Also my ringtone for like five years

Have you ever heard the entirety of the Sanford and Son theme song?

happy 5th

brown rice

Sugar

This brings us to the salient question: Can sugar possibly be as bad as Lustig says it is?

It’s one thing to suggest, as most nutritionists will, that a healthful diet includes more fruits and vegetables, and maybe less fat, red meat and salt, or less of everything. It’s entirely different to claim that one particularly cherished aspect of our diet might not just be an unhealthful indulgence but actually be toxic, that when you bake your children a birthday cake or give them lemonade on a hot summer day, you may be doing them more harm than good, despite all the love that goes with it. Suggesting that sugar might kill us is what zealots do. But Lustig, who has genuine expertise, has accumulated and synthesized a mass of evidence, which he finds compelling enough to convict sugar. His critics consider that evidence insufficient, but there’s no way to know who might be right, or what must be done to find out, without discussing it.

If I didn’t buy this argument myself, I wouldn’t be writing about it here. And I also have a disclaimer to acknowledge. I’ve spent much of the last decade doing journalistic research on diet and chronic disease — some of the more contrarian findings, on dietary fat, appeared in this magazine —– and I have come to conclusions similar to Lustig’s.

Is Sugar Toxic?

Small fish, meet big pond: Norwich City

With full approval of the www.3E.blogspot.you'realreadyhere.com staff, more of this shit!

Welcome back, Norwich. And with the questions surrounding some player for QPR and a possible points deduction, this one is for serious.

Location: Norwich, East Anglia. If Cornwall's the cock, then Anglia's the Beyonce. Knowhaimsayin. Me neither. That's in dialect.

Nickname: The Canaries. So, you know, if you're down in a mine or something. There's a long and convoluted history, I think. And they were called that before they even dressed like them.

Stately, Non-Commercial Stadium Name: Carrow Road. Which, as wikipedia wisely points out, was named for the road on which it is located.

Crest: Old as shit. People may have actually used that shield design at Crecy. I like it, though.

What they'll bring to the table (metaphorically!): GREEN! FUCKIN GREEN. As one of two who wear green in the entire 92 team football league, welcome to you colorful fruitcakes.

What they'll bring to the table (literally!): I know almost nothing about them. I bet they suck.

Thought on OBL

So, Osama bin Laden is apparently dead now, and I've been trying to think of something interesting or insightful to say about it.

But after thinking about it for a day, I realize there really isn't anything to say. Osama bin Laden is dead, and nothing has changed. Such is where Our Betters have left us after ten years of war and destruction and oppression and injustice. Everyone might have been celebrating last night, but when they woke up this morning, the world was essentially the same as it had been the morning before. OBL is just another body towering over the totalitarian abyss we find ourselves trapped in today, and one more body doesn't matter.

also: I won't believe he's dead until I see the long-form death certificate.

also: Osama bin Laden's death is al we qaeda hoped for.

metal mondeeeee

tornado is over

Hey there was a storm here last week.


Stay safe, kids.

Small fish, meet big pond: QPR

So exciting. These were fun and I'm all about fun. Welcome back, premier league prattle.

When I was a little kid I liked the mid-90's premier league version of Queens Park Rangers because they have a goofy uber-english name. Now they'll be goofin all the way to the bank next year as the almost-certain winners of the second tier.

Location: West London. Much like west Auburn, the home of the city's pampered elite. Becoming the third team from the single London borough of Hammersmith & Fulham (along with Chelsea & Fulham). Specifically they're in Shepherd's Bush. Hehe. Bush.

Nickname: The Hoops. That's what they call horizontal stripes. Adorable.

Stately, Non-Commercial Stadium Name: Loftus Road. I'm told that stadium tours can be booked through the club!

Crest: I'm afraid if I touch it, my hand will get slapped. Here's the old one.

What they'll bring to the table (metaphorically!): Another poorly-supported distraction for rich people? I don't know. All I could find in the way of famous fans were members of obscure bands called Depeche Mode, Deep Purple, The Clash, The Sex Pistols, and The Cure. Also too the non-George-Michael member of Wham! They have decent players and are owned by the dude that runs Formula One racing or something. Honestly, I'm not that excited.

What they'll bring to the table (literally!): I'm guessing they'll have enough money boned into them by the bigwigs that they'll make a meager existence in the premier league for a couple of years at least.

That WAS fun!

I meant to post this LAST wednesday

toke on, tokers.

