KKK's Top 103 Posters
Number 31: Meatwad
When it comes to smart-ass replies, you can’t beat my Meat. I don’t think this chap likes me very much, but fuck it; this isn’t kkk’s Top 103 Posters That Like Him. If that was the case, my list would have to be whittled down quite a bit. But this is kkk’s Top 103 Posters, and important subjects like this can't be taken lightly. Sure he hates the term “better half,” which would probably put me in his doghouse just as if he hated the words "hippie," "commie" and "I like it in my ass fast and hard." He also has a never-ending arsenal of quips regarding my frugality. But here’s what I like about Meat: When he makes fun of you, he usually does a good job, as shown here at the other place. Oh well, it may have done nothing for you, but it made me laugh. And in the end that’s all what really matters now, isn’t it?
And now a word or three from the expert panel I've assembled to comment on the people I've listed.
From Black Lushus:
From Carnival:
From Cancer Marney:
8:15 p.m.
• cBS, lol.
8 p.m.
• Over in Smues’ blog, he references a little brouhaha regarding Jackson Hewitt and their Jewing the government out of some cash. A few days back I was thinking of posting this story because I had an experience with these people a few years back but I didn’t feel like typing it out. Now I do.
Back in Ohio I didn’t feel like doing my taxes one year so I decided to go to one of these tax places and just get it over with; previously I had just used TurboTax when it went on sale for $2, which also included a bunch of rebates. But I didn’t care this year; I just wanted to plop down and be told by some temp accountant how much I overpaid the government. I thought it would be that easy, yes. No.
When I came in to the Jackson Hewitt store, I was assigned to this black guy who was gong to give me the hook up, or something like that. This guy was a dickhead to me the whole time, with condescending remarks concerning my desire not to donate $1 to the hippie public election fund thingy, along with a few other similar stupid issues. When it came time to do the actual transaction, he got a confused look on his face and told me that I couldn’t file because I needed to provide a copy of last year’s return. Wha-? Yeah. Exactly. He told me that I needed to provide him with all this other information, and with that I left, went straight to the nearest big-box retail store to get TurboTax. When I got home, this guy left a message on my answering machine saying that I didn’t need all that other information and that if I returned we could file my return. Well I did file my return the next day, but I did it in the comfort of my residence.
And while I’m on this subject, I HATE hearing people bitch about having to file their taxes this time of year. You get W-2s and all that other shit in January/February. You have more than TWO MONTHS to do this. Have there been years when I filed on April 15? Yes. Did I bitch about having to do this? No. Know what I did? I FILED EARLIER THE NEXT YEAR. Actually, I’m lying. It took me a couple of years to get my lazy ass in gear. Sometimes it takes me a while to let it sink in. Ain’t nothing wrong with that as long as you know you’re a fuck up.
11:30 a.m.
• I don't frequent the wrestling folders here, so it may already be a "hot topic" at TSM, but I heard this on Atlanta's WSB-AM this morning and had to laugh.
And, regarding the third-to-last paragraph, WSB has been noting that Gilberti used to wrestle in WCW as "Disco Inferno." I guess the only thing worse than being known as the "guy who used to be the Disco wrestler" is when the media don't consider what you used to do for a living, in a profession where publicity is critical, as newsworthy.
8:15 p.m.
• Time for another pic of the kids.
It's Max. There are pumpkins on the coffee table. Max is on the coffee table. That's all I got. Interestingly enough, JJ is terrified of pumpkins, and when we get them every October he flees in terror. *shrug*
8 p.m.
• I’ve always said that bitches will be the death of you.
Reading this story reminded me of an instance in high school where this one guy named James dated this Rachel chick for a while. I guess you could say they were the pre-goth crowd, although they weren’t nearly as “extreme” as the all-white/black hair and make-up freaks are today. I’d classify them more as “alternatives.” How far in-between the evolution scale are we talking about regarding Goths and alternatives? If we were going by the dinosaur scale, here’s how it would go.
If Goths are Triceratopses…
... then James and Rachel would have been Protoceratopses.
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Get it? Got it? Good.
Anyway, for one reason or another Rachel dumped James. And what did James do? He went to the wall where he painted “Rachel + James” and removed the vertical line so that it read “Rachel – James.” Was pretty funny, actually.
6 p.m.
• Regardless of what you think of Don Imus’ “nappy headed hos” remark regarding the women’s Rutgers college basketball team, this is probably the funniest thing to come out the whole ordeal.
Poo-Face wants “lines drawn” in regards to media speech? The same race-baiting poverty pimp that got a $345,000 defamation suit against him for what he said regarding the Tawana Brawley hoax? The same race-baiting poverty pimp that did the following back in 1995?
You’re good, Poo-Face. Real good. No go have your wife feed you lots of eggs and butter so you can die early like many black men do, of heart disease. Well, that’s how I feel. Oh, dear. Did I say something RACIST? No, I’m just quoting Julianne Malveaux, a black female columnist, and what she said about Clarance Thomas back in the day.
6:30 p.m.
• I’m not a huge golf fan, but I don’t hate on the sport. In fact, whenever one of the “big” tournaments is on I watch some of it if I’m in the mood. I just had the Masters on and Tiger Woods hit his second shot on Hole 17 into a sand trap. CBS’ audio picked up him saying, “Honestly, what the hell just happened.” LOL. I love Tiger.
And that Zach guy who is probably going to win this year said to a reporter guy that Jesus was with him out there with him today. Right. It’s Easter Sunday and Jesus decided to hang out with you on the golf course.
4:30 p.m.
• The NHL is wrapping up, and that means its second season, the Stanley Cup playoffs, will be starting soon. The cool thing about the NHL playoffs is that it seems anything can happen, and many times it does. Unlike, in my opinion, the NBA playoffs, just about any seeded team can make a serious run. Take for example the Edmonton Oilers last year. After almost not getting into the postseason, the number-eight seed came within one game of winning the Stanley Cup. Below are the last seven seasons and the NHL’s Stanley Cup Finals matchups. The bracket numbers are the seedings of each team.
2005-2006: Hurricanes (2) d. Oilers (8) 4-3
2004-2005: ------------
2003-2004: Lightning (1) d. Flames (6) 4-3
2002-2003: Devils (2) d. Ducks (7) 4-3
2001-2002: Wings (1) d. Hurricanes (3) 4-1
2000-2001: Avalanche (1) d. Devils (1) 4-3
1999-2000: Devils (4) d. Dallas (2) 4-2
Below are the NBA Finals matchups during this same span.
2005-2006: Heat (2) d. Mavericks (4) 4-2
2004-2005: Spurs (2) d. Pistons (2) 4-3
2003-2004: Pistons (3) d. Lakers (2) 4-1
2002-2003: Spurs (1) d. Nets (2) 4-2
2001-2002: Lakers (3) d. Nets (1) 4-2
2000-2001: Lakers (2) d. 76ers (1) 4-1
1999-2000: Lakers (1) d. Pacers (1) 4-2
How many top seeds in each league made it to the finals of their respective sport: NBA 5, NHL 4.
