God’s Favorite Failure

That’s a great title for something? I think I’m stealing that from the added verse in Bob Dylan’s song Visions of Johanna.

Anyway, I’ve decided that it might be fun to use this page to not only announce new posts on our content pages, but also to spread good music. Unfortunately the only way I know how to do this is to look up the song on YouTube. So if you feel like it you can watch the video for the song or just hit play and then open up a new internet explorer/Mozilla page so that you can go about your digital business while listening to quality music. In this case, I couldn’t find an actual video so there’s nothing to watch; so just listen to Bob Dylan sing Visions of Johanna off the Blonde on Blonde album, which is one of the greatest albums ever made, and open another tab to check your email. Not a bad way to start the mourning eh? Oh and just for fun, listen to the lyrics and tell me what you think they mean because for my money there is no greater lyrical expression of how love works (I’ll explain in the comment section).

New posts:

Society page – Batman or Superman; Who is the Better Super Hero? (seriously, this one better generate some debate)

Sports page – John Calipari represents what’s wrong with college basketball

Politics page – Supreme Court Justices and Your Public and Private Self

I Blame the Bourbon and Cokes

Screw it, we’ll try this. But like a LeBron James 3 point shot we’ll probably underwhelm you. Again, the goal is to do fewer posts but ones that can generate better comments. Also, guest authors should be a frequent thing (if interested email me or Jeff or Jim).

So at the Politics page and Society page there are two new posts. Both are about a C+, but come on I’m still knocking the rust off. Check em out, correct any grammatical errors, diss my writing ability, or whatever blows your hair back.

Enjoy, hope to hear from you.

(Just as a tease, here’s some shit I want to write about: Why Gavin Rosdale (aka the dude from Bush) is Living the Dream, Hockey is the Most Hemingway of Sports (not including Bull Fighting), something baseball related, Why Kurt Cobain Had to Die, whether TV comedies can only be funny for 3 years before they become dramas that are sometimes funny (I’m looking at you How I Met Your Mother), something about the American work ethic, and something about Dave Matthews Band’s legacy.)

Praying to St Patrick

If you’re like me you can’t wait to drink a few pints of Guinness tomorrow. So to get in the spirit here are three clips of The Dubliners. My favorite song is Irish Rover. And if you can’t understand what they’re saying you just aren’t drunk enough. Also, there is new stuff at the Sports and Society page.

At Least CofC Won This Weekend

I’ve been updating the content sites, but if I don’t tell you about that on this main page it doesn’t do much good. My bad.

On SP Sports I’ve got the video of Christian Laettner hitting his last second miracle shot against Kentucky in ’92 and the new commercial they made about it. Funny stuff unless you’re a Kentucky fan. By the way, if you’re a UK fan are you not pissed about that movie Glory Road? I watched it the other day and I know Rupp was sort of racist but the movie makes him out to be the basketball equivalent of Hitler. Yikes. And overall the movie wasn’t even that good. So as a UK fan you’re faced with an average movie defaming your legendary coach. Tough break.

Also at SP Sports is my open question about how valuable Manny Ramirez is for fantasy baseball. I think he’s a top 10 pick but Yahoo and ESPN fantasy experts disagree with me. Also at some point I’ll do a recap of the Super 14 Rugby weekend (spoiler alert, the Stormers lost AGAIN).

At the Politics page I’ve just posted a clip from the Daily Show and a link to an interview done on the Daily Show. I didn’t just do this to avoid having to think of something, those two clips are worth posting. They basically rip apart the whole financial ‘journalism’ racket. Seriously, watch those clips.

At the Society page I’ve got a thing about horrible movie accents. So go read that, see the list of bad accents in movies I’ve got, add any that I’ve missed, and try to figure out the top three most egregious ones. Fun stuff.

Lastly, after a week off The Procrastinator, the e-newsletter we do with The AD Hall and anyone that we can coerce into writing something, is back. This issue has a great interview, two subpar pieces by yours truly (I think the week off threw me off my game [of course that assumes that I had any game in the first place]), a brain teaser, a thing about the President going to the Wizards game by The Chairman, an NBA poem, and a special guest column by Betsy Neely. So click here to download it in pdf format procrastinator-3-6-09 or just go to this site to view the online archives. Whatever you do give it a read because there’s something in there for everybody and we put effort into it (even it sometimes doesn’t show, haha).

And if you want to comment about it, volunteer to write something for it, or just tell us to stop emailing you leave a comment in this box or email the people on the newsletter directly.

Nerds Are the New Cool Kids

My broken figure never healed so I’m once again forced to type with my right ring and middle fingers taped together. Please forgive any typos.

At the Society page I’ve instituted The Stormy Present Book Club. I’m trying to read 12 books this year. So lets all recommend good books we’ve read so that none of us waste time or money on a book that sucks. Also the thing about whether or not public officials should voluntarily take a pay cut is under that post.

At the Politics page there is a post about the economic situation that I cannot summarize. Just take a look at it and leave your thoughts.

At SP Sports I’ve got the week 3 results for Super 14 Rugby. Below that there is a link to Bill Simmons’ article about the NBA being in financial trouble. It’s the best article he’s ever written. Enjoy.

