I'm late to the party on this one ...
I still think Darrell Hammond's portrayal of Bill Clinton is the best of the bunch.
In case you missed it this week, check out Funny Or Die's latest viral hit ...
Showing posts with label George Bush. Show all posts
Showing posts with label George Bush. Show all posts
3.06.2010
1.23.2009
Advice for Sasha and Malia
In case you missed it ...
NBC showed a moving bit today with a letter the Bush twins wrote to the Obama girls about living in the White House ...
I caught it on Today this morning and made a point to show it to Kates tonight ... It had us both in tears.
NBC showed a moving bit today with a letter the Bush twins wrote to the Obama girls about living in the White House ...
I caught it on Today this morning and made a point to show it to Kates tonight ... It had us both in tears.
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
1.19.2009
Can't Trust This Day
I was driving this morning to my favorite classic rock station -- and by that I mean music from the ’60s and ’70s -- when the station played Collective Soul’s “Shine” … From 1994.
Granted, I’ve noticed the station inserting a few more songs from artists and bands I ran with in high school, like REM and Tom Petty (without the Heartbreakers) and The Cranberries … I love all that music ...
But when they start referring to that stuff as classic rock … I know I’m getting older.
I was leaving our church tonight, having picked up Phoebe so Kates could run her children’s choir rehearsal …
The church lies along a narrow neighborhood street that’s almost always lined with cars on both streets …
As usual, I opened the car door in and bent inside to buckle in Phoebe, my legs clearly protruding onto the road …
When all of a sudden, I hear a car pull up alongside and the driver lays on its horn …
“Excuse me!” yells a young woman, who couldn’t have been more than 20 years old. “Can you shut your door!?”
A few more seconds and I would have had Phoebe buckled and moved out of the way. I duck out of the car and blurt out, “Can you hold on a second …”
But before I could say or do anything else, she was yelling a word that rhymes with ship and bulldozing her way through the street, barely missing me and my car door.
Today is George Bush’s last day in the Presidential office …
As we look back on the last eight years, I thought it was appropriate to post this bit that David Letterman did a while back …
Granted, I’ve noticed the station inserting a few more songs from artists and bands I ran with in high school, like REM and Tom Petty (without the Heartbreakers) and The Cranberries … I love all that music ...
But when they start referring to that stuff as classic rock … I know I’m getting older.
* * *
I was leaving our church tonight, having picked up Phoebe so Kates could run her children’s choir rehearsal …
The church lies along a narrow neighborhood street that’s almost always lined with cars on both streets …
As usual, I opened the car door in and bent inside to buckle in Phoebe, my legs clearly protruding onto the road …
When all of a sudden, I hear a car pull up alongside and the driver lays on its horn …
“Excuse me!” yells a young woman, who couldn’t have been more than 20 years old. “Can you shut your door!?”
A few more seconds and I would have had Phoebe buckled and moved out of the way. I duck out of the car and blurt out, “Can you hold on a second …”
But before I could say or do anything else, she was yelling a word that rhymes with ship and bulldozing her way through the street, barely missing me and my car door.
* * *
Today is George Bush’s last day in the Presidential office …
As we look back on the last eight years, I thought it was appropriate to post this bit that David Letterman did a while back …
1.18.2009
Sunday reading
Some of the reads that caught my attention during the last week ...
Baseball ...
a Dawson, Smith getting a raw deal
a Deal Or No Deal
a Whatever Yankees Want ... Great editorial from The New York Times.
a Willie, Bloomquist and the Dunn
The "Miracle in the Hudson" ... You can't deny this was the most fascinating story of the week, perhaps even the year. The pilot even has a Facebook page with hundreds of thousands of fans and counting ...
a After Splash, Nerves, Heroics and Comedy
a As Jet Was Ditched, Nearby Ferries Went Into Rescue Mode
a Pilot who ditched jet safely in Hudson River flew fighter planes for Air Force
Politics ...
a In the Beginning ... A good take on the inaugural oath.
a Donor fatigue setting in for some Obama supporters ... Amen.
a The Long, Lame Goodbye
a Exit Bush, Shoes Flying
a Why We Have to Look Back
a 10 Take Aways From the Bush Years
a Palin is getting in her own way
Media & the Internet ...
a At First, Funny Videos. Now, a Reference Tool
a Can CNN, the Go-to Site, Get You to Stay?
a CBS Pumps Up TV.com to Create a Destination
TV ...
a O'Brien, Fallon see late-night challenges ahead
Technology ...
a Can Apple Fill the Void?
And finally, my favorite photo of the week.
Baseball ...
a Dawson, Smith getting a raw deal
a Deal Or No Deal
a Whatever Yankees Want ... Great editorial from The New York Times.
a Willie, Bloomquist and the Dunn
The "Miracle in the Hudson" ... You can't deny this was the most fascinating story of the week, perhaps even the year. The pilot even has a Facebook page with hundreds of thousands of fans and counting ...
a After Splash, Nerves, Heroics and Comedy
a As Jet Was Ditched, Nearby Ferries Went Into Rescue Mode
a Pilot who ditched jet safely in Hudson River flew fighter planes for Air Force
Politics ...
a In the Beginning ... A good take on the inaugural oath.
a Donor fatigue setting in for some Obama supporters ... Amen.
a The Long, Lame Goodbye
a Exit Bush, Shoes Flying
a Why We Have to Look Back
a 10 Take Aways From the Bush Years
a Palin is getting in her own way
Media & the Internet ...
a At First, Funny Videos. Now, a Reference Tool
a Can CNN, the Go-to Site, Get You to Stay?
a CBS Pumps Up TV.com to Create a Destination
TV ...
a O'Brien, Fallon see late-night challenges ahead
Technology ...
a Can Apple Fill the Void?
