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Weekends: More tiring than weekdays.

Happy New Year, peeps! I hope you’re all off to a great start in 2010. And if not – no worries. You have 360 days remaining to make it so.

I’m working on a lot of new projects and I’m scheduled to meet with a lot of very nice/very important people in the coming months, so I went and updated my online portfolio.

Click and be happy: http://www.matusic.com/

SOTD: I was gonna go XMAS on you all, but I decided you all deserved some 3rd Base instead…

Frank Black – still cool as hell. But Kim Deal has become the chubby lady who works the photo counter at CVS. Time marches on, people.

SOTD: Something for the geeks. Say Hi to Your Mom’s “The Fritz”.

I am touched by the passionate responses concerning my last blog post, “A Yankee Fan Fondly Recalls Boston’s Last Championship”. In many of those responses I was reminded that New York’s title drought exceeds Boston’s by a number of years. In an effort to show that I’m a good sport, here’s a list of events, happenings, and trends from that long ago yet historic championship season of 2000.

• Ted Williams’ head was numb, but not yet frozen.

• Big Papi was not a member of the Red Sox yet.

• Nor was Manny.

• Neither was yet on PEDs.**

• Boston’s greatest moment remained a walk-off home run by Carlton Fisk in game 5 of the 1975 World Series which they eventually lost to the Cincinnati Reds.

• Boston’s Central Artery hadn’t started taking a leak yet.

• The Bruins missed the playoffs.

• So did the Celtics.

• And so did the Patriots.

• Conan O’Brien gave his infamous Harvard Commencement address.

• Bucky Dent turned 49.

* Scheduled to be updated next week.

** As far as we know.

Go Yankees.

It’s been two long years since one could decorate the Boston Red Sox with the title of World Series Champion – a virtual lifetime for a franchise that has known nothing other than triumph and success.* Below is a list of events, happenings, and trends from that fateful year of 2007. You’ll be truly amazed at how far we’ve all come since then.

• Al Gore won the Nobel Prize for fiction.
• There were only 15,011 Starbucks locations.
• The final season of HBO’s “The Sopranos”
• The final time I watched HBO.
• A Bro tased a student.
• Jay Leno was still hosting “The Tonight Show”
• Apple introduced the iPhone, which did for phones what the iPod did for pods.**
• Britney Spears was still wearing underpants.
• The Duggars only had 17 kids.
• OJ was still available for golf outings.
• Tom Cruise was stuck at thetan level 5.
• Evel Knieval still walked the earth, albeit with a series of limps.
• So did Prof. Snape from Hogwarth’s (SPOILER!)
• The Patriots cheated.
• A marathon was only 26.2 miles.
• Chevy Chase was still funny.***

* Covers the years 1903, 1912, 1915, 1916, 1918, 2004, 2007.
** Credit to Rob Riggle.
*** Actually occurred in 1989.

Go Yankees.