Archives for October 2009

Questionnaire 3.

My responses to selected questions from several online questionnaires:

NAME, PLEASE. Okay, since you were polite. Vincent Dominic Viscariello.
APPROXIMATE AGE? I am circa 32.
WHAT AGE WOULD YOU LIKE TO DIE? I would like the Age of Aquarius to die. You probably should have edited these questions.
WOULD YOU LET YOUR KIDS SMOKE WEED? Only medicinally (i.e., if [...]

R.I.P. Joseph Wiseman.

On the proper reaction to a 45-point halftime deficit.

I’m disgusted. The Bears should be up 28-14, and they’re losing. Two red zone turnovers. They need a new offensive coordinator and they need to spend millions of dollars on the best quarterbacks coaches they can find.

Today, the Patriots were up on the Titans 59-0 about halfway through the third quarter. They were two touchdowns [...]

Ten years on.

A long time ago I worked in a particular textile mill up in South Carolina. On occasion I would have to move gigantic rolls of cloth weighing half-a-ton or more. I’d do this using a tugger, which was essentially a several-hundred-pound motor in a metal box, with a hitch on the back (to which you’d [...]

Finalist and Champion.

Today was Championship Sunday in my coed soccer beer league. Both of my teams were still in the playoffs in their respective divisions.
At 2:45 my bottom-division team, the Stubby Holders, played in the championship game. We started the season with a win and two ties in our first six games, then went on a five-game [...]