1) Seeing Tom Glavine approach any semblance of competency is a very good thing. 2) There’s nothing bad about watching baseball’s most overpaid singles hitter, Mike Piazza, go 3 for 5, including a crucial bloop single to drive in two runs. 3) Though the logic of Carlos Beltran bunting with runners on first and second and none out completely escapes me (particularly with Piazza hitting behind him), I cannot argue with the results. Beltran’s sacrifice kept NY out of the double play (always a likelihood with Piazza up and a runner on first) and set up Piazza’s game winning hit. But I’m baffled why Willie Randoplh is married to Beltran-Piazza-Floyd as his 3-4-5, and cannot help but think David Wright has to move up sooner rather than later. 4) Mike Cameron (above) continues to play at a level where he can no longer be considered trade bait. Which is great news for everyone except Victor Diaz. 5) Man, those Giants are old.
All of that said, Glavine’s postgame chitchat with the Fox yacksters was embarrassing. The former Braves ace was allowed, yet again, to cite the Mets’ pourous defense of the past as a contributing factor for his throwing the ball right down the middle of the plate, loss of velocity, concentration, ducking the Braves, etc. Glavine, supposedly, has new “confidence” bourne from being surrounded by 8 potential Gold Glove winners.
Full credit to the slumping Doug Mientkiewicz — he knows he’s been sucking up a storm, openly admits it and sits on the bench cheering his replacement, Chris Woodward (who, along with virtually every sub on the Mets other than Eric Valent, has made a major contribution at one time or another this season). Glavine, by contrast, has never had any shortage of circumstances to point to other than his own diminished skills. He’s not the only Mets pitcher to have been victimized by inept fielders, lack of run support or a diabolical bullpen, but from his interviews with lovestruck reporters, you’d think otherwise.
Jeanie Zelasko’s new haircut is pretty horrible, and not that I wanna get all Go Fug Yourself on you, but she’s neither eye candy nor a effervescent commentator. Pretty much like Kevin Kennedy without a cock, then.
I’m stealing this from a post on my partner’s cooking website, www.wishuponastove.com, but I thought it was ironic enough to talk about separately.
The post notes a recent lawsuit brought by Brenda Lifsey against Kraft Foods, regarding the company’s guacamole dip.
“It just didn’t taste avocadoey,” said Brenda Lifsey, who bought the dip to use for a party she was throwing. “I looked at the ingredients and found there was almost no avocado in it.†Apparently the Kraft product has lots of ingredients, but less than 2 percent avocado! For more info, you can read the whole sad story here.
I’ve always viewed with a mixture of amusement and disdain the lengths to which corporate America will go to make money. In this case, it’s the substitution of cheaper products in an otherwise standard product for the sole purpose of increasing profit margin. Much like McDonald’s serves “shakes,†rather than “milk shakes.†Apparently, both avocados and milk take too much from the bottom line.
What is equally disturbing, yet much more amusing, are the lengths to which the American public allow themselves to be purchased by said corporations. A prime example of this phenomena is the marketing of Matchbox 20 and Ashlee Simpson (promoting SKECHERS, which is, as Jessica at GoFugYourself notes, a brand that looks totally, totally, freakishly misspelled the more closely you look at it!)
I was watching a re-run of The West Wing the other day in which several fictitious senators refused to vote to procure more money towards suing the tobacco companies. Their reasoning was not based on political or monetary concerns, but were rather based on “moral issues” (yes, I know, noting that they are fictitious characters is superfluous to the discussion). Regardless, I thought it brought up a good point. This country’s developing reliance on help from others has transcended the ridiculous to the absurd long ago. If you are aware that cigarettes cause cancer, you have nobody to blame but yourself. If you are aware that others may not like what you’re selling, does that make you morally reprehensible for continuing to sell that product to those same persons whom you know don’t want it? Of course not.
I think the Romans had a name for that: it’s called “caveat emptor.” Exercise some fucking self-control, ya’ mook! And if you can’t, don’t go crying to someone else just because you made a mistake. No one takes responsibility for anything anymore. We foster, we obfuscate, we rationalize, “Everybody does it.” That’s what we say. So we come to occupy a moral safe house where everyone’s to blame, so no one’s guilty. It would be nice if we could go back to a time, if there ever was one, where people would just take some fucking responsibility for their actions.
Okay, moving on, in the spirit of my initial post (upon reopening for business, as it were), I’m posting another video favorite of mine. Most likely, it will be for my own amusement and reference, but as they ancient Greeks said: “fuck it.”
This clip is from a band that was not on my radar scope until very recently, despite having been exposed to them in a small amount several years ago when they were featured prominently in the John Cusack movie, High Fidelity (which I still think should have been set in London, as per the book upon which the movie was based). Now that they have disbanded, of course, I am a great fan of their work, especially the deep cuts that failed to hit with even many devoted U.K. fans and critics.
That being said, this single is one of my favorites, and thankfully, they also chose to promote it via a music video. Here now is The Beta Band, with the single “Human Being.â€
…..where your opinion counts! The article about the above includes a blog map, description and refers to DailyKos, Boingboing and Michelle Malkin as leaders in Blogworld. Dave Lucas provides explanations that “…In the blogosphere, the biggest audiences - go to a small, elite few. Most bloggers toil in total obscurity…” “…It’s the same thing you see in economies: the rich-get-richer problem…” .. and …“The top bloggers have become, in some cases the pets, and in some cases the tormentors of, the writers in the front rank”.
