Hit Record, Just Once
Jan08

Hit Record, Just Once

The Google Now feature on my phone knows me too well.  Without any solicitation or searching I found an update (advertising? can it be called advertising if it’s absolutely right.  Isn’t that more like curating?) telling me about a show called ‘HitRecord On TV’. Which normally when Google Now sends me info about a show, it’s one that I already watch, and I’m grateful for it reminding me that...

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Angry Worm
Jan08

Angry Worm

Remember, way back in the 1990s, when the weirdest thing Dennis Rodman ever did was dye his hair purple and date Madonna? Man, those were the days… Rodman’s latest (documented) outburst of erratic behavior came Tuesday during a contentious interview with CNN’s Chris Cuomo in the form of an oftentimes incoherent rant defending his decision to bring a team comprised primarily of retired NBA players to North Korea to stage a few...

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The Color of Interior Life
Jan07

The Color of Interior Life

According to the writer William H. Gass (in his great On Being Blue), blue is not only the warmest color, but the color that enlivens pretty much any kind of emotional state. “Blue is most suitable as the color of interior life,” he writes. “Whether slick light sharp high bright think quick sour new and cool or low deep sweet dark soft slow smooth heavy old and warm: blue moves easily among them all, and all profoundly qualify our...

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New Year
Jan07

New Year

I started this New Year off on a low note: I almost died. It wasn’t an adventurous death either, caused by some last minute attempt to live life to the fullest that I keep on meaning to do the other 364 days of the year. Nor was it a surprise blast from a car, or plane, or rogue bullet meant for someone more deserving, giving a tragic ‘wrong place, wrong time’ eulogy. The culprit was quite well known to me and rather boring in the...

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Instant Coffee: Final BCS Championship is a Great One
Jan07

Instant Coffee: Final BCS Championship is a Great One

(1) Florida State Seminoles 34 vs (2) Auburn Tigers 31 It is Déjà vu all over again. 8 years after the epic Championship between the USC Trojans and Texas Longhorns that only half happened as only one team was officially in the game [USC subsequently vacated all its wins in the season due to NCAA violations related to Reggie Bush], the BCS Championship returned to the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. It was the best college football...

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Instant Coffee: NFL Wild Card Weekend
Jan06

Instant Coffee: NFL Wild Card Weekend

Kansas City Chiefs 44 @ Indianapolis Colts 45 I thought that playing at home and Andrew Luck would give the Colts an edge in a close game. However, I could have never guessed how this game transpired. It was one of the wildest games I have ever watched and culminated with the Colts making the second biggest comeback, 28 point deficit, in NFL playoff history. A lot of events occurred that I would have had a difficult time believing...

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