1. Not really a question, but I do like watching the HR derby every year. Sue me. The AAA home-run derby is in Portland this year, on Monday night, and they’ve had a competition all school year to find the best HS slugger in the Portland area, who will get to be in the AAA HR Derby with the minor leaguers. Pretty cool.

2. Don’t have an iphone so I have no opinion.

3. People that get off the escalator and just stand there, blocking the escalator for everyone else, while they figure out where they’re going.

4. Why, I believe that would be mayonnaise!

5. Define “off the radar”. My latest travel obsession is Peru.

6. Seasons 3-7.

And a question of my own. I watched a bit of “Pump Up The Volume” on TV last night – it really, truly, horrifyingly, doesn’t hold up, I really liked this movie when it came out but it’s pretty awful – and the bit with the Bad Brains/Rollins cover of “Kick Out The Jams” came on. That got me to thinkin’. Of what song do you possess the most cover versions? I don’t have my iTunes library in front of me, but off the top of my head I have at least six different versions of Kick Out The Jams, at least five versions of You’ve Got Your Head On Backwards by the Sonics, and multiple versions of many other songs.

1. I want Guti!
2. I just sit and covet the Pre.
3. People that look one way and walk another way. People that text while driving and slow down traffic. People who discuss reality television that does not involve aspiring models or chefs.
4. Catsup
5. Uganda.
6. 5 years of the Simpsons? A set of five years? I’ve watched half of season 8 and some randoms.

*The HR derby would be good if it were half as long

*Apple products are for queens

*I don’t have pet peeves, I have psychotic fucking hatreds

*Horseradish

*Too afraid of being kidnapped abroad

*Seasons 2, 4, 5, 6, 7

Thumbs up. It’s more song-y and less Nels Cline-wankerific than A Ghost Is Born, and the songs are a lot more interesting than Sky Blue Sky’s – it sounds like a mix of Sky Blue Sky’s song structures and AM’s poppiness, combined with a healthy dose of “we know what we’re doing and we’re really good at it now” and I really like it. Best Wilco album in years.

- Poochie is dead on about the Derby except for when it was here in 2001. Watching it in person was way more fun than on TV.
- The best app on the iPhone is the telephone application.
- I hate when people spout psychology labels without fully understanding them or assuming that it is a negative label when it may in fact be a necessary part of the whole.
- Relish or ketchup
- Tibet
- I stopped watching the Simpsons a long time ago

and this number instantly popped into my head

005-737-5423

Any old cheat codes near and dear to your heart?

    * iPhone apps.
LOOOOVE the MLB app. Still trying to figure things out, but there’s some other apps w/potential. Most addicting game is Solebon solitaire, but I’m a solitaire junky anyway.

    * Biggest pet peeve?

Mean people suck. Left lane un-passing below-the-speed-limit drivers.

    * Most unnecessary condiment?

Rerish NOOOOO!!!!

    * What country do you want to visit that is sort of off the radar?

Genovia.

    * Best set of 5 years of the Simpsons? If you say the recent ones I will hurt you.

I honestly don’t watch TV and while I do enjoy the Simpsons, I’m not qualified to provide an answer here since I haven’t watched enough of them to form an opinion.

    * Whatever else this de/evolves into.

Best knock-knock jokes?

MLB app for the iPhone is so great. I’ve only had my iPhone for a week, so I may end up with other suggestions. I’m not really into paying for apps, so I’ve been hawking on all the free stuff so far. MLB is the only thing I’ve paid for so far. Biggest bonus on the iPhone is all the web apps, where sites have specific features just for iPhone. Really sets it apart from the other mobile browsers I’ve used

Are any of our nerds going to the conference? I’m so gutted that I can’t be there – this is a momentous occasion in the history of baseball.

Does anyone know when it is being installed at Safeco?

Home Run Derby: Can be fun, probably wont be this year. I saw 1989’s Home Run Derby in Anaheim but apparently mis-remembered everything about it. I thought I saw Bo Jackson just destroy the ball numerous times but apparently Ruben Sierra led the AL effort with 3 homeruns whilst Bo just hit 1.

I-Phone Apps: I am notorious for clinging onto my old phone well past it’s shelf life. My current version (Verizon V-Cast?) is missing it’s backing and looks like a cat attacked the screen.

Biggest Pet Peeve: Since I work in a pharmacy setting, people who don’t enunciate their names when I am attempting to get them their precious drugs, and then give me a look when I ask them to repeat. No, I didn’t hear you mumbling your odd name rapidly with a thick East Indian accent, please re-start slowly and say your A’s like one would in English.

