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  • Parenting: Sam Jackson read ‘Go the F— To Sleep’, now what?

    Yes, it’s awesome Adam Mansback put pen to paper and gave voice to millions of sleep-deprived parents. Yes, it’s a damn shame you, me and everyone we know didn’t think of it first. It was right there. We totally bleeping should have done that. Yes, Samuel L. Jackson reads the audio book. Yes, it is…

  • What song could Rich Rodriguez have chosen? (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

  • Coach Rodriguez, I’m very flattered but crying to You Raise Me Up is SO five years ago. #playwelcometothejungle Josh Groban, via Twitter, in response to this, and completing the neutering of the Michigan football program.

  • <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdtejCR413c Since you asked, I’ve got sprouts from a flowering quince mucking up a whole corner of the backyard. This guy we paid to take out the quince itself was supposed to come back and he never did and it’s just this huge pain in the ass and I don’t want to deal…

  • One very stupid sentence

    “If this was the BCS, New York and Philadelphia would already be in the World Series.” — local sports talk guy*. 1. It’s not the BCS, which invalidates everything after, “If this was the BCS …” 2. See No. 1. *This line of blathering came back around to something that National Sports Talk Guy said…

  • Pavel! (Source: http://video.nhl.com/)

  • “Ernie”

    Mitch Albom is writing a play based on former Tigers broadcaster Ernie Harwell. Or, as it might also be called: Skull——ing Your Fondest Childhood Memories, For Fun and Profit. In related Albom news, this.

  • This November, vote ‘Badlands’

    I got an email from a gentleman yesterday asking for some advice. As one who had spent many years covering sports, might I be able to offer some advice as to how one would go about alerting sports blogs to this “killer” video of Shaquille O’Neal commenting on the recent (and only) Dudley-Kitzhaber debate. My…

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  • In a town that can take itself far too seriously. In a time when everyone has to be oh-so-cool and sound oh-just-so, there was a band. A band unafraid to have fun, to lead singalongs, to tap dance. They made a record, and The Oregonian wrote about it. They made a video (the first of…