Saw this commercial for Blue Moon beer a bunch of times tonight. The song playing is "Punctual as Usual" by the Parson Redheads. I think it sounds like "Box Elder" by Pavement, one of my favorite high school jams. That song absolutely rules. The Pavement song. The other one is OK, I guess.
Doesn't make me want to drink Blue Moon though. Watered-down hefeweizen doesn't do it for me.
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Tuesday, January 19, 2010
I'm afraid to say that you're not one of them
Wednesday, December 09, 2009
Lock of the Year
Jane Lynch wins the Emmy for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy for Glee.
No one else has a chance. She's so good it's ridiculous.
"Finding a hairstyle that doesn't make you look like a lesbian."
Sunday, August 16, 2009
Not Dead
Just had a lot on my plate lately is all...
2 young kids, both hilarious and amazing.
Major renovations to Douchebag Manor.
The economy has rediscovered my real job and has provided me with a way to spend a sizable amount of time.
And all sorts of other things that I've been busy with.
Nevertheless, I don't want this to die. I've been saving a lot of things to write about. Might have shorter posts, might have less interesting (to you) posts. Definitely not doing Gameday Recaps ever again. Probably won't even be watching it this year (I'd rather watch the 10:00 Premiership Match on FSC - more on that in another post). I am still interested in college football, but I have little faith in myself to add anything terribly interesting to the online discussion. Too many smart people do this with more diligence and intelligence.
I have noticed, in the past several months, that I do need an outlet for the bile.
So a welcome back to myself. But first, a few Cheers and Jeers:
Cheers to Carriage House Construction, for coming in under budget.
Jeers to the guy who broke into my car to steal $8 in quarters.
Cheers to the producers of Law & Order: Criminal Intent for adding Jeff Goldblum, who wears pretty awesome specs.
Jeers to the producers of Law & Order: Criminal Intent for making a very short season, but mainly for bringing back Det. Wheeler when they could've easily written her off.
Cheers to Hop City Beer, a fine establishment for a beer lover.
Jeers to Hop CIty Beer, for being located on the West Side, rather than in Georgia's Beer Capital, Decatur.
Cheers to the dessert waffle at Leon's Full Service.
Jeers to the Crunchie candy bar, and to me for forgetting that I didn't like it each time I'd try it again.
Cheers to my son's ticklish feet.
Jeers to inexact MRI readings.
Cheers to Tommy Hanson's breaking ball. Reminds me of a tall Maddux when it whips back over the plate.
Jeers to the Marlins, because they keep winning with a mediocre run differential.
Cheers to the triumphant return of the Guardian's Football Weekly podcast, and the melifluous cyncism of Barry Glendenning.
Jeers to the sad departure of Candace Keener from the How Stuff Works Stuff You Missed in History Class podcast.
Cheers to upcoming book releases I'm excited about: Simon Kuper's Soccernomics, Jon Krakauer's Pat Tillman book, Bill Simmons' basketball book, Jeff Ross' memoir, Joshua Ferris' follow up to the exceptional Then We Came to the End, Chuck Klosterman's Eating the Dinosaur.
Jeers to the above-referenced business getting in the way of reading, and lots of other stuff.
Cheers to having two amazing kids that never stop making me happy.
Friday, May 22, 2009
Lebron is freaking amazing.
Also...
I'm 32 today.
And I got a new kid a week and a half ago. There is now an Earl of Douchebag and he looks like a miniature version of Boris Becker circa 1988. He's awesome.
And my daughter now demands "Bagel Butter" on any breakfast item. "Bagel Butter" is cream cheese.
I lead a ridiculous life.
Sunday, December 07, 2008
If Lorne Michaels is still alive
MAKE JORMA TACCONE A CAST MEMBER OF SNL.
He's a writer and was hysterical in the classic digital short last night. Dude is a genius. If you haven't already, go rent Hot Rod and focus on Kevin. Hilarious.
Sunday, October 05, 2008
Getting to Know Roddy White
So on the Falcons game there was a pretaped segment on "Getting to Know" Roddy White, and we learned that he was a 2 time state champion wrestler. More importantly, he said it was a family tradition, and that he had several successful wrestlers in his family.
MOST INTERESTING, however, was that one of said relatives was "his uncle, Carl Champagne".
Carl Champagne. Name of the Year, 2008.
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Some things I Like
1. How Krazee Eyez Killah was in a State Farm commercial that ran every break during March Madness.
2. Leinenkugel's Sunset Wheat
3. Pulitzer Prize Winning Doritos Spicy Sweet Chili.
5. Heavy Metal Parking Lot, which I'd heard about from that Backstreet Boys video a while back, but never actually seen. Incredible.
6. Blanche de Chambly (and Don de Dieu, if you want to get drunk fast). All about the ale on lees.
7. Mad Men. Watch this television show. It's great. I can't stress this enough.
8. The fact that a team in the Philippine Basketball Association was excited to have signed former UGA basketball player Steven Thomas. Look: he's all over their website! Also: you can spend an hour looking at info on the PBA on wikipedia. The PBA is freaking awesome. I thought I was going to become a die hard Beverage Master fan, but I don't want to be a frontrunner. Come on Phone Pals!
