This sort of mocks my whole existence, but I’m as thick skinned as the next…
Go hear and get nice and Irish (via Pop Candy)
Come to think of it, Irish Eyze would be a solid M.C. moniker for me
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Happy St. Patrick’s Month!
I need to post a retraction from previous post where I alluded that the season for the mighty Fordham Rams would end without an A-10 tourney appearance. Apparently, they’ve weaseled their way in as the final seed (#12). Fordham takes on St. Joe’s on Thursday, March 13th at 2:30 p.m. EST from Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City.
Moved into the new office in Soho. Got the top floor with roof access. Thinking about investing in a golf net and a redneck hot tub
The Wire series finale was bonkers. Nice chunky post coming later. Here’s the New York Times take on the finale.
Before I digress, let me urge you to read this week’s Rolling Stone cover story on Barack Obama. Whether you like him or not, it gives great insight into how he is running his campaign.
“In the process, the Obama campaign has shattered the top-down, command-and-control, broadcast-TV model that has dominated American politics since the early 1960s. “They have taken the bottom-up campaign and absolutely perfected it,” says Joe Trippi, who masterminded [Howard] Dean’s Internet campaign in 2004. “It’s light-years ahead of where we were four years ago. They’ll have 100,000 people in a state who have signed up on their Web site and put in their zip code. Now, paid organizers can get in touch with people at the precinct level and help them build the organization bottom up. That’s never happened before. It never was possible before.” (via Rolling Stone: The Machinery of Hope)
If you’re a geeked-out internet guy like me, you’re bound to think this is pretty cool. As it turns out, this formula for keying in at the precinct level has Obama gobbling up delegates from state to state regardless of how he fairs in the popular vote. A lot of this has to do with the Obama team brilliantly taking advantage of the caucus voting structure that most states employ in the primaries. This week, even after losing big money states – Ohio & Texas – he maintained about the same delegate lead he had going into those contests.
Right now, Obama leads Clinton in total delegates 1,524 to 1,432. And Hillary leads 238 to 199 in Superdelegates. With a limited amount of delegates left up for grabs it is going to be difficult, if not virtually impossible, for either candidates to accumulate the 2,024 delegates necessary to win the nomination outright prior to the Democratic National Convention in August. So unless something changes, it will most likely come down to the Superdelegate count.
Superdelegate you say? I want in.
Unless it’s too much work. I went with Yahoo! Answers to get to the bottom of this:
19 answers in less than an hour, baby! That dwarfs when I posted What doesn’t go well with bacon?; 14 answers in less than a hour.
Of course, a few doofuses posted garbage like this against their better judgment:
You all have way too much free time on your hands.
On the other side of the spectrum, we have these people:
Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Slow down chief. That was kind of a perfect storm of exhausting tactics and condescension. I’d give you more credit for exposing my laziness, but I’m pretty sure I did that to myself years ago.
These links look sort of official. Let’s not go down that road. My friend, this is Yahoo! Answers, any source material that merits being referred to as source material, check it at the door. Might I direct your attention to this example.
Alas. However, I did vet out one gem here:
Pretty sure I’m on some list now, and you might start to see this screen when you come to this blog (which I only know exists after being directed to this blog yesterday; I was provoked to go here, let me make that abundantly clear)
…so basically, I’ve learned very little from this exercise. But listen folks, I can spell wikipedia, I should be fine. And the concept of your tax dollars paying for some political taskforce member to come knock on my door and witness first hand the stain I’m leaving on society…let’s just say it’s better this way.
(Not actually my place, nice digs however – that coffee table, what’s that? Oak?)Read the story in R.S. Hopefully, you’ll enjoy it as much as I did, and be moved to do some much more worthwhile.
…I know what’s your thinking, ask and ye shall receive, mon frauer:
Got into one of those debates that men love to get into with women…whose on your list?
This conversation allows everyone to suspend restraint and toe the line (here it is…and you just crossed it). Frrrreak Nasty, indeed.
My overall numero uno has been and will remain…
I realize Eva is a little pase (which is French for not as readily available on certain internet destinations as she used to be) of a pick these days. Let me assure you, it is with good reason…
See this French Mother F*cker right here. Him and I have the same Birthday, exactly one year apart.
Look at what he’s got, now look at me….