Do not think this is as strange as it first appears. Without ‘poor’ bloggers and enthusiastic commenter’s there would be no ‘rich’ blogs and the top bloggers therefore lose their popularity and rank. If our views and interests can be represented through them via request or by compulsion, then let us control our blogosphere and ensure that they do so. Rather then let the blog elite mimic the concept of capitalism and control we the Proletariat, let us instead control the Bourgeoisie!
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So, I saw Zodiac this weekend, and of course, it is already the Greatest Zodiac Movie of All Time. But then I remembered that Dirty Harry is also the Greatest Zodiac Movie of All Time, so you know what that means:
TEN POINT SUDDEN DEATH ZODIAC MOVIE BATTLE ROYAL!
Dirty Harry
Zodiac
Lead Actor
Clint Motherfuckin’ Eastwood
Jake Simulated Cowboyfuckin’ Gyllenhaal
Winner: Dirty Harry
Music
That bullshit 70’s white funk crap…You know, the song with all that, “AAA HHHaaaa WWWaaHHH.”
Hurdy Gurdy Man
Winner: Zodiac
Sideburns
100% Authentic 1970’s
2007 issue replicas
Winner: Dirty Harry
Accurate Depictions of Due Process
0
Far to many, and that’s exactly why Zodiac got away with that BS.
Winner: Dirty Harry
Choice Quotes
“I know what you’re thinking. ‘Did he fire six shots or only five?’ Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kind of lost track myself. But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you’ve got to ask yourself a question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?”
“This is the Zodiac speaking.”
Winner: Zodiac
Number of cartoonist characters played by hot dudes, thus making people think that cartoonists are in fact hot.
0
1
Winner: Zodiac
Number of roles played by Chloë Sevigny.
0
1
Winner: Dirty Harry
School Bus Scene
Dirty Harry disobeying orders, following Scorpio, jumping off an overpass onto the top of a moving vehicle, dodging bullets being shot through the roof, crawling aross said roof to aim his .44 Magnum through the windsheild, all the while wearing a full three piece suit!
Robert Greysmith acting like a wuss dad.
Winner: Dirty Harry
Resident Hot Chick
Hot Mary
Darlene Elizabeth Ferrin
Winner: Zodiac
Number of direct homage style references to the film Dirty Harry
0
1
Winner: Zodiac
And the champion is…Oh, wait….it’s a tie. 5 to 5. Well, you know what that means:
TEN POINT SUDDEN DEATH ZODIAC MOVIE BATTLE ROYAL ONE POINT SUDDEN DEATH GOOGLE FIGHT ROUND!
Dirty Harry
Zodiac
Google Fight
228,000
44,700,000
Holy turdballs! Zodiac is the champion! This is the most shocking upset since the British Navy beat the Spanish Armada! Wow.
But don’t think that this means Dirty Harry won’t stare you to death before he shoots right in the shin, then walk like 50 yards just to step in your wound.
Oh how I love Heather and Jessica, the deliciously snarky ladies behind Go Fug Yourself. After Danity Kane’s red carpet entrance at the Billboard Music Awards, it’s no wonder that they were “fugged” today.
Here’s an excerpt:
Like maybe the one in the middle didn’t want to dress like she just came from a Sharon-Tate-in-Valley of the Dolls-inspired lingerie ad. Maybe she wanted to wear the shiny, shiny dress on the end, which someone hemmed until it looks like something the protagonist would wear in the final scene of Ice Princess II, when she has to go out and skate the performance of a lifetime or else Communism will prevail. (For serious, Sarah Jessica Parker wore that dress sometime in the last year, and it was about, oh, six inches longer.)
And maybe the one in the coffee-colored nightgown — seriously, it’s very romantic for your trousseau, but leave that in the hope chest — would rather switch outfits with the Trumpet of the Swan over on the other end. She might be covered in feathers, but at least she’s covered.
As I am not in the business of critiquing celebrities choice of attire (really, I’m not), I will leave that to the professionals at Go Fug Yourself, which did a good number on Kate here last week (not that it was undeserved!). However, I am in the business of pointing out tragic beauty choices, so here goes.
This might be just a bad photograph, or she might have missed a leg with that self tanner. Whatever the case may be, this serves as a good place to remind you that when you are self tanning, be sure you don’t miss a spot, especially a spot as large as a whole leg (especially if you are wearing a very short dress) or the sides of your legs. Lots of self tanners now have a tint to them - the tint does dual-duty in giving you an immediate tanned appearance (then the self tanner chemical kicks in a few hours later), and also to show you where you might have missed, are streaky or have too much or too little on. These products do a great job in this respect, so be sure, when choosing a self tanner, that you look for this important feature! Personally, my favorite self tanner in a bottle is Banana Boat’s VitaSkin, it has all of those necessary features, comes in two shades, and best of all (I hate to even say this…but), I often find it in my local $1 store! Wow!
I am moderately fascinated by the British sister socialites Lucy and Plum Sykes. Plum writes for Vogue, and wrote Bergdorf Blondes (which I actually quite enjoyed. It’s fluffy, but fluff can be fulfilling, and it’s very cheery and over the…
I know Jenna Jameson is a famed porn star, and therefore we shouldn’t anticipate that she would abide by the standards of normalcy applied to much of the rest of the sentient world. But, something’s gone awry there. Consider Ms….
October 10th, 2006
