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[Carlos del Vaca]

Go here and scroll down for a rather enjoyable sample Lileks entry.

[PinkStainlessTail]

That guy does a really good Glennn Reynnolds.

[andalucia]

That was indeed pretty good.  I get nostalgic every once in a while and go read the Bleat, and it's never worth it... except maybe for his usually excellent header designs.

[V-Adore]

That was indeed pretty good.  I get nostalgic every once in a while and go read the Bleat, and it's never worth it... except maybe for his usually excellent header designs.

I copy this. I haven't visited Lileks.com in ages, mostly because, even with the Institute stuff, it's such a gorgeous visual design with such frequently-loathsome content.

I rather love the parody here, just because it manages to capture perfectly the hypocrisy of Bleats for about the past two or three years. There's only so long that cute-kid stories stay cute when you realize that Lileks really would, on some personal level, want you to suffer for your political beliefs.

[AugustWest]

And the dude is just 9/11 obsessed.  Not that it wasn't a national tragedy and a horrible defining event.  But it's like he's made 9/11 horror the center of his very being.  

Dude, get a grip.  You live in fuck*ng Minneapolis.

Akbar:  O great leader, which decadent festering sore upon the vile body of the Great Satan shall be target next?

Osama:  I have pondered long over this matter, my friend.  Many hours have I spent studying the culture and ways of the cowardly and bloated Americans.  After much thought and prayer, I have come to an inevitable conclusion.

A:  Yes, my captain?

O:  We must strike... Minneapolis.  For it holds that most enormous symbol of American Imperialist Effemininate Commercial Secular Materialism -- THE MALL OF AMERICA.

A:  Accursed Shopping Center!

O:  That, and it's the home of the Metrodome.

A:  Stupid Homer Hankies.

O:  It's was either Minneapolis or Cleveland.  They got the Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, and that's hella decadent too, so it was a close call.

[Gimpson]

O:  That, and it's the home of the Metrodome.

I fully support terrorist acts against the Metrodome.  

Fuckin' Vikings...

[andalucia]

Fuckin' Vikings...

I know so little about sports that declarations of this sort, or headlines in the sports section about one team defeating another make me laugh.  Dolphins crush Senators, etc.
(yep, those are from different sports... couldn't think of two hockey teams)

[Mite]

I fully support terrorist acts against the Metrodome.  

Fuckin' Vikings...

::Head spins around::

You shall know my wrath, Gimpson. Only Minnesotans are allowed to insult the great and powerful Vikings!

On a side note, I went to high school 3 miles from the mall of america. It really ain't all that great.

[arkabee]

On a side note, I went to high school 3 miles from the mall of america. It really ain't all that great.

there's a rollercoaster made out of snoopy there.

you have high expectations from life, don't you?

[Pedro Picasso]

My team won today.  Of course by my team, I mean a bunch of guys I've never met, playing a sport I'm not very good at, for a university I attended, though I was studying when I was there and they are obviously kicking and throwing things.  So yeah, my team.  Those guys I have nothing in common with and probably wouldn't like in person.  They won.  Won the game.  Let's go throw toilet paper.

[V-Adore]

I entirely approve of the Vikes and the Twins, because honestly, what else can you do?

I will confess that a reason Lileks offends me is that in some way he's a bizarro version of my extended family -- from the same upper-midwest background, with the same pretensions of down-home common sense, but while my mom's folks are actually sensible*, he's some sort of histrionic whine-beast.

* Except for my weird Republican uncle who attempted to raise hairless cats, but he appears to be the exception to the rule.

[Nabubrush]

Dolphins crush Senators, etc.
(yep, those are from different sports... couldn't think of two hockey teams)

Well, of course the Fins crush the Sens - it's 11 gladiators to 6! (counting goalie, ok?) Although the 6 have sticks and knives on their feet.

[V-Adore]

On the subject of hilarious sports rivalries, my personal favorite at the moment is the rift between my college and its hated and despised rival, which dates from roughly 1824(1) and has continued with unabated, NCAA-alarming fervor(2) in the adjoining 180 years.

Both my school and its rival are named after colonial figures somehow involved in their inceptions, and in typical uncreative fashion, both have as their mascots the same colonial figures. Thus, we have the eternal rivalry between the Ephs(3) and the Lord Jeffs. I'm surprised our football teams haven't started showing up with bayonets and muskets.

(1) The man who would become Their president was originally one of Our professors; he decided that We were too remote and, with suitable gravitas and respect, he stole half of Our students and half of Our library books before running off to become Them. We send them overdue slips ever so often, but no dice.

(2) This got to the point that, during the Division III basketball playoffs, we got an all-campus e-mail begging those of us who went to the game to please not yell personal insults at Their forwards and that people wearing the "what do They and shit have in common" T-shirts sold at Homecoming would be ejected from the gym. Go Us.

(3) Short for Colonel Ephraim. No connection to matchsticks and doody, as far as I know.

[AlohaDawg]

What did she say?

There's a Division III?

[V-Adore]

What did she say?

There's a Division III?

Yes. It is for tiny schools which really shouldn't actually have sports rivalries; my school and Our Hated Rivals are very stubborn about keeping ours in place, lest too much actual studying get done.