bjorn_skurj

In the year of our Lord Nineteen-hundred and eighty-eight, I was at the Old Ritz upon the Isle of Manna-Hattan to enjoy a concerto by the band known as Motorhead. As the band took the stage to thunderous applause and wild screams of delight from the assembled multitude, Lemmy gave this brief address: "This is my fookin' stage. Get up on this fookin' stage, and I'll kick you in the fookin' teeth. One-two-three-four One-two-three-four!" The band then leapt into their opening selection, the exquisite "Ace of Spades" and your friend and humble narrator then realized he had, quite by accident,

The comic book edition of Thoreau's Civic Disobedience.

Happy birthday!

My vote is for "The Trapeze Swinger" by Iron & Wine.

Joan Crawford has a problem solver, and his name is revolver.

Oh, buck up. You have to like your chances, with Suppan going again.

Baseball aside, I hope you are OK.

Have a good one!

I hate it when I don't appreciate the ironic nature of something.

What's your beef? I find the below to be quite true: In the long term, something more ominous is at work. If a free society is to work, the vast majority of citizens must reflexively obey the law not because they fear punishment, but because they accept that the rule of law makes society possible. That reflexive law-abidingness is reinforced when the laws are limited to core objectives that enjoy consensus support, even though people may disagree on means. Thus society is weakened every time a law is passed that large numbers of reasonable, responsible citizens think is stupid. Such laws inv

Mets force Game 7! Believe? Ya gotta!

I think I've seen some prototypes hanging out at the Wal-Mart late at night.

My inner neoconservative kind of likes McCain, seeing in him the potential to be the "no more bullshit" president our nation badly needs.

He may be trying to re-establish his bona fides with the Republicans.

Yeah, Seattle needs to do something; Ichiro has kind of faded into obscurity despite being one of the three or four best hitters in the game. I am looking forward to seeing the gyroball at Shea, starting for the home team.

That's one of the half-dozen or so movies I only know from their Mad Magazine adaptations.

Human species 'may split in two' Humanity may split into two sub-species in 100,000 years' time as predicted by HG Wells, an expert has said. Evolutionary theorist Oliver Curry of the London School of Economics expects a genetic upper class and a dim-witted underclass to emerge. The human race would peak in the year 3000, he said - before a decline due to dependence on technology. People would become choosier about their sexual partners, causing humanity to divide into sub-species, he added. The descendants of the genetic upper class would be tall, slim, healthy, attractive, intelligen

Feel free to adapt as you wish. I only get pissed off enough to raise my art to that level on Tuesdays.

Grumble, grumble; mutter, mutter. Get you in Queens!

E-mail I just sent out to two of my reporters. Save your strength. It's not getting in this week. Shame on you both; you profess to be my friends, yet you seem to give not a shit about what I have to go through to get this paper out on Tuesdays. Who do you think does this editing shit? Elves? Tinkerbell? Sasquatch? New rule: If it ain't in my inbox by 5 p.m. Tuesday, it ain't getting in, and even if it gets in that late, it still might not get in.

None. They should be flogged, humilated and then tortured to death. Proceeds from showing this on pay-per-view would go toward all the Enron workers who got fucked out of their retirements.

I used the BBC as my source for that citation.

I agree that Piazza should have charged the mound and pounded the shit out of Clemens, though it might have caused a riot in Yankee Stadium.

Arizona coach Dennis Green was seething. Judging by his comments, he clearly didn't believe the Bears lived up to the hype -- or deserved to win. "The Bears are who we thought they were!" he said, yelling at the top of his lungs and pounding on the podium at his postgame press conference. "Now, if you want to crown them, then crown (them)! But they are who they thought they were! And we let them off the hook!" Green then stormed away.

Yeah, sometimes it's better to drop one early on. The 1985 Bears were beat only by Miami, in a Monday night game, if memory serves.