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Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

admin January 17, 2011

Do you wish someone a happy MLK day? It sounds a little morbid, given the whole assassination aspect of it all. What I do know is this: Enough of you are off work today and thus not online that I ain’t writing sheeeeit. Instead, I’m going to go eat my […]

Entertainment

My Favorite Scene from The Sopranos

admin January 14, 2011

The Sopranos really was one of the most spectacular shows ever created. Nuanced, expertly acted, rife with dramatic tension, not to mention a surprising number of tremendous laughs. The scene above works because it fires on all these cylinders. Within five seconds, it’s already introduced you to tizzone, a slur […]

Life

Gerbils: The Lamest Pet in Creation

admin January 13, 2011

I have a cat (there’s something inherently creepy about a heterosexual male saying that, but bear with me). It craps in a box, lives on a pillow under the heater, only intermittently shows any interest in me and, every few years, costs me several hundred dollars at the vet. But […]

Life

Life on Hoth (DC Can’t Handle Snow)

admin January 12, 2011

Another dusting of snow, another out of proportion reaction from the DC area. At least this time people stopped short of bartering their women for milk and toilet paper, but, given I was able to clean my car with my coat sleeve, any reaction whatsoever was embarrassing and juvenile. (Also, […]

Wayback

From the Wayback: Where the Red Fern Grows

admin January 11, 2011

The other day I got to thinking that there are a crapton of books from my childhood I barely remember. Countless novels I either napped through as they were read aloud to the class or that I churned through so quickly in order to claim my Book It! points that […]

Sports

NFL Playoffs-Week 1-One for Effing Four

admin January 10, 2011

“You’re gonna listen to me? To something I said? Hasn’t it become abundantly clear during the tenure of our friendship that I don’t know shit?” –Brodie, Mallrats In this man’s estimation, the first two rounds of the NFL playoffs* are the greatest two weekends of the year. Four football games-two […]