Weekend!
Today was my first day of vacation. If you’re familiar with the “Scumbag Brain” meme, my scumbag brain is pulling the “It’s your first day off in months and all you want to do is sleep-in? 5:30 AM IT IS”… Continue Reading
Month: December 2012
Baseball Oddity!
Consider the first generation of Italian-American baseball stars: Name Birthplace Minor League Years in Majors Tony Lazzeri San Francisco Pacific Coast League 1926-1939 Ernie Lombardi Oakland Pacific Coast League 1931-1947 Dolph Camilli San Francisco Pacific Coast League 1933-1947 Joe DiMaggio… Continue Reading
Somniloquy!
Our assignment was to read the first two issues from Dream Country. Glyph reviewed Caliope and Jaybird and Maribou reviewed Dream of a Thousand Cats. Glyph’s introduction to Sandman, in three parts, here, here, and here. Preludes and Nocturnes recaps here: Glyph… Continue Reading
FEARLESS!
Not only am I going to offer up my Super Bowl prediction before week 16 has even kicked off, I’m going to do so by predicting the relevant week 16 and 17 games to determine playoff participants and then predict… Continue Reading
Zombicide!
So, we’ve played. One scenario, which took two lunch periods, as we needed to suss out the rules. For the non-tabletop gamers out there, this is a cooperative game. The board game genre is more or less split into games… Continue Reading
Wednesday!
Well, it’s that time of year again. Time for Christmas songs that you don’t quite mind. Or, at least, that *I* don’t quite mind. Golly, the 1970’s were weird, weren’t they? Well, when you start thinking that, you eventually get… Continue Reading
Bookclub!
This week, our assignment was to watch the episode “The Firefly” from Season Three of Fringe. (You can read the Television Without Pity Recap here, while the AV Club has their recap of the episode here. The post dedicated to… Continue Reading
Baseball Trivia!
It’s a time-honored saying that a good team is built up the middle, that is, around a core that consists of the catcher, second baseman, shortstop, and center fielder. That’s not always the case, of course. Take the 1927 Yankees, the consensus best… Continue Reading
Villains!
In thinking about bad guys (again), I realized that I left out a big category the last time we talked about the various kinds of bad guys out there: Monsters. (Shout out to North who mentioned this sort of thing… Continue Reading
Sunday!
I look at my stack of books and I see Cold Days, American Gods, Clash of Kings, and I know that the second I finish one of them, the rest of all y’all have a list of books for me… Continue Reading