Mrs. Beerball

My own thread! How nice! Happy holidays to all of you, too. It will be a special one for our family since our first grandchild is due any day now. I've got the Bills onesie all picked out (and a matching one for John but that's another story). Haha, I'm sure no saint. John is the saint for putting up with me. Sure was wishing the Bills could find a way to make the playoff this year...that would've been a great present for him. Some day (sigh).

Branch Deanians, oh my goodness. That's funny! Green Day came out of that scene and I really like them. I still remember when I bought Aja. I wore it out. Those songs hit you in so many places, lyrically and musically. So intelligent. And the backing musicians! A who's who of the greatest session guys of the era. I'd never heard anything like it. When BB and I were newlyweds, we played it a lot on our stay at home date night dinners (we were too poor to go out).

"I am the son and the heir of a shyness that is criminally vulgar." The Smiths, How Soon is Now? Morrissey writes some interesting lyrics.

I asked him a lot of other stuff about men when you weren't around. I had lots of oddities to confirm. BB had little need for that in those days! Just sayin'.

My musical taste is all over the place. I love punk and new wave. I love Steely Dan; they are geniuses and will always have a place on my playlists. Springsteen. U2. Radiohead.I love the Barry Manilow live album where he does all the famous commercial jingles he wrote. I love the Spice Girls ( no, really). There's so much really good new music, too. White Denim, Silversun Pickups, Black Keys, the Toadies, etc. I rarely listen to "classic rock" any more and if I do it tends to be in the lineage of Chuck Berry, The Who, Bowie, Velvet Underground, MC5, Iggy and the Stooges, The Ramones, and The Clash. Couldn't care less about the attitude and the trappings. It's all about the backbeat and the energy, right Beer Ball honey? "We got a lotta, lotta, lotta, lotta work to do"....ha, must mean Miami! BB is indeed out. Big day for him.

Exactly. When prog rock had built to a ludicrous level, the punks came along to tear rock back down to its basic elements. Stiv!

Haha, I thought of that but wasn't sure it would count as an official line since it was live. Epic line from an underrated band with great influence.

Yes! I meant to post this. "And I'm the world's forgotten boy The one who's searchin', searchin' to destroy." Stooges.

Honey, you know I love you but you KNOW you have negative ass!. I hear that's a rare and unusual theme around here. Well, suckage is relative. There have been moments he's made me think the Bills messed up picking him. I'll sure take the last two games, though. He's so young and appears to have the tools. Relativity tells me he's no Todd Collins/J.P. Losman/Alex Van Pelt/Rob Johnson/Trent Edwards/Fitz. Who'd I leave out? Oh, Flutie (I always kinda liked him, much to BB's disgust. Anyway, I'm not off the EJ bandwagon yet. Dean, even I don't have that kind of pull with the Beer Ball. Nice to be here, thanks!

Hi! I'm not usually on the board since Beer Ball needs at least one wife-free space in his life. I knew how happy people would be about the big win though, so I had to take a look. What a great game. They handily dominated what might be a pretty good team and still showed they have room to improve. But for the red zone struggles, this game could have been an even bigger beat down. Hope they keep improving each week. Could be special.

Hey, Redneck! We are doing just fine, thanks. Miss you, too! Any chance you'll get to a game this season?

Hey STP. How are ya? Let's hope so. Secretariat was known for his huge, powerful arse. I saw him race at Saratoga in 1973. Seccy, not Fergy!

Hey! Great game today, huh? We were so disappointed we couldn't be there to celebrate. I'm sure the tailgating food was crazy good. Missed you all. Fergy, I'm going to ask BB about you. Whoa, Secretariat? Big ears?

“I am an Antichrist, I am an anarchist” –Sex Pistols, “Anarchy in the UK”. I sing this occasionally when Beerball listens to country in the car. "I put it In 1st and then I punch it, listen to the engine roar." MC5, Thunder Express. Elemental rock. "When I think back to all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at all." Paul Simon "Lights Out Tonight, trouble in the heartland, got a head-on collision smashin' in my guts man, I'm caught in a crossfire that I don't understand." Springsteen "Oh I used to be disgusted and now I try to be amused." Elvis Costello "Twenty-twenty-twenty four hours to go I wanna be sedated." This was the ringtone assigned to Beerball's mother-in-law for many years. I wanted to include a line from a Dead Boys song but BB wouldn't be amused.

Will you do my laundry? No, that isn't a euphamism.