Puhleeze
 

That's probably his weekly salary.

Six Feet Under
 

I'm sure it wasn't lost on you, Sebby, that this under-appreciated song from South Park made it into Team America, and even onto the Team America soundtrack.

Geniuses know when to give a bit another shot. Yay Matt & Trey.

Query
 

I don't think I know that song, but I'd probably know it if I heard it. So I'd say, born 9/4/73 or earlier.

I have a music analogy that I think is good.

Kajagoogoo is to the 1980s
as
Dogs Die In Hot Cars is to the 2000s.

Discuss if you feel compelled.

Big boys don't cry
 

I grew a moustache and bought a stupid captain's hat the week of last Halloween to go with my wife to a party as Captain and Tenille. Then our younger cat died two days before Halloween and we didn't feel like going. I still think it's a great costume. Almost as good as the time one of my wife's vendors made us Iron Chef costumes for cost.

NYC in Rocktober?
 

I've got the "concept album about 130 years into the future we live in a repressive totalitarian society until someone finds a guitar, learns to play it, and thereby frees his mind, leading to revolution and liberation" part down cold. But that's about it.

Ooooh yeah. WE ARE THE PRIESTS. OF THE TEMPLES. OF SYRINX.

NYC in Rocktober?
 

I have a vague memory of Monty Python doing a bit about some theater troupe that adapted some famous work into semaphore. Great, now I've exposed myself as a Monty Python dork, and worse, nobody will respond to let me know what the work was, for fear of exposing themselves as an even bigger Monty Python dork.

Ah well, there's always google.

PLF is freaking me out.
 

I'd be a hell of a lot more likely to drink your "Samurai" than cappucino, or any coffee beverage.

Why don't they have carbonated jam? I think that'd be tasty.

NYC in Rocktober?
 

You're even more of a dork for wigging on the dual, obvious reference.

I don't know why I'm so surprised
 

And this is different from Big Brother how?

Something I learned from SportsGuy's mailbag
 

That's stupid. It's not a complete list -- if that was their intention, why wouldn't they have included 1, 3, etc. Besides 42 is bullshit; yes it's "retired," by all major league teams, but Jackie wasn't a Yankee, and Mariano still wears it.

Your list lacks one important entry:

http://www.dustygroove.com/images/pr...tbeal_101b.jpg

Big boys don't cry
 

Good costume for someone like you, who's three-quarters of the way there. Wouldn't work for us, the same way Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox or Viking Warrior (which we've done in the past) wouldn't work for you.

tm

Sports Betting Heart Attack
 

My preferred sports gambling website (www.wsex.com) has an exotic wager on some nationally televised baseball games called "Super Six Sluggers." They pick six sluggers, and create a market for which one of the six will have the most total bases (not including walks) in the game. You can buy and sell "shares" of each slugger. Last week I made $45 on a sure thing (by short-selling shares of a player who'd been removed from the game with no chance to win). So I was looking for something similar tonight.

With Howard having a HR early in the game (4 total bases), Troy Glaus hit a double, and seemed to hurt his leg scoring on a base hit. So I shorted 5 shares of Glaus at $11. I win $55 if Glaus doesn't win this competition. I could lose $500 if Glaus wins it outright. Well they didn't pull him from the game, but Shawn Green had 5 total bases and Howard and Burrell had 4, at the time Glaus came up for what looked to be his final AB in the 7th (Arizona was at home and leading by 2).

Of course, Glaus drives a pitch the other way, into the swimming pool. I think back to all the comments made here about how I'm the worst gambler ever. I'm about ready to throw my computer and my TV out the window.

And then Shawn Green singles to tie Glaus with 6 total bases, cutting my likely exposure in half. And then of course Burrell hit his second HR of the game to win the competition with 8 total bases.

Of course, Glaus has to get up again in the 8th inning, to make me sweat even more. (he walked). MOTHERFUCKER. Can't I ever get an easy one? I mean, aside from betting Brothers Grimm to make under $18.0M this weekend?

That is all.

Sports Betting Heart Attack
 

Murderer.

In other news, my hair is particularly fluffy this morning.

Sports Betting Heart Attack
 

Wow! So is mine!!

Sports Betting Heart Attack
 

The humidity in this place prevents this from ever happening.

IN other news...
This guy looks older (way) than 40.
http://newsfeed.tcm.ie/images/people...downeyjrPA.jpg
SAN FRANCISCO - Actor Robert Downey Jr. married his girlfriend, Susan Levin, a movie producer he met on the set of the film “Gothika,” on Saturday, People magazine reported.

Sports Betting Heart Attack
 

My hair is fluffier in humidity. It gets a little curly.

Sports Betting Heart Attack
 

My hair is not particularly puffy today.

Sports Betting Heart Attack
 

My hair used to be puffy, but is now, officially, diddy.

Sports Betting Heart Attack
 

I think he looks 40. And I actually think he looks pretty good. I mean, considering all the drugs he's done and everything.

On a marginally related note, I am reading Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis. I am finding it much more difficult to read than any of his prior works.

Sports Betting Heart Attack
 

Do you 2 live together?

Ben Affleck
 

Ben Affleck is getting paid $1.8 million to star in spots for Lynx body spray, “demonstrating the magnetic effect the body spray has on women.” The ads will be shown in the UK, according to the Brit trade magazine Campaign.

From the website....

Did you know?
Women follow their nose when searching for a partner. A survey has found that women rate the smell of a man as more important than his looks as it apparently indicates how healthy he is – and therefore how healthy his offspring might be.

British men worry about their self image, with personal freshness, bad breath and body odour causing the most stress.

It's official, men are taking more of an interest in how they smell, look and attract the opposite sex - the male toiletries market is worth £422 million and increases by 2% each year.

