Archive for December, 2006
have a joyous and gay holiday
Marlin and I get a new ornament for our Christmas tree every year that signifies something important that happened in our lives that year. Some years are a real stretch to find an appropriate ornament, but not this year: five new ornaments, although only 3 of them meaningful. We have a class ring and zodiac [...]
claymanilow
So I was flipping through the channels tonight and caught a quick segment on one of those Entertainment Tonight Weekly Hollywood Extra type shows where they reported Clay Aiken and Barry Manilow are doing a show together, and I’m thinking wait a minute … why is this happening? Are we going to allow this to [...]
people theories
I have a few theories about people in general that have occurred to me in the past week.
Just because someone has a college degree doesn’t mean they have common sense. I stood in line at the post office the other morning for nearly a half hour behind a young woman who was shipping some of [...]
what can you build for a billion dollars?
If you’re Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, it’s the biggest domed structure in the world — aka the new home of the Dallas Cowboys. Of course, not all of that billion will come from Jones’ pocket. A big chunk — $325 million (half the original estimate) — is coming from taxpayers, most of who probably [...]
notes on football, fantasy and otherwise
The Bears are beating up on the Rams on Monday Night Football, and it’s the final regular season game of my fantasy league for the year. My team is finished with a 6-8 record. No playoffs, no consolation games, and (thankfully) no appearance in the dreaded “Cellar Dweller” bracket. I didn’t expect a good year [...]
the once (and future?) Penn State coach
In Penn State football coaching news, Joe Paterno made headlines over the weekend saying he would be on the sidelines for Penn State’s bowl game January 1st vs. Tennessee in the Outback Bowl. In case you don’t follow college football, Paterno (second all-time in coaching wins — 3 behind Florida State’s Bobby Bowden) suffered a [...]