i’m a hater

Hater tots: I eat ‘em; with melted cheese and ketchup.  And when my plate is empty, I’m Oliver Twist.  I can’t help it, really.  It’s a disease.  But I don’t want a cure. Case in point: I hate the DC sports market.  I have had to suffer through more Wizards and Redskins games than I [...]

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what’s better than wonderful?

This is the most wonderful time of year.  Andy Williams was high.¹ Winter is a season.  The Christmas “season” is not a season.  It is a subset of a season.  Funny how we’ve got a virgin to thank for Christmas since it lasts about as long as a virgin does.² But Fall — sweet, sweet, [...]

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the politics of sucking

When I first got to DC, there was no baseball and there were no Washington Nationals.  Actually, thanks to the wildly “successful” Redskins and Wizards, there were also football and basketball in name only.  But those are separate complaints for different days. I paid no attention to the Nationals when they showed up in 2005.  [...]

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grunts, set, match… chauvinism?

Hey, kids.  *unh!* How you doin’?  *unh!* I’m cool, I’m cool.  I’m just — *unh!* — writing a post over here; no worries. Why am I grunting?  Well, I’ve been following a lot of tennis lately; watching a lot of highlights.  It’s Wimbledon time — *unh!* — and no sound is more symbolic of a [...]

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take me out

me: day what? senior attorney: day off. me: *staring at Gmail: they make those?* So the only reason I left my house yesterday was to head to Nationals Park.  Since I’d been to RFK, but never made it last season, I can say that this footstep… … is me crossing the threshold of the Center [...]

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i took a punch from Joe Frazier

Yeah, so he’s 65.  And he uses a walking stick.  So what?  I took it straight to the abs and didn’t blink.  Now, if he had been in his prime and meant to do anything more than just play around, I probably would’ve been broken clean in half.  But it wasn’t 1971, it was yesterday. [...]

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Bradley’s First Game

So this was my first Division I college football game: BC at Maryland. GW football doesn’t exist (despite what the t-shirts at the bookstore say). There are many rumors as to why. Some say it was contractual, to guarantee the building of the Smith Center. Others say it’s because Georgetown was upset that we’d finally [...]

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a Minority Report

I used to think that if this country was just us that we could build an overdue conception of justice, but just us could never really combat injustice ’cause when power’s in just us, it’s just nuts.   For instance, Gary Sheffield sounds like a bigot: …You’re going to see more black faces, but there [...]

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show me the monkeys!

First of all, it can’t go without mention that I did indeed struggle over the title. I was so close to “A Man Without a Monkey.” So close. And yes: I know what I just said, Ryan. There have been two great things about Super Bowl commercials over the last two years. One: The realization [...]

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R / P / S … World Championship??

You gotta be kidding me. The guy who won this thing got 50k. That’s 50. Thousand. Dollars. And if you saw my earlier post, you’ll notice the extra heaping of irony for me. Apparently, the dude used a strategy, taboo inside the world of RPS, of tossing two papers in a row. His opponent opened [...]

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