Archive for August, 2006

Keith Olbermann

Alex News Politics

Reason number [insert random numeral here] why I love YouTube:

After watching KO read this excellent and thoughtful essay on-air last night I decided I wanted to post up a link to the show here for the world to see. Then I thought: Ya know, if I wait twelve hours, it’ll be on YouTube. Sure enough, enjoy:

(And if you missed it way back when, his commentary on Katrina is worth a viewing as well.)

Movie Review - FF:AC

Alex Movies

I gotta tell y’all: My Netflix queue is a mess. I have no idea what’s gonna show up when I return something. I haven’t even looked to see what’s in there in a while. This isn’t an excuse for the movie I’m about to review, just a partly-related complaint about how my life is too damn busy these days. (So it’s a small excuse for not writing very much at all.)

In any case, yes, I watched Final Fantasy: Advent Children recently. Yes, it’s a movie based on a video game. Yes, this does make me an unapologetic fanboy. What can I say?

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Northfield Hail Storm

Alex News

Here’s a little photo gallery from last week’s hail storm. Amazing stuff, man.

Link.

Drunken ‘Sconnies

News wadE

The venerable Forbes.com has just released a ranking of the nations’ “drunkest” cities.  To no one’s surprise, number one is Milwaukee (or Milli-wah-kay, Algonquin for “the good land”).

This is hardly late breaking news to us Minnesotans who know that our bretheren to the east are known for drinking paint thinner on occassion (gotta have something to thin out the blood after all that cheese and sausage).But before we climb all the way up on our high horse here in Minnesota, we should take a glance at number two on the list… that’s right, the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. 

Oops! 

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tiger? meh.

Sports anderswa

i hate espn.com.  they stash good content under the pay-to-read insider section, the ads are too big and too plentiful, and they (like ESPN the network and, well, tara reid) can’t seem to get tom brady’s c*ck out of their collective mouth. 

that said, they’ve got the best sports website out there. 

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