Author: Kevin Lawver

Top Five BlogTwins

This list bothers me only because they’re all female and I’m not sure what that says about me: Firda of Weblog Wannabe Caroline of Prolific.org Meg of Not So Soft Meg of Megnut Caterina of Caterina.net What’s great is that Megnut and Caterina.net ARE two of my favorite blogs. I don’t know the other three, […]

This is the funniest Lego

Have I told you recently

This Modern World is brilliant

Football Observations

I feel I’m breaking some kind of rule here talking about football in a blog, since I started my blog-life reading erudite journals about the industry, photography and literature. And now, here I am writing about football. Well, that’s just who I am, baby. I dig the geeky, and the banal. I’m a conundrum wrapped […]

Great Column in the Washington

Great Column in the Washington Post Magazine today. Football really is America’s game now. The only romance left for baseball is in the once-a-decade baseball movie that renews our faith in the history of the game that enthralled this country for the first half of the century.

And So It Begins

I have a lot of stuff to talk about today, and I’m not sure where I want to start. Let’s start with the weekend movie reviews and see what I have energy for. Enemy at the Gates: I think there should be more movies about the horrible time the Russians had during WW2. The US […]

Cartoon Network grows up I

Cartoon Network grows up I couldn’t sleep last night so I went downstairs and started flipping through the channels. Cartoon Network had this four hour block of programming called Adult Swim. Curious, I watched, and holy cow! I saw the most stylish, campy, funny Anime I’ve ever seen! Cowboy Bebop is your salvation from Pokemon, […]

Lynda Barry’s Comic was just

Lynda Barry’s Comic was just about the most heart-wrenching four panels I’ve ever seen. If you haven’t read Lynda Barry’s work before, it’s amazing. I used to read it every week in the Tucson Weekly, and I’m now very happy that’s she’s featured in Salon.

Week 1

Do you know how hard it is to pick a fantasy lineup in week 1? It’s tough! I’ve switched between starting quarterbacks at least three times, and defenses 4 or 5. I even dropped one of my D’s and picked up the Chargers! I’m going insane. Kurt Warner is the better QB, but he’s playing […]