If I have coffee with someone, I can steal their title for a bit ...

1. Did I mention I had coffee with Peter King? He's perhaps the nicest guy I've met in the business and he shared tips for surviving the business in return for some fantasy help. That coffee -- ok, he had tea -- is a highlight of the year.

2. If you get the chance to see Cirque du Soleil in any of its incarnations, do it. Just simply buy the ticket, check your coat and brain at the door, and let yourself revel. I checked out their arena show Delirium tonight and is it ever a mindbleep. The show's more music than tricks and a multimedia tour de force. The production alone is worth the ticket. One downside -- the soundtrack's not available yet! That's crap. When I go to a show, I almost always want a copy of it. I'd pay premium prices if I could walk out with a CD or download.

3. Arctic Monkeys. I swear someone told me about them a couple months ago and I've heard the hype ever since. It's very good, but nothing can live up to the hype. They're what everybody told me The Strokes would be a couple years ago.

3a. There's always one album I miss when doing the Top Ten list. If I'd heard Louis XIV before doing the list, it would have been in the top five, no doubt.

3b. I found out Louis XIV is from San Diego. Stunned me they weren't Scottish.

4. Glenrothes 1989 immediately goes to the top of my best scotches ever list. Exceedingly smooth with a nice lingering fruit taste in the back of my mouth. Highly recommended, even over that Macallan 25 I had a couple years ago.

5. The NFL Scouting Combine is a weird mix of stuff you just don't care about and the baseball winter meetings. Just no alcohol on site, which tempers things. Aaron Schatz has a nice article about the experience over at Football Outsiders.

6. Back in 1997, Kevin Goldstein joined my fantasy baseball league. We've been friendly ever since and I couldn't be more excited that he's now a colleague at BP. If you know him from the Prospect Report, you'll likely be surprised at just how good a writer he is.

7. I have this blank wall. No idea what to do with it. I can't put more pictures up without going over the top. I need someplace to store stuff, but matching my desk and the giant photomural behind me is tough. Doesn't a wall of wood or brick sound cool? Is there a way to do that?

8. Baseball note, just for the heck of it - the Giants will have a rough year and the Rangers will be surprisingly good.

9. Hardest job in the world has to be the overnight producer at XM 175. I can't imagine trying to schedule guests for the 2am hour. The whole crew does a great job there. Bringing Chuck Wilson on full time is both smart and overdue. I've done a lot - a LOT - of interviews over the past few years and Chuck is far and away the best. Charley Steiner's a close second, though his odd stop/start style can create awkward pauses.

10. I don't get to a lot of movies. I'd rather watch at home and I just don't have the time. I have every Oscar film on ... umm, DVD, yeah that's the ticket ... and I only have a week to watch them. I know I need to see Capote, if only to see if they touched on Mockingbird in there. (Long story, won't bore you.) Still, I'm excited to see "V For Vendetta." I won't actually get in line, but you get the picture.

10a. Here's one of the coolest phrases ever: "Home Theater Seating"

10b. Got a copy of Hotel California, coded in DTS. Amazing, amazing sound. Hearing U2, Green Day, and DMB in surround sound makes me wonder why more albums aren't done this way. Gotta be cost, which is lame. I'd pay extra.

10c. Since I haven't seen them, these are the lamest Oscar picks ever: Hoffman, Huffman, Lee, McMurtry, Clooney, Weisz, and "Crash" (because it's the least political.)