This site in beta. Yes, still.
New Salon column. The true, real college football national champion is revealed, and it isn’t Utah. In honor of the glorious 2008 season of our champs, I went to New Orleans and bought a cap in a grocery store. In 1998. And wore it a little between then and now.
I have a few lifetime goals. I mean, I have some silly ones like raising my kids well and doing meaningful work, that sort of thing. But I have some really important ones.
I’d like to see a no-hitter in person.
I’d like to pick every baseball division winner some year (I once came close, in the three-division era, when I got three, and the fourth team, the Tigers, should have won but crapped out down the stretch).
I’d like to pick every NFL division winner some year (I’ve never been within two zip codes of this).
I’d like to go 11-0 picking NFL playoff games some year. This is the most realistic of my goals, including the silly ones above, but I don’t think I’ve ever done better than 8-3. I didn’t have a lot of confidence going in this year that I’d do it. I never do. But I thought I had a good chance to get through Saturday, because I didn’t think much of the Cardinals or the Chargers, and I thought the Colts were playing well.
My perfect record lasted three hours. Actually, less than that because it was pretty apparent well before the end that the Falcons weren’t going to come back. Where did that Cardinals performance come from? They played defense and everything. And the Falcons looked rattled and jittery.
Oh well, I’m going to regroup with some simpler, more attainable goals than the 11-0 playoff thing: Clear the clutter off my desk and make a million dollars.
Welcome to the new KingKaufman.com. I’m your host, KingKaufman.com. Though the Salon column is a going concern, I’ll be using this site for some goodies and extras.
Exactly what that’ll be, well, we’ll just have to figure it out together. Maybe a few items that don’t quite rise to the level of Salon-worthiness, for completists only. Maybe the odd non-sports riff, though I’ve been told by Salon that I’m welcome to do that on the big site.
The first thing I plan to do is collect all of the books, movies and TV shows I’ve written about for Salon and create an archive of those stories. Almost all of them are about sports. Some are reviews, others are interviews.
We might be in pipe-dream country here but I’d also like to post short items about a lot of books and movies and TV shows I haven’t written about over the years, but would have liked to. I get a lot of these things sent to me and, considering I’m the world’s slowest reader who isn’t still actually sounding out the letters as I go, I don’t get to most of them before they’re old news.
So, KingKaufman.com: Your home for old news!
Maybe. We’ll see. Suggestions welcome. In the meantime, I’m spending most of my very limited blog-related time trying to figure out how to use WordPress. Like, if someone could teach me, by talking to me like I’m an idiot, how to use my own image as a header, that would, as the kids say, be swell. I have some calls out …