Things for the Morning

by Ryan

- If you are interested, a chapter from Klosterman's Downtown Owl is on Page 2. Seriously, if anyone is reading this let me know, I'm dying to talk to someone about it.

- Time Warner is adding five HD channels, something I suddenly care about. The channels were each added for a specific reason, as you will see:

CNN- Delegates.
TBS- BASEBALL FANS!!!
Discovery Channel- stoners.
Animal Planet- stumpies.
Science Channel- nerdy stoners.

As you can see, I'm pumped about TBS HD, which will be awesome for postseason baseball. Can anyone else smell October coming?

- In a related story, if Time Warner inexplicably drops CBS (which is very unlikely), I will have a dish by that Sunday. Mark my words, Bunny.

- Anyone remember Keith Newman?



Good times!

The former Bills linebacker has been keeping himself busy, and when I say busy, I mean stealing stuff. He may not have been able to tackle Ricky Williams, but at least he knows how to commit bank fraud. Amazing.

- Week two in fantasy went much better for me. Both pay leagues won despite natural disasters and a few injuries, and I figure if I can overcome a hurricane I should be okay the rest of the way through, right?

- I'll leave you with this picture, and the reminder that Lane Kiffin still works for the Raiders as of this post:

Reading with the Roost: Downtown Owl

by Ryan

This is Downtown Owl:



This is also Downtown Owl:


Technically, this book isn't out yet, but thanks to the good people at Amazon.com, I received it on Friday and finished it yesterday.

However, this causes a problem when you want to discuss it, especially when 1) a handful of people have read the book, and 2) discussing any part of it would almost immediately ruin it for anyone.

So here's the situation. The situation is this: I liked this book, and I'd like you to buy it so we can talk about it. This post is going up now, and if you plan on buying the book let me know so we can talk about it in the future. If you'd like to buy the book, that would be nice too, because then we could talk about it.

The post will go up on the sidebar, so whenever you finish it, I'll be there to talk about it. Let me know what you thought, and I'll respond. That post won't be going anywhere, so even if it takes you a few years to get around to it that's fine.

I'd imagine this post stays up as long as Google has servers, which seems like a long, long time. At least until Google figures out how to beam things directly into your brain using a subtle radio wave and bacon bits. I figure at that juncture in your life reading a Chuck Klosterman book is the last thing on your mind, so it probably doesn't matter.

So yeah, get back to me on this.