Chasin' down a hoo-doo there

3E approves

....OF INDIAN FOOD NOT TRAFFIC



LAWL

2011 SEC helmets football schedule

click it!

I think the basketball for Kentucky is my favorite.

found it here

Deep in my heart I'm a warrior

just good clean fun.

mmmm something something something... mmm

this just in

probably should click it

Two Auburn-related thoughts

1. Harvey Updyke totally faked his "assault." There are all sorts of reasons to think this is true (mostly related to the laughably implausible details of his "attack" and "injuries"), but the biggest, to me, is that this is where he went to get a snack:


The guy hates Auburn enough to commit a tree-killing and brag about it on the radio, but gets his gas at a place called Tiger Express? I find that difficult to believe. See also.

2. Kiehl Frazier will be the starting quarterback by the end of next season. I don't see Trotter and Brosley doing anything that a particularly capable freshman can't do, and Frazier's skill set matches Gus Malzahn's offense a lot better than the other guys do. If Malzahn could win with the relatively untalented Chris Todd, then he can win with a very talented pure freshman.

Two specific things just happened that make me think that. First, Gene Chizik said that Auburn won't name a starter until the fall, and that freshmen have as much of a chance as anyone. Second, and more important in my decision-making, is the commitment of that 5-star quarterback Zeke Pike. I think the coaches know that Frazier is going to be starting as a freshman, and I think Pike knows it, too. The coaches and Pike both think Frazier will be around for only four years (or less), so Pike feels like he isn't going to be in a position where he has to unseat an established starter if he wants to play for more than one year.

Baby gender clothing

Why have young children’s clothing styles changed so dramatically? How did we end up with two “teams”—boys in blue and girls in pink?

“It’s really a story of what happened to neutral clothing,” says Paoletti, who has explored the meaning of children’s clothing for 30 years. For centuries, she says, children wore dainty white dresses up to age 6. “What was once a matter of practicality—you dress your baby in white dresses and diapers; white cotton can be bleached—became a matter of ‘Oh my God, if I dress my baby in the wrong thing, they’ll grow up perverted,’ ” Paoletti says.

The march toward gender-specific clothes was neither linear nor rapid. Pink and blue arrived, along with other pastels, as colors for babies in the mid-19th century, yet the two colors were not promoted as gender signifiers until just before World War I—and even then, it took time for popular culture to sort things out.

Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/When-Did-Girls-Start-Wearing-Pink.html#ixzz1K6R4WW9j

When Did Girls Start Wearing Pink?

Interior crocodile alligator

3E approves

Friday links

1. Time: Current time around the World and standard time zones map of the world

2. Involuntary Collaborations: I buy other people's landscape paintings at yard sales and Goodwill and put monsters in them.

3. :Communication-Methods: ~1 FOR THIS PLENIPOTENTIARY-JUDGE: David-Wynn: Miller's-KNOWLEDGE OF THESE CORRECT-SENTENCE-STRUCTURES-COMMUNICATION-PARSE-SYNTAX-GRAMMAR=(C.-S.-S.-C.-P.-S.-G.) IS WITH THE CLAIMS BY THE QUANTUM-LANGUAGE-PARSE-SYNTAX-GRAMMAR-NOW-TIME-WRITTEN-COMMUNICATION-FACTS.

~2 FOR THE EDUCATIONAL-CORRECTIONS OF THESE MODIFYING-COMMUNICATIONS ARE WITH THESE CORRECTION-CLAIMS AGAINST THESE FICTIONAL-ADVERB-VERB-USAGE WITH AN OPERATIONAL-METHODS OF A FICTIONAL-MODIFICATION-PARSE-SYNTAX-GRAMMAR.(8500-YEARS OF THE SYNTAX-MODIFICATIONS WITH EVERY LANGUAGE)

actual student work

talk talk talk tuesday

Why is it just video this, video that? Nobody ever TALKS around here anymore. Well I say nuts to that!

Actually, let's just have a video. Did you know that the original lyrics were "hail 3E, our he-goat overlords?" However, since that's weird and only vaguely true, the record company made forced the band to change them.



Yay!

Metal Monday

Monday Philosophy

But don't play with me, 'cause you're playing with fire

Fun fact: The original lyrics were "But you should pledge 3E, 'cause they're real cool guys." Unfortunately, Tri Epsilon would not be founded for another 37 years, so nobody knew what they were talking about, and RCA forced them to change the words.

