This is the week I look forward to every year. This is the week when I schedule a vacation day on Sunday, as a matter of course, because no matter what happens on the day before, I’m going to need a little extra time to recover. Look. I can see you rolling your eyes. “Michigan’s… Read More 18. getting started.
We have a winner. I mentioned at the start of the month that we were getting very close to registering the 3,000th comment here at Uncle Crappy, and because I’ve long believed that the comments are the best part of what we — you all and me — do here, I put up a $50… Read More 16. dingdingdingdingding.
I just finished watching the Niners beat the Bears; even though it was an ugly game — one of the ugliest I’ve seen this season that didn’t involved the Browns — it brought back some interesting memories. Upon the close of the 1995 NFL season, I was kind of stuck. Midway through the fall, the… Read More 15. call my agent.
Today’s post is about Facebook. And beer. But it’s really about something else. I grumble about Facebook a bunch. It can be an obtrusive, annoying Blue and White Monster and there’s no question that it has the potential to be the biggest time suck the internet has ever seen. Facebook can be a pretty noisy… Read More 14. old friends.
One year ago today, I arrived at our new house in Pittsburgh, to spend the night for the first time. We had completed a nasty three-day stretch where we moved pretty much everything from our apartment in Butler to the new place, making the drive on Route 68 to I-79 to the Parkway North more… Read More home (plus 365).
While we’re in Columbus this weekend, I won’t be able to avoid thinking about what I’m missing: Halloween in Athens. I was in Athens for an embarrassingly large number of Halloweens, starting in the years when the street takeover was still a takeover and later, when it was a city-sanctioned street party. I came up… Read More halloweened.
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