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The Best of The Serious Tip Now Available on Amazon 24 Sep 2011 | 07:01 am
For over three years, this website was my home on the web. Here is where I learned how to blog and how to write for an audience. I covered a lot here, from sports to music to politics to almost everyt...
Eulogy for the Eliminated: The Serious Tip 15 Nov 2009 | 06:00 pm
Dearly Beloved, Today we lay to rest this blog. Three years is a long time to write for one web site. Especially one as varied, unpredictable, and as one reader put it "mixed bag" as this one. And so...
Eulogy for the Eliminated 2009: Part 7 8 Nov 2009 | 09:29 am
Dearly Beloved, Today we lay to rest our final soul. Like in the epic film The Highlander, there can be only one. And from the land of liberty and cheesesteaks comes our latest, a loser in the battle...
Eulogy for the Eliminated 2009: Part 6 29 Oct 2009 | 10:58 am
Dearly Beloved, Today we lay to rest two of the best from the west. Whereas they were shown California love by many, the westside connection was not enough to save them from the 2pacalypse. They took...
Eulogy for the Eliminated 2009: Part 5 16 Oct 2009 | 10:32 am
Dearly Beloved, This week we are presented with four more souls. Souls who led solid, if not underperforming lives. In honor of these souls, we are following in the footsteps of the ancients, those d...
Eulogy for the Eliminated 2009: Part 4 10 Oct 2009 | 07:26 am
Dearly Beloved, It has been too long since we gathered. This is both a good thing and a bad. On one side, we look to life, those living long fruitful lives with much to celebrate. They were the beare...
Measuring the true worth of a pro wrestler 4 Oct 2009 | 04:12 pm
By now it should come to no surprise that I am a bit of a pro wrestling fan. I'm not sure how it happened, but it did. I go to shows, hang out with other wrestling fans, and even have gotten to know s...
The Yankees could make a great band 4 Oct 2009 | 02:35 pm
Something I just noticed: Yankee pitcher A.J. Burnett shares the same name as a woman who used to perform on Beale Street during its heyday. First baseman Mark Teixeira also shares the same name wit...
Freakonomics is now questioning Steroids of the Mind 4 Oct 2009 | 06:11 am
Quick post, as I am working on something more extensive: I read an interesting post on the New York Times Freakonomics Blog today. In a post entitled "Are Ritalin-Taking Students Cheaters?", the Frea...
Eulogy for the Eliminated 2009: Part 3 28 Sep 2009 | 06:11 pm
Dearly Beloved, Here we gather once again to bury those who those lives have reached an unfortunate premature end. For these poor souls were well enough to be respected, but failed to accomplish thei...
