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The Yankees are considering signing the 32-year-old Garciaparra to play first base
Must not pay attention to off season rumors
Must not pay attention to off season rumors
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Apparently, John Gibson has a meltdown on Fox yesterday. While it's semi-amusing to watch, I was amazed that someone who has written a book called "The War on Christmas" can host a so called news program where they discuss whether there IS a war on Christmas. Even on Fox News this seems to be a stretch. I don't watch Fox so I'm not sure about about this, but I thought they were still at least pretending to be a news organization, not a propoganda machine.-----
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and don't forget to track Santa!-----
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Hope everyone had a happy holiday or at least a relaxing few days off. I did! Yesterday I spent 2 hours lazing in bed, reading a book. Then opened up the laptop and played a DVD:
Am I watching this movie about the pre World Series champion Boston Red Sox to remain humble (hubris is the fatal flaw! I know I'm not the only person out there who took AP History in high school!) or just for the chance to see Johnny Damon (with short hair in 2003), Nomah, Derek Lowe and Bill Mueller play again? I have a sickness, people.
How did you spend your down time?-----
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There is a new woman working in my office. I've yet to see her speak to anyone, she merely walks around with no facial expression whatsoever. I've been wondering if she has any functioning brain waves as I've never seen anyone so blank. In my head I call her "sullen, no personality girl". I have no idea where she works. Well, today Sullen, No Personality Girl cut me in line for the microwave. I stood glaring at her throughout her entire 2 min. work of microwaving what appeared to be french fries in a tupperwear container (???). She completely ignored me. Clearly, we will now be mortal office enemies. It's the law of the microwave.. you can't cut and not expect retribution. Even worse, the snarky intern/receptionist watched this whole event and laughed at me. But then he stuck his foot out when Sullen, No Personality Girl walked by and she almost tripped. hee hee hee-----
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A number of important things are going on right now in the world of Boston sports and beyond.
Ball Gate - just let Dougie have it. The only issue with less importance in Boston right now is whether it's a Christmas or Holiday tree. Everyone just needs to get a grip.
Manny's Condo is up for Sale - waaaa... don't leave me, Manny.
Find a GM - yo! Red Sox, get it together. Just because you pulled off the Beckett trade without one doesn't get you off the hotseat. This is New England.. what have you done for me lately?
Joe Thornton Trade - Of course I'm opposed to this. But since I pay zero attention to hockey, my opinion doesn't really count, especially since it's based on the fact that he is the only Bruin's player whose name I know AND he is not very tough on the eyes.
Of course, I love it when Bill Simmons tells the truth about Many and Lucchino, then to my complete shock exposes himself as the only other person I know of has heard of the recently cancelled show, Reunion. Reunion, the cheesy Fox show (is that redundant?) with the tagline: "In 1986, they were the best of friends. By 2005, one will be murdered. All will be suspects." Who could resist such drech? The show is so impossibly bad, that it's addicting.
Bill says:
They'll watch the first one, think it's terrible, vow to stop watching it, then inexplicably keep watching. By the third show, not only will they be hooked, they'll feel like an idiot for being hooked. But they'll keep watching.
This is exactly what happened to me. Tivo suggested it to me (I'm sure because it knows I've had a crush on the guy who plays Craig sincethe show he was on last year, which was also cancelled. That one is even more embarassing to like because it was a teen drama). I watched Reunion and thought: this is the worst show I've ever seen in my life. But then I kept trying to figure out the mystery and two days later there I was setting up the season pass on Tivo. I'm going to stop humiliating myself now. Why does bad tv feel so good?-----
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and I'm feebly trying to stop them with a big stick like Princess Leia... to no avail.
Earlier this week, the greatest coffee place on earth, Dunkin' Donuts, was sold. I read about this and that the new owners were local and thought: that is good. I read that one of the new owners was called the Carlyle Group, but I immediately dismissed it as not THAT Carlyle Group*. It wasn't possible. What would THAT Carlyle Group* want with donuts? But it IS THAT Carlyle Group*.
FUCK!!!
I can't support THAT Carlyle Group*, which means I can't go to Dunkin' Donuts. Life is over as I know it. I feel almost as bad as after Game 3 of the 2004 ALCS. How could this happen?
