Clik here to view.
28. a different experience.
Fred made a solo trip to Ann Arbor today. Here are two of his photos from the day. I know what this pic, taken well before the start of the game, feels like. It’s fun, but you’re also apprehensive...
View ArticleClik here to view.
29. twelve.
Twelve years. That’s how long this blog has been alive. True, the health of Uncle Crappy (the blog) has been shaky for the past few years — I don’t think I even noted its birthday in 2014 — but, much...
View ArticleClik here to view.
30. rare.
I’m watching the Browns play the Ravens in a Monday Night Football matchup that actually sounded decent when you looked at the schedule back in the summer. And this question occurs to me: Which is...
View ArticleClik here to view.
dubious reasons.
Is it wrong that I changed the template of Uncle Crappy (the blog) just so I could more easily see WordPress December snowflakes?Filed under: I Have No Idea Tagged: holiday fun, internet fun
View ArticleClik here to view.
a weekend.
A perfectly relaxing Saturday morning. Handmade Arcade. Keller Williams. A road trip to Columbus for the MLS Cup final. Whew. I didn’t take pictures of the first part of Saturday, but I don’t want to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
birthday surprise. also, meat.
In the midst of what was an internet-light day — it was, after all, Mrs. Crappy’s birthday, and we spent the whole day kicking around town, doing fun birthday stuff — we came across something kind of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
a heady glass.
I don’t chase whalez. But sometimes they find me anyway. Hunting for whalez — the beer nerd term for difficult-to-find world-class craft beers — can almost be a full-time job. And to me, that runs...
View ArticleClik here to view.
this one goes to eleven.
Most March Madness basketball contests only go to 10. But this March Madness basketball contest — the Eleventh Annual Uncle Crappy NCAA Final Four Challenge (Brought To You By Bocktown) — goes to 11....
View ArticleClik here to view.
twenty four.
Here it is, your annual reminder that you have about 24 hours to submit entries to the Eleventh Annual Uncle Crappy NCAA Final Four Challenge (Brought To You By Bocktown). Not sure what I’m talking...
View ArticleClik here to view.
countdown.
If you’re playing in the Eleventh Annual Uncle Crappy NCAA Final Four Challenge (Brought To You By Bocktown), the time to enter is now. If I have your picks by noon today, you’ll be eligible to win...
View ArticleClik here to view.
eaucnffc (btybb) tipoff.
It’s only March, but I’m pretty sure that, as always, this will work out to be the longest Uncle Crappy post of 2016. And “this,” of course, is the annual roundup of entries in the Eleventh Annual...
View ArticleClik here to view.
the last time.
Not my stub. But I still have it somewhere. I had a good run with the Grateful Dead. But by 1994, my expectations were diminished. I started seeing the band in the mid-1980s, during a pocket of high...
View ArticleClik here to view.
crashed and burned.
WHY, TOM — WHYYYYYYY!?!? The hoopage — and the Eleventh Annual Uncle Crappy NCAA Final Four Challenge (Brought To You By Bocktown) — resumes tonight, so this is a good time to take a quick look at how...
View ArticleClik here to view.
blutarskies, with distinction.
It seems that I write at least one post every year explaining just how ugly that season’s AUCNFFC (BTYBB) has turned out. But this year, the Eleventh Annual Uncle Crappy NCAA Final Four Challenge...
View ArticleClik here to view.
nerves.
I took that shot as I awaited the start of my very first real yoga class. I was nervous. Nervous enough that I almost didn’t get seated in the grass. Nervous enough that I almost left. I had been...
View ArticleClik here to view.
a learning experience.
My yoga workshop weekend, Day One: I got better in crow and learned some tweaks with my hands and arms that will help as I move toward other arm balances. My core needs to be stronger. Practicing with...
View ArticleClik here to view.
showtime.
That’s Chrissy. If you need proof that I was there, check out the guy in the blue bandana. And this is the pose — a variation of it, anyway — that caused me to freak out a bit while trying to decide...
View ArticleClik here to view.
dagger.
It took a last-second three-pointer for Villanova to get past the Tar Heels and win college basketball’s 2015-16 national championship. AJ didn’t need any last second histrionics to win the Eleventh...
View ArticleClik here to view.
once again.
One more year. Still no Pulitzers.Filed under: Work Tagged: it's my job, mild irritation, woo-hoo
View ArticleClik here to view.
water slinging.
I have a perfectly good reason to show up on Western Avenue at 5 a.m. on a Sunday morning. Just like some of you guys will have a perfectly good reason run down Western Avenue a few hours later. Yep....
View Article