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Hit It and Quidditch

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Mighty Taco…I see you.  Once again, I’m making my way back up to the frigidly mean streets of Buffalo.  My routinely brief 4-day vacation in Atlanta has come to its unfortunate end yet again (I am on a 10-day-on, 4-day-off work schedule).  For a city that I adore as much as Atlanta, my job has

Statute of Dopeness

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Truth be told, I can’t even recall how long it’s been since I’ve last felt the literary gumption to note down anything of inconsequential substance. In all honesty, things done changed quite a bit in my life since I’ve last posted. Unbelievable as it may sound, someone outside of their sane mind actually decided to

Fabricated Wins from the Cloth of Despair

Dallas Mavericks v Miami Heat - Game Two

As spare time becomes sparse and complacency teeters on the edge of becoming commonplace, very infrequently do I find myself inspired to blog.  Truth be told, the indiscriminate culprit is probably more a haphazard concoction of apathy and ambivalence than anything else. Like I said, recently, I’ve needed great inspiration to fuel any ambition of

Flowers Out the Wazoo, Drapes Up the Hoo Hah

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What better motivation to blog than when stuck sitting idly by as an Indian wedding proceeds.  Believe you me, an Indian wedding is a spectacle to behold – for those that haven’t ever witnessed it.  After you’ve attended a few, the traditional proceedings can appear borderline cumbersome.  So, when the goblin of monotony annoyingly tickles

The Checking Account of my Conscience

The Jersey Shore Will Shoot Season 4 in Italy

Here I am, at 3:04 in the morning, trying to squeeze out every ounce of complacency that I can out of the wintery fresh toothpaste of unemployment.  What has driven me to this inevitable point?  Well…my delusions of professional grandeur have taken a backseat to the unavoidable roadblock of the immediate future.  The financial obligations

Canas, Tapas, and Bendy Straws

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This is a draft I wrote after coming back from my most recent trip to Spain in October of 2009.  It’s been sitting around in my drafts folder for an embarrassing minute.  I guess I just never got around to publishing it…until now. Was I really chowing down a falafel from Maoz in Madrid just

Fate Excused my Lackadaisical Approach

Southwest Airlines

You didn’t actually think that I’d accurately predict the outcomes of both conference championship games last weekend…did you?  Being average seems to be the hoodie that fits best over my unintelligible skull.  However…Cutler being knocked out of the game after the 1st series in the 3rd quarter may have had something to do with the

Knee-Jerk Hyperbole and Effusive Superlatives

Bears vs Packers in the 2011 Playoffs

In my opinion, this is the last weekend of legitimate football this NFL season. Championship Weekend. You’d think that Super Bowl weekend holds more significance to me…but it doesn’t.  To me, Super Bowl Sunday is an overhyped concoction of exaggerated media coverage and belabored storylines. I am not a big fan of the two week

Smoochin’ the Lips of Mediocrity

Braylon Edwards Does a Cartwheel and Backflip After the Jets Upset of the Patriots

Smoochin’ the lips of mediocrity, in my composition book, should be received with an ear deafening crescendo of applause.  I went 2-2 in my NFL Divisional Playoff picks.  Unfortunately, as I alluded to in my last post, I feared that picking the Falcons to win would foreshadow a Packers upset.  An infallible prognosticator I certainly

Undeterred by an Impotence of Intelligence and Significant Lack of Foresight

Falcons vs Packers 2011 Divisional Playoffs

I’m going to do something I’ve only attempted a few times on this blog:  predict the outcome of a sports event.  The last time I did this, I tried to predict the top 10 picks of the 2006 NFL Draft.  How brilliant were my predictions?  Ummm….what had happened was…I mean…ya never know…umm…flip happens…ya know?  My