Sunday, October 31, 2010

Football Picks Oct 31

Season total: 85-57
(winners in green)

Jacksonville at Dallas
Green Bay at NY Jets
Tennessee at San Diego
Tampa Bay at Arizona
Minnesota at New England
Seattle at Oakland
Pittsburgh at New Orleans

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Saturday, October 30, 2010

Football Picks Oct 30

Season total: 80-55
(winners in green)

Tennessee at #20 South Carolina
#5 Michigan State at #18 Iowa
#6 Missouri at #14 Nebraska
Texas Tech at Texas A&M
#25 Baylor at Texas
#2 Oregon at USC
Michigan at Penn State

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Thursday, October 28, 2010

Football Picks Oct 28-29

Season total: 80-53
(winners in green)

#16 Florida State at North Carolina State
West Virginia at Connecticut

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Monday, October 25, 2010

Football Picks Oct 25

Season total: 79-53
(winner in green)

NY Giants at Dallas

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'Revelation Dream' Is Available FREE



'Revelation Dream' is available as a free download on Bandcamp

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Sunday, October 24, 2010

Football Picks Oct 24

Season total: 74-51
(winners in green)

Washington at Chicago
Philadelphia at Tennessee
Jacksonville at Kansas City
Pittsburgh at Miami
Arizona at Seattle
New England at San Diego
Minnesota at Green Bay

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Saturday, October 23, 2010

Football Picks Oct 23

Season total 69-48
(winners in green)

Notre Dame vs. Navy
#6 LSU at #4 Auburn
#13 Wisconsin at #15 Iowa
#16 Nebraska at #14 Oklahoma State
#8 Alabama at Tennessee
North Carolina at Miami
#1 Oklahoma at #11 Missouri
Air Force at #5 TCU


  • There are a couple undefeated match-ups this week and a good chance for another undefeated team to fall (Oklahoma State)
  • LSU and Auburn is a tough game to pick. Either one could be a viable candidate for the title game.
  • Oklahoma/Missouri, on the other hand, is not as tough a match-up.
  • Oklahoma State has had it easy so far this season compared to what they have left on their schedule.

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Thursday, October 21, 2010

Football Picks Oct 21-22


Season total: 67-48
(winners in green)


UCLA at #2 Oregon
South Florida at Cincinnati

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Monday, October 18, 2010

Football Picks Oct 18

Season total: 66-48
(winner in green)

Tennessee at Jacksonville

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Sunday, October 17, 2010

Football Picks Oct 17

Season total: 59-47
(winners in green)

Miami at Green Bay
Baltimore at New England
New Orleans at Tampa Bay
Atlanta at Philadelphia
Kansas City at Houston
NY Jets at Denver
Dallas at Minnesota
Indianapolis at Washington

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The Four Sons - Blazing Son

I finally got a Bandcamp site for my music. And I finally got a band name too! 'The Four Sons'

I know there's only one of me... but the album, like most of my music, is heavily inspired by the 60s sound. And I've always loved all of those old bands with names like The Four Tops and The Four Seasons so I figured I'd go with something like that. Besides, just using my screenname (Shanny Boy seemed a little confusing. It sounds more like a rapper's nickname than a rock band/musician.

Then there's the whole "virtual band" aspect. The Blazing Son album was written as a concept album about a band of fictional characters in a fantasy world, so why not just make them the band?

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Saturday, October 16, 2010

Football Picks Oct 16

Season total: 56-44
(winners in green)

Boston College at #16 Florida State
#21 Missouri at Texas A&M
Texas at #5 Nebraska
#12 Arkansas at #7 Auburn
#15 Iowa at Michigan
#1 Ohio State at #18 Wisconsin

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Thursday, October 14, 2010

Football Picks Oct 14-15

Season total: 54-43
(winners in green)

Thursday night:
South Florida at #25 West Virginia
Kansas State at Kansas

Friday Night:
Cincinnati at Louisville

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Wednesday, October 13, 2010

More Scarecrow Paintings



I've got a few more Scarecrow paintings. The figure ended up being a little skinnier than I wanted.


