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Dan Tobin

I live by my fastball, I die by my fastball. (Unsure I can actually throw a fastball.)

About Me

I wish I knew how to quit it: The blog lives on.
Other writings online include my Red Sox column at an up and upcoming baseball site well worth your time:
As for the rest of your Dan Tobin needs, they can still be satisfied here:
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Top-8 selection criteria:
Week 1: Black people
Week 2: People I have shared a bed with but never got to first base with
Week 3: Lesbians and Canadians
Week 4: People who've spoken words I've written
Week 5: People I've been in contact with only after reading each others' blogs
Week 6: Communists
Week 7: People I've had lunch with (some of it Mexican food, some it not)
Week 8: Blondes
Week 9: People who knew me before I had a drivers license
Week 10: People I've had zero contact with in the last 3-9 years except adding each other on MySpace
Week 11: People I associate with New York
Week 12: I'm bored with this game
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My Interests

Indian food, David Ortiz, one-chord rock songs, WordPress, environmentally sensitive furniture, imperial stout, fantasy baseball, Meaghan, wintertime clothing, Mac OS codenames, listing off things that make me sound like a nerd (evidently)

Music:

Yo La Tengo, AC/DC, Rufus Thomas, The Feelies, John Lee Hooker, Harvester, James Brown, DJ Shadow, Public Enemy, Fela Kuti, New Pornographers, Spoon, Junior Kimbrough, Young MC

Movies:

Annie Hall, The Naked Gun, Sexy Beast, Borat, Back to the Future, Pulp Fiction, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, Die Hard, The Empire Strikes Back

Television:

Freaks and Geeks, The Simpsons, Futurama, Lost, The Office (BBC version), South Park, NESN, the Bill Walton episode of Less Than Perfect

Books:

Catcher in the Rye, Catch-22, High Fidelity, The Fortress of Solitude, The Corrections, Jonathan Ames; complete recent reading list, updated in real-time here

Heroes:

Gore, Colbert, Hornby, Hendrix, Gervais, Lethem, Brady

My Blog

The real deal

The constantly updated live feed, available exclusively at: dantobindantobin.com/blog.
Posted by Dan Tobin on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST