Thursday, April 13, 2006
This week's Thursday Tipsheet is brought to you by Dockers™, the official cushioned dress socks of the TimsHead household.
On 'HeadHood Heavy Rotation: Shelby Lynne, I Am Shelby Lynne; Shawn Mullins, Soul's Core; Patrick Park, Loneliness Knows My Name.
Celebrating: Phil Mickelson, who stayed cool and won his second Masters and third major tournament in three years. Once considered the best player never to win a major, he may now be pushing Tiger for the title of the best golfer, period.
Not Celebrating: Silvio Berlusconi, the billionaire soon-to-be-ex-minister of Italy, who loses his country election, and with little dignity.
Pop Culture Will Eat Itself, Vol. XLV: With all the real problems in the world today, the media must have something interesting to say. Well, this isn't it: Gwenyth Paltrow gives birth to baby Moses. OK, what else? Child protection officials visit Britney Spears' home. That's nice. No one cared that welfare officials visited my former neighbor about 8,000 times and she continued popping out kids. Maybe some real news? Michael Douglas says he never dissed Brangelina. There's some hot, vital information for you. Not! Oh wait, here's something ... Madonna marriage may have had bumpy period. I guess no one cares about reporting news that actually matters to real people any more.
Lost: June Pointer of the Pointer Sisters, the sibling singers whose hits included "Fire," "Slow Hand" and "I'm So Excited."
Found: The motherlode of music by buying 23 CDs for $60 in one night.
Elevator Up: To the college women's lacrosse team, who have won two of their past three games in impressive fashion, despite having me as their faculty mentor.
Elevator Down: French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, whose political career is on life support after massive protests convince President Jacques Chirac pulled the plug on de Villepin's controversial employment reforms.
Huh? Headline of the Week: Man hit with $218 trillion phone bill. (Credit ClosetGeek for the link.)
Strangest Hit: Someone visited via a search for do you come from a contact or noncontact culture. I have no idea what that means.
Stupid Fantasy Baseball Report: The Nautical Disasters are mired in eighth place in the 10-team Stout Fellows league. Since I sat in ninth until late Wednesday, this is actually an improvement.
Shoulda-Been-Obvious Lesson: A great concert is worth losing sleep over.
Franklin PlannerTM Quote of the Week: There ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got raw deals. You've got to say, "I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it." -- Lee Iacocca.
Looking forward to ... : Flowers blooming, the women's lacrosse team playing my other alma mater on Friday and maybe some relaxation this weekend.
posted by Tim 7:53 PM
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