It’s time for the Pro Bowl again. This year, the league decided to squeeze the game in the week before the Super Bowl — and also move it to Miami from Hawaii. I have no idea why… maybe to try to get more people to watch it? I won’t be watching it, that’s for sure. [...]
Archive for January, 2010
Kurt Warner, quarterback for the Arizona Cardinals, announced his retirement yesterday after 12 seasons in the NFL. He broke into the league with the St. Louis Rams back in 1998, and didn’t start a game until 1999 when he was 28 years old. But man, what a year he had, as he took the league [...]
Even though I have exactly zero extra money to spend, I still enjoy browsing through the sale pages over at Buy.com so I can drool over all the cool stuff and make a Wish List for the day when I do get enough money to order everything I want! Anyway, this morning I saw this [...]
J.D. Salinger, the author of The Catcher in the Rye, died yesterday at the age of 91. The report came from his son, who said the author succumbed to natural causes. Salinger was mostly a recluse after the overwhelming success of Catcher. He rarely granted any interviews (the last was 30 years ago), and except [...]
I am not an American Idol fan at all, but I think some of Simon Cowell’s remarks are hilarious! I try combing YouTube for clips of his put-downs and have found a few good videos in the past, but not nearly enough. Here’s a decent one that shows him getting exasperated with a number of [...]
I know it’s hard to imagine right now, but spring — and then summer — aren’t really that far off. (That’s what I’m going to keep telling myself, anyway!) For my family, that means more and more time spent out in the backyard enjoying the warm weather and sunshine from the comfort of our lovely [...]
This is one of my favorite poems of all-time. I was thumbing through a book of poetry last night and came across it for the first time in years. Reading it again made me remember why I love it so much. This might sound silly, but I can never get through the last stanza without [...]