Archive for May, 2007
your SportsCenter moment
Tonight’s Red Sox vs. Cleveland Indians game featured a very cool moment in the bottom of the 4th inning, and you’ll likely be seeing it on SportsCenter for weeks to come: Manny Ramirez (on his 35th birthday) fouled a ball off the lens of a television camera up on top of the green monster. The [...]
“It was a little shocking, but it was fun”
It seems like it should be a deleted scene from Amadeus, where the doltish emperor takes up Mozart’s baton.
Gesturing exuberantly, President Bush led the orchestra during part of its performance of “Stars and Stripes Forever.” “We didn’t expect him to know the score so well,” conductor JoAnn Falletta said afterward. “He was not shy about [...]
like a fat frog jumping lilypads
Liberace once said “when the reviews are bad, I tell myself that they can join me as I cry all the way to the bank.” He should have added that bad reviews can also be hilarious. Check out some of the choice quotes at Metacritic’s roundup on Georgia Rule, the recent movie with Jane Fonda, [...]
bigger is better
Just in case you’re a URL size queen, here’s the Leather Egg link via hugeurl.com. (Geesh, I’m easily amused this evening.)
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what a long strange trip it’s been
After 20 consecutive years, the originators of the Carbon House Road Rally (Jack and Jan) have called it quits. Another road rally (or something similar) will likely take it’s place sooner or later. Being one of only 5 people involved in all of the first 19, I was one of the organizers for this year’s [...]
baseball beefcake 2: J. C. Romero
Second in a series combining two of my favorite things: baseball and hot guys. In this edition we’ve got J. C. Romero. Romero is having a good season in the Boston bullpen (3.86 ERA in 13 appearances so far). He entered the majors with the Minnesota Twins in 1999 and was traded to the Los [...]