March 2008
10 posts
Bracketeering
This year for March Madness, instead of filling out 10 different brackets on 15 different sites, I’m only going to fill out two brackets on 15 different sites. I feel like the problem that I’ve had in the past is that because I’m able to fill out so many different brackets, I’m not as focused as I should be. Instead of drilling down to who I think is going to win, I try...
Athletic
Dad (sitting in front of a big plate of pasta): Athletes eat a lot of carbs….I am an athlete!
Lord of the Prostitution Rings
“This was a sophisticated and lucrative operation with a multitiered management structure. It was, however, nothing more than a prostitution ring.” —Eliot Spitzer, 2004 “I hope to continue the great tradition that you have created for us in this state of leadership in Albany.” —Eliot Spitzer, 2006
The Sopranos vs. The Wire (aka The Greatest Debate...
The Wire is ending on Sunday, capping off one of the great TV runs that no one really watched. Literally, no one watches the show. It’s just me, various TV critics across the nation, Bill Simmons and Jason Whitlock, and a couple of people on a few message boards on the internet. And because I’ve never met these people, I’m half convinced that they don’t really exist, and...
Mock Lottery
The Worldwide Leader has put up their annual NBA Lottery Mock Draft Generator, which of course means that work has stopped for the day. The NBA Lottery Mock Draft Generator is a machine on the ESPN website, and through the magic of science and basketball (also, I assume, some sort of calculator) predicts the order of the NBA Draft this year, and who each team will draft depending on where they...
John McCain, Republican Nominee for President of the United States
“I ended the Patriots’ perfect season and sent Brett Favre out of the NFL a loser. Who is man enough to step to this?” — Eli Manning
School Days
My parents are nice, so they offered to drive me back to my apartment after I came home this weekend (meaning, I told them “Hey, drive me back!” and they agreed). A couple blocks from my apartment, there’s a school, and my dad noticed.
Dad: Is that school still active? Me: Yeah, I see kids around there all the time. Dad: Oh, because I noticed that it isn’t open. Me:...
Home
Mission Impossible 3 is on TV.
Mom: Oh, is that Mario Lopez? Me: …no, that’s Tom Cruise…
Politics
Dad: I think we’re in Iraq because we have interests there…oil. Me: Yeah, that’s a reason why we have to be more energy independent and find new sources of energy. Dad: Yeah…like oil.