Monthly Archives: October 2005

Jack Sikma Buzz cut shoots free throws One-third of three-headed white Center, the best one.

To celebrate the return of basketball, and the return of the Bucks to goodness, I’m going to post a haiku about one of my favorite past Bucks every day until the NBA season starts. Paul Pressey Nellie had vision he … Continue reading →

(above: the new look of Alias. Vaughn who?) Reaction to the news of popular Michael Vaughn’s (real name: Jean Brooyo or somesuch. I wasn’t paying real close attention) death on Alias was violent and preemptive. Not surprisingly, Ben Affleck caught … Continue reading →

Blogging is by nature a fluid art form, owing much of its success to the fact that one can share any information one feels like instantly. This gives the blog an innate flexibility. I can see something (“Look! A Shiny … Continue reading →

So my wife says to me she says, “You gotta make up with baseball.” Now she doesn’t understand the depth of my beef with baseball or the pain that beef has caused me. But I see her point. The Astros … Continue reading →

Thankfully, you guys will not get to hear the boring stuff I have to say about the NBA dress code, because the MAN is making me work like a dog today. Like a dog. Arf.

There was the old lady who insisted that cashews tore up her husband’s stomach… The old guy who believed that the Trilateralists were running things. The guy who changed out the interior decoration on his house every 6th months, just … Continue reading →

There I was, sitting on my modular couch, bemoaning the U. of Wisconsin’s defense and their total lack of heart, when they actually stopped the maroon Gophers on third down, which set up a punting situation with 35 seconds left. … Continue reading →

News article this post references. Almost 20 years ago, a white rap pioneer named Snow had his only hit, a little diddy called “Informer.” In this song, the geeky-looking bespectacled Canadian talked about “going blam” on an unnamed “informer” who … Continue reading →

The Second Most Recent Mix CD I Made For Myself. I’m terrible at making mix CD’s. I don’t know if it’s my lack of taste in music or what, but I always end up with: at least 2 songs I … Continue reading →