vol. 27

i truly think i'm cursed in that i'm unable to sleep in -- had the opportunity today and knew that it wouldn't matter -- i predicted 6:30 and it was 6:24 when i looked at the clock...

• i've joked with some kids about creating a new t-shirt with baby jesus wearing a snuggie -- something along the lines of "even baby jesus wears a snuggie" -- the snuggie commercials just amaze me -- so tacky, but they keep your attention, for sure -- i guess a ton of parodies are coming out now -- this one was pretty good, though...

• espn has been conducting a poll asking people to create their mt. rushmore of states -- it's complicated by the fact that you are making choices based upon whether the athlete was originally from the state or just played here -- at any rate, my choices were arnold palmer, mario lemieux, roberto clemente and wilt chamberlain -- i would argue that palmer is in the top 5 all time of his sport and truly brought a whole new fan to the game, lemieux is at least the second best hockey player of all time and saved hockey in pittsburgh, clemente, well, if you know me, you know that i think he's the greatest (and i'm leaving out the humanitarianism end of things...) and chamberlain, even though i can't stand the nba anymore, has to be top 5 of all time as well... espn has just released their "findings" and they have clemente, lemieux and chamberlain -- rather than palmer they have joe paterno -- i just have problems with having a coach on the mountain's face -- obviously, as far as pennsylvania is concerned joepa is THE coach -- i just don't think that a coach should be on it -- anyway... espn is showing the top 5 states and pennsylvania is one of them -- here's rick reilly going over pennsylvania's mt. rushmore...

• i'm a big fan of top chef on bravo -- it's addicting to say the least, and i'm such a picky eater, that i don't know that i would eat any of the food they create -- and they truly are creations... i don't want to give things away, but what they did this week really pissed me off -- i hate when reality contest-type shows obviously have an agenda on who they are trying to get to the finals...hate it...

• nick turned me on to mondesi'shouse -- great blog about pittsburgh sports and events -- and he provides some great links -- got a kick out of this one today: this is why you're fat...unfortunately, i eat way more stuff like that than i do what they're making on top chef...