Thursday, December 22, 2005
holiday salutations
ok peeps, i'm out. have a happy festivus (or whatever you celebrate). hope you all enjoy your respective airing of the grievances. i'll be back on the flip side (of the calendar). until then, be good.
ok peeps, i'm out. have a happy festivus (or whatever you celebrate). hope you all enjoy your respective airing of the grievances. i'll be back on the flip side (of the calendar). until then, be good.
free agents
since i'll be leaving this afternoon for dc (just in time for day 1 of the new "pat my balls" TSA policy) and most likely won't blog until the new year, i have to get a rash of posts out today.
so i know there's a lot of time for moves to be made, and maybe due to the frenetic nature of this offseason i'm just constantly expecting more more more, but there are a lot of interesting names out there still without a team:
sluggers (as you'll see, this is a loose interpretation)
millar
big hurt
piazza
burnitz
encarnacion
reggie sanders
(bill s.) preston wilson
randa
hidalgo
bengie molina (there are 30 teams with better catchers than molina? really?)
quality arms (also a loose interpretation)
millwood
jeff nelson
6 fingered mcgee (alfonseca)
clemens
weaver
al reyes
tavarez
tomko
estes
joe mays (ok, those last 2-3 are a real stretch)
untouchables
raffy
lawton (probably doesn't belong on this list)
urbina
slammin' sammy
kevin brown
other than millwood and weaver, every single guy here is questionable for some reason or another. but if there are teams out there willing to consider playing termel sledge, than surely jeremy burnitz will find a home soon right?
since i'll be leaving this afternoon for dc (just in time for day 1 of the new "pat my balls" TSA policy) and most likely won't blog until the new year, i have to get a rash of posts out today.
so i know there's a lot of time for moves to be made, and maybe due to the frenetic nature of this offseason i'm just constantly expecting more more more, but there are a lot of interesting names out there still without a team:
sluggers (as you'll see, this is a loose interpretation)
millar
big hurt
piazza
burnitz
encarnacion
reggie sanders
(bill s.) preston wilson
randa
hidalgo
bengie molina (there are 30 teams with better catchers than molina? really?)
quality arms (also a loose interpretation)
millwood
jeff nelson
6 fingered mcgee (alfonseca)
clemens
weaver
al reyes
tavarez
tomko
estes
joe mays (ok, those last 2-3 are a real stretch)
untouchables
raffy
lawton (probably doesn't belong on this list)
urbina
slammin' sammy
kevin brown
other than millwood and weaver, every single guy here is questionable for some reason or another. but if there are teams out there willing to consider playing termel sledge, than surely jeremy burnitz will find a home soon right?
it's cold as a...
...witch's tit in here. a few weeks ago, i got a new office. it has a window and i don't have to share it with anyone, two upgrades from my last one. the best benefit, unlike every other office in the area, is that the door has no window. this makes for a prime crossword/sudoku-doing environment. the only downside is that it is freezing in here. cold enough where people should expect to see me wearing a scarf and those bob cratchet glove-with-finger-holes while i type. maybe i'll throw in a corn cob pipe just to get the point across too.
adding to the coldness yesterday was the fact that the gym had no hot water in the morning. sure i could've made my way to the pool locker room, wherever the f that is, but i just sacked up (literally, my sack was searching for warmth up in my body cavity) and showered with the ice water. i felt like phil connors ("hey mom, the hot water's not working"), turning the faucet to the side until i regained the courage to allow the ice-spray to hit my body. that'll wake you up in the morning, but my feet were cold until lunch.
with all this frigid-ness in mind, i'd like to open up the comments section for you to include your favorite "it's cold as ___" analogy. i'll kick it off with it's cold as ted william's head in here. now hop to it.
...witch's tit in here. a few weeks ago, i got a new office. it has a window and i don't have to share it with anyone, two upgrades from my last one. the best benefit, unlike every other office in the area, is that the door has no window. this makes for a prime crossword/sudoku-doing environment. the only downside is that it is freezing in here. cold enough where people should expect to see me wearing a scarf and those bob cratchet glove-with-finger-holes while i type. maybe i'll throw in a corn cob pipe just to get the point across too.
adding to the coldness yesterday was the fact that the gym had no hot water in the morning. sure i could've made my way to the pool locker room, wherever the f that is, but i just sacked up (literally, my sack was searching for warmth up in my body cavity) and showered with the ice water. i felt like phil connors ("hey mom, the hot water's not working"), turning the faucet to the side until i regained the courage to allow the ice-spray to hit my body. that'll wake you up in the morning, but my feet were cold until lunch.
with all this frigid-ness in mind, i'd like to open up the comments section for you to include your favorite "it's cold as ___" analogy. i'll kick it off with it's cold as ted william's head in here. now hop to it.
