If you don’t know Boston Native, ESPN’s BIll Simmons (aka The Boston Sports Guy), check out his quotes of the day archives for a good primer.
Here are some gems:
“I’ve taken a lot of crap from a lot of people. Probably more than anybody in the history of this sport. I know Hank [Aaron] and […]
As with the kid at the pool clip, I could watch this shit all day.
First and foremost, shermadelic props to mylo927 for the find on Editors. a few half dozen IMs and I finally put the ears to the frequency and was pickin up what he was puttin down.
So depending on who you talk to Interpol is the reincarnation of Joy Division (just a bit more business-like, see). […]
The other day I was talking podcasts with a friend who was interested in finding some new diggs’s to listen to in order to get through the boredom called the non-weekend day time hours.She was having an issue using the whole itunes dumping ground for podcasts, and was quickly becoming frustrated. To sooth her […]
Murderball was originally invented in the 1970’s by four handicapped friends who were messing around with a ball in a gym in Winnipeg. In its current state (now known as Quadriplegic Rugby), the game has morphed into a semi regulated international sport whose pinnacle is the Paralympics played every four years. The movie is a […]
Snapped: September 9, 2005 Locale: Red Hook Brewery in Portsmouth, NH Flickr Set: Dandy Warhols
On a rainy night at the Red Hook Brewery in Portsmouth, NH, The Dandy Warhols made their only appearance in New England a memorable one. Playing the third of a 4 show “warm up” mini tour (before […]
A few weeks ago my friend Angie told me about a little social experiment that her and a friend were working on called SNATCH: Steak Night Amongst the Carnivorous Hos. Now that is a freakin tagline.
The concept is quite simple. They are women who like to get together with other like minded meat […]
Morning Becomes Eclectic, a morning show on Los Angeles’ NPR station KCRW, is one of the few things that makes me wish I lived on the west coast. No offense to the west coasters out there, but there is just something about changing seasons that puts a smile on this guys face.
Anyways, this is a […]
Well, I wasn’t ignoring my duties over the past few night with my lack of posts. I have been working on upgrading my Movable Type to version 3.2 and was forced to rebuilt the template that supports the site. I figured I would use this chance to upgrade the look and feel of the whole […]
I was at a wedding last Saturday night and I found myself chatting with a hilarious middle-aged woman from Brazil. The conversation started initially with the Katrina Disaster, but she quickly took that in different direction. Being from outside the USA, she had some very candid thoughts on how spoiled we are as a nation […]
