A Passover for the memories: It snowed in April, the sun returned to its God-chosen point of origin, and the deli guy topped my morning bagel with cream cheese and lox instead of its raggedy Appalachian cousin lox spread. And finally, thanks to a very large and loud collection of family friends/benefactors, my fridge is now stocked with several containers of mysterious concoctions involving raisins, nuts, matzoh and "ch" sounds.
In other news, a crew of American seamen provided more fodder for ethnocentric Yanks by overthrowing their Somalian pirate captors, while another group of buccaneers clearly slept through the "What Kind of Boats to Not Hijack" seminar. Most importantly, though, "Pablo Sandoval," IDM's beer-addled trivia team, scored 94 points last night in its first contest of the year, which happened to coincide with a successful first contest of the year for a certain baseball team by a certain bay. Pablo Sandoval's showing was good enough for second place, as the number '94' oft is in things such as trivia and, say, baseball. We didn't receive a wild card playoff invitation because the league's administrative office is populated with Mongoloids, but if we had, we're confident that our fundamental excellence (in geography, pop culture, sports and music, as it were) would have allowed us to dominate the opposition, who only won because we started slow and they were using iPhones like A-Rod used needles. Nevertheless, the 94 remains. An omen? Last I checked, one can still dream.
And finally, enjoy this fun video from a couple of Jamiroquai-sounding Euros (playing Mezzanine on 5/15):