Number two seeds: NBA 6, NHL 3.
Number three seeds: NBA 2, NHL 1.
Number four seeds: NBA 1, NHL 1.
Number five-eight seeds: NBA 0, NHL 3.
Eh, that doesn’t really validate my point. Let’s see what other numbers I can manipulate. I know, let’s see how many upsets were in each round of playoff competition during this time. Because the NHL didn’t play during the 2004-2005 season, I’m discounting that year’s NBA playoffs, too. (In that year there was a 3/6 seed upset, a 4/5 seed upset and two second- and third-round upsets.
First-round upsets:
8s defeating 1s: NBA 0, NHL 3
7s defeating 2s: NBA 0, NHL 7
6s defeating 3s: NBA 3, NHL 4
5s defeating 4s: NBA 4, NHL 2
Second- and Third-round upsets: NBA 14, NHL, 12
Total upsets in First, Second and Third rounds: NBA 21, NHL 28.
I still don’t know if this validates what I said above, but it’s interesting nevertheless -- especially since there have been more first-round 1/8 upsets than 4/5s in the NHL.
Top Prospects - International League
SP Phil Hughes, NYY
SP Homer Bailey, Cin
SP Matt Garza, Min
SP Adam Miller, Cle
SP Jeff Niemann, TB
OF Adam Lind, Tor
1B Joey Votto, Cin
OF Ryan Sweeney, CWS
3B Josh Fields, CWS
SP Glen Perkins, Min
SP Kevin Slowey, Min
These players made the Top 100 in either the Baseball America or Baseball Prospectus Top 100 list (in fact, all made both lists). This month, the only top 100 prospect set to come through is Philip Hughes, and my friend is already bugging me to get him a ticket to Wednesday's game.
And thank god I just made a spot check on that ticket online. Today's game has been cancelled due to "snow and cold." Babies. The fun thing is that Norfolk will not return to Scranton the rest of the season (they make up the game in Norfolk). I planned to publish this later, but with no game tonight that concludes this entry.
As some of you might know, I have a side engagement scoring baseball games for a company called Baseball Info Solutions. I score occasional games in Scranton, mark hit locations and trajectories, and send them in via computer afterwards. I get to watch the game from a good vantage point for free and I get some money on the side. This is my third year. The first two years Scranton was the AAA affiliate of the Philadelphia Phillies. This year however Scranton is now the affiliate of the New York Yankees. The transition of teams comes with higher attendance, as there is simply more interest in this region for the Yankees.
* I joke that Yankee fans are obnoxious. Some are, some are not. Honestly, you get unbearable dopes in nearly every large baseball crowd. This game, four guys sat two rows behind me, consumed large amounts of alcohol and proceeded to make a show of themselves heckling the players. ALL game. It really gets on your nerves after a while. There's no respite.
* The weather is absolutely brutal. Game time temperature was 35 degrees, easily the coldest professional game I have ever attended. You can stand that kind of weather if you dress for it, which I did. After three hours though, the cold digs into you. It snowed about three times during the game, never sticking to the ground but creating a nuisance. The wind picked up at times, and in the configuration of the stadium it swirls.
* Even though I watch a lot of games, my scouting eye is not discerning enough to reveal much more than the statistics. I can tell you that Garrett Olson at one point retired seven straight batters on fly balls. Olson is just 23 and has struck out over a batter an inning in the minors while walking 70 and giving up just 13 home runs in 220 career innings. In my view, he is one of the unheralded pitching prospects in baseball.
* Something was missing overall. My enthusiasm just wasn't there for this game, and I wasn't sure if it was the loudmouths, the team or the weather. There are few legit prospects on the Yankees' farm club behind the rotation, and the Norfolk Tide had even less. I want to do less AAA games this year and maybe hit some other local teams (Harrisburg, Reading, Sussex County, etc.).
• I’ve told my Madeline story before at TSM, but this article brought back memories of my employment at the theater, which also happened to be a member of the National Amusements family.
One afternoon I was working the afternoon cashier shift. I think it was a holiday of some sort (Memorial Day if I had to guess), and this usually means the early afternoon shows would be overrun with children. However, I was working the cashier position, so my dealing with juveniles was kept to a minimum. I could tell though that there were a lot of kids, and many of them were to see this Madeline movie. If you don’t know who Madeline is, it’s a set of books about some girl who lives at a finishing school (the movie had her as an orphan) and gets into all these wacky adventures with the other children. I’ve never heard of this character, but I guess it was popular among certain sects of kids, so who am I to judge. Anyway, I noticed that there were quite a number of children dressed up as characters from the books...
...and I even saw some camera flashes going off. Everything seemed normal enough, but when I ventured out into the lobby for my 2 p.m. break I knew something was wrong because my co-workers had a “I can’t believe what just happened” look on all of their faces. I approached one and asked what happened. Turns out our manager had accidentally played the wrong reel of film in one of our theaters.
Let me elaborate a bit. Many times at my former place of employment we would show two movies in a theater during the course of a day. Generally, if we had a movie that was geared specifically toward kids (Air Bud, Mr. Magoo, etc.) they would be played for the 1 p.m., 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. shows, while the evening times would feature a more adult-oriented film. Well, the auditorium playing Madeline was one such example. Madeline was to be shown for the afternoon times with another movie for the 7 p.m., 9 p.m. and 11 p.m. times. Turns out our manager inserted a reel for the evening film rather than the Madeline reel. And just what did an auditorium full of children watch for the first 5-10 minutes?
Yep.
According to the one usher, a man came out of the Madeline theater and said “Is someone supposed to be peeing in Madeline?” (I haven’t seen the first part of Baseketball, so I’m not sure if this is indeed what happens in the opening of this movie. Nevertheless, that's what I was told.) And, if memory serves, that showing of Madeline was a near-to-complete sell-out. Nice.
8:30 p.m.
• Due to popular demand (Read: one person) asking for additional pics of the kids, here we go:
This one features JJ guarding the computer desk. Featured in this photo are a Godzilla cup holder from Taco Bell back in the 1990s when they tried to give Godzilla a make-over. Being how I am Godzilla > King Kong, I actually looked forward to the movie at the time until I actually watched it at the theater. Even though I didn't like what they did with my favorite lizard, I'm not going to badmouth it as much as some other people do. They tried something different. It flopped. I moved on. Also featured is some pre-paid cell phone that I haven't re-added minutes to in several years and has been disconnected. Why I got this as a birthday gift is beyond me. I don't get any calls on the land-line; why in the hell would I want to remember another phone number? Sorry, but I'm not paying $20 every three months for minutes just so I can call Mrs. kkk at the store to let her know her garlic-flavored pita shells are out of stock and to find out what other flavor she wants instead. Bitch, you'll get the plain flavor and like it.
Oh, and the sheets of paper above JJ on the shelf? Those are the score sheets I used for kkk Bowl IV. He's also plopped on a Madden '93 instruction manual for the Sega Genesis.
5:45 p.m.
