Welcome to the N.C. Double Scoop’s Round of 64!Below, the commentary for Flight 1.Confused?The main NCDS page is right here, and you can find the full bracket here.
The tentative schedule as of this writing: Flight …

Dear Sarah,
I’ve often followed your advice, but this is the first time I’ve written in.
If you are, say, a florist, musician, or photographer, and your friend or relative asks you if you would do the …

The food bracket has returned…with ice-cream flavors.   What better way to wind summer down than with an out-and-out brawl at the freezer case?   Keckler and I can’t think of one.
The main tourney-update page …

Wow, Gary Sheffield.Really? After seventeen thousand years in the big leagues, it seems to me that either you can never have learned what a platoon is, or you can never have learned how to shut …

…some of which require the bulk of said century to get to the point.[rimshot]Seriously, though: many of the stories faff around for two or three pages explaining how the protagonist had come to marry a …

BSD dropped me an email about Bernie Mac’s death about an hour ago; the Sun-Times had it, but none of the other news orgs were confirming it, so we were on the phone together looking …

Hi Sars,
I’ve asked the blue-haired children’s librarian who’s been doing this for a hundred years.She doesn’t have anything for me.I’ve searched and scoured used bookstores.I’ve looked online, but I don’t really have much of anything …

Hi Sars,
I think I’ve made a mess of things and have no clue what to do. Last night I broke up with my boyfriend of two years. We were living together in a house that …

I finally finished pasting in the last of the vintage Vines last night.Only took 15 months.Yay!
For those of you who enjoyed the piece on The House Next Door analyzing the credit sequence(s) of The Wire, …

The duck-and-cover thing still shocks me a little bit. I’ve seen it before, of course — that footage is a staple now, used to point up the naiveté of the fifties or the sheep-like qualities …