[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] Over on Twitter, I’ve posted a couple of lengthy tweet-bursts today which, taken together, constitute a sort of mini-review of “The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug.” Actually, that’s not quite right. Taken together, they constitute a mini-review of the things I didn’t like about “The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug.” I very,… Read more »
[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] College football’s bowls start Saturday – with local team CSU, alma mater USC, and Becky’s hometown school Buffalo all playing on Day 1 – and that means it’s time for the 9th annual Living Room Times Bowl Pick ‘em Contest! Sign up now! You know you want to! #peerpressure Above:… Read more »
[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] Texas head coach Mack Brown is reportedly retiring. (I like to imagine Governor Rick Perry thanking him for “a phenomenal 16 years, including three Big 12 championships: 2005, 2009, and… uh… oops.”) Brown’s retirement has been long-rumored, particularly since the Longhorns’ BYU debacle – and all season, those rumors have… Read more »
[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] Considering how relentlessly I’ve been tweeting about this week’s blast of frigid cold in Denver (a.k.a. #coldfrontmageddon and/or #arcticairpocalypse), I figured a quick Tumblr post was in order. When I woke up this morning, here’s what my iPhone said the temperature was in our neighborhood: Denver’s official low temperature was… Read more »
[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] Leaving aside holidays, birthdays and anniversaries, there are only a handful of dates on the calendar that evoke, for me, an instant mental connection to a particular event – an automatic association lurking below the level of conscious thought. Not just the date of an event that I’ve memorized, but… Read more »
[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] I visited Gonzaga – a school to which I have no personal connection, but a team of which I’ve been a fan since high school – on Monday and Tuesday of this week, to visit Twitter BFF Zach Bloxham and to watch the Zags’ game against Colorado State, part of… Read more »
[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] Huge win yesterday for the “reformists” on the Denver Board of Education, who improved their majority from 4-3 to 6-1 with a sweep of all four races up for a vote. Incumbent Landri Taylor won 66-34 over Roger Kilgore in our district (Stapleton & Northeast Denver); former Colorado lieutenant governor… Read more »
[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] Our low-tech @JohnKingCNN map of counties voting today on secession from Colorado. #copolitics
[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] Loyette was fascinated by the length of our shadows in the parking lot after the ND-AFA game.
[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] College football has finally begun sorting itself out over the last two weeks, with a bunch of upsets and whatnot, so I figured it might be time to post a “BCS pecking order.” To be clear, this is not a ranking of teams based on how good I think they… Read more »