Wednesday, December 21, 2005
nobody fucks with the jesus
WWJDD? sign with the yanks evidently. and while he certainly is the best available cf out there, and i'm not completely down on the signing, here are 5 things i don't like about it:
(1) the assumption jd will leadoff. jeter's a better leadoff hitter, no? shouldn't damon hit 2nd?
(2) damon's arm. waaaaay worse than bernie's, or my sister's.
(3) damon makes more than gary fucking sheffield.
(4) his OBP is tied heavily to his BA. if he hits .260 one year, he won't even remotely be worth $13 mil/year (see: oakland, 2001).
(5) at damon's age (32), bernie was better. damon's contract expires when he'll be 36. by 36, bernie had dropped off drastically (though he wasn't terrible until this year). i'm terrified of a huge damon drop off in 2-3 years.
like i said, though, i'm not exactly upset with it. he'll easily fit into the clubhouse and i think new yorkers will like him and his wacky style.
in other baseball news (of which there's been a lot), the padres traded adam eaton and their asian reliever for chris young, adrian gonzalez, and terrible sludge. doesn't this seem like the dads easily got the better end of the deal? though i'm not sold on gonzalez (who dominates the PCL but never seems to be able to stick in the bigs), san diego needed a first baseman and young has more upside than eaton (irrelevantly, i have eaton in an NL-only fantasy league so that's just wonderful). i know otsuki is good, but does a set up man really command that much value? i'm not talking about sledge because he shouldn't possibly be getting any at bats this year. they already have one dave roberts, they don't need another.
then there's the kerry wood for vidro/church move (is this even finalized?). not only does this also hurt my NL-only team (i have vidro AND todd walker), this deal could be a potential disaster for the nats. they're giving up an all-star 2-bagger and a young outfielder who i think could be very good (but fell out of ever-crotchety frank robinson's favor in 05) for a great but incredibly risky arm. it just seems like washington's giving up too much. clearly soriano's ridiculous refusal to play the of (which makes no sense - he should have absolutely no say in the matter) had a hand in this, but you'd think his statement this week about leaving after 06 to head back to the AL would've led the nats to hold on to vidro. if vidro's injury is as risky as wood's arm, then i guess that evens things out a little bit. still, vidro appeared to have no desire to leave the team via free agency, and church is too young for it yet. what if wood leaves when his contract his up?
it's a little confusing on the cubs side too. chicago just signed pierre and jones (neither of whom can get on base), you still have corey patterson, matt murton deserves a job, and now you get church. and what do you do with todd walker?
anyway, i'm going to eat some pizza. talk amongst yourselves.
WWJDD? sign with the yanks evidently. and while he certainly is the best available cf out there, and i'm not completely down on the signing, here are 5 things i don't like about it:
(1) the assumption jd will leadoff. jeter's a better leadoff hitter, no? shouldn't damon hit 2nd?
(2) damon's arm. waaaaay worse than bernie's, or my sister's.
(3) damon makes more than gary fucking sheffield.
(4) his OBP is tied heavily to his BA. if he hits .260 one year, he won't even remotely be worth $13 mil/year (see: oakland, 2001).
(5) at damon's age (32), bernie was better. damon's contract expires when he'll be 36. by 36, bernie had dropped off drastically (though he wasn't terrible until this year). i'm terrified of a huge damon drop off in 2-3 years.
like i said, though, i'm not exactly upset with it. he'll easily fit into the clubhouse and i think new yorkers will like him and his wacky style.
in other baseball news (of which there's been a lot), the padres traded adam eaton and their asian reliever for chris young, adrian gonzalez, and terrible sludge. doesn't this seem like the dads easily got the better end of the deal? though i'm not sold on gonzalez (who dominates the PCL but never seems to be able to stick in the bigs), san diego needed a first baseman and young has more upside than eaton (irrelevantly, i have eaton in an NL-only fantasy league so that's just wonderful). i know otsuki is good, but does a set up man really command that much value? i'm not talking about sledge because he shouldn't possibly be getting any at bats this year. they already have one dave roberts, they don't need another.