* the investment firm whose key players have included James Baker, George H.W. Bush, and members of the Bin Laden family; and that was last seen starring in Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 (the plank)-----
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This project will not only combat the popular notion that all young wo
Channel 7 weatherman has vanished.. from Channel 7 and their website with no explantion.
Inquiring minds want to know!!-----
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So, it's silly quiz time.
| What Your Underwear Says About You |
You like your underwear to make you feel girlish and pretty. Let's hope you're a chick.You're comfortable in your own skin - and don't care to impress anyone. |
The US Government, the folks behind such find websites as ready.gov (which teaches us how to be prepared for emergencies through the use of nonsensical drawings) and energyhog.org (which teaches kids how not to waste energy. Why kids? Here's a tip: cut down on the Christmas lights. My neighborhood looks like friggin' Las Vegas. I thought we were supossed to be conserving energy) are back at it with a site for girls 10 - 16, girlshealth.gov
This site is condescending to young ladies in so many ways.
First of all, the tagline for this site is: You are the rhythm of the universe! Mind, Body & Spirit. WTF does that mean? It's hard enough to be 10 - 16, you need this bullshit?
Today's poll is: Do you think the national driving age should be raised to 18 instead of 16? What kid aged 10 - 16 is going to vote to raise the driving age?
The "Body" section is subtittled "Becoming a Woman". GAG. It's unclear why this is the subtitle because the topics there are: Changes in Your Body, Getting Your Period, Getting Enough Sleep, Grooming and Hygiene, Fighting Germs. I'm sure that they only meant the Period section to be called Becoming a Woman. I'm cringing. I absolutely can't stand when people call it that. I'm having bad flashbacks.
As I looked through the Fitness, Body and Nutition sections, I was amazed that there was nothing about eating disorders, well that is because it's in the "Mind" section. Perhaps you are insane if you have an eating disorder or eating disorders are only in your mind?
And if you feel like you might develop an eating disorder, just fill out the Just4Me log with all the things that are good about you.
Of course sex is never explicity mentioned, only the bad things that can happen to you if you have sex. This is the US government, after all.. no information that could possibly be educational, only a hotline number to call if your sexually abused and information about date rape drugs (what is the logic here? Girls can't have facts about sex because it will make them promiscuous, yet information about date rape drugs doesn't encourage boys to get them???)
This is the closest they get to discussing contraception, and it's buried 3 levels down, not that easy to find. Condoms aren't the only method of contraception, you know. There is a whole section on Relationships which doesn't mention sex, except for advice on how to not feel pressured to do something you don't want to do!
Your doctor can give you information on abstinence (avoiding sex), the best choice, and other ways to protect yourself from both diseases and getting pregnant. It is important to know that while condoms can protect against some infections, they don’t protect against everything.The best way to protect your reproductive health is to wait until you are married to have sex because condoms don't work for all infections and only reduce the risk of others.
It must be impossible to marry someone with an STD. Good to know!
Now, there actually is some good information on this site and it's explanation of the femail reproductive system seemed way to explicit for the current administration to allow, but it's ridiculous to not give kids all the information they need to exist in the world today.-----
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I try to not follow the hot stove trade rumors because they absolutely drive a person insane, but..
The anti-christ? My first reaction is: hell, no! My second reaction is: would there be enough oxygen for both Clemens and Schilling in the bull pen? Wouldn't the battle of the egos be interesting to watch? My third reaction is: You DO love us, Roger, you really do!
I'm a sick, sick puppy.-----
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that is the sound of me screaming because the very first thing I heard coming out of my alarm clock this morning was:
Johnny Damon is a New York Yankee
Fucking Scott Boras! 12/21 is already the longest and worst day of the year and now the Yankees are going to take another Red Sock with perfectly good hair and make him look like one of their automatrons. WHY? What is the Yankee payroll going to be next year, 500 million??
I see Shaunessy is up to his old tricks, trying to be devicive.. comparing Johnny to Clemons or Boggs. Come on. It's not that bad, except for Johnny saying he wouldn't want to be a Yankee during the season last year.
Meanwhile, I'll be looking forward to a season of being a Dodgers fan.-----
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ALL DAY I have been singing:
I'm living on the air in Cincinnati..
Cincinnati WRKP
I don't know why. I've seen that show maybe twice (it was banned as too risque in my house), I've never been to Ohio.. I don't know anyone from Ohio. HELP!-----
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Yesterday, while reading with my student on the topic of how Presidents are elected, I laughed out loud at the following passage (now keep in mind this is in a 1st grade reader):
People who want to run for President should:
- Know U.S. laws
- Be a good leader
- Work well with others
- Speak clearly
- Be someone others trust
George W. Bush: 0 for 5, even on a 1st grade scale-----
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Megnut thinks perhaps the current Red Sox woes come from Curse of the Queer Eyes. I think it's the Curse of the Pedro. You just know he's somewhere under a mango tree with a Lucchino voodoo doll, laughing to himself.
When Dan Shaughnessy steals this idea and writes a book.. remember you read it here first!-----
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If everyone pushes and shoves to get on the train, we DON'T all get on faster.-----
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or at least what my future niece or nephew will be wearing. Just because it's parents moved to the west coast and show no interest in baseball or basketball* doesn't mean the kidlet should be deprived.
* I must have been adopted...-----
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Perhaps the only thing worse than your new haircut not being noticed at all is hearing "what did you do that for? Longer hair is better".-----
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that I'm using when I send emails to friends abroad:
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This space reserved for my special hello and happy holidays
to any NSA agents who may be screening my international email,
as allowed by Bush, the lawbreaker. So uncool.
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I first used it yesterday when emailing a friend in Istanbul to ask what the word on the street over there was on the Orhan Pamuk trial (answer: Pamuk is using this to get attention for himself, shame on him, but the Turkish government is idiotic to put him on trial for this). Come get me, George Bush, come get me!!-----
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and I want it now!!!
And I still hate the T.-----
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Ditch Lumbergh - The Game-----
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do you just stay home until the transit strike is over? I would.-----
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I stumbled across Bad book math, which tells me, in a nutshell (with mathmatical proof), that there is no way I'll ever be able to read every book I want to read before I die (never mind all the other things I want to do). GA! My chest hurts.
Time is of the essense, I've got to get going. Work takes up too much time and isn't allowing me to do anything I want to do.. it must go!
But wait.. I have to work. Just yesterday I was playing around with a calculator on Fidelity which analyzed my current investments, asked me a few questions, then spit out a probability of having enough money to retire. Based on my intended high falutin' retirement lifestyle, I originally had only a 25% chance of not running out of money (assuming I live to be 94 - ga, I hope not, but then again, I NEED all that time to read all those books - see above). I had to adjust my spending down (jeez, I already have to look forward to being an old person on a 'fixed income'), not retire until I'm 67, assume Social Security will exist (HA!) and then I have a 50/50 chance. If the stock market averages 8% growth, I'm fine, if not, it's cardboard box city. I've got to look at my budget and find some more money to save.
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You read that right, I said Happy Holidays. To those people who seem to believe their is a "war on Christmas", I have some news: the war is over. Christmas (and the blatent consumerism that has nothing to do with the Christmas spririt, but which keeps our big business afloat so they can live to import another cheap piece of plastic crap from China) won long ago.
Which is why I love Jon Stewart (ahem, a Jewish person who doesn't celebrate Christmas) with the passion of a thousand sun's because last night he took Bill O'Reilly to task..
See it on Crooks and Liars
Apparently we liberal, secular fags here at Comedy Central have fired a devestating year old six second long joke that doesn’t barely even make any sense to us anymore, across the bow of Christianity....
You know what, if Bill O’Reilly needs to have an enemy, needs to feel persecuted, you know what, here is my Kwanza gift to him. Are you ready, all right: I’m your enemy. Make me your enemy. I, Jon Stewart, hate Christmas, Christians, Jews, morality and I will not rest until every year families gather to spend Dec. 25th together at Osama’s Homobortionpotandcommiegistporium.
After the Colbert Report took on the critics of Northeastern states buying cheap oil from Venezuela just because Bush disagrees with Hugo Chavez. Freeze for Freedom!
