alex avila came back to the tigers this year after a year away now that he's reached the point in his career of being a backup catcher. randomly grabbed my avila #13 tee to wear to today though i couldn't watch most of the game because we're house hunting. (oh did i forget to mention we're house hunting?). so avila, not a guy who homers a ton, hit ( Read more... )

so this is late, but a bit ago when a couple coworkers were talking about it being national pizza day i really truly thought they had said national impeachment day. i know where my mind is. just sayin'

in just another crazy example of that oh so typical phenotypical clustering:

our selection for this past friday's friday night film series (just a fancy sobriquet for staying at home and watching a movie) was air america, a movie that i don't now recall having seen any promotion for back in 1990 even though it was the 37th biggest film of that ( Read more... )

i was looking at the radar of the storms in the south atlantic states to compare with the storms going on in the pittsburgh area tonight ( Read more... )

insomuch as it was with me.

that of the eight teams left in the ncca basketball, the first three pairings of seeds are 1/2, 1/2, and 1/3. michigan state though is a 7 seed and their opponent louisville is a 4 seed, so 4/7. too right. just sayin'

i have to agree with the sportsguy who, after hearing chris martin and bruce springsteen sub in for an injured bono for u2, said there's an ineffable quality bono has you can't really replace. i would like to use the fray's cover of tryin' to throw your arms around the world, especially since the fray's how to save a life appeared on our first mix ( Read more... )

that the winds were howling today.
vortex or otherwise, for hours on end they've been howling, gusting up to 60 mph.
i walked through quite a bit of it, some on the long walk from my parking garage to the football stadium, some on the return trip.

my fortune cookie for the day said that i can't change the direction of the wind, i can only set my

tonight's bythos trends:

soul asylum
achtung baby!
that one mix

they are filming batfleck vs superman a block north of my building right now. (and in several other places across the city at various times). but i don't know if i'll have a chance to leave the office to see it. still geeked though.