Aon
 

Re: Aon
 

Interesing, apparently the PoopReport scooped the NYTimes on this one by 5 plus years......http://www.poopreport.com/BMnewswire/924.html

Finally!
 

I've found someone dirtier than Gerald Henderson.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIZcC...layer_embedded

TM

Re: Obama's watch
 

I got this one for Christmas. I love it. And it's an automatic.

Meat Bikini?
 

http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m...bikinilins.jpg

http://blog.ingamenow.com/wp-content...tbikini5-1.jpg

http://blog.ingamenow.com/2009/01/22/the-meat-bikini/

TM

Re: Congratulations Slave and Catrin!!!
 

I've recommended this in the past. If you like Kavalier & Clay, you'll also like The Yiddish Policemen's Union, also by Chabon.

Re: Meat Bikini?
 

careful Wonk. that looks like ham.

Re: For Manfred. And mankind in general.
 

I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

Re: Congratulations Slave and Catrin!!!
 

Reading it right now. Good, buy not nearly as good as K&C.

Re: For Manfred. And mankind in general.
 

translucent isn't a color. it is a relative term for how hard it is for light to get in. if you want a scale, your sister was "transparent' in the "how hard is it to get in category."

Hank "forcing science jokes hoping for a ES set-up" Chinaski

Re: Congratulations Slave and Catrin!!!
 

Agreed. K&C was the first book of his that I read. I've read most of the rest since then, and it's been a steady stream of disappointment -- ranging from enormous (the Wonder Boys) to a little (Yiddish Police...)

Re: Congratulations Slave and Catrin!!!
 

K&C was published in september 2000. Since then we've all read great fiction in the way of your and Ty's PB posts, so these novelists pale in comparison maybe?

sad but true
 

You didn't believe it at the time, but my stuff turned out to be non-fiction.

Re: Speaking of BJs
 

You could have made the prize more pie.

Re: Meat Bikini?
 

Bacon is cool, but I thought it was prosciutto at first. I love prosciutto.

Re: Obama's watch
 

He has absurd amounts of money. He's moving more books than Stephen King this year.

Re: Kings of Leon
 

Once you learn to deal with the strange vocals, they're a damn good band. Good social music, too. Works well for gatherings.

Re: Obama's watch
 

Till you have to have it tuned up. They get fast or slow after a while. But generally, you're right. Getting batteries changed is a fucking hassle.

Re: Congratulations Slave and Catrin!!!
 

Wonderboys could have been fantastic, but it wasn't. It wasn't horrible, but the writing was significantly less mature than K&C.

Re: it Thurgreed coaches his kid's teams
 

• Girls Basketball Coach Fired After 100-0 Win
  
  The coach of a Texas high school basketball team that beat another team 100-0 was fired Sunday, the same day he sent an e-mail to a newspaper saying he will not apologize "for a wide-margin victory when my girls played with honor and integrity."
  
  Kyle Queal, the headmaster for Covenant School, said in The Dallas Morning News online edition that he could not answer if the firing was a direct result of coach Micah Grimes' e-mail disagreeing with administrators who called the blowout "shameful."
  
  Queal did not immediately answer phone messages or e-mail from The Associated Press.
  
  On its Web site last week, Covenant, a private Christian school, posted a statement regretting the outcome of its Jan. 13 shutout win over Dallas Academy. "It is shameful and an embarrassment that this happened. This clearly does not reflect a Christlike and honorable approach to competition," said the statement, signed by Queal and board chair Todd Doshier.
  
  Grimes, who has been criticized for letting the game get so far out of hand, made it clear in the e-mail Sunday to the newspaper that he does not agree with his school's assessment.
  
  "In response to the statement posted on The Covenant School Web site, I do not agree with the apology or the notion that the Covenant School girls basketball team should feel embarrassed or ashamed," Grimes wrote in the e-mail, according to the newspaper. "We played the game as it was meant to be played. My values and my beliefs would not allow me to run up the score on any opponent, and it will not allow me to apologize for a wide-margin victory when my girls played with honor and integrity."

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,482825,00.html

I believe I read elsewhere that the losing team was a school for the learning disabled, so maybe they'll forget the loss before their next game?

Re: it Thurgreed coaches his kid's teams
 

I'm glad that putting the total smack down on the other side in the law doesn't result in getting fired otherwise I would be sans the corner office, and private bath with bidet.....

Re: it Thurgreed coaches his kid's teams
 

Whenever I read one of your posts, I always get the sense that you are writing while sitting in a car at a stop light, drunk, from a broken Blackberry.

Re: it Thurgreed coaches his kid's teams
 

Is that this year's Mojito?

