The tournament continues

Selection time, y'all. We need 64 entries and I have picked 36 that I think are sure things. These would be the 1 - 9 seeds since we're going NCAA-style and having four groupings of 16. Some of my criteria was coolness, some of it was familiarity, some are from great shows, and some are just great tunes. It's not rocket surgery after all. The complete list is here.

I've put the first 36 in alphabetical order. Let's finish this, selection committee!

All in the Family
Andy Griffith Show
Barney Miller
Bosom Buddies
Brady Bunch
Cheers
Dallas
Diff'rent Strokes
Dragnet
Facts of Life
Family Ties
Gilligan's Island
Good Times
Happy Days
Hawaii Five-O
Hill Street Blues
Knot's Landing
Leave It To Beaver
M*A*S*H
Magnum PI
Miami Vice
Moonlighting
My Three Sons
One Day at a Time
Route 66
Sanford and Son
Simon and Simon
Taxi
The Addams Family
The Dukes of Hazard
The Jeffersons
The Love Boat
The Odd Couple
Tonight Show
Welcome Back Kotter
WKRP in Cincinnati

Sorry, Ken

Anyone who has read this blog for a while knows that I like to make fun of former City Council member Ken Svoboda. It turns out that he lost in yesterday's city election, coming in fourth in a race where the top three vote-getters were chosen for office. Normally I'd jump up and down and gloat that the Nebraska GOP is losing a lot of steam, but today I'll just wish Mr. Svoboda well and be glad for this opportunity for him to focus on and grow his business. That said, there should be some alarms going off in any Nebraska GOP office after:

Democrat Chris Beutler defeats Republican Ken Svoboda for the Lincoln mayoral race

Republican Adrian Smith needs help from the national GOP and the Bush administration to defeat political newcomer Democrat Scott Kleeb for our third district House seat

Democrat Ben Nelson clobbers Republican Pete Ricketts in a race for the Senate

The city of Lincoln and the second district (Omaha and surrounding areas) choose President Barack Obama over John McCain

Democrats Jane Snyder and Gene Carroll are elected to Lincoln's City Council giving the Democrats a voting majority

I realize that Jane Snyder and Gene Carroll raised a lot of money for this race, but that's never been a problem for the Nebraska GOP before, has it?

TV show theme song tournament continues

Submissions are coming in mighty waves - we should have quite the awesome tournament here...check out the original post.

TV show theme song tournament

I'm thinking of starting a TV show theme song tournament in some form. What are your ideas for the 32 or 64 TV show themes? I'm thinking that the results should be seeded and pitted against each other in online polling. Put your ideas in the comments.

Happy Friday

Texas Tech's players take a leak after taking it to the house.

Via Bootleggersports.com

White Noise

We started off having Mena listen to a white noise CD when she was sleeping. After that, she graduated to a CD of lullabies. This album was perfectly fine. My wife brought home a new-agey CD from the daycare where she works, which was acceptable also. It was a mixture of music and nature sounds. Naturally, our five-month-old daughter woke each day ready to camp or shoot wolves from a helicopter as it was making her pretty outdoorsy. At least, I am imagining it was.

A couple of days ago the CD player in her bedroom started making an ack-ack-ack noise and wouldn't read discs. Had it not been a CD player but a '73 Dodge Duster instead, I'd have blamed the solenoid, the starter, or both.

It was then that I decided to try the local NPR affiliate. It works just fine for her to sleep to, and I'm actually more than a little happy in a nerdy sort of way. While other people's kids are listening to dumbass children's music, my kid is listening to classical fucking music all night long and getting caught up on current events when Morning Edition comes on.

Hell yeah.

Why don't you poke me sometime?

Funny!