paintin' the town brown...

i guess this is good news. i really hope the knicks don't suck wang next season.

sounds like this could be andre....

this is his local watering hole and to set the record straight, milady's is not a nightclub, unless by nightclub they mean dive bar.

Johnny Knoxville allegedly got embroiled in a bar room brawl trying to defend supermodel Kate Moss.

The 'Jackass' star was reportedly thrown out of New York nightclub Milady's after the scuffle, which started when a "young frat-boy type" began bothering Kate.

Onlookers say Johnny flipped when the man refused to stop brushing a rose up against the catwalk queen's cheek, despite repeated requests from Johnny to do so.

the first ranger report....

this is a very exciting moment on the blizzy. great work as always by the illustrious barry beck. can an islanders report be far behind?



The deadline to buyout player contracts has come and gone and the Rangers have bought out the contract of Bobby Holik. Holik is a solid player but his strengths will be hurt by the leagues rule changes which will open up the game and flow considerably. Further, his large contract would be a burden to the franchise. I am suprised the the Rangers didn't buyout Kasparaitis who is also owed a lot of dough even with the 24% rollback in salaries. The Rangers are in a great position with Jagr. When they traded for them the Capitals assumed1/2 his salary. Amazingly the 1/2 of the salray paid by Washington will count against their cap. Sucks for them. Now we wait and lett he dust settle over the weekend and watch the Draft (Saturday at Noon on MSG). Sidney Crosby will have his coming out party on Saturday.Too bad he will not land in MSG but we will get to see a lot of him. Come Monday free agent signings will begin. It is going to be crazy and I, for one, will have a close eye on the wires over the next few weeks. The Rangers have publicaly annoucned their commitment to youth. It will be interesting to see if they follow through with that commitment.

Stay tuned for my report on one of the Most exciting Ranger Prospects: Al Montoya (G) from the U of Michigan who will likely become the first Cuban to ever play in the NHL.

any comments high life?

Hey, you. Quit smiling over there. You got nothing to smile about."

This is yelled through the few teeth of a pony-tailed man and flutters for a moment, suspended on the din and dim-lighted chatter of the moment only to be absorbed into what are the last days and hours of the National Liquor Bar.

The joke may as well have been for all Milwaukee.

That's because the space, at 2601 W. National Ave., which has operated as a tavern since 1939 and expanded to its current warehouse size in the 1940s, will make its last call Saturday at 6 p.m.

Hard by the tanneries and three-shift manufacturing plants that powered the city for generations, the place lent affordable fraternity to the working men and women whose fortunes rose and fell along the arc of the city's industrial experience, who waited in lines to cash their checks at the tavern's ticket booth and who spent a portion of their wages there on the drink at the racetrack-shaped mahogany bar.

how come it's always the weatherman?

funny video of a weatherman dropping some random f bombs. you got to love the f bombs.

so many bad albulm covers...

so many

stolen hats? minor crash?

not to mention a charity rally race. i've always found dennis hilarious.



DENVER - Even when he's doing good, Dennis Rodman comes across as bad, bad, bad. The former NBA star was pulled over for speeding twice Tuesday while driving his gold-and-black Lamborghini in a charity rally race, according to the Colorado State Patrol.

In between, Rodman was involved in a minor crash and later accused of stealing a hat in what he says is a "misunderstanding" at a gas station in Glenwood Springs.

"It's been that kind of day for me," Rodman said by phone late Tuesday.

A clerk at the gas station told police that Rodman tried on a cowboy hat, said he liked it, signed an autograph, then put $20 on the counter for gas.

"Unfortunately $40 worth of gas was put in the car, and there was the cost of the hat to consider," Glenwood Springs Police Chief Terry Wilson told the city's Post Independent newspaper.

Rodman said he went into the gas station to prepay for his gas, then signed several autographs. A female employee gave him a hat, he pumped his gas and left.

who knew?

Aaron Small is doing his part to keep the New York Yankees' creaky rotation patched together. Small won his second straight start since the Yankees brought him up from the minors and Gary Sheffield drove in four runs, leading New York over the Minnesota Twins 6-3 Thursday.

Small (2-0) hadn't started a major league game since 1996 before last week, when the 34-year-old right-hander helped New York to an 8-4 victory at Texas in his Yankees' debut -- his first big league win in seven years.

this looks only incredible...

