michigan - ohio state 2009

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK.

two things

First: Step Rideau! I was listening to Texas Fred yesterday and I just enjoy so much some of the music he plays. Specifically, the up-beat, party, can't-not-move zydeco. The slower, more ballad-y stuff I don't like at all. But the fun stuff rocks. So after a little research I finally went and got myself a starter album: Don't Ask Why, by Step Rideau and the Zydeco Outlaws. It's an A.

Second: Steven Pinker's review of Gladwell's new book is just spot-on. A particular gem: "In the spirit of Gladwell, who likes to give portentous names to his apercus, I will call this the Igon Value Problem: when a writer's education on a topic consists in interviewing an expert, he is apt to offer generalizations that are banal, obtuse or flat wrong." Money. Bad typo in there, though, a parenthetical remark has no close parenthesis. OOPS.

Because I'll think this is funny to look back on in six months, here's my starting lineup this week for the East Silver Spring Pandas:

QB Philip Rivers
RB Michael Turner
RB Joseph Addai
RB Ricky Williams
WR Braylon Edwards
WR Devery Henderson
TE Kellen Winslow
D/ST SAINTS
K Dan Carpenter

I should win in a walk, but that might just be the three-game win streak talking.