Mile High Bally & I are headed down I-25 for some hoops tonight, as I got myself a press credential — making me literally the FAKE NEWS MEDIA!!! 😂 — for the 6pm men’s basketball game at Clune Arena between Air Force (9-14 overall, 3-8 Mountain West) and the #4-ranked team in the country, undefeated San Diego State (23-0, 12-0)…. Read more »
When I logged off Twitter on January 1, and declared this year a #Twitterless2020, my actual goal was that I would ultimately tweet exactly once all year: a long-imagined tweet, or brief series of tweets, on November 3 or 4, if things go as I hope. (Knock on wood.) But this evening, as I processed the news of Mitt Romney’s… Read more »
[SCENE: The United States of America, every New Year’s Eve since 2016.]PERSON #1: “Well, that was an awful year. Good riddance.”PERSON #2: “Yeah. I sure hope the new year is better.” [Clock strikes midnight.]THE NEW YEAR: “Hold my beer.” Because I’m not on Twitter, I’m not automatically creating a sort of personal record for posterity of the past week’s events… Read more »
As I prepare for #Twitterless2020 — my John Green-inspired decision to sign off Twitter for the year — I’ve been pondering how to strike the right balance between two competing impulses. On the one hand, I know myself too well to think I’ll be happy without an outlet for publishing stuff when I have something to say (or a joke… Read more »
[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] Nineteen years and half a life ago, I fell in love with this beautiful woman in London. (Yes, I met and started dating @rmz24601 at USC, during our freshman year—but I *fell in love* with her the following summer, in London.) Eight days ago, we returned to this fair city… Read more »
[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] It’s March Madness Eve — the afternoon before the greatest four days in sports — and that can only mean one thing: pointless, quasi-ritualistic, probably self-defeating overthinking of my bracket. A tradition unlike any other. 🙂 P.S. At http://bit.ly/LRT4th2019 you can enter @krizoitz’s free “Living Room Times Memorial Pool,” which… Read more »
[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] With our long national Kava-nightmare almost over in one sense (and just beginning in another sense), I suppose I might as well go ahead and share (an expanded version of) the extremely depressing big-picture thoughts on the state of the nation that I typed up last Friday morning (before Flake… Read more »
[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] First of all: if you haven’t joined already, enter my 14th annual Oscar Pool! (Password: eternalglory) It’s free to enter. The prize is ETERNAL GLORY! The deadline is 6:30 PM Mountain Time today (Sunday). Secondly: this is where you’ll find Becky’s & my annual Live-Blog / Live-Chat / Live-Snark, a.k.a…. Read more »
[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] It’s that time of year again… and I’ve procrastinated until the last minute again… but the 14th annual Living Room Times Oscar Pool is finally online and ready for your predictions! The password is eternalglory – because, of course, this is your one chance to earn official, Living Room Times-certified… Read more »
[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] I made a Schrödinger’s Win Probability Chart for the Super Bowl, from Sunday night through Tuesday morning, showing who I thought probably won, based on hints I received & hunches I had while playing Last Man. P.S. To clarify/explain a few points: • This @SylvanRansom tweet, RT’d Sunday night by… Read more »
