So you’ve found a mummy?
Enter the coffee shop with high energy, grinning, so as to show as many of your teeth as possible. Really push yourself; let’s try to see some of those molars. Shout something at someone you don’t know, but act as if you know them…
Much like the eerie, mostly instrumental opening “Untitled” from Turn On The Bright Lights, The XX’s “Intro” draws listeners in with a snazzy drum beat and never lets up from there. Both bands make well crafted, moody songs with a great rhythm section, but while Interpol favored breathless intensity with a reverb gloss on their debut, The XX prefer their gloom a little…
After taking a beating week one, I bounced back nicely last week with a respectable 9-5 record. Most importantly, it could easily have been 11-3 if: 1) Rich Rodriguez had not decided to keep a running quarterback with no discernable passing skills in during the final minute, which is a situation that usually requires some passing. 2) FSU’s Roddy Jones had not allowed Georgia Tech QB Josh Nesbitt to take the ball back from him after a fumble like a six year old girl…
I recently evening-dined with a band of Ohioans–old family friends, mostly farmers and small business owners–at a dinner party in the home of a friend of a former lover…
I’ll be the first to admit, I did quite poorly overall in my college picks last week. 8-10 is not impressive in any way, nor am I proud of my record after one week. But like any good sports analyst, I can manufacture excuses and spin things any which way I please in order to make myself look better. I could do it like Lou Holtz, and deny making predictions that were in fact physically recorded…
I have on three separate occasions…
The cashiers at the Blacksburg Panera lack confidence. It’s not clear whether they don’t understand what they are doing or if they don’t believe in it, whether don’t trust the cash register or they don’t trust themselves.
A poem by Francisco D. Gray
After successfully predicting last week that Virginia Tech would beat down Miami and Iowa would upset Penn State, I had a revelation: I have been successfully making bold prediction after bold prediction…