It’s a sad state of affairs. Since this is a family site, let me say this: Life is not fair kids. Not fair.
Images via Google Images: Tony Parker doofus face
Took my friends to the cleaners last night in poker, and picked up some fresh williams.
Some barkeep with a steady handle on the John Jameson doesn’t yet know how lucky they are…
Google Images: How To Spot a Rich GuyOld school Fogle here was definitely in the Eat It video.
Reading the Obama article in Rolling Stone, and pondering how to become a Super Delegate…
Six-foot nothing, Senior point guard from top Jersey High School team St Anthony’s Jiovanny Fontan has committed to play at Fordham University in the Bronx, NY next year in the upstart Atlantic-10 Conference. Currently, he’s ranked #138 on ESPN’s Top-150 list. Check out this lengthy highlight reel: (skip to about 2 minutes in if you do nothing else)
Unconventional to its history, the Atlantic-10 received some love on the whole as a Conference this season; top team Xavier (#8 in the AP poll) is slated as a #2 seed on Joe Lunardi’s holy grail of bracket predictions on ESPN Bracketology. In fact, currently nine kids in the top-150 are committed to A-10 schools.
With two games left in the season, Fordham sits at 11-15 (5-9 in conference) with no chance of even making the A-10 Conference tournament, which takes place next week in Atlantic City, NJ. The Rams are going to finish with their worst record since Head Coach Dereck Whittenburg’s first year when the team went 6-22. They started four seniors this year.
The on-court experience of its players that Fordham had accrued going into this year was polarized by a lack of leadership on the floor. A buddy of mine mentioned to me the other day the fact that they guys Fordham normally gets come from top-notch High School programs, but they’re often the second or third best guy on that squad. What that translates into is a program full of players who’ve never had to be the man.
Now I’m not about to argue that Fontan is without question this missing cog. He does play point guard and looks like pre-bigot (I like to think so), early-1990s Tim Hardaway in his Golden State days, so that’s a start. He’s also on a team that is undefeated, ranked #1 in the country and hasn’t won a game by less than 20 points this year.
So, he brings the ball up court and he has options it would appear.
However, that six-plus minute reel showed a kid who can create his own shot, and is not afraid to dribble drive at six feet tall. I realize the veneer of Hardaway has a lot to do with who he is going up against. However, I’ll go ahead and assume he’s developed some swagger over the course of his High School career and believes that he can do that against anybody.
Throughout the years, Fordham has struggled to attract the kids from the Metro-New York area that they logically should be going after. My Freshman year in 2002 I think we had half a dozen kids from overseas. This year’s top Bronxite – Kemba Walker, Rice High School – is bound for the farmlands of Storrs, CT to play for Jim Calhoun’s UCONN Huskies next season
Fontan is coming to the Bronx from a team that might go down as one of the greatest in high school history; they’re filming a documentary about this year’s St. Anthony’s team. His high school teammates will be attending such high profile programs Marquette, Rutgers and Pittsburgh. In fact, Fontan is one of over 100 players that St. Anthony’s has sent to division-1 ball under Coach Bob Hurley.
Undoubtedly, for the first time next year he will be part of a basketball team that loses a game next season at Fordham. In actuality, the only evidence I could find of a St. Anthony’s loss was from a NYT article dated 1992. But he’s coming to a wide-open program that four years ago started a rebuilding process with this year’s class of seniors and failed. And that first go around didn’t work out largely because they lacked a player with Fontan’s skill set. He should, even as a Freshman, see some steady burn.
Those in the know I’m sure realized where the inspiration for my Toss the Burner posts originated from almost instantly.
Next Sunday brings us to the end of a yet another TV era when The Wire series finale airs.
I love this show so much. It’s the greatest show on concrete – underdeveloped, crack vile laden, animalistic concrete. It even moved me to read an NYT article about some Bush administration gobbledeegook this morning.
My prediction for the finale, the bad guys are going to win. Though who that means exactly depends on your perspective.
I’m not even going to throw out any sort of substantial prediction. One of the things I like about this show is that I’m always wrong. No scheme I ever cooked up for The Wire ever happened, ever.
The curveballs never cease to end with this show. For instance, HBO has been putting each episode On Demand a week early throughout the season. Yet, apparently they’re putting the kabbash on that for the Series Finale.