And finally, my favorite photo of the week.
1.04.2009
Sunday readiing
Hope your New Year is off to a good start ...
Here are some of the reads that caught my interests over the last couple weeks ...
Sports ...
a Bronx bombshell sends loud message
Media & the Internet...
a Mainstream Media on Life Support
a 'Bible Illuminated': The latest Word. The book uses pop culture images to spread the gospel. a Could We Uncover Watergate Today?
a When the Watchdogs Don’t Bark
a Status Symbol Update
a Recording labels and websites in a music video tussle
Politics ...
a Add Up the Damage
a White House Views on Past 8 Years Diverge
a Some researchers believe Oval Office stress accelerates aging process ... Ya think?
Life & other stuff ...
a The Year of Living Gloomily
a Well, Virginia, It's a Longer Story ... ... Great read!
Here are some of the reads that caught my interests over the last couple weeks ...
Sports ...
a Bronx bombshell sends loud message
Media & the Internet...
a Mainstream Media on Life Support
a 'Bible Illuminated': The latest Word. The book uses pop culture images to spread the gospel. a Could We Uncover Watergate Today?
a When the Watchdogs Don’t Bark
a Status Symbol Update
a Recording labels and websites in a music video tussle
Politics ...
a Add Up the Damage
a White House Views on Past 8 Years Diverge
a Some researchers believe Oval Office stress accelerates aging process ... Ya think?
Life & other stuff ...
a The Year of Living Gloomily
a Well, Virginia, It's a Longer Story ... ... Great read!
12.14.2008
Sunday Night Recording
(Updated 12.15.2008)
... Kates and I just finished watching the latest episode of our "Sunday Night 'Saturday Night Live.' "
... And I have to say ... Last night's SNL might have been the best all-around SNL I have seen in a long time. (Mo Ryan disagrees.) I had good, hearty laughs on multiple skits (Which I don't recall happening during the Tina-Fey-as-Sarah-Palin Era). I thoroughly enjoyed the entire show ...
From Jason Sudeikis playing the foul-mouthed Blago in the opening sketch, to the return of "Bronx Beat" to a Weekend Update that nearly had my side hurting ...
And this weekend we really did have to say good-bye to Amy Poehler ... I'm not sure if I missed something, but we swore she was done when she had her baby a few weeks ago. Then, she popped up on last week's show (HA-larious! by the way ...), and the word was that it was a one-time deal. Then, she popped up again last night -- and we cheered briefly that she might not be going away, only to watch her choked-up farewell at the end of Update ... We'll miss you Amy ...
In case you missed it, here's the opening sketch ... (And here's what Phil Rosenthal had to say about it. I get his point, and OK, the accent didn't work ... But I still thought SNL's take was funny ...)
Here's Weekend Update ... (Apparently people didn't like the take on David Paterson either. Again, I get their point ... But it's SNL. And it had my side hurting ...)
And while I'm at it, here's my favorite bit from last weekend's SNL -- Obama: Cool. (Kates and I were actually singing this around the house after we finished watching last weekend's show ...)
In other news tonight ...
Kates was putting Phoebe to bed as I caught this on the Nightly News ...
So amusing to watch I called Kates back to the living room ... and we watched it probably three or four more times ...
... Kates and I just finished watching the latest episode of our "Sunday Night 'Saturday Night Live.' "
... And I have to say ... Last night's SNL might have been the best all-around SNL I have seen in a long time. (Mo Ryan disagrees.) I had good, hearty laughs on multiple skits (Which I don't recall happening during the Tina-Fey-as-Sarah-Palin Era). I thoroughly enjoyed the entire show ...
From Jason Sudeikis playing the foul-mouthed Blago in the opening sketch, to the return of "Bronx Beat" to a Weekend Update that nearly had my side hurting ...
And this weekend we really did have to say good-bye to Amy Poehler ... I'm not sure if I missed something, but we swore she was done when she had her baby a few weeks ago. Then, she popped up on last week's show (HA-larious! by the way ...), and the word was that it was a one-time deal. Then, she popped up again last night -- and we cheered briefly that she might not be going away, only to watch her choked-up farewell at the end of Update ... We'll miss you Amy ...
In case you missed it, here's the opening sketch ... (And here's what Phil Rosenthal had to say about it. I get his point, and OK, the accent didn't work ... But I still thought SNL's take was funny ...)
Here's Weekend Update ... (Apparently people didn't like the take on David Paterson either. Again, I get their point ... But it's SNL. And it had my side hurting ...)
And while I'm at it, here's my favorite bit from last weekend's SNL -- Obama: Cool. (Kates and I were actually singing this around the house after we finished watching last weekend's show ...)
* * *
In other news tonight ...
Kates was putting Phoebe to bed as I caught this on the Nightly News ...
So amusing to watch I called Kates back to the living room ... and we watched it probably three or four more times ...
12.07.2008
Sunday reading
... My Bearcats are heading back to the National Championship game for the fourth year in a row after a thorough whumping of North Alabama yesterday ...
... My favorite song of the week is Jem's "I Wish;" Kates, Pheebs and I danced our hearts out to it in the kitchen last night ...
Good times. Now, if only the termperature outside this weekend wasn't so darn cold ...
Here's some of the reading material that caught my interest during the last week ...
Sports ...
a First NFL game in 3-D fumbles, then recovers
a Sabathia Is Keeping Yanks’ Offer in His Pocket ... You go, C.C. I will always respect the player who goes where he feels comfortable, not where the money is. If he feels comfortable in New York, fine. But I'm not getting that's the case; I'm a strong believer he could still end up in Milwaukee.
a Now, Red Sox fans can prove their undying loyalty ... Another crazy marketing scheme, and I'm sure Cubs fans won't be far behind.
