Play

One of the few things I can control in my life is the playlist.

I can listen to what I want, when I want and in the order that I want to hear it.

I've never been one to press the "shuffle" button.

I've always wondered what the point was.

Well all I can say is that I've put my music on shuffle.

And while I can't articulate exactly why, I like my life on that setting.

Eclipsed

As we were driving to the beach I thought about the past six years. The boys were little - more or less they still are.

Each trip we - mostly my oldest and I - go to the Broadway 16 and see the mega-huge, blowout action summer hit of the summer.

The ones with the Burger King toys.

I was thinking back on them - "Revenge Of The Sith," "Superman Returns," "Transformers," "Dark Knight," "Transformers 2."

Then I thought to this week. This part of the summer - not the beginning, not quite the end - is when whatever the summer movie was has been.

I thought back to "Iron Man 2" and how cool of a superhero movie that was. But so early too, mid-May.

"Karate Kid?" I liked it. Maybe the closest but still more a kid movie. No Burger King tie-in or 7-Eleven Slurpee cup.

So what do the boys get with their kids meals at the beach?

There it is, there the whole time in everything and everywhere.

"Eclipse!"

"Eclipse" hacky-sack." "Eclipse" miniature tote bag.

The female supermovie. Imagine that.

Eclipsing Summer Twenty Ten.