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New sport combines soccer and golf
It’s hard to imagine a sports portmanteau that isn’t a joke, but entrepreneurs opening a new course dedicated to footgolf in Dublin are doing it with a straight face.
Google Reader > Twitter, Facebook
I’m not sure what I’ll use to replace Google Reader when it bites the dust on July 1, but I know what’s not going to fill the void.
‘Enlightened’ must-see without the hype or ratings
When I first heard about the HBO show Enlightened it was the poster that scared me away. The photo with the tagline “Meet the new face of tranquility” shows Amy Jellicoe (Laura Dern) in what looks like it could be an FBI interrogation room, mascara running diagonally down her right cheek. The photo has lunatic […]
Trying to Save the United States
If you’ve ever been to the IKEA in South Philly or looked to the north while crossing the Walt Whitman Bridge, you’ve seen the United States, or what’s left of the luxury ocean liner built in 1952 and once called “the greatest ship in the world.” The SS United States has been docked on the […]
Bradford City Underdog Darlings of British Football
“The boys in the colors of Harry Potter and Hogwarts have come up with a magic conjuring trick to end them all.”
Fake Girlfriend Bobblehead Joins Minor League Baseball Tradition
When somebody famous is having a hard time, has been embroiled in scandal, broken the law or discovered to have had a fake girlfriend everyone thought had died of leukemia, you can always count on a minor league baseball team you’ve never heard of to be there with a press release to make fun of […]
Mike Huckabee’s ‘Non-Political’ Event
I discovered two things checking my email this morning: 1. People still send email forwards and 2. These same people still haven’t figured out how to use the BCC field of an email program. While back in 1999 when I used to get these emails all the time I would have just deleted it, this […]
Aaron ‘One Vote’ Sele
While the big news in baseball today was that no one received enough votes to be elected to the Hall of Fame in part because of the baseball writers punishing public enemies 1, 2 and 3 of the steroid era, the even bigger news for those of us who collected baseball cards as kids and […]