Been a few weeks since a Fab Five Friday update, thanks to travel and the Macbook dying. And we are late this week, but… Here are five songs worth listening to this week. Amberly Chalberg–Crazy Bout You This one sounds … Continue reading Fab Five Friday–December 6, 2019
Now that we are through Thanksgiving, ya’ll are legally allowed to focus on Christmas. Those of you who jumped the gun, shame on you. Shame. And that now includes Christmas music. I’ll let you have the next few weeks, but just know I do this my own way. Frolicking through the snow, jingling of bells and blah, blah. All that ain’t me. As I was recently told, “it was a cute movie, you would hate it.”. I’ve been up front with depressing music consoling me in some sort of twisted way. So yeah, my Christmas music list might be a … Continue reading Playlist of the Week: Acceptable Christmas Music
Here are the confidence pool rankings for this week’s NFL slate. The Saints-49ers matchup is the big one this week, following the 49ers-Ravens last week. 16 at Packers 15 at Vikings 14 at Texans 13 at Eagles 12 at Browns 11 Ravens 10 at Jets 9 at Patriots 8 Chargers 7 at Falcons 6 Cowboys 5 at Buccaneers 4 Titans 3 Steelers 2 at Saints 1 at Rams Continue reading NFL Confidence Pool Rankings Week 14
I’m not quite sure where to file Spoken Word stuff here, other than occasionally in the “shit I like” pile. I consider it mostly like podcasts and audiobooks, I call it reading, not listening for some reason. I’m not sure if that is old school, curmudgeon or what. I also refuse to ponder it too long. Consume, enjoy, properly ponder, learn, move on. I’ve posted about my love for Tiny Desk before. Last week, Mereba was on there. I had no familiarity, but I tend to listen to every new episode TD puts out. Walking out in an isolated area, … Continue reading Worth A Read: Mereba–Dodging The Devil
Every college baskbetall season, we see the clip of Jimmy Valvano’s “Don’t Ever Give Up Speech from the 1993 ESPYs. The foundation continues to raise money for cancer research. They play clips frequently, but I whole-heartedly believe the entire speech, which checks in around 10 minutes, should be required viewing. Seriously, I watch it at least once a year. You should too. Even if you have seen it before. Watch it again. Then go live it. The rest takes care of itself. While you are at it, go watch Stuart Scott’s too, then wipe away the tears, come back and … Continue reading A Speech That Should Be Required Viewing For High School Graduation
Here are my lineups for this week. I’m playing cash-only, and just a couple of different lineups too. Continue reading NFL DFS Week 13
Earlier this week, I posted my wish list for the special releases that were coming out for Black Friday’s Record Store Day. With the Mules’ schedule for the Capital Classic, I was a little concerned because I could not go until mid afternoon. Luckily, Record Cellar in Vincennes had nearly everything I was looking for. Of my list of six, Rick still had five of them. The only one he didn’t get in was the Steep Canyon Rangers. All in all, a good haul. Continue reading Record Store Day Haul
Between the Macbook biting the dust and travel by both me and my boss in consecutive weeks, it has been about a month since I was last able to update my power ratings for college football. The holiday week allowed me to finally get them updated this week. This is my first update since the Tua injury, and Alabama slides down to number four in my rankings. That is probably a spot or two higher than most, as I’m giving credit to Nick Saban to be smart enough to negate some of the dropoff through game plan. I think his … Continue reading College Football Power Ratings Week 14
I have a Thanksgiving tradition. Every year, I rewatch The Last Waltz, Martin Scorsese’s look at the final concert of The Band, Thanksgiving 1978. It is my favorite concert of all time. Well, I broke tradition this year, partly out of necessity and partly out of “oh look, something new and shiny”. I digitized my DVD collection a couple years ago, and don’t even have a DVD connected in my house any more. And my Macbook is still down, so I don’t have access to my movie library, because it is on a Mac-formatted external drive. Luckily, Scorcese has something … Continue reading Let’s Get Reel: The Irishman
Every week I post my confidence pool rankings here on the blog. Except for last week. Because I completely forgot to submit my picks before Thursday’s game, which locks the rest of the week. I was sitting the FCHS gymnasium at halftime of the Lady Mules game, when I wondered what the score was of the Thursday night game…and it immediately hit me. I somehow managed to remember to do my picks while on the road in California, but not the following week. So, I’m no longer in the top 10 of my season-long rankings. All that being said, here … Continue reading NFL Confidence Pools Week 13
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