If you're a football enthusiast with no particular rooting interest for (0r against) either of the teams playing in the Super Bowl, it can be quite difficult indeed to get excited for said contest. As a spectacle, the Super Bowl of course remains unmatched, but as a game of football, the Super Bowl is, more … Continue reading Wait, There’s a Game Sunday? A Super Bowl Preview for the Quasi-Interested

Life is really, truly weird sometimes. Friday morning, I was driving around running errands and listening to Moving Pictures, Rush's 1981 masterpiece – I think it's rare for a band's consensus best album to be their actual best album as well, but Moving Pictures is certainly both – and, largely because it had been a … Continue reading We’re Only Immortal For a Limited Time: In Memory of Neil Peart

If you've been watching the Jeopardy! Greatest Of All Time tournament this week, you may have noticed that Brad Rutter, who has won more money than any other contestant in Jeopardy! history, and who has reliably knocked the stuffing out of fellow competitor Ken Jennings in tournament situations, has completely eaten shit during the first … Continue reading Is Brad Rutter Even Trying?

First things first – the holidays are here, so everybody remember to breathe and unclench your butts. I don't exactly know why we do this to ourselves as a society, but it's the holidays, and therefore each and every single one of us has something to be stressed out about. Maybe it's whether or not … Continue reading Quick Grab Bag: 12/17/19

Yesterday will be a day long remembered for me, personally. Not only did I try sweetbreads for the first time (they're delicious!), I also, for the very first time ever, beat Ninja Gaiden III for NES without the assistance of save states, and now I can finally proclaim to the universe that I can beat … Continue reading 8 Bit Triumph

Hello to all four of my loyal regulars! It's been pretty quiet around here lately, so I felt the need to address my uh...public regarding the reasons for it. The main reason I haven't been writing too much lately is that I am still reeling from the fiasco that was everyone at Deadspin walking out, … Continue reading Still Here

Last night I, along with the entire football-watching population of the Eastern Time Zone, stayed up past midnight to watch the Seahawks just barely squeak a win past the 49ers in the dying seconds of overtime. That the game ended with a winner and a loser at all is something of a minor miracle, and … Continue reading Fixing NFL Overtime

For reasons that I was not fully clear on, and which were informed primarily through anecdotal evidence (meaning feedback I've received from you, the readers, as well as a handful of friends), there were some bad vibes around this season of the Great British Baking Show. No one seemed to like it all that much. … Continue reading Great British Baking Show – 2019 Final

The Great British Baking Show is, as I have previously postulated, a sport, and one of the things sports excel at is pitting labor against labor while management watches, impassive and unscathed. The Great British Baking Show is no exception to this; in a given season, 12 or so (there were 13 this year) bakers … Continue reading Great British Baking Show Power Rankings – Patisserie Week