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“I don’t know how you feel about it…”
June 23, 2008 – 2:15 PM | 43 Comments
“I don’t know how you feel about it…”

“…but I am getting pretty sick and tired of these fucking church people.”
My boyfriend uses that Carlin quip in response to anything and everything — he can’t find his keys, he’s lost his train of …

Due Respect
May 29, 2008 – 9:43 AM | 74 Comments
Due Respect

“Everyone except me is just so STUPID.”
I like finding out that people or institutions don’t suck as much as I’d thought. It happened three years ago, during the writing of the TWoP book; I had …

Mother Goose
May 13, 2008 – 11:56 AM | 8 Comments
Mother Goose

“I said GET OFF MY LAWN!”
So, apparently the fact that Joba Chamberlain did a little buggin’ after striking out David Dellucci is a big old hairy deal now, to the point where Goose Gossage feels …

The Times Of Harvey Milk
February 22, 2008 – 11:06 AM | 15 Comments

Great documentary; it won the Oscar twenty-odd years ago. I knew who Milk was, and what had happened to him, but not the details, and my God what a crazy story — did you know …

Hendemonium
February 12, 2008 – 10:55 AM | 35 Comments

Hee. (Well, as long as no chickens were harmed.)

I miss Mattingly’s awesome mustache also
February 5, 2008 – 4:57 PM | 3 Comments

…but perhaps this is, as reactions go, a mite severe.

Tears in my ears
January 7, 2008 – 7:29 PM | 46 Comments
Tears in my ears

“…Heeeeeeelp!”
(Anyone else remember that song? “I’ve got tears in my ears, from lying on my back, crying over you”?)
I don’t care for Hillary Clinton. I don’t feel as strongly about it as I used to, …

All Things Considomared
November 18, 2007 – 11:16 AM | 7 Comments

All y’all Omar G fans, keep an ear out for the man himself on All Things Considered tomorrow on NPR, doing a segment on OS X Leopard.And don’t believe what he says; Om has superpowers …

Monday afternoon round-up
November 5, 2007 – 6:09 PM | 12 Comments

A few short ends here, since I’ve been up to my ears all day…
Thanks to reader Bryan M. for tipping me to an update in the West Memphis Three case. The site has a clickable …

You’re doing a heck of a job, Arnie
October 23, 2007 – 10:52 AM | 39 Comments

I don’t know about you, but if I were in the fire zone in SoCal and I heard that Governor Schwarzenegger had called FEMA for aid, I’d be like, “You know what actually, we’re good. …