Cool Olympic Person of the day: Mr. Kent Smack, cuz he's got a great name, he's a local type (Cambridge) and he just made the semi-finals in the Quadruple Scull event. He was the front rower dude, and all this is very educational ( Read more... )

Cool Olympic Person of the day: This 17 year old chick from Indiana placed fourth in trap shooting. She's blind in her left eye and the pupil is elongated so it looks just like a cat's, and she wears glasses with one solid black lens. I think she should become a professional hitman with a slow boiling grudge for the 04 medalists and Tarantino ( Read more... )

While I was reading some stuff on the DNC today I found a picture of this teenage guy Gabe Lefkowitz playing Amazing Grace on the violin for the 9/11 tribute. Apparently (I wasn't wathcing that night) he was replacing Yo Yo Ma and he played, completely unaccompanied, on stage in front of hundreds of delegates holding electric candles and national ( Read more... )

Time-to-turn-off-the-TV sign of the day: Race 1 of the Olympic Women's Sailing Regatta, Ynglyng Class. Not only was it a light day and so thirty hours long, with the finishing order unchanging after the first mark, it turned out, in the end, to not even be live. That's what you get for watching sports on Bravo ( Read more... )

I went to the Boston Common Lowes on Saturday to find out if I was the Ultimate Film Fanatic! Turns out I'm not, or at least I didn't stick around to find out if I was, since I think I would have shot something in the face if I heard the "Thank you for coming to Lowes" song one more time ( Read more... )

I'm on Bob's computer while he is at Blockbuster because my own computer is fucked up. It chirps at me like a cricket, I'm not sure why. He's off at Blockbuster so I'll keep it quick, ish ( Read more... )

Well Dispatch was insane! Ten thousand topless smokey painted people in eighty degree weather. I spent about forty five minutes in sight of the stage, and the crowd was so tight around the footbridge it was truly scary. Then I dangled my feet in the Charles like it was the most beautiful thing and had Panda Express with some of the bums I'd been ( Read more... )