• So I was watching Around the Horn today and the "Out of Bounds" segment featured a "serious" discussion on Imus' comments about the Rutgers women's basketball team. It was "serious" because no points were distributed. You know it's serious when that happens. So I waited with baited breath for Pardon the Interruption because I was sure there would be a segment talking about the same thing. I was right. Wilbon didn't disappoint with his "he's a bigot" talk (and I actually don't blame him on this one), but Kornhiser was a riot by defending him and saying that he used to appear on that radio show and how Imus brings in political figures like John McCain. Good thing Imus didn't say the sports media overhyped the Rutgers team because they wanted to see a team made up mostly of black players succeed, huh Tony?
2 p.m.
• Oh man, this story made for a fun ride home from work yesterday.
Better Half: “Did you hear that story of the signs that said ‘honk once for Jesus…’”
Me: “…and twice for Satan. Yeah. What about it? Guess how many times I would have honked?”
BH: “Twice.”
Me: “Yes, because I love Jesus twice as much as you do.”
BH: *Starts bitching about something that I can’t remember.*
Me: “What’s wrong with saying that you love Satan? Jesus said to love everyone.”
BH: “But Satan’s evil.”
Me: “So? Jesus said everyone. I think I just found a loophole in this whole Christianity thing.”
BH: “I hate you.”
Me. “But yet you married me. See, Jesus was right when he said you should love everyone.”
I’m just glad she didn’t counter with something like “'love' isn’t the same as 'marriage'” because then I would have had to concede the round.
1:45 p.m.
• I didn't bother reading the article, I just laughed at the headline.
Of course the Poor will suffer most. They're poor. We needed a report to make us aware of this? You know, with the amount of money spent to create this report, that loot could have went to the Poor. So I guess that the Poor have suffered the most from reading this Climate Report. Then again, they didn't actually read it because the Poor can't afford computers and Internet service.
12:15 p.m.
• Ah, nuts. I heard this story a while after it happened, so I'm sure the Billy Fudge-Packer jokes have already been spent.
If you PC homos want to get offended at someone, get offended at the dictionary. This reminds me of the great niggardly escapade that happened a while ago.
Why don't you bitches picket outside of Big Dictionary offices and demand to have these mean words stricken from the English language? Wait a second, I didn't know about this part. Continuing the Wikipedia entry from above.
So in this game of "Who is Offended More?" we have Gays vs. Blacks: the unstoppable force vs. the immovable object, the Beast of the East vs. the Best of the West. So I guess it's safe to say that Howard didn't fag out over the niggardly fiasco. Well, he may have fagged out later that night, but that's neither here nor there. And after all he went through I at least hope he got to be that evening's starting pitcher, unless he thinks it's better to receive than give.
Just a note, of course for the finals the DH is used in New York and the pitcher's hit in Montreal.
80's Tournament Finals: 1980 Montreal Expos vs. 1980 New York Yankees
Game 1: Expos 13, Yankees 3
Ellis Valentine homered twice off of Tommy John and went 4 for 5 on the day as the Expos bombed the Yankees in Game 1. Steve Rogers pitched a complete game in the win.
Game 2: Expos 8, Yankees 7
Goose Gossage blew the save as the Expos scored five in the 9th stealing both games in Yankee Stadium before heading back home where they are undefeated in the tournament. Andre Dawson sparked the rally with a two run homer and Larry Parrish eventually put them in front on an rbi double.
Game 3: Yankees 9, Expos 8
Yankees recovered from a five run 6th from the Expos to comeback to win and hand them their first defeat at Olympic Stadium. Yankees had built a 7-3 lead highlighted by a Bob Watson grand slam in the 2nd off Bill Gullickson before the Expos erased the deficit. Yankees tied it in the 7th and then Jim Spencer hit a pinch hit homerun in the 8th off Elias Sosa for the eventual winning run.
Game 4: Expos 8, Yankees 2
Expos once again rough up Tommy John and once again Steve Rogers goes the distance for the win. John didn’t get through the 2nd as the Expos scored six runs off him, the knockout blow coming on an Andre Dawson homerun.
Game 5: Expos 3, Yankees 2
Gary Carter is the hero as the tournament ends on a thriller. Yankees scored both their runs in the 4th on back-to-back homeruns by Rick Cerone and Graig Nettles off of Scott Sanderson. After the Expos scored a single run in the 6th, Carter tied the game up in 7th with homerun off of Ron Guidry. Then leading off in the 9th he launched one off of Goose Gossage, to cap a miserable series for him, into the leftfield stands for the championship.
The 1980 Montreal Expos are the Team of the ‘80s!?
Expos win the series 4 games to 1
All-Final Four Team
C: Rick Cerone, '80 Yankees
1B: Bob Watson, '80 Yankees
2B: Willie Randolph, '80 Yankees
3B: Larry Parrish, '80 Expos
SS: Bucky Dent, '80 Yankees
LF: Ron LeFlore, '80 Expos
CF: Andre Dawson, '80 Expos
RF: Ellis Valentine, '80 Expos
SP: Steve Rogers, '80 Expos
RP: Woodie Fryman, '80 Expos
Final Four MVP: Ellis Valentine, .383/.383/.809, 47 AB, 11 R, 18 H, 3 2B, 5 HR, 13 RBI
9 p.m.
• Now this is real fucked up...
...Imus is still alive?
8:30 p.m.
• I don't care what anyone says, this guy can coach my team anytime.
I wouldn't be looking for any work in the media or banking industries either, Mike.
2 p.m.
• Rush just said, "I believe half of what I see, none of what I hear." If you can't figure it out by now, then don't bother.
9:30 p.m.
• From this Web site's About Us section. The "Despises" section is great.
I'm so getting this shirt.
8 a.m.
• Do I really need to say anything else?
:lol:
:lol:
7:30 a.m.
• So there's a new SOMETHING-WING RADIO channel in Shittsburgh, and all I can say is alrighty then.
93.7 the Zone: Shittsburgh's MAN STATION.
Opie and Anthony 6-9 a.m.
John Steigerwald 9-10 a.m. (local guy who used to/may still write about sports)
Dennis Miller 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
John McIntire 1-4 p.m. (local liberal weenie)
Scott Paulsen 4-7 p.m. (local FM DJ)
Dave Dameshek 7-10 p.m. (No clue)
Loveline 10 p.m.-1 a.m.
John & Jeff 1-6 a.m.
Oh, yeah. This will be around long.
8 p.m.
Happy birthday to me…
So, as usual, at 1 p.m., two hours before my workday ends, I get a call from a co-worker informing me that I have 500+ quarterly annuity statements/envelopes to stuff. Jesus fucking Christ, all I ask is that I get some heads up on this shit. You know, assholes, I actually have a job to do and I *gasp* plan out my schedule of when I do stuff, unlike you dumbfucks. At my job’s last quarterly board of directors meeting, which I couldn’t attend due to granny’s funeral, a shit storm was raised when I included I my report all the fucking envelopes I was told to stuff, among other stupid tasks that I should not be doing. I wish I could have been there when several directors asked my idiot bosses why someone in my position was stuffing envelopes when I'm being paid to do other projects. Of course, when I came back to work I had a meeting to discuss this matter.
