One of the biggest things I miss from our old site was the mock drafts that used to run every Friday. Those were fantastic time wasters, and a good one was a virtual guarantee that you were going to be far from productive at work, as your day instead degenerated into arguments with strangers over who would be the best Saturday cartoon character to have sex with, (and now we all know how that would go), or some other equally inane topic, all of which were still more important than that TPS report deadline your boss was yelling about. Good times.

Well, it’s been long enough. After a discussion in the back channels yours truly is bringing it back, with some slight rule changes. The old site had 4-5 main contributors, one of whom may not have been real. So they’d do 2-3 rounds themselves, then kick it to the kommentariat to draft whatever was left over. You can do that when you’ve only taken 10-15 of whatever topic was up for drafting. We, however, are a much more connected group when it comes to the writin’ and draftin’ of things, so if we did that we’d easily take out 30-50 before we threw the bedraggled leftovers to our beloved readership. That’s no fun. So these drafts will just leap right into it.

Also, for content and alliteration reasons, we’ve moved the draft to Monday mornings, so get ready to kill your productivity right from the start.

First come, first served, subject to my randomly assigning the first pick to someone else, generally because they came up with the idea. Or because they bribed me. For now, please wait 10 picks or 30 minutes before making another one.

This week’s subject comes from Twitter thread I’m involved in with some people from KSK and DFO, although I don’t think any of them are all that active around here these days. Maybe we should air out the Clubhouse? Eh, seems like work.

Anyhoo, one of them, Duchess to be exact, was talking about persons being perfectly case for roles. A couple of names and films were tossed back and forth and a lightbulb went off above my head. After replacing that bulb, and brushing the glass out of what’s left of my hair, I went back into the conversation and it would eventually occurred to me that this would be a good draft topic. I did tell them that I’d be using it, so perhaps one of more old friends will stumble by.

This week’s topic is an actor or actress you feel was perfectly cast in a movie or on a TV show. I’d say plays, too, but that seems like a waste on a group like us whose main ambition is to spend as much time inside as possible and as little of that time wearing pants as is possible. So movies and TV shows it is.

With the first pick of the draft I will take the actor and role that Duchess started the conversation with, James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano.

Yeah, he’s the featured image, too. The casting was that good.

The rest of you are now on the clock,