Puh-rum-pum-pum-pum, people.
I ve got Bob Ferguson on the brain this year. If you haven t seen Paul Thomas Anderson s most excellent One Battle After Another, the trailer is all you need to see why I connect Leonardo DiCaprio s poor, hapless Bob with this Thing of Ours. Bob is us. Sean Penn s obsessed Col. Steven Lockjaw is The Boy. [ ]
One of my favorite sequences in Moneyball is the Athletics-Royals match-up, where the A s are going for their 20th consecutive win. Brad Pitt s Billy Beane doesn t make a habit of attending games, but shows up at this one. His guys are up 11-0 when he arrives. Then they proceed to blow the lead, letting the [ ]
Before I get to all the downfall and tragedy, I d like to ask a favor. For whatever reason, most people aren t able to post to the Facebook page, but a few of you can. And because the missus and I are both administrators, we can t see the page like a regular viewer and thus can t [ ]
Only 10 days in, and we re 161 LDBCers down. My advanced math skills tell me that s just over 16 a day, on average. Which is, as noted philosopher and Dethklok lead singer Nathan Explosion would say, brutal. We ve also gathered an impressive array of LDBC-elfies (or Elfies, when my typing fingers get lazy) to honor. [ ]
My calendar, Gmail mailbox, texts, TV, radio, news, and all media in existence tell me it s Black Friday. Something about a sale or two going on. But that s not important right now. What matters is, it s time to once again take on that rotten Kid who insists that everything in life is better when accompanied [ ]
This one starts with a gunfight where no one s shot and ends with tears at a funeral for a clown. Ready? In the opening scene of the classic Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Robert Redford s Sundance is on a winning streak playing cards, and one of the losers accuses him of cheating. It s clear [ ]
He s gone for the 15th time. Those of us who made it value our good fortune, and those who didn t look to next year, when it all begins anew. Me, I ve avenged the humiliating defeat of last year, when I died by my own hand on Day One by stupidly humming the dread tune to [ ]
At the time of this typing, we re just three shy of 300 down, folks, which means it really will be an unlucky day for the poor soul to hit that number on the reporting form. We ve been averaging more than 20 takedowns a day, which means even Jason himself is but a dabbler when compared [ ]
And just like that, we ve hit 100 LDBCers down, folks. Scott G. was lucky enough to report in as the magic number. It s been fairly brutal thus far, I must say. We didn t hit 100 until day five last year, so the pace of defeat is a little faster in 2024. For King and Country [ ]
Here we go again, people. I mean, it s like this kid shows up every year, isn t it? He does. And this year, we stand strong. Well, except for poor Mike M., who is our First Fallen this year. (He reported in at a little after 7 am. Ouch. Did he have a Boy alarm clock [ ]