BIG THINGS

New Years Swag.

YO.

On with the new year and whatnot...

Joe Rogan, there's something you should know about me...

It's Ball Season for me. Before the 2006 pack of newly elected swine can get to work bellying up to the trough, they must throw parties for 15,000 of their closest friends and enemies and I love bearing witness.

Got a few more bashes to attend where I will join my fellow unemployed campaign operatives in crowding out the amateurs from the Open Bar. Also on tap this week: inquiring about work. 2007. BIG THINGS - let's do it!

Some Links:

1. Malcolm Gladwell's insightful New Yorker piece on puzzles, mysteries, Enron and Nazi propaganda. Really interesting and everyone I try to talk to about it seems to have already read it so quit slacking and join the convo.

2. Requiem for the Skins: The WaPo delivers three terrific stories as a post-mortem on this disappointing season for the Potomac Basin Indigenous Peoples. Excellent reporting, unusual levels of candor from players and coaches. An interesting read for any sports fan. Parts One, Two, and Three found here.

3. The winner of MC Serch's next reality show wins a pack of Newports and Puma sweats. Make sure to click the "Gas Face" video for some old school Flavor Flav, Gilbert Gottfriend and proof that hip-hop used to be goofy AND STILL good as hell.

4. Gilbert Arenas aka Black President aka Agent Zero has been getting loads of ink. In case, you missed it, the "walk-away" shot as seen from the nosebleeds: