Archives for "September, 2007"
Pirates and Spaghetti: An Unlikely Match
Argh! Today be International Talk Like a Pirate Day. Drink up, me hearties, yo ho!
But that’s not even the best part! While I was looking for background on how exactly this blessed holiday began, I stumbled across something even more enjoyable: The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. (Yes, you did read that right.) Written [...]
Frustrated with BYU Football?
(Full disclosure: So I’m a BYU alum and have technically never played a drinking game. Nor do I seriously condone them. But did you see BYU vs. Tulsa game tonight?!! Drinking away the shame seems like a perfectly reasonable response.)
So, without any further ado, I present to you the BYU Football Drinking Game. If you’re [...]
Why Women Want Superman
Clark Kent: True, the guy’s sweet and smart. Too bad he comes off as completely nerdy and willing to be walked all over. He’ll love from afar but never speaks up about it—or anything thing else, really.
Superman: Seriously, if you think it doesn’t take an alien amount of confidence to flit about wearing that spandex [...]
I’m Not Standing on a Soapbox, I’m Holding Up a Bucket
The genocide in Darfur. The Crandall Canyon mine disaster. Read the news for three minutes, and it’s hard not to become overwhelmed by the human suffering. Especially when you realize that so many millions of lives are so intimately and infinitely effected by the things that so many of us know only superficially—AIDS and malaria, [...]
You’re Not the Perfect Hand, but I Don’t Hit on 19
A few days ago, I got my hands on the John Mayer Trio’s new album. It’s fabulous. However, in his song “Another Kind of Green,” Mr. Mayer sings the above lyric.
And it got me thinking…is that idea really accurate? Is it true you find a hand you can settle for and then hope the house [...]
