What an ironic find reading the comments. Hello from the fellow you defeated on the way to glory :) Hope the years have found you well.

Don and his loud suits just got demoted.

Thank you for this. I got to know Alex a bit better during my original run in 2006 (pictured) and the 2007 ToC. As you noted, he did his job and did it well, but he wasn’t one to hobnob much with the contestants, and that was perfectly fine. The only time we really socialized with him at all was at the on-set…

Why couldn’t it have been Pat Sajak?

There’s so much to love about this but a truly wonderful small part is the fact that Madrid probably could have used Sergio Ramos, who was suspended for intentionally earning a yellow card in the last leg to clear the slate for the next round, arrogantly assuming that today’s game was a mere formality that Madrid…

Wow. 

I don’t think Kingston is that small and it’s also a university town.

It’s hip to flee squares

In more ways than one, Frank Drebin. 

The FIFA series has weirdly good taste in music. FIFA 10 and 11, in particular, had an embarrassingly large influence on my music taste, introducing me to Passion Pit, Phoenix, Metric, Santigold, The Strokes, MGMT, LCD Soundsystem, Peter Bjorn and John, Yeasayer, and probably some others.

One of my favorite things to do on Spotify is to comb through the catalogs of perceived one hit wonders. I discovered Terry Jacks’ band The Poppy Family and especially the song “There’s No Blood In Bone”. Turns out Darkwave was invented in the 60s by the guy who did “Seasons in the Sun”

Many years ago (late 90s, I reckon) I took a Virgin Atlantic flight from London to New York. While boarding the aircraft, I noticed the unmistakable vocals of Tracey Thorn playing over the plane’s PA system - a song i’d never heard before, and fell in love with it instantly.

Mazzy Star, “Ghost Highway.” Saw a dancer do her thing to this song at a strip club. Walked up to the stage after she finished, asked her what the track was, tipped her extra for the info, and went back to my seat.

I have multiple chili cook-off trophies that I’ve won with a recipe that’s honestly way over the top. But worth it and I have the proof. I deseed and grind my own Ancho chiles, I braise beef and pork shoulder chunks along with just a dash of jowl bacon and when those meats are crazy tender, I add in Andouille and…

Warning: It was extremely gross and alarmingly red.

Yeah I’ll disagree.

He was singing “in all our sons command” when it’s now “in all of us command.” We won’t “stand” for that shit.

Another gem from last night if you’re interested in hating on boston.

He’s 24 and he didn’t play basketball seriously until he was 17.