bjorn_skurj

Wocka Wocka! Have a great one, you wildly non-linear creative type, you.

Happy birthday, man!

Quintus Arrius: Your eyes are full of hate, forty-one. That's good. Hate keeps a man alive. It gives him strength.

Sol: There was a world, once, you punk. Det. Thorn: Yes, so you keep telling me. Sol: I was there. I can prove it. Det. Thorn: I know, I know. When you were young, people were better. Sol: Aw, nuts. People were always rotten. But the world 'was' beautiful.

I have a very fond memory of being let loose during a high school physics trip to the Hayden Planetarium for an hour or so. My friend Dave and I headed to the nearest bar and got smashed, then had pizza. Probably we were offered weed about six times while walking from the bus to the bar to the pizza to the planetarium, where we then watched laser rock. (It was the Van Halen-Rush-Police and somebody else edition.)

For those interested in the topic, I recommend Marc Okkonen's "Baseball Uniforms of the 20th Century." A little essay on each teams' uni history, then year-by-year illustrations from 1900-93.

Blue Jays' throwback unis are sweet. Like Milwaukee, they should wear them for every game.

I kinda miss that New York. (Written from my safe perch up in Poughkeepsie.)

Didn't do Jimmy Carter any good.

There will be a blasting of my "Black Liberation Theology" mix later today.

When I was 15, I had a 22-year-old French teacher lady who used to show up BRALESS to school.

I think it's an artist's conception of M. Chris wearing a throwback Mets uni, but he got the eye color wrong.

Wow! Ed Kranepool has had a hell of a makeover! Before: After:

Private Eightball: Personally, I think, uh... they don't really want to be involved in this war. You know, I mean... they sort of took away our freedom and gave it to the, to the gookers, you know. But they don't want it. They'd rather be alive than free, I guess. Poor dumb bastards.

Kilgore: How're you feeling, Jimmy? Door Gunner: Like a mean motherfucker, sir!

Beltran on lost HR: Replay it again! By ADAM RUBIN DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER Thursday, April 3rd 2008, 4:00 AM MIAMI - Carlos Beltran already wanted instant replay in baseball. Now, he's adamant. Beltran was deprived of an apparent fifth-inning homer when the original call was overruled, seemingly in error. The outfield wall is topped by a yellow line and a railing. The line is in play, but hitting the rail is supposed to be a home run. The ball appeared to hit the railing and bounce straight up. "Even tennis they have the challenge thing," said Beltran, who instead was credited with hi

1. That's old school, the pitcher-in-the-outfield thing. 2. I wish the Mets had Nady back. X!

I would like to ask this of the guy who got herpes.

Moral relativity has its problems too. Sometimes, the people I disagree with are, in fact, wrong.

Danke. I used to have a Felix Millan bat when I was a kid. Watch for more famous, semi-obscure and completely obscure 60s, 70s, and 80s Mets, all season long!

What if Beltran has a MONSTER year and threatens Bonds' home run record? What then!?!?!?!?!? And it's not like Willie Randolph went out there and pulled a Larry Bowa. (Which would have been funny.) And, I will make the point that the Mets lost the division last year by one game. The NL East is tougher than Mongolian yak dickleather this year. Any team in that division is capable of beating any other team in it at any time and the Marlins always play the Mets hard. My irk, which was mild, yes, was that the ump that made the call allowed himself to be overturned. As in football, instant replay

Total bush blown call by those umps.

I dunno. I went through periods where I really HATED being in school. I would claim to have brought a bomb to school in my Six Million Dollar Man lunch box.

Either that, or the writing's crap, or just not too many people's taste. I have read about zero DFW, so I can't say.

Missed that Poughkeepsie show.