Rule One: Winning is for Losers

Hey Phil, we all can’t suck up to Oprah and get paid bajillions to give out stupid advice.*

*which I then mostly ignore from my parents who are fans of Dr Pill.

Classes on winning are being held on Belknap Campus (U of L) and other venues evenings between 7 and 11. Lace up your sneakers and bring your best game.

Just watched the LA Marathon from the comfort of my couch. A bunch of Kenyan guys and a Ukranian woman lead the field. A 40 year old US runner, a mom, came in 3rd for the women. Our Mayor, Smiley McZipperdown, greeted the winners.

@Dodgerblue: I’m on my way down there now to watch a friend come in.

Give me 10 minutes with Dr. Phil or any of these self-improvement motherfuckers and I will have them standing on the ledge, ready to jump. I’m that good.

@Tommmcatt Can’t Believe He Ate The Whole Thing: Try the King’s Head at 2nd and Santa Monica if some hydration is called for.

@Dodgerblue: It was full. I wanted to sneak a pint out for my friend but I couldn’t get in.

@blogenfreude: I’m joining holy orders.

Speaking of winning, NCAA March Madness teams have been announced.

Go get your Stinquing bracket going!

That means you, too, Benedick.

@SanFranLefty: I’d like you to call me Father.

@SanFranLefty: I’ve got UCLA to lose in the second round unless Bill Walton puts down the bong and decides to play again.

@Benedick: Will Papa do? Mistress Cynica participates, you have no excuse.

@Dodgerblue: How the fuck did Uklah and San Diego State get higher seed numbers than Los Nojos de Eugene? Nonetheless, I didn’t let any West Coast sympathy blind me to get the Bruins past the second round. P.S. Waiting to see your picks.

Paging RML: Speaking of picks, I just picked your Lobos to make it to the Final Four, only to get crushed by Mellbell’s Louisville. I will probably change my bracket five more times or do what Libertarian Tool does and sign up a few more brackets.

/my alma maters (mati?) may not have any of their men’s teams in March Madness, but hurrah for the lady teams…if only Yahoo did a virtual tournie for the women’s NCAA.

@Dodgerblue: Deena Kastor is a goddess among marathoners.

I did a 10k in Rangoon in January, and the two Kenyans who finished the full marathon did so in just a little more than twice my time.

@SanFranLefty: Patriot League representing again this year!

@Beggars Biscuit: Bucknell isn’t going anywhere, sugar.

/let the trash-talking begin.

P.S. “I did a 10k in Rangoon in January” is such a tired pick-up line… ;-P

@SanFranLefty: I claim the magesterium of the handjobs since Peter. On the other hand (ha) I could see myself as Father Spanky.

@SanFranLefty: Because the Oregon uniforms make the people doing the seeding giggle and puke. Los Lobos have a pretty tough draw after they beat up the liberal elite from Boston; I’m not so sure they will make it out of the second round either.

@SanFranLefty: Mr Cyn proposed a fabulous new arbitrary system with no relationship whatsoever to the teams’ records. I can’t wait to try it out!

I used to choose by mascot — which one would win in a fight, and I usually throw a couple of underdogs in there. Today I just did it as quickly as I could. No second guessing; drag and drop.

@SanFranLefty: @Dodgerblue: A second round exit is a proud Lobo tradition.

Fun fact: Our know-nothing knee jerk RW Gov. Susana Martinez was selected by Biden to attend the Pope’s installation this week. Wonder if they know that she is ineligible to receive communion. Some obscure rule about divorce, annulment, and marriage in the church.

@Mistress Cynica: I saw something about his philosophy based system or whatever the hell that was. I think only you, Nojo and Catt have a chance under that system.

@SanFranLefty: It’s most fitting that we discuss our brackets in a post entitled Winning is for Losers. Following this logic, for once, I won’t be a loser.

@redmanlaw: If I wrote a book called The Bracket as I found it, I should have to include a report on cribbing Nate’s selections, and should have to say which parts were subordinate to my judgment, and which were not, etc., this being a method of isolating the winner, or rather of showing that in an important sense there is no winner; for it alone could not be mentioned in that book.

The winner does not belong to the world: rather, it is a limit of the world.

@redmanlaw: Or, if you prefer Later Wittgenstein: “Don’t think, but shoot!”