then there's the kerry wood for vidro/church move (is this even finalized?). not only does this also hurt my NL-only team (i have vidro AND todd walker), this deal could be a potential disaster for the nats. they're giving up an all-star 2-bagger and a young outfielder who i think could be very good (but fell out of ever-crotchety frank robinson's favor in 05) for a great but incredibly risky arm. it just seems like washington's giving up too much. clearly soriano's ridiculous refusal to play the of (which makes no sense - he should have absolutely no say in the matter) had a hand in this, but you'd think his statement this week about leaving after 06 to head back to the AL would've led the nats to hold on to vidro. if vidro's injury is as risky as wood's arm, then i guess that evens things out a little bit. still, vidro appeared to have no desire to leave the team via free agency, and church is too young for it yet. what if wood leaves when his contract his up?
it's a little confusing on the cubs side too. chicago just signed pierre and jones (neither of whom can get on base), you still have corey patterson, matt murton deserves a job, and now you get church. and what do you do with todd walker?
anyway, i'm going to eat some pizza. talk amongst yourselves.
Thursday, December 15, 2005
libertee shirts
always on the lookout for quality t-shirts, i stumbled upon a site that had some funny libertarian ones. i don't wear my politics on my sleeve (literally) enough to buy one, but i thought these were funny:
jefferson is my homeboy
the ted kennedy driving school
real rebels don't support centralized state authority (with the classic pic of che)
i really don't like that they have kid sizes/tee's. i have seen trendy stores carrying the actual che shirts (not these anti-che ones) in kid sizes too. foul on both sides there. let your little ones make up their own minds when the time is right.
always on the lookout for quality t-shirts, i stumbled upon a site that had some funny libertarian ones. i don't wear my politics on my sleeve (literally) enough to buy one, but i thought these were funny:
jefferson is my homeboy
the ted kennedy driving school
real rebels don't support centralized state authority (with the classic pic of che)
i really don't like that they have kid sizes/tee's. i have seen trendy stores carrying the actual che shirts (not these anti-che ones) in kid sizes too. foul on both sides there. let your little ones make up their own minds when the time is right.
Tuesday, December 13, 2005
doin' it to (not for) the children
continuing the double standard? i guess we won't know until the woman's trial, but imagine what whould happen if a man had said "she was no victim" in regards to his 14 year old wife.
continuing the double standard? i guess we won't know until the woman's trial, but imagine what whould happen if a man had said "she was no victim" in regards to his 14 year old wife.
jug-jugga-jug-jugga-jug
this past saturday, nina and i went to see the transiberian orchestra. we don't go to many live shows, so i can't really say my opinion holds much/any water. but i was pretty amazed. by both the music (especially the keyboard players, the guitarists, and the insane violinist) and the lady two seats in front of us who was head banging furiously for literally 3 hours. the headbanger was especially hilarious because (a) it wasn't that type of crowd (for which i respected her), (b) she had pretty short and incredibly hair-sprayed locks, so her hair didn't really move, and (c) what little time she wasn't convulsing was spent encouraging her teenage son to have neck spasms. good times.
anyway the sets went something like this:
set 1 (this was sort of a christmas story - songs with narrated passages in between)
the song from the famed x-mas lights video$>some songs i don't know the name of^>an acoustic joint with some cool raspy voiced singer*>awesome dueling guitars playing good king wenseslas#
$ we missed this because parking was a bitch. also, i stole this clip from ace.
^ i've always wanted to write something in this format. yes! plus it's not every day you get to use the ^ key.
* the singer was dressed as a homeless man. i think it had some symbolism or something.
# also known as "good king what's his name", this was great. i was hoping for some "little drummer boy" bah rum-pum-pum-pum but no dice.
set 2 (this is where the band cuts loose - superior to set 1)
rock and roll@>mozart stuff%>the flight of the bumble bee&>more songs with pyrotechnics#>dueling keyboard stuff!>encore - one of their famous ones/
@ zeppelin cover! i know the name of one!
