rydra_wong has a really great recommendation for John M. Ford's novel The Dragon Waiting, which makes me desperately long to re-read it in my copious spare time so I can play in the spoiler post (linked in the non-spoiler rec).
Kyle Whelliston: "I try to be the last man (sic?) in America to know who won the Super Bowl, and the last man in America to know the score of the game." As of half an hour ago, he was still successfully ignorant of both, which I find hilarious.