9. That Saturday is the NFL draft. I know it's terrible. I know I'm a massive nerd for loving it. I actually even did a live blog of it 3 years ago (whoa... stone age in blogtime). I can't help it. I love college football and I like pro football. I even think Mel Kiper is great; he's one of the few people on ESPN that actually provides insight - he's definitely an expert in his field, especially compared the the litany of ESPN's former players/moronic sportswriters yelling conventional wisdom. Sure, I wish it would go faster. And Berman is atrocious (though this year I might watch a bit more of the NFL network). Still, I like it. I can't help it. Now, please let Dorsey fall to the Falcons so we're not stuck with Matt Ryan and an albatross contract.
10. The best thing that has ever been on the internet: Fun Town Autos.
11. Finally, a happy 10 year anniversary to Je Suis France, a fine rock-n-roll band. The average life span of an Athens band is like 3 weeks, and the average level of awesomeness on a scale of AIDS to Fun Town Autos is "scrotal contusion", it's just incredible that they've lasted so long and continue to provide the cruisejams and crotchbashes at such a high level. Congrats, dudes. Also, Darkness - something is coming your way. Keep your eyes open.
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Random Thoughts Not About Football Necessarily
Peter King style!
1. I think the pitch for the most recent Old Navy ad campaign was this: It's Christmas at Zoolander's apartment. Too bad a gas fight didn't break out.
2. Radiohead's In Rainbows is their most enjoyable album since OK Computer.
3. I still think there's a sociology thesis to be written on the role of race and the demographics of the audience in the selection of America's Next Top Model. But let that not cloud my congratulations to Poor-Man's Rihanna!
4. This weekend Shannon Sharpe told me the weather in Cleveland was "treach-you-us".
5. Speaking of terrible speaking, on the E! True Hollywood Story for "Hip Hop Wives", an editor for Jet magazine used the word "jury" multiple times when I believe she meant "jewelry". It's good to know that editing a major magazine with a wide circulation doesn't require pronunciation skills.
6. It took me two weekends, several hours, and three trips to Target to complete the job of hanging Christmas lights. It was here that I sensed the following conflicting/in perfect harmony emotions:
(a) dammit, why do these lights break so damn easily with just a single staple through the main line!
(b) great! these lights are on sale for just $2 a box!
I'm an idiot.
7. Cheers to Sam Adams for brewing a mass-produced cranberry lambic. OK, not exactly a true lambic, but it's kind of/sort of close. And at least the attempt gets some points in my book. Thumbs up for their cream stout, too.
8. If there's one thing in this world that is true, it's that it wouldn't be a Lemon party without old Dick.
9. Brett Favre is SI's Sportsman of the Year. Here are better options:
(a) Glenn McGrath. If the choice is an aging statesman, why not choose this guy (who plays in the sport with the largest worldwide audience this year)? In his final international cricket appearance, the 2007 Cricket World Cup, he was named Player of the Tournament, led the tournament in wickets (setting a record for most wickets taken in a single World Cup), topped the record for all-time wickets taken, and just so happened to lead his Australian team to their (another record) third-straight World Cup victory. He was named World Player of the Year at age 37 (quite old for the sport). If Favre is having a great autumn, McGrath was inconceivably great.
(b) Roger Federer. OK, let me just say this: It is absolutely ridiculous what Federer has done in the sport of tennis over the last few years, and this year very well might've been his best. Look at this year what he did in the major tournaments. Australian Open - defended his title, and DIDN'T LOSE A SINGLE SET IN THE ENTIRE TOURNAMENT (let me put that in perspective - the last man to do that in a Grand Slam event was Bjorn Borg in 1980). French Open - on his worst surface, he still made the final, losing in 4 sets to the best clay court player of this generation, Rafael Nadal. Wimbledon - won his 5th straight title (equaling Borg's record for the Open Era) in one of the best single game sporting events of the year, the 5-set beat-the-hell-out-of-each-other classic with Nadal. US Open - won his 4th straight title (a record for the Open Era), dropping only 2 sets the entire way (and beating world ranked 5, 4, and 3 consecutively, all in straight sets). In 2007 Federer set the all-time record (male or female) for consecutive weeks ranked #1 (he's topped the rankings since February 2004!). He's played in 10 consecutive Grand Slam finals, winning 8 of them. He won a second straight (and 4 of the last 5) Masters Series (year-end championship),. He also broke his own record for earnings in a season, becoming the world's first $10,000,000 earner. I think it's utterly ridiculous that Federer has never been named Sportsman of the Year. Nobody (yes, even Tiger Woods) is as good at his sport as Federer. I'm serious.
(c) Younis Mahmoud. Read the link.
10. I watched Hot Rod a second time, just to make sure I wasn't crazy about liking it. I think I may have even liked it more the second time (the dance punching in the woods is even funnier than I first thought, and the march/riot killed me). I pose this question to you: why isn't the band Europe held in as high regard as some of the other bands of the era? Do they not totally rule every bit as much?