"The Aristocrats" is - how shall I put it? - an essay film, a work of painstaking and penetrating scholarship, and, as such, one of the most original and rigorous pieces of criticism in any medium I have encountered in quite some time.

For those of you who have not already put down your newspaper and rushed off to buy tickets (and I hereby authorize the advertising department at ThinkFilm to plaster the previous sentence wherever it likes), perhaps I should add that "The Aristocrats" is also possibly the filthiest, vilest, most extravagantly obscene documentary ever made. Visually, it is as tame as anything on PBS or VH1's "Behind the Music," but there is scarcely a minute of screen time that does not contain a reference to scatology, incest, bestiality and practices for which no euphemisms or Latinate names have been invented.

here's the trailer

had a great time at mercury loungue with high life, andre the giant, reggie roby and a-game on wed. night. had lots of drinks and lots of laughs. high life recomended these guys on the blizzy a while back and told me to get tickets. glad i did.

amazing that nike paid this guy 44.5 mill...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Andre Agassi has dropped the Nike swoosh for the Adidas stripes.

The world's sixth-ranked player is leaving Nike after 17 years, and joining his tennins champion wife Steffi Graf as an Adidas endorser.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed, although Adidas spokeswoman Kelly Olmstead said the agreement includes contributions to Agassi's foundation, which focuses on children's causes.

Agassi is the second-highest-paid U.S. athlete in terms of salary, winnings and endorsements, according to the July 4 issue of Sports Illustrated, which estimated his 2005 take at $45.7 million US. Nearly all of that - $44.5 million - comes from endorsements, the magazine said, including a $20-million payment by Nike in January.

hall of fame weekend...

love boggs riding the horse and loved that the guy ate chicken before every game. he'll rock a sawx cap in cooperstown, but he came to new york to win a ring.



ryne hit 40 home runs as a second basemen, which at the time seemed incredible, and he was traded (along with this guy) for this guy. nice job by the phillies. nobody f's with dejesus.

the miami report: transvestite hooker edition...

Former Miami Commissioner Arthur E. Teele Jr. -- politically humiliated and facing two indictments with more to come -- walked into the lobby of The Herald building Wednesday evening and shot himself in the head. He died less than two hours later at Jackson Memorial Hospital.

During a 15-year political career, Teele became one of Miami-Dade's most influential politicians, serving on both the Miami City Commission and the County Commission. But his life ended in a cascade of arrests and humiliating disclosures that reached a crescendo in recent weeks.

Two weeks ago, Teele was indicted on 26 federal charges of fraud and money laundering -- his third arrest in a year. On Tuesday, a probation officer filed papers seeking to revoke his probation from an earlier conviction and send Teele to jail.

Wednesday brought the latest embarrassment: The New Times weekly published an excruciatingly detailed, 14-page spread describing Teele's alleged sordid relationships with crooked contractors, drug dealers and -- what bothered Teele the most -- a transvestite prostitute. The front-page headline: Tales of Teele: Sleaze Stories

barry beck answers questions on nyr.com

	RANGERS Q&A
	BARRY BECK Q: Growing up you were my favorite Ranger and I always enjoyed watching your mix of physical play and skill. What game/series sticks out in your mind as the most important in your Rangers career? ~ Chris G. – Hazlet, NJ BB: It was probably against the Islanders when I got hurt. I think it was ’84 when it was a best out of five series. I think that was the one where I got hurt at the Garden in the second period. Then that final game, we went out to Long Island where we lost in overtime and it was a great game. But that series probably sticks out in my mind the most just because it was the series that I got hurt. I had continuous problems with my shoulder after that.

reggie is have a tough day at the salt mines...

so here's some stuff to cheer you up:

hippies


"touchdown" tommy vardell


and how about some phil lesh

this guy is a work friend of fredeeky's...

Can't decide whether to hit the arcade or a concert? The Trophy Wives perform a special multimedia set called Mortal Muzak in which they connect MIDI instruments to a PC and engage in Mortal Kombat. The NYC band programmed an open source version of the game to recognize MIDI music as fighting commands. A single note might throw a punch; chords can produce flying kicks; and a scale may enable special moves. The audience watches the action on a projection screen as band members pound out music - and their in-game avatars pound each other. Are the Wives more concerned with winning or artistry? Keyboardist Mat Kane (far right) confesses, "I'm just trying to kick ass."

sort of love this guy's show...

