J-E-T-S Jets Jets Jets
 

As if I couldn't hate the Jets anymore...

Vinny Testaverde, 42, who spent some of his best NFL seasons with the New York Jets, is set to rejoin the team in place of Pennington.

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Hey LA Folks
 

Mr Man and I will be at the Camp Freddy at Key Club show. Too many good shows that night, I guess.

Hey LA Folks
 

No canna do. Will be in Orange County that day, and given traffic patterns expect to make it back to Los Angeles proper sometime around midnight.

(That'll probably just be time for their second set, I know, but still.)

Appreciate the thought, though.

A match made . . . someplace
 

I don't get it. I'm not Jewish.

Hey LA Folks
 

CF will take priority in this one. Navarro was spouting off about purported guests this morning on the radio, and it sounds like a Mr Man iPod list (Brandon Boyd, AJ from Lit, Jerry Cantrell, Vivian Campbell, etc.). We'll see who really shows, but reserving the entire upstairs restaurant at Key Club for the band is a promising sign. Plus stars seem to be hip to the benefit show photo-ops (or defamer cites).

A match made . . . someplace
 

Uh... wait a second...

Hey LA Folks
 

Just the other day I was wondering how a guy with a two-month old baby finds the time to keep tabs on several wagers on different games, in different sports.

I see now how things work in the str8 household. FWIW, I think slave's term for this is "paper abortion".

Mister Pine's Purple House.
 

I suggest HALO: The Fall of Reach by E. Nylund

Better yet, buy Halo and install it on your laptop.

A match made . . . someplace
 

I can convert?

Breakfast pastry update
 

Upside: chocolate muffins down in cafeteria have a cupcake-like texture (or cake-donut texture).

Downside: they are so sweet/large that even I feel sick after eating one. And I cut the sweetness with coffee. Ugh.

A match made . . . someplace
 

What does one give for a ritural circumcision ceremony?

Mister Pine's Purple House.
 

Bill Buford - "Among The Thugs." Buford follows organized mobs of Man U fans around in England and Europe in the early nineties and tries to get inside their heads. Then he realizes there may be nothing there. Highly entertaining, quick read for the plane.

Mister Pine's Purple House.
 

For something perhaps a little different, and on the non-fiction side, I've been working my way through the W. W. Norton "Great Discoveries" series of biographies of scientists. They tend to be written by people known for their writing rather than their prowness in history of science, so they're pretty readable. They're short and not overly technical (at least so far - I'm just starting the Godel one, which may be a bit harder to follow).

Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Godel

Lavoisier in the Year One: The Birth of a New Science in an Age of Revolution

Miss Leavitt's Stars: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Discovered How to Measure the Universe

Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie

A match made . . . someplace
 

Pain Killers.

Breakfast pastry update
 

Great, thanks, now I have ruined a perfectly good tie with drool.

Mister Pine's Purple House.
 

"Island at the Center of the World" by Russell Shorto.

I raved about it on the PB about a month ago.

Breakfast pastry update
 

Share with a co-worker? You'll feel better, and likely make a friend!

J-E-T-S Jets Jets Jets
 

Why would a Seahawks fan hate the Jets so much?

For that matter, why would anyone hate the Jets so much? Our friggin' team is cursed.

J-E-T-S Jets Jets Jets
 

The only post season game I've ever attended, the Oilers beat the Jets in a wild-card match up in the Astrodome. I've liked them ever since then.

Fucking Broncos.

J-E-T-S Jets Jets Jets
 

This didn't stop anyone from hating the Red Sox.

But we are cursed and doomed. Vinny Testaverde? Is that a joke? Don't get me wrong, I liked the big guy when he played for us that one season ABOUT TWENTY FUCKING YEARS AGO WHEN HE WAS ALREADY 80.

J-E-T-S Jets Jets Jets
 

You don't remember? Last game. Playoffs or not. Bad bad call by ref. Testaverde not really over goal line. No playoffs. Return of instant replay.

"People told me it looked like it wasn't in," Testaverde said after his 5-yard sneak on fourth down with 20 seconds left Sunday was ruled a touchdown, giving the Jets a 32-31 decision over the Seattle Seahawks. "I got knocked around and sometimes you can't see the refs. There were a lot of questions whether I was in or not, which is all the more reason for instant replay."

Television replays showed he didn't reach the end zone.

"It makes you sick," Seahawks coach Dennis Erickson said. After being informed what the replay indicated, he added, "It makes you even sicker."

Seahawks cornerback Shawn Springs wondered if the officials had been "intimidated." The refs should really let the players decide the game," Springs said. "Don't make a call that determines the outcome."

