Category: Stuff I Like
The Story of the Playoffs Began in Game Five
Forget the Canadiens beating the Capitals and the Penguins, the story of the Boston Bruins ruinous collapse will be the story of this year’s NHL playoffs. The pain Bruins fans are feeling today, after their team gave up a three-goal lead and then the game as Simon Gagne potted the game-winner late in the third [...]
They Will Doink Doink No More Forever
NBC has dropped the hammer on its long-running show “Law and Order” after 20 seasons, just one short of the record for the longest-running show on television still held by the incomparable Gunsmoke. “Law & Order” is done. NBC officials have confirmed that the influential New York-set crime drama will air its last telecast May [...]
Hockey Rules!
Forget the money, the hype, and the crushing playoff losses (Thanks Capitals!). Hockey is about passing along your winner’s dreams. You doubt? Tell me how many dreams are contained in this photo, via Greg Wyshynski’s Twitter feed. (Cross-posted at Liberty Pundits)
Move Over, Chuck Norris and Dick Cheney. There’s a New Tough Man in Town.
This is Eric Belanger, a professional hockey player who, this year, is a member of my Beloved Washington Capitals. He is not this Eric Belanger, beefcakey fashion model. No, our Eric Belanger is a tough man who would not be caught dead on a runway unless perhaps it was an airport runway and he was [...]
The Rainy Day Cover Tune Fest
It’s a bit rainy and chilly today so, until the sun comes out and shares its happy warmth with us, why not have a little music to accompany all the necessary indoor chores? I like a well-done cover tune. If you’re lucky, you can find a few, like Aretha Franklin’s “Respect, Jimi Hendrix’ “All Along [...]
Japan, You’ve Really Outdone Yourself This Time.
If the Internet has taught me anything, it’s that that the Japanese are an intensely strange people whose television programs defy description. I have no idea what the purpose of this program is (though I think it’s something like a cross between karaoke and “Puttin on the Hits” but I know that telling you that [...]
Separated at Birth: Saul Alinksy and…Well, Just Look.
While watching this very good video on one of Saul Alinky’s Rules for Radicals, I made a sudden realization. Saul Alinksy looks a lot like the Nazi from Raiders of the Lost Ark whose face melted at the end of the movie. Seriously. Here is Alinsky. And here’s melty-face Nazi (played by Ronald Lacey). Separated [...]
That Straight Four Piece Won’t Save You Now!
This is almost unbearably cruel in its simplicity.
That’s What You Said