[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] The Oscars are this Sunday, which means it’s time for the 10th annual Living Room Times Oscar Pool! The pool is free to enter. As always, there’s no monetary prize – just a shot at bragging rights and, well, you know. (Here is the list of past winners. @gswoods is… Read more »
[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] Upon noticing a Facebook friend’s new profile picture of herself and her husband as a young couple in love, ~20(?) years ago, I was inspired to go find and post my all-time favorite picture of Becky and me, from almost 14 years ago. (Long-time readers might remember it from Defining… Read more »
As you may have noticed, this blog has gone completely dormant over the last year. I’ve been slow in setting up redirects, but if you’re looking for an Oscar or NCAA pool, go to my Tumblr page, “The Living Room Tumblr,” at http://brendanloy.tumblr.com. I’m not formally shutting this blog down — who knows, maybe I’ll pick it up again at… Read more »
[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] SCENE: [2 1/2-year-old daughter wakes up at 5:15 AM and walks out of her room. Daddy goes to her.] Me: “It’s still nighttime, sweetie. Time to go back to bed.” Her: (whimpering) “But…I want to…snuggle…in the chair!” Me: (Thinks to myself that I shouldn’t indulge this, as it encourages her… Read more »
[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] “You kind of set off an eternal winter… everywhere.”
[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] -10° on the outdoor thermometer at @StapletonDenver’s Swigert McAuliffe school. #cowx #brrrr
[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] Here is my annual live-tweeting window for #LastMan. (I’m not playing, but others are.) What the heck is #LastMan, you ask? Read on, underneath the live-tweeting window, to find out. WARNING: This post contains #TheKnowledge. // Last Man, a.k.a. #lastman, is a game of deliberate media / knowledge avoidance,… Read more »
[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] For complete live coverage of Last Man 2014 (and an explanation of what it is), click here. This post is solely for the purpose of giving active Knowledge Runners a redacted, #TheKnowledge-free version of Alyssa Newcomb’s ABC News blog post about #lastman. The original article is here, but it contains… Read more »