RADAR ONLINE: On your blog you once wrote: “Frogs have crazy personalities, one minute they are sad, the next they are happy, sometimes they act standoffish around lizards but are very welcoming around bugs, especially ones they want to eat.” Given all that, how froglike would you say you are?

ANDY MILONAKIS: I don’t know, frogs are very crazy creatures. I’m more like a hyper little puppy dog. I don’t like standoffish people.

Ninjas: awesome or lame?

Ninjas are awesome because they can protect me from other ninjas who don’t like me, and no one else could protect me from ninjas that don’t like me better than ninjas that do like me.

So there are known ninjas out there that don’t like you currently?

Yeah.

Really?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I can’t really tell you more about it because they never get close enough to me for me to be able to tell you anything about them. Just all of a sudden I see someone jump out of the bushes and fight someone off. Then I’m like: “All right. Thanks, ninja who likes me for protecting me from the ninja that doesn’t like me.” And then they’re like: “Woooord up!” And then they jump away.

winos rejoice...

What could it mean? For the first time since the Gallup Poll began keeping track in 1992, more Americans have reported that their alcoholic beverage of choice is wine, not beer. Months after Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry was caricatured as a Chardonnay-sipping Francophile, and somehow less American for it, the French national beverage seemingly has become our preferred swill.

According to Gallup, 39% of American drinkers said they drink wine most often, while only 36% said they drink beer most often. (The rest prefer liquor, and a small percentage said they like all three equally.) Technically, the pollsters said, the numbers put wine and beer into a statistical dead heat (when the margin of error is considered). Still, the trend inspires speculation: Is the slippery-floored college keg party going to be replaced by civilized gatherings with string quartets? Will American guys trade their beer and baggy board shorts for Petite Sirah and man bikinis? Is our country, in other words, on some ineffable road to effete?

barry's least favorite...

Boston Red Sox manager Terry Francona denied a report that outfielder Manny Ramirez has requested a trade, while general manager Theo Epstein said he wouldn't respond to rumors, the Boston Globe reported Wednesday.

Ramirez has asked three times in four seasons to be traded, and the main reason is that he feels he has no privacy in Boston, Sports Illustrated reported.

Francona said he hasn't heard anything about Ramirez being unhappy, the newspaper reported. "He's happy enough to drive in about 90 runs," Francona said, the Globe reported.

for a-game...

who is a huge whitney fan and knows the entire bodyguard soundtrack by heart. just ask her about it, you'll be glad you did.



Yeah. Obsessed. I don't even play with my cats anymore. It's only about Whitney, Whitney, Whitney.

I hate how sanctimonious people are about Whitney. "Look at how far down she's sunk. Such a voice. Such looks. Wasted. It's such a shame," they might say after watching Whitney consitently say whatever the fuck on Being Bobby Brown. Whatever, no it's not.

Whitney is crazy now because she's always been crazy. Remember "Chaka Khan. Chaka Khan!" at the end of "I'm Every Woman?" Or "I don't know why I like it. I just do!" at the start of "So Emotional?" What about the chafed tone she's taken with every interviewer ever? Here's some pictorial documentation of Whitney's diva-loution via shots taken from most of her videos.

a little old, but a great photo...

EL ALTO, Bolivia - In her red multilayered skirt, white pumps and gold-laced shawl, the traditional dress of the Aymara people, Ana Polonia Choque might well be preparing for a night of folk dancing or, perhaps, a religious festival.

But as Carmen Rosa, master of the ring and winner of 100 bone-crunching bouts in Bolivia's colorful wrestling circuit, she is actually dressing for a night of mayhem.

With loyal fans screaming out her name, she climbs the corner ropes high above the ring, bounces once for momentum and flies high, arms outstretched for maximum effect. To the crowd's delight, the dive flattens her adversary, María Remedios Condori, better known as Julia la Paceña (Julia from La Paz).

