Edwin MacPhisto

I think they're different kinds of jokes. The NBA salary cap is a complex joke where the guy telling it keeps messing up the punchline, and MLB free agency is the kind of joke that you've heard a million times before, but that always makes you roll your eyes regardless.

I find myself listening to "I'm A Cuckoo" at work almost daily.

Re - Cut Copy: If you class them that way, In Ghost Colours would definitely put them at the top of the genre, but I get more of an 80s dance-pop vibe off the album than I do NME-rock. The album's pretty good. "Feel the Love" and "Far Away" might be worth a go if you wanna get a wider taste of what's on it.

That one's great, but this is my favorite: Mickey Rourke, fashion plate. The pocket square brings it all together. Rachel Weisz also looks like she could be shouting some Wu-Tang lyrics or something.

NME were close, but must have been guessing or working off an old list. Fleet Foxes were #1. Beards and mountains are in this season.

No help is required. If the Ravens win their last two games, they will get the #6 seed. They can also lose one game as long as New England loses one too.

They do? Aren't they in the playoffs as long as they win their last two games?

Pick-6 under 5 minutes in a tied game? Am I reading that right? Oh, Jaguars.

I'm going to poop in your mouth, Byron.

Not too far off, actually.

You're just mean. I'm gonna go listen to "Bros" and scowl.

I like them. Maybe I'm gay. I do wish they had real names, though. Insufferable. Haven't come around on Fleet Foxes yet; "more boring Panda Bear" is where I am currently. I guess that's also a gripe with their flaccid arrangements.

Virginia has hired recently-booted Bowling Green head coach Gregg Brandon as offensive coordinator. I look forward to the spread option arriving in Charlottesville just in time for the rest of D-I to figure out how to defend it.

Hey I'm allowed to not "get it." I don't get it. What did this guy ever do of any significance? I mean, prove me wrong if you can, maybe I am just oblivious. Released one of the consensus greatest albums ever, was one of the most talented and prominent people in the world in the mid-90s, and was gunned down at 24. 24! More than enough for a decent biography. His life was so absurd, from youth to the end, that it doesn't even need to be fictionalized to be compelling. I mean, I'd rather listen to Ready to Die than watch the movie, but I think there's plenty of merit to the project.

I know what you mean. I'm gonna have to wait on seeing Revolutionary Road for the same reason.

I was kinda rolling with it, very tenuously. In Robocop, Murphy gets killed by thugs but comes back as this big cyborg badass who isn't aware of anything about his past, his family, and so on. No emotions at all, as he's just a super-powered vessel for processes and commands, with really nothing human about him except his face and some brains. I don't think it's too much of a stretch to see where someone could get the emotionless/no longer invested in the past vibe out of an ex-girlfriend and a failed relationship. That said, I completely agree that Kanye might just have barked "man, that bitch is like a...like a...like a Robocop" while hanging out stoned with his buddies one night, and then Mos Def claps back "DEAD OR ALIVE YOU'RE COMING WITH ME," and they giggle for hours, and then stumble into the studio in the morning mumbling "I got an idea."

Finally gave this a proper listen, and...I love it. The instrumentals--not sure it feels right calling them "beats"--are really compelling and a hugely interesting turn for him. Several of the songs ride on out on instrumental finales that seem to go on forever, but in a good way. I'm thinking of "Say You Will" and "Bad News" in particular there. "RoboCop" is gorgeous and awesome. I think the autotuner worked great on pretty much the whole album. Lyrics have a few great lines mixed in among some very melodramatic but ultimately not that bothersome pap. Lil Wayne's guest spot is totally unhinged and makes him sound like a pissed-off spider about to straight eat somebody. This album is delightful.

That's kind of what I was expecting; having a Pro Bowl slot trigger something like that is stupid, but seems a bit less consequential when he'd already reached one of the other milestones.

There are a couple of better songs off that album (I think "Graveyard Girl" and "We Own the Sky" are tops), but yeah, it's purty good. The video is also good for all your rollerskating and awkward high school lesbian metaphor needs:

We may have just set an internet record for Most Consecutively Ambivalent Posts Regarding A Knight's Tale.

Anyone know what the other three conditions are? I haven't been able to find them anywhere.

The list seems pretty wonky on rules for eligibility. I guess "Flashing Lights" is on here because the single/video didn't come out till this year, even though the album was out and the song was all over radio in 2007. Don't understand why that would be there, given that they use the same rationale for keeping "Paper Planes" off. I have no reason to care, except that I like my lists to be governed uniformly, gosh darn it.

Completely randomly, Smitty and I share a mutual acquaintance whom I actually run into with a fair amount of frequency, so I'm convinced we're going to meet at some point. The world will fold in on itself and I won't know what to do. There's also a guy on the metro every few mornings who could be a straight up clone of Marvin, though I know he never ventures in this far from the outer reaches of deepest, darkest Maryland.

Slightly cracked-out Alyssa Milano vibe. I'll take it, if only to be able to say "I got a blago job."