drat fink

root root root for the home teeming with bacteria

that whole preventative dentistry thing turns out not to be a scam. and now that the anaesthesia is wearing off, i probably should fill those prescriptions....what do you mean it might get infected? youre just trying to sell me something i dont nee....ouch.

moonshine over montana

"There are no lattes here, no Patagonia fleece or Sage flyrods. It’s a place where home-cooked methamphetamine is king and queen, and blasting the woods with a Chinese-made assault rifle is a far more popular recreation than snowboarding or hiking. People from that world don’t go skiing at Big Mountain on Saturdays. They meet in front of the Flathead County Jail, smoking cigarettes and talking about who’s locked up, and who’s getting out. And you can see them there, the impoverished young women, many of them with children and worthless boyfriends or runaway or imprisoned husbands, pale from meth use or from serving endless hours behind a cash register. They are always in bad need of cash."

via mark kleiman

you make my motor run

i havent listened yet to this john peel version of Polysics My Sharona but i love the one on the album.

via polysics or die

strat cat

""As I had when I was drafting Strat-O-Matic teams," he recalls, "I was reading the box scores every day, but with no purpose."

After a year without Strat-O-Matic, Okrent sketched out the rules for what became known as Rotisserie League Baseball on a flight from Hartford to Austin in 1979.

Okrent, now The New York Times' first public editor, has done many big things (founder of New England Monthly, managing editor of Life, editor of The Ultimate Baseball Book, and much more), but inspiring the tens of millions who play Rotisserie and its fantasy sports offspring -- and inspiring America's infatuation with sports statistics -- is huge."

can a' corn

"The Mets' most outspoken fans travel to Philadelphia, not necessarily to watch their favorite players, but to talk about them at decibels that would be prohibited at most stadiums. They sit in the back of the concourse in Section 125, at a makeshift studio called Broadcast Dream, some to vent their frustrations and others to voice their hope.

For $10, anyone at Citizens Bank Park can broadcast a half-inning of a game and receive a CD of the occasion to play and replay on the way home. Most Philadelphians tired of the ear-splitting novelty in the stadium's first season. Mets fans, however, comprise something of a cult following. Every time the Mets make this trip down the New Jersey Turnpike, their fans come along for some baseball karaoke."

song sung bloo

Devo -Theme from Doctor Detroit (Dance Mix)

Herman - Uganda

Notwist - Electric Bear

Asobi Seksu - Asobi Macho

Shigeru Umebayashi-The Chrismas Song (Fast Version)

The Who - Postcard

Jimi Hendrix - Izabella (alternate version with percussion)

Echo & The Bunnymen - Simple Stuff

Fela Kuti and The Africa 70 - Jeun Ko Ku (Chop'n Quench)

Toumani Diabate - Bi Lamban

harp on

"But if the reconstruction industry is stunningly inept at rebuilding, that may be because rebuilding is not its primary purpose. According to Guttal, "It's not reconstruction at all--it's about reshaping everything." If anything, the stories of corruption and incompetence serve to mask this deeper scandal: the rise of a predatory form of disaster capitalism that uses the desperation and fear created by catastrophe to engage in radical social and economic engineering. And on this front, the reconstruction industry works so quickly and efficiently that the privatizations and land grabs are usually locked in before the local population knows what hit them. Kumara, in another e-mail, warns that Sri Lanka is now facing "a second tsunami of corporate globalization and militarization," potentially even more devastating than the first. "We see this as a plan of action amidst the tsunami crisis to hand over the sea and the coast to foreign corporations and tourism, with military assistance from the US Marines.""

failed specs

ive "awarded" myself a 78% inefficiency rating. i might need to downsize.

son house

"Bathing in a public toilet does little to advance ideas."

via the formerly underappreciated majikthise

hat enough?

The Creation - Biff Bang Pow
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - The Anointed One
Madness - Wings Of A Dove
Bob Dylan - Too Much of Nothing
Sonny Rollins - Conception
T.Rex - Catblack (the wizards hat)
Andy Capp - Herbsman
The Clash - Im Not Down
Lee Perry - Curly Locks
Minnie Riperton - Young, Willing and Able

cartoonish character

this is really unfair to ned but.....

cuban cigars

still the most entertaining billionaire blogger out there. must be fun to pick up properties like you were playing monopoly, and still have the energy for apostasy.

why must you slam the door?

