Skip Bayless over at ESPN.com writes about why kicking should be eliminated from football. Reading this made me oddly angry (and not just because I kicked in high school, I swear). The best part is his completely ridiculous rationalization to preserve punting and kickoffs but not field goals or extra points. The guy clearly hates soccer for some reason, and just comes off as virulently hostile in the column. Anyway, he’s completely wrong about almost everything except that it does seem pretty rough that one guy can undo all the work of his 45 teammates with one botched kick. But, you know, life is unfair that way, and if kicking makes football a little less predictable and, occasionally, more tragic, well I’m okay with that.
Sep 292005
Sep 292005
I’ve had my share of trouble with U-Haul (but that’s another story), and I’ve heard plenty of negative things about them from pretty much everyone I have ever talked to who’s used the company. I wouldn’t even describe this guy’s experience as unusually bad, but it is a pretty good depiction of a disorganized, hostile-to-customers, dinosaur company on a mission to lose its market share.
Sep 292005
If you don’t mind speed-punk that’s barely comprehensible, and feel nostalgia for early-90s children’s television, you will definitely want to check out Mindless Self Indulgence’s Clarissa. I won’t spoil it for you. Just trust me.
And there’s A Somewhat New Medium, a spoken word piece by MC Paul Barman. I’m not saying everyone will like this song–it’s not even one of Barman’s best, and he has plenty of detractors. The reason I’m providing it is that in the song he talks about a gas station with a marquee with a historical quotation on it. Guess what–when I worked in San Francisco last summer, my office was down the street from this place! It is on Turk Street in the Tenderloin, near City Hall. I think the cross street is Hyde, or maybe Leavenworth. You can’t really tell from Google Maps, but trust me. The song is silly but I like it anyway. If you want to hear some of Barman’s more typical songs, check out Excuse You and Old Paul. All three songs come from Paullelujah!.
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