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You know what happens to people that bitch about threads getting viewed with no replies.

Ripper is a classy guy indeed. Yeah cats

Really? I always pegged Sandman as a short muscular little prick. Total Napoleon complex.

Downtown Chicago, London, or a little place in rural Nova Scotia.

"Hi, I'm Jay Mariotti from the Chicago Sun-Times." If this is the case, add Tony Kornheiser to the list of people who don't much like Jay, along with Max Kellerman, Woody Paige, and greater Chicago.

Yeah, even before Chelios sent Bettman to the gas chamber, I was thinking "you know, Ed Belfour is long overdue in making an ass of himself." My hope is that when they announce the lockout is over, he projectile-vomits on Bob Goodenow, trashes the room the press conference is in, yells something incoherent, and passes out. That'd be some good Ed Belfour.

I'd like to see the Cubs hire Leiter. He has nothing to do with the Cubs organization, but neither does Bob Brenly, and that guy's running his mouth.

So Chelios told the media that Gary Bettman should get the gas. OMGJEWZ0RZ. This is right after Jeremy Roenick told the fair-weather fans to kiss his ass. The Chicago Blackhawks roster from my old NHL '95 is goin' to war! When do Ed Belfour and Tony Amonte make controversial comments?

So does this mean Leiter moves from the bullpen to the booth as he was supposed to for next year? Or is he just out of the Marlins organization completely? Because he was great in the booth last October.

I don't think C-Bacon nor Doink should have opinions on anything.

Hookshookshookshookshookshooks!!!! And no, I can't get excited about power chords like I used to anymore.

Oh man, now that I look back and note the Russian names, this really does have all the makings of a Yakov Smirnov joke.

So bad lyrics aren't enough to measure a song's quality? What sort of hoops must one jump through, then. I mean, shitty lyrics are hard to look beyond. They're sort of front and center, unless you're My BLoody Valentine.

I'm glad hockey is back, but it's going to be so very hard for me to get back into it. Baseball has surpassed hockey as my favorite sport since the lockout started. It's hard to believe that nobody won the Stanley Cup in 2005 because of all this nonsense.

If Alice Cooper comes to Milwaukee, I'm going, in hopes that he mentions that Milwaukee is Algonquin for "the good land," and is the only major American city to have elected three Socialist mayors.

What the fuck. I miss Drury. Thanks to Slapnuts, I've cultivated a dread of Baltimore-Washington sports success. Just thought I'd throw that out there.

Oh good.

Pink Floyd. Started off as whimsical psychedelic material with Syd at the helm, then after spinning their wheels for a while trying to find their niche (even though Atom Heart Mother is a favorite of mine, it's totally transitional), they really come up with what we consider the classic Floyd sound with Meddle, and with that you get through the 70s with six classic albums. Yeah, I'll count Obscured by Clouds as an underrated classic. Nobody gives it its due. Radiohead. After being written off as a one-hit wonder with "Creep" being amidst a bunch of shitty songs like "How Do You," "Prove Yourself," and "Anyone Can Play Guitar," they keep their heads above water with The Bends (which apparently got overlooked initially) and then OK Computer put them in the pantheon, and so on. Even though some of Pablo Honey isn't so bad, a lot of it is pretty uninspired, and I'll take any other era over that one.

Um. Yeah? No shit?

Dear lord, you'll kill us all!

I guess you could say Alice Copper has developed a bit of a patina?

Speaking of typos, I sent a message to this girl on myspace earlier this evening. A section of my profile is slightly grammar nazi-ish; too bad I misspelled "comically" in the subject line of the message. Ain't I embarassed! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> "principle speaker"

Incandenza, I'm gonna make this be MY profile!

Jason Bay Mark Teixiera Hee Seop Choi

If anything Green Day has peaked with this album. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I don't think American Idiot is the pinnacle of their work. Also, Green Day was never THAT great.