Politics ...
a I'm Really Gonna Miss Systematically Destroying This Place ... By George Bush, from The Onion
a Trading The Talk for The Walk? Host's Political Hopes Put MSNBC on the Spot
a The Real Bill Ayers ... By Bill Ayers
a Obama has the 'Look' ... Kates and I were just talking about this a couple weeks ago. With John McCain, it was 'My friends ...' With Obama, it's 'Look ...'
a No messing around when it comes to Obama motorcade ... fascinating stuff.
a Oogedy-Boogedy in the Bloxicon ... By Kathleen Parker
a Kennedy and N.Y. Governor Discuss Clinton's Senate Seat
a Performance artist has 530 messages to give to Obama
a Tapped Out ... My thoughts exactly. I get the e-mails, too.
Internet & the Media ...
a Puckishly Conquering a Facebook Pinnacle ... No one should have 5,001 friends on Facebook.
a Facebook Aims to Extend Its Reach Across the Web
a Amy Jacobson's story: The tale of the tape
a Live, From Carnegie Hall: It's the YouTube Symphony Orchestra ... So cool!
Music ...
a Chicago band uses digital savvy to promote album
a The Kennedy Center Honors: Roger Daltrey & Pete Townshend ... A well-deserved honor for the boys. The Post also provided some interesting outtakes here.
a College Radio Maintains Its Mojo
a Neko Case talks farm, Middle Cyclone
Entertainment ...
a Jennifer Aniston: A Fresh Start With 'Marley & Me'
a What Tina Wants ... Man, I admire Tina Fey ...
Life & other stuff ...
a American Airlines Now Charging Fees To Non-Passengers ... Laugh out loud funny, from The Onion.
a One that didn't get away yields long-lost ring ... From my friend Raechel.
a A day they'll never forget: Few remain to mark 67th anniversary of attack on Pearl Harbor
a In Hard Times, Is Best Buy’s Best Good Enough?
a Christmas miracle in the works
a Hey, Detroit: There is a right way to jet set ... great read.
a College May Become Unaffordable for Most in U.S. ... depressing read.
a I-PASS user takes on tollway over erroneous 30-cent charge ... You've got to admire this woman.
... My favorite song of the week is Jem's "I Wish;" Kates, Pheebs and I danced our hearts out to it in the kitchen last night ...
Good times. Now, if only the termperature outside this weekend wasn't so darn cold ...
Here's some of the reading material that caught my interest during the last week ...
Sports ...
a First NFL game in 3-D fumbles, then recovers
a Sabathia Is Keeping Yanks’ Offer in His Pocket ... You go, C.C. I will always respect the player who goes where he feels comfortable, not where the money is. If he feels comfortable in New York, fine. But I'm not getting that's the case; I'm a strong believer he could still end up in Milwaukee.
a Now, Red Sox fans can prove their undying loyalty ... Another crazy marketing scheme, and I'm sure Cubs fans won't be far behind.
Politics ...
a I'm Really Gonna Miss Systematically Destroying This Place ... By George Bush, from The Onion
a Trading The Talk for The Walk? Host's Political Hopes Put MSNBC on the Spot
a The Real Bill Ayers ... By Bill Ayers
a Obama has the 'Look' ... Kates and I were just talking about this a couple weeks ago. With John McCain, it was 'My friends ...' With Obama, it's 'Look ...'
a No messing around when it comes to Obama motorcade ... fascinating stuff.
a Oogedy-Boogedy in the Bloxicon ... By Kathleen Parker
a Kennedy and N.Y. Governor Discuss Clinton's Senate Seat
a Performance artist has 530 messages to give to Obama
a Tapped Out ... My thoughts exactly. I get the e-mails, too.
Internet & the Media ...
a Puckishly Conquering a Facebook Pinnacle ... No one should have 5,001 friends on Facebook.
a Facebook Aims to Extend Its Reach Across the Web
a Amy Jacobson's story: The tale of the tape
a Live, From Carnegie Hall: It's the YouTube Symphony Orchestra ... So cool!
Music ...
a Chicago band uses digital savvy to promote album
a The Kennedy Center Honors: Roger Daltrey & Pete Townshend ... A well-deserved honor for the boys. The Post also provided some interesting outtakes here.
a College Radio Maintains Its Mojo
a Neko Case talks farm, Middle Cyclone
Entertainment ...
a Jennifer Aniston: A Fresh Start With 'Marley & Me'
a What Tina Wants ... Man, I admire Tina Fey ...
Life & other stuff ...
a American Airlines Now Charging Fees To Non-Passengers ... Laugh out loud funny, from The Onion.
a One that didn't get away yields long-lost ring ... From my friend Raechel.
a A day they'll never forget: Few remain to mark 67th anniversary of attack on Pearl Harbor
a In Hard Times, Is Best Buy’s Best Good Enough?
a Christmas miracle in the works
a Hey, Detroit: There is a right way to jet set ... great read.
a College May Become Unaffordable for Most in U.S. ... depressing read.
a I-PASS user takes on tollway over erroneous 30-cent charge ... You've got to admire this woman.
10.24.2008
Thursday's Saturday Night Live on Friday
... Kates and I are cleaning off our DVR, and we just watched last night's Thursday night edition of SNL ...
Need I say more?
The opening sketch was wonderfully entertaining. I've so missed Will Ferrell as George Bush ... And seeing Tina Fey, Darrell Hammond and Ferrell playing together -- priceless.
And Fred Armisen's bit with the interactive map was ha-larious!
Need I say more?
