I fear no werewolf nor wanton women….

..because I ate the garlic fries at Pac Bell SBC Park ATT Stadium here in San Fran yesterday, and like tithing to the United Way, they ARE the gift that keeps on giving…
I’m glad that my wife and I have already had all the children we wanted because I’m thinking that these fries could [...]

Livin’ large on the left coast..

I’m on my annual baseball trip with several other protracted adolescents who are chronologically around my age. Today we will be seeing the Giants play at the field pictured above.
I’m not sure who the team was honoring when this picture was taken, but she appears to be quite special…..
Friday, we’ll be mingling with thousands of [...]

Passion is no ordinary word

The news that Peter Gammons, ESPN baseball analyst, is in the hospital “resting in intensive care after undergoing an operation to treat a brain aneurysm” hit me hard this morning. I don’t know Gammons personally, but I’m a baseball fan, and if you’re much of a baseball fan, you ‘know’ Gammons.
The reason that Gammons [...]

Rush Limbaugh takes over Kleinheider’s old blog

Hard Right?
Limbaugh is reportedly also interested in Kleinheider’s cell phone package.
I guess he didn’t want the ditto-heads to know….
Update: June 27th – The more I thought about this story, the more I have to wonder why the police aren’t spending their time pursuing more hardened criminals….

Wait, don’t tell me..this post is all about….

I’ve already forgotten …..

But I don’t wanna skate to Stryper, or Why don’t you just throw in some klezmer music and maybe this will all go away..

I was cruising around blog-land attempting to see all the things wrong with me (I consider myself somewhat progressive and, GoDfrey Daniels, I attend the Episcopalian church). Apparently I’m aligned with terrorism, besieged with unnatural desires, and just an ass for not believing that WMD still exist in Iraq*.
Anyway, I was fascinated by a post [...]

Beyond ‘cutie’ – Mothership BBQ brings out the funk

When I was a kid on trips with my parents, my mother non-stop would be giving us a running commentary on all the things that we were seeing. Every mile or so, something on the side of the road would grab her fancy, and she would say, ‘Isn’t that the CUTEST thing…..isn’t THAT [...]

As long as we have our signals straight

In today’s Tennessean’s Titan Report (Jim Wyatt’s column), the budding friendship between ‘Pacman’ Jones and Vince Young is described as unique. Besides the obvious hope that the Vince circle of friends doesn’t encompass some of Pacman’s more ‘illustrious’ gang, one has to wonder about the new hand signal the two Titan’s have created to [...]

Take that name and MAP it….

Courtesy of Clicked, I found this great new mash-up called Wikimapia using Google Earth where you can identify buildings, parks, monuments, etc. and YOU get to name them (if somebody hasn’t already early-birded their way to that spot).
The major rule is to name something that would be of interest to others. Naming your house (which [...]

Ozzie goes hairy at writer, or Just wait til’ the sox have holes

I’ll start with a stereotype: The Chicago White Sox ‘fiery Latin’ manager Ozzie Guillen recently dove into hot water with an angry diatribe about sportswriter Jay Mariotti. Mariotti chided Guillen for publicly humiliating a rookie pitcher for NOT THROWING at an opposition batter in retaliation for one of the White Sox batters being hit in [...]

Things that will make me cry today

Seeing anyone with red hair
Hearing anyone with a goofy laugh
Hearing people who clomp when they walk
Seeing certain pictures
Thinking of that last hug today at the airport when I realized I wasn’t going to see her until freakin’ 2007
Thinking of how nervous she is right now on her flight to DC where she will meet 36 [...]

Pinata surprise of the day, or, why is that pinata squirming?

On the front age of today’s Tennessean is a story about the various and sundry means that illegal immigrants are secreting themselves into the US. One of the more creative (and possibly whacked out) ways to sneak in is via pinata shipments. There are so many jokes here and I really don’t [...]

I’ve seen the future, and its name isn’t Bryson

I’ve noticed that some of the conservative bloggers I read and respect are blogging their non-bleeding hearts out for Jim Bryson, Republican candidate for governor. I can’t help but believe that Bryson’s candidacy has as much traction as a Kia with bald tires attempting to be driven out of Radnor Lake. I say this as [...]

Three good reasons I am enjoying Father’s Day

There is apparently some unwritten rule that no more than 60% of my immediate family can or will look at the camera when a picture is being taken. This is the best we can do.
The event we were celebrating was the graduation of my daughter from Berry College in Rome Georgia. My elder [...]

I think we still need you…

but I don’t think we have to feed you. Happy 64th, Sir Paul.

Shills Gone Wild

I realize this issue has been refried more than a vat of beans at La Hacienda, but as a both large and small ‘D’ democrat, I would just like to iterate my discomfort at the level of discourse generated by political commentators who believe that posting pictures of political candidate’s partying offspring on the internet [...]

NOLA, N-O-L-A NOLA, or Brownie’s gone but there are still a few kinks..

According to THIS story on the MSNBC website, FEMA paid for a sex change with hurricane Katrina relief money.
In a possibly related story, a divorce lawyer’s services were also procured with Katrina cash.
This along with another 16.8 MILLION in already identified Katrina fraud and abuse leads once again to the conclusion that if you don’t [...]

What the hell?

We decided to go indie for movie night last Friday night. We chose the movie ‘Water’, an Indian movie about the fate of lower caste widows in 1930’s India. The movie begins with newly widowed young woman being informed of her husband’s death. The widow is pictured above and may have been all of six [...]

My social life

For the 27th straight year since we moved back to Nashville, I was not invited to the Swan Ball. I think I actually may know one couple who may have been invited. I really don’t have the proper clothing for such an event, and to be honest, I totally enjoyed the party I did attend [...]

The man whisperer..

Dog training, or more accurately, people training has been a big topic around here because it is clear that in a household with two humans and two dogs, humans 1 and 2 are coming in 3rd and 4th respectively in the race for domination of Chez’ Hutchmo. The relative status of the two humans competing [...]