Immigrants

The economic analysis in this report shows the S.B. 1070 approach would have devastating economic consequences if its goals were accomplished. When undocumented workers are taken out of the economy, the jobs they support through their labor, consumption, and tax payments disappear as well. Particularly during a time of profound economic uncertainty, the type of economic dislocation envisioned by S.B. 1070-type policies runs directly counter to the interests of our nation as we continue to struggle to distance ourselves from the ravages of the Great Recession.

Conversely, our analysis shows that legalizing undocumented immigrants in Arizona would yield a significant positive economic impact. Based on the historical results of the last legalization program under the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, our analysis shows a similar program would increase wages not only for immigrants but also for their native-born co-workers. This would generate more tax revenue and more consumer and business spending, supporting additional jobs throughout the economy.

A Rising Tide or a Shrinking Pie | Spiders Are Wonderful

I think this is my favorite ATHF scene (starting at 1:03) but there are so many to choose from

Also, every scene with the Mooninites.

I prefer the second one

Apparently, my blogging on this site is like Ursula K. Le Guin.

The most recent chapter of my dissertation that I sent to my adviser indicates that I write like George Orwell.

So, there you go.

there are no lyrics to use as the title for this post

I can't believe I never heard of Officer Bubbles before

The dude is suing YouTube for hosting the videos that show him being such a dick.

Blind spot test

I am always learning new things that make me wonder how I have gotten through life without knowing about them. This is the reason you have a blind spot:

The sheet of photoreceptors is much like a sheet of film at the back of a camera. But it has a hole in it. At one location, called the optic nerve head, processes of neurons collect together and pass as a bundle through the photoreceptor sheet to form the optic nerve (the thick black line extending up and to the left in the diagram), which carries information from the eye to the rest of the brain. At this location, there are no photoreceptors, and hence the brain gets no information from the eye about this particular part of the picture of the world. Because of this, you should have a "blind spot" (actually two, one for each eye), a place pretty much in the middle of what you can see where you can't see.

It's warm and golden like an oven that's wide open

for west

(you might have to click this one):


(but probably not this one):

Metal Monday

Saturday games

1. Carveola incident -- longer point-and-shoot

2. Little Master Cricket -- awesome

Fish Phriday

drunken slurring dwarf

seriously that's the description

Governor Mark Whitford

I can't explain why I like this.

Terrible Music Tuesday

Ugg.

Charles Barkley: a hero for our time

Atlantropa

Atlantropa, also referred to as Panropa, was a gigantic engineering and colonization project devised by the German architect Herman Sörgel in the 1920s and promulgated by him until his death in 1952. Its central feature was a hydroelectric dam to be built across the Strait of Gibraltar, which would have provided enormous amounts of hydroelecticity and would have led to the lowering of the surface of the Mediterranean Sea by up to 200 metres, opening up large new lands for settlement, for example in a now almost totally drained Adriatic Sea.

Sörgel saw his scheme, projected to take over a century, as a peaceful European-wide alternative to the Lebensraum concepts which later became one of stated reasons for Nazi conquest of new territories. Atlantropa would provide land and food, employment, electric power, and most of all, a new vision for Europe and neighbouring Africa.

Atlantropa at Wikipedia

you know what today is!

You pull out your bag, baby, and your fine to-do

3E Presents: Thursdizzle, RIP edition

Nate Dogg died Tuesday.

In this case, Northport...

I know I've posted it before. Traditions, brah.

The event is never small

SEC football

So now LSU is under suspicion because of that guy connected with Oregon, and Georgia just had a micro-suspension. That has got me thinking. Okay, SEC fans, we've had our time. The conference has been at the top, and things are bound to turn down. Since that's inevitable, I want the conference to go out with a little style.

Let's say that the current situation at LSU is just the tip of an iceberg, that the school has been hiring all sorts of illegal recruiters. That's LSU. I know that Bobby Petrino, Houston Nutt, and Nick Saban would cheat. I think Mean Eugene is honest, but perhaps the culture at Auburn is too corrupt for him, and also his players are obviously burglars and criminals. I know that Tennessee is inherently cheating. Mark Richt seems too goody-goody, but that's what people thought about Jim Tressel, too. Maybe Steve Spurrier is willing to bend the rules a little bit more than usual, thinking at his age he's got nothing to lose. Perhaps some of that Kentucky anything-to-win in basketball has leaked over to the football program.

