you are what you eat

men’s health’s “eat this, not that” series is the gift that keeps on giving.  even though the magazine’s publisher, dave zincenko doesn’t take his own advice (see dave with his girlfriend to the left, and a recent post on fameballer julia allison’s blog here)–we think his detailed analysis of gross foods is right on the money.  the [...]


top dog

the american kennel club id’d the top 10 purebred dogs in the u.s.a.  the labraor retriever continues to hold the top spot (18 years running) but the oh-so-cute bulldog is gaining ground — last year it made the top 10 for the first time in 70 years, this year the bull dog has moved up [...]


welcome back!

by now i’m sure you’ve already printed out the gym schedule for the week and have counted the number of days until your next day off and you are coming to sacred bird for a little distraction. you can take a trip down memory lane and look at the year that was at sacred bird, [...]


year in review 2008

and so sacredbird began publishing on march 16, 2008 as an inside joke (and a way to make our day jobs palatable). close to 400 posts later one of us is no longer at said day job (yippee!!) and we’re still loving our sacredbird (the site AND the man). so let’s take a look back [...]


team obama – US cabinet nominees

now that obama’s picks for the “best basketball-playing Cabinet in American history” are in, it seemed like a good time to create yet another list. this time a list of the names of those who’ll be working with obama to bring about the “change”, assuming they are approved by the senate.
before we get to the [...]


seems like everyone agrees.

when he said that “all becomes possible” im not sure that french president nicolas sarkozy meant this–the peeps at the uk’s gaurdian have added him to their 2008 list of biggest douche bags. here’s the full list of honorees:

nickelback’s chad kroeger
noel gallagher
nicolas sarkozy
sarah palin’s advisors
mattel games
the ‘hopper’ in the wire who shot omar
everyone on eggheads
madonna [...]


and i woulda guessed ‘maverick’ or ‘change’

speaking of lists, merriam-webster has selected the 2008 words of the year, and the #1 word is, drumroll please…..BAILOUT defined as “a rescue from financial distress” was the most searched word online. the nine next popular words are vet, socialism, maverick, bipartisan, trepidation, precipice, rogue, misogyny, and turmoil.  for a trip down memory lane, here [...]