That Chimp is No Chump

This doesn’t deserve an entire post, but I feel the need to point this out to you.

Obviously I hope the woman attacked by her friend’s chimp gets better, but I also hope her dumbass friend who owned the chimp goes to jail. It is a wild animal, I don’t care that you feel like it was a son to you, it is meant to live in the wild and has the ability to ‘rip your face off’ as it did to the owner’s friend. Did you ever notice that usually people who own exotic pets like this are maladjusted people who don’t like living in reality? Drug dealers or frequent drug users are the most common perpetrators of this. Look dude, I just came over to listen to Dark Side of the Moon, I don’t want your tarantula crawling around and freaking me out.

Dumb asses like this buy exotic animals because they want to appear interesting. They need a hook to get people to talk to them. There was this guy in Cape Town who walked around with a parrot on his shoulder. Even though I never spoke to him, I hated this guy. What kind of idiot walks around with a parrot on his shoulder? He was just doing it to be ‘weird’ and ‘interesting’ and I guess he assumed this would aide him in starting conversations with people and therefore make friends.

The point is there is no reason to own exotic pets. Either you’re a social retard trying to use them to make friends or you claim to be an ‘animal lover’ but ignore the fact that exotic pets are often traded illicitly and snatched from their habitat and then smuggled in poor conditions to the pet store where you bought it. They are wild animals that most people don’t own for a reason, namely they can rip your face off. Leave them in the wild.

Anyway, go to SP Sports for a rundown of this week’s Super 14 Rugby games and a brief history of South African Rugby. Then at the Society page I’ve compiled a rant in the form of that silly facebook 25 random things about you.

Trey Sings the Blues

Wednesday and Sunday and Friday (my high school team [my dad is a coach] lost to their cross town rival) have me considering going to VH1’s Sober House to cure myself of my love for basketball.

Plus, if you go to SP Sports you’ll see that I’ve posted the results of Super 14 Rugby’s first weekend of games and that my Stormers lost. I wish I could quit sports.

At the Politics page there is an open question to the readers about whether or not Muammar Gaddafi’s assertion that democracy in Africa won’t work are valid. Go there and leave your answer(s) in the comment section.

Similarly, at the Society page there is another open question about which three colleges you’d attend in an ideal world. Go over and check it out, then leave your list in the comment section.

I Can’t Watch Two Things at the Same Time

Someone at US Soccer or ESPN owes me an explanation. Why is it that every year they schedule the greatest rivalry in soccer, USA v Mexico, on the same night as the greatest rivalry of all sports, Duke v unc? Is it any wonder that soccer doesn’t catch on in the US when they make scheduling decisions like this?

Anyway, Super 14 Rugby starts Friday so at SP Sports I’ve got a brief explanation of how rugby is played so that you’ll know what I’m talking about in future posts. In a couple of days I’ll do a post so you know all the teams and can pick a favorite for the season. After that there will be one arguing that you should pick the Stormers as your favorite team (or at least pick another South African team).

And at the Society page there is a piece about the myth of educational superiority in which I argue that getting an A at the College of Charleston is better than getting an A at Harvard. Enjoy this picture from a Harvard football game.

The Waitress is Practicing Politics

I’d say the video at the end of this post is beneath us, but when Jeff told me about it laughed so clearly the depth of our depravity hasn’t been reached yet.

But before you get to the video I must tell you that I’ll be away for about week as I go to Colorado to help Jeff move back to the Palmetto State. But fear not as a new issue of The Procrastinator will be coming out on Friday. Also in newsletter news, Mao created a website to archive all the articles we’ve written, which I’ve linked in the sidebar there under The Procrastinator Online. Give it a look just in case you missed an issue or wanted to comment on something or wanted to sight us for a paper you’re writing called, “Mid to Late 20 Somethings with Delusions of Grandeur”.

And there’s new stuff at SP Sports (College Hoops Observations, Rugby), the Politics page (Fox News has my attention, Carolina Kennedy and Joe the Plumber suck), and the Society page (name a well written TV show, my weighty tome about postmodernism and Mt Everest and Chuck Klosterman and why modern society blows). So check those out in my absence and enjoy The Procrastinator.

Now to the afore mentioned grossness. There’s nothing like someone clearly out of touch with the world explaining how you should be behaving and then saying something unintentionally hilarious.

Presumably she means that they fist bump together, but that sort of error is the kind of thing that gets your PhD in Love Doctoring revoked by University of Phoenix Online.

Joe the Plumber, You’re Next!

Apparently my article over at the Politics page took Caroline Kennedy down a peg as she has announced that she’s no longer seeking Hillary Clinton’s vacated Senate seat. You’re welcome America. Anyway, if you haven’t read that yet do so.

Meanwhile, at SP Sports we’ve got a new installment of my random college hoops thoughts (which really only appear after a Duke win when I’m feeling good about life) as well as an announcement that SP Sports will be your source for rugby, mainly Super 14 rugby centered around my favorite team the Cape Town Stormers.

And forthcoming at the Society page I’m working on a piece about Mt Everest, Chuck Klosterman, postmodernism, and what’s wrong with modern society. Should be interesting so keep an eye out.