The definitive Manning-Brady guide

Are you a member of the media?
Are you a Patriots fan?
Did you attend the University of Michigan from 1998-99?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, Brady is better. Otherwise, it's Manning.

Nationals Park Presidents Race

So I joined this fantasy league for the Presidents Race that occurs at every Nationals home game.

Unfortunately, I picked fourth.

Worst Disclaimer Ever

I keep seeing a version this commercial during baseball games. (It's got the same script, but it's a different speaker.) Stick around for the part between 0:19 and 0:25; I think it's worth it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvwSXO13Agk

My Most Mysterious Musical...

Darn the lack of a synonym for "preference" or "taste" beginning with the letter M.


Anyway, I haven't posted in a while, but there are voices (outside my head, thank you very much) telling me that, contrary to popular belief, some people actually stop by here once in a great while.


Under such pressure (I'm wilting!), I'm certainly not beyond discussing contrived and uninteresting subjects. So, I will provide an opportunity for you to either (A) laugh at my musical tastes or (B) share your own.


Go ahead, you know it's option (A).


Anyway, I got all of the following from last.fm. (You can visit my full profile here. I know you're just thrilled!) Using the weekly charts, I have over the course of the better part of 2 years been charting my listening habits. (All in unison now: LAME!) Some weeks I haven't listened to a single song, but at the same time I often exceed 300. My record is.... wait, why the heck am I sharing all this? You don't care! Let's get to the tables and be done. Even though you don't care about those either. Whatever. Anyway.


First Table: Those artists who have "won" more than one week, i.e. been the artist I listened to most during any given week.



Most Weeks as #1 Artist
Weeks
Most Cons.
Last
VNV Nation
30
5
02/27/11
“Weird Al” Yankovic
27
4
03/13/11
Creedence Clearwater Revival
11
3
10/17/10
The Who
8
4
03/06/11
The Beatles
5
2
01/16/11
Ronski Speed
3
3
04/24/11
Mysto & Pizzi
3
2
10/11/09
Paul Oakenfield
2
2
05/08/11
Dire Straits
2
2
03/27/11
Led Zeppelin
2
1
01/16/11
Mike Oldfield
2
1
06/28/09


Here is the same info for 2011.




Most Weeks #1, Artist
Weeks
Most Cons.
Last
Paul Oakenfield
2
2
05/08/11
Ronski Speed
3
3
04/24/11
Dire Straits
2
2
03/27/11
“Weird Al” Yankovic
27
4
03/13/11
The Who
8
4
03/06/11
VNV Nation
30
5
02/27/11
The Beatles
5
2
01/16/11
Led Zeppelin
2
1
01/16/11
Deep Purple
1
1
01/09/11
Boston
1
1
01/02/11


So go ahead and either laugh, share, or select our most popular option: Ignore.

Classic Post #1

As you can tell, I have been very inconsistent in my writing in 2011. To help alleviate this, I will begin occasionally publishing a past post of mine, from a different blog, in this spot. We'll see how this works.


Let's dig in, shall we?

A Christmas Post

"Then the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which will be to all people. For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord." - Luke 2:10-11

"Ho ho ho, Merry Fishmas" - Mr. Burns ("The Simpsons" Season 12)

It seems doubtful that the writer of that episode of The Simpsons (Rob LaZebnik, it turns out) was thinking much of symbolism when he concluded the episode with Mr. Burns as Santa Claus on a float throwing fish entrails on the crowd of a parade while shouting "Merry Fishmas." Fish just happens to mostly rhyme with the first syllable in Christmas; Mr. Burns is evil; that was probably, and perhaps hopefully, the extent of the joke.
Yet let's pretend it went beyond that. Most people are aware of the fish as a Christian symbol. Of course, in the episode they were gutted fish, being used in a parade by a bad rich man. The joke couldn't possibly be a statement on how materialism has "gutted" Christmas of its meaning, could it?

No, I don't think so either. Now, please disassociate Luke's Gospel from The Simpsons as quickly as possible.

And Merry Christmas everyone.

The Ones That Were Taken

So since this "blog" is on its last legs, I looked to create a new one. I decided to find a URL first, which makes no sense. However, all the ideas I have that were already taken means that there is, somewhere, a blog with the said taken URL. So I checked each one out, looking to see when it was last updated. Needless to say, there are a bunch of people out there as inconsistent about this as I am who haven't posted in years but nevertheless HAVE TAKEN MY URL IDEA.

Japan's Population May Be Exaggerated

Its elderly population certainly is. Government records incidate that 230,000 people are listed as alive, well, and over 100 years old--including 884 allegedly over the age of 150. And that's just the ones they can't find.

What I found creepiest about the ordeal, but probably not surprising given that pretext, was a sentence about midway through the article:

"In late July, police discovered that Sogen Kato, who would have been 111 and was thought to be Tokyo's oldest man, had actually been dead for 32 years and his decayed body was still lying in his home."

That means nobody had bothered to open his door since... 1978.