The opening sketch was wonderfully entertaining. I've so missed Will Ferrell as George Bush ... And seeing Tina Fey, Darrell Hammond and Ferrell playing together -- priceless.
And Fred Armisen's bit with the interactive map was ha-larious!
9.14.2008
Sunday reading
Some of the reads that caught my interests this last week ...
Baseball ...
a Memories of historic '98 season now seem a little tarnished
TV & movies...
a Series get a new post-strike lease on life
a Graduation nears for 'High School Musical 3: Senior Year'
a 'SNL' throws its hat into political ring
a `SNL' returns with spotlight on prez impersonators
Music ...
a Catching Up With... Fountains of Wayne's Adam Schlesinger
a Gilmour says no Pink Floyd reunion
a Singular Sensations: Some Acts Went to the Top, Then Faded to Background Noise
a New Kids know their way around the block
a Rollin' on Empty: In the World of Rock Music, Songs About Cars Have Lost Their Way
a The Twist Tops Billboard Hot 100 Era
Politics ...
a Bush painted as a failed wartime chief
a TV jokesters warming to Palin challenge
a A Tangled Story of Addiction: Consequences of Cindy McCain's Drug Abuse Were More Complex Than She Has Portrayed
a Daley vs. Daley
Media & the Internet ...
a Just Let Me Check One Last Thing . . .
a Lazy EyesHow we read online
a The Humble Moderator's Grand Goodbye
a Newspaper E-reader to be unveiled
a Facebook unveils new look with a new approach
a Fiddling Around With History: Gene's idea wasn't old, it was well-aged
a Twittering From the Cradle
Travel ...
a Mass. shrines split Lizzie Borden's legacy
Baseball ...
a Memories of historic '98 season now seem a little tarnished
TV & movies...
a Series get a new post-strike lease on life
a Graduation nears for 'High School Musical 3: Senior Year'
a 'SNL' throws its hat into political ring
a `SNL' returns with spotlight on prez impersonators
Music ...
a Catching Up With... Fountains of Wayne's Adam Schlesinger
a Gilmour says no Pink Floyd reunion
a Singular Sensations: Some Acts Went to the Top, Then Faded to Background Noise
a New Kids know their way around the block
a Rollin' on Empty: In the World of Rock Music, Songs About Cars Have Lost Their Way
a The Twist Tops Billboard Hot 100 Era
Politics ...
a Bush painted as a failed wartime chief
a TV jokesters warming to Palin challenge
a A Tangled Story of Addiction: Consequences of Cindy McCain's Drug Abuse Were More Complex Than She Has Portrayed
a Daley vs. Daley
Media & the Internet ...
a Just Let Me Check One Last Thing . . .
a Lazy EyesHow we read online
a The Humble Moderator's Grand Goodbye
a Newspaper E-reader to be unveiled
a Facebook unveils new look with a new approach
a Fiddling Around With History: Gene's idea wasn't old, it was well-aged
a Twittering From the Cradle
Travel ...
a Mass. shrines split Lizzie Borden's legacy
8.24.2008
Sunday reading
Some of the reads that caught my eyes during the last couple weeks ...
Baseball ...
a Rooftop seats a big hit with fans, management
a Cubs fans: Keep your eye on the ball, not on history
a Such Sweet Relief —Forget the curses, the billy goats and the Bartmen—let's deal in the rational world: The Cubs are the most complete club in baseball ...
Olympics ...
a Shawn Johnson and Nastia Liukin have friendly rivalry
a Olympics coverage heavy on gizmos
Movies ...
a 'The Rocker' shows off Rainn Wilson's Dwight stuff
TV ...
a Olympic TiVo relay team nears the finish line
a Craig Ferguson Refreshes Late Night With "An Hour Unlike Other Talk Shows"
a Heigl takes heat for blunt comments
a Aaron Sorkin Announces New 'West Wing' Animated Series At SorCon ... Pretty good. From The Onion.
Music ...
a Rapper Ice Cube talks about the 20th anniversary of N.W.A's 'Straight Outta Compton'
a After a year, The Police end comeback tour in NYC
a Brian Wilson feeling sunny about new album
Technology ...
a Photosynth uses lots of photos to put you amid a 3D scene
a Microsoft Live Labs Creates Web ‘Synth’ For 3-D Photo Tour
Politics ...
a Fashion Designers Hope to Stitch Up an Obama Win
a Memo From a Poison Penn
a The plight of the lame duck
a Is McCain '08 channeling Dole '76?
Life & other (crazy) stuff ...
a In Rural Missouri, The Place to Bring Your Cents of Humor
a Walls That Talk, and Repeat Themselves
a Chicago area's first Sonic Drive-In finally opens Tuesday
a Potter, Leno, Favre are constants for Class of '12: Yearly list offers a glimpse at the world according to college freshmen ... A good one, compliments of my friend Raechel.
a Even if you look drunk at a game, you can likely keep buying booze, says study of sports stadiums ... Interesting, sad and true.
a Four ears make Downers Grove cat an Internet star
a Purple Prose? His Is Truly Bruising
a Woman arrested, booked over library fines
Baseball ...
a Rooftop seats a big hit with fans, management
a Cubs fans: Keep your eye on the ball, not on history
a Such Sweet Relief —Forget the curses, the billy goats and the Bartmen—let's deal in the rational world: The Cubs are the most complete club in baseball ...
Olympics ...
a Shawn Johnson and Nastia Liukin have friendly rivalry
a Olympics coverage heavy on gizmos
Movies ...
a 'The Rocker' shows off Rainn Wilson's Dwight stuff
TV ...
a Olympic TiVo relay team nears the finish line
a Craig Ferguson Refreshes Late Night With "An Hour Unlike Other Talk Shows"
a Heigl takes heat for blunt comments
a Aaron Sorkin Announces New 'West Wing' Animated Series At SorCon ... Pretty good. From The Onion.
