At 4:14 p.m. on the last day of the year, which also happened to be the last Sunday of the 2006 NFL season, which may be the last in Bill Cowher’s tenure as the head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers, the Steelers and Cincinnati Bengals were tied, 17-17, at the end of regulation time. After [...]
In a seven-day trip to Western Pennsylvania, which included Christmas morning and many visits with friends and family, these are the two sights that prompted me to take photos (with the VGA camera on my phone): Fallingwater A life-sized Ben Roethlisberger bobblehead (on sale for $10,000 at the official Pittsburgh Steelers store)
Here’s what I remember reading this year, in approximate order of enjoyability (I recommend all of them): Fiction Nine Stories, by J.D. Salinger A Long Way Down, by Nick Hornby White Teeth, by Zadie Smith Nonfiction Moneyball, by Michael Lewis A Short History of Nearly Everything, by Bill Bryson The Assassins’ Gate, by George Packer [...]
Bill Simmons’ review of Rocky Balboa — whose five predecessors, like most James Bond movies, I have never seen — includes this paragraph: The plot hinges on a simulated boxing match on ESPN between Rocky and current champ Mason “The Line” Dixon (played half-decently by Antonio Tarver). When Rocky “wins” the match, the ensuing hullabaloo [...]
I had never heard of Bebo until I read in this morning’s Washington Post that it was the most popularly googled word or phrase of the year, beating MySpace and World Cup. When I went to see it for myself, I didn’t do what (apparently) millions of other curious internetters did; I didn’t google it. [...]