This one is probably my favorite.

The same one with a different color effect:

And this one is the same inks at a different size and different colors:


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Monday, October 11, 2010

Football Picks Oct 11

Season total: 54-42 
(winner in green)

Minnesota at NY Jets

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Sunday, October 10, 2010

Football Picks Oct 10

I'm 51-39 on the year. (Winners in green)

Kansas City at Indianapolis
Green Bay at Washington
Denver at Baltimore
NY Giants at Houston
Tennessee at Dallas
Philadelphia at San Francisco

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Saturday, October 9, 2010

Football Picks Oct 9

I'm 47-37 on the year. (winners in green)

#1 Alabama at #19 South Carolina
#17 Michigan State at #18 Michigan
Pittsburgh at Notre Dame
Clemson at North Carolina
#12 LSU at #14 Florida
#23 Florida State at #13 Miami

Alabama is playing their 4th Top 25 opponent of the season (so far) They're really not afraid of anything. They've got no reason to be.
I think the Michigan/ Michigan State game is gonna be one of the closest of the week.
Let's hope Florida loses it's second game in a row!
I have to pick Miami (fuck!) but I want FSU to win this game bad!

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Thursday, October 7, 2010

Football Picks Oct 7-8

(Winners in green)

Thursday Night
#7 Nebraska at Kansas State

Friday Night
Connecticut at Rutgers
#22 Oklahoma State at Louisiana-Lafayette

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Monday, October 4, 2010

Football Picks Oct 4

I'm 44-36 on the year. (winner in green)


New England at Miami

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Sunday, October 3, 2010

Scarecrow Video



Here's a new slideshow video for my song Scarecrow. The slideshow is made up of a bunch of paintings I did of the Scarecrow character from the virtual band on Blazing Son

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Football Picks Oct 3

I was 7-1 in my college picks yesterday. I'm still a little surprised that Texas lost for a second straight week. I've got a lot of questions about how this will affect the polls, but first my NFL picks. (winners in green)

San Francisco at Atlanta
Denver at Tennessee
Baltimore at Pittsburgh
Washington at Philadelphia
Chicago at NY Giants



  • The Broncos/Titans game features the #1 passing offense (Broncos) against the #5 passing defense, and the #8 rushing offense (Titans) against the #10 rush defense.
  • I'm not a fan of big defensive games with little to no scoring... and that's exactly what the Ravens/Steelers game will probably be.
  • The big game of the week is the Redskins/Eagles game... at least as far as the storyline goes. As far as what to expect on the field... I can't see the Redskins defense doing much about Vick. Then again, the Eagles defense hasn't been as good this year as it was the last DECADE!

Now back to the college polls...
FSU was ranked at the beginning of the year and, after losing to Oklahoma, fell completely out of the Top 25. (They're currently unranked)
Virginia Tech started the season ranked #6 in the coaches poll and #10 in the media poll. After losing their opener to Boise State, they fell, but not far. But after losing for the second straight week, they fell completely out of the Top 25 (they're currently unranked)
And that brings me to Texas. They've lost two straight now, including a loss to Oklahoma. You see where I'm going with this now? It'll be interesting to see if the sports media holds Texas to the same standard as the ACC teams...

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Friday, October 1, 2010

Football Picks Oct 2

Look at all those Top 25 match-ups! (winners in green)


Florida State at Virginia
#21 Texas vs. #8 Oklahoma
#11 Wisconsin at #24 Michigan State
Tennessee at #12 LSU
Virginia Tech at #23 North Carolina State
#7 Florida at #1 Alabama
#9 Stanford at #4 Oregon
#22 Penn State at #17 Iowa


  • When was the last time Texas lost 2 in a row?
  • NC State is ranked? Sports media...
  • Who the hell cares about the Stanford/Oregon game?
  • Anybody but Florida
  • ANYBODY BUT FLORIDA!

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