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Hmm. A Saturday night in Chicago. It's a long drive, and the weather and roads could very well suck, but I'm going to have to think about making that trek.

Really? Personally, I'm not sure anyone around here would really care. When people talk about the Tigers (at least around me), he's not the one they usually talk about. I could be wrong ... after all, I'm a White Sox fan adrift in a sea of Tigers supporters...

I have to admit ... that is fun.

I'm guessing you're also a big fan of the ebola virus and clubbing baby seals.

The Yankees will always be more evil than the Red Sox, or any other team in any sport. That's just a natural fact.

I'm a major Costello fanboy, so it would be impossible for me to choose favorites, but here are a few that spring to mind ... these aren't even necessarily my favorites, but they're ones I've listened to lately: Falling for you without a second look Falling out of your open pocketbook Giving you away like motel matches * * * * * * * * * * It's just a rumour that was spread around town A telegram or a picture postcard Within weeks they'll be re-opening the shipyard And notifying the next of kin Once again It's all we're skilled in We will be shipbuilding * * * * * * * * * * She said t

Tebow's got a better arm than you let on. Much better. That said, I agree that he won't be an NFL quarterback. Not sure what position they'll end up playing him at (maybe tight end?), but probably not QB.

Because it's too good to go without.

I bet Pierre is moved in the Dodgers' next trade.

Here's another bacon-of-the-month club. Zingerman's is damn pricey, but their product is always terrific.

Ford B Platform - Camp Peace 1. Greentrax Recordings 2. Tamworth Railway Station 3. Interleukin 5 4. Trialeti 5. Burscough F.C. 6. Vibes 7. List of Asteroids/154201-154300 8. KTPN-LP 9. Border Pacific Railroad 10. Hell's Bell's (Play) 11. Tropical Storm Gamma (2005) 12. Northanger Abbey Ford B Platform started out in the late 1980s as a Bachman-Turner Overdrive tribute band, but their fortunes plummeted after a major office supply chain began to use "Takin' Care of Business" as its advertising jingle. Rather than disband, however, they decided to cut their hair and start writing their own

If you're still tripped up, there's a lot of info available here. The "Port Forwarding" link can be very important, if stuff doesn't work automatically for you. It's all pretty confusing, but if you follow the instructions you can work it out. I use uTorrent, and it's super-easy once it's all set up. I used to use something else (I don't even remember what any more) and it sucked by comparison. I know there are also a lot of fans of Azureus here too -- those two are probably the best/most popular torrent utilities.

Be sure to mention that he never won a Super Bowl.

People use "who's" instead of "whose" far too often.

OK, I gave it a try. I observed the same rule about omitting place and person names (mostly). The Pendle Witches - Ervinka 1. West 4th Street Courts 2. Nevada State Route 117 3. Glasgow Patter 4. 3DML 5. Andorran Democratic Centre 6. Berufsverbot 7. Urban Geography 8. Rulers of Hesse 9. Hyphodontia Aspera 10. Shining Honeycreeper 11. Design Worldwide Partnership 12. The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail Quirky techno-Celtic with an indie rock feel. The album's highlight is the closing track, an ambitious, sprawling anthem about war, religion, and the future.

Probably the only teenager JASB could think of.

CDs are cheap. Burn 'em. I probably have a hundred gigs of stuff on my drive at home that I need to burn off. Every so often I spend a Sunday just burning CDs ... but it seems like every time I free up some drive space, I just end up downloading more stuff.

I've been a whole-album person my whole life, but that intimidation factor of "what the hell am I going to listen to?" is pretty hard to get past sometimes. At work, I have that easy, don't-have-to-think-about-it option of a huge shuffled playlist (which is currently playing me some Wilco, yay!), and I've found it to be a pretty interesting way to listen to a large music collection, so it works well for me. Pretty often something will come up on shuffle that inspires me to stop and listen to that whole album. This usually happens when I hear an old Elvis Costello track, for example. Oooh,

Most of my listening these days is at work, where I maintain a playlist of every single track on my external hard drive. The playlist is over 16,000 tracks long (nearly all of it is full albums -- I'm not the kind of listener who downloads single tracks), and most days I simply shuffle it and listen while I'm doing my work. I try not to skip ahead at all -- it's certainly tempting to do so once in a while, especially during a throwaway track from the end of someone's album, but listening to stuff I'd forgotten about is a great way to rediscover good music. At home, I have no such playlist

This reminded me of something I see pretty often on craigslist: people selling wrought iron goods as "rod iron."

I've had the same hunch -- he could be a disaster in the AL. If he gets the right kind of coaching, though, I think he could still be an ace. I guess we'll see. Maybin and Miller are pretty solid players ... the Marlins will have another good young team, if not next year, then probably in '09, when some of those other players begin to pan out. Still waiting for my White Sox to fill some of their holes.

Apologies if this has been posted before -- I haven't been able to follow the RTT like I once did -- but I thought this was hilarious... - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - LEAVE BACON OUT OF IT, HEALTH EXPERTS WARNED HEALTH experts were last night told to 'go fuck themselves' after advising consumers to give up bacon. The Department of Health in London was under siege yesterday as a mob chanted 'death to the men in white coats' and 'whoever defames the pig should be executed'. Bill McKay, an architect from Dorchester, said he would rather disembowel himself than live without bac

Yeah, those two World Series championships were a fucking disgrace.

"The Marlin" would be confused with that guy from Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom.