Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Can’t Lose! I’ve now seem all 76 episodes of Friday Night Lights (streaming Netflix rocks) and have been able to come to a few conclusions about it. Foremost, it’s a great show, with characters that… Continue Reading
Lawyers, Guns, and Money is in some ways like Balloon Juice: a leftish blog where the posts are often quite smart, but the echo-chamber quality of the comments takes away from the experience. On occasion, though, they can all abandon… Continue Reading
These two sentences are fine: We will go home tomorrow. Tomorrow, we will go home. These two sound wrong to me and, I think, to any native speaker, even though their meaning is perfectly clear: We will go tomorrow home.… Continue Reading
Yet another awesome headline: Killer Ukrainian dolphins on the loose And the story does not disappoint: These dolphins have been trained to “attack enemy combat swimmers using special knives or pistols fixed to their heads.” So if you are planning a family… Continue Reading
Ten best (American) situation comedies, ever: M*A*S*H Sergeant Bilko The Dick van Dyke Show Seinfeld The Simpsons Arrested Development Barney Miller Taxi Malcolm in the Middle Cheers I’m sure we can all agree on that list.
Our assignment was to read the first two issues of A Game of You. I (Mike) will be reviewing both this week. Glyph’s introduction to Sandman, in three parts, here, here, and here. Preludes and Nocturnes recaps here: Glyph and Patrick… Continue Reading
When Evil Enterprises, Inc., attempted to register the trademark “Baseball’s Evil Empire”, the New York Yankees blocked them by successfully arguing that the true Evil Empire of baseball is the Yankees. Not that that would be a hard case to… Continue Reading
I adapted an old Bill James idea for measuring team success to football. I assigned each of the following accomplishments one point: A .600 winning percentage during the regular season A .700 winning percentage during the regular season Getting to the… Continue Reading
Sick jokes form a continuum, from those which are actually funny if a bit twisted, to those which are sick for the sake of being sick.
Note: spoilers for both seasons and all five books. Proceed with caution. You have been warned. Now, are we ready to investigate the shifty mind and black, black soul of one Petyr Baelish? Excellent. Here we go.