“In your report you said that you were ‘told’ to stuff envelopes.”
“Was ‘stuffing envelopes’ part of my job duties when I was hired?”
“No.”
“Then how would I otherwise go about stuffing envelopes at this place unless someone told me to do so?”
*crickets chirp*
Thank God I'm two floors away from these people.
Happy birthday to me…
So I picked up the better half from her job and went about our merry way home. Then there was the accident. From what I could make out, some van crashed into a car in this sorta-residential area. Three ambulances, four cop cars and a fire truck sealed off the usual way home, so we had to improvise with an alternate route. Problem is we had no idea where the hell we were going. When I get into these situations, I just drive around until I see something familiar. Man, I thought I was in hippie hell before. The part of Shittsburgh we drive through on the way home has “Books Not Bombs” and “John Kerry” bumper stickers on the back of cars. But now we were going even deeper into the belly of the beast, where bikeways ride alongside streets where liberal soccer moms drive their SUVs with bumper stickers that read, “My other car is a PAT bus.” Of course, we ended up in some construction area where two lanes of road become one, and 1+ mile of blocked off roads precede a 20-foot area where construction workers are standing around trying to look busy. Finally, some signs pointing us in the right direction were found and in what usually is an hour’s drive turned into two. All because some dickhead was not paying attention to where he or she was driving.
Happy birthday, kkk…
During this drive o’ fun, the better half was acting like a bitch. Now this is usual because whenever she gets lost driving she tenses up. Why she does this, I stopped trying to figure out. Then again, if you have to spend any additional time with me in a confined space, you might be a little anxious as well. After asking what her problem was for the umpteenth time, she finally said…
Happy birthday to me.
“Remember that prescription cough medicine I took? The asshole pharmacist didn’t bother to tell me it would mess with my birth control pills.”
35.) Emerson, Lake, and Palmer-Love Beach
Ok, so I never liked ELP, but that doesn't save this album. Granted, it was only recorded it because they owed it to their label, but that's no excuse. One of the worst Prog-Rock albums ever recorded, this is a lazy affair, without a single memorable moment. Even their most hardcore fans will tell you it sucks. Also has what may be one of the worst album covers ever.
34.) Cabaret Voltaire-Groovy, Laid Back, and Nasty
Cabaret Voltaire are one of my favorite groups of all time. A band who's influence on electronic music is nearly unequaled, and can still be heard today. When they decided to do a house album back in 1988, it was a musical disaster. It's another album that tries to keep up with the times, which sucks considering that this is a group known for setting standards instead of following them. Also, Stephen Mallinder's voice is more pop oriented, and lacks any of the conviction of their previous work, which hurts not only their credibility, but also their creativity, thus making a flat out bad album. Cool album title though.
33.) Can-Saw Delight
First bad sign: the album title itself is a bad pun. Another bad sign: This is a flat out dull album, without a single interesting moment, and sounds too much like a collaberation between Santana and a bloated Prog-Rock band instead of the freeform ethno-fusion jams that Can are known for, as well as some uninspired drumming from Jaki Liebezeit (who may be my favorite drummer of all time) and weak electronic wankery that sounds more like ELP than Can.
So I'll start by saying, sorry it's been so long since the last blog, but this whole blogging thing is kind of new to me so I often forget about it for stretches. Anyways, the wedding planning is coming along nicely. Just about everything is booked with a deposit or down payment already cleared. My best friend was in town last weekend and along with him and a few other friends we got fitted for the tuxes which was an enjoyable experience. We just got an email by the DJ with possible song lists and the form to fill out for all the dances. I asked Jennifer if it was cool to be introduced with the Imperial March music playing in the background....lol.
So baseball is back which means I get to try and block it out (this never works)until after the All-star break because the A's usually offer nothing but heartbreak and dissapointmet through the first half of the season. I really don't think they have enough firepower to make a giant surge at the end of the season. I do expect them to improve as the season goes on, however they have some players that just aren't panning out.
Eric Chavez has been a huge dissapointment every since he resigned
Bobby Crosby has become an injury magnet ever since he won ROY
Mike Piazza already looks like he doesn't really care
Basically I feel those three need to have HUGE years for the A's to still be in contention by September. The pitching is pretty good, but not great, and run support is always going to be an issue.
I think the A's will finish about 85-77, good for second place in the AL West.
38.) Frank Sinatra-Trilogy
It sucks to have to put old Blue eyes here, but this album is worth mentioning on this list. This is an album that sees Frank delving into levels of bad usually reserved for Shatner. The covers (again with the covers) are pretty bad, but part three of this album is the stuff of bad music legend. Here, Blue Eyes tells us about peace and outer space, singing about time on Mars to saying, and I am not making this up, "Uranus is Heaven." Let's pretend the man never recorded this one
37.) Public Enemy-Muse Sick-N-Hour-Mess Age
Sorry Chuck, but not even an awesome album cover can justify this one. Really, after Apocalypse 91, it's all dowhill from there for Public Enemy (actually that's not true-He Got Game is underrated). Here, they tell you the same thing you've heard before, and do it all in a way that's boring instead of though provoking, while the production-always a plus in PE albums-is definately lacking. If anything, they sound more like a parody instead of the real thing. That out of the way, I will give them props for not trying to change with the times.
36.) Stone Roses-Second Coming
The Stone Rose's debut album is a classic example of many of the good things about Brit-Pop, and is one of the best albums of the genre. The follow up-not so much. Here, Ian Brown tries growling a bit, which is a real head scratcher. The biggest crime though, is the guitar work by John Squire, which sounds too much like a bad attempt at trying to be Led Zeppelin. After this, the band broke up, and Brown went on to a forgettable solo career.
KKK's Top 103 Posters
Number 32: Hogan Made Wrestling
Even though he isn’t up-to-date on all the great white running backs of the NFL, it seems we both share an affection for Baldur’s Gate. (The PC game with Minsc and Boo, not the console version. Both games are solid in their own ways, but I lean toward Shadows of Amn.) He also shares an affinity with me for hating poor white trash. However, he doesn’t seem to care much for blogs, which makes me wonder what the hell he’s doing on this list in the first place. And talk about the power of premonition: from a post of mine in that “blog” thread I mentioned above.
6:30 p.m.
• OK. So I see this article on the wires.
No biggie. I wouldn't have even given this a second thought. After all, people are a crazy lot. However, below that article was this one.
Here was my favorite part.
And speaking of Valium, my out-of-control niece in law showed up for orientation at her hostess job that will probably last less than two weeks. She was with a few other people, and one of them is also a recovering drug addict who asked her, "So you're on methadone, too?" Well, that's one place I'll never eat at again. Pity, and the one time I went there before it was a good enough restaurant.
12 p.m.
• So the Frenchies have fast trains.
Great, now they can retreat faster than ever before.
• The Pirates beat the Astros 4-2 yesterday on Opening Day. But the Bucs were perfect at Minute Maid Park last year -- they didn't win a single game. Gee, maybe this really is year they turn everything around.
