Fantasy Football is King
Football is around the corner! A friend of mine bragged about how he bought his magazine for the year. I started to mock him until he reminded me that he makes the playoffs every year and I have compiled a record of just 2 games over .500 over the last three years. Ouch. I will obstinately refuse, of course, to buy one of these overpriced hype mags and will probably continue to contribute scarce, personal funds to the league till.
There seems to be some sort of correlation to the mediocrity of my performance in the league and my mediocre performance on the field of life, but following trends is for suckers. At least, that’s what my bookie tells me. He drives a nice car. This is why I stay in my room and read. I can’t hurt myself that way…
Where was I? Mediocrity… no. Oh yeah, Football. Fantasy Football. For all you beginners out there, you can never, ever think of fantasy football like you think about regular game-by-game NFL football. The twain shall never meet.
If you look at a lot of experts lists about who the best quarterback of all time was, John Elway is in most top 3’s. If he was your fantasy quarterback and you took him high because of the high name value, you were screwed. As good lookin’ as he was, he sucked as a fantasy qb. This is good advice. It also means don’t believe everything you see based on brand recognition. If you are this type of person, there are a lot of people worried about you if you have recently purchased Colgate toothpaste.
But the Chinese Government took care of that situation, didn’t they? And in conclusion… Remember what we talked about here.
Here is some other stuff I have been thinking about lately. Interesting stuff with lots of important life lessons involved:
11 Movies Saved By Historical Inaccuracy. If you think about it, this is equivalent to telling a kid that Santa doesn’t exist to a young adult. Kirsten Dunst looks kind of good as Marie Antoinette. She has Don King’s teeth in that picture.
Stadium Etiquette rules at their most basic level. He mentions nothing about wearing the other teams’ jersey to the stadium of any game. Some other guy is going to somehow take it as a personal affront and that is never a good first impression whenever alcohol is involved.
If you get a job or have one, consider this a dangerous benefit for management in a company. That sort of thing shouldn’t be too difficult on a company intranet. If you work for a health insurance company, moral imperative compels you to quit and begin to use your powers for the good side of the Force. I say this because these kinds of stories are becoming far too common.
I tried to execute this plan throughout my teen years and all I got from my effort was a lot of self-created and unresolved angst.
One time at the fancy restaurant in town, somebody made a reservation under the name “Donald Dick”. These wedding announcements are almost as funny.
On a lighter note, don’t cheat on your significant other, women really hate it when you lie to them. They also hate it when you do something bad. When you do something bad and lie about it? You are dealing with a situation that a break up only makes worse. Nice going dummy.
I admit to having read all of the Harry Potter Novels. The first two were kind of rough, but they really picked up after that. What I like best about them is how the author has created a nefarious adult societal structure, explores the role of children in such societies, presents a realistic view of the historical notion of justice and it’s place in the modern world, and I am trying to show off in case Emma Watson reads this. She’s dreamy.
What I like about this article on stereotypes is “beautiful people have more daughters”. It looks like I’m going to have a lot of sons.
Until then, meditate on this (also referenced below) as I will until my bag of marijuana is depleted:
The Seven Blunders of the World is a list that Mahatma Gandhi gave to his grandson Arun Gandhi, written on a piece of paper, on their final day together, not too long before his assassination.[1] The seven blunders are:
* Wealth without work
* Pleasure without conscience
* Knowledge without character
* Commerce without morality
* Science without humanity
* Worship without sacrifice
* Politics without principle
This list grew from Gandhi’s search for the roots of violence. He called these acts of passive violence. Preventing these is the best way to prevent oneself or one’s society from reaching a point of violence.
