December 2011
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My Mom Makes Her Football Picks, Week 17
(The seventeenth, and final entry, in a series during the football season. My mom makes her football picks over the phone with me. I transcribe her reasoning. All of this is verbatim. Previously: Week One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eighth, Ninth, Ten, Eleven, Twelve, Thirteen, Fourteen, Fifteen, Sixteen.)
First, a note from mother on this, her final regular season weekly...
Man, 2011 sure did go by, didn’t it?
If you think you missed out on some of the stories from this past year in which many people protested/occupied things, or just want to relive that time that the apocalypse didn’t happen, then there’s, scientifically-speaking, no better way to do so than by heading over to my INSANELY-long (and incredibly time-consuming, for both the reader...
And when we meet on a cloud I’ll be laughing out loud I’ll be laughing with everyone I see Can’t believe how strange it is to be anything at all
In those lines are the very reasons we go to music or to religion. Not only are we driven to imagine a peaceful life after death, but we need to figure out what it means to “be anything at all.” What Mangum’s absence reveals, whether...
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My Mother Makes Her Football Picks, Week 16
(The sixteenth in a series during the football season. My mom makes her football picks over the phone with me. I transcribe her reasoning. All of this is verbatim. Previously: Week One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine, Ten, Eleven, Twelve, Thirteen, Fourteen, Fifteen.)
First, a special holiday intro greeting from my mother in Video-Excitement-Fun!
Houston over Indy
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For those following my mother’s weekly NFL picks (and really, at this point, how could you not be?), my mother won the picks pool this week, the first time she’s won all year. Her response: “Ricky, I finally have the glory!”
I love my mother.
Rob Delaney: My least favorite people (at this... →
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My least favorite people (at this second) are people who feel Obama “let them down” or “didn’t deliver on his promise.” Guys, “HOPE” was a one syllable slogan, a logo even, to get a corporate backed, big D Democrat elected in a cash contest. People like you are THE SAME THING as the “undecided”…
Looking through the Hitchens archive over at Slate tonight and I found myself reading (and re-reading) this amazingly bile and ferocious obituary to Jerry Falwell. A highlight:
One of his associates, Bailey Smith, once opined that “God does not hear the prayers of a Jew.” This is one of the few anti-Semitic remarks ever made that has a basis in fact, since God does not exist and...
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My Mom Makes Her Football Picks, Week 15
(The fifteenth in a series during the football season. My mom makes her football picks over the phone with me. I transcribe her reasoning. All of this is verbatim. Previously: Week One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine, Ten, Eleven, Twelve, Thirteen, Fourteen)
Atlanta over Jacksonville
“I heard that Jacksonville has a new owner, and they may relocate....
I feel strong about this.
Foreign movies, on their own, don’t reach a wide cultural awareness in the U.S. You can condemn the American public all you want, call them idiots who can’t bother to read the bottom of the screen if it makes you feel better, but it doesn’t change the fact that if it’s in a different language, most of the country doesn’t know about it. By remaking foreign...
I saw the taping of the new Rob Delaney pilot for Comedy Central (which was really funny, and should be picked up if CC knows anything about things that are funny) and then wrote about it for a new section of Fast Company’s website. Most of all, I’m glad the editors kept this quote by the great Stephen Falk in because (a) it captures Delaney perfectly; (b) it has the word...
“Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the ‘transcendent’ and all who...”
– Christopher Hitchens (1949-2011)
I wrote this about Adele because I love her
When “Rolling in the Deep” hit every radio station in existence simultaneously over the summer, it was labeled a “crossover hit,” a definition that seems redundant — nothing translates across musical spectrums like a broken heart. Getting dumped is the fucking worst. And God strike down whoever says “everything’s gonna be all right.” When you’re in the throes of heartache, advice falls on...
I interviewed Patton Oswalt RE: Young Adult over at Fast Company. Read it, if you’re so inclined.
Why We Love Mark Buerhle
“I think I’ll always be a Chicago White Sox no matter what happens from here on out,” Buehrle said Sunday in an interview with Comcast SportsNet. “I kind of told some people, I said, ‘It’s just a 4-year break. I’ll be back before you know it.’ Maybe I’ll be playing, maybe just bugging people in the clubhouse, just coming through getting fat and drinking a beer, having fun...
My formative high school years (freshman and...
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My Mom Makes Her Football Picks, Week 14
(The fourteenth in a series during the football season. My mom makes her football picks over the phone with me. I transcribe her reasoning. All of this is verbatim. Previously: Week One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine, Ten, Eleven, Twelve, Thirteen)
“I want you to know, I was tied for first place. I was in first place until Monday night. And then my...
The original title for this was "Goatee Leaves."... →
I unpacked Rick Perry’s idiotic new ad for you over at Nerve.
“I’m not ashamed to admit that I’m a Christian” = Start off with the most universal of all Christian teachings, shame…
“but you don’t need to be in the pew every Sunday” = throw in some specifics to make yourself more relatable in a...
A friend of mine has a new story up over at Room 1511 of The Palmer Hotel called Choose Your Own Night of Passion. It’s kind of gross and icky! You should read it!
Like, Dragons & Shit: Chapter Five →
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Meanwhile, while our old orc friend Fleece is in the armory, just biding his time before starting his insane one-person raid that, no doubt, has some kind of backstory of revenge associated with it; and King Ghoul-ston is reading that letter that came from Ozdarius, which has huge implications for…
Death Pool 2012, taking applications
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As far as I can see, the Occupy movement is just ordinary people reclaiming rights which should always have been theirs. I can’t think of any reason why as a population we should be expected to stand by and see a gross reduction in the living standards of ourselves and our kids, possibly for generations, when the people who have got us into this have been rewarded for it; they’ve certainly...
