[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.] I’m going to start collecting some links to pieces that explain why Donald Trump is an existential threat to America and the world, and thus why Hillary Clinton – love her or loathe her – is vasty preferable and must be elected on November 8. • CATO scholar Timothy Sandefur,… Read more »
[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] I’m a Democrat. Sure, I’m a centrist whose idiosycratic ideology doesn’t fit neatly into either party’s box – and I have many principled conservative friends, whose views I respect greatly – but I’m still solidly a Democrat. I have voted Democratic in every presidential election since I turned 18, and… 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.] 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.] HALL OF ETERNAL GLORY Living Room Times Oscar Pool Winners 2005: Jackie Domaingue 2006: Chris McLemore 2007: Kristin West 2008: Lisa Velte 2009: Vlada Shelkova 2010: Jeff Freeze 2011: Randy Styles 2012: @juleslalaland 2013: Scott Woods 2014: Lisa Kosek, Eugenie Blasingame, Brendan Loy (tied) 2015: Vicki Lopez 2016: Brendan Loy… Read more »
[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] First of all, if you haven’t already, join my 11th annual Oscar Pool! The deadline is 5:00 PM Mountain Time Sunday. [UPDATE: The polls are closed! Good luck everyone!] Second, this is where you’ll find Becky’s and my annual Live-Blog / Live-Chat / Live-Snark, a.k.a. SNARKNADO 2015, starting Sunday night… Read more »
[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] Eugenie Blasingame (@nSquib), Lisa Kosek (@littlebit12) and pool administrator Brendan Loy (@brendanloy) attained ETERNAL GLORY last night in the 10th annual Living Room Times Oscar Pool, and did so in record-breaking fashion – getting 77 out of a possible 80 points in predicting who would win the Academy Awards. The… 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 »