Whoa, what happened. We turned into that creepy house on the corner in your neighborhood growing up that your mom told you to avoid. “Why, Mom?” you might ask. Well, there’s the massive infiltration of spam comments. We’ve had everybody from professional term paper writers to adult service providers to private investigators dropping a line [...]
Things That I Give Canada Credit For…
I started watching the Opening Ceremonies of the Olympics (yes, it’s Friday… and I’m sitting here) and watched in wonderment as one, after another, after another b-list celebrities were revealed to me as native Canadians. We all knew Barenaked Ladies. Maybe a few knew Bryan/Ryan Adams. But Nelly Furtado? Sarah McLaughlin? Some kid from the [...]
Weak Side Late Assignment: The Rest of You Are Fools
Whoa, CubicleGM still exists. I almost forgot. Hopefully you haven’t gone too far. Like Gideon, I returned from the halfway glorious, halfway downright out-of-control city of New Orleans yesterday after about seven separate flight cancellations on U.S. Airways, my new favorite for least favorite company in America. The interesting part is that we didn’t intend [...]
Weak Side Late Assignment: Our Golden Boy Falls
I’m a little late to the party, but still want to briefly discuss the latest transgressions of Monsieur Eldrick “Tiger” Woods. Well, actually I will probably avoid addressing the “transgressions” themselves (quite the Bible-speak of him); the cliff dive of one of the few Golden Boys of modern sports is where I’d like to spend [...]
Weak Side Late Assignment: Bon Voyage, Al Groh
Little surprise, except possibly the expediency, that Al Groh departs as the head coach of the University of Virginia football program Sunday after what we can assume was a brief conversation with Craig Littlepage and John Casteen. Groh is dismissed with a severance package unlikely surpassed by anybody except Ken Lewis: a $4.3 million buyout [...]
Ten Steps To A Redskins Recovery
Today was the first in quite a while that I didn’t throw on my typical Clinton Portis #26 Washington Redskins jersey early Sunday morning and stay within eyeshot of the TV for an entire afternoon. Last week, with the Redskins on a bye week that couldn’t have come sooner, I felt like my life was [...]
Weak Side Late Assignment: South Korea Is One Of The Best Countries Around
So I’ll start this post by begging for your forgiveness: I’m sorry for my absence. I’ll use just returning from a work trip to Korea (South, that is, Kim Jong Il and his rocket firing didn’t even phase faze? us) as an excuse. Or maybe you were happy to have a break from me. I return to the Cube, [...]
Story Time: Sidling Up On Your Cube
When I’m at work, I try to keep a few stories “on tap” for those all-too-frequent cases when you find yourself grabbing a soda or standing in the elevator next to someone at work who you have nothing to talk about with. Often these situations go like this: Me: Hey, [NAME]. Good to see you. How’s it going? [...]
Three Thoughts and Two Ideas (Week 2)
I’ll leave the NFL to other writers at CubicleGM, and throw a few thoughts into the ring for Week 2 in the NCAA. Since we’re only through the second week, I’ll treat these as data points. By next week, however, we might just have a trend. From last to first, or really, in the order that [...]
A Few NFL Pronostimacations…
We’ve been working today, ahead of the battle between the Titans and Steelers, to aggregate a few predictions from CubicleGM on the upcoming NFL season. As I sit here, hating fellow contributor Mickey for drafting Big Ben on our fantasy team, the following is an attempt to integrate all bets I’ve received from our “expert” [...]