% with a serious du hast guitar feel
& this might have been my favorite of the night - the guitarist named angus played this faster than i thought humanly possible
# i like fire. when i was 13 i used to burn stacks of newspapers in the woods behind my house. very wise, i know.
! also so friggin impressive
/ done while the guitarist and violinist ran through the crowd before being lifted to the ceiling on a platform while rockin out
you can sample some of their stuff here. i thought it was great, but like i said, when it comes to music what do i know.
this past saturday, nina and i went to see the transiberian orchestra. we don't go to many live shows, so i can't really say my opinion holds much/any water. but i was pretty amazed. by both the music (especially the keyboard players, the guitarists, and the insane violinist) and the lady two seats in front of us who was head banging furiously for literally 3 hours. the headbanger was especially hilarious because (a) it wasn't that type of crowd (for which i respected her), (b) she had pretty short and incredibly hair-sprayed locks, so her hair didn't really move, and (c) what little time she wasn't convulsing was spent encouraging her teenage son to have neck spasms. good times.
anyway the sets went something like this:
set 1 (this was sort of a christmas story - songs with narrated passages in between)
the song from the famed x-mas lights video$>some songs i don't know the name of^>an acoustic joint with some cool raspy voiced singer*>awesome dueling guitars playing good king wenseslas#
$ we missed this because parking was a bitch. also, i stole this clip from ace.
^ i've always wanted to write something in this format. yes! plus it's not every day you get to use the ^ key.
* the singer was dressed as a homeless man. i think it had some symbolism or something.
# also known as "good king what's his name", this was great. i was hoping for some "little drummer boy" bah rum-pum-pum-pum but no dice.
set 2 (this is where the band cuts loose - superior to set 1)
rock and roll@>mozart stuff%>the flight of the bumble bee&>more songs with pyrotechnics#>dueling keyboard stuff!>encore - one of their famous ones/
@ zeppelin cover! i know the name of one!
% with a serious du hast guitar feel
& this might have been my favorite of the night - the guitarist named angus played this faster than i thought humanly possible
# i like fire. when i was 13 i used to burn stacks of newspapers in the woods behind my house. very wise, i know.
! also so friggin impressive
/ done while the guitarist and violinist ran through the crowd before being lifted to the ceiling on a platform while rockin out
you can sample some of their stuff here. i thought it was great, but like i said, when it comes to music what do i know.
Monday, December 12, 2005
black outs are faaaantastic (much like these sexy pink-orange-black heat unis)
lots of crazy football games to go with my eggnog and amaretto (god i love christmans) yesterday, including a drama-filled classic between kc and the boys which (for the first time all season) wasn't televised here. instead they went with a meaningless broncos-ravens game (that was about as entertaining as watching, in real time, jake plummer grow his stache) and paid programming on fox. super! so i was relegated to following the chiefs-dallas game on the ol' internets.
i went 6-2 on my picks in the early games, but followed that up with a miserable 1-6 afternoon and evening. in a lot of those late games i had a chance to cover well into the fourth quarter. but one minute i'm hoping the giants would win by 7 and the next (once i realize my hopes of winning the pool this week were kaput) i'm pulling for them to outright lose. all while running between a viewing of father of the bride 2 and the computer room. and yes, i realize that last sentence is completely ridiculous. ridiculous and true.
anyway, here's a sort of fun game where you control a shit-canned santa. i got 447 on the first try. can you top it?
lots of crazy football games to go with my eggnog and amaretto (god i love christmans) yesterday, including a drama-filled classic between kc and the boys which (for the first time all season) wasn't televised here. instead they went with a meaningless broncos-ravens game (that was about as entertaining as watching, in real time, jake plummer grow his stache) and paid programming on fox. super! so i was relegated to following the chiefs-dallas game on the ol' internets.
i went 6-2 on my picks in the early games, but followed that up with a miserable 1-6 afternoon and evening. in a lot of those late games i had a chance to cover well into the fourth quarter. but one minute i'm hoping the giants would win by 7 and the next (once i realize my hopes of winning the pool this week were kaput) i'm pulling for them to outright lose. all while running between a viewing of father of the bride 2 and the computer room. and yes, i realize that last sentence is completely ridiculous. ridiculous and true.
anyway, here's a sort of fun game where you control a shit-canned santa. i got 447 on the first try. can you top it?
Friday, December 09, 2005
jolly green bullshit
when reading a review on cnn of ang lee's new movie "brokeback mountain," i came across the following:
"Lee is one of the most respected directors working today. His films include "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," "Sense and Sensibility" and "The Hulk.""
(singing) one of these things is not like the other, one of the things is not the same. seriously, the hulk?? if you're trying to convey he's great, you leave this one off the list, no? i certainly don't know the ins and outs of hollywood, but i'm fairly sure directing the hulk didn't vault him into the land of scorsese.
this is probably bothering me more than it should, but cut me some slack - i'm back on the sauce. i've had coffee two days in a row, which has become a rarity. i pretty much kicked the habbit over the summer, but i'm back on (fell off? i never remember which is which) the wagon. this coffee is shit - office sludge - and i'm still all giddy and figgety. maybe i'll a pound a liter of (cola) mountian dew for lunch to keep things rolling.
when reading a review on cnn of ang lee's new movie "brokeback mountain," i came across the following:
"Lee is one of the most respected directors working today. His films include "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," "Sense and Sensibility" and "The Hulk.""