What I am describing is a conference with the kind of rampant lawlessness we might associate with the old Southwest Conference. But it's on a much bigger stage, with much bigger stakes. And that's what I want to see: multiple titles, multiple probations, multiple scandals. I want serious discussions about a school getting the death penalty. I want the kind of hubris that poets would write about, or that could at least be a made-for-TV movie. I want to do this old school.

Terrible Music Tuesday

Awful. Just awful.

The Ides of March

The Ides of March (Latin: Idus Martii) is the name of 15 March in the Roman calendar, probably referring to the day of the full moon. The term ides was used for the 15th day of the months of March, May, July, and October, and the 13th day of the other months. The Ides of March was a festive day dedicated to the god Mars and a military parade was usually held. In modern times, the term Ides of March is best known as the date that Julius Caesar was killed in 44 B.C. Julius Caesar was stabbed (23 times) to death in the Roman Senate led by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus and 60 other conspirators.

On his way to the Theatre of Pompey (where he would be assassinated), Caesar saw a seer who had foretold that harm would come to him not later than the Ides of March. Caesar joked, "Well, the Ides of March have come", to which the seer replied "Ay, they have come, but they are not gone." This meeting is famously dramatized in William Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar, when Caesar is warned to "beware the Ides of March".

Ides of March

Women seem wicked when you're unwanted

...

...always makes me feel good.

Football misbehavior week

Auburn players breaking and entering, etc etc etc, but young dudes are generally idiots, so I am not surprised they did something stupid. What I really am struck by is The Ohio State Situation.

I am trying to think of another situation in which a coach got off as lightly as Jim Tressel apparently will. He knowingly lied about eligibility-ending violations by players. That is a resign-before-you-get-fired situation. And yet Tressel is still around. The man has no shame! All that, just to beat Arkansas.

boom

Why was Mike McNeil on my mind? No reason.

SPRING BREAK!!!!!

higher ground

If there's been an earthquake and a tsunami is coming, you need to get to higher ground.

happier than you and me

Tuesday tropical island infinite photo

That's what it's called, nerds.

Also, this message just arrived for westley b.

Saturday game

It is raining pretty hard here right now, so here is something: Tentacle Wars. It's pretty good once you get the hang of it.

I think this pretty much wraps up BHM with a nice lil bow

you think the honey badger cares?

Now, look, here's a house full of bees.



thanks, stupid!

It's never too late for metal monday!

An encyclopedia... that YOU can edit!

Has anyone else seen this? I hope it catches on.

take it easy baby don't you give me no lip

Friday links

1. Fake Moon Landings: "Nice try NASA but we are not fooled that easily! Not even your reptilian overlords can help you hide the truth now!"

2. Benny Hillifier

3. Foxfire Books 1-3

Crazies face-off

Contender: EN - TALKS WITH TEACHINGS FROM MY COSMIC FRIENDS

Contact:

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Warning: Mean Gene always wins.

Made a lot of money selling sheets on the family plan

Memory

“Photographic memory?” I asked.

He chuckled again. “Photographic memory is a detestable myth. Doesn’t exist. In fact, my memory is quite average. All of us here have average memories.”

That seemed hard to square with the fact that he knew huge chunks of “Paradise Lost” by heart. Earlier I watched him recite a list of 252 random digits as effortlessly as if it were his telephone number.

“What you have to understand is that even average memories are remarkably powerful if used properly,” Cooke said. He explained to me that mnemonic competitors saw themselves as “participants in an amateur research program” whose aim is to rescue a long-lost tradition of memory training.

Today we have books, photographs, computers and an entire superstructure of external devices to help us store our memories outside our brains, but it wasn’t so long ago that culture depended on individual memories. A trained memory was not just a handy tool but also a fundamental facet of any worldly mind. It was considered a form of character-building, a way of developing the cardinal virtue of prudence and, by extension, ethics. Only through memorizing, the thinking went, could ideas be incorporated into your psyche and their values absorbed.

Secrets of a Mind-Gamer

Metal Monday

scrott luv sited at local establishment

lol hipsters

Top Ten CD's That I Just Made Up (and accompanying made-up review excerpts) to listen to while skimming through some of the overwrought reviews on Pitchforkmedia.com

oh man we forgot it is BHM

James brown celebrity hottub


Sometimes it make me break out in a cold sweat!
One two three four!

