Until a year ago I had never heard of Indigenous Peoples’ Day. Until last week I didn’t even know how to spell it. Apparently the term really is peoples, so if we’re celebrating their day it’s really peoples’. The day of these … Continue reading
I’m flying solo today on Math and Musings, talking up the pre-release of my new album, I paid for this Christmas party! Tomorrow you can listen to one track, Track #3 as a matter of fact, and if you’re feeling especially generous … Continue reading
After four weeks in this NFL season there are only two teams with undefeated records. And two teams who haven’t won a game. One of those latter teams, the Chicago Bears, plays tomorrow night down the road from me against … Continue reading
Cox Farms is the best fall festival in a hundred-mile radius of Washington, D.C. It’s the Inn at Little Washington of fall fests. Not unlike its analogous restaurant, the allure of Cox Farms is not its majesty or opulence but … Continue reading
At the risk of being shown up yet again, I’ve got a guest on today’s episode of Math and Musings. In classic O’Connell fashion my son starts with math and, well, it ends as cat jokes. Go figure. I don’t know … Continue reading
Today I learned that Snickers this Halloween is going green. Not the usual way one does such a thing these days, for it has nothing to do with protecting the environment. The green in question is green-tinted nougat filling those … Continue reading
Is it better to lose a heartbreaker or better to have no shot from moment one and lose by a million? I had both experiences this weekend, each of the teams I jinxed last Friday on the podcast taking really … Continue reading
My beloved Fighting Irish of Notre Dame have a marquee matchup (that’s the phrase everyone is using) tomorrow night in South Bend against the pesky Buckeyes of the Ohio State University. TV execs are salivating. Not every college football contest though … Continue reading
Recently I wrote that the only two good shows on TV were How To with John Wilson and Winning Time. Now there are none. Even more disheartening is that both shows seem to be done done, as in, like, no more episodes ever. How … Continue reading
Thirty years ago today Rudy was released in theaters. (That’s where we watched movies before we streamed them at home.) I was 11 years old at the time, a perfect age to watch a movie about college football. Well, not just … Continue reading