Or have a scotch while you wait for the beer to cool down...

Ooooof....that still hurts. Seemed like that last 8 seconds took about 15 minutes to run off the clock.

Don’t forget about Fred Grandy...”Gopher” from the Love Boat, who was a congressman from Iowa for 4 terms.

Regarding uniform flair for individuals, in cycling the reigning World Champ gets to wear the “rainbow jersey”, which is white with with five horizontal bands in blue/red/black/yellow/green. There’s actually a penalty(2500 to 5000 Swiss Francs) if a world champion rider doesn’t wear the rainbow jersey at an event.

I was watching when the play happened....and seriously thought he was dead.

Read the book “Dreamland” by Sam Quinones. It describes in great detail the direct path from the development of Oxycontin to the explosion of “Pain Clinics” to Heroin addiction.

I was scheduled for ankle surgery the day the verdict was read. The first thing I did when I woke up in recovery was ask the nurse what the verdict was. I couldn’t believe it when she told me.

Seattle....KEXP 90.3, or www.kexp.org online. You’ll never need another radio station again. Today was the annual Morning Show “Love and Hate” Valentines Day show, with such great songs as Depeche Mode “Master and Servant”, Eagle Seagull “I’m Sorry But I’m Beginning To Hate Your Face”, and Ministry’s version of “Lay…

100% Guarantee you that Guardian Writer Martin Kettle’s nickname around the office is “Steamy”...

When I started to pay attention to the NFL back in the 70's, the Ref’s used to just call “Offsetting Unnecessary Roughness” penalties. The football equivalent of “Boys will boys”.

I totally get the whole “be positive for the kids sake”, but oh man is it tough. My situation: divorced for 9 years now, 2 kids. Ex kicked me out when she was in the middle of an MS exacerbation (no, I wasn’t cheating/abusive/anything else. Came out of the blue). Went through 3 different marriage counselors post…

Dickface McNationalReview—is that Jonah Goldberg? Or Rich Lowry? It pretty much fits either of them....

My father’s birthday is April 1st. Yep, April Fools Day. The poor guy has never received a non-joke birthday present in his life.

Worse than a family of racists and drunks? Family full of True Believer Mormons! So not only are they thinly veiled racists, you don’t have the drinking (by either them or yourself) to balance it out! No wonder I don’t go home for holidays anymore.

A few years back I had the solo Christmas Eve (divorced, not dating anyone at the time, didn’t get my kids until Christmas Night) and it was glorious. Went to a movie (“Girl with Dragon Tattoo”...now that’s a feel good Christmas movie) at a place that served beer and food, then to a local dive bar that was open. Ended…

Jubelale is always good, as is Elysian’s “BiFrost”. Even better, by Elysian is the ElkFrost, but that’s only sold on tap at either an Elysian BrewPub or at the Snorting Elk bar at the Crystal Mountain ski area.

Elysian Brewing (here in Seattle) has an IPA called “Loser”, done with the SubPop label, with the slogan “Corporate Beer Still Sucks”.

“Positively 4th Street” by Dylan

Of course you keep up with new music...its easy. Just listen to KEXP.org. Always good, new, interesting stuff...and that’s coming from an old (51) geezer.