Cynicool, a link blog

Feb 09

Liz Phair on Why Lana Del Rey Scares Rock's Boys Club - Speakeasy - WSJ -

I guess I’ll have to check this Lana Del Rey out now.

Feb 08

Feb 06

The Mariners Probably Just Pulled Off The Best Signing Of The Offseason -

All of this is to say that Hong-Chih Kuo is awesome, and that the Dodgers—a team without a real owner and with an idiot for a general manager, an idiot who signed Aaron Harang and Chris Capuano and Jerry Hairston and Mark Ellis to two-year deals this offseason)—could have been quite silly in nontendering him. It should surprise no one when Seattle flips Kuo for gems in July. He’s great.

Ugh.

Feb 03

Sharron Angle endorses Santorum -

I’m almost offended that they claim Angle was beaten badly by Harry Reid because of what he did in the campaign. She was trounced because the people of Nevada flat out rejected her. He didn’t need to campaign against her at all.

Jan 30

Bryant Gumbel, NBC's Olympic host, is alone at the - 09.26.88 - SI Vault -

(via Instapaper)

Jan 27

Watching Apple win the world - (37signals) -

This expresses a lot of what I feel about Apple. I began with a Mac in 1996 and struggled through a few years until my first iMac. Then things got great. In 2008 I almost bought a Blackberry (I have no idea why) when my phone contract expired. Luckily, we decided on iPhones and they changed how we communicated. I trust them, which is more than I can say about just about every other company.