NFL Previews: AFC South

Ah, the AFC South. Same shit, different season. The Colts will reign supreme and everyone else will be wondering why they can't catch up. Hint: it's Peyton Manning.

MQM: 8/30

"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."

-Mark Twain.

FQF: 8/27

So I'm walking down the hall at work and one lady says to another:

"You look like a midget!"

She did.

NFL Previews: NFC West

Today maybe the most competitive division in the NFL, the NFC West. Most competitive because 3 of the 4 teams could conceivably win the division. By default. Someone has to finish first.

NFL Previews: AFC West

I've been negligent with the blog lately. That changes today. Today I start an eight part NFL preview, one for each division. I'll predict the order of finish but not the records, predicting the actual records is pointless. But these aren't your normal previews, where everything's rosy and bets are hedged because a national media member has his reputation to worry about. These are the ramblings of a jerk who literally makes a living watching football. Nice work if you can get it.

Let's start with the least competitive division, the AFC West, where the only thing up for grabs is 2nd place. Teams listed in predicted order of finish. Oh, and don't expect a playoff (other than of course division winners) or Super Bowl prediction. That's completely foolish at this point in the season.

Oceans

Hold on to the thread
The currents will shift
Glide me towards...
You know something's left
And we're all allowed
To dream of the next
Oh, the next, time we touch...


You don't have to stray
Tho oceans away
Waves roll in my thoughts
Hold tight the ring...
The sea will rise...
Please stand by the shore...
Oh, I will be...
I will be there once more...

-Pearl Jam

I've always loved this song. Lately I can't get it out of my head. The Unplugged version is excellent, Vedder's vocals are spot on from the album recording.

MQM: 8/16

"Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it."

-Charles Swindoll

FQF: 8/13

It's Friday the 13th! Ahh!!!

"Would anyone like some fruit pie?"
"No thanks, I'm in a relationship."

Rocky Top

Because of a temporary shift in my work schedule, last weekend was the last real weekend of my summer until Labor Day weekend. Picked a pretty good way to wrap it up if I do say so. Colt, Deceptive Mexican and I headed up to eastern Tennessee to go rafting...

All thanks to The New Deal.

From The Hips

I'm at my best when I'm at my worst
I'm at my worst when it's not rehearsed
I don't want to know the goddamn words
I don't want to have to spell it out
Don't want to mumble what I'm trying to say
I want to scream it from my foaming mouth
Shoot out the lights and ride away

I'm in my worst when I'm at my best
I'm at my best when I'm trying to look and think and talk
And sing and read and write like all the rest
We're all just trying to play our roles
In a play that runs ad-nauseum
I hate this damn enlightenment
We were better off as animals

We're at our best when it's from our hips
From our hips we don't give a shit
It just feels good, and that's no sin
It's the only way to feel alive
The closest thing to being born again
And when baby comes, it's "job well done"
Roll in the hay, or roll around the sun

We're at our worst when it's from our lips
From our lips we caused a rift
And this world is falling in
From Babel to barroom brawls
Our words have formed a death sentence
And I wish that we had never talked
Our hips said it all

And I wish that we had never talked
Our hips said it all

-Cursive

This version is far, far better than the album version, although Tim Kasher flubs the opening line:

MQM: 8/9

"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."

-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

FQF: 8/6

"If you want to know more about baby turds, just ask me."

No, I don't think I will.

Bored At Work?

Here's some completely random links to keep you occupied.

Makes sense to me.

A Different City

I want to live in a city with no friends or family
I'm going to look out the window of my color TV
I want to remember to remember to forget you forgot me
I'm going to look out the window of my color TV

Through the cracks in the wall
Slow motion for all
Dripped out of the bars
Someone smart said nothing at all
I'm watching TV
I guess that's a solution
They gave me a receipt that said I didn't buy nothing
So rust is a fire and our blood oxidizes
My eyes rolled around, all around on the carpet
Hit the deck, it's the decal man
Standing upside down and talking out of his pants

I want to live in a city with no friends or family
I'm going to look out the window of my color TV
I want to remember to remember to forget you forgot me
I'm going to look out the window of my color TV

Through the cracks in the wall
Slow motion for all
Dripped out of the bars
Someone smart said nothing at all
I'm watching TV
I guess that's a solution
They gave me a receipt that said I didn't buy nothing
So rust is a fire and our blood oxidizes
My eyes rolled around, all around on the carpet
Hit the deck, it's the decal man
Standing upside down and talking out of his pants

Through the cracks in the wall
Slow motion for all
Left holding the ball
And a part for your car

I don't know, but I been told
You never die, you'll never grow old

- Modest Mouse

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbXtDd5szGU

MQM: 8/2

Over the weekend I saw the following quote on a chalkboard at a bar:

"If work is so great, why did the rich leave us any?"

Good stuff, but not that motivational.

With football training camps opening up this week, I figure it's a good time for this simple but effective one:

"I hear not what you say, only what you do." - Chuck Knox, who won Coach of the Year with three different teams for turning them around. I'd say his actions spoke pretty loud.