drat fink

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."

categorical imperative

Duran Duran - Save a Prayer
John Prine - Flashback Blues
Charlie Parker - Max Maxing Wax
The Hidden Cameras - Shame
Joe Fingers Carr - Under Paris Skies - La La
James Mason - Ive Got My Eyes On You
Ella Fitzgerald - My Cousin In Milwaukee
Nina Nastasia - Superstar
Sonny Rollins - Silk 'n' Satin
Slint - Darlene

life during wartime

ABBA -Does Your Mother Know
Neutral Milk Hotel - Hypnotic Sounds
Home - Let It Overcome You
Françoise Hardy - Je Ne Suis Pas La Pour Personne
Woody Guthrie - Dust Can't Kill Me
Max Frost & The Troopers - Shape Of Things To Come
Cobra - Shoot To Kill
Lee Perry - Yush Dub
Ornette Coleman - The Alchemy Of Scott Lafaro
Albert Ayler - Love Cry