O Captain, my Captain!
Little did I know when we were recording the most recent podcast that it would become so sadly topical: today the world mourns the loss of Louis Vincent “Captain Lou Albano” Albano, who passed this morning at the age of 76.
I feel shaken by his death. We were just talking about the guy. And I hadn’t so much as thought of him in years. In years. And now he’s dead. It didn’t make any sense. Oh, I know all about the law of large numbers. While the odds of me talking about a specific celebrity and having them die shortly thereafter are low, the odds that someone, somewhere in the world will be talking about ANY given celebrity shortly before his death are probably pretty close to one. So in the grand scheme of things, what happened to me today is not all that strange. It probably happens to hundreds of people every day, and will probably happen to all of us, if we wait long enough. But it had never happened to me before. And it felt weird. It didn’t make any sense.
That was how I felt today at about 3:00, when I heard the news. Two hours later, I had an epiphany. Of course it didn’t make any sense! This was Captain Lou Albano, often imitated, never duplicated! NOTHING about his life made any sense.
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Recently, I visited a Subway restaurant near where I work. I had been looking forward to a meatball sub. But instead, my stomach was filled only with sadness.
Hearty Italian, my favorite bread, has been discontinued.
Obviously, I’m a very egotistical person, because I had assumed Hearty Italian was the most popular bread of all. Turns out, not so much. It has now been replaced with Garlic Bread. C’mon, Subway! Who wants a sandwich on Garlic Bread? (Answer: More people than want a sandwich on Hearty Italian.)
Anyway, I got the sandwich on Regular Old Plain Italian, and it sucked.
Farewell, Hearty Italian. Now, God gets to eat you.