Music ...
a Rapper Ice Cube talks about the 20th anniversary of N.W.A's 'Straight Outta Compton'
a After a year, The Police end comeback tour in NYC
a Brian Wilson feeling sunny about new album
Technology ...
a Photosynth uses lots of photos to put you amid a 3D scene
a Microsoft Live Labs Creates Web ‘Synth’ For 3-D Photo Tour
Politics ...
a Fashion Designers Hope to Stitch Up an Obama Win
a Memo From a Poison Penn
a The plight of the lame duck
a Is McCain '08 channeling Dole '76?
Life & other (crazy) stuff ...
a In Rural Missouri, The Place to Bring Your Cents of Humor
a Walls That Talk, and Repeat Themselves
a Chicago area's first Sonic Drive-In finally opens Tuesday
a Potter, Leno, Favre are constants for Class of '12: Yearly list offers a glimpse at the world according to college freshmen ... A good one, compliments of my friend Raechel.
a Even if you look drunk at a game, you can likely keep buying booze, says study of sports stadiums ... Interesting, sad and true.
a Four ears make Downers Grove cat an Internet star
a Purple Prose? His Is Truly Bruising
a Woman arrested, booked over library fines
8.21.2008
The world is a cartoon
It's been awhile since I've posted any cartoons but here are some I caught recently that I identified with and had me smiling ...
6.01.2008
Sunday reading
... After my game this morning, Kates and I spent the day on our deck, playing with Phoebe and enjoying the GOR-geous weather ...
And now I'm watching Sunday night baseball.
I can't think of a better way to spend a Sunday.
Here's some of the best stories I read over the last week ...
Sports ...
a Historic season looms for Chicago baseball
a Cursed-to-first Rays, White Sox buoyed by offseason deals
a Hitting .400 isn't last crusade for Atlanta's accomplished Jones
a Embattled McLaren, Randolph, Yost fight on
a In NBA playoffs, less ink means more viewers
a Packers to deliver old locker to Favre
Politics ...
a Ex-press secretary bashes Bush
a Book: Rice kept 'her hands clean'
a Hillary Clinton's 'critical decision'
a Obama Practices Looking-Off-Into-Future Pose ... From The Onion. Ha-larious.
The Internet ...
a Blog posts photos from lost cameras to find owners
a MySpace gets its mojo back by opening door to developers
Life & other stuff ...
a Principal's blunder holds good lessons ... One of the biggest stories around Chicagoland last week. The pincipal eventually was demoted.
a Stonehenge was a royal family's burial site, researchers say
a Lowly pencil still the write tool
a N.Y. Hopes to Ensure Smooth Pedaling for Bike Commuters
And now I'm watching Sunday night baseball.
I can't think of a better way to spend a Sunday.
Here's some of the best stories I read over the last week ...
Sports ...
a Historic season looms for Chicago baseball
a Cursed-to-first Rays, White Sox buoyed by offseason deals
a Hitting .400 isn't last crusade for Atlanta's accomplished Jones
a Embattled McLaren, Randolph, Yost fight on
a In NBA playoffs, less ink means more viewers
a Packers to deliver old locker to Favre
Politics ...
a Ex-press secretary bashes Bush
a Book: Rice kept 'her hands clean'
a Hillary Clinton's 'critical decision'
a Obama Practices Looking-Off-Into-Future Pose ... From The Onion. Ha-larious.
The Internet ...
a Blog posts photos from lost cameras to find owners
a MySpace gets its mojo back by opening door to developers
Life & other stuff ...
a Principal's blunder holds good lessons ... One of the biggest stories around Chicagoland last week. The pincipal eventually was demoted.
a Stonehenge was a royal family's burial site, researchers say
a Lowly pencil still the write tool
a N.Y. Hopes to Ensure Smooth Pedaling for Bike Commuters
5.18.2008
Sunday reading
Some of the good reads I caught during the last seven days ...
Baseball ...
a Cubs use Zambrano, offensive explosion to down Padres
a In covering Cubs, bias suspicion looms
a Cubs can't stop all sales of offensive Kosuke Fukudome T-shirt
a The forgotten confines
a The Great Holdout
a White Sox are hot, city is not bothered
Politics ...
a Eight reasons why Obama should not choose Clinton as his running mate in `08
a Obama apologizes to 'sweetie'
TV ...
a Every night live ... I love Jimmy Fallon, but I'm a bit skeptical of his chances on a late night talk show.
a A tale of two Jimmys
a 'The Office': Worst episode ever? ... I think this review is a little harsh, but it backs up my thoughts that 'The Office' is better viewed as a collection of workplace scenes or sketches than as a 30-minute episode.
Music ...
a Coachella DJs get the party moving with MP3s
Travel ...
a 75 cool reasons to visit MSI
a This Year, The Heat's Really On
The Bush wedding ...
a Goin' to the ranch, gonna get married
a Henry Hager, Jenna Bush wedding pictures
Baseball ...
a Cubs use Zambrano, offensive explosion to down Padres
a In covering Cubs, bias suspicion looms
a Cubs can't stop all sales of offensive Kosuke Fukudome T-shirt
a The forgotten confines
a The Great Holdout
a White Sox are hot, city is not bothered
Politics ...
a Eight reasons why Obama should not choose Clinton as his running mate in `08
a Obama apologizes to 'sweetie'
TV ...
a Every night live ... I love Jimmy Fallon, but I'm a bit skeptical of his chances on a late night talk show.
a A tale of two Jimmys
a 'The Office': Worst episode ever? ... I think this review is a little harsh, but it backs up my thoughts that 'The Office' is better viewed as a collection of workplace scenes or sketches than as a 30-minute episode.
