Medical poll
 

Stuart Scott brought the phrase "as cool as the other side of the pillow" to my vocabulary, so he is fine.

As for Linda Cohen (or is it Cohn?), I love her. This may be a sad commentary on my sense of humor, but she cracks me up. She also apparently shares my visceral dislike for the Yankees, and (unlike some others) doesn't act hipper than thou.

And as for her looks, do you apply the same standard to Dan Patrick, you sexist misogynist bastard, you?

Spike Lee stops Spike TV
 

Lee Wins Temporary Halt to Spike TV

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...tv/tv_spike_tv

aV

Old School
 

If anyone else assumed (as I did) that the unrated version of Old School meant more of Will Ferrell's ass, we'll you're right. And I don't mind it in the least.

Nor do I mind her:

http://i.imdb.com/Photos/Ss/0302886/CT-4382.jpg

Linda Cohn
 

Finally, someone else who likes Linda Cohn. She and Raible were great on KIRO. Maybe this explains why she hates the Yankees.

Linda Cohn: I always loved sports, first off. It has always been a passion of mine. Basically I volunteered. My first job was doing news at a radio station on Long Island right after college and people would always say to me, "My goodness, when you get to the sports in your news report you just totally perk up and you're like so informative and you know what the heck you're taking about." So I volunteered to cover the New York Islander hockey games because at that time the Islanders were very good and the radio station I was working for covered Islander games. So I basically volunteered to go out there, brought a little tape recorder and put myself in position to show off what I know and also to have other people see me. It's kind of like putting yourself into a situtation to get a break and that's what I did. Sports directors at other radio stations saw me and I got a job at a New York City radio station doing sports and then I got a cable TV job at a local Long Island station. Then I made a tape of me doing a sportscast and sent that out and finally a year later got a job at KIRO-TV, a CBS affiliate in Seattle. That's where ESPN spotted me, and I've been at ESPN for almost nine years.


Journalist jobs.com Cohn Interview

Sorry Atticus
 

http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/Movi...eck/index.html

Seems the guy who played you in the movie passed on.

Shock and Awe
 

Maybe I'm naive but Pammy and Tommy must have gone to some really skanky tattoo parlors. All the tattoo and body piercing parlors that I've been to (admittedly only in California) have stressed that the needles used are sterilized and/or single-use, and they make a great show out of producing instruments that are in industrial-strength sealed bags like those used in medical facilities. So I've never been able to quite connect the dots when Pammy has given the "ole dirty shared needle" reason for contracting Hep-C. Maybe in my old age I'm getting cynical.

good news, Survivor fans
 

Jenna and Heidi from Survivor:The Amazon will be in August's issue of Playboy.


Please note that this information is provided as a public service, and that I'd rather be in a kayak. Thank you. That is all.

Medical poll
 

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan

Seeing them for a broken toe may not be helpful, but seeing them for a broken toenail is downright harmful. The fucker may try to remove it. Which involves local anesthesia and pain laced Tylenol doesn't help. And people wonder about health care inflation. Wearing open toed shoes will clear the nail right up, but THAT doesn't allow overtreating MDs to extract as much from patients and insurance companies.

I see the MDs for stitches and casts, when necessary. It's been I don't know how many years since I've seen one for anything else.

Sounds like a lawsuit
 

Man arrested in huge eBay fraud

Buyers criticize auction site’s seller verification service
June 12 — Police in South Salt Lake, Utah, are working with eBay to determine just how many people were victimized by what authorities say was one of the biggest frauds in the auction site’s history. Police arrested 31-year-old Russell Dana Smith last weekend after hundreds of auction winners complained that they sent $1,000 or more to a company named Liquidation Universe for laptop computers they never received. Police say the firm appears to have raked in $1 million from about 1,000 victims in just a few weeks. MEANWHILE, WOULD-BE buyers are also pointing the finger at SquareTrade, an eBay seller verification service, which had vouched for Liquidation Universe’s legitimacy — and, the buyers thought, offered a fraud guarantee.
Detective Darin Sweeten said Smith set up his Liquidation Universe shop in a tiny South Salt Lake strip mall in February.
“It was just a small business in a small strip mall. I know that he did not do any public walk-in traffic,” Sweeten said. The store sold exclusively on eBay.
Liquidation Universe, which actually began selling on eBay in October, received high marks until mid-May, said eBay spokesman Kevin Pursglove. In fact, it had 750 positive ratings from customers.