With its coolly seductive fragrances and packaging, Lynx deodorant is now the UK’s top male grooming brand by coming up with a constant stream of out-there products to give young guys serious pulling power. It must be working because 8 million guys use a Lynx deodorant each day. And we’ve got proof that Lynx products will get the girls going – nearly half of all Lynx purchases are made by women!

Sports Betting Heart Attack
 

Maybe you need reading glasses?

Sports Betting Heart Attack
 

Wow. Tough crowd. He looks 40ish to me. Not too bad.

The Defamer had some nice Sebby-esque prose today in praise of the drug-addled Mr. Downey, which I recreate below. (Internal links omitted)

• The Sunday LAT goes long-form with Robert Downey, Jr, who’s willing to talk (and talk and talk) about his checkered (read: black tar heroin-abusing) past to promote his nth comeback in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, a profile bearing a 70/30 drugs-to-plugs ratio. Given Downey’s gift for rambling on in colorful, confessional metaphors about What It’s Like to be a recovering addict/movie star, almost the entire article is a potential pullquote, but how could we resist one that starts with a teenage Downey, James Spader, and the Chateau?
  
  “When I came out here at 17, 18, staying at the Chateau with Jimmy Spader,” he says, “there was this understanding that everyone went completely off their rockers for the weekend, then pulled together for the work on Monday. And there was something not very genuine about that, and I had no intention of adhering to that whatsoever. It’s so funny to me,” he adds, “so passé, the hard-partying movie stars and starlets — it’s like demonstrating at a nuclear power plant that’s already been shut down and turned to natural gas.”
  
  We think this Downey/Spader/Chateau set-up could become “The Aristocrats” of the bathroom stall scene. See, it’s easy: “So there I was at the Chateau with a 17-year-old Downey and Jimmy Spader. Right in the middle of cooking up my spoon, a bellboy walks in. Spades and Bobby hold him down, he’s screaming for his mommy, promising not to tell anyone what he’s seen, but we’re all in our third straight day without sleep, so I inject him right in the ass. Poor kid died in Downey’s arms, and Spader spent the rest of the week parading around in nothing but the unlucky bastard’s bellhop jacket, but the Chateau, they were cool about it. They told his family he drowned in the pool and mailed the body back to Peoria. Hey, that’s drugs.” We think this is really going to catch on.

Sports Betting Heart Attack
 

In a completely platonic, non-sexual brotherly love way, sts, npi, nttawwt, ymmv, etc.

Ben Affleck
 

What is "personal freshness" if not some combo of breath and body odors?

Sports Betting Heart Attack
 

Which 2?

Katrina
 

Good God.

http://www.nola.com/weblogs/nola/images/dome.jpg

Apparently, that's just the covering. The two holes in the Superdome are apparently pretty small.

Sports Betting Heart Attack
 

Have you tried to read it, Mr. big shot? No pictures and lots of big words!

Call Mulder
 

Update: They caught one alive! News article here.

Sports Betting Heart Attack
 

You live in a place where people lie about their age. Or else, the humidity here acts as an amazing preservative because the people around here who are 40+ look way way better than this. Drug use notwithstanding.

Sports Betting Heart Attack
 

Cool, my first stalker sock this summer. Welcome. R u a longtime lurker?

The Comeback
 

Has anyone continued to watch the Comeback, if for no other reason than it's on after Entourage and there's rarely something else worth watching? I've skipped a few episodes and have changed the channel in the middle of acutely embarrassing scenes, but last night there was finally some payoff.
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After Paulie G makes an obnoxious remark that shows him to be the irredeemably contemptible fuckhead that he is, Val punches him in the stomach, causing him to vomit up the alcohol and pizza he's been shoveling down his gullet for the better part of the day.

I clapped and cheered. That woman had to do something to gain some of her cherished "dignity." Of course, because she's Valerie, he vomited ON HER, but it was still a victory. That, and the fact that they followed it her cringe-worth rendition of I Will Survive, were really perfect.

Sports Betting Heart Attack
 

I agree. Also looking pretty good for his age is Duckie (Jon Cryer). I saw him at a silly eighties band show last night. Alas, he was not in Duckie garb or makeup.

Your str8 of the day.

Call Mulder
 

Stupid slow internet -- I can't get the video to go. I wish they had a still picture.

Sports Betting Heart Attack
 

He does look good. Compare Tommy Lee, who's 42.

http://www.imdb.com/gallery/granitz/...ee,%20Tommy%20(VI)

Sports Betting Heart Attack
 

2. A year or so ago, I was cyberstalking the first guy I ever fell in love with, and I found a relatively recent picture of him. I was shocked at how much he'd aged in the 9 years since I'd last seen him. He was only a year older than I am, but his face had a lot more lines than mine does.

Sports Betting Heart Attack
 

For what he's done to himself, Tommy Lee looks pretty good.

If you want an honest comparison for Lee, compare him to Vince Neil, who's totally gone to seed.

Sports Betting Heart Attack
 

My first serious boyfriend is now bald. When we were dating in high school, his wonderful thick black hair was one of his best features (that, and his cyclist legs). He lost it all sometime in his late 20s. I would weep for him if our second attempt at a relationship, in college, hadn't ended so badly. Instead it gives me some comfort now.

The Comeback
 

I, like you, have been watching it primarily because there's nothing else on at 9:30 on Sunday. There has been more than one night when I've left to walk the dog early, though.

I know Lisa Kudrow's a good actress, from seeing her in, among other things, The Opposite of Sex. I had also believed she is a funnier person as well. I'm sort of clinging to the hope that her being so unbearably obnoxious on the show is part of a very dark joke, like the end of Hannibal.

But I also cheered when she punched Paulie G. in the gut.