Re: Congratulations Slave and Catrin!!!
 

I've been stuck somewhere the first quarter of the book for a few years now. Sooner or later I'll give up and chuck it.

Re: it Thurgreed coaches his kid's teams
 

a blackberry? cool! what is it that makes them seem so modern?

Re: Congratulations Slave and Catrin!!!
 

Hmm. I liked Wonder Boys a lot. And the Mysteries of Pittsburgh. I didn't get past five pages of K + C. Maybe I should give it another shot.

Re: Actual Fashion Question
 

I'd say it probably depends on whether the monkey porn they're watching has been dubbed or not.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/25/ma...1&ref=magazine

Re: Congratulations Slave and Catrin!!!
 

If I was fucking someone 15 times a day every weekend, I wouldn't get much reading done either.

Bob L'Eponge.
 

Did you know that LEGO sets featuring Spongebob Squarepants characters have, for whatever reason, English and French descriptions on the outside of the box? I know! But it's true. I have also learned that the French word for "Spongebob" is "Bob L'Eponge."

After contemplating this a bit, today my new career goal is to become the voice-over talent for the French broadcast version of Spongebob Squarepants. I'm not sure that I can swing the nerdy, narcissistic homoeroticism of Squidward, but I think I have an inside track on capturing the profound stupidity of a French Patrick Star.

Re: Congratulations Slave and Catrin!!!
 

Remember, though, that after the first 30-60 minutes, Sportscenter just repeats. Ya gotta do *something* with that extra time.

Re: Bob L'Eponge.
 

Vista la playa!

Re: Congratulations Slave and Catrin!!!
 

I didn't hate it. It's just that K&C was so descriptive and sweeping in scope that WB seems almost amateurish in comparison.

Re: Congratulations Slave and Catrin!!!
 

The dead arise. Has anyone seen Ironweed?

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/27/ny...holland&st=cse

Re: Congratulations Slave and Catrin!!!
 

Yes. Yes, I have.

http://www.in-public.com/store/image...1266/new09.jpg

Re: Congratulations Slave and Catrin!!!
 

weed = boardkiller.

Re: Congratulations Slave and Catrin!!!
 

Didn't even know it was shut. Or that people call you "Dr. Bill" these days. You must be well chuffed.

Whispers on the street say that Rocky Sullivan's might be coming back to Lexington Avenue. Same scenario: landlord had visions of a trendy boutique and twice the rent and then reality bit.

Re: Congratulations Slave and Catrin!!!
 

I am not Dr. Bill, though I used to have his card (it read simply, "Dr. Bill"). He used to eat at the restaurant in my building after his shift. He also tends bar at a place called Twins on 34th. He's quite a character.

fashion query
 

True true story:

I have been invited to charity Texas Hold Em Poker tournament/party. What is appropriate in-character dress for such a function? (keep in mind I have not played the poker in a private setting since LS nor do I watch poker on TV).

Serious response appreciated.

Re: fashion query
 

Tuxedo, Kanye sunglasses, top hat and original Air Jordans.

TM

Torre
 

http://insider.espn.go.com/espn/blog...3dolney_buster

I'm with Olney on this whole Torre flap. I think he's a huge hypocrite. He knew exactly what he was doing with those quotes. And if you don't believe that, then you can't give him any credit for managing the press so well in New York, because in order to be any good at it you have to be particularly savvy with your quotes. So, was he just lucky then or is he lying his ass off now?

Whatever. This story is bigger than it should be. But finally, people are starting to look at Torre the way I've been looking at him for years. The Yankees made Torre, he did not make the Yankees. He inherited a championship team, right when they peaked (including a great trade for a free agent pitcher) and managed that core through 4 championships. Once the team was completely his (with a record payroll and arguably the best talent in the league), he did the minimum with what he had. He sucked as a manager with the Cardinals and the Mets, which leads me to believe that many an average manager with an even temperment could have done as well as he did. He actively didn't manage in favor of a formula that worked only when Mariano was the set-up man or could go two innings without breaking a sweat as closer. He thought that the salary he was making was a birthright and not a gift from Steinbrenner. And he thought he was too good to be asked to structure his salary with incentives while simultaneously asking his players to do just that. He walked out the door insulted that he would be paid way more than market for succeeding. Now, he talks shit about players to sell books and acts like he was betrayed by Cashman because he didn't get the contract he wanted.

Can you imagine his reaction to a player on his team who did that? Oh, wait. Sheffield, Mondesi, Wells, all were given a quick boot out the door and Torre's disgust. And, mind you, they're not exactly role models. But what does it say about him that he does the exact same thing first chance he gets?

Hypocrite.

TM