Fine? Why Fine?

If Weird Al Was Into Football

BradyFan83's parodies are perfect and the shots he takes are simultaneously fanboy/brutal. The Michael Vick one is especially good.

That's Fine

The Sports Gal's sidebar would have been so much cooler if I made the effort to actually blog on a regular basis. Still...

I always make the mistake of showing Bill an outfit and asking for his opinion. I don't know why I do it. Unless he loves the outfit, whatever his response ends up making me mad. Take last night for example. Bill compares his favorite shirts to baseball pitchers -- his best shirt is his ace, he has a couple of others that are "definitely starters," and if it's a knockaround shirt he calls it a "long reliever." I think this is funny so now he has me doing it. I'm going to an event next week so I asked Bill what he thought of a potential "starter" dress. Since I gave it the starter tag, he knew that either he had to be really excited about it and say, "That's great, I love it," or be honest and say, "I think that's too fancy for where we're going" or suggest another dress he likes to let me off easy. I just needed some sort of answer.

What does Bill say? "It's fine."

Fine? I can't think of an instance where the word "fine" has left me feeling good in any situation.

As my About page says:

For example: Chrissy will ask me how her hair looks, I'll say "Fine." She'll say "Fine? Why fine?" Apparently "fine" is not nearly descriptive enough to describe her hair, a chicken cutlet, the location of a picture frame, and a whole host of other things that could clearly be "fine.'

I Love You Ricky Bobby

This is like a minor league hockey fight, except with cars. Sorta.

NL East Champs

Well, that was fun.

Now there's 2 weeks of games that don't matter. Really hope no one gets hurt. 

5 Years

2,996.

"A Small French Bath Towel"

The miracle of YouTube is that I have thought about this skit from the old "Vacant Lot" show for over 10 years now without the hope that I would ever see it again. But there it is. There. It. Is.

But Now I See

Off Wing Opinion has a 4 minute video that you should really watch.

I Get It

When  I was a kid, I'd always bypass Dave Barry's column because it seemed to be for adults or at least definitely not for me. I still don't think I've read a single column of his but his blog is very good. I thought this post was brilliant.

Beautiful

(Via LGF.) "Red State" kids vs. CodePink. (2nd Video here.)

7/4/06

Celebrate.

The Declaration of Independence was largely the work of Virginian Thomas Jefferson. In justifying American independence, Jefferson drew generously from the political philosophy of John Locke, an advocate of natural rights, and from the work of other English theorists. The first section features the famous lines, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." The second part presents a long list of grievances that provided the rationale for rebellion.

Good News from Arthur

Didn't realize part of the reason Arthur left was to write a book.

This is his first novel. While this is a work of fiction, virtually everything is based on true stories, inspired by his grandparents and father escaping from Nazi agents in a Krakow train station in 1943.

Looks pretty good.

A Little Too Excited

Somebody get Bill Press a hooker quick, I think the Viagra's kicked in.

...Press should clean himself up read something a little more serious about what his little "smackdown" of George Bush could really mean.

...Allah skims and recaps.

UPDATE 6/30/06 4:50pm

Love the Bull Moose's take.

Old-Time Hockey

This would be very cool.

A Rangers-Islanders game in frosty Yankee Stadium in December or on New Year's Day? It's a possibility.

Preliminary discussions between NHL and Yankees executives, the two NHL teams, city officials and NBC -- which would televise the proposed Jan. 1 regular-season contest between the arch rivals -- began last week, according to numerous people with knowledge of the talks.

However, In My Particular Line of Work...

I seldom need more than this.

UPDATE 6/26/06 9:15pm

Simmons picks his favorites from YouTube.

Duplicitous Standard

Blair rips off the best line on the NYT's loose lips.

Here’s a plan: instead of merely classifying its anti-terror programs, the US government should devise a code that renders the programs as Islam-mocking cartoons. Newspapers would never publish them.