SQUARETRADE LOGO CALLED DECEPTIVE
Participating sellers pay a fee to SquareTrade, which then verifies the seller’s identity and provides a special, Good-Houskeeping type logo place on the auction listing.
But the logo, consumers say, was deceptive. It included the words “$1,000 protection.” Many consumers believed they would be reimbursed up to $1,000 if they ran into trouble with their auction. But actually, buyers have since learned, SquareTrade’s protection was capped at $1,000 per seller, not per buyer — leaving a tiny pool of cash to be spread among victims.
SquareTrade CEO Steve Abernathy did not return phone calls.
Anyone want a case?

The U.S. Open
 

Tom Watson????
No freakin' way.

Medical poll
 

Am I going to have to put you on my "Take Care of Yourself" nag list too? Although thinking about being cut with a speculum makes me cross my legs in horror, and the gyno is not my idea of a good time, you really need to see your doctor for regular checkups. Find a doctor who is not going to cut you. And they make a smaller sized speculum too.

To remember, call on your birthday to make an appointment. It'll be one of those "good for you" presents to yourself.

Medical poll
 

I go, but not often enough. When I do go, I just pout a lot. I know they have smaller ones, the problem with that doctor is he made some assumptions about my sexual history based on my age. It was an emergency type situation, he didn't ask, I was a bit out of it and didn't offer him rather important information that would cause him to use a smaller one.

But damn, you are too perky for me. Good for me presents to myself?

On my birthday all I want to do is hide in the hopes that people won't make a big fuss about it. This is foremost on my mind because my birthday is quite soon and I fear what my officemates will do.

Shock and Awe
 

Hehe - reminds me of a case we had - she sued saying he had given her herpes and made a huge deal out of it and guess what - he didn't have it. She and her case slunk away pretty quickly after the test results came out.

-TL

Blister in the Sun
 

I like the sideways reference to the Violent Femmes, but how can you have a list of favorite songs about TCB without "I Touch Myself" by the Divynls? Christina Amphlett has a great rock 'n roll voice, but fame eluded her in this country.

Blister in the Sun
 

Funny. And I was rereading my post and wanted to clarify that I thought the Turning Japanese thing was funny in that I had no idea there was either a masturbation reference or that there was a racist term for masturbating even though I have known that song for like fifteen or twenty years or whatever. I just never totally understood it- the closest thing I could think of was that being Japanese meant you couldnt have fun bc they studied really hard in school or something- I was stretching for an explanation. Its funny that I was so innocent about it. I have come a long way baby.

And eerily enough. I saw that I love the eighties last night even though I have never seen the show. Deja rerun. We also probabl would not have Ancient Chinese Secret either, but then we probably would not have That Not So Fresh Feeling. the PC cops are ruining everythign.

Shock and Awe
 

Ok, we will go with her and Benicio for the threeway. Or her and Angelina. Whatever.

I love those boots. Does anyone know who made them and where they can be purchased? Is there a wardrobe, such as it is, credit in the magazine archives? I want those boots. And I ahve a pair of Manolos that seem to be cut from the same cloth as her thong. NTTAWWT

Lately I have seen a lot of Pam on tv. I dont know if this is bc she is promoting something or if it is bc I just got E!. I was flipping through the dial and caught Pamela Anderson's Love Chain. Here is my problem with her. She was so absolutely absolutely stunning a few years back but now she is in the early stages of Faye Dunway with all of her work. I certainly hope she doesnt bc a man-reconstructed version of her former self. I am talking of her from the neck up btw. Maybe she can take a page from the Farrah Fawcett book- she appears t ostill be gorgeous without that overly plasticized look.

Shock and Awe
 

That's no urban legend. The guy has a huge cock.

And Pamela knows how to give head.

Thurgreed(now i have to watch it again)Marshall

Amazing Race
 

Did anyone watch last night? What happened?

I completely missed it, though I returned home in time for most of the Summer SportsZone in time to hear the retelling of my favorite TdF moment.