Music ...
a Coachella DJs get the party moving with MP3s
Travel ...
a 75 cool reasons to visit MSI
a This Year, The Heat's Really On
The Bush wedding ...
a Goin' to the ranch, gonna get married
a Henry Hager, Jenna Bush wedding pictures
3.05.2008
1.27.2008
Sunday reading
... So I got my ice skating fix today. Woo hoo! ... It's not a Wisconsin winter without getting on the frozen pond at least once a year ...
That was the highlight of the day. Here was the lowlight ...
When I put my contacts in this morning, I knew immediately something wasn't right. And when I went back to the bathroom to try adjusting them, I didn't do much good ... Nevertheless, I pressed on, and Kates and I attended church, even though I was having so much trouble seeing out of my right eye I could barely make out the words in the hymnal ...
I tried adjusting them once more after we got home. But now the contact in my right eye was stuck to my eyeball -- I thought. I must've dumped almost half a bottle of saline solution on my eye to try getting it out, but nothing seemed to work. Ok, that can happen, I thought, I'll just try to get through the rest of the afternoon and hope it dries out enough that it just falls out ...
So we went ice skating ... And once we returned home again, I was back at it, trying to get that contact out of my right eye. I tried more saline solution. More rubbing my eye ... By the time Kates and I ate supper tonight, I was in such inexplicable pain and agony. I had practically gouged my eye ...
Only to realize at about 8:30 tonight that the contact lense I had been trying to fix all day was never in my eye ...
Oh, the pain and suffering.
Here's some of the good reads that piqued my interest during the last week ...
Sports ...
a Wrigley Field would get new neighbors under developer's proposal for hotel, apartments ... ugh.
a Lets stop pretending Wrigleyville is perfect ... I think this guy is a Sox fan.
a Albert Pujols still angry over being linked to Mitchell Report on steroids ... I'll give him the benefit of the doubt -- and I love the guy, really. But honestly, I was kind of surprised not to see his name on the list ...
a Deal with it: Bud is staying
a Brady's world an altar-nate universe
a Cardinals' unique stadium set to take center stage at Super Bowl
Politics ...
a How Will We Survive Another Year ... this one's a little old, but still relevant.
a Tribune endorses Obama
a The Kennedys embrace Obama
a The man behind the message: When Sen. Barack Obama gets behind a podium, he’s got a 26-year-old speechwriter to thank for his powerful words
a Obama's misuse of history
a Debate gets fiercely personal
a Why stop short? The Clintons are lying about Obama's remarks on Reagan
a A Clinton twofer's high price ... Great column. One thing I've learned in life is good times can rarely be duplicated ...
a President Heckler ... more great commentary on Bill.
a Billary's Adventures in Primaryland ... and more.
a The politics of personality: Do you like these people?
a Transformer candidates: It's amazing to watch the presidential contenders bend and twist into whatever they need to be
Entertainment ...
a Garth Brooks is almost the retiring sort
a Grammy-nominated videos include Feist, Johnny Cash ... The Feist video and Mute Math's "Typical" are by far the videos of the year ...
a Marketers announce ad lineup for Super Bowl
a Marketers going all out to make impression on Super Bowl audience
a NBC's new `Lipstick Jungle' similar to ABC's `Cashmere Mafia,' but neither series measures up ... Too bad. And yet, not surprising. We're still watching "Mafia," but it's starting to wear thin ...
a Ritter's family says he didn't have to die ... very interesting.
a Southern-bred actress has field day with role of devious co-worker ... Angela Kinsey rocks.
Life & other stuff ...
a Dubious title for O'Hare: World's most flight cancellations
a 10 Things Your IT Department Won't Tell You
The Onion ...
That was the highlight of the day. Here was the lowlight ...
When I put my contacts in this morning, I knew immediately something wasn't right. And when I went back to the bathroom to try adjusting them, I didn't do much good ... Nevertheless, I pressed on, and Kates and I attended church, even though I was having so much trouble seeing out of my right eye I could barely make out the words in the hymnal ...
I tried adjusting them once more after we got home. But now the contact in my right eye was stuck to my eyeball -- I thought. I must've dumped almost half a bottle of saline solution on my eye to try getting it out, but nothing seemed to work. Ok, that can happen, I thought, I'll just try to get through the rest of the afternoon and hope it dries out enough that it just falls out ...
So we went ice skating ... And once we returned home again, I was back at it, trying to get that contact out of my right eye. I tried more saline solution. More rubbing my eye ... By the time Kates and I ate supper tonight, I was in such inexplicable pain and agony. I had practically gouged my eye ...
Only to realize at about 8:30 tonight that the contact lense I had been trying to fix all day was never in my eye ...
Oh, the pain and suffering.
Here's some of the good reads that piqued my interest during the last week ...
