Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Homages to the Recently Departed
The Washington Post Sunday Magazine has a long-running weekly contest called the Style Invitational. It highlights the creativity and cleverness of their readers. In a typical contest, readers were asked to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter and supply a new definition. Surely you have received the email with the definitions for, among others, ignoranus (a person who's both stupid and an a**hole); sarchasm (the gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it); and Dopeler effect (the tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly).
The Style Invitational has an annual feature each January that asks people to write poetry about notable people who died during the prior year. Sample entry:
For Joe Barbera:
The cartoon muse to the baby boom
Has met his yabba dabba doom.
It's pretty punny stuff. You can read the featured entries and winners at
Humorous Poems About Notables Who Died in 2006 and More Humorous Poems About Notables Who Died in 2006
The Style Invitational has an annual feature each January that asks people to write poetry about notable people who died during the prior year. Sample entry:
For Joe Barbera:
The cartoon muse to the baby boom
Has met his yabba dabba doom.
It's pretty punny stuff. You can read the featured entries and winners at
Humorous Poems About Notables Who Died in 2006 and More Humorous Poems About Notables Who Died in 2006
Sunday, February 11, 2007
ESPN SportsCenter - Y2K Test
| A hilarious ESPN SportsCenter commercial depicting the producer testing all the equipment at ESPN SportsCenter -- and the chaos that occurs afterwards. Too bad the real Y2K was not this much fun. Charlie Steiner - this may have been your finest moment on tv. | |
Friday, February 02, 2007
Mark May throughout history
I want it on the record that I am not the object of these blogs:
http://firemarkmay.blogspot.com/
http://markmaybewrong.blogspot.com/
They might appear to be a conspiracy of my co-workers (or displeased quiz players). But I believe they are dissing a former University of Pittsburgh and Washington Redskin offensive lineman.
I am also not this guy http://www.markmay.com/
However, he does play a very mean blues guitar in the style of Albert Collins. I wrote him one time to tell him that I enjoyed his music (and also share his name). He sent me a cassette. Us Mark Mays have to stand together.
http://firemarkmay.blogspot.com/
http://markmaybewrong.blogspot.com/
They might appear to be a conspiracy of my co-workers (or displeased quiz players). But I believe they are dissing a former University of Pittsburgh and Washington Redskin offensive lineman.
I am also not this guy http://www.markmay.com/
However, he does play a very mean blues guitar in the style of Albert Collins. I wrote him one time to tell him that I enjoyed his music (and also share his name). He sent me a cassette. Us Mark Mays have to stand together.