Hot tub! Ha! Da!
Ah-full of water!
I say hot tub! Ha!
Day! Ba! Very, very hot... Very hot! Da!
Hot tub! Gonna get ya hot-a!
Gonna make ya sweat! Hey! Say!
Hot tub! Rub a dub in the hot tub!
Rub a dub with me!

Should I get in the hot tub?
(Yeah!)
Will it make me sweat?
(Yeah!)
Should I get in the hot tub?
(Yeah!)
Will it make me wet?
(Yeah!)
Well, well, well...

Hot tub! Ah!
Get in!
Gonna get in the water!
Gonna make me sweat! Ah!
Here I go in the hot tub!

HHHHIIIGGGHH!!

Too hot in the hot tub! Ma!

Burn myself!
Make it cooler!
Good God!
Gonna make me...

I'm gonna get in the hot tub..
I'm gonna get in the hot tub..
I'm gonna get in the hot tub..
Ha! Lilin! Lidilin! Eh!
A gonna make me sweat-ah!
Dah! Gonna make me sweat!
Gonna make me sweat-ah!
Dah! Gonna get me in the hot tub!
I can't stand it!
Here I go! I can't stand it!

Here I go in the hot tub!
Gonna get in the hot tub!
Gonna get it wet-ah!
Good God!
HHHIIIIGGHHH!! Ha!
Good God!
Rub a dub!
In the hot tub!
Rub a dub with me!
Good God!
Rub a dub in the hot tub!
Gonna set me free!

thursdays!

No, now I can't watch Parks and Recreation without singing this. Why do you ask?

no reason.

so like a pimp I'm pimpin' got a boat to eat shrimp in

Food critics

It has always been crucial to the gourmet’s pleasure that he eat in ways the mainstream cannot afford. For hundreds of years this meant consuming enormous quantities of meat. That of animals that had been whipped to death was more highly valued for centuries, in the belief that pain and trauma enhanced taste. “A true gastronome,” according to a British dining manual of the time, “is as insensible to suffering as is a conqueror.” But for the past several decades, factory farms have made meat ever cheaper and—as the excellent book The CAFO [Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations] Reader makes clear—the pain and trauma are thrown in for free. The contemporary gourmet reacts by voicing an ever-stronger preference for free-range meats from small local farms. He even claims to believe that well-treated animals taste better, though his heart isn’t really in it. Steingarten tells of watching four people hold down a struggling, groaning pig for a full 20 minutes as it bled to death for his dinner. He calls the animal “a filthy beast deserving its fate.”

[...]

The moral logic in Pollan’s hugely successful book now informs all food writing: the refined palate rejects the taste of factory-farmed meat, of the corn-syrupy junk food that sickens the poor, of frozen fruits and vegetables transported wastefully across oceans—from which it follows that to serve one’s palate is to do right by small farmers, factory-abused cows, Earth itself. This affectation of piety does not keep foodies from vaunting their penchant for obscenely priced meals, for gorging themselves, even for dining on endangered animals—but only rarely is public attention drawn to the contradiction. This has much to do with the fact that the nation’s media tend to leave the national food discourse to the foodies in their ranks. To people like Pollan himself. And Severson, his very like-minded colleague at The New York Times. Is any other subculture reported on so exclusively by its own members? Or with a frequency and an extensiveness that bear so little relation to its size? (The “slow food” movement that we keep hearing about has fewer than 20,000 members nationwide.)

The Moral Crusade Against Foodies

He's got cards he ain't showing

Sometimes you just can't parody life

Weezer's cover of the State Farm jingle:

In the all-time history of bad ideas:

Project Pluto:

The proposed use for nuclear-powered ramjets would be to power a cruise missile, called SLAM, for Supersonic Low Altitude Missile. In order to reach ramjet speed, it would be launched from the ground by a cluster of conventional rocket boosters. Once it reached cruising altitude and was far away from populated areas the nuclear reactor would be turned on. Since nuclear power gave it almost unlimited range, the missile could cruise in circles over the ocean until ordered 'down to the deck' for its supersonic dash to targets in the Soviet Union. The SLAM as proposed would carry a payload of many nuclear weapons to be dropped on multiple targets, making the cruise missile into an unmanned bomber.

