[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] First of all, if you haven’t already, join my 12th annual Oscar Pool! (Password: eternalglory) The deadline is 6:30 PM Mountain Time Sunday. Second, this is where you’ll find Becky’s & my annual Live-Blog / Live-Chat / Live-Snark, a.k.a. SNARKNADO 2016, starting Sunday night at 6:00 PM MST, or thereabouts…. Read more »
[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] The Living Room Times NCAA Pools are no more, retired after a 20-year run. But there’s still a way you can earn ETERNAL GLORY in 2016. I refer, of course, to the 12th annual Living Room Times Oscar Pool. The Oscars are Sunday (i.e., tomorrow), which means – well, it… Read more »
[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] Every year on Halloween, at our house on the southwest side of Denver’s Stapleton neighborhood, we get somewhere between 1,100 and 1,250 trick-or-treaters. I’m not exaggerating. A couple of years ago, I wrote an article about how to survive Halloween in our neighborhood for a blog run by Stapleton’s master… Read more »
[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] The GOP establishment’s full-court press to draft a reluctant Paul Ryan into running for Speaker of the House after two of the most genuinely shocking congressional developments since Bob Livingston – Boehner’s resignation two weeks ago, followed by the McCarthy debacle yesterday – has done more than just throw the… Read more »
[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] Sometimes, insights into one’s own thought processes arise in unexpected ways. Like, for instance… …that time when a pedestrian, partisan Twitter argument with someone who was Wrong On The Internet turned into an extended, detailed articulation of my Grand Unified Theory of #PANIC about the direction of the country. …or… Read more »
[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] Ten years ago, at roughly this hour, I published a blog post titled “New Orleans in peril.” I was just a law student with a moderately popular blog, and hurricanes were one of the many things that I liked to blog about, so of course I was going to write… Read more »
[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] Last week, inspired by a Planet Money podcast episode in which the “wisdom of crowds” was tested by having 17,205 people guess the weight of a cow based on a photo on the Internet, I decided to tweet out my wife’s picture of her giant Costco shopping cart and ask… Read more »
[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] I’ve been saying for ages – well, for the better part of two years, anyway – that I’m going to do a blog post “one of these days” ranking all the plays and musicals that I’ve seen in the last 2+ years in Denver, as I have emerged from the… Read more »
[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] Upping the ante from my “Stapleton Civil War” and “North Stapleton secession” articles for the Stapletonion (our local Onion-style satirical newspaper), I have an article in this week’s issue about fears that the kerfuffle over middle-school admissions may trigger a nuclear arms race in northeast Denver. Because, yet again, when helicopter parents are denied a… Read more »
[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] Due to my daughters’ current obsession with the Pocahontas soundtrack (we watched the movie a couple of weeks ago), combined with the heated local controversy over Park Hill and Stapleton kids effectively competing for admission to McAuliffe International School, I recently found myself imagining wealthy parents from the two neighborhoods… Read more »
