The Cuse wins its first Big East tournament game in easy fashion - AFTER a near melee in the second half that saw four technical fouls and one flagrant foul called on back to back possessions.  At the time, Syracuse only led by 2 and had trailed early in the 2nd half as Seton Hall came out on fire,...

Ok, I've become completely obsessed with this show.  I never watched it before this season.  I still don't know all the characters (there's dozens, and half the women look alike, all dressed up like pilgrim people).  And I obviously despise the religion stuff (although I'm beginning to believe th...

Handsome Furs' second album is being released today.  Short review -- very good album, not quite as good as their debut.  There aren't any real downspots on the album and the entire effort plays well throughout, but ultimately, I've heard too much else good from Dan Boeckner to call this one of hi...

Syracuse gets its first Big East win over a ranked opponent in its last regular season game, an overtime victory at #15 Marquette on their senior night.  The win clinches the #6 seed for the Cuse thanks to Providence's loss on Thursday, giving us a 7 pm game on Wednesday in the 2nd round of the Big...

Premature?  Yes.  But after a shitty week of work and travel and driving all the way to and from the middle of Pennsylvania today, I was delighted to see the temperature had climbed above 60 degrees and with daylight savings this weekend (move your clocks ahead!), spring and summer are just around...

Watch this clip.  This happened in the midst of a first half in which Rutgers outscored Syracuse -- in fact, this dunk closed the score to 20-19, which would be the half time score.  The Orange then outscored Rutgers 51-20 in the second half to cruise to the victory, but just watch this dunk.  Wo...

The only think I knew about Dim Sum was that the members of The Amazing Race forums on TWoP always meet the day after the big season finale party in NYC for Dim Sum at a local Chinese restaurant.  It seemed like a cool thing, even though I had no idea what it was or why I thought it was cool.  Tod...

Today at my office, the parking lot we share with the Roman Catholic Church next door was filled with parishioners heading to church at lunch time to get ashes on their foreheads.  For those of you who don't know the reason for the ashes, I'm probably not the best person to explain this ritual, but...

Swan Lake will be releasing their 2nd album on March 24, and Jagjaguwar has leaked three tracks from Enemy Mine, available at their website.  These are not the strongest songs on the album, but based on extensive listens to the new album over the past week or so, I have to say that it pretty much ...

  Many years ago, I was reading something online about how the author had to take a multi-hour trip across the state of Kansas or something and decided that was the perfect time to listen to The Magnetic Fields' magnum opus 69 Love Songs, a 3-Cd collection of, well, 69 love songs.  I thought that...