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Sports - They Still Call It Football: Rooting Interests
Posted by Admin on Sunday, August 24, 2008 (42 reads) Topic Open Mike
Written by Michael J Smith
| Who do you love? The home team, of course. The players you drafted for you fantasy league team, for sure. If you’re like me, there are players you just root for. In some cases, it’s something about the way they play the game. In other cases, it’s something about their circumstances. Last year, I rooted for Brett Favre; one of the game’s all-time greats somehow reaching back for one last fastball. This season? I don’t think so, and not just because he’s playing for the Jets and I’m a Pats fan. No, somehow it just doesn’t feel right. Maybe this sequel isn’t as bad a decision as greenlighting "Weekend at Bernie’s II," but nothing could be that bad. Could it?
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Politics: Biden Time
Posted by admin on Sunday, August 24, 2008 (29 reads) Topic Open Mike
Written by Michael J Smith
| The other shoe turned out to be Joe Biden. Barack Obama has named the senator from Delaware his choice for Vice President. I suppose it’s a good choice from a political point of view. It addresses Obama’s experience/national defense weaknesses, and it helps to balance the ticket in that Biden is (a) white and (b) not Hillary. Still, this seems more like politics as usual than it does change we can believe in.
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Politics: Cleanliness is Next to Electability
Posted by Admin on Tuesday, August 19, 2008 (38 reads) Topic Open Mike
Written by Michael J Smith
| Obama and McCain took their God Test last week. It was administered by proctor Rick Warren, and both did surprisingly well. McCain’s ties to the religious right are frayed and tenuous. Obama’s middle name is Hussein. Both could use a wink and a nod from Jesus to seal the deal in November.
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Sports - They Still Call It Football: You Can Do Whatever You Want – I’m In Remission
Posted by admin on Monday, August 18, 2008 (35 reads) Topic Open Mike
Written by Michael J Smith
| I guess everything is situational. I mean, that’s all Einstein was really trying to say, wasn’t he? Seriously, what was that dude up to? Huh… He finished his career in New Jersey, too. Big Jets, fan. He was Physicist Al before there ever was a Fireman Ed. Y-E-T-S, Yets, Yets, Yets! Anyway, this time of year, most observers of pigskins—fans, in other words—are focused on their team and its specific problems. Most of them are cautiously optimistic.
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Sports - They Still Call It Football: Are We There Yet?
Posted by admin on Monday, August 04, 2008 (53 reads) Topic Open Mike
Written by Michael J Smith
| The pre-season—HOF game notwithstanding—hasn’t even started and already I’m so terribly, terribly bored. Am I bored? Or am I sublimating my suicidal anxiety through feigned boredom? Why would I ask that question if I didn’t suspect the answer was yes? Why would I ask myself that follow up question if I didn’t suspect this whole thing must be a trick? That I’m playing on myself. Huh. I need me some pigskins. I-V! Stat!
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Sports - They Still Call It Football: Training Days
Posted by admin on Sunday, July 27, 2008 (67 reads) Topic Open Mike
Written by Michael J Smith
| | The greatest game ever devised by man as authored by its most skilled practitioners is about to resume. Oh, sure, they’re thugs, criminals, misunderstood little boys in a grown man’s body, rock stars, Jesus freaks, drug addicts, schizoid-effective, egomaniacal thrill-seekers. And one day, one of them will be President. One day. No truth to the rumors Barack Obama named Tom Brady his Veep. Too bad. That would totally rock.
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If it's Sunday, it's Meet the Press.
Posted by Admin on Sunday, June 15, 2008 (105 reads) Topic Editorials
Written by brian barbour
| Ross Perot inevitably ended his political career in a swift moment on the popular Sunday morning political talk show as he sat across from the NBC Washington Bureau Chief Tim Russert. It became the defining moment in Russert's career and made "Meet the Press" the place where politicians laid their careers on the line for an hour to see if they could survive the ultimate line of questioning from the ultimate journalist.
And just like that now famous interview nearly 16 years ago, in a swift moment the world of Journalism and Washington lost The Man as he was doing his job preparing for Sunday's show on Friday afternoon.
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Politics: The Perfect is the Enemy of the Good
Posted by Admin on Wednesday, June 11, 2008 (123 reads) Topic Open Mike
Written by Michael J Smith
| The primaries are done. Finally! All that democracy was getting tiring, wasn’t it? Multi-Culti cutie Barack Obama has secured the delegates, and will face off with crusty, curmudgeonly, old coot John McCain in the general election. Ironically, it appears that it’s still Hillary Clinton’s race to lose. Or so it seems listening to the Pundits and Bobbleheads. She will be responsible if Obama loses because, you see, he will only lose if Hillary fails to convinces her supporters to put an X in the box next to Barack’s name in November. Really? I guess a woman’s work is never done.