This, ladies and gentlemen, is "lucha libre," Bolivia's version of the wacky, tacky wrestling extravaganzas better known as World Wrestling Entertainment in the United States and Triple A in Mexico, which serve as a loose model. But there are no light shows, packed arenas or million-dollar showmen.

Here in El Alto, with an almost entirely indigenous population of 800,000 Aymara and Quechua residents, wrestling is a throwback to a simpler, perhaps more innocent era, when late-night fights featuring men in black tights were carried across flickering black-and-white TV screens.

thanks to mac fu for pointing this one out...

JULY 14--Since you usually can't anticipate an arrest for drunk driving, a motorist does not have the luxury of planning a wardrobe for the mug shot session. Floridian Jon Matteson, who last month pleaded no contest to a reckless driving count, knows all about that predicament.

for reggie...

Alex Smith, the No. 1 pick in this year's N.F.L. draft, has agreed to a six-year contract with the San Francisco 49ers. Smith will receive $24 million guaranteed and incentives that could make the base $49 million contract worth up to $57 million.

where has this guy been?

more terrible album covers...

enjoy

another awesome mug shot...

the huffing lifestyle has always seemed very glamourous to me. also reggie, it looks like this guy was inhaling spray paint in an attempt to forget how bad your golden state warriors are. either that or he's a big fan of the movie, which fredeeky has still yet to see.



JULY 21--Meet Patrick Tribett. The Ohio man was nabbed yesterday morning for "abusing harmful intoxicants" as he attempted to make a purchase at Bellaire's Dollar General Store. The 41-year-old Tribett, it seems, had been huffing spray paint and needed a refill. According to a Bellaire Police Department report, Tribett's pupils were constricted and he replied slowly to their questions. Oh, and "officers observed the paint on face and hands," as can be seen in the above mug shot.

from reggie roby, via jimmy page...

Mount a laser pen on top or bottom for improved accuracy. Plus it makes the gun more intimidating and you feel more like an office commando.




thanks jimmy

only handbags? what does this mean?

The Japanese media have described David Beckham as humiliating himself in Real Madrid's shock 3-0 loss to Tokyo Verdy.

The England skipper was embroiled in a running feud with Kazuyuki Toda and accused the player of spitting at him.

Beckham was even reported as attempting to "raid" the rival dressing room at half-time but the midfielder played down the incident as "only handbags".

Simon Oliveira, the 30-year-old's publicist, told BBC Sport there was nothing to it: "His words are enough."

Verdy's victory was totally overshadowed by Beckham's behaviour and post-match comments about the former Tottenham player.

Of the incident at the break, when Beckham and his team-mates Ronaldo and Michel Salgado reportedly tried to force their way into the Verdy changing room, Beckham explained: "It was only handbags, just a few words were exchanged, nothing more."

The Japanese media was less conciliatory.

The Nikkan Sports daily said the entire Real Madrid squad "lost their natural selves".

fredeeky finds the yankees totally likeable...

i love how all the yankee haters who used to call this guy a cry baby all love him now that he's retired. also soriano never ran out anything and he still doesn't and as much as i love soriano i'll take gay rod. also i'll take an unlikeable guy like gary sheffield as long as he keeps hitting the way he has. at the end of the day likeable is all about victories. no team that has ever won a title has been deemed "unlikeable" by its fans. ask mac fu about michael irvin and all the unlikeable canes back in the day. he still freaking loves those guys. more than any of you will ever know. so here you go mac fu, it's the 1987 thorpe award winner and the father of six children with six different women:



and barry is correct in saying that this is the worst mascot in the history of sports:

this guy seems to be the man...

Barbecue mastery can be yours with the Weber Smokey Mountain! In just five dinners, based on my own research and the wisdom of dozens of barbecue masters from all over the country, I will teach you how to smoke chicken, ribs and pulled pork. But more importantly, I will teach you the secrets of imparting pure, beautiful smoke flavor, and the techniques of proper fire control that will enable you to smoke any meat you want successfully.

Ready to do exactly as I say with no questions asked? Good. Sit humbly at my feet, pupil, and prepare to begin your journey.

wang report: know your history...

there are so, many, famous, wangs, out there, but this one is one of the oldest and most "highly polished":



A sculpted and polished phallus found in a German cave is among the earliest representations of male sexuality ever uncovered, researchers say.

