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SNARKNADO! Mock the Oscars with the Loys!

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[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] First of all, if you haven’t already, join my 10th annual Oscar Pool! The deadline is 5:30 PM Mountain Time today (Sunday). Second, this is where you’ll find Becky’s and my annual Live-Blog / Live-Chat / Live-Snark, a.k.a. SNARKNADO 2014, starting tonight at 6:00 PM MST, or thereabouts. It will… Read more »

10th annual Oscar Pool!

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[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 »

Looking for a contest? Check my Tumblr

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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 »

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[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 »

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[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] “You kind of set off an eternal winter… everywhere.”

Last Man 2014

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[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 »

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[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] #UnitedInOrange

An unexpected “odyssey”

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[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] I’m a member of the Young Professionals Board at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, which runs the Denver Center Theatre Company’s “Fourth Wall” program for young-adult theatergoers. In that capacity, I’m “co-hosting” an event this Saturday*, in preparation for which, I went last Saturday to see Marcus Gardley’s… Read more »

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[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] Loyabelle, 2 ½, likes to read her Daddy a book each night. Video of her teaching me some letters:

ETERNAL GLORY: 6-year-old Loyette wins 9th annual LRT Bowl Pick ’em

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[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] Surging to victory with a 4-game winning streak that included correctly picking consecutive 17-point underdog BCS winners – Central Florida and Oklahoma – Becky’s and my 6-year-old daughter, known on the Internet as “Loyette,” clinched the 9th annual Bowl Pick ‘em Contest championship Friday night, beating out 56 adults and… Read more »