Limerick Friday LXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXVX: That Time O’ The Fantasy Year, Plus “Homeland” Jumps The Jihadi

 A breath away from 7-3

‘Til the Bears stole it from me

Another week, another brutal beat

Just rinse and repeat

Bad luck returning untimely

After shite beyond reason

Final game of the season

Have to get off the snide

And halt an unlucky slide

For a playoff spot to be seizin’

Lots of oversharing and talkin’

Before Carol got nailed jaywalkin’

Noah, a convenient addition

In true TWD tradition

Now Daryl is hospital stalkin’

Across the Rockies they sore

To take on a stiff-necked stat whore

The Dolphins a sorta surprise

Can they avoid a late-season demise?

Squarely in the race at 6-4

 

Carrie got dosed down the rabbit hole

But she uncovered the mole

Saul want HAM

In Afghanistan

“Homeland,” you make me so droll

Last time …

Deep Thoughts By No-Look McFadden: Episode 73

#1

My life and the world at large is in desperate need of Seinfeld emojis. Smarty techie types, please make this happen.

#2

Tony Dungy as the NFL’s moral authority, as I’ve said repeatedly, is a bad joke

#3

This is a crying baby video phone ad that kicks you right in the feels.

#4

I was in this position not all that long ago. But I couldn’t nail this level of honesty in a job interview. Priceless.

#5

Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and actor Dave Foley look shockingly alike. They both also kind of look like Ellen Degeneres, but that’s neither here nor there.

#6

Senator Whitehouse of Rhode Island is my new hero, destroying reality climate deniers.

#7

I like “The League,” I really do. But their insistence on including the Rafi and Randy storyline goes beyond bizarre to out-and-out stupidity. I’ve never turned off one of these episodes halfway through until one about Rafi and Randy comes on, because they’re routinely unfunny, pointless, and non-football-related. [/rant over]

#8

I want to join this bank. I mean, maybe I really don’t, but still. They were cool before they were illegal.

#9

I’m not sure it’s really possible to describe how awful a broadcaster Boomer Esiason is. Wow.

#10

So let me get this straight: One of the greatest rock bands in the history of music gives away music for free (and one of their best albums in years, it should be noted), and the reaction is offended outrage? Think about that for a minute.

Judging by the response of a new U2 album landing on the iTunes front page, you would have thought that Bono was going around stealing people’s kidneys in the middle of the night. Welcome to the new world of faux entitlement and fabricated sensibility, ladies and gentlemen.

Limerick Friday LXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXVIX: A Melancholy Farewell to “Boardwalk Empire,” Plus Ignorance Sweeps The Vote

Intense, engrossing and clever

Predictable? No, never

Nucky doomed by greed and talk

To die along the boardwalk

One of the best of all-times and ever

Capone bid his son goodbye

There was something in my eye

Narcisse erased by Lucky’s armory

Jimmy’s son avenged the Darmodys

On “Boardwalk Empire,” all must die

Oh, what a happy November

First league win I can remember

Finally didn’t need an excuse

To take down Syracuse

The Pack now a functioning ACC member?

About the Scooters you could say

They sort of find a way

Moving to 6-3

Treading water carefully

‘Til Mathews and Gordon play

A dark day for you and me

As well as for democracy

Senate lost to bigoted thieves

Almost hard to believes

Land of the ignorant but free

Last time …