• Archive for July, 2008

    Another Week of Blogging in the Books

    by Matt • July 18, 2008 • 0 Comments

    Once again, something compelled me to re-find the login details for my old, unused sports blog. I actually posted twice there, so to honor the momentous occasion I’ll list those first in this week’s recap of my blogging activity. The Fan Lou Piniella is a Great Actor Jim Riggleman is Dumb, or He Thinks You [...]

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    George Carlin on Baseball & Football

    by Matt • July 17, 2008 • 0 Comments

    I was watching the MLB All-Star game with my 10-year-old son on Tuesday night, and somehow we got on the subject of the NFL. I said (as I always do) how excited I am for football season, and asked how soon it starts — a question I usually start asking about two weeks after the [...]

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    Just Give Me The $!@#$% Weather!

    by Matt • July 16, 2008 • 2 Comments

    [rant] There are only three things we all need to know when watching the weather report on local TV news: How hot/cold did it get today What’s going on right now What’s it going to be like tomorrow and over the next couple days That’s it. Three things. Heck, you could remove #2 from that [...]

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    WSJ: Wall-E Deserves Shot at Best Picture

    by Matt • July 12, 2008 • 0 Comments

    Joe Morgenstern of the Wall Street Journal has joined the growing chorus of people calling for Disney to promote Wall-E as a Best Picture candidate at next year’s Academy Awards: “WALL-E” isn’t just an animated feature; it’s a great motion picture by any measure, and has already been hailed as such — by critics who’ve [...]

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    This Week’s Blog Posts

    by Matt • July 11, 2008 • 0 Comments

    Before the blog roundup, would ya have a look at who made the digg home page again?!! That’s three times since June 18, which is pretty good for someone like me. Okay, on to the blog post recap we go. Felt like I was blogging all week, so let’s see what we accomplished. Richland Real [...]

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    Flickr Pix in the Wild

    by Matt • July 10, 2008 • 2 Comments

    Been a while, but recently found a few of my Flickr pix in use on the Internetz. One of my best night shots is on a blog called the Silicon Florist: And then a couple others: My totally awesome vanilla-ice-cream-with-caramel-and-pink-and-purple-sprinkles photo was used on a Consumerist.com “Top Posts” post. So there. Take that all you [...]

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