Archive for February, 2007
my dozen favorite albums from 2006
No Grammy predictions on my part this year (I haven’t been doing well in the predictions department recently). But I’ve been working on this post on and off for the past couple weeks hoping to get it posted before the Grammys. So with the awards ceremony only a couple hours away, here are my favorite [...]
John Amaechi will announce he’s gay
John Amaechi will announce next week in an interview with ESPN and in an autobiography coming out later this month that he is gay. In doing so, he becomes the first-ever player (past or present) of the National Basketball Association to publicly reveal he’s gay.
This is not a huge surprise to me, as this has [...]
the Snickers kiss
“For those of us not offended by the Snickers ad campaign, there rested in the twelve hour maelstrom something terribly depressing and clarifying about the pulleys and levers used to operate some quarters of gay activism.”
– Robbie at The Malcontent, a new addition to my blog links.
In my opinion, this manufactured outrage by gay activists [...]
they’re baaaaaack
I guess the commercials on CBS during the pre-game show confirm the rumored all-star version of The Amazing Race. And of course Rob and Amber are back for their 4th appearance on a CBS reality show.
only on the right
I’ve been a Steelers fan all my life, but I just learned something new about the Steelers today I never knew (or noticed) before: the Steelers put the team logo only on the right side of the helmet. The left side of the helmet is left blank. And according to the official history of the [...]
da bears by 3
I kinda like these ESPN sports nation polls, as you may have noticed before. This one is pretty unanimous — outside of Chicago and eastern New England, da Bears are getting no love whatsoever. (Patriots fans have seen Peyton Manning choke many times in big games.) As for me, I’m falling back on the best [...]