After the 2003 season Miguel Tejada was a free agent and A's general manager Billy Beane had a major decision. He could either re-sign Tejada and allow Eric Chavez to leave as a free agency the following year or allow Tejada to leave and sign Chavez to a long term extension. He chose to allow Tejada to leave and ink Chavez to a 6-year, $66 million deal. Protests from some A's fans aside this made the most sense. Chavez was to that point the better hitter, the better fielder, and was two years younger than Tejada. The other reason it made sense was the A's had a prospect at shortstop who would be ready to step in as an everyday player the very next season. You know the story by now Tejada has put together three very good years in Baltimore while Chavez has seemingly fizzled out on ever reaching the MVP potential many thought he would fulfill. You also know the other side of the story in that Bobby Crosby has become a bit of a running joke from being a trendy MVP pick going into last year by some ESPN "experts" and now to an injury plauged, potential bust. This is possibly a make or break year for Crosby to show he can stay healthy and show he is capable of living up to the hype. Tonight in the opener he let a ball go right through his legs and then was the primary cause of a four run Mariner 6th inning as he dropped a ball while trying to turn what appeared to be an easy, inning ending double play. The sad thing is that the one thing about Crosby that has been very positive so far in his MLB career has been his defense and he didn't even have that going for him tonight. It's just one game and I really could careless at this point but not a good first impression to the season for a guy some already want to see out of Oakland.
And I leave you with a random list that I wanted to do but didn't think it was worth an entry. Since today was the true Opening Day here were the Opening Day starters for each team in 1997 which I thought would be mildly interesting to look at.
Kevin Ritz
John Smiley
Terry Mulholland
Kevin Brown
John Smoltz
Shane Reynolds
Curt Schilling
Ramon Martinez
Todd Stottlemyre
Jim Bullinger
Pete Harnisch
Joey Hamilton
Jon Lieber
Mark Gardner
Doug Brocail (!)
Brad Radke
Dave Cone
Jeff Fassero
Ben McDonald
Ken Hill
Jamie Navarro
Pat Hentgen
Kevin Appier
Jimmy Key
Charles Nagy
Ariel Prieto
Tom Gordon
Mark Langston
41.) Current 93-Aryan Aquarians
Some artists release albums so bad even they don't want anybody to hear it. David Tibet, who I think is awesome, has every right to be embarresed by this album. A dreadful attempt at synth-pop, the album is bad in every way imaginable. It's almost as if he and hid friends recorded this as a joke. If that's the case, then it's not a funny one.
40.) Rage Against The Machine-Renegades
Yet another shitty covers album. Hearing Devo's Beautiful World and Bob Dylan's Maggie Farm get butchered is one thing. The real crime though, is hearing such Hip-Hop classics such as Afrika Bambaata's Renegades of Funk, Erik B. and Rakim's Microphone Fiend, Cypress Hill's How I Could Just Kill A Man, and Volume Ten's Pistol Grip Pump get ruined. These travesty's thus make it slightly worse tham A Perfect Circles also shitty eMotive.
39.) Yes-Big Generator
There is nothing worse than a good band with a hit doing a failed attempt to capitalize on that hit. That's all Big Generator is. he band does see them try to go back to their old style, and it was a big hit, ot also sounds too much like they are conflicted with making another hit and returning back to their roots. The result is this album, which never finds it's voice, and ends up sounding like a lost cause. Cool album cover though...
8:30 p.m.
• You cocksuckers asked for my address, phone number, social security number, mother's maiden name, shoe size and blood sample the last time I stopped in to get some batteries and this is what you do with all that information?
• You know, if I won $150k from the lottery or inheritance (now that's a funny one; I'd need 150,000 relatives to die and leave me everything), the sensible part of me would use this money to pay off the house and Mrs. kkk's school loan. But that was before I read this.
When I was a kid I had my picture taken with KITT at a car show. (Or at least that's what I was told when my mom paid the $5 for the photo. It was a black car with that red flashy thing. Good enough for me.) Somewhat funny story. When I was in grade school in the early/mid-80s, our class (of less than 10; private school, baby) had some assignment where we had to write where we wanted to live if we had the chance. The catch: it had to be a real place. I can’t remember what I wrote, but my best friend at the time wrote that he wanted to live in “Knight Riderland.” When the teacher asked him where this was he said, “Way far away.” How the hell to I remember this? Oh, and my mom wouldn’t let me watch the A-Team because it was “too violent.” Bitch.
11:15 a.m.
• Don't you know that teaching the Holocaust in British schools is one of the worst things you can do to a Muslim male, err, child?
10 a.m.
• So I’m listening to Boortz on his flagship 750-WSB Atlanta this morning via the Internet, and the station just had their sports guy talk about the upcoming Florida/OSU game. Who is this guy? Tony Schiavone. It was weird hearing him describe an event and not use the words, “THIS WILL BE THE BIGGEST NIGHT IN THE HISTORY OF OUR SPORT~!!!.”
8 p.m.
• Well, today was my big b-day celebration. Even though I don’t turn the big 3-1 until later in the week, the better half insisted that we do all this birthday shit today because next Sunday would be Easter. So I got my gifts: South Park Season 9 DVD and Ron White’s “You Can’t Fix Stupid” DVD. Not sure why I got the White DVD, but she said that I told her one time he was my favorite out of the four Blue Collar comedians. Uh, OK then. After that it was onto Red Lobster for my yearly ultimate feast. The reason we only go to this place once a year on my birthday is because 1) Mrs. kkk hates seafood, and 2) Mrs. kkk can’t watch me eat shellfish. Frankly, I don’t blame her; it’s not a pretty sight. Exciting stuff, I know.
• With the MLB season starting up, many people are giving their predictions. I might as well bust out mine, too. There was a TSM thread started up a while back where people got to pick the over/under on how many games each team will win this season, so I guess that makes sense to do. As an added twist, I challenged that fraud pseudo-baseball expert that uses my oh-so-clever name when commenting on America’s National Pastime. I’m going to post my picks, followed by his, and when the regular season wraps up we’ll see who has the last laugh … bitch.
Please note I haven’t bothered to follow any baseball news this off-season (I barely follow it during the regular season), and the only transactions I know are this: The Red Sox got some Jap, and the Angles paid a lot of money for some guy who was just busted for roids. All the picks that we will differ on will be boldfaced in my selections.
Al kkk-eiper’s picks:
Arizona Diamondbacks 77.5 UNDER
Atlanta Braves 81.5 OVER
Baltimore Orioles 73.5 UNDER
Boston Red Sox 90.5 OVER
Chicago Cubs 85.5 UNDER Now that Racist Dusty is gone, I’m rooting for the Cubs to win the World Series. Well, first they have to be mediocre.
Chicago White Sox 86.5 OVER
Cincinnati Reds 76.5 UNDER
Cleveland Indians 84.5 UNDER
Colorado Rockies 74.5 OVER
Detroit Tigers 87.5 UNDER
Florida Marlins 78.5 UNDER
Houston Astros 78.5 OVER
Kansas City Royals 67.5 UNDER
Los Angeles Angels 89.5 UNDER
Los Angeles Dodgers 88.5 OVER
Milwaukee Brewers 81.5 UNDER
Minnesota Twins 83.5 UNDER
New York Mets 88.0 OVER
New York Yankees 97.0 UNDER
Oakland Athletics 84.5 OVER
Philadelphia Phillies 88.5 UNDER
Pittsburgh Pirates 71.5 UNDER But they played .500 ball the second half of the season!!! But they’re hosting the ALL-STAR GAME~!!! Wait, that was last year.
