Lá Fhéile Pádraig! Éire go brách!
(Happy St. Patrick's Day! Ireland forever!)

Every once in a while, I start writing something and get disgusted with the direction it turns, and just throw it away -- like in the movies, when the authors tear the paper out of the old mechanical typewriters in a rage. I think I'd like to write on a typewriter, for the auditory stimuli. If it's electronic, it's so much less dramatic; just ( Read more... )

I inexplicably feel the need to say that Velvet Underground's Heroin is a great song.

Over the holidays, I ran into katsby for the first time in like 800 years. One of the things we talked about was how I post to the other blog more than this one, and she suggesting cross-posting. I don't know if I'm going to do that, but I wanted to remind everyone of the url of the other one.

howobservant.blogspot.com

Terry Bradshaw, a bloke who is an NFL hall of famer, is now an announcer at various levels of football and a huge idiot. Wait, that sentence was ambiguous; Bradshaw's always been an idiot. In the year immediately following the Janet Jackson Nipple Incident (JJNI), Paul McCartney was selected to perform at the half-time show because he's a lot ( Read more... )

I love this coming time of year. The Bowl Games fill me with a wondrous delight, making me wish that Div II got better coverage so I would care about it enough to want to faithfully watch all of their playoff games as well. Anyway, the Bowl outcomes will determine whether elreydetortugas or I will win this year (there's no prize), so next year, if you want a ( Read more... )

Writers have weird egos. Well, maybe that's not true; I'm only speaking from personal experience, so this might be uniquely me. It's extremely easy to put something out there in written format, like a newspaper article or a fortune cookie fortune, because it isn't read in front of me, and if it is, it's only like one person at a time. You can ( Read more... )

I'm not talking about last week. Except to say that elreydetortugas put his picks in after they had started, and he got 7 right. I got 5, but I'm counting it as a tie, since that's still kind of not cool. 5-6-2 ( Read more... )

Sitting at 5-6-1, there is only championship week and Bowl Season left! elreydetortugas or me will be the 2006 College Football champion at picking games. It's not over yet, kids ( Read more... )

Week 12, fools. 4-6-1 against elreydetortugas. This week, I'll close the gap even more.

( Football! )