October 2009

Questionnaire 3.

October 25, 2009

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? [...]

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R.I.P. Joseph Wiseman.

October 22, 2009
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On the proper reaction to a 45-point halftime deficit.

October 18, 2009

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 [...]

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Ten years on.

October 11, 2009

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 [...]

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Finalist and Champion.

October 4, 2009

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 [...]

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