What's my age again?

Yes, I've been very lax here. But here are some random thoughts while waiting for my fellow birthday buddy to host SNL:

-- Depending on which bracket you're looking at (most likely the ones I entered for money), I'm doing much better with Final Four teams than in the past, but you can thank all those high seeds very much going according to form. Instead, all the goofy bracket-busting upsets are happening on the women's side, including Marist, whose mascot is close to, but not this guy.

-- And in that same vein, a number of the supposed home-court or pseudo-home court advantages in the tournament haven't necessarily come through: Louisville falling to A&M in Lexington, A&M losing to Memphis in San Antonio, Wisconsin losing in Chicago; on the women's side, Rutgers spoiling homecourt edges for Michigan State and now Duke. And if you mention UCLA never having to leave California en route to the Final Four, northern California might as well be a different state from SoCal.

Watching all that tournament action does have me thinking about some of those ads, plus other TV spots around the dial:
-- It took a bit of searching of similar queries to mine, but according to this link, Rachel Specter is that amazingly attractive brunette in those RGX Body Spray ads. Overly obsessive fan sites and MySpace pages to come shortly, I'm sure.
-- So for a few weeks each March, I have to see the smarmiest Asian guy ever and his dopey white buddy to sell cell phones? Oy.
More to come as I can remember them.

-- If there's one thing American Idol has shown us, children of athletes actually have one more route to their own celebrity (thanks Jordin Sparks and Neko Smith) other than being a notable athlete or suffering from some rare debilitating disease.

-- I've been searching for both decent places to do pub trivia in NYC (not necessarily BuzzTime/NTN) as well as some teammates to join me as well, but for now I've stumbled across this all-sports pub trivia contest. The questions are pretty decent, although I've trounced the competition playing solo the past two times it's been run. Anyone New York-area based readers looking for someone to join them for pub trivia, get a hold of me.