Published February 2nd, 2009 at 1:26 pm in exposition, sports, tv with 3 comments
Tagged with 1984, alec baldwin, cardinals, george orwell, grape nehi, oe, ripple, steelers, super bowl
Yesterday I eschewed the twelve hour pre-game marathons of coverage leading up to the championship game so I missed all the heart-warming rags-to-riches success stories, the riches-to-rags cautionary tales, and the miscellaneous blather used to pad out hour after hour of build-up towards the actual on-field portion of the program.
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Published January 30th, 2009 at 4:13 pm in exposition, manhattan, shopping, tv with 1 comments
Tagged with diet coke, nancy whiskey, root beer, sprite, the wire
Something I learned today: don’t order a root beer at the Nancy Whiskey pub. I went to lunch there today with coworker Matt. I ordered a Diet Coke, a solid, dependable, honest drink. Matt ordered a root beer. He would not get it. Instead, from the bar came an incredulous reply, “Root beer!?! We don’t serve root beer!” He was appropriately shamed. It served him right.
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Published January 16th, 2009 at 10:20 am in events, exposition, manhattan, movies, tv with no comments
Tagged with 1549, design, khan, no. 6, patrick mcgoohan, ricardo montalban, web
This week has been rather busy and, frankly, I’ve been slacking off the blog. Well, no more, sir, no more!
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