December 27, 2013
Link-O-Rama
• I spent way too much time and energy putting together a list of my favorite songs of 2013.
• Kanye West is totally wrong about Jews. We actually have both.
• Slow-motion video of NaVorro Bowman's game-clinching interception Monday night is great for countless reasons, but my favorite part is the sideline reactions as he passes each person.
• During the offseason Twins stud pitching prospect Alex Meyer makes $63 dollars per day as a substitute teacher in Indiana.
• My beloved Mase put out his first new song in a decade and I'm sad to say it's sort of terrible.
• Sam Miller of Baseball Prospectus re-wrote "Forgot About Dre" with baseball player names.
• Facebook is just being a dick now.
• The Onion on the Vikings' quarterback situation.
• This week's "Gleeman and The Geek" episode was recorded at Summit Brewing Company in St. Paul and we broke down the Mike Pelfrey, Ryan Doumit, and Kurt Suzuki moves in a lot of detail before talking about taking Danny Valencia on a first date.
• Speaking of which, podcast groupies are the worst.
• Lizzy Caplan was as delightful as you'd expect chatting with Paul F. Tompkins:
What a woman.
• My favorite e-mail ever.
• I bought myself this shirt as a Christmas present and am honestly worried it might be too sexy.
• Why did the Twins get rid of Doumit and replace him with Suzuki? I'm glad you asked.
• Congrats to friend of AG.com Lindsay Guentzel for landing her own show on K-TWIN 96.3 and for joining me in the insomnia zone. The only downside is that Stella's may go out of business.
• I'm on Twitter mostly for conversations like this one.
• There's still some time to think of more, but for now my New Year's resolutions are a) move out of the suburbs and into the city, and b) ditch my BlackBerry for something that doesn't "indicate a gravitas and devotion to work."
• There's an app that turns a phone into a breathalyzer, but sadly it's not available on BlackBerry.
• Ann Friedman is such a f***ing killer: "Douthat, despite having the morals and the facial hair of a much older man, is only 34."
• As part of this multi-year, multi-platform agreement my Honda Fit will be featured.
• How did I not think of this first?
• Congrats to Neil Paine for his new gig with Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight. Not only is Paine one of the smartest basketball minds around, he was the only person in the car to recognize my John Mayer reference when we drove past Peachtree Street in Atlanta a few years ago.
• Old friend Denny Hocking was hired by the Dodgers as their new Single-A manager.
• For her latest video my future wife, Possum Plows, covered one of my favorite songs of 2013:
I ranked the original 11th on my list, but the blue hair alone moves this version into the top 10.
• My hero Tom Scharpling ended his 13-year run steamrolling chumps on "The Best Show on WFMU." Luckily there's always his billion-show archive to remember the comedic genius.
• Randball's Stu's latest for Twinkie Town is particularly brilliant if you're a "Best Show" fan.
• Oh how I've missed you, Zoe Barnes.
• For anyone who listened to last week's "Gleeman and The Geek" episode from HammerHeart Brewing in Lino Lakes, here's what I looked like after drinking all 12 of their beer varieties.
• One of the restaurants I ate (and drank) at in Philadelphia this summer, Farmers' Cabinet, was raided by police for serving booze without a liquor license.
• Friends of AG.com Michael Rand and Jon Marthaler made a Mike Pelfrey-related wager and naturally I officiated.
• This is just a good picture of Snoop Dogg drinking a mimosa with his pinkie finger out and a shower cap on his head. Nothing more, nothing less.
• I really enjoyed Todd Glass' appearance on "Crab Feast" with Jay Larson and Ryan Sickler.
• If you don't mind getting depressed, the documentary "Burn" about the Detroit fire department is one of the best movies I've seen on Netflix in a while.
• Some of this week's weird and random search engine queries that brought people here:
- "Aaron Gleeman divorced"
- "How do you make money from a blog?"
- "Who is Connie Britton's porn star lookalike?"
- "The Human Fund"
- "I'm taking the day off"
- "Tom Brunanski batting stance"
- "Driving in winter in Minnesota"
- "Ron Coomer net worth"
- "Who is John Sharkman?"
- "John Bonnes arrest"
• Finally, this week's AG.com-approved music video is "Can't Get Enough" by J. Cole:
