December 2008
20 posts
Bad Days →
It’s a Christmas miracle! Astonishingly, I have updated my “Dead Presidents” Tumblr with a new article called “Bad Days”. I cordially invite you all to go read it, although I will warn you ahead of time that you’ll probably be bored to tears by it unless you really enjoy detailed Presidential history.
If you do decide to check it out because you are either a...
Esquire's "What I've Learned" Articles →
I don’t read Esquire. I’m too cheap to buy magazines so I either read the online versions or linger at the newstand in Save Mart for five minutes to read any article that interests me. (People like me are a big reason why magazines and newspapers are having a rough time.) However, I highly recommend checking out Esquire’s online archive of “What I’ve Learned”...
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Sorry, Snoop Dogg; NorCal Has Arrived
When I was in high school, you couldn’t go watch Grant High’s running back Onterrio Smith break all sorts of records on Friday nights. You couldn’t do that because Grant wasn’t allowed to have football games on Friday nights. Too many shootings in the Del Paso Heights neighborhood surrounding the high school meant that a lot of people missed out on Onterrio’s...
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Dear Minnesota
Dear Minnesota,
The election was on November 4th. You’re still counting and recounting the votes in the very close U.S. Senate contest between Republican incumbent Norm Coleman and Democratic challenger Al Franken. I can understand the difficulty with deciding an election with a razor-thin margin between the candidates. I can understand taking all the time necessary in order to make sure...
The Pride of Del Paso Heights
Tonight at 8:00 PM at the Home Depot Center in Carson, one of the most storied high school football programs in Northern California faces its toughest challenge as Grant High School’s Pacers (13-0) take on Long Beach Poly’s Jackrabbits (14-0) in California’s Open Division Bowl State Championship game.
Long Beach Poly is not only the #1 ranked team in California, but it is ranked...
“(Side note: Do you realize that if you live in Sacramento right now your...”
– - John Hollinger, ESPN.com
I’ll answer that question: Uh…yeah.
Civic Literacy Test →
You answered 27 out of 33 correctly — 81.82 %
(The average score for all 2,508 Americans taking the following test was 49%; college educators scored 55%.)
I’m disappointed in myself for a couple of the questions I missed. I should have had 31 out of 33 answered correctly. Two of them were definitely things that I didn’t know, however.
Dr. J Redeems Himself
When I was 18, I had a huge crush on Alexandra Stevenson, who is a few months younger than me and shocked the tennis world by almost winning Wimbledon in 1999. I wasn’t a fan of tennis (and still am not), but I followed her career for a while until my crush went away.
During Alexandra’s Wimbledon run, it was revealed that her father was “Dr. J” — Julius Erving. As...
In My Bed Magazine to Publish "Covered in Glitter"
keithallendavis:
Earlier today I received an email stating that my flash fiction submission Covered in Glitter was selected for the fourth issue of In My Bed magazine, per the theme “one-night stands”.
I questioned my submission shortly after I sent it. Describing a stripper’s vagina as looking like the burnt ends of beef brisket doesn’t make a story an easy sell. Thankfully, they liked it...
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Obnoxious Things To Do With Butter
I was sitting here at home trying to think of something important to write. I thought that I could spend my time writing something meaningful, something socially relevant, something that reaches deep inside of you and touches your heart, your mind, and your soul. I wanted to write something tonight that fans the fading embers of our conscience and sparks a blaze of thought within all of us...
“Know how to play the card of contempt. It is the most politic kind of revenge. ...”
– Baltasar Gracián
I’ve been on a real Digital Underground kick...
Don't Talk To Me On The Train
I wear my iPod on the train so that I don’t have to socialize with people. Not because I’m rude (although I am), but because I’ve never had a constructive conversation with someone on the train. Even if my iPod battery dies, I will leave my ear buds in so that people don’t bother me. Trust me, it usually works. Last night, a weird guy was walking up and down the aisles...
Watchamandalynferri:
hilarysiegel:
Obsessed, unfortunately.
Streeter posted this yesterday and it is safe to say that the whole office is obsessed with this song. It might be an understatement to say I have heard this song 25 times today. IT IS SO GOOD!!!!!!
TOTALLY CRUSHIN’ ON THE GURL IN DA VIDEO. SHE WILL BE 18 IN MAY, NO WORZ
Awesome.