two cents

So it’s Vice-President Tuesday or is it? Well, at least that’s what MSM is pontificating about today.

I only have a couple of random observations about the next step in the road to the White House. I think whoever is placed on the ticket for both candidates is going to be key in rural America.

I’ve been lucky enough to find myself in some pretty cool places recently.

I don’t know why Brett Favre has become a raging egomanical bundle of manwaste in the last few months (although he’s been handcuffing the Packers during the last few years in every off-season) but I think this entire situation was a wake up call for fans of any sports organization.

Amy Griffith reports that at a community meeting led by Councilman and Reverend Jerry Maynard an appeal was made for Mayor Karl Dean to join the fight against school rezoning. Only one problem, he appears, more or less, to be for it:

Lost is a love/hate thing. Those of us who love it, LOVE it. Those of you who don’t, here’s a picture of Amy Winehouse.

There has been a lot of blog talk ever since that sports journalist went off on a blogger from Deadspin on a Costas special. I didn’t see it. But I heard an excerpt on the radio. The guy went bat[bleep] crazy. And I think I know why. I’ll get to that in a minute.

The segment on Bob Costas' HBO show this week that pitched sports blogger Will Leitch of Deadspin against Buzz Bissinger representing the mainstream media is burning up the internet, and having had the privilege of press access to some splendid NHL games back in the late 1990's while writing for In the Crease, I can't help but share my two cents (which, thanks to Blogger, comes to you free of

Great songs aren’t written; they’re rewritten.

I’ve got this internet TV channel (thanks to Los‘ expertise).  I sometimes broadcast shows live on it but, for the most part, it just sits there looping Youtube videos.

Sorry about the short updates - I've decided that hotel time is better spent sleeping, so you're going to have to wait for the lengthy SXSW recaps until I'm back in Nashville and ready to catch up.  I have to say though, day 2 of SXSW was THE day to beat - and I'm not sure that it's going to be possible to have more fun than I did yesterday.