Also known as the Flying Crowbar:

Pluto's namesake was Roman mythology's ruler of the underworld -- seemingly an apt inspiration for a locomotive-size missile that would travel at near-treetop level at three times the speed of sound, tossing out hydrogen bombs as it roared overhead. Pluto's designers calculated that its shock wave alone might kill people on the ground. Then there was the problem of fallout. In addition to gamma and neutron radiation from the unshielded reactor, Pluto's nuclear ramjet would spew fission fragments out in its exhaust as it flew by. One enterprising weaponeer had a plan to turn an obvious peace-time liability into a wartime asset: he suggested flying the radioactive rocket back and forth over the Soviet Union after it had dropped its bombs.

[...]

Meanwhile, at the Pentagon, Pluto's sponsors were having second thoughts about the project. Even before it began dropping bombs on our enemies Pluto would have deafened, flattened, and irradiated our friends. The noise level on the ground as Pluto went by overhead was expected to be about 150 decibels. Ruptured eardrums, of course, would have been the least of your problems if you were unlucky enough to be underneath the unshielded reactor when it went by, literally roasting chickens in the barnyard. Pluto had begun to look like something only Goofy could love.

I can't believe this was never completed.

ever since I was a tiny boy

Philosophy experiments

These kinds of internet quiz things are fun to do, but ultimately I think they're pretty silly. It is almost always necessary to grossly simplify situations, construct some false analogy, or find non-existent contradictions in order to create these easy-to-answer yes-or-no kinds of questions. I need room for nuance in answers. As is, they're only useful to suss out the extremes -- to find people who are, say, 100% utilitarian in every situation.

Most importantly, and I'm thinking specifically of the "Should you kill the fat man?" quiz, these kinds of discussions lack what I think is the key fact of the human condition: sometimes there is no right. People are in situations (all the time, in fact) in which there is no morally right answer, and whatever you do, you've done something wrong. There might be less wrong answers, or decisions that are a different kind of wrong, but you're wrong either way.

this just in

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Packers

3E approves

The Big Lebowski parody posters

Friday links

Boxcar2D is pretty cool. There has to be a math or science teaching moment in there.

The Diving Board "is a Panel of football fans that have set out to instill awareness of the simulation and diving that inevitably occurs during most football matches."

Followed by Dwarf Hoarders

Connections

Connections!

Connections!!

Connections!!!

Mashup Monday

Where's Randy Savage?

here!

Droid is from Android

I got a new phone, although not because I drunkenly smashed my old one. It is fancy! I am a big fan so far.

"In the meantime, thanks, ants. Thants."

"What are birds? We just don't know."

Does this seem counterproductive?

Amazon

Metal Monday

Who dat guy on the left?

I'm so ugly. But that's ok. 'Cause so are you.

So...

I just finished RE-reading Gravity's Rainbow. That's twice. Your erection is understandable.

RIP George Plimpton!

This is America. Nobody deserves to be treated as a black man!

This is what Nancy Grace wants to be.


Judge Rules White Girl Will Be Tried As Black Adult

"he would sometimes spot his opponents 15 points for a game up to 21 and during every point, recall a painful experience from his childhood."

Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist is one of my favorite TV shows ever, and there's no good reason it shouldn't still exist. Via the youtube you can find many. Also, Jonathan Katz has multiple sclerosis.

He was the New York ping pong champion in 1964.

He is a close personal friend of renowned playwright David Mamet, with whom he attended Goddard College. Katz co-wrote House of Games with Mamet and had small roles in the Mamet directed films Things Change, Homicide, The Spanish Prisoner and State and Main. They used to travel around college to college hustling people over games of ping pong. Katz would let Mamet beat him. They would pretend to play for money then Mamet would say "If you want to play me, you have to beat my friend first." To keep the game moderately close, he would sometimes spot his opponents 15 points for a game up to 21 and during every point, recall a painful experience from his childhood.

Atlanta

Since big-time professional sports arrived in 1966, teams sailing under the Atlanta flag have completed 149 seasons. (We won’t count baseball in 1994, when the World Series was canceled by a players’ strike, or the 2004-2005 NHL campaign, which was scrubbed due to a lockout.) Only one has yielded a championship. That’s a batting average of .007, which is nice if you’re James Bond, less nice if you’ve invested financial and emotional capital in any of those 148 misses.

Atlanta's Sad Sports History

Metal Monday

Metal Monday bonus: The awesome Map of Metal.

Seeing Caleb Hanie reminded me of great gunslingas of Colorado State past...

...and that discussion begins and ends with Bradlee Van Pelt.



Apologies for the soundtrack but the two options were that or a video with the actual live commentary from Pam Ward.