Daily Archives: June 21, 2011

15 posts

Broons Players Throw $156,000 Party

I like to party, you like to party, we all like to party.  But do you party as hard as these six ballers?

Tim Thomas, Zdeno Chara, Patrice Bergeron, Milan Lucic, Brad Marchand, and Shawn Thornton know how to do bottle service correctly. Their bar tab totaled over $156,000 from one night at the Foxwood’s Casino. I’ll grant you $100,000 was spent on 1 30 liter bottle of Champagne, but here’s a list of six other things they could have bought for $26,113.29 (each person’s share of the tab.) Continue reading →

How Did Keith Olbermann Do?

Monday night was the much anticipated return of comically egotistical, liberal blowhard Keith Olbermann. After much ballyhoo earlier this year that left MSNBC’s shouting mouthpiece out of a job amid copious rumors about campaign donations and other Gestapo tactics from the prolific sportscaster — now that he’s returned to his original time slot, but with a new home sponsored by none other than internet and manbearpig founder, Al Gore — was his return everything you hoped for? Continue reading →

I Found the Long Island Serial Killer on OKCupid

So guys, I found the Long Island Serial Killer (or rather, he found me) over the weekend and then sicced him on furiously_red last night. 

I’m on the dating site OKCupid and received a standard message on Friday from a guy saying he liked my profile, I was cute, etc. However, his screename was YankeesFan, which gave me pause as a) I am a diehard Mets fan and b) I find Yankees fans to be insufferable (present company excluded, of course. Except people who drive ’92 Buick LeSabres). Continue reading →

Ben-Gurion’s Couscous

(Originally published on Let My People Grow)

People who enjoy a really good starch need to thank David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister. During the austerity period in Israel after the War of independence, there was a shortage of rice which many of the new immigrants to Israel relied on for their diet. Ben-Gurion knew that the immigrants would need something to replace rice, and he asked the Osem food company in Israel to come up with an inexpensive, wheat-based substitute. Continue reading →

Why I Fell in Love with Soccer

If you love soccer, or you love sports, or loves someone who loves either (or you just love shirtless pictures of Carlos Bocanegra, manmeat defender for Saint-Etienne and Team USA), do yourself a favor and go pick up Nick Hornby’s Fever Pitch. The book details how a young Hornby first discovered soccer growing up in England and examines how the game has affected every part of his life. It’s my all-time favorite book, and I have a habit of reading it every summer when the European soccer season is gearing up. I also have a habit of buying used copies and sending them to people, always with the same quote transcribed on the inside cover:

“I fell in love with football as I was later to fall in love with women: suddenly, inexplicably, uncritically, giving no thought to the pain or disruption it would bring with it.”

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Albums I Am Willing To Wait Forever For

My brother likes to tell me that I am dangerous when I am bored. So did my parents. And insane. I get that one a lot. One good thing that comes from this, besides repainting a bathroom, is hours of internal head time where I go deep into fantasy land and imagine either an alternate history to things in my past or imagineering career paths for a large swath of my favorite celebrities.

These are the three albums that I am willing to wait a lifetime for: Continue reading →

QOTD: Time Machine

If it weren’t for the lack of hygiene, I’d love to travel to past eras. I’d wander Venetian canals during the Italian Renaissance, walk in the gardens of Babylonia, drink champagne with the 18th century French court, or sit in the front row of the Globe Theater on opening night. Today’s QOTD:

If you had a time machine, where would you be off to?

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