San Diego Padres 84.0 OVER
San Francisco Giants 81.5 OVER
Seattle Mariners 75.5 UNDER
St Louis Cardinals 84.5 OVER
Tampa Bay Devil Rays 67.0 UNDER
Texas Rangers 81.5 UNDER
Toronto Blue Jays 86.5 UNDER
Washington Nationals 66.5 OVER
Al I’m-a-fraud-Keiper’s picks:
Arizona Diamondbacks 77.5 OVER
Atlanta Braves 81.5 OVER
Baltimore Orioles 73.5 OVER
Boston Red Sox 90.5 OVER
Chicago Cubs 85.5 UNDER
Chicago White Sox 86.5 UNDER
Cincinnati Reds 76.5 OVER
Cleveland Indians 84.5 OVER
Colorado Rockies 74.5 OVER
Detroit Tigers 87.5 UNDER
Florida Marlins 78.5 UNDER
Houston Astros 78.5 UNDER
Kansas City Royals 67.5 OVER
Los Angeles Angels 89.5 OVER
Los Angeles Dodgers 88.5 UNDER
Milwaukee Brewers 81.5 OVER
Minnesota Twins 83.5 OVER
New York Mets 88.0 OVER
New York Yankees 97.0 UNDER
Oakland Athletics 84.5 OVER
Philadelphia Phillies 88.5 UNDER
Pittsburgh Pirates 71.5 OVER
San Diego Padres 84.0 UNDER
San Francisco Giants 81.5 UNDER
Seattle Mariners 75.5 UNDER
St Louis Cardinals 84.5 OVER
Tampa Bay Devil Rays 67.0 OVER
Texas Rangers 81.5 OVER
Toronto Blue Jays 86.5 UNDER
Washington Nationals 66.5 UNDER
Now we’ll see who the real baseball expert is and who is talking out of his ass. You know, I think I'll take all my over/unders and see how they look when I divide the teams by division
NL East
New York Mets 88.0 OVER
Atlanta Braves 81.5 OVER
Philadelphia Phillies 88.5 UNDER
Florida Marlins 78.5 UNDER
Washington Nationals 66.5 OVER
NL Central
St Louis Cardinals 84.5 OVER
Houston Astros 78.5 OVER
Chicago Cubs 85.5 UNDER
Milwaukee Brewers 81.5 UNDER
Cincinnati Reds 76.5 UNDER
Pittsburgh Pirates 71.5 UNDER
NL West
Los Angeles Dodgers 88.5 OVER
San Diego Padres 84.0 OVER
San Francisco Giants 81.5 OVER
Colorado Rockies 74.5 OVER
Arizona Diamondbacks 77.5 UNDER
AL East
Boston Red Sox 90.5 OVER
New York Yankees 97.0 UNDER
Toronto Blue Jays 86.5 UNDER
Baltimore Orioles 73.5 UNDER
Tampa Bay Devil Rays 67.0 UNDER
AL Central
Chicago White Sox 86.5 OVER
Detroit Tigers 87.5 UNDER
Cleveland Indians 84.5 UNDER
Minnesota Twins 83.5 UNDER
Kansas City Royals 67.5 UNDER
AL West
Los Angeles Angels 89.5 UNDER
Oakland Athletics 84.5 OVER
Texas Rangers 81.5 UNDER
Seattle Mariners 75.5 UNDER
…
Remember when I said this:
Yeah, we probably will.
first time I've played fantasy baseball in like 3 years. I think my team is pretty good.
C - Piazza
1B - Richie Sexon & Conor Jackson
2B - Dan Uggla & Julio Lugo
SS - Julio Lugo & Felipe Lopez
3B - David Wright & Alex Gordon (got Gordon in the last round)
OF- Grady Sizemore, Jason Bay, JD Drew & Coco Crisp
SP- Roy Halladay, Brandon Webb, Ervin Santana, Josh Beckett & Rich Harden
RP- K-Rod, Papelbon & Joel Zumaya
10 team league and I feel my team is pretty balanced up and down
Final Four: National League Finals: 1980 Montreal Expos vs. 1980 Houston Astros
Game 1: Astros 4, Expos 3
Astros come from behind with a three-run 9th, capped by an Enos Cabell two-run double for the win.
Game 2: Expos 4, Astros 1
Astros tried another 9th inning miracle by loading the bases with one out but Joe Morgan grounded into a game ending double play.
Game 3: Expos 8, Astros 6
Astros chased Bill Gullickson out of the game in the 4th, building a 6-1 lead, but the Expos score three in the 5th and four in the 6th to comeback for the win. Rodney Scott continues his shockingly good tournament going 4 for 5.
Game 4: Expos 3, Astros 1 12 innings
Chris Speier hits a walk off homerun off of Dave Smith in the 12th to move the Expos one win away from the finals.
Game 5: Expos 6, Astros 4
Montreal wraps up the N.L. title with another walk off homerun this time off the bat of Ellis Valentine. They are now a remarkable 14-1 at home in the tournament.
Expos win series 4 games to 1
Series Stars
Ellis Valentine: 9 for 24, 5 R, 2 HR, 5 RBI
Warren Cromartie: 9 for 20, 2 2B, 4 RBI
Woodie Fryman: 1-0, 3 G, 2 SV, 7 IP, 4 H, 0 ER
Final Four: American League Finals: 1988 Minnesota Twins vs. 1980 New York Yankees
Game 1: Yankees 9, Twins 8
The Yankees pound Frank Viola for 7 earned runs in 5 1/3 innings and hold off a late Twins rally for the win.
Game 2: Twins 10, Yankees 6
Twins return the favor by smacking around Ron Guidry to even the series. Tom Herr was 3 for 5 with a homerun.
Game 3: Yankees 10, Twins 2
Yankees bang out 13 hits and score nine runs in the final three innings to take back the series lead. Bobby Brown went 4 for 5.
Game 4: Yankees 13, Twins 11
There is no pitching to be found in this series as the two teams combine for 33 hits. The game is highlighted by a six run 8th inning by the Bombers to erase an 11-7 Twins lead. Kent Hrbek goes 3 for 3 with 5 rbi in the loss.
Game 5: Yankees 4, Twins 3
Finally we get some good pitching in this series but it fittingly ends on offense as Eric Soderholm’s three-run homer in the 9th sends the Yankees to the finals to set up an all 1980 final.
