I'm a new home owner. I moved into my new home with my new wife just about two months ago. Although there was a time crunch in getting the house, there's very little wrong with it, especially since it is 104 years old. It is a little hard to keep warm on these cold days but we're working on it. Across the street from my front door is a two-car garage, which is old and in bad shape. The house that it is a part of, but not attached to, is a very nice old-style home with a very nice grandmother li...
Sitting in the newsroom tonight, the entire place is buzzing with reporters talking to politicians winning and losing their elected posts in Western Washington. But after looking at the totals, not too many people out here performed their civic duty and voted — less than 25 percent, most absentee. In Washington state, there wasn't any hot button issue to draw interest and locally, the school board is always a hot area of debate and bickering. But what about you, out there in cyberspace? Did y...
Sitting at home, I turned on MTV2 and watched a half hour of Metallica’s Greatest Hits. From what I saw, most of it was from Load, Reload, S&M (with the San Francisco Orchestra) and from St. Anger, their newest album. It wasn’t bad. It has been a while since I’ve put a Metallica CD in my player, but I also felt funny. Is it me or has Metallica (to borrow a Seinfeld term) jumped the shark? When I was in middle school and in the beginning of high school in the mid-1980s, Metallica was the con...
Tonight, the NBA began its 2003-04 season... with grade-A, 100 score by Whine Magazine, vintage whining from the Los Angeles Lakers' Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal. On ESPN, Bryant — after head coach Phil "Guru" Jackson told the team to shut up to the press about this — called O'Neal "childlike," "unprofessional," "selfish," "fat" and "jealous." He also took the 7-foot-2 bohemeth to task for overplaying his sore toe and coming into training camp overweight and out of shape. Ah man... Please,...
For the past several weeks, I've enjoyed The Joe Schmo Show on Spike TV. The premise: Take an ordinary guy and make him the only real aspect of the show. Everything else, from the fellow contestants (actors) to the smarmy host (actor) to the games (rigged) to the elimination ceremony (scripted) was fake. At the end, have one of the actors win, then turn around and reveal to Joe — in this case Matt Kennedy Gould, of Pittsburgh, PA — that everyone are actors and that the whole thing was fake.
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A view from the sports couch (Mon., Oct. 27) The Los Angeles Lakers are feuding. With new superstars Karl Malone and Gary Payton on the roster, the Lakers are the odds-on favorite to win the NBA title. But the pissing match between current Laker stars Shaq O’Neal and Kobe Bryant is reaching a new level. Both Shaq and Kobe have been fighting in the background over the past few seasons over whose team it is: Shaq’s or Kobe’s. Both players have enormous egos and both believe they are the ...
Seattle at Cincinnati (This is an occasional blog entry on the NFL, usually Seattle Seahawks games. Most of these will be from my couch, drive by drive observations. This is a good exercise for me in following a game from beginning to end while analyzing what’s going on on the fly. It’s like exercise for the sports brain, really.) Seattle’s offense, engineered by QB Matt Hasselbeck and RB Shaun Alexander, takes on Cincinnati’s defense, led by head coach/defensive guru Marvin Lewis, at the ...
It’s all over the place. You know the word — metrosexual. The first time I heard the term was listening to ESPN Radio recently, when a morning radio host (Mike Golic) accused his co-host (Mike Greenberg) of being one. “You use product in your hair and you exfoliate your skin before you moisturize... What the hell is exfoliate???,” Golic, a former NFL lineman, said to Greenberg. “Well, it’s when...,” Greenberg said, who was then interrupted by Golic’s laughter and derision. OK, I’m a dude. W...