More literary, and some funny

Posnanski on Frost's The Road Not Taken. Bravo. I think about this a lot. If any one thing I did, ever, was different, would I still be here where I am today? How do I balance regret with the fact that I like where I am? I have a terribly crippling conscience, among other issues I wouldn't know how to begin to describe; there are so many things I wish I'd done differently. But if I had, I wouldn't be with Erica, with a nice house in Saratoga (a great little city), doing work I enjoy and at which I excel. I try to remember that whenever I get down on myself, but it's hard sometimes.

Do you ever think about the parallel universe you? Do you ever go back to that fork in the road - maybe you had two job offers at the same time, or two people you had to choose between relationship-wise, or any similar decision point - and wonder where the other road led?

In other news, Big Daddy Drew's latest Penthouse column is hilarious. (The ads on the page seem to be work-safe.) Ahhh, macho hang-ups... always a source of amusement to me.

Pure genius

From the KSK folk.

A Marshawn Lynch/ee cummings mash-up.

Howie Long: "real man" or insecure douchebag?

Does anyone else hate those Howie Long Chevy commercials as much as I do? You know, the ones where you're a pussy you're not a real man if you drive a Ford?

I haven't posted on them because KSK did it so brilliantly back in January, and well, I can't top that. Anyway, they're back for a second helping.

Awesome, as always.

And while we're at KSK, let's check into a little fanfic with Dreamboat, Gisele, and Bridget. Oh, and Tawwwmy from Quinzee. Disturbing. But accurate, I'd imagine. If I imagined such a thing.

Linkdump

Bill has some excellent beers to talk about.

And a funny kid story.

Best journalism of 2008.

The 5th anniversary of KSK's matron saint. I want to kiss you.

Racism as concern-trolling.

The clean energy scam? (haven't read this yet, just printed it out for the "office")

You knew this was coming. After the Prop 8 fucks won that battle, they now want to invalidate 18,000 marriages that did happen. Fucking fuck. More. More.

A beautifully-written appeal to Obama, on the matter of Rick Warren.

A decent, though somewhat incomplete, article on the mortgage disaster.

It's a trajectory

Emmitt Smiff is back!!!!

Draft!

Well, we had our fantasy baseball draft tonight. Slower than it should have been, but at least no technical hiccups. I think I did pretty well.

And in the spirit of fantasy drafts, I present to you KSK's Book Draft.

Funny stuff.