[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] An imagined conversation between Marco Rubio and Ben Sasse, set to a tune you may be familiar with… SASSE: Marco! Why couldn’t you have just stayed quiet for onceInstead of spouting off to Tapper? I hope you’re happy!I hope you’re happy nowI hope you’re happy how youHurt your cause forever RUBIO:Oh, your tweets are so clever!I… Read more »
[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] It was a boring Oscars and a subsued Snarknado (with Vicki Lopez unable to make it, and Becky going to bed early because of an early hospital rotation tomorrow), but the 12th annual Oscar Pool had an unprecendented* ending: I won! ETERNAL GLORY, BABY!!! 🙂 *I totally forgot that I… Read more »
[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] First of all, if you haven’t already, join my 12th annual Oscar Pool! (Password: eternalglory) The deadline is 6:30 PM Mountain Time Sunday. Second, this is where you’ll find Becky’s & my annual Live-Blog / Live-Chat / Live-Snark, a.k.a. SNARKNADO 2016, starting Sunday night at 6:00 PM MST, or thereabouts…. Read more »
[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] The Living Room Times NCAA Pools are no more, retired after a 20-year run. But there’s still a way you can earn ETERNAL GLORY in 2016. I refer, of course, to the 12th annual Living Room Times Oscar Pool. The Oscars are Sunday (i.e., tomorrow), which means – well, it… Read more »
[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] Every year on Halloween, at our house on the southwest side of Denver’s Stapleton neighborhood, we get somewhere between 1,100 and 1,250 trick-or-treaters. I’m not exaggerating. A couple of years ago, I wrote an article about how to survive Halloween in our neighborhood for a blog run by Stapleton’s master… Read more »
[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] Sometimes, insights into one’s own thought processes arise in unexpected ways. Like, for instance… …that time when a pedestrian, partisan Twitter argument with someone who was Wrong On The Internet turned into an extended, detailed articulation of my Grand Unified Theory of #PANIC about the direction of the country. …or… Read more »
[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] Ten years ago, at roughly this hour, I published a blog post titled “New Orleans in peril.” I was just a law student with a moderately popular blog, and hurricanes were one of the many things that I liked to blog about, so of course I was going to write… Read more »
[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] I’ve been saying for ages – well, for the better part of two years, anyway – that I’m going to do a blog post “one of these days” ranking all the plays and musicals that I’ve seen in the last 2+ years in Denver, as I have emerged from the… Read more »
[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] Upping the ante from my “Stapleton Civil War” and “North Stapleton secession” articles for the Stapletonion (our local Onion-style satirical newspaper), I have an article in this week’s issue about fears that the kerfuffle over middle-school admissions may trigger a nuclear arms race in northeast Denver. Because, yet again, when helicopter parents are denied a… Read more »
[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] Due to my daughters’ current obsession with the Pocahontas soundtrack (we watched the movie a couple of weeks ago), combined with the heated local controversy over Park Hill and Stapleton kids effectively competing for admission to McAuliffe International School, I recently found myself imagining wealthy parents from the two neighborhoods… Read more »