(singing) one of these things is not like the other, one of the things is not the same. seriously, the hulk?? if you're trying to convey he's great, you leave this one off the list, no? i certainly don't know the ins and outs of hollywood, but i'm fairly sure directing the hulk didn't vault him into the land of scorsese.
this is probably bothering me more than it should, but cut me some slack - i'm back on the sauce. i've had coffee two days in a row, which has become a rarity. i pretty much kicked the habbit over the summer, but i'm back on (fell off? i never remember which is which) the wagon. this coffee is shit - office sludge - and i'm still all giddy and figgety. maybe i'll a pound a liter of (cola) mountian dew for lunch to keep things rolling.
Wednesday, December 07, 2005
why didn't oj think of this?
so saddam didn't show up in court today. apparently he thinks you can boycott trials. i don't really understand how this can possibly happen, and it's a bad sign for the iraqi court system if he isn't marched in there in shackles pronto. imagine if jeffry dahmer, after two days of hearing testimony, declared "i don't really like where the evidence is going, so i'm just not showing up until i start hearing things that are going to get me off!" and then he was somehow allowed to not show up anymore. i mean, what the fuck.
so saddam didn't show up in court today. apparently he thinks you can boycott trials. i don't really understand how this can possibly happen, and it's a bad sign for the iraqi court system if he isn't marched in there in shackles pronto. imagine if jeffry dahmer, after two days of hearing testimony, declared "i don't really like where the evidence is going, so i'm just not showing up until i start hearing things that are going to get me off!" and then he was somehow allowed to not show up anymore. i mean, what the fuck.
juan gone
thankfully, juan pierre is out of the picture for the yanks. questionable move for the cubs unless they think they can unload pierre when felix pie is ready to start 07, but i digress.
my question today on the bombers' cf quagmire (giggity giggity) is why they are not at least showing marginal interest in signing brad wilkerson. no, he's not a great defensive cf. but he's only 28, gets on base well, and hits for decent power (ignoring 05). plus he could really pitch back in his florida gator days. but really, can his stock have fallen that far after a sub-par 2005 that no one is interested in this guy, least of all a team in need of a cf upgrade with money to burn? he made less than $4 mil last year (in a walk year) - how much would they really have to offer him? $5-6 mil?
in other baseball news, i saw this rumor over on si.com today:
"The Red Sox asked the Angels about Orlando Cabrera, the shortstop for Boston's 2004 World Series champions, and also are trying to persuade the Padres to take catcher Doug Mirabelli straight up for second baseman Mark Loretta."
apparently the sox think they can run things fine without a general manager. if i was a sox fan i'd be terrified of this. first, they're looking to get rid of renteria and get back, um, his clone (who are very comparable in age, (lack of) offensive production, salary, and i'd say defensively if you ignore 2005). next, why in god's name would the padres trade an all-star caliber second basemen (which don't exactly grow on trees) STRAIGHT UP for the sox knuckle ball catcher? that is like one of those trade offers you see in fantasy baseball league - like the guy who offers you daryl ward and steve traschel for albert pujols, then sends you an email a few days later with something like "what do you think of the trade offer? i'm willing to part with brett tomko instead of traschel".
i've also heard (from roy) that sox fans are complaining about a possible david wells-loretta deal. why would the sox not jump on this immediately? oh yeah, they have leisure suit larry running things. i picture this guy at the winter meetings talking like the aliens in mars attacks, with all the other gm's whispering things like "don't make eye contact" to each other and larry barking at kevin towers "you take mirabelli for loretta or i'll put your head on the body of a dog!"
