Gone are the days of hoping to find Northwestern mentioned in the “Others receiving votes” section at the bottom of every weekly collegiate football pool, then counting the number of schools that come before them before declaring “hey, we’re ranked 31st… we’re actually getting some respect.”
Luckily for the Wildcat fans out there, SI.com keeps […]

The MS150 City to Shore charity bike ride last weekend went off with only a few minor hitches:

The 300 mile drive from Boston to Philly took 8 hours on Friday thanks to rush hour traffic from New Haven all the way to Newark. The rain didn’t help either.
I over-inflated Lauren’s tire at midnight on Friday […]

I hope I don’t get hit…. in the reeeeaaaarrrrr again.
Those Geiko commercials kill me, especially the Burt Bacharach one. I realize some people don’t care for them, like C, who squirms everytime she hears about the licking of the eyeball. And my mom, who’s 100% convinced that they’re all celebrity impersonators because there’s no way […]

The hirrs are arive, with the sound of engrish…
Call it Engrish, call it Chinglish, it’s endlessly fascinating and incredibly entertaining. Here are all the links you need to get you up to speed. I’m a poet and I didn’t even know it.

[engrish - a photoset on Flickr]
[engrish.com]
[my photo album from Japan: Engrish everywhere]
Not to be […]