The first year they included mountain stages, it took them so long to get over the first summit that the promoters thought the peloton had gone off the side of a cliff.

The first guy over the summit pushed his bike part of the way. The second guy looked at the promoters and spit "Assassins!" at them.

Shock and Awe
 

Because you can't see the hepatitis when she's sucking him off. It's about the blow job. You're just easily squicked. Who thinks about these things when they're watching porn? I bet when you don't think about various diseases a participant may be carrying in a porno, you ruin it for yourself by thinking about the completion of the sex act and the resulting children that will be born.

TM

Blister in the Sun
 

Actually, no. They are in the same position. They're just waiting for you people to catch up.

TM

Medical poll
 

Dan Patrick is a hot piece of man meat. Don't be so homophobic.

Stuart Scott was great in the early years. A sprinkling of catch phrases and yez, "cooler than the other side of the pillow" had me cracking up back then. But he saw people liked it and got carried away. Now everything he says is from a hip hop or R&B song. They should do the highlights the way they talk in real life. If he actually talks this way, he's a fucking dork.

And Linda Cohn, Notbobby? I can only shake my head. You should hide your head in shame. Robin Roberts was great. She sold out to GMA, though.

TM

How Paigow knew Justin had a nosejob
 

Insert eyeroll emoticon.

Speaking of things about race, there is a piece in Salon about the new black nose job. THere is a description of what it looks liek, which does a nice job describingh Guarini's nosejob, which will answer the question of how I could tell for those who asked. Here is the quote



Black like me -- but not too black | 1, 2





Plastic surgeon Julius Few understands the maddening complexity of what should be superficial and straightforward -- a nose job -- though he's optimistic, like Rohrich, that the "self-hatred" stigma of the procedure has abated to the point that most blacks reshaping their noses are, like the majority of rhinoplasty patients, merely correcting anatomical inconsistencies. Few, who is black and an assistant professor of surgery at Northwestern University in Chicago, praises the study and says that, given that nose jobs among blacks are increasing, this is an opportune moment to promote the validity of whole black facial aesthetic. "We [blacks] grew up believing that seeking out plastic surgery was tantamount to wanting to be more white," says Few. "But with increasing information on this subject, blacks can achieve what other groups have long had" -- plastic surgery without the stigma of ethnic loathing -- "and understand they're not doing anything against their upbringing."


More than one of the photos revealed altered noses that were narrower and more pinched -- not quite faithful to the original and not Michael Jackson either, but something in between. It is that gray area that plastic surgery is really good at staking out and that black people, like all other people, probably want: a change that is better than nature, but not obviously so. Blacks, who according to the ASPS make up 6 percent of all plastic surgery patients, may be more inclined than most to want to triumph over that nature, given that their looks have historically been used against them and been such an integral part of their oppression

SC Anchors
 

Robin Roberts is a sell-out because she shifted to ABC? Robin Roberts was groundbreaking in so many ways. I will always admire her for her coverage the day Arthur Ashe died. It was absolutely remarkable.

Of all the SC Anchors, Kenny Mayne has been the most poorly treated. He's incredibly funny, but they kept shifting him from timeslot to timeslot. Now, he's "covering" the open in yet another out of the studio piece. It's a shame.

I like Kevin Frazier who had been hosting the NBA show with Greg Anthony. He combines the cultural hipness of an early Stuart Scott, without becoming the current Stuart Scott caricature.

Shock and Awe
 

True. But I actually find them both completely repulsive in every conceivable way, so nothing could save them for me. Similarly, Sheryl Crow was ruined for me as a musician when she allegedly had sex with the truly gross Kid Rock (who had also skankily and unsurprisingly hooked up with the diseased and plastic-surgery-scarred Pamela.)

So the astonishingly high STD quotient is just a squick-inducing bonus.

SC Anchors
 

No no no. Not "sell out" in that sense. She sold out her sports foundation for a sidekick spot on GMA. I think she's better than that and her talent shines through on sports, not mugging with tourists in Times Square after the "1,000 ways to cook turkey" segment.