The 20cm-long, 3cm-wide stone object, which is dated to be about 28,000 years old, was buried in the famous Hohle Fels Cave near Ulm in the Swabian Jura.

The prehistoric "tool" was reassembled from 14 fragments of siltstone.

Its life size suggests it may well have been used as a sex aid by its Ice Age makers, scientists report.

"In addition to being a symbolic representation of male genitalia, it was also at times used for knapping flints," explained Professor Nicholas Conard, from the department of Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology, at Tübingen University.

"There are some areas where it has some very typical scars from that," he told the BBC News website.

Researchers believe the object's distinctive form and etched rings around one end mean there can be little doubt as to its symbolic nature.

"It's highly polished; it's clearly recognisable," said Professor Conard.

earl checks in...

in a comment i have just laid eyes on, his babstness, calls the yankees "the biggest band wagon team in professional sport" and remarks that yankees are "the easy team for the fair weather fan to adopt". i guess 26 titles gave them a thier share of bandwagoneers. on the other hand, your beloved sawx have won only one title and yet its bandwagon is bursting at the seems with late arrivals, who know little about the sport and pee all over the decades of patience shown by the long time red sox fan (like my man malcolm x) who stuck with them through decades of brutal gagging.

the yankees are a juggernaut who win frequently and without mercy. they are like a long respected and highly reviewed restaurant. you'll need a reservation and your checkbook to get in, but you know what to expect. the sawx were more like the corner bistro, a little hole in the wall that was frequented by regulars and had a nice and loyal atmosphere. well that hole in the wall with character and some degree of class has been over run and is teeming with the douchiest of douche wagons. the witty banter of loyal and long time customers is being drowned out by the screeming of all the a-holes, who have just come in for the night from dirty jers or strong isle. red sawx nation is dead and all of its informed loyalty is out the window replaced by first class douche baggery. sure the yankees had their share of fair weather fans, but they also had more championships than any team in pro sports. the sawx have last year, and a band wagon full of idiots.

earl also notes that the yankees fan base is "obnoxious". he should watch his step here since he has chosen to live in the greatest city in the world would be the first to tell you that he is a converted "new yorker".

as for the archives, just check out october 2004 for all of the past sawx-yanks chatter.

a belated upper east side report...

sorry not to post this sooner, but myself and a-game went to fire island on thursday and hit the beach real hard. i had two steak dinners and fell in love with a little game called kadima.



I went to the opening of the classic car club of Manhattan last night. the cars were amazing although the looked a little worn around the edges. my personal favorite was the Aston Martin. There were all types of pretty people running around trying way too hard to be cool. There were some NY Giants and some WWE celebs not sure who they were but everyone loved them. They really loved the models walking around naked with paint jobs resembling classic car manufacturers. The highlight for me was seeing the former MTV VJ for the Metal Hour (not the Riki douche but the bald headed guy) with the lead singer from Anthrax -- one of my favorites in 6th grade. The night would only have been better if I had hooked up with High Life for Clap your Hands and Say Yeah at the end of the night. The festive night was quickly reversed by my morning. I went to buy a Post at the local bodega, the lady in front of me was buying a 12 pack of Coors light at 7:30am! When she turned around her gnarled body was covered by none other than a Brooks Sweatshirt. NO JOKE it was a very sobering image for me.

liked these photos...

CHRIS JORDAN stood on a ladder, gazing down at 3,000 or so used cellphones in a pile on the warehouse floor. His 8 x 10 view camera was perched even higher, on a tripod 12 feet above them. He had spent the morning figuring out how to include every one of the phones in a single photograph, eventually sweeping them into a neat, trapezoidal-shaped mound, the shorter side closer to the camera, or what would be the bottom of the picture frame.

Mr. Jordan had flown from Seattle, where he lives, to photograph at CollectiveGood, an electronics recycling center in the Atlanta suburbs. "I want to give a concrete sense of our consumption, with the real quantities," Mr. Jordan said, from his perch on the ladder. Of course, for one image to represent the actual number of annually discarded cellphones - 130 million, according to CollectiveGood - he would have to reproduce the picture he was now getting ready to take about 43,000 times, creating a panorama that would stretch 61 miles if the photos were laid side by side.