Category Archives: Living Room Times

The Pac-10: it’s a WAR!

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When unranked Washington stunned #3 USC on Saturday, it may have seemed like a bolt out of the blue (to everyone except Stewart Mandel, at least), but it’s actually the continuation of a longstanding — and, for Trojan fans, all-too-familiar — pattern. Even though USC regularly plays in tough, heavily hyped intersectional games, BCS bowls, etc., the Trojans simply do… Read more »

Fear the Huskies? (or, proof that the Pac-10 is actually pretty awesome)

Last week, immediately after USC wrapped up its epic victory over Ohio State, our resident “Trojan Husky,” David K., responded to my obligatory “Beat the Huskies!” tweet by commenting: “BOW DOWN! BEAT THE TROJANS!” I snarkily responded, “My my, aren’t we getting uppity and optimistic after our first win since 2007, over the sixth-worst team in Division I-A [i.e., Idaho].”… Read more »

One football fan’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad weekend

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For a sports fan, it doesn’t get much worse than what Stewart Mandel reader Josh from Delaware, Ohio experienced last weekend: Friday night, my high school alma mater was down 20-7 with a few minutes left, scored two touchdowns but missed the second extra point and lost in overtime. Saturday evening, my college alma mater held up very well on… Read more »

Arrr.

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Just a quick reminder for all ye land-lubbers who don’t go surrrrrfing the Interwebs on weekends: tomorrow be Talk Like a Pirate Day! P.S. If you want to tweet like a pirate, you can use this auto-tweeting translator. And be sure to tag your tweets with #yarr, so they’ll show up on TweetLikeAPirate.com. For another (non-tweeting) English-to-pirate-speak translator, go here…. Read more »

Barack Obama, Jedi Master

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Back in January, gadget blog Gizmodo stumbled across a Japanese-made action figure of newly elected President Obama. The highly detailed figure included, among many accessories, a lightsaber, as seen in this shot: Yesterday, at a White House event supporting Chicago’s bid for the 2016 Olympics, we found out that this action figure was eerily foresighted, as Obama revealed his Jedi… Read more »

Cupcakes serve Florida’s purpose

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One of the things that’s really frustrating about this particular college football season is that #1-ranked Florida — which, as a defending national champion with most of its key players returning, would be an overwhelming favorite under any circumstances — has such a ridiculously easy schedule that it’s actually quite difficult to envision them losing, never mind losing twice, as… Read more »

Are you ready for some football?

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It’s a Monday Night party! Loyette’s ready: I made that video a couple of weeks ago, in anticipation of the start of football season, after discovering some months earlier that Loyette could “sing along” with the Monday Night Football theme song (or at least mimic Becky’s and my singing of it). Naturally, because this was super cute, we practiced it… Read more »