bjorn_skurj

They should forfeit the game.

I try to get only the iTunes Plus songs nowadays.

I heard once that there was a thing called myTunes that could do that.

Never thought of that one!

OK. I can live with that.

The only acceptable variant of October is, of course, Rocktober.

What an awful and crazy day that was. I found out recently that a girl I went to high school with actually escaped both attacks on the WTC. Vibes and prayers to all who lost somebody on that day.

Upstate Films is a gonna be showing some Bergman beginning o' next month. Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries and a couple more. I will be there.

You do that, and I will love you forever.

Ouch. That blows.

There, we disagree. The one thing the Mets sorely need is a big fat giant power pitcher. But if Pedro stays healthy, and Glavine, Perez and the bullpen don't suck, los Mets should be fine.

They blacked out Chicago for a Bengals game? WTF?

Yeah, but Pettitte seems to me to be pitching a bit over his head of late. And then there's the fact that the Yankees had a pretty soft schedule of late. Anybody's pitching looks great when it's up against the Royals. Though to give credit where it's due, that sweep of Boston was impressive. The Yanks have some great players and I'm not at all surprised they recovered from their early funk. But I don't really see anything fundamentally different from the 2006 model, which lost in the first round. We shall see. Cleveland can't be counted out, either. This will be an AL playoffs for the ages.

How old was Johnny Bench when he crapped out? (Ans: 35 or so.) Unless you're Carlton Fisk, you don't go much further than that as a backstop, do you?

Maybe. I would guess that if it can play it, it can burn it. Can Nero play .m4p files?

"You know that last SweeTart I was saving? I dropped it."

Artistic merit, sans doute.

I don't know. I think the art is somehow bundled in with the music file, but I could be wrong.

Not sure what you mean by "own." And yes, sometimes the art work does change. I think the program reassigns it sometimes.

Photo by Fionn Reilly, who can snap with the best of them.

We just got a spiff new stadium-seating 'plex here in PKNY. I said to my friend, "It's like going to see a movie on the Death Star."

I don't want to get into details, but I have sinned quite a bit in Poughkeepsie. I think the Wilco show there might have been driven by the availability of a venue like The Chance, but a fantasy double bill for me would be Wilco and the Cowboy Junkies at the Bardavon.

He did, and I am not that quick of a reader, to be honest.

1. I think the AL playoffs will be a classic this year, with Boston edging out the Los Angeles Angels of Californication/Anaheim. 2. I am not banking on the Mets to win the World Series.