andre needs one of these....

it's a steal at 300 large.

sounds about right...

Pete Doherty has described his forthcoming book of dairies and notebooks as "amazing nonsense".

mid-summer rangers report....

no one is more hard core than barry beck. it's not even august and he is already all over the rangers' preseason rosters. no one loves hockey more than barry, so we should all observe and respect his knowledge. thanks for sharing barry, the rest of the report will be found in the comments section since it is so huge.



Hockey is the last thing on the minds of the media this time of year. However, before you know it the Rangers will be up in Burlington, VT for their annual camp and in less than 2 months pre-season hockey will be back at MSG (Sept. 20th is the first preseason game in MSG). The front office has made a few interesting changes to the roster that should help this team develop after the surprising 2005 - 2006 campaign. However, sadly the longtime color voice of the Rangers and all of the NHL for that matter, John Davidson has moved on to take a position as General Manager and President of the St. Louis Blues. Dave Checketts group who recently purchased the franchise wisely hired JD to take over the struggling franchise. JD was an icon in the garden broadcast booth and will be sorely missed among the media, players, MSG staff and long time fans. We wish JD all the luck and hope that someday JD will be back in the 7th Ave. side broadcast booth.

aaron guiel?

smooth it out...

intrigued...

Most pop songs and videos last for about three minutes. So writing a 20- minute song to go with the longest ever pop video was no easy task.

But that is exactly what Mike Skinner of The Streets did to earn himself a Guinness World Record.

The low budget ' but as yet untitled ' epic will beat the previous 14-minute record held by Michael Jackson's Thriller since 1983.

a very wierd classic...

great movie...

watched the third man last night on the t.v. and a-game brings up the point that loyal reader reggie roby looks like a young orson wells. thoughts?

big start from this guy...

can't get enough fainting goats...

love all things vader related...

basically these people take james earl jones quotes from a bunch of movies and make it like vader is saying it. so much hilarity, i think it just gets better and better.

some random friday jams...

barry beck has probably racked up a couple grand this week alone...

A 2005 British study noted that alcohol use accounted for 2 billion pounds, or $3.3 billion U.S., in lost wages each year, mostly from work missed because of a hangover. Canada reports losses of $7.5 billion each year, with $1.4 billion lost because of decreased occupational productivity caused by hangover-like symptoms, while Australian workers ring up $3.8 billion yearly and New Zealanders $331 million.

A 2000 study performed at the University of California, San Francisco medical center reviewed more than 30 years of medical reports on alcohol and found that American hangovers add up to a whopping $148 billion in lost wages, a $2,000 average per working adult in the country.

the future of the knicks...

to make a long week a little shorter...

karate man bruise on the inside...

earl tracked down this one...

it's a feature on "never nervous" pervis ellison's house from ebony magazine (earl loves his ebony magazine). a highight:

I had a huge 72-inch television and a Nintendo sitting right in front of it," Pervis says, laughing at the way he lived in his bachelor days. "I didn't have any furniture, just these two lawn chairs for my playing partner and me, and I was as happy as could be. None of my friends could believe it. They all had these fabulous new homes, but I didn't care because I always had the best lot and the best view."

fredeeky has always loved tintin...

coach o would have loved these rants...

it's cubs manager lee elia and the always firey bobby knight dropping a ton of f bombs and generally freaking out. everything i do i do for coach o.

Syd Barrett, the erratically brilliant songwriter and singer who created the psychedelic rock of Pink Floyd only to leave the band in 1968 with mental problems, died on July 7 at his home in Cambridgeshire, England. He was 60.

delton+anime=genius...

a classic scorcher for your morning...

i am sending ed orgeron all my jewelry...

This is an account of Ed Orgeron's first team meeting at Ole Miss, as related by one of the players to another student: (Orgeron was USC's Asst Head Coach and DL Coach)

"Apparently, Coach Orgeron called his first team meeting the other day. I was told that in about a 15 minute period, he cussed and yelled more than most men do in their entire lives."

"He came in to the locker room to his new team and stood there staring at his team. He started to talk in his strong Cajun accent and immediately began yelling at his new team that this 4-7 s**t isn't going to cut it. He talked about how the last game he coached was the national championship and screamed that it was a g*d d**n embarassment to win anything less than 10 games. He went on yelling about how he recruited Leinart and Bush and that that he didn't cometo Ole Miss to have a g*d d**n losing seasons or even to go to this bull s**t Cotton Bowl and get g*d d**n thirteenth place. Thirteenth place is bull s**t and he came here to win."

"He said that his team was going to play defense and hit hard. G*d d****t his team was going to play with g*d d***n passion and they were going to whip some a***s. He then passed a box around the room and said he wanted every g*d d**n earring in the room in the box. He isn't going to have any f*****g p***y girls on his team and wanted every piece of bull s**t earring in that box right now.""With the team stunned faced with about as opposite a person as one could have to Cutcliffe, Coach O started to walk towards the door. He looked back at the team as they passed around the box and said, "I'm going to walk out of here right now, and when I come back in here, I'm going to have my shirt off, and I want everyone of you motherf*****s to have your shirts off too."

"He walked out and everyone, confused, started taking their shirts off. Sure enough, O walked back in, bigger than alot of the guys on the team, without his shirt on. He started yelling and telling the team that they needed to get loud. He said, "When I point to this side of the room, I want you to say 'Ole Miss.' When I point to this side, I want you to say, 'Wild Boys.'" Standing there with no shirt on with every guy in the room shirtless, started pointing to each side of the room. Half the team would yell, "Ole Miss" while the other would yell "Wild Boys." Apparently it got pretty crazy and guys started flipping chairs, yelling, and throwing cooler acrossthe room while chanting Ole Miss... Wild Boys. "

"He then stopped and said, "One more thing. If any of you motherf*****s thinks you can take me, you come up here and get a piece of me right now." He gave everyone an opportunity to come up and fight him and said, "That's what I thought," and walked out of the room."

some late afternoon rocking out courtesy of jimmy page...

earl tracks down this intriguing little gem...

Lessons learned

1. Fabric paint is a pain in the ass to deal with, and must be applied with a heavy hand if sharp edges on lines are desired. It would have probably helped if I had not worn and washed the unitard before painting, as that caused the fabric to pill somewhat, making it much harder to get the paint down into the fabric.
2. If you superglue something to a painted surface, you're not gluing to the item itself, but to the paint. I should have waited the specified 7 days for maximum chip resistance (which means maximum hardness and curing) before trying to glue the el-wire to it.
3. No matter how hard you try, the colors will never match exactly. Don't obsess about it; do the very best you can and quit worrying.
4. I got some slack cut because this was my first masquerade. It'll be tougher to win something next year...and it was suggested that, while I could re-enter this costume, doing so very many times would not be wise. Now, all I have to do is come up with another idea...

stripper mugshots...