9.8.04
He is Grooming His Poodle
.Miscellaneous Items.
Just a reminder, kids:
.consumables.
-The new album by Cake, Pressure Chief, comes out on October 5.
-The (amazing and beautiful) film about Andy Goldsworthy, Rivers and Tides, (finally) comes out on DVD on September 28.
.sports.
-Cribbing entirely from King Kaufman (again) - George Carlin and Thomas Boswell are still right.
Kaufman is also entirely right when he says (talking about ESPN):
Crazy in the coconut.
-Speaking of crazy: crazy CRAZY crowds for Kerry/Edwards. 20,000 in Kansas City. Which, either way you put it, is in either -
a) Kansas, or
b) Missouri
Neither of which are, how shall we say, hotbeds of progressive activism. So, there's that.
-Cribbing entirely from King Kaufman (again) - George Carlin and Thomas Boswell are still right.
Kaufman is also entirely right when he says (talking about ESPN):
It's not like I pine for the old days of some jowly ex-jock in a plaid sport coat reading the scores. I like hip, irreverent and funny. And unlike a lot of sports fans I don't particularly miss "The Big Show," which I enjoyed at the time but didn't think it was anything to build a lifestyle around or anything.Yup.But I do want to just once watch a Padres-Pirates highlight without wanting to throw something at the TV, you know?
Jumanji!
Crazy in the coconut.
.politics.
-Speaking of crazy: crazy CRAZY crowds for Kerry/Edwards. 20,000 in Kansas City. Which, either way you put it, is in either -
a) Kansas, or
b) Missouri
Neither of which are, how shall we say, hotbeds of progressive activism. So, there's that.