Vera Brasil - Samba Bom
X - Blue Spark (demo)
Gary Numan - Glitter And Ash (Bonus Track)
Henry Mancini - Rockford Files
The Ronettes - Soldier Baby Of Mine
Neil Young - Mellow My Mind
Snoop Dogg - Signs
My Bloody Valentine - I Only Said
The Postal Service - Nothing Better (Styrofoam remix)
Brazilian Girls - Die Gedanken Sind Frei

blue balls

"Dave Kingman’s name today is something of a bitter joke: a synonym for sluggishness, unpopularity, and dysfunctionality. Every discussion of bad fundamentals, bad fielding, and bad behavior inevitably leads to a Kingman mention.

But it wasn’t always that way. There was a point in Kingman’s career – an early point, yes, but a point – at which he looked for all the world as though he was going to be a multi-faceted contributor, a major star, quite possibly a Hall of Famer.

Not convinced? How about we take a look at him in comparison with a few young power hitters who closely preceded him."

or if youd prefer to recall the day reagan was shot and i became a tar heels fan.... its hard to believe the academy awards and the ncaa finals were to be broadcast simultaneously. i guess march madness was quite a bit saner then. btw, i was almost giddy watching pedro martinez pitch in a mets uniform yesterday. not giddy enough not to fall asleep during the game but it is baseball, after all. at 32 hes not as dominating as he once was but he still a marvel to behold, and as they say, is a true ace. unfortunately, the mets dont have a great closer in braden looper so martinez entered The Glavine Zone, where wins needed to bolster your hall of fame credentials become painful no decisions. randy johnson who has had to suffer TGZ in arizona will now benefit from The Clemens Effect with the yankees as a result of high run support which increases your winning percentage. barring injury, under TCE, i wouldnt be surprised in johnson won 25 games this year. no, really, this is just an aside.

sheepish

i dont even know what to say about this. cant we jail people for stupidity and mendaciousness?

this one is foolproof

Haircut One Hundred - Favorite Shirts
The Pixies - Down To The Well
Stevie Wonder - I Wish
Lennox Brown - High School Serenade
Pavement - Pueblo Domain
Donovan - Sunshine Superman
Mirah - Lone Star
Madness - One Step Beyond
Devendra Banhart - Tit Smoking In The Temple Of Artesan Mimicry
John Coltrane - Dealin' (take I)

sidd vicious curveball

"It was 20 years ago this week that Sports Illustrated ran one of its most celebrated articles, "The Curious Case of Sidd Finch" - in which George Plimpton crafted a 14-page exposé on a bizarre, out-of-nowhere Mets phenom who fired baseballs at a stupefying 168 miles an hour. "Crafted," of course, is what Plimpton truly did - the story was pure fiction. It instantly became its generation's "War of the Worlds," leaving thousands of frenzied fans either delighted at the April Fools' prank or furious at being duped."

via metsblog

roxanne hearts michelle

who said bloggers werent fools?

mile high

"When members of the National League expansion committee approved a franchise for Denver in 1991, they probably didn’t know much about the weird history of minor-league ball in this town — and they certainly didn’t consult Dr. Robert K. Adair about drag coefficients and the Navier-Stokes equation, which governs fluid dynamics. Maybe they should have. Beginning in 1886, assorted bush-league teams have played here — the Denvers, the Rough Riders, the Colts, the Teddy Bears — but it wasn’t until detailed baseball statistics came into favor in the 1950s that two undeniable trends became apparent. Games played in Denver produced unusually high scores, and the place was uniformly brutal on pitchers. Fact: Since 1955, the only twenty-game winner for a Denver minor-league team was Jim Ollom, a 6’4”, 210-pound right-hander who did it for the old Denver Bears in 1966, then promptly flopped as a reliever for the Minnesota Twins. The only Rockie to win as many as seventeen games in a season was fan favorite Pedro Astacio, who managed that in 1999."