Reading Lipstick Traces while making photocopies at 7:45 a.m. : capital idea. I probably should have read this attentively earlier in life but, well, there are your politics of boredom right there.
Heroes of 2006 and beyond:
Sidney Crosby
Me (i’m a survivor! i won the NCAA pool!)
CC Sabathia’s tailor
Me again (i’m a dead survivor)
Pete Beatty 
Sidney Crosby? I can’t summon the energy to find NHL games on the OLN to witness his heroism/lack thereof.
Bobby Crosby could be heroic, but maybe his heroism is cabined to the bay area.