Yankees win series 4 games to 1
Series Stars
Rick Cerone: 9 for 21, 4 2B, 4 RBI
Eric Soderholm: 6 for 14, 1 HR, 7 RBI
Goose Gossage: 3 SV
Final Four: Championship
'80 Expos vs. '80 Yankees
AL East:
1.) Red Sox
2.) Toronto
3.) NY Yankees
4.) Baltimore
5.) Tampa Bay
Now I know being a Red Sox fan that my picks here are going to be shrugged off and looked at as biased but let me explain why I feel it will play out this way. First of all the Red Sox answered most if not all of their pressing needs from last year. They added the best FA starting pitcher available in Daisuke Matsuzaka, beefed up the bullpen with the additions of J.C. Romero, Brendon Donnely, Joel Piniero, and that Japanese lefty, added a legit lead-off hitter in Julio Lugo, and they brought in a power hitting right fielder that can give Manny protection in the line-up. With those additions all they really need is better luck this year as we watched the whole team go down with injury after injury last season, which is what appears to be happening with the Yankees as we speak. Their best starting pitcher is already out at least a month with an injured hamstring, Pettite is already complaining about elbow discomfort in his throwing arm (which he's had several injuries to in the past already), and Mussina is susposedly feeling back discomfort off and on. Rotation aside the Yankees bullpen doesn't have much in the way of depth this season from what I've seen. Rivera is the best closer in the game so long as he's healthy, that's a given...but all there is to set him up is Scott Proctor (who threw a large amount of innings last season). Phillip Hughes will probably crack the rotation at some point this season but I just see the Yankees going through what the Red Sox went through last season, and with the whole "Will he or won't he opt-out" thing with A-Rod going on all season...well the distractions and injuries will be too much.
AL Central
1.) Detroit
2.) Cleveland (WC)
3.) Chicago
4.) Minn
5.) KC
With or without Kenny Rogers the Tigers will still win that division. The surprise however will be the Twins fading out of contention. Reasons being that Santana just won't be enough on his own. Without both Radke and Liriano this season the team doesn't have enough pitching depth. I expect them to trade Torre Hunter and Luis Castillo sometime during the season as they restock for the 08 season when they'll have a rotation anchored down by both Santana and Liriano. Expect to see the Indians turn their stud pitching prospect Adam Miller into the closer sometime by May and bring in a middle reliever or two by the deadline. That's all they need so long as their current players stay healthy.
AL West
1.) Angels
2.) Oakland
3.) Seattle
4.) Texas
The Angels just have far too much pitching depth to be overcome by any of the other teams in this division. Oakland is still trying to get one full year out of Rich Harden and with both Kotsay and Dan Johnson not appearing to be healthy anytime soon...well they don't have enough. My major prediction however is that the Angels solve their one glaring need (that of another power bat in the line-up) by aquiring Miguel Cabrera from Florida at the trade deadline. I imagine Brandon Wood to be part of the deal but I'm not about to play GM. I just know that the Angels need another power bat desperately and the Marlins will have one at a position that most of the other contenders in baseball with the prospects to aquire him will be set at.
NL East
1.) Atlanta
2.) Philli (WC)
3.) NY Mets
4.) Florida
5.) Washington
Atlanta is another team that solved its problems during the off-season. Their bullpen alone probably caused them the division last year so what did they do? They brought in Mike Gonzales (who will likely be their future closer and could battle Wickman for the spot this year) and Rafael Soriano which are two major power arms to come in. So long as Smoltz, Hudson, and Hampton stay healthy this team should start its pennant run over. They have enough good young talent to surround the Jones boys with so that the offense won't be a problem. The Mets sliding down to third in my standings after being a few outs from the World Series may surprise alot of people but look at their pitching. Pedro is done, and beyond Tom Glavine they don't really have anything. John Maine should be fairly solid but he's not ready to shoulder the load that team is going to have. The Phillies are going to have a great rotation when everybody is healthy but their middle relief and set-up is ultimately going to be the difference between them winning the division and earning the Wild Card spot.
NL Central
1.) St. Louis
2.) Milwaukee
3.) Cubbies
4.) Houston
5.) Cinci
6.) Pitt
Clemens will play one more year in Houston but he'll be limited to hamstring issues or something and Roy Oswalt can't pitch everyday. St. Louis, while losing a couple pieces of their starting rotation will still be a better team than any of the others in the division. The big surprise here will be the young talent of the Brewers starting to finally gel and break-out.
NL West
1.) Dodgers
2.) Diamondbacks
3.) Padres
4.) Giants
5.) Rockies
Barry Zito alone won't save San Fran and Bonds will likely shut it down after he steals the homerun record from Aaron. The Dodgers have too much pitching, too much speed, and too many chips they can trade off to fix any problems they should run across.
AL Cy Young: Roy Halladay
AL MVP: Grady Sizemore
AL RoTY: Daisuke Matsuzaka (although in terms of pure rookies it should probably go to Alex Gordon)
NL Cy Young: Ben Sheets
NL MVP: Albert Pujols
NL RoTY: Homer Bailey
Playoffs
Divisonal Round:
Red Sox over Cleveland
Detroit over Angels
St. Louis over Atlanta
Dodgers over Philli
Championship Round:
Red Sox over Detroit in 7 (Boston did play Detroit extremely tough last season, and are a much improved team this season)
Dodgers over St. Louis
World Series
Red Sox vs. Dodgers and I'm not going to predict it. Just enjoy Nomar and D-Lowe returning to Boston to play October baseball, Beckett vs. Penny in a match-up of two teamates that helped carry that 2003 Marlins team to a world title, Schilling vs. Lowe in a similiar match-up where Lowe was the first pitcher ever to record wins in the deciding games of 3 post season series in the same season while Schilling gave perhaps the guttsiest playoff performance ever, the speed of the Dodgers vs. the power of the Red Sox and J.D. Drew being booed unmercifully in his return to L.A..
This year should be fun.
Edit: Added Pirates and Rockies, although they don't matter.
11 p.m.
• I have my fair share of rap CDs in my collection, which numbers between 400-500. Most of these albums are from the 1990s, and I’ve pretty much pigeonholed myself into this era. I don’t care much for contemporary hip-hop, but I’m not going to hate on it either. It’s just I grew up with certain albums and certain styles. I listen to what’s out nowadays and I can’t get into many of these flows. But if this is what today’s youth listen to and what they like, then more power to them. I’m sure those who grew up listening to the Treacherous Three couldn’t understand why I was infatuated with some guy named Ice Cube. For me, I’ll stick with what I listened to during my high school and college days. Now I have a number of albums that I consider to be solid rap efforts, whether it’s A Tribe Called Quest, EPMD, 2Pac, Redman, or Wu-Tang and the group’s initial offering of solo projects from artists such as Raekwon and Ol’ Dirty Bastard. However, there are a number of CDs that when I see in my collection I shake my head. I’ve mentioned “Shaq Fu: the Return” before and I’ll do so again, and there are some albums that you know are going to be awful but get anyway. You can’t help doing so. If anything, you get these albums just to keep for posterity. Such was the case with this one album. I knew it was out, and I had no intention of paying full retail price for this. Hell, I wasn’t going to spend the money needed to pick it up at the used CD store. Instead, I let this one person I knew buy it and bought it off of him for $4 after he realized how awful it was. And what was this album?
