White Horse

Everything would have gone smoothly if it hadn't been for that damned horse DNA. "Zzzzzmmpt lllllllloooooommmmm tt mmzzzzzzz eeeeeeee tptptpt?" the mission specialist griped, in a series of hisses, pops, and other tones that translates roughly to ["Why the fuck are you splicing that equine shit into my chromosomes?"] The genesplicing technician

Snap Draft: Halloween Movies

As the Dr. Mrs. vacuums around me, I'm thinking to myself...hey, I don't have a Smartest Coach on Earth post ready for today, and I don't have enough time to put one together.  But at its heart, the Smartest Coach on Earth series is mainly about taking someone else's idea

On Joining the Century Club

--- #1 --- I'll never forget my first. It was in Casablanca, of all places.  He was a junior officer in the Deutsches Afrikakorps, stationed there as part of the occupation facilitated by the Vichy Government.  I was only sixteen.  I had snuck away from my boarding school in Basel for a little

Coming Soon: The Smartest Coach On Earth

"Rikki-Tikki-Deadly's graphically inventive, wonderfully realized webseries follows the sad fortunes of an arrogant, hapless, football coach while touching on themes of abandonment, social isolation and despair within the sweeping depiction of Las Vegas's transformation over the previous decade as professional sports become enmeshed with the city's previously established gambling culture.

Nobody Ever Chooses Italy…Rugby World Cup Thread

Just feeding the content monster, who is very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very,

Request Line: F.I.N.A.L.E.

INT. RECORDING STUDIO – DAY/NIGHT/DAY/NIGHT/DAY/NIGHT/DAY… DJ 3000 and various other robot entities remain trapped in a time loop inside the KDFO recording studio.  After his unexpected arrival and subsequent hazing, the robots (and cyborgs) are surrounding TODD MARINOVICH while he regales them with tales of his time as one of the cast

Request Line: Talk to Me

INT. RECORDING STUDIO – DAY/NIGHT/DAY/NIGHT/DAY/NIGHT/DAY… DJ 3000 and various other robot entities remain trapped in a time loop inside the KDFO recording studio.  After his unexpected arrival, the robots (and cyborgs) are surrounding TODD MARINOVICH menacingly while fellow human JOHN DIMAGGIO attempts to defuse the situation.  TODD MARINOVICH: [terrified, speaking quickly] I keep

Why I Won’t Be Watching The NFL This Year: Your Las Vegas Raiders Season Preview (2023 Edition)

Four years ago, among other things, I wrote the following: My feelings toward my imminent divorce from the NFL are not too different.  Is the NFL bad for me?  That’s hard for me to say.  At this point in my life, though, the best I can say for it is that

Request Line: Exclamations!

INT. RECORDING STUDIO – DAY/NIGHT/DAY/NIGHT/DAY/NIGHT/DAY… DJ 3000 and various other robot entities remain trapped in a time loop inside the KDFO recording studio.  The collection of robots (and cyborgs) and JOHN DIMAGGIO are spread out throughout the studio, in various reclining poses, enjoying the fresh breeze that is blowing through the portal.

Request Line: Self-Esteem (or Lack Thereof)

INT. RECORDING STUDIO – DAY/NIGHT/DAY/NIGHT/DAY/NIGHT/DAY… DJ 3000 and various other robot entities remain trapped in a time loop inside the KDFO recording studio.  The collection of robots (and cyborgs) and JOHN DIMAGGIO are spread out throughout the studio, in various reclining poses, enjoying the fresh breeze that is blowing through the portal.