The Tight Bros. From Way Back When are featured in the latest TGIFridays commercial. You have been warned.

Well, hello - it's been a fine little weekend. I attended a barbeque, hung out with friends of ill-repute, stayed out way late at the usual bars spending political and actual capital, saw Star Trek (really fun), played some guitar, attended a Yankee game (they lost - but the stadium is a winner to be sure), ate my first El Salvadorean meal (pretty ( Read more... )

Saves are strange little buggers, aren't they? Here's Trevor Hoffman, now 10 for 10 in save opportunities, blending fastball with changeup in devastatingly deceptive fashion, making batters swing themselves around like toddlers missing the tee-ball ( Read more... )

This has not been a livejournal which has consistently praised Milwaukee Brewers second baseman Rickie Weeks. No, not at all. This has been a livejournal that repeatedly demanded his benching in 2008 (at times in favor of the underrated Ray Durham), and this year was no different - the I dreaded the prospect of another year where the Brewers ( Read more... )

( SO I DON'T FORGET WHAT I DID ON MY 29TH BIRTHDAY )

My favorite coffeeshop here in Brooklyn, Boneshakers (corner of Beadle and Kingsland), has graciously allowed me to use their landline to authenticate a craigslist account. Boneshakers was cool before. Now, I am in their debt! Almost literally.

Hey! Great win for the Brewers tonight, huh, fans? And I gotta say, short of actually being at the game, nothing compares to listening to Bob Uecker do the play-by-play on the radio. He is just wacky. Here's Ueck's best line among many - he said this, as Trevor Hoffman was just finishing his warm-up to the tune of "Hell's Bells ( Read more... )

Cinco de Mayo is something else. I drank just a little more than half a pitcher of margueritas, and followed it up with karaoke at the Second Chance. I sang "Illegal Smile" and then who knows, because I don't really remember... but I did walk home in the rain, and my socks are STILL DRYING, even though I had an umbrella ( Read more... )

Last night, I thought I'd watch Sweeny Todd, and eventually fall asleep. But it was all very mumbled British English, and so I stopped doing that, and was getting ready to go to bed ( Read more... )

( Youth is wasted on the Yuengling. )