Soul Check

I don’t want to give anything away, but this is SO worth sitting through all 4 and a half minutes. Pure joy.

 

I come not to praise it, but to bury it….

You know, if you had asked me a short time ago what Kris Kristofersson, Donny and Marie Osmond, Red Foxx, and Paul Lynde had in common, I would have answered, “Other than being popular in the late 70s, nothing.”

Oh, how wrong I would have been. But now my eyes have been opened. How naive I was. Please, if you can, enjoy. (Owner of this blog is not responsible for any damage to your cerebral cortex caused by the viewing of these videos. Your mileage may vary.)

(The sync on this first one is waaay off.)

Part 2:

 

More Forest

 

Forest are promoted!!!!

Well, after three %*!$ years in League One, Forest get promoted back to the Championship, on the last day of the season after a 3-2 win over Yeovil. Video after the jump.

 

Happy May Day!

 

These people make me feel dumb.

So… I was poking around the BBC website the other day, looking to see if there were any “Just a Minute” archives online. (which is a story for another time) and I found this panel show called “The Write Stuff.”

In Great Britain there is this tradition of “panel shows” where very bright erudite people sit around and get quized, or say funny things, or do funny things (much like “Who’s Line is it Anyways,” which was based on a British show of the same name).

Usually there’s a winner, but the winner doesn’t usually receive anything of value. Which is probably why it never caught on here. (The exception is probably NPR’s “Wait, wait, don’t tell me!” which is a kind of panel show.)

In any event, I found this show, which is a literary quiz show. Each week there’s a featured writer (the last two have been John Grisham and Jonathan Swift). There’s a quiz about that writer, several general literature quizes and then, at the end, each of the writers has to give a pastiche/tribute of the writer on a topic of the narrator’s choosing. (last week, they did a Jonathan Swiftian take on automated operators and commuting cyclists, for example).

I’ve listened to the previous two shows, and managed to answer one question correctly. Here’s a link to the most recent show. Give it a half hour (And you’ll need real player to listen). It’s fairly mind blowing.

(and Chris & John, you should play it for KitKat; this week’s theme is Hans Christian Andersen).

 

No really, Battle of the Blogger Tournaments

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More Razz Hands

Here are some hands from a Razz Sit and Go I won:

 

Battle of the Bloggers!

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Chicago Burns Chicago

So let’s say the Sun-Times runs a contest to get a video from people protesting the plans to change the name of Wrigley Field.

Three guesses on who wins the juicy $1000 prize…..

(Hint: Chicago’s a two newspaper town)

Enjoy: