Cugalabanza

June 27

Chips Ahoy!

[LAMP] Happy Birthday to my little girl (12 weeks today). For nicknames, I like to alter famous people names to describe what she’s doing... Cryin Fitzpatrick (or Ryan Spitzpatrick) Happy Girlmore Crabby Hoffman Gaseous Clay Steve Fartin Raymond Burp Smiles Davis Forrest Grump Fuss Johnson Thurstin More Iggy Poop Diarrhea Pearlman Squirmin’ Helmsley Moody Giuliani And my favorite... Droolius Irving

I want to love him, I really do. It’s just... I’ve been hurt before.

Yup. Good movie and she looked pretty hot in it.

Both fighters showed their true colors... Ortiz: mediocre skills, zero intelligence. Mayweather: no-class loudmouth jerk, but untouchable to punks like Ortiz. The real winner of the night: Larry Merchant, for his hilarious post-fight interview with Mayweather, when he ended by saying he wished he was 50 years younger and he would kick Mayweather's ass!

$5,000. That’s a lot of money for a bicycle. I hope he gets his pants caught in the chain and loses control while riding and falls down and chips his two front teeth. And while he’s in oral surgery getting his teeth fixed, I hope it’s painful for him. And I hope this pain causes his mind to wander and he thinks about the time he threw the ball out of bounds on fourth down and that he has a sudden moment of clarity in his life which causes a great wave of shame to wash over him. And I hope he cries.

Hmmm... With your words, you seem to be saying that you are very grateful for the help you received. However, there is something in the tone of what you are saying that is somehow at odds with this. It’s almost as if to suggest that perhaps you are not being 100% truthful in your statements. It’s the strangest thing. I with there was a word for this kind of thing.

Nope. Have I tried? Yup.

Strange fact about human nature: Merely mentioning the fact that you cannot lick your own elbow will cause 85% of people to try.

**** !@#$ !@#$ !@#$ !@#$er hmmm, interesting.

It's all fun & games until there's an episode of "SNAPPED" about you.

I had the same experience with the "The Champ." I think I was about 7 when I saw it in the theatre. EDIT: It came out in 1979, so I guess I was nine.

You know what's nice sometimes? Raisin toast.

I know I’ll probably be alone on this, but I think Requiem for a Dream is just a so-so movie. Something about Darren Aronofsky’s stuff just leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I can’t put my finger on it, but I just don’t like the way he tells a story. It rubs me the wrong way. Not to take away from Ellen Burstyn--she was great in it...simultaneously hilarious and heart-breaking.

Dancer in the Dark Deerhunter The Celebration Love Liza Clean, Shaven Midnight Express Breaking the Waves Trees Lounge

I just did a little fine tuning.

Cheers, AJ! I'm glad you're a TBD'er.

Nice! This hit me right away, from Live After Death.

I'll second this one. Great book.

87 and breezy I don't know what the weather is right now. I just thought I'd share my IQ and personality type.

The guy is too good. It’s scary. He’s a machine. Nadal is a great player and it’s not like he was giving it away. Djokovic just took him a part with his ridiculous freak shot-making, painting the lines, hitting crazy angles...

True. p.s. I love the Eric B & Rakim sig line.

My first guitar was a Yamaha nylon string that I bought used for $20 almost 25 years ago. I still have it. I’ve used it to give some starter lessons to a couple people. It works very well as a starter and sounds very nice. So much easier on the fingers.

Always fun to go back and read (or re-read) some Vonnegut. As far as the thriller stuff, I like George Pelecanos, John Sanford, Robert McCammon (love Swan Song and also his current Mathew Corbett seriesgreat detective action stuff set in colonial America). A couple recent books by David Benioff (25th Hour and City of Thieves) are really fun exciting reads. I love me some Raymond Carver short stories. Jesus Son by Denis Johnson is one of my all time favorites. Heres a recommendation from out of nowhere: The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino (a little Italian kid protests his parents making him eat snails for dinner by climbing up a tree and NEVER coming down). A fun music series is 33 1/3. Each book looks at one classic album. Its worth checking out. I just finished the one on David Bowies Low. Kind of a tangent to the Kindle discussion: I was thinking about a best of among the free (old public domain) books you can get for e-readers. Heres a short list of some stuff that you can get for free that I think stands up really well... Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (Theres more to this story than you may think. The richest & best monster tale) Edgar Allen Poe short stories (Hes just so damn good at that creepy atmospheric stuff) Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky Great Expectations by Dickens (Old, yes. But not dry at all. A really fun read.) All the Sherlock Holmes stuff by Arthur Conan Doyle Excerpts from the Diaries of Adam & Eve by Mark Twain The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells