Meant to be watched, that is…In a bar with the sound down. An engineer, a high school basketball coach, a Radio Shack manager, a executive car deliver-er, and a state employee walk into a bar, just like they have for the past 25 years. The bar is Brown’s Diner, and the occasion is annual: The [...]
Thanks to Jagadiah’s Buffy-a-rama, I felt the need to place Buffy in the pantheon of great TV shows. The best shows, in order:
1. The Wire - HBO’s opus about Baltimore owes as much to Charles Dickens as to the brilliant observations of David Simon and the incredible stable of writers. If Dickens was [...]
Liz Garrigan and the Nashville Scene have decided to tidy up their ‘Pith in the Wind’ blog. The only writers that will regularly appear in PITH will be Garrigan, Bruce Berry, Jeff Woods, and Matt Pulle (big coup to get Pulle back), with occasional posts by ace blogster, Roger Abramson. Quite a nice [...]
I’m no stranger to the colonoscopal experience, given my personal and family history, and I’ve often wondered if there is another way, so to speak, that is more than virtual, but less than what I’ve gone through more times than I’d like to admit. So, when I read about robot colonoscopies, my interest was [...]
Random numbers? Hardly. These are the latest counts of American dead, American wounded and estimates of the Iraqi casualties of the current war in Iraq.
The hubris wrought by this war goes further than dollars and mountains of debt. It is mocked by the graves, the maimed and the lives that [...]
That’s Magdalena on the left (my wonderful daughter on the right). Magdalena is Erin’s ‘host sister’. She’s 16 years old and tighter than a tick with my daughter. This picture is from a restaurant in Lima where we ate the best cerbiche’ known to man.
Magdalena doesn’t have any English and my Spanish [...]
My first post on Glen Dean’s old group blog about music (Tangled Up in Blue) was about which letter had the best bands..as in, come up with a list of bands that start with each letter of the alphabet and then decide which letter ‘wins’.
I supported the letter ‘R’ back in that day, and I [...]
That was REALLY a terrific drawing of a large penis you were showing off to the cars around you. I’d like to recommend your artistic skills to anyone needing an accurate rendering of said member. I’ve gotta ask one question though: Did you sneak and watch your dad in the shower or did you use [...]
No, no..not to see a picture of me. It was worth every stinking delay, the getting sick on the plane part back to the states, the fun of the hospital in Miami, including the 14 hours in an emergency room bed next door to a man wearing a loose robe and a thong [...]
We made it to Lima late last night, unbelievably.
If you are ever tempted to request me as a partner for The Amazing Race, don´t. The same luck I regularly bring to the Predators (attended 9 games this year, coinciding with 9 losses), I bring to travel.
Earlier this year, I missed the Super Bowl after being [...]
Looking forward to seeing the daughter. And for what it’s worth, if you are a burglar or have plans on intruding, one of the sons and the dogs will be at the house to greet ya. Back in a week or so.
Go Vandy!!
Ladies and Gentlemen, fellow congressmen/governors/senators/legislators/teammates:
I have disgraced my office/team, and more importantly my marriage and my family. No one has figured out what I’m doing. My name will not be appearing in court papers, in any blogs or in the mainstream media. I’ve been committing adultery/embezzling funds/taking bribes/having sex with interns/consorting with gay [...]
Lost in the “ho’s over politico’s” imbroglio is the man who would be governor if New York Governor Spitzer decides to step down: David Paterson. Paterson would be the first African-American governor of New York, and possibly the first legally blind governor of any state*.
Paterson is known as an advocate for the visually [...]
I look forward to a new one of these almost as much as a new Sports Illustrated (except for the one with all those pictures). Roger, wilco…
you have to agree to undergo water-boarding. If you are so certain water-boarding is NOT torture, then please, allow a demonstration on YOURSELF so that you can truly subjectively judge how it is or is not torture.
Yesterday, President Bush vetoed a bill which would ban water-boarding as an interrogation tool. The bill [...]
Uh, what happened to that Ron Paul groundswell of support that was going to sweep him into the White House? Can you say FRINGE?
Is THIS really the headline they wanted?
thanks, Deadspin
Worth it for the mustache alone..
from youtube.com posted with vodpod
Towards the end of Grapes of Wrath, Tom Joad (Henry Fonda) tells his mother
“…I’ll be all around in the dark. I’ll be ever’-where - wherever you can look. Wherever there’s a fight so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there. Wherever there’s a cop beatin’ up a guy, I’ll be there. I’ll be in the [...]
It’s amazing how choosing the right slogan can do so much to define your cause, your movement or your product. The battle lines around the abortion issue are unique (and I’m not touching this issue substantively!) in that both sides have equally ‘bullet-proof’ slogans. Who is really against ‘CHOICE’ (in the normal meaning of the [...]
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