Minneapolis is the most cursed sports city

Whenever these lists come up, it’s always Cleveland (usually No. 1), Detroit, Buffalo, etc. You can make a case that D.C. is having a rough time of it now in terms of “closing the deal.” I’d actually make a different… Continue Reading

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Here’s a story about a time I went to see Pixar’s “Up” super drunk

Up came out in the United States on May 29, 2009. I had been planning on seeing it in New York City with one group of friends — essentially my core friends at the time — but another group of friends (rather,… Continue Reading

There are six ranked vs. ranked college football games this weekend. Nice.

Last weekend, College Gameday had to go to an unranked vs. ranked game, where the unranked team was coming off a loss to Indiana (last Rose Bowl in the 1960s) and the ranked team had opened the season by giving up about… Continue Reading

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Can you make friends after 30?

Making friends after 30

I just moved a few months ago and I’ve been trying. It’s not that easy. But why? Continue Reading

Use Uber for networking

This weekend, my sister-in-law and her boyfriend were in town. Last night, not wanting to assign any adult responsibility to myself or my wife (things we probably really need), we decided to take a couple of Uber rides to bars/restaurants… Continue Reading

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Leslie Gilliams of MasterChef is Melissa Joan Hart’s stepfather, eh?

SELFIELES all my fan at Melissa and Joey pic.twitter.com/uc7pKGzNPY — Leslie Gilliams (@ChefLeslieG) September 12, 2014 If you’ve been following MasterChef this season, you know that the final three is now set: Elizabeth, Courtney, and Leslie. That means my prediction of a… Continue Reading

Is RG III an all-time bust?

RG3’s Rookie Year: 15 games started. Redskins go 10-6. Make the playoffs (and get a home game) for the first time in seemingly decades (really wasn’t that long). 815 yards rushing, 3200 yards passing. Becomes, by some measure, the fourth-most marketable… Continue Reading

7.6 tons of cocaine was seized in Peru recently. That’s somewhat important.

It’s not important in the context of “stopping the drug trade” — that’s not actually going to happen — but it is important in terms of this: