February 2012
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January 2012
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justamanandhisblog asked: When does the donation period end?
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Old Time Family Baseball: The Blogathon Starts... →
For the two percent of you that don’t follow me on any social network save for this one, please support me and over 20 baseball writers in raising funds and awareness for Doctors Without Borders.
oldtimefamilybaseball:
This is the final reminder you’ll receive before I chain myself to the computer tomorrow, posting every 30 minutes for a full 24 hours to raise money for Doctors...
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My Favorite Albums of 2011
Enough with all those elitist music blogs and people who critique music for a living, now it’s time for a man of the people. It’s my Top Ten of 2011.
10. Dirty Beaches - Badlands
Fave Song! Lord Knows Best:
9. Timber Timbre - Creep On Creepin’ On
Fave song! Bad Ritual:
8. Wilco - The Whole Love
Fave Song! Born Alone:
7. Wu Lyf - Go Tell Fire to the Mountain
Fave...
December 2011
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Standard Holiday Invitation Response
Dear Sir or Madam,
Thank you kindly for the invitation to your function and/or event. However, as you did not note that Pigs in a Blanket will be provided au gratis, I must respectfully decline. Should you change your mind, please set aside half of the hor d’oeuvres in a to go bag for me.
Yours in friendship,
Michael
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-18) →
She & Him (12)
The War On Drugs (6)
Morrissey (4)
The Go! Team (3)
St. Vincent (3)
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Got Ham?
Guys, OMG. I figured out why there are so many goddamn criminals in Gotham City: Gotham directly translates into Got Ham. The city is named after a critical ham shortage, something I would have thought an ace detective like Batman would have figured out a longtime ago. We get a few Red Cross drop-offs from the Honey Baked Hammery and the streets would be cleaned up in no time.
Though for the...
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-11) →
The Black Keys (22)
Deerhunter (12)
Cat’s Eyes (10)
Baseball Prospectus (3)
J.J. Cooper and John Manuel (2)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-4) →
Morrissey (20)
Brown Bird (11)
Beirut (9)
The Drums (9)
Tap Tap (8)
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November 2011
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-27) →
Morrissey (61)
The Smiths (12)
Tap Tap (11)
Brown Bird (10)
Los Campesinos! (10)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-20) →
The Walkmen (22)
M83 (15)
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross (13)
Deerhunter (13)
Vince Guaraldi Trio (12)
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I'm Making Pancakes For Dinner
Whenever I do, I’m reminded of this passage:
“What is a pancake? Cooked batter, covered in sugar and butter. Condiments are applied to it. It is food. But it is not as a food, not as a sustenance, that we crave the pancake. No, the pancake, or flapjack if you will, is a childish pleasure; smothered in syrup, buried beneath ice...
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Sasha Who?
(image via TMZ)
Last week, there was quite the uproar when Sasha Grey, the award-winning porn star, was photographed reading Dr. Seuss to Compton-area first graders. At first, the school announced that no such thing ever happened, but then those pesky photos leaked out and the school was forced to admit that, yes, Ms. Grey did in fact take part in Read Across America.
They are, however, still...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-13) →
WU LYF (33)
St. Vincent (28)
Tiger Army (26)
Florence + The Machine (25)
M83 (12)
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My favorite sketch from last night’s Saturday Night Live, featuring Seinfeld, Baseball, and World War II references.
UPDATED to include actual video. Fun tip: If you hit embed during a Hulu commercial, it does not allow you to embed the actual video you want, but rather the Geico commercial that is currently airing.
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We have pumpkin at morning and pumpkin at noon,
If it was not for pumpkin we...
– 1630s poem from this WSJ article on the wonder of pumpkin beers.
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October 2011
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