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A Tremendous Machine
Posted by Admin on Friday, May 30, 2008 (128 reads) Topic Essays
Written by brian barbour
| On this upcoming June 7th, Big Brown (like 5 others in the last 10 years) heads into the Belmont Stakes with the potential to win Horse Racing's Triple Crown. In an effort to educate my 7 year old son, I went to You Tube, and showed him as much video footage as I could of some of the great Triple Crown winners.
But there was one that we kept coming back to.
Belmont, 1973. 2:24 Flat. 31 Lengths.
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Culture: Breakfast with Glenn and Steve – May 26
Posted by admin on Wednesday, May 28, 2008 (117 reads) Topic Open Mike
Written by Michael J Smith
| Interior. The Wooden Spoon restaurant. The décor unsurprisingly features wooden spoons of various sizes affixed to the papered walls. A man sits at a table adorned with small ceramic containers of sweeteners and jellies, a plastic squeeze bottle of maple syrup, and crowded with plates of food; omelets, home fries, and plates stacked with toast. Another man approaches…
As I sat down opposite Steve, I asked, "So, has Glenn gone to walk the earth like Caine?"
"He’s in the bathroom," Steve said.
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Dementia
Posted by Admin on Monday, May 26, 2008 (153 reads) Topic Short Stories
Written by raven
| “ Dementia”
By David Farmer
The symptoms first became obvious in the yard. A fat stubble-faced
man in an indolent slouch sat smoking inside a rusted pickup while
a skinny Mexican almost sprinted with a mower around the small scrubby yard. As I pulled into the drive and walked from my car
to the cab of the pickup I saw dad in a jerky tremulous motion hand
the fat man two twenty dollar bills. I had witnessed a nearly
identical transaction only days ago during a visit with
my father in a futile attempt to persuade him to vacate the shambles of
his home to come live with my wife and I.
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On Writing
Posted by Admin on Thursday, May 15, 2008 (171 reads) Topic Essays
Written by raven
| At the age of fourteen I was given a large brown bag filled with paperback books by an elderly neighbor woman. I had mowed her yard that summer and she somehow decided I should be the recipient of such a bounty of real literature.
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Sports - They Still Call It Football: Daft Day
Posted by Admin on Monday, April 28, 2008 (180 reads) Topic Open Mike
Written by Michael J Smith
| The Falcons were supposed to follow the blueprint they bought from the NWE when they hired away Thomas Dimitroff to be their their new GM. They were supposed to take Glenn Dorsey, rebuilding the ATL from the line of scrimmage. But the chance to take a franchise QB in Matt Ryan, who is everything that Michael Vick is not, was apparently too seductive. And the All-American defensive tackle from LSU, who was the consensus #1 pick just a few short weeks ago, would have to settle for tens of millions of dollars less as he tumbled from the top spot to #5 and a guaranteed ten losses a year for the next three seasons in Kansas City. Dorsey will probably suffer the agony of defeat more often in his first professional season than he did for his entire college career. Welcome to the NFL, kid!
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Culture: Breakfast with Glenn and Steve - April 9
Posted by admin on Wednesday, April 09, 2008 (184 reads) Topic Open Mike
Written by Michael J Smith
| Interior. Young’s Restaurant. The recently redecorated décor is debatably Bauhaus. Two friends sit at a booth that features a metal napkin dispenser, a miniature metal ewer of cream and a miniature metal basket of white, pink and blue packaged sweeteners. The table is covered with large plates covered to the edges with omelets, sausage links and home fries. The waitress refills their coffee cups and leaves as a third friend approaches their booth…
As I slid into the bench next to Glenn, Steve said, "Where have you been?"
"Sorry I’m late. I’ve been depressed," I said. "It often manifests itself in an inability to tell time."
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Culture: Three Days in London
Posted by Admin on Sunday, March 09, 2008 (230 reads) Topic Open Mike
Written by Michael J Smith
| I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve seen Lord Nelson from the window of a cab, but as the taxi wheeled through Trafalgar Square Tuesday morning I looked again. More light, boy. More light… Insurance is a tough gig, but I don’t think I’ll wind up having to learn how to sign my name left-handed because of it.