Sports ...
a Wrigley Field would get new neighbors under developer's proposal for hotel, apartments ... ugh.
a Lets stop pretending Wrigleyville is perfect ... I think this guy is a Sox fan.
a Albert Pujols still angry over being linked to Mitchell Report on steroids ... I'll give him the benefit of the doubt -- and I love the guy, really. But honestly, I was kind of surprised not to see his name on the list ...
a Deal with it: Bud is staying
a Brady's world an altar-nate universe
a Cardinals' unique stadium set to take center stage at Super Bowl
Politics ...
a How Will We Survive Another Year ... this one's a little old, but still relevant.
a Tribune endorses Obama
a The Kennedys embrace Obama
a The man behind the message: When Sen. Barack Obama gets behind a podium, he’s got a 26-year-old speechwriter to thank for his powerful words
a Obama's misuse of history
a Debate gets fiercely personal
a Why stop short? The Clintons are lying about Obama's remarks on Reagan
a A Clinton twofer's high price ... Great column. One thing I've learned in life is good times can rarely be duplicated ...
a President Heckler ... more great commentary on Bill.
a Billary's Adventures in Primaryland ... and more.
a The politics of personality: Do you like these people?
a Transformer candidates: It's amazing to watch the presidential contenders bend and twist into whatever they need to be
Entertainment ...
a Garth Brooks is almost the retiring sort
a Grammy-nominated videos include Feist, Johnny Cash ... The Feist video and Mute Math's "Typical" are by far the videos of the year ...
a Marketers announce ad lineup for Super Bowl
a Marketers going all out to make impression on Super Bowl audience
a NBC's new `Lipstick Jungle' similar to ABC's `Cashmere Mafia,' but neither series measures up ... Too bad. And yet, not surprising. We're still watching "Mafia," but it's starting to wear thin ...
a Ritter's family says he didn't have to die ... very interesting.
a Southern-bred actress has field day with role of devious co-worker ... Angela Kinsey rocks.
Life & other stuff ...
a Dubious title for O'Hare: World's most flight cancellations
a 10 Things Your IT Department Won't Tell You
The Onion ...
12.09.2007
Sunday reading
Some of the reads that piqued my interest this last week ...Sports ...
a University of Wisconsin, Washburn wrangling in court over ‘W’ logos ... Ah yes. The good 'ol Washburn 'W'. See Washburn is a rival of Northwest, and it struck me every time we played them how similar Washburn's 'W' looked to Wisconsin's 'W.' ... Not that I think the school needs to get sued over it, but it is interesting ...
a BCS got it right this time ... Whatever. Yes, it was a loony college football season, but it didn't make me any more hip to the BCS.
a Why clean up college football's lovely mess? ... Ditto.
a No favoritism toward Pats, or is there?
a Cuban's 'passion project': Buying Cubs
a A new boss in the Bronx
a Barry Bonds Pleads Not Guilty to Perjury
a Bonds' team has tough road ahead
a Baseball waits, wonders as Mitchell report on steroid use in the sport looms
a Gagne deal is for one year ... I think he's a has-been. But I'm willing to believe.
Internet & media ...
a Japan's Bloggers: Humble Giants of the Web
a Readers' online postings enliven site, merit caution
a The Decline Of The Critic
TV ...
a Zachary Quinto: Highly logical, for a human ... All I know is I detest is character in "Heroes."
a Pulling Their Punch Lines
Music ...
a No academy CDs? Play live!
a It's a holiday tune full of pure joy ... I remember the first time I heard this song too. December 1994. I was a sophomore in high school, getting ready to head to my job as a grocery clerk at the local Price Chopper. I was listening to my stereo in my room -- as usual. I started bouncing around my room, and I thought then that it was one of the greatest song's I'd ever heard ... Yeah. Here's the video.
a James Taylor returns to his roots
a Jordin Sparks maintains innocent charm in pop CD debut
a Blake Lewis, 'American Idol' runner-up, looks to move beyond the show with release of new CD
a Led Zeppelin's glorious excess ... I'm becoming a fan too. And here's one thing I won't soon forget: How cool it was a couple weeks ago to be glancing at the Billboard charts and seeing both Led Zeppelin and the Eagles with albums in the Top 10 ... whoah.
a The Song Still Remains The Same for Led Zeppelin
a The McCartney interview: 'I'm trying to create an antidote' for difficult times
Politics ...
a The Love Song of Dennis J. Kucinich
a Bush in Psych 101: 'Feeling... pretty good about life'
Life & other stuff ...
a Easy on the eggnog, Cinderella
a AT&T saying good-bye to its last pay phones
a D.C. leads metro areas in walkability
12.06.2007
11.04.2007
Sunday reading
Got to spend the afternoon with Joel and Stephanie, and Millie. The Packers won. The Colts didn't. Took a really nice nap. And got the yard ready for the winter...
Here's some of the good reads that caught my eyes during the last week ...
Politics ...
a Are we Colbert's punch line?
a Bush the Embracer: Interpreting the Presidential Hug
a From the Desk of Donald Rumsfeld . . .
More about the California wildfires ...
a On Shaky Ground in California
a In the Line of Fire
a New developments mask wild land's deadly threat
TV, music, entertainment & art ...
a Hulu.com, NBC and Fox video site, looks promising in beta
a Schulz: The Good and The Grief
a The year’s best music
a Spears Calls World 'Cruel' in Interview
a A museum's secrets
a 'Bean' to get a companion: The 'Popsicle'
a Adults Revisit Their Teenage Traumas and Dramas to Create Compelling Performance Art
Sports ...
a Handicapping the contenders for A-Rod's services
a What's Wrong With Sports Illustrated
Life & stuff ...
a Driver in crash that killed horses could face additional charges ... A tragic and dramatic ordeal that happened down the road from us last weekend. Some of the surviving horses are now being put up for adoption. There's also a slideshow of photos here.
a Chimp who knew sign language dies
P.S. ... Kates is talking on the phone with a friend and we were just reminiscing about the wonderful National Anthem performances of John Williams and James Taylor during the World Series ...
In case you missed them ...
Here's some of the good reads that caught my eyes during the last week ...
Politics ...
a Are we Colbert's punch line?
a Bush the Embracer: Interpreting the Presidential Hug
a From the Desk of Donald Rumsfeld . . .
