OT of Uninspiration.  3/2/2010

The Audition

Need more baby photos

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It seems better but I’m not sure if it’s worth my money.

He is hilarious. His album Chewed Up gets me every time. I’m not sure if I like him describing his hate for deer or his take on swear words is better. Here’s the deer bit. (NSFW?)

Get ready to make it rain! Sort of.

It shouldn’t be interesting to watch guys run the 40 yard dash or broad jump, but ….

I’ve never been this excited for a EA FPS

(unless you want to pretend the last 10 years of the Simpsons never happened)

First game of spring training in 15 minutes. I’m inordinately excited for this. Purchased my mlb.tv for the year and am ready to go.

but any LL comedy subthread would be incomplete without a little praise for Mitch Hedberg.

I used to know it by heart (tink tink. tink tink.)

the only other comedy records we owned were a collection of Anna Russell’s classical music comedy monologues, and Flanders and Swann (I love Flanders and Swann)

I went through a big comedy album stretch in HS— both going backwards to Newhart & Stan Freberg and over to England for Beyond the fringe. For a while, years ago, KUOW played both The goon show, and (briefly) the old Beeb radio show I’m sorry I’ll read that again — sketch comedy, of course.

you can hear the darndest things when you put your earphones back in.

but Peoria is one of two ST complexes now equipped with pitch f/x. This is sweet for two reasons – we get to see if there’s much of a difference in the spring AZ air and we see pitches that are works in progress.

Pleasantly surprised.

Mariners Idol will return

I’ve watched games with Chelsea, Man U, InterMilan, Real Madrid, Aston Villa, and a few others (I watch what those around me are watching) in the past week.

I was wondering – what exactly makes a player a dominant presence on the field? I played soccer through high school, but I never really thought about the game much outside of the pitch. Plus, soccer is so hard to look at quantitatively, particularly relative to baseball. Are there any good writers or websites or ways of looking at the question that you can think of that explain this well?

One thing I’ve noticed is just how physically small and ordinary-looking the footballers are relative to American football, basketball, and baseball players. There aren’t many MLB players, and only a few stars, who are below average height (5’9"ish, right?) or lighter than 180 pounds, but it seems like there are many of them in soccer. Wayne Rooney doesn’t look like an athlete at all (you seen the picture of him in the war paint? Yikes). I guess it makes sense, given how soccer is played, but it’s still kind of bewildering.

I’ve gotten to know Christiano Ronaldo quite well, since he’s on in this Clear for Men commercial every single commercial break on Al-Jazeera sports. Also, I saw him score two amazing goals against InterMilan, then get a hilarious red card for smacking the defender in the face so hard AFTER HE HAD ALREADY BEATEN HIM that the poor guy needed to be carted off in a stretcher. He’s a dear.

Does mlbtv really black out M’s games in Seattle? If so, are there any other options for watching games in-city besides cable?

I thought he’s definitely an incredibly talented comedian, and I laughed alot through a few of his sketches. But that he deals almost exclusively in stereotypes (albeit usually for audiences of mostly minorities) makes me feel a little uncomfortable (Chris Rock said that he stopped doing his “Black people and ******” routine because “the white people were laughin’ a little too hard”). But I haven’t really thought this through.

I’ve liked everything that i have heard from him, but two of my favorites are his routine about Eye Exams and Pop Tarts.

“Oh I see where they’re going with this. We are banging on all cylinders.”

“Microwave on high for 3 seconds.”

Also, his bit about military inventions is genius. Unfortunately, YouTube is blocked at my work so I can’t find a video for this bit.

I might not be around so much for a while. Working at a small company is awesome, but I’m two days in and I’ve already finished one project and have five more things I need to finish by tomorrow. So long, life of leisure, hello, working like a grownup!

NOTE: Do not ever work like a grownup.

Comedy of the MIND

prefaced by another jab from Silvi

I was worried we’d not get the annual Jim Street Tui article

“He’s worried about the boys. He saw what happened to Adrian Beltre.”

Looks like one of those wonderfully updated classics that should be awesome. Can’t wait to see how it plays

Even from page to page, the blogs revert to Narrow even if I just set them to Wide on the previous page. LL reverted to Narrow just entering this thread.

What’s up with that?

And it’s not just LL. I’m getting the same behaviour at Bloody Elblw.

what more does one need to say?

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