drat fink

alexander who?

cant get the dime, how about a 10-spot for the dearly merely departed?

reel to reel

i didnt think it possible but the ceiling in my bathroom actually looked better with a hole than it does fixed. way to spackle, lupe. i guess exposed tape is all the rage these days.

pencils down

i guess this is a form of googlewhacking. i like to check with google to see if what ive just thought up has been used before, and thats a "before" in the very limited context of whats been indexed by google.

so usually i am being unoriginal as with todays construction -- does god grade on a curve? i guess i was trying to imagine how difficult the entrance exam was to heaven, and whether or not it was standardized? word is there may be some institutional biases built into the whole system that prevert the results.

times up

fell asleep during the second half of the nba finals opener. at least from what i saw, detroit looked like it might have more of a chance than many believed. of course when noone scores more than 5 points outside of your two stars than it can be a long night. detroit played with more energy and more of a concept. it seemed like larry brown had outcoached phil jackson. but when your shots go in, it has a way of making your decisions look better.

i was marginally pro-laker as i rooted for them against the hated celtics back in the 80s but thanks in part to ever-so-tepid neoliberal kevin drum and his la triumphalism, im leaning toward detroit.

but really, i prefer chris rock to kid rock, so detroit better rock harder or theyll lose me again. not that anyone (including myself) cares. im just killing a minute between 7:49 and 7:50. and now a few words from our sponsors.