Something interesting happened to me the other day. I can't reveal too much about it yet, but I will call it my Life Change. If you know me a little, you might not think I need a Life Change, but I do, and here's why ( Read more... )

Oh, well. These things happen sometimes. Answers below...

1. "The old man's still an artist with the Thompson." (I could use any one of a hundred quotes from this movie, but I think this one is my favorite.)
Miller's Crossing. God, this movie is so good. I would have said it was the best of the Coen movies, but then I saw No Country for Old ( Read more... )

Maybe you've heard the story of Megan Meier, a 13-year-old in Missouri who committed suicide after her MySpace boyfriend broke up with her and started insulting her over the Net. The reason this is becoming a national story is because the "boyfriend" was a fictional construction, invented by one Lori Drew, the 35-year-old mother of one of Megan's ( Read more... )

...at least until they catch another referee on the take. Until then, my predictions are:

Eastern Conference

Atlantic Division

1. Toronto Raptors. This team is surprisingly good. They were put together to be the Phoenix Suns of the East, and they're not too far away from that goal. I think they would shoot the lights out against...

2. Boston ( Read more... )

I've been doing pretty well in my local poker game lately. I've made almost twice as much playing poker over the last month as I've made at my job over the same period. At the same time, some things have happened at my job which have left me pretty disgruntled, so I began wondering what I could do for extra money ( Read more... )

...gimme an iced tea, motherfucker.

About a month or so back I was trying to figure out what exactly made me a geek. It wasn't "Star Wars"; my dad took me to the 1982 re-release and I was so terrified by Darth Vader that he had to take me home. It wasn't "Star Trek"; when I tried to watch "Wrath of Khan" a couple years later, I was so revolted by the worms-in-the-ear sequence that ( Read more... )

The latest trend in newspapering is the "handwringing editorial about people supporting Michael Vick," such as Jonathan Capehart's from today's Washington Post. The cheers that Vick got when he entered the courtroom seem to have a lot of professional opinionators concerned ( Read more... )

So the job I interviewed for isn't working out ( Read more... )

During the NBA Finals, Person A told me about Person B's opinion of the series. A knew I would value B's opinion, because B is a professional sports bettor who uses computer models to predict the correct bets ( Read more... )