More about the California wildfires ...
a On Shaky Ground in California
a In the Line of Fire
a New developments mask wild land's deadly threat
TV, music, entertainment & art ...
a Hulu.com, NBC and Fox video site, looks promising in beta
a Schulz: The Good and The Grief
a The year’s best music
a Spears Calls World 'Cruel' in Interview
a A museum's secrets
a 'Bean' to get a companion: The 'Popsicle'
a Adults Revisit Their Teenage Traumas and Dramas to Create Compelling Performance Art
Sports ...
a Handicapping the contenders for A-Rod's services
a What's Wrong With Sports Illustrated
Life & stuff ...
a Driver in crash that killed horses could face additional charges ... A tragic and dramatic ordeal that happened down the road from us last weekend. Some of the surviving horses are now being put up for adoption. There's also a slideshow of photos here.
a Chimp who knew sign language dies
P.S. ... Kates is talking on the phone with a friend and we were just reminiscing about the wonderful National Anthem performances of John Williams and James Taylor during the World Series ...
In case you missed them ...
10.21.2007
Sunday reading
A likely conversation between some of our neighbors this afternoon as they watched me in our front yard ...
(Imagine an honory elderly woman)
Yes. Our front yard now looks, for lack of a better term, a little retarded.
See, I spent most of yesterday planting nearly 100 bulbs in our front and back gardens. But we also have some of the boldest and brash squirrels you've ever known in our neighborhood, a learned trait I attribute mostly to one of our neighbors who feeds the little pests ... These squirrels, which are black by the way, have proceeded to bury food, dig up and wreak havoc on much of what I've planted all summer long. And today, I came outside to finds holes, like an expired mine field, throughout the areas I'd planted.
So I declared war.
Today, I finished planting the bulbs I had left, and tried replanting the ones I found scattered. Covered the areas with a wire mesh. And then doused everything with Critter Ridder ...
Got a lot of funny looks from people passing by (including one elderly woman who, after I explained what I was doing, said she's had the same problems in her yard and has given up her fight -- but she jubiliantly wished me luck and said she'd try to scare them off for me whenever she walked by ...), but at this point I'm desperate.
Here's some of the good reads that have my eye the last few days ...
Politics ...
a Al Gore: the anti-Bush
a Obama: Clinton 'mission accomplished' premature
Entertainment ...
a Viacom to offer all clips of 'Daily Show' online
a Shadows linger in late-night TV succession
a Leno keeping NBC up at night
The Onion ...
(Imagine an honory elderly woman)
Harold, look across the street! That man's spreading chicken wire all over his flower beds. What is he doing that for!?(A little while later ...)
Now's he's spraying something too! What's in Sam's name is he doing over there!? He's ruining his yard!
Yes. Our front yard now looks, for lack of a better term, a little retarded.
See, I spent most of yesterday planting nearly 100 bulbs in our front and back gardens. But we also have some of the boldest and brash squirrels you've ever known in our neighborhood, a learned trait I attribute mostly to one of our neighbors who feeds the little pests ... These squirrels, which are black by the way, have proceeded to bury food, dig up and wreak havoc on much of what I've planted all summer long. And today, I came outside to finds holes, like an expired mine field, throughout the areas I'd planted.
So I declared war.
Today, I finished planting the bulbs I had left, and tried replanting the ones I found scattered. Covered the areas with a wire mesh. And then doused everything with Critter Ridder ...
Got a lot of funny looks from people passing by (including one elderly woman who, after I explained what I was doing, said she's had the same problems in her yard and has given up her fight -- but she jubiliantly wished me luck and said she'd try to scare them off for me whenever she walked by ...), but at this point I'm desperate.
Here's some of the good reads that have my eye the last few days ...
Politics ...
a Al Gore: the anti-Bush
a Obama: Clinton 'mission accomplished' premature
Entertainment ...
a Viacom to offer all clips of 'Daily Show' online
a Shadows linger in late-night TV succession
a Leno keeping NBC up at night
a Chicago Theatre to be sold to major New York producer
Music ...
a Joy Division is multiplying
Baseball ...
a Playoffs now born to be wild
a Fans pay for networks' strategy; Manny strikes a pose
a Beckett's focus, the turning point, Manny's nonsense
a World Series-bound Rockies have captivated Denver
a10 toughest coaching jobs in sports
a Yanks look disorganized, cowardly after Torre's exit
a Despite fair offer, Torre knew it was time to go
a Injuries not markedly greater using alloy bats compared with wooden models
a Steroids: Take one for the team
a 50 years of Dodger baseball
Life & other stuff ...
a Boys' deaths altered Chicago
a BACK OFF! I'M NOT DEAD YET.
a Honey, I promise to love, honor and argue
a Mounting evidence finds even moderate drinking may increase your risk of breast and colon cancer
a What's happened to the missing socks?
a Show us your Google Street View Chicago finds
Music ...
a Joy Division is multiplying
Baseball ...
a Playoffs now born to be wild
a Fans pay for networks' strategy; Manny strikes a pose
a Beckett's focus, the turning point, Manny's nonsense
a World Series-bound Rockies have captivated Denver
a10 toughest coaching jobs in sports
a Yanks look disorganized, cowardly after Torre's exit
a Despite fair offer, Torre knew it was time to go
a Injuries not markedly greater using alloy bats compared with wooden models
a Steroids: Take one for the team
a 50 years of Dodger baseball
Life & other stuff ...
a Boys' deaths altered Chicago
a BACK OFF! I'M NOT DEAD YET.
a Honey, I promise to love, honor and argue
a Mounting evidence finds even moderate drinking may increase your risk of breast and colon cancer
a What's happened to the missing socks?
a Show us your Google Street View Chicago finds
The Onion ...
Conceptual Terrorists Encase Sears Tower In Jell-O
Patriots Stunned By Mere 17-Point Victory
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