Most Unnecessary Condiment: “Lite” anything is often so devoid of taste I have to wonder what the point is.

Off the Radar Country: I don’t know why, but I really want to go to Turkey, and Istanbul in particular.

Best 5 of the Simpsons: Probably ‘91-’96. Haven’t watched regularly since then, anyway.

1. Ichiro did in fact decline
2. The only app that I am envious of is Google Earth.
3. 70% of the drivers on the road.
4. All of them.
5. Iran
6. 5-9

HE’S ON PACE TO DRAW 60 INTENTIONAL WALKS YOU STUPID FUCKS

Not a disturbing one this time! And you thought you had me all figured out.

iPhone games:
Peggle
NYT Crossword
Scrabble
Flood-it (free)

Most unnecessary condiment: Hunt’s Ketchup.

Next big vacay, once I have the money, will be to Ukraine and Croatia.

I have no idea what episodes of the Simpsons belong to which seasons. I only watch the re-runs. I’m surprised South Park doesn’t get more play around here. That’s been the best animated show on tv for the last 4 years or so.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/10/sports/baseball/10cameras.html?em

- I don’t really watch the Home Run Derby. It seems a bit boring to me.
- Don’t have an iPhone, so I don’t know! I don’t even use the apps on the Blackberry really.
- Biggest pet peeve? I guess….people talking on the phone when they are ordering something (in a cafe or restaurant). I think it’s unconscionably rude.
- Every condiment is probably loved by someone, somewhere.
- I want to visit Iceland. That really isn’t off the radar though, is it? I don’t know where is and where isn’t!
- I don’t know about that…. I defer to someone with greater knowledge than me.

1. People who recline their airline seats without asking the person behind them if it’s ok. It’s a pretty common thing, but why is this socially acceptable? In what other situation would it be ok to ram your seat into someone else’s already tiny space for multiple hours without even having the decency to say excuse me? And I’m an asshole if I ask them to unrecline?

2. People who stand with their whole family in front of baggage claim. There is limited access space and your snotnose six-year old doesn’t need to be claiming any. Designate a baggage scooper and send everyone else back.

I had to listen to a co-worker blather on all day today about how he is going to a party at the Playboy mansion tomorrow night. Is it just me or do you not keep that to yourself? I really do not care.

Anyone else going to be there? I’ll be the guy with the Mariners practice jersey on and sleeve tattoos. I’m sure you can find me from that description. I have no idea where my ticket has me sitting. Haven’t actually seen the ticket – but I’ll be with a person in a wheelchair, so it’ll be up by a concourse. It’s going to be hard to utilize my flask, but I’m crafty.

-Unnecessary apostrophes
-Making the names of establishments possessive when they aren’t (really? Claim Jumper’s?)

Lampkin! Cora! And old feces. Sele!

Home run derby back when you used to get to see the guys & their families watching
My cell has a dial.
Pet peeve usually depends on if I am driving or a pedestrian…
Steak sauce.
Easter Island.
3-7.

So that the toothpaste seperates into the front and the back.

1.) – Too long as mentioned before
2.) – Bloom
3.) – I’ve spent a ton of time on the freeway the last few days so it’s probably because it’s fresh in my mind but people that drive 60 or slower in the center lane on the freeway. Also people that drive 60 when the speed limit is 70.
4.) – Cocktail sauce
5.) – Lebanon
6.) – 5-10

Things we discovered:

House of Vintage on Hawthorne is the most overwhelmingly awesome place in the entire world and if I lived in Portland I would spend 70% of my earnings there.

Lactacious are fucking amazing live. They embody pretty much everything I like about Portland in comparison to Seattle and they have mad skills on the mic and on the dance floor. Shit is tight.

The Pearl fucking sucks.

Hawthorne is neat.

The Tombstone General Store (applicable to Dead Moon fans only) is slightly disappointing. I don’t know what I was expecting really; it’s a mini-mart, and I knew that, but well…yeah. It’s a mini-mart.

Cha! Cha! Cha! makes burritos that could probably kill some people and they have hot sauce that is the most amazing I have ever had. I almost stole their hot sauce and I am a 26 year old man and have never stolen anything in my life.

Getting to the Pearl from NE Portland based on directions from a very, very drunk person at 3:45 in the morning will only end in terror. (Note: driver was not drunk.)

Portland is awesome. I don’t wish to move for several reasons, but I could definitely see myself living there. Thank you Portland (and Portland familiar) LLers for the tips!