Or maybe…
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New Photo Essay: The Lamp
Posted by Admin on Saturday, February 23, 2008 (1053 reads) Topic Announcements
Written by Hal Tenny
| What good is a nice new table without a nice new lamp? It's like buying a car with no tires. I started this table about two years ago. There's quite a story behind it if you care to know. I don't have the building process documented but I can tell you the quick version and then you can see that it badly needed a custom table lamp to go with it. And I did document the building of the lamp with photos. So read on if you're interested!
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Politics: House of Waxman
Posted by admin on Monday, February 18, 2008 (257 reads) Topic Open Mike
Written by Michael J Smith
| I know you know. There are plenty of other things Congress could be doing. They could be doing something about the economy and the mortgage mess. Or health care. Immigration. Maybe they missed it, but a few childrens have been left behind. And of course, there’s Iraq. If we want to look into cheating, maybe we should start with whether or not the US tortured - Sorry, I mean cheated because we don't torture, of course - to win the War on Terror. But beyond the seeming inability of our elected officials to prioritize their work, and the dubious constitutional justification for oversight of professional athletics, I’m just wondering… Why we would ever allow politicians to investigate anyone else’s integrity?
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The Old Days
Posted by Admin on Saturday, February 16, 2008 (235 reads) Topic Humor
Written by Admin
| Heres a little something going around on the net. Tewa received this in an email from a cousin. I don't even know if 'The Hollywood Squares' is still on TV or not, but that is where this came from. If you don't get a kick out of this, there's something seriously wrong with you...
Q. Do female frogs croak?
A. Paul Lynde: If you hold their little heads under water long enough.
Q. If you're going to make a parachute jump, at least how high should you be?
A. Charley Weaver: Three days of steady drinking should do it.
Q. True or False, a pea can last as long as 5,000 years?
A. George Gobel: Boy, it sure seems that way sometimes.
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Culture: Breakfast with Glenn and Steve – February 15
Posted by Admin on Thursday, February 14, 2008 (258 reads) Topic Open Mike
Written by Michael J Smith
| Interior. Young’s Restaurant. The recently redecorated décor is debatably Bauhaus. Two friends sit at a booth that features a metal napkin dispenser, a miniature metal ewer of cream and a miniature metal basket of white, pink and blue packaged sweeteners. The table is covered with large plates covered to the edges with omelets, sausage links and home fries. The waitress refills their coffee cups and leaves as a third friend approaches their booth…
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Sports - They Still Call It Football: The Afterlife
Posted by Admin on Monday, February 04, 2008 (270 reads) Topic Open Mike
Written by Michael J Smith
| One guy makes a play. Another guy doesn’t. Sometimes, it’s as simple as that. And maybe it’s reassuring that the fundamental things do still apply. Defense wins championships. Or loses them, as the case may be. Take it easy, fellow Patriots’ fans. It’s just a game. Bruises fade and cuts heal, and we can’t possibly feel worse than Tiki Barber does right now.
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Sports - They Still Call It Football: Eleventh Hour
Posted by Admin on Saturday, February 02, 2008 (447 reads) Topic Open Mike
Written by Michael J Smith
| Tom Brady’s ankle got me to thinking. If it was me (and certainly, it never will be), I wouldn’t wait to get hurt. I’d wear a brace on everything, all the time, as a precautionary measure. I’m actually tempted to wear shoulder, knee, elbow, and ankle braces at work. I wonder if psychologically it would make me feel stronger, like a cyborg from the future with superhuman strength. I would have to start wearing my sunglasses all the time… Maybe that wouldn’t be a good thing. Steering committee meetings might change from figurative to literal bloodbaths. It would be fun briefly, of course, but it’s not a good long-term strategy.
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Sports - They Still Call It Football: Champs and Chumps
Posted by Admin on Friday, January 25, 2008 (254 reads) Topic Open Mike
Written by Michael J Smith
| Go ahead. Take a deep breath. It makes you feel a little giddy, doesn’t it? It’s because the oxygen is so clean and pure up here. Then you look down. And you realize exactly what you have to lose. A Super Bowl. Losing the Super Bowl is like being a one-term President. I mean, you got to the big show, and just 42 men can say that. But only some of them are in The Conversation with George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, or Franklin Roosevelt. The rest of them are Martin Van Buren and his ilk. Van Buren began a string of really terrible Presidents, culminating with the loathsome James Buchanan. You really don’t want to be mentioned in the same breath with any of those guys. Coincidentally, this will be the 42nd Super Bowl. How’s that for random validation? Plus, you know… 42. I’m just sayin’… This is kind of a big deal.
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