I’m thinking that’s because you watch them on NBC.

Yeah, this was just explained to me by Croatian friends. The HNS (Croatian Football Federation) is, in their minds, corrupt and run by people in cahoots with a much-hated government. “With a pinch of idiocy,” they add.

Twice today I’ve seen the term “Latinx,” and had not seen it before. So, like any middle-aged white heterosexual beer swillin’ meat eatin’ male I decided to whine about kids these days and their new-fangled terms I looked it up (using this “Google” thingie) and discovered it makes perfect sense. Not only that, I know…

All Community actors look the same to him.

Or, conversely, you could read the books and discover they’re actually pretty good. Well, for me it’s just the first one, which I read when my son pressed it on me. But he and his younger brother liked them all, and I have sent him this news (he’s in Europe), and I imagine when he wakes up and reads this he’ll be…

I played one soccer game with both of my boys, real league and all, the youngest a youth player called up. Goddamn but was I ever bursting. And not just my stomach in that tight jersey.

Canadians would appreciate a Don Cherry Couch Reupholstering Award. A right wing blowhard needs to be presenter.

Bill McKibben wrote about this years ago in The End of Nature.

So true. Two that I know, Violet and Sophie, often slobber me to death, and Sophie likes to sit on my feet. And allow me to recommend The Champions on Netflix, about Michael Vick’s dogs and where many of them ended up. If Pitties don’t have dicks for owners, they are spectacular dogs.

If you have a gay voice, you must be gay. Right?

I was 15 when this came out, friends with the owner of a local comic store. We all knew it was coming, we all knew it was going to be a joke. And then it came out, and goddamn, it was so great. And I wasn’t even a DC guy.

Hell, it’s clear she doesn’t get enough oxygen here on Earth.

Yeah, I remember all the weird pronunciations from living in Logan for 16 months. Kit-tar instead of guitar was another.

I work with a guy who just made the local university football team after taking a year off. On questioning him, I discovered he went to high school with a kid who is friends with my sons. Felt like I’d been kicked in the gut.

Scariest film I’ve seen recently probably counts as a thriller, not horror, but HUSH had me and my wife so freaked out we both started to hyperventilate a few times.

So true. A friend who is a single mom with a 6yo daughter has taken her to Cuba a couple of times. Her reaction (online: she hasn’t been hit with this yet) was “Sure, here you go. Enjoy hanging with her. And good luck.” Enough parents do this and that shit stops on a dime.

My son (who is now looking for a school to play at) and I were talking with an agent last year, someone who used to be involved in the academy system of an MLS team. He figured academy players stood, at best, a 10% chance of going on to play pro. For the rest, the best hope they had was to go on to a good school or,…

He’s big!

Huh. My... friend’s wife has a 6th sense, seems to always know when shenanigans are going on.

My 20-year-old Aidan salutes your son’s “scissors,” and wishes he’d drawn something like that at 6.