When You're Bad, You're Usually, Unfortunately, Bad at Everything

Seems like the Lions -- unsurprisingly -- have picked the wrong season to have to hire a coach.

With all the good jobs available, perhaps they'll be lucky to pick up Caretaker. With his prison experience, he'd bring a whole new dimension to Coach Marinelli's Rod's "pound the rock" philosophy.

And, as a final tribute to the Lions' historically horrific season, let us celebrate mark it with the anthem of the one shining moment of glory in nineteen-freakin'-eighty. Another one bites the dust, indeed:

Non Sequitur of the Day: El Lay Nu Wavey Edition

"I remember hating you /

For loving me."

Slacker Friday: A Welcome and Some 60SB Housekeeping (Nothing to see here, people, move along...)

My Google followers increased 50% over Christmas!

Yesss! From two to three.

So, welcome, Brockeim, to my tens of readers, even fewer of whom are on the record.

Also, here are some phrases I'm tossing out there for SEO purposes -- let's see what happens: 60 seconds blog, sixty seconds blog, sixty seconds, 60 seconds, 60sb, 6osb.

Thank you. Carry on.

Fun with Pictures: Happy Boxing Day Edition

No:

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Maybe No:


No:


Ideally, yes:

More background here and here and here.

Enjoy the weekend.

When Lives Are In the Balance, It's Preferable to Avoid Taking a Mulligan

Not to question whether Prezdent Dubya would ever violate the Constitution -- ahhhh-hahahahahahaha -- but I don't see anything in the document that allows him to, ummm, undo a pardon.

Yet again, our president acts like a frat boy looking for an extension on his paper.

This Year's Christmas #1 in the U.K. is Even Stranger Than In "Love, Actually"

If England and the U.S. are two countries separated by a common language, may I also add their pop charts as another defining criteria?

In England, on its all-important Christmas chart, "Hallelujah," by Leonard Cohen, is charting at #1 and #2 and #36. The same song!

The cover that's driving it from the current winner of Simon Cowell's Idol rip-off homage, "The X Factor":



The Jeff Buckley take that prompted the re-visiting is here.

And the original from the great man, a looong time ago, probably pre-Rebecca DeMornay:



I'm figuring we'll see someone cover it on Idol beginning next month.

Christmas Non Sequitur of the Day: An Irish Christmas Edition

"And the bells were ringing out /

For Christmas Day."



Get some more interesting background information on the untimely death of the late, lovely Kirsty MacColl here.

Christmas Non Sequitur of the Day: Wishful Thinking Edition

"Happy Xmas (War is Over)"

Christmas Non Sequitur of the Day: Fresh Pairs of Adidas Edition

"Looked at his dog, oh my God, an ill reindeer."

Sometimes You Can Infer My Reality From My Posts

Today, I needed to check out the link below because of a circumstance which you can probably figure out, what with mucho holiday candy laying about.

So, from National Geographic: a very neat page allowing you to see how much chocolate it takes to injure your dog.

When one talks about chocolate labs, apparently it shouldn't be, like, literally chocolate.