Hungover, tired and not feeling very well at all today. Thanks Home Fine. Even worse, I have nothing to look forward to except for doing my taxes and I'm pretty sure I know how it's gonna come out. U-G-L-Y. And yes, I'm sure there'll be a long rant about how fucked I'm gonna get. It's already half written in fact.

Just wanted to follow up on a few things, for the three or four people out there still reading-

1)The reason why "God Bless America" is still played during the 7th inning stretch is because it was mandated by Bud Selig. Glenn Dickey, the Chron columnist mentioned it then used Samuel Johnson's famous quote as his zinger:

"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel" -- and he didn't even know Bud Selig.

Which is a very subtle way of saying that it's when you come up with a cockamamie contraction scheme, announce it two days after what many people consider to be the greatest World Series ever played, lie to congress, fix it so that you're friends get baseball teams even though they've either ruined other teams or are underbidding, and generally turned the sport into a huge joke, waving the flag around is a cheap-ass stunt.

Bud Selig is such a wanker.

2)So turns out Yahoo is gonna screw over all the people who have Yahoo mail and sell their user's names out to marketers. Here's the actual quote about it:

"They are getting free content and utility that is unparalleled, and in return we will be marketing products to them."

Love how whenever some internet company does that, they say it's in our best interests. Like we want to have to spend half our morning deleting twenty or thirty unsolicited e-mails. The most hilarious bit, though, is when they say the "products" they're marketing to us is really interesting and important when we all know all it is spam mail for college diplomas, herbal viagra, penis enlargement, financial scams, debt consolidation plans, and porn. Lots of porn.

I have a college diploma, am working on getting out of debt, don't believe I can earn tons of money just by working at home, sadly don't really have any need for herbal viagra, and as I have Cinemax I don't need more porn. And I've already had my penis enlarged. What is there that I should be getting spammed about?

3)Can't remember what I was gonna say here. Damn gin & tonic with curry dinner.

4)Never heard of the movie, New Best Friend but I read this in the review..


It would be hard to take a screenplay that consists of rampant sex, incipient lesbianism and nonstop parties and turn it into something boring, especially with the added attraction of an attempted-murder investigation. Director Zoe Clarke-Williams didn't.

So I'm thinking it might be worth checking out.

That's it for now. Gonna go do my taxes and decide whether I want to go check out the new movie "Harvard Man" at the Roxie and see my beloved Buffy getting it doggy-style. Not quite sure I want to see that....