Friday, May 26, 2006
Tadpoles! Tadpoles a winner!
(title line comes from an old "Deep Thought by Jack Handy")
A winner like Bruce Jenner? Not so much for me. Not for Ben Folds tickets at least.
Milwaukee's claim to fame in the summertime is a thing called "SummerFest." It goes on from the end of June through the first week in July, with concerts all over the city every night.
There are some headliners, like Pearl Jam, and others like Keane and Susan Tedeschi, which are can't-misses for me.
To kick off SummerFest, Ben Folds and MKE's own Violent Femmes are playing a "free show." Free in the sense you don't pay for the tickets, but not free in the sense that you have to go to a bar and purchase Miller products in exchange for an entry form.
You may enter more than once, which roughly translates to "binge drinking."
Now, I've seen Ben Folds about 12 times, including this past March at the Eagles Ballroom here in the BrewCity. Each show was great and there's no doubt that this one will be too. But he's only got an hour and a 10 minutes on stage, because the Violent Femmes are the headliners.
Yeah, the same Violent Femmes that will play "Blister in the Sun" if you give them 10 bucks and a PBR tallboy.
So I didn't win. Whatever. I had fun entering the contest six or seven times.
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Saw that the NFL approached Jeb Bush about their commissioner vacancy.
Yeah, think about that...but limit yourself to just 45 seconds, or else blood will pour out of your ears (apologies to Lewis Black).
The Bush family has such a good track record of running professional sports franchises (and states and countries, for that matter), so let's give them the most powerful and popular organization in sports today - the NFL.
Do they implement a system of bugging and monitoring the conversations between the coordinators and head coach? Just checking.
God, that's such a shampooing stupid, awful decision I had to check to see if it was April 1...or if it was The Onion.
It wasn't. That sucks.
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Um, wow. That's a big kid.
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Um, wow. Eighteen times the legal limit. Eight-teen. 1-8.
This story is staggering...and apparently, so was the driver of the rig.
I do love his justifcation for the morning pint before getting behind the wheel. Bite the dog that bit you, big fella. I ain't mad at cha.
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In case you just returned from hibernation (in which case, you'd be a bear and it would be amazing that you're reading this because bears seldom use the internet on account of their large paws and claws damaging the keyboards), or lived under a rock (in which case, it would be very odd that you'd be using the computer now because most of your internal organs would have been flattened and your bones broken, as rocks are very heavy), you know the story about the Duke men's lacrosse team.
I don't plan on re-telling it. But I do wish to make a point about the Duke women's lacrosse team.
The Women's Lax Final Four is in Boston this weekend, and the Blue Devils are in it. As a show of solidarity with their fellow lax student-athletes, the team plans on wearing wristbands/armbands/headbands with the word "Innocent" on them.
I applaud this. And it's not a male-female issue, a right-wrong issue, or institutional-student issue.
It's because speaking up, taking a stand, and protesting is something that this generation does not do enough of.
My parents' generation burned their draft cards, marched, protested, had the National Guard open fire at Kent State...and they made a difference. They were the voice of their generation. They're in every history book. They paved the way for our generation...to sit on their asses, play video games, and get fat.
Bob Dylan wrote protest songs, people listened, and paid attention. Now, Britney Spears is followed around, 24-7, as she fumbles through motherhood and the only attention that is paid is that of attention deficit disorder.
You can argue whether or not it is the right stage....whether or not it's appropriate...whether or not they should be doing it. But those arguments are part of the problem. Not everything can be P.C.
You need a Tommie Smith & John Carlos. If not, it'll be a fart in the wind. A press conference that's forgotten 35 seconds after its conclusion.
The Duke women believe in something. They're going to take a stand. We owe it to them to pay attention.
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With that, I wish you all a happy and safe Memorial Day weekend. Should be nice weather here in the Midwest, even nicer in God's Country, so fire up the grills and get outdoors.
And lest I forget - Memorial Day is not some commercialized, contrived holiday. It's a day to remember all those who paid the ultimate price so that slapdicks like me get to blog and write nonsense and whatnot. Please take
I leave you with this YouTube offering: Black Gallagher.
