the COVID quarantine. Grace watched it a lot and I started watching Gourmet Makes. It's a fun twist on How Its Made and Unwrapped and other food-related shows that I like to watch. And once you start watching one personality, its easy to start watching some others.

So . . . yeah. Maybe I'll eat some potato chips soon.

But, what else is happening?

I went for a walk today and that was nice. After so much rain this past week, it has been nice to see the sun and even feel some warmth. But since the Highlands Pool has announced that it won't be opening to the public this summer, I wonder if I'll be setting up the sprinkler in the yard to help cool off? But if I do that, then I would need to prevent people from playing in the water and violating my quarantine.

Speaking of food . . . Lynda and Hannah are attempting to make an extremely difficult pastry from the Great British Baking Show: religieuse. (see above) 

(If they make it out of the kitchen alive and still loving one another, then good for them. I don't even care how it tastes.) 

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Two other things:

1. You have tonight and sometime tomorrow--until I decide to shut down the Google form and make my reveal video--to cast your final votes on #OfficialHat2020.  You can vote here.

2, My kids spent the morning making an online personality quiz. It is based on Avatar: The Last Airbender . . . because why not? Click here to take the quiz. They designed the concept. They chose the characters. They wrote the questions. They wrote the copy. I like it and I liked the result that I got. Click here to go and enjoy.

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Memorial Day weekend is right in front of us, so that means there are only days left to vote for this year's #HatofSummer.

Watch today's video that exists only to make you get off your couch and put your voting fingers to work.

As always, you can vote frequently--an obscene amount of voting is to be expected and should be required. If you feel that you have voted enough, I am here to tell you that you are incorrect. You should be voting while you eat dinner--unless you somehow need both hands to eat your dinner. (Maybe you are eating ribs or a hamburger or a sandwich. But even so, use voice recognition on your smartphone to tell the phone to set a reminder to vote as soon as both (or even one hand) is free from dinner consumption.

And then, once dinner has been digested . . . guess what? Vote some more.

Where should you be voting?

Go here and click, click, click away. You only have mere days left.

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FINALLY some GOOD NEWS during all of this COVID-19 pandemic sadness!

(I've thought about this randomly during the last few months and had convinced myself that it would never happen. But this evening, Twitter delivered the only good piece of news that misbegotten site has every published live--

#HoleyMoley II: The Sequel premieres Thursday at 9|8c on ABC! The bigger the hole, the sweeter the triumph 🏆🏌 pic.twitter.com/EurKNBgzmi

— Holey Moley (@holeymoleyabc) May 18, 2020

Can you believe it?!

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In my Fall 2019 TV Preview post, I boldly stated that the original Holey Moley was the only Category I show that aired last year. You may disagree, but if you do, I encourage you to start your own blog site that you've pestered person(s) with for approaching twenty years. Then maybe I'll endorse your differing opinion.

But I'm so very happy about this unexpected development. 

I'm so thrilled that I get to spend my summer evenings listening to Rob Riggle once again ridicule the fame-hungry pseudo athletes who try to make a life of mini golf.

I'm so jazzed that weirdo people with bizarre TV personalities and fashion senses try to one-up each other inside a freezing cold sound stage.

I'm over the moon at the prospect of new, inventively bizarre mini golf holes.

And I'm terribly sad that I didn't follow my dream to apply myself for this train wreck of a "reality" show.

Please, please, please, PLEASE watch this show over the next few months. Tweet about it. Chat about it. Raise up its media profile so that a season three can be assured and if no other sport rises out of the post-COVID aftermath . . . it is this sport!

Make. It. Happen!

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True story . . . I knew that I hadn't posted about the #HatofSummer voting in a while. But I hadn't realized how much time remained before the voting officially closes for this year.

And, my friends, it is only a few more days to be honest! Because when I opened up the Google doc and checked the calendar, it dawned upon me that Memorial Day is NEXT MONDAY.

And that means you only have one more week to cast your vote that determines #OfficialHat2020.

I realize that this is not the most important thing occupying your mind these days. Heck, as you can clearly tell, it is not the most important thing occupying MY brain these days. But we cannot let these important rituals fall away during this time of crisis. If I cannot turn to you, my digital faithful, and ask you to spend your off-hours time mindlessly clicking away to determine my hot weather head gear . . . well, then what are we all fighting for in the first place? What joys and pleasures remain?

So, please . . . take some time today, tonight, tomorrow, and every day between now and next Monday clicking away. You can choose between the current leader--the often overlooked Ireland hat--or this year's upstart challenger--the Martin BBQ Joint hat.

Go here (https://forms.gle/1oJWSpMNh7V66MAY9) to keep on voting.

(Remember that this shows all of the votes that were collected by all of the hats initially on offer this year. Only the top two vote winners remain to be voted on. The Ireland hat has received 41% of the total votes cast throughout the campaign period. The Martins BBQ has is second with just over 29% of the other votes cast.)