Mascots Infographic

Here is a sweet infographic showing all the mascots of the four major professional sports (sorry college fans).

Observations:
- some real silly mascots like Steeley McBeam and the Edgar, Allen, Poe ravens
- Where are the reptiles and amphibians? (plenty of good choices here: Chomper the Alligator, Frank the Frog, etc.)
- along the same lines a monkey mascot is long overdue (monos!)
- the bear is the only animal represented in all sports
- New York apparently doesn't like mascots (Yankees, Giants, Jets, Knicks, and Rangers don't have one)

Guster at the Met

So on Friday I went to this concert type event at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It was in conjunction with Jon Sarkin (artist they've been working with for album art and videos).  After a stroke, he went from shy chiropractor to obsessive artist.

It started out with some awkward slideshow with museum curators discussing seemingly irrelevant music art. Then after some more Q&A they finally went into their set.  Guster is the only band that I've seen in the double digits and this shorter show gave me something new to chew on.  Highlights include some new arrangements with a violin and cello and thankfully they threw in a decent amount of older tunes.

Here's their encore. Pure, unplugged, no microphones music. It's always nice to see a band in a smaller venue like this.  The guy on the left is Jon Sarkin.

Come One, Come None! An Introduction

It's blog time.  Shout out to Missy and the 0-few other people who may read this.  I'll be using this blog to flesh out some of my ideas/reactions to articles/videos and the like and to jot down some interesting observations. 

The blog title is in reference to a poker phrase where you "ride the broom" when you jinx somebody by telling them how good they're doing. (e.g. "Nice! You're a 90% favorite to double your money" or "don't worry, I'm sure you passed the test!")  For further disclosure, I am actually against superstition when it comes to things with any importance but find some amusement out of it.