UPDATE: the dads just gave away loretta to the sox for mirabelli! WTF (and yes, this most certainly warrants capital letters)!!! either something is seriously wrong with loretta, or towers forgot that all you have to do to make the martians heads explode is turn on some country music. seriously, i have never been more confused by a trade in my life. even if san diego is worried about loretta leaving via free agency after 2006, couldn't they have gotten more for him? maybe there's minor leaguers involved. please, let there be minor leaguers involved.
thankfully, juan pierre is out of the picture for the yanks. questionable move for the cubs unless they think they can unload pierre when felix pie is ready to start 07, but i digress.
my question today on the bombers' cf quagmire (giggity giggity) is why they are not at least showing marginal interest in signing brad wilkerson. no, he's not a great defensive cf. but he's only 28, gets on base well, and hits for decent power (ignoring 05). plus he could really pitch back in his florida gator days. but really, can his stock have fallen that far after a sub-par 2005 that no one is interested in this guy, least of all a team in need of a cf upgrade with money to burn? he made less than $4 mil last year (in a walk year) - how much would they really have to offer him? $5-6 mil?
in other baseball news, i saw this rumor over on si.com today:
"The Red Sox asked the Angels about Orlando Cabrera, the shortstop for Boston's 2004 World Series champions, and also are trying to persuade the Padres to take catcher Doug Mirabelli straight up for second baseman Mark Loretta."
apparently the sox think they can run things fine without a general manager. if i was a sox fan i'd be terrified of this. first, they're looking to get rid of renteria and get back, um, his clone (who are very comparable in age, (lack of) offensive production, salary, and i'd say defensively if you ignore 2005). next, why in god's name would the padres trade an all-star caliber second basemen (which don't exactly grow on trees) STRAIGHT UP for the sox knuckle ball catcher? that is like one of those trade offers you see in fantasy baseball league - like the guy who offers you daryl ward and steve traschel for albert pujols, then sends you an email a few days later with something like "what do you think of the trade offer? i'm willing to part with brett tomko instead of traschel".
i've also heard (from roy) that sox fans are complaining about a possible david wells-loretta deal. why would the sox not jump on this immediately? oh yeah, they have leisure suit larry running things. i picture this guy at the winter meetings talking like the aliens in mars attacks, with all the other gm's whispering things like "don't make eye contact" to each other and larry barking at kevin towers "you take mirabelli for loretta or i'll put your head on the body of a dog!"
UPDATE: the dads just gave away loretta to the sox for mirabelli! WTF (and yes, this most certainly warrants capital letters)!!! either something is seriously wrong with loretta, or towers forgot that all you have to do to make the martians heads explode is turn on some country music. seriously, i have never been more confused by a trade in my life. even if san diego is worried about loretta leaving via free agency after 2006, couldn't they have gotten more for him? maybe there's minor leaguers involved. please, let there be minor leaguers involved.
Monday, December 05, 2005
they're mad, and they're just not gonna take it anymore
the trial is obviously no laughing matter (with the exception of the fact that a former u.s. attorney general is working on saddam's defense team), but this picture is just plain funny. enter captions in the comments.
the trial is obviously no laughing matter (with the exception of the fact that a former u.s. attorney general is working on saddam's defense team), but this picture is just plain funny. enter captions in the comments.
Friday, December 02, 2005
no, i think you had 2 50's and went straight to the 70's
from a reason piece on recent congressional "decency" (read: censorship) debates:
"The most disturbing speaker at Tuesday's hearing was the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Kevin Martin. "You can always turn the television off and, of course, block the channels you don't want," he observed. "But why should you have to?"
sweet jesus. how can a man you says this possibly wield any power in a free society? at what point are these people made to stand trial for clearly trying to overrule the first amendment?
from a reason piece on recent congressional "decency" (read: censorship) debates:
"The most disturbing speaker at Tuesday's hearing was the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Kevin Martin. "You can always turn the television off and, of course, block the channels you don't want," he observed. "But why should you have to?"
sweet jesus. how can a man you says this possibly wield any power in a free society? at what point are these people made to stand trial for clearly trying to overrule the first amendment?
Thursday, December 01, 2005
the office redux
i don't see the office (carrell's version) as much as i'd like, but there's one episode where a lady comes in to sell purses. i remember thinking that shit would never happen, but today a purse lady came to my work. she spread out the purses and scarfs all over the conference room and was causing quite a hubub. then, just like in the episode, the one young single guy in our office started flirting with her, making all the other ladies in the office huffy.
this will not be funny if you haven't seen the show, but i was laughing all afternoon here. so at least there's that.
i don't see the office (carrell's version) as much as i'd like, but there's one episode where a lady comes in to sell purses. i remember thinking that shit would never happen, but today a purse lady came to my work. she spread out the purses and scarfs all over the conference room and was causing quite a hubub. then, just like in the episode, the one young single guy in our office started flirting with her, making all the other ladies in the office huffy.
this will not be funny if you haven't seen the show, but i was laughing all afternoon here. so at least there's that.
