Blogs List
TV is the new reading
 Terry J. Aman |
'30 Days' is good even in disappointmentThu, July 3, 2008 @ 7:45PM Last week’s installment reminded me of why I’m impressed with Morgan Spurlock. The scruffy guy on FX who chronicles several different month-long projects and airs them under the title “30 Days” doesn’t scrap the projects when the results maybe aren’t what he might have been hoping for – or even when they really didn’t work at all. “30 Days” has followed Spurlock personally into a month behind bars in a prison and down a coal mine and for a life on minimum wage. He has chronicled other situations as well where he put a border patrol volunteer in a home with an illegal alien for a month, or immerses a “God-fearing Red State homophobe” in gay culture for a month. Last week the show aired a similar project in which Kati, a Mormon woman who believed to the middle of her that children should not be raised by gay couples.
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Sometimes It Rains
 Chris Bieri |
How I learned to stop worrying and love Max ScherzerThu, May 1, 2008 @ 7:02PM My boss at the Minot Daily News, sports editor Michael Linnell, always asks me why I never write about the umpteen million fantasy sports leagues I'm in. I never do because about 99.99 percent of readers don't care about it (although some say you could apply that same percentage to thre rest of my writing). Anyway, I was about to break down a few weeks ago and write about how I had already blown any chance I had to win my MLB roto baseball league. After drafting last in the 16-team league, I was awarded No. 1 waiver priority. That means I have the first chance to claim any player another team drops or a player who moves up from the minors and wasn't draft eligible. After drafting offense in the first 6 rounds, I needed to use that waiver pick on a stud pitcher. Two weeks into the season, it appeared I had missed out on picking up the "Next Big Thing." That "Next Big Thing" would be Cincy Reds starter Johnny Cueto.
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 Dave Caldwell |
Burn banTue, June 10, 2008 @ 5:07PM OK, this is getting ridiculous. After weeks of doing the rain dance in the front yard of my palatial northeast Minot estate (otherwise known as Stately Dave Manor) so that I could enjoy my favorite summer pastime of charcoal grilling, now the pendulum has swung the other way. Cut it out, stinky rain! Maybe I can get $9 million from NAWS to put up a dome over my driveway ...
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