Saturday, October 27, 2007
FUCKING A FUCKING A FUCKING A
My shattered view of the world has been challenged.
Truly. A pride-obliterating bitchslap.
UPDATE LIKE 20 SECONDS LATER: Fishfisting condor-rapist fucktrolley dildo-cowboy cocksmoking indeed.
UPDATE LIKE 2 HOURS LATER: This is pretty much my favorite post ever. Especially for the google hits I'll get from it. Also: Knowshon is the greatest. And for the record, Georgia players did "the chop" approximately 1 GD PLAY INTO THE GAME and it didn't end up biting us in the ass. The world is upside down. Dogs and cats, living in harmony. My neighbors thought there was a murder taking place in my home when the last fumbled snap happened. Greatest ever. HAHA!
Monday, August 13, 2007
Banishment Nominee!
A few years ago I posted about how the Georgia legislature needs to bring back the concept of banishment. If you act like an idiot and bring shame to our state, you are free to keep acting like such, but you just can't do it here. Take it to South Carolina or Alabama or someplace else.
New nominee:
Juanita Marie Jones of Rochelle, Ga.
Want the law to prosecute the guy who sold you fake crack? I believe the Muscle Shoals Police Department can help.
That said, I'm no lawyer (or at least a good one), but is it really possession if the crack was indeed fake? I mean, yes, arrest the woman on general moronic behavior (that's a law, right?), but possession doesn't seem to me to be the right law for which to prosecute her. I mean, what if she produced a fully-completed Voltron or an adorable puppy and called it crack?
And on the topic of Voltron... awesome?
Thursday, July 19, 2007
Word of the Day
The Lady and I actually watched a few minutes of that silly reality show that's basically an impersonator's American Idol yesterday. The Seacrest wannabe is a woman named Michelle Merkin. For some reason that word, Merkin, stuck in my head. I knew it was a good word, and that I should remember the definition. But I couldn't remember it.
Thank the Lord for Google for being there to remind me.
Merkin:
Definition 1. –noun- false hair for the female pudenda...
Definition 2. n. A pubic wig for women.
Etymology. "female pudenda," 1535, apparently a variant of malkin (q.v.) in its sense of "mop." Meaning "artificial vagina or 'counterfeit hair for a woman's privy parts' " is attested from 1617. According to "The Oxford Companion to the Body," the custom of wearing merkins dates from c.1450, was associated with prostitutes, and was to disguise either pubic hair shaved off to exterminate body lice or evidence of venereal disease.
Needless to say, I find this freaking incredible.
Monday, July 09, 2007
Can't just focus on the negative
Some things I like...
- Miller Chill.
- That the World Series of Pop Culture has returned.
- When The Lady surprises me by making mini cheeseburgers.
- The girl who can't stop crying on Age of Love (comedy reasons alone - total trainwreck).
- PLANET EARTH DVDS - this deserves its own post times ten.
- Every episode of Man vs. Wild except the one where Bear drops into the Everglades.
- Fatherhood.
- Rafael Soriano, Jared Saltalamacchia, Kelly Johnson, and Chipper Jones.
- Amazon Prime.
- The sassy Russian girl in GoldenEye.
- Chicago's Greatest Hits. No shitting.
- Trader Joe's chai tea cookies (and just about everything else in the store).
- Joe Simpson on Braves games.
- That there's less than 2 months to college football.
- Flight of the Conchords.
Sunday, February 25, 2007
Mind, Zapped. Ass, Kicked. Face, Melted
Flip Scoldjah and Excalibrah absolutely dominated the 40 Watt Club Friday night. Simply an incredible performance that every single person there enjoyed and will talk about for a long time.
Dude in the bathroom: Who were those guys? They were awesome!
Ice's dance-off? Amazing - and the crowd ate it up.
Nazgul pizza delivery, Immigrant Song? Pants-crappingly hilarious.
Wangs? Brought down the house. "That song was so fuckin' good!"
Can we get them to play more often? Please? I will not miss another concert with them. Also, Dr. Dog (who was pretty good), how's about playing until 2 if you're going to cut the earlier bands short? Hell, Flip and Brah should've been able to get back up and do 6 more songs after Dr. Dog. And it would've ruled. And everyone in the place would've loved it.
Simply awesome show. And now, I will go shit in a graveyard.
Thursday, February 22, 2007
Some things I like
1. Rob Huebel's myspace blog. "Welcome to the wonderful world of AIDS."
2. Luxury Ducks
3. Jigsawdoku
4. This picture:
5. The lady who dropped her O-ring laughing at the trailer for "Road Hogs" and further herniated herself laughing at all the moments previously seen in commercials during "Music and Lyrics" (don't ask... or do. It was hilarious. The lady, not the movie.)
6. How frequent LeBron James chews on his nails during games.
7. Season 1 of Veronica Mars (though season 2 much less so).
8. The Pac Man Jones strip club story.
9. Pissing The Lady off by watching the end of the Daytona 500 with genuine interest.
10. That baseball is just a month and a week away. I sleep better after a Braves win, and it's been too long since I've slept well.
One other big thing, but that'll take its own post.
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