Author Archives: michael
JaVale McGee
The NBA could exist for a thousand years and I think this will still be the funniest 20 seconds ever.
BunkoSquad Top 100 #99: Short Circuit
The Internet has failed. I can’t find a clip of two of my favorite lines from this movie: “I have seen some bad drivers in my time, but you, miss…you will be awarded a cake,” and the immortal “Wouldn’t…you…like…to be…a Pepper too.” Oh well. More on Ben in a bit. If you haven’t seen it, … Continue reading
Congratulations, America
Congratulations, America. You decided you hated the Patriots so much that you rooted for the New York team. There’s no washing that stench off of you. Enjoy waking up with yourself this morning. You must feel a little like a Hungarian who cheered for the Soviet tanks as they rolled in because they had a … Continue reading
Introducing the BunkoSquad Top 100: Movies
OK, there are two things going on with this post. First, I owe BunkoSquad.com a good raison d’etre for its comeback from the mothballs. Second, I realize that when people talk about this site and what once what and what could have been, it comes back a lot to the AFI 100 Movies countdown. If … Continue reading
Things You Forget About When You Don’t Bother Having A Website For Years
Comment spammers. You forget that they fall somewhere between “serial killers” and “those annoying earnest little twerps trying to stop pedestrians so they can raise money for what I’d consider mostly good causes if they weren’t hiring these twerps” on the scale of people who the world would be better off without. Update: Look what … Continue reading
Welsh Red Dragon
Since my plan to sample every cheese in Monty Python’s Cheese Shop sketch (in order, duh) has been foiled by the seeming unavailability of Red Leicester on this side of the ocean, I had to improvise at the grocery store this morning. The Welsh Red Dragon looked like a pretty good substitute – a sort … Continue reading
Better Than Yelp
A bunch of third-graders write up a trip to Pizzeria Regina in the North End*. Not one of them feels the need to preface their remarks by telling us they used to live in New York, so they know what they’re talking about. *Too bad they didn’t take the kids to Bova’s. That place is … Continue reading
Midpointin’
So this is a pretty fun map tool. You plug in a bunch of addresses and it shows you where their geographic midpoint is. So if I plug in every place I’ve lived since 1995 (even those 2 months in Malden with the worst upstairs neighbors ever), I find out the midpoint is in East … Continue reading
Here’s Something to Look At While I Figure Out What To Write About
I updated my county map, after this summer’s Salt Lake City-Boston-via Yellowstone massive cross country road trip (click for a bigger version):
Connect the dots
