Mark Pike

One of my good buddy’s from elementary school has relaunched his sports blog after a long hiatus. He’s a big fan of UVA athletics, and we’ve been making ACC predictions and trading analysis for about 10 years on college basketball.
He sent me an email with a bunch of questions (I felt like I was being [...]

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Choppers
Originally uploaded by themarkpike.
Helicopters hyphenate the horizon.
I snapped this on my drive down to Virginia Beach this weekend.

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I saw my shadow on a radio show in Boston.
Somehow, they found what I wrote last year on my blog and featured it in their Groundhog Day piece.
Check out the website for the piece here…
Or listen to the radio show here…

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One of the bestest sites on the internerd, Threadless, has a Valentine’s contest that ends soon. You have to write them a 250 word love letter, and the grand prize winner gets flown to Chicago to have a date with their entire company (and $250 bucks and lots of free t-shirts, etc). I entered. [...]

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I’ll be at work tonight for the State of the Union. If you’re bored, or so frustrated that you’d like to throw a size 10 Nike at the TV, feel free to join us @ thinkprogress.org for the live blogging party.
http://www.thinkprogress.org

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It was nearly 60 degrees (in January), further proof that global warming is very much real. Also, further proof that I really enjoy global warming.
The temperature wasn’t the only bizarre thing of the day.
Despite the amazing weather outside, we sat in a dimly lit basement bar and grille and had brunch away from the sunny [...]

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An Imagined Speech As Delivered to My Fantasy League Basketball Team in Our Fictional Locker Room After Realizing We’re in 10th Place out of 12 Teams
“This is it, fellas. This is the moment in the season when we’ve got to either get busy winning or start losing on purpose to get a better draft positition [...]

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TV changed politics forever. This sentence is usually followed by the example of JFK crushing Nixon in the 1960 televised debate, but losing the same exact debate on the radio broadcast. I think a much simpler example would be that a 400lb man named Howard Taft was once president, and this coincided with the era [...]

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As I’ve mentioned before, I’ve got a side gig writing for Cdigix, a music subscription service that caters to college kids. The stuff I write is subscription only for now, but I’m allowed to post some sneak peaks from time to time.
Here’s a quick piece I wrote about my music predictions for 2K6.
January
Chris Martin, the [...]

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Brooklyn Mobil
Originally uploaded by themarkpike.
Took the train from Manhattan over to Brooklyn. The conductor wished us “Gung hay fat choy” passing through Canal St. Crossing the river, “Welcome to Brooklyn- a nice place to visit, a great place to live.” Everybody was giggling at the PSA’s.

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