J-E-T-S Jets Jets Jets
 

Now I remember. Ha ha!

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J-E-T-S Jets Jets Jets
 

Look at the bright side. Erickson is no longer your coach.

Silver linings, and such.

J-E-T-S Jets Jets Jets
 

Who do you like to see beat more, the Seahawks or the Thistles?

Thanks for the suggestions
 

Thanks to posts and emails, I now have a lot to work with. (Oh, I almost forgot -- barely, sweetie, I read dark and complex books because I am too simple and nice in real life. Seriously, was "The Corrections" really all that dark?)

I love you all.

J-E-T-S Jets Jets Jets
 

Uh, yeah. Just say "we can't make that call" and leave the field. Or, as they also say "let 'em play", which really means, let the cheap shot artists get away with it.

J-E-T-S Jets Jets Jets
 

Listen, I hear what you're saying, but the ref who called it was clear on the other side of the field. VT had his back turned to him. If you can see it's a bad call from 4000 miles away before the replay, it's a really really bad call. It wasn't even close.

Reason #1
 

Why people should need permission before they have children.

GOLDEN, Colo. - A woman who authorities said had sex with high school boys so she could be a “cool mom” was injured while riding in an SUV that veered off an interstate a day before she was to be sentenced. The driver was a 14-year-old girl.

Stupid stupid stupid

The Arvada woman held parties for teenage boys almost weekly between October 2003 and October 2004, according to investigators. They said she gave drugs and alcohol to eight boys and had sex with five. Johnson told police she wanted to be known as a “cool mom,” authorities said.

On Sunday, Johnson was in a 2000 Jeep Liberty that rolled over after the teen drove off Interstate 25 and down an embankment, Colorado State Patrol Trooper Eric Wynn said.

Johnson and three other passengers — her 14-year-old daughter, 11-year-old son and a 12-year-old boy — were hospitalized with serious injuries, authorities said. Only the driver was wearing a seat belt and escaped serious injury, authorities said.

I can't believe it
 

Sweet! I look forward to this flirtation. A match made in heaven.

A match made . . . someplace
 

A match made . . . someplace
 

No more swimmin' in the Redneck Riviera
 

Beyond the obvious risks of floating debris in the Gulf, here's another reason not to go swimmin' on the Gulf side for the foreseeable future:

Killer Dolphins.

• It may be the oddest tale to emerge from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Armed dolphins, trained by the US military to shoot terrorists and pinpoint spies underwater, may be missing in the Gulf of Mexico.
  
  Experts who have studied the US navy's cetacean training exercises claim the 36 mammals could be carrying 'toxic dart' guns. Divers and surfers risk attack, they claim, from a species considered to be among the planet's smartest. The US navy admits it has been training dolphins for military purposes, but has refused to confirm that any are missing.
  
  Dolphins have been trained in attack-and-kill missions since the Cold War. The US Atlantic bottlenose dolphins have apparently been taught to shoot terrorists attacking military vessels. Their coastal compound was breached during the storm, sweeping them out to sea. But those who have studied the controversial use of dolphins in the US defence programme claim it is vital they are caught quickly.
  
  Leo Sheridan, 72, a respected accident investigator who has worked for government and industry, said he had received intelligence from sources close to the US government's marine fisheries service confirming dolphins had escaped.
  
  'My concern is that they have learnt to shoot at divers in wetsuits who have simulated terrorists in exercises. If divers or windsurfers are mistaken for a spy or suicide bomber and if equipped with special harnesses carrying toxic darts, they could fire,' he said. 'The darts are designed to put the target to sleep so they can be interrogated later, but what happens if the victim is not found for hours?'

So. Acquatic Lesson for the Day: Do Not Forget Your Swimming Buddy.

Gattigap

No more swimmin' in the Redneck Riviera
 

He's either an effete liberal snob or a furriner. Either way, he can't be relied on.

Breakfast pastry update
 

You must be really fat. Not ph fat.

No more swimmin' in the Redneck Riviera
 

What the fuck is our military spending going to?

Toxic darts? No frickin' laser beams?

Breakfast pastry update
 

um, duh.

Breakfast pastry update
 

You didn't seem fat during those few shining moments when I was your internet bf. You musta really let yourself go.

J-E-T-S Jets Jets Jets
 

They're both crap teams from second rate towns, but I think ICT has a better away record.

Breakfast pastry update
 

I just baked some double choolate chip cookies. You're welcome to visit. They're still molten. Mmmmm.

Breakfast pastry update
 

Your willful blindness is not my concern.

Do all of you people have Hank (and whoever the other person is who calls me fatty constantly -- TM?) on ignore or something?