I woke up still laughing to myself.
** Update **
Jon Stewart and I are not alone in our mockery of the wingnuts..
Mo Rocca takes on the anti-Christmas crowd (though I didn't watch the video because it told me I had to use IE6. Fuck that and fuck you MSNBC).-----
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In addition to taking a swipe at almost every sports figure in Boston (except, inexplicably anyone from the Bruins... too easy?) and some from outside in an attempt to be funny (which he isn't), Shaughnessy dares to mock bloggers:
A couple of 30-something fanboy bloggers posed as reporters, but were banished when they used their notepads to procure autographs (the Schilling jerseys gave them away). One of their moms picked them up in a minivan.
Afraid much CHB?
But this is the part that I found the most amazing:
In an unrelated matter, the Sox announced plans to sell a limited number of ''dugout seats" for the 2007 season. Fans paying $20,000 per game will be allowed to sit on the bench and spit on the dugout floor during select home games.
He totally stole this! A caller on WEEI said this a week or so ago as a joke, only he said $5,000.
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College hoops is moving into the fun part of the season! I can't wait. I'm watching the end of the West Virgina/Oklahoma game... WVU is up by 15 with 4 min. to go and it's first time I've heard "Pittsnogled" this year. I do so love it when the Big East represents.-----
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Tonight I decided to check out the new "Hip Hop" class at my gym. Picture the scene: really hot black guy as the teacher, a group of pasty white women as the students. Then the music started... the teacher begins doing his moves, and he is outstanding. The women in the class begin flailing about like they're having spasmodic fits. You could tape this and sell it as: White Women Gone Mental or White People Can't Dance. Now, I'm am under the delusion that I'm not a bad dancer (hey! I'm as funky as a white girl from the suburbs possibly can be), but I have not felt this white since the time I driving in LA, looking out the window and asked: where the hell are we? And the answer was: we took a wrong turn, we're in South Central. It was difficult not to laugh.
But if you could get over all that, the class was fun and everyone in it seemed to have fun. As long as there are no cameras, it's all good. I would pay serious cash to not have film of this get out publicly.-----
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This year I:
had a flood at my house resulting in my being bitchy for 6+ months. Your entire life being consumed by contractors is not a good thing.
watched from afar 2 hurricanes nearly destroy an entire region of the US, and then watched the US government totally botch their response in a thoroughly disgraceful manner.
had an out of body experience while running a race in 90 + degree heat with about 150% humidity. I was dizzy and practically delirious, but I finished and my time wasn't bad, either.
I tried a new hairstyle. I liked it so much I tried a second new hairstyle. Let's just say one new hairstyle a year is all that is needed.
In other news:
The flag was raised..
Boeheim & Calhoun were inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame
I was this close to Trot Nixon
We discovered what being Pittsnoggled meant.
Ballgate, Mannygate, Theogate: enough already, Red Sox!! Get it together.
Social Security, Plamegate, Abramhoffgate, Wiretapping-gate, massive bureaucracies so full of cronies they can't fulfill their mission-gate, torturing prisoners, secret prisoners, Delay, Frist, Duke Cunningham, bridges to nowhere, cutting taxes for the rich while cutting aid to the poor: enough already, federal government! Get it together.
Hopefully next year will be better one for everyone.
Happy New Year!!-----
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thanks to Chris
Classic 80's video games online (for free)
I literally yelped with joy when I heard the Pac Man wucka wucka wucka..-----
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Going to work yesterday there was a medical emergency causing traffic backups, going home there was a disabled train. Today going to work there was a medical emergency, AGAIN. How is that even possible? What are the chances? From my old house I used to commute via the Orange Line. I can't remember 1 medical emergency holding us up. Why is the Red Line so prone to them? Or are they? Are "medical emergencies" just what they tell us to explain extraordinarily long commutes because the are just fucked up???.
Get it together, Red Line. It's New England. Cold weather happens! Every year.. around this time.-----
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is like a day without sunshine (or a day without a silly link post on this blog). I'm tramatized.-----
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If the Red Sox are going to let the Certified Mariano Rivera Killer(tm), Bill Mueller go (and maybe Manny), I want Nomah back. It's really that simple.-----
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