The all-important third preseason game

It seems that game three of an NFL’s preseason schedule is never referred to as “game three” or “the third game” or “I lost my thumb and forefinger sneaking a pinch of Chuck Negron’s cocaine so it’s this many games.” It is called “the all-important third preseason game.” Since I’m not one to let such […]

Killing a fool on a hill

Two nights ago I started writing a few paragraphs to append to what became yesterday’s playlist post. Eventually I realized it wouldn’t work unless it was shoehorned in as an extended parenthetical aside, something I had already done with a never-quite-satisfying Jefferson Airplane rant that has since been severely cut down. So this gets its […]

A joke on you and me

You know when you keep reading about some album or other, and people are pissing all over themselves to douse the lava-flames of awesomeness that emanate from said album, except they like being engulfed by the overhyped lava so much that they don’t panic when they run out of pee? They just drink more water? […]