FlaSoxxJim

QUOTE(Texsox @ Jan 24, 2007 -> 01:30 AM) Well Pards, around here that is burnt orange. Why are there two dildoes hanging off the United States?

What about the Caprocopia Award for the 2006 poster who is most full of $hit? Or, we could also just call it the Juggernaut Award. . .

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Jan 24, 2007 -> 12:46 AM) Nope, apparently 07. Well that flat out sux then. We finally have our cable, internet and phone service through the same provider and it saves us several hundred dollars a year, so the wife will not be down with switching over to Direct TV. Mybe this will be enough o an excuse to shell out for the AppleTV box so I don't have to futz with plugging a computer into the TV to feed MLBTV broadcasts. The slingbox alternative is intriguing though.

It will be a disturbing scene, and of course it should be given the subject matter. But such ugly things are a sad reality. If a filmmaker decides to take on unsavory themes and somebody objects to that, that person should choose not to see the move and that should be the end of it. Won't be, but should.

QUOTE(shoota @ Jan 23, 2007 -> 10:57 PM) How's Lisa Dergan taking this news? I guess I'll fill in for Pods for the next 6 weeks. I hope they have eggs at the house... And thus, another piece of the eternal SoxTalk mythology is written.

I didn't read the article, but I assume this wouldn't take effect until the 2008 season, right? It's too close to the start of the season to get a deal like this worked out, right?

Speedos and neon half-tees are going to be big this summer. Here's your chance to get a head start on all the wanna' bees.

Meh, I bet he settles with them out of court for half that amount.

I'm not the biggest Heineken fan, but at 53 cents a bottle I think I could be!

Rock On, Rockman!

QUOTE(bmags @ Jan 21, 2007 -> 04:49 AM) i hope i win biggest hipster. I hope I win the Kramer, for the Biggest Hipster Doofus.

QUOTE(RibbieRubarb @ Jan 18, 2007 -> 12:34 PM) In a controversial move, President Bush has added a cute puppy to the pockets of the additional soldiers he is sending to Iraq to distract and soothe insurgents. Operation Shock and AWWWWWWW!!

QUOTE(Texsox @ Jan 18, 2007 -> 09:18 AM) That reminds me, I've been asked to consider a postion in Florida, how far are you from Tampa? Just under 3 hours, other side of the coast.

Many Happy Returns of the Day!

QUOTE(bmags @ Jan 18, 2007 -> 01:07 AM) as a punishment for year round warm weather. It's not always warm. My kids almost had to wear long pants to school today. [/levity]

QUOTE(Gregory Pratt @ Jan 17, 2007 -> 10:32 PM) Ridiculous. What is? A metaphorical icon symbolizing the the probability of mutuallly assured destruction that varies with seminal world events? The fact that renowned scientists like Eugene Rabinowitch and Robert Oppenheimer and Leo Szilard and Einstein questioned their own roles in the creation of horrific tools of destruction and death to launch a journal to convey their concerns to other scientists and to the public? The recognition that we can do ourselves in with any of a number of manmade horrors, not just nuclear anhilation? We are witnessing a new era of nuclear proliferation. As a nation, we are leading the pack. We're more at risk of a nuclear crisis now than we were at the end of the cold war and setting the Doomsday Clock forward is recognition of that fact. Sorry, but ridiculous how?

I hate these sorts of domestic abous horror stories and I rarely click the links when prople post them here because I don't handle them too well. But I saw the thread title and had to click, saying to myself 'Don't be from Florida, Don't be from Florida. . . ' Yep. Florida. Not only that, he's being held in jail in my county. We do we get every whackjob and psychopath in the country?

Sleep for me is getting to be a vicious cycle. I'm contracted to do a big moonlight technical writing gig that has me working 4-5 hours late into the evening/morning after I've come home from the day job, had dinner got the kids to sleep etc. I sit down to get back to work around 9pm and I'm so tired I think my eyes are going to explode. But once I fight through the exaustion of the day and get into the groove I'll catch a second wind and be able to get a few solid hours in. I try to make it a point to knock of by 1:30 am so I can get a few hours of sleep and then be up at 6:30 to start all over again. My problem is I'm usually really humming along by that time and even though I know I have to try to sleep I can't shut my brain off and I end up tossing and turning for at least an hour before I nod off. By the end of the week I've built up a sizable sleep deficit so that Friday night rolls around and I'd like to hang with teh wife and get reacquainted, and I end up passing out by about 10 pm!

QUOTE(Texsox @ Jan 17, 2007 -> 09:34 AM) Never owned a single or album. Plus IIRC, they were more a middle eighties, I was an early eightees college student. Untrue. Squeeze was only musically relevant through 1982 and the "Sweets From A Strangger album." They broke up after that, Difford and Tillbrook did a solid album on their own in 1984 and then the reunion and post-break up forgettable stuff began in 1985. QUOTE(Texsox @ Jan 17, 2007 -> 09:34 AM) My vote for worst live show ever. Ever. Ever I've heard lots of people say the Cars in concert was an incredible snorefest. I was stoked about seeing "The New Cars" sith my man Todd Rundgren at the helm in place of Ric, but Elliot Easton broke his collarbone in a tour bus accident a few days before they got to my neck of the woods. The Cars are a group that I didn't appreciate nearly enough when they were around, but a band I've really come to enjoy in time.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Jan 17, 2007 -> 05:54 AM) I have not heard Squeeze's Greatest Hits. . . You never turned on a radio in college? Oh, wait, I mean you never cranked up the prehistoric bird with the headphones and microphone that used to pass for radio back in your Flintstone college days?

QUOTE(Texsox @ Jan 17, 2007 -> 12:16 AM) I just caught myself proclaiming that I had never heard a greatest hits LP that was better than the artists best albums. I can think that maybe there have been some Live recordings that surpassed the studio stuff, perhaps Framptom Comes Alive, it certainly sold way more than his recordings to that point. But basically greatest hits cds are record company creations to sell some records and leech the last bit of soul from an act. Prove me wrong. You are 99.99% correct I would say. For me the exception that proves the rule is Squeeze' "Singles 45's and Under." Squeeze was a phenomenal singles band and Difford and Tillbrook were BritPop masters when the stars alligned and the songs clicked. But that chemistry didn't sustain itself over entire albums for even their best releases, unlike Partridge/Moulding or lennon/McCartney. There. I just proved you wrong. That didn't take long.

QUOTE(Middle Buffalo @ Jan 16, 2007 -> 11:45 PM) 28 degrees in Phoenix. But, it's a dry cold. And a dry humor as well.

QUOTE(Gene Honda Civic @ Jan 16, 2007 -> 08:35 PM) There's also sodium in beer. It's the lack of sodium in water that causes the body to get all out of whack. The sodium level in beer is comparable to the sodium in water. The brewing water is where the sodium in beer comes from, and unless you are drinking distilled water you are getting sodium in your water. Not enough to maintain an isotonic body environment if you drank a gallon of it though. QUOTE(Texsox @ Jan 16, 2007 -> 11:33 PM) Not really their fault, but probably the smartest thing from a ratings point of view. From a corporate point of view, maybe. Being cancelled is about the worst thing that can happen to a shows ratings I'd say.

79ºF here today.