After the abortion that was “It’s On," which was supposed to be a counterpunch to Dr. Dre’s “Chronic” album, anyone with half-a-brain knew this follow-up effort would be bad; nobody will mistake “Str8 Off” with NWA’s “Straight Outta Compton.” I think what made me want to own this album though was that Eazy-E was in the midst of this project when he found out he had the AIDS. This album was released after his death and for me it seemed to be my way of pouring a 40 oz. to the curb in memory of the E.
Oh no, what happened to my lover?
Bitch I bashed his head in with my Louisville Slugger.
4:30 p.m.
• Christ, I can hear the liberals already whining about how we live in a fascist regime.
Yesterday afternoon on the drive home from work the better half told me of this story and asked my opinion of the whole thing. She’s Catholic and thought it was a stupid idea to create a milk chocolate Jesus. Although I think a lesser stink would have been made had our lord and savior been sporting a loin cloth, I was more interested in knowing if any public money was spent making this piece of shit. But that’s neither here nor there. Actually, I really don’t care that there’s a sculpture of the guy who died for my sins and stuff made out of chocolate. (Jesus was a black dude – little wonder why he never had a job. Interchangeable hippie/black jokes; gotta love ‘em.)
Here's the "art" in question.
Oh, yeah. NSFW and all that.
All in all, this is nothing more than typical “edgy” New Yorker shit. “Let’s be cutting edge and do something about Christianity that is sure to piss off a bunch of people. How about putting Jesus in a jar of urine? Can’t: Already been done. Well let’s make a picture of the Virgin Mary out of elephant poop. Drat: Beaten to the punch. I guess we’ll have to make a chocolate naked Jesus.” I could make a “milk chocolate melts in your mouth and not in your hand,” joke right about now, but … well what do you know, I just did.
Interestingly enough, I had another thought upon first hearing of this evangelical-led attack on our rights to display stupid artwork, which was brought up later by someone quoted in the article I linked.
Say, this just inspired Mikkkhaelango to produce his latest masterpiece.
I'll expect my National Endowment for the Arts check to be mailed sometime next week.
11 p.m.
• This always baffled me.
If you're splitting up, how can you still have an "amicable" relationship? How does one go about arranging such a thing?
"Hi baby, you know I like you and all, right?"
"Yeah, snook-ums."
"Want me to leave and split our assets 50/50?"
"Sure. Don't forget to take out the trash as you leave."
• Now this is funny.
Three paragraphs later...
Oh, yeah, they also talked about Mumia. *shrug*
10:45 p.m.
• Oh boy, MORE BASEBALL DIVERSITY SHIT.
*gag*
OK, you guys win. Get a few Tyrones and Leroys out onto the field in those fancy jerseys and quit talking about this shit already. I like how this annual "Civil Rights Game" is being played by a team with arguably one of the most offensive mascots in any sport. And by "offensive" I mean "offensive if you're a bitch-ass faggot and actually recoil in fear at the sight of this:"
Oh dear, I wonder if the White Sox will ever get a chance to play in this Civil Rights Classic? While I'm on this subject, why is that one 1919 World Series called the BLACK SOX scandal? OMG RACISM! No wonder there aren't any black people playing baseball!!
8 p.m.
• Well, the Final Four is just around the corner, so let’s see how I did this year with my brackkketology. Bolded teams are the ones I picked for that particular game. Teams with a line through were teams I had that got eliminated in an earlier round. Just for shits and giggles, I’m giving myself one point per correct pick for the first round. For the second round I’ll give myself two points per correct pick, and so on.
FIRST ROUND
Florida (1), Jackson State (16): Correct
Arizona (8), Purdue (9): Correct
Butler (5), Old Dominion (12): Correct
Maryland (4), Davidson (13): Correct
Notre Dame (5), Winthrop (11): Correct
Oregon (3), Miami of Ohio (14): Correct
UNLV (7), Georgia Tech (10): Incorrect
Wisconsin (2), Tex A&M CC (15): Correct
Kansas (1), Whoever (16): Correct
Kentucky (8), Villanova (9): Incorrect
Virginia Tech (5), Illinois (12): Incorrect
Southern Illinois (4), Holy Cross (13): Correct
Duke (6), VCU (11): Incorrect
Pittsburgh (3), Wright State (14): Correct
Indiana (7), Gonzaga (10): Correct
UCLA (2), Weber State (15): Correct
North Carolina (1), Eastern Kentucky (16): Correct
Marquette (8), Michigan State (9): Incorrect
Southern Cal (5), Arkansas (12): Correct
Texas (4), New Mexico State (13): Correct
Vanderbilt (6), George Washington (11): Incorrect
Washington State (3), Oral Roberts (14): Correct
Boston College (7), Texas Tech (10): Correct
Georgetown (2), Belmont (15): Correct
Ohio State (1), Central Conn. State (16): Correct
BYU (8), Xavier (9): Correct
Tennessee (5), Long Beach (12): Correct
Virginia (4), Albany (13): Correct
Louisville (6), Stanford (11): Correct
Texas A&M (3), Penn (14): Correct
Nevada (7), Creighton (10): Incorrect
Memphis (2), North Texas (15): Correct
Total score: 25 correct, 7 incorrect. 25 points.
SECOND ROUND
Florida (1), Purdue (9): Correct
Maryland (4), Butler (5): Incorrect
Oregon (3), Winthrop (11): Correct
Wisconsin (2), Georgia Tech (10): Incorrect
Kansas (1), Villanova (9): Correct
Southern Illinois (4), Illinois (12): Correct
Pitt (3), Duke (6): Incorrect
UCLA (2), Indiana (7): Correct
UNC (1), Marquette (8): Correct
Texas (4), Southern Cal (5): Incorrect. Boy was this incorrect.
Washington State (3), George Washington (11): Incorrect.
Georgetown (2), Boston College: Correct
Ohio State (1), Xavier (9): Correct
Virginia (4), Tennessee (5): Correct
Texas A&M (3), Louisville (6): Incorrect
Memphis (2), Creighton (10): Correct
Total score:
10 correct, 6 incorrect. 20 points. 25 cumulative points.
THIRD ROUND
Florida (1), Maryland (4): Correct
Wisconsin (2), Oregon (3): Correct
Kansas (1), Southern Illinois (4): Correct
UCLA (2), Duke (6): Correct
North Carolina (1), Texas (4): Incorrect.
Georgetown (2), George Washington (11): Correct
Ohio State (1), Tennessee (5): Correct
Memphis (2), Louisville (6): Incorrect
6 correct, 2 incorrect. 18 points. 43 cumulative points.
FOURTH ROUND
Florida (1), Oregon (3): Correct
Kansas (1), UCLA (2): Correct
Georgetown (2), Texas (4): Incorrect
Ohio State (1), Louisville (6): Correct
3 correct, 1 incorrect. 12 points. 55 cumulative points.
FINAL FOUR
Florida (1), UCLA (2)
Ohio State (1), Texas (4)
TERRIFIC TWO
Ohio State (1), Florida
So far I have 55 points out of 104. At least when it came to guessing which teams would get this far I got three brackets out of four, and that ain’t bad.