TM

Paradise Hotel
 

realityblurred --

The first group of guests, the staff, and the host (the UK's Amanda Byram) of FOX's upcoming Paradise Hotel have been revealed. The show is a twice-weekly series that starts Wednesday and will feature an audience member joining the cast each week. If it "does well, FOX may extend its eight-week run indefinitely," according to the June 13 issue of Entertainment Weekly. The magazine also reports that executive producer Tom Gutteridge "is asking FOX to speed up its standard clearing process from three months to three days," although he says, "Obviously, we don't want ax murders out there." Sounds like he's daring the The Smoking Gun guys, or maybe offering a hint.


I hadn't heard of this before. Apparently 11 singles will be staying at a hotel and each week one is voted out and an audiance member is sent there in that person's place. Seems that the goal is hooking up. The website doesn't say where the Hotel is.

Medical poll
 

See, here's where we differ. I didn't start to feel squicky until you got to the part about the manly manicures.

Tax(no such thing)wonk

Medical poll
 

Speaking of manly manicures, SO and I were watching The World Series of Poker on Travel Channel the other night (first time we saw it, great show) and all of the male poker players had manicures with shiny clear polish on their fingers. Thought it was odd, but it appears to be a job requirement. The other thing that was fuuny is that all the final players were caricatures of the various "types" of players -- there was the cowboy (literally he was called the Cowboy), the greasy-slimy gambler guy (with slicked back hair, sunglasses, earrings in one ear and fancy rings on his fingers) and the mathmatician/geek, who quietly sat there in his button down shirt and collected all the chips from the other players.

Blister in the Sun
 

I have to disagree. The most famous song about wanking has to be "Every Sperm is Sacred."

Tax(God gets quite irate)wonk

I wanna get freaky wid you
 

Why should we take a crack when we know you can be counted on to do it for us. Patience is a virtue.

Actually, Patience is a stripper in Houston who does the little schoolgirl thing with the plaid miniskirt, white blouse, and Mary Janes. But I digress.

I wanna get freaky wid you
 

Damn, I knew I wouldn't be the first to get my licks in.

good news, Survivor fans
 

Along with Carnie Wilson. I think I see collector's edition potential here.

ACL Lineup is Out
 

For those planning to attend the 2nd annual Austin City Limits Music Festival, the line-up is out: http://www.aclfestival.com/schedule.html

Am I the only person here who likes the Drive By Truckers?

good news, Survivor fans
 

Are they going to have a soft-focus spread of her gastrointestinal surgery scars?

Ooooooooo. Sexxxxxxy.

ACL Lineup is Out
 

How long are the sets at ACL? That lineup makes a trip to Austin pretty damn tempting. As long as I don't have to see the String Cheese Incident.

I would definitely catch Drive By Truckers.

ACL Lineup is Out
 

Hey Ollie, I will meet you there. Leftover Salmon? I cant believe this band finally made it out of Colorado. THis was the official band of CU Boulder (besides of course Free Beer and Big Head Todd). And G Love! The early nineties are back! Well, except for the fact that Blues Traveler and Spin Doctors didnt make the list. ANd Steve Winwood. I hope he does his circa 1986 work, Higher Love. (bc I would pass out if he did Traffic).

Seriously, lets go.

ACL Lineup is Out
 

The sets are generally an hour. Los Lobos played longer because everyone had such a great time. Last year, there were 8 stages with staggered start times so you could check out a lot of different acts.

It was hot and we walked a lot, but it was such a great time.

Tickets are fairly cheap right now, and increase in price tomorrow.

Help wanted- name this band
 

This list of bands from my youth has reminded me of one whose name I forget , that I loved. They were white boys, singing ska. The lead singer was super tall and used to wear a top hat with the top cut out so his dreads spilled over. Their signature song was "Fat Girl". (she's a fat girllllllllll). I used to see them at the Chickenbox (and maybe also 30 Acres?)on Nantucket and I think they played Willow Street in Port chester and probalby other New England locales in the late eighties/early nineties. I dont know if they toured nationally. ANyone?

Help wanted- name this band
 

I have no idea who that is, but I do have a new favorite band name:

I Love You But I Have Chosen Darkness.

ACL Lineup is Out
 

woo hoo! I can't wait to go. So long as there's cold beer available to help out with the heat, all will be well for the Texan(s) in attendance.