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Sports Illustrated‘s Joe Posnanski has a little fun with our favorite long-winded referee: NFL Referee Ed Hochuli’s 57-second explanation of the new NFL overtime rules … in verse. With the score tied at the end of regulation we will go into overtime There are special overtime rules in the playoffs Both teams get an opportunity [...] Championship games tomorrow; BCS come and gone; March Madness looms… Yeah, sports are on the brain. And almost as fun (and certainly less nerve-wracking) as rooting for your favorites is rooting AGAINST the ones you scorn, despise, curse, etc. Without getting nasty! name the sporting ones you love to hate. 5. Yankees: Of course. 4. [...]
From CNN: Etta James, whose assertive, earthy voice lit up such hits as “The Wallflower,” “Something’s Got a Hold on Me” and the wedding favorite “At Last,” has died, according to her longtime friend and manager, Lupe De Leon. She was 73. She died from complications from leukemia with her husband, Artis Mills, and [...] Just found out that Wikipedia’s down today (per Jonah Goldberg’s Twitter feed). (Google’s even horned in on the act. There’s a big piece of — what looks like — duct tape over their logo.) Yesterday he wrote at NR’s The Corner: Very soon Wikipedia will go dark for a day to protest something called SOPA. [...] Here’s a list I know nothing about. Lately, however, the Nephew du Wank has embraced the Wii. I have been forced to sit through Lego Star Wars and, since Christmas, Super Mario Cars. Guilt has plagued me ever since, and I feel as if I’ve abandoned you GameBoys. So, gimme your Top Five video games. [...] Remember the recent flap over the Michelle Obama-as-Marie Antoinette? via the LA Times: The caricature of Obama as a profligate queen relies on the racist stereotype of an “uppity Negro,” which emerged among slave masters in an earlier American era. Obama, born into a working-class Chicago family whose roots are traced to the pre-Civil War [...] Because last fall he turned Dancing With the Stars into Must-See-TV Can’t-Miss-TV. Because as Nancy Grace’s professional partner, he made her look so good that people who never liked her before, like her now. Because who knew an Irish guy was so good at Latin dancing? Because forget Michael Flatley…Tristan’s MY Lord of the Dance.
Because first I loved his voice. Then I loved his wit. Then I saw him, live. Then I just loved him. Because now two of my favorite sports guys are New York Jets fans (Joe Queenan’s the other), and I admire such dogged devotion in the face of…well, the Jets. Because Mike & Mike, the morning [...] This is the only time you will ever see me root for the Denver Donks. (Until the next time they play the Raiders.) Headline refers to what will happen if Tebow pulls this one out — which is just the cherry on the cake of my weekend.
Share on [...] A thanks to Eric & Outlaw, who keep that decade fresh for all of us. What was the dumbest fashion? coolest trend? greatest video game? TV show? film? group? album? music video? book? 5. dumbest fashion: women’s hair – Not mine, of course! but every female lead singer of the era. 4. tie: song: Shout (Tears for [...] Dan Stevens as Capt. Matthew Crawley “No Englishman would dream of dying in someone else’s house…especially someone they didn’t even know!” And thus does Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham — [...] Because I heard him talk after the Philadelphia Eagles won on Monday Night (Sunday night?) (eh, they’d won) and thought first: Hubbahubba! and second: Wow, he’s interesting! and third: Hubbahubba! Because while avoiding any 30-second-postgame-interview platitudes, he managed to completely charm & utterly impress. Probably because he avoided any 30-second-postgame-interview platitudes. Because before he was an [...] Closing thoughts on the Year That Was: 2011. Fabulous new TV shows/movies/books/music you discovered? joys? irritations? anyone leave us this year you’ll especially miss? resolutions? regrets? 5. Downton Abbey (TV show): It’s soapy goodness in Edwardian England, pre- and during WWI. 4. TCM’s Robert Osborne: His time away was too long, but it made me appreciate [...] Sparked by watching the Happy Days one from 1974 (“Guess Who’s Coming to Christmas?”) where Richie discovers Fonzie’s been lying about going to visit family for the holidays, and with his father’s help, persuades the Fonz to spend the 24th with the Cunninghams. Just as retailers trot out their finest & shiniest at this time of [...] Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925) In this silent film, a rebellious Israelite prince out for vengeance crosses paths with the Messiah. Dir: Fred Niblo Cast: Ramon Novarro, Franics X. Bushman, May McAvoy. Midnight EST. TCM. This one’s “my” Ben-Hur. It was the most expensive movie of its time (ringing in at almost [...] Thanks to Kriskey, who inspired today’s list with his Calvin & Hobbes video. 5. Wizard of Id (Johnny Hart & Brant Parker, 1964): The first ten years had some funny stuff. (Rodney: “Tax returns from a Western Province!” King: “How far West?” Rodney: “I’m not sure, but the zip code is EIEIO.”) 4. Peanuts (Charles Schulz, [...] I guess I knew this was inevitable, but I kept that knowledge far, far away. He was brilliant and hilarious and an arrogant gasbag, and I’ll miss his writing, even the stuff I thought was shit. I bitterly regret never having met the man. I send my thoughts and — though he didn’t believe in [...] A Christmas Carol (1951): Ghosts visit miser during the holidays to teach him the error of his ways. Dir: Brian Desmond-Hurst Cast: Alastair Sim, Kathleen Harrison, Mervyn Johns, Patrick Macnee. 8pm EST, TCM At last! TCM bought a clue, and is bringing The Best Christmas Movie Ever to its December schedule. Lured from his [...] (Apologies for last week..I was in the first 24 hours of what is now the 168-hour flu…) AM-radio fan that I was, I could probably spin a Five for every year since 1971. And a special section just for disco! 5. Tighter & Tighter, Alive ‘N Kickin’ (1970): One of those bouncy pop love songs [...] Because he’s been the face of the Turner Classic Movie channel since 1994, hosting four prime-time movies, seven days a week; interviewing stars and directors from Hollywood’s Golden Age for the “Private Screenings” series; and, since 2006, chatting every Saturday night with a different celeb for The Essentials, TCM’s version of Film 101. Because “host” is [...] |
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