Safe As Milk

Um, you ever see something for the first time and then realize that you’ve been looking for it your whole life?

Yeah, me neither….
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As I was watched this movie I formed two strong opinions:

1) This may be the greatest movie I’ve ever seen.

and

2) My daughters will never, ever go to Cancun for a Spring Break.

If you don’t know, the movie is by the people who do MTV’s The Real World and it basically involves sending 16 people together for a 10-day Spring Break in Cancun, Mexico. Needless to say, it’s not long before everyone is either drunk, naked, or some combination of the two.
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I just finished Michael Lewis’ latest book, Moneyball. I’ve always been a baseball guy so I got excited when I learned that the author of one of my favorite books about the industry I work in (Liar’s Poker) was writing a book about baseball. Actually, it’s not so much about baseball as it’s about Billy Beane, the General Manager of the Oakland A’s baseball club, and his ‘New Thinking’ approach to player evaluation and acquisition

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I am totally taken by the new Beyonce single “Crazy In Love” from her solo album Dangerously In Love. The hook in that song is just too much and she sings the absolute shit out of it. And then when Jay-Z shows up he tears the track to pieces. That cat’s got sick, sick flow. And now he’s got Beyonce too. It’s good to be the Jigga, I suppose.

So I monkeyed around with the MT template and finally got to a three-column layout for this blog. I worked for weeks trying to get the 3-columns without actually learning .CSS and now I don’t know if I like it or not. I think the page looks too crowded. What do you think?

Yes, I’m talking to both of you.

On Sunday, the 24th, we had our auction for the 2003-4 football season. Sunday morning at 9 am wasn’t first choice for a start time but I think we made the most of it.

Thanks to JP for hosting and making the whole thing work. Thanks to AM for helping Unca’ Jeffy stay plugged in. And, of course, thanks to Luke for looking damn fine as the auctioneer.

Please ignore the fact that the photographer appears to have forgotten to remove the bottle of beer from the immediate foreground of the photo.
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Well, softball has ended for 2003 on a beerish note.

We had to win three games tonight; one to get out of the Loser’s Bracket and then we had to win twice to be the Champs.

We came from behind to win the first game against The Tavern on a play at the plate in the botttom of the 8th (that’s extra innings in our league). We were pumped. Then we won the first game against the best team in the league, Ciocca’s ( that might not be how it’s spelled - very beery right now). We finally caved and lost the final game, but not before we had finished the better part of (by my math) seven cases of beer.

Cheers to E.G. and Gary for sliding(sort of!) and to Rob for pitching three strong games on a hot night.

I have to go to bed now. Work tomorrow, you know….

I know it’s been making the email rounds for a while now but I still laugh every time I see this picture:

Passed out people have an incredible sense of balance.

I picked this up last weekend on the recommendation of my buddy Chris. He’s usually right about this sort of thing.

I’ve only listened to it 4 or 5 times through, but I’ve been into what I’ve heard. It’s super-hooky in a Buzzcocks or Vibrators sort of way. None of the songs run over three minutes with most of them coming in under 2:30. That’s great, to me anyway, because it keeps the ideas as simple and as easy as the hooks. There’s nothing worse than 5 minutes of the same three chords. Short and sweet is the right way to do this sort of thing.

From AMG:“What is a perfect album? One could make an argument that a perfect album is one that sets out a specific set of artistic criteria and then fulfills them flawlessly. In that respect, and many others, the Undertones’ 1979 debut is a perfect album. The Northern Ireland quintet’s brief story is no different than that of literally dozens of other bands to form in the wake of the Clash and, more importantly, the Buzzcocks, but the group infuses so much unabashed joy in their two-minute three-chord pop songs, and there’s so little pretension in their unapologetically teenage worldview, that even the darker hints of life in songs like the suicide-themed “Jimmy Jimmy” are delivered with a sense of optimism at odds with so many of their contemporaries.”