It has nothing to do with anything, except being Chappelle and being funny.
BLACK GALLAGHER, BITCH! (I got warrants!)
And I would be remiss not to mention the 90k mark. It never ceases to amaze me. Thank you all very much for reading. 100k is close!
To the next step, I am forever humbled.
One.
A winner like Bruce Jenner? Not so much for me. Not for Ben Folds tickets at least.
Milwaukee's claim to fame in the summertime is a thing called "SummerFest." It goes on from the end of June through the first week in July, with concerts all over the city every night.
There are some headliners, like Pearl Jam, and others like Keane and Susan Tedeschi, which are can't-misses for me.
To kick off SummerFest, Ben Folds and MKE's own Violent Femmes are playing a "free show." Free in the sense you don't pay for the tickets, but not free in the sense that you have to go to a bar and purchase Miller products in exchange for an entry form.
You may enter more than once, which roughly translates to "binge drinking."
Now, I've seen Ben Folds about 12 times, including this past March at the Eagles Ballroom here in the BrewCity. Each show was great and there's no doubt that this one will be too. But he's only got an hour and a 10 minutes on stage, because the Violent Femmes are the headliners.
Yeah, the same Violent Femmes that will play "Blister in the Sun" if you give them 10 bucks and a PBR tallboy.
So I didn't win. Whatever. I had fun entering the contest six or seven times.
-----
Saw that the NFL approached Jeb Bush about their commissioner vacancy.
Yeah, think about that...but limit yourself to just 45 seconds, or else blood will pour out of your ears (apologies to Lewis Black).
The Bush family has such a good track record of running professional sports franchises (and states and countries, for that matter), so let's give them the most powerful and popular organization in sports today - the NFL.
Do they implement a system of bugging and monitoring the conversations between the coordinators and head coach? Just checking.
God, that's such a shampooing stupid, awful decision I had to check to see if it was April 1...or if it was The Onion.
It wasn't. That sucks.
-----
Um, wow. That's a big kid.
-----
Um, wow. Eighteen times the legal limit. Eight-teen. 1-8.
This story is staggering...and apparently, so was the driver of the rig.
I do love his justifcation for the morning pint before getting behind the wheel. Bite the dog that bit you, big fella. I ain't mad at cha.
-----
In case you just returned from hibernation (in which case, you'd be a bear and it would be amazing that you're reading this because bears seldom use the internet on account of their large paws and claws damaging the keyboards), or lived under a rock (in which case, it would be very odd that you'd be using the computer now because most of your internal organs would have been flattened and your bones broken, as rocks are very heavy), you know the story about the Duke men's lacrosse team.
I don't plan on re-telling it. But I do wish to make a point about the Duke women's lacrosse team.
The Women's Lax Final Four is in Boston this weekend, and the Blue Devils are in it. As a show of solidarity with their fellow lax student-athletes, the team plans on wearing wristbands/armbands/headbands with the word "Innocent" on them.
I applaud this. And it's not a male-female issue, a right-wrong issue, or institutional-student issue.
It's because speaking up, taking a stand, and protesting is something that this generation does not do enough of.
My parents' generation burned their draft cards, marched, protested, had the National Guard open fire at Kent State...and they made a difference. They were the voice of their generation. They're in every history book. They paved the way for our generation...to sit on their asses, play video games, and get fat.
Bob Dylan wrote protest songs, people listened, and paid attention. Now, Britney Spears is followed around, 24-7, as she fumbles through motherhood and the only attention that is paid is that of attention deficit disorder.
You can argue whether or not it is the right stage....whether or not it's appropriate...whether or not they should be doing it. But those arguments are part of the problem. Not everything can be P.C.
You need a Tommie Smith & John Carlos. If not, it'll be a fart in the wind. A press conference that's forgotten 35 seconds after its conclusion.
The Duke women believe in something. They're going to take a stand. We owe it to them to pay attention.
-----
With that, I wish you all a happy and safe Memorial Day weekend. Should be nice weather here in the Midwest, even nicer in God's Country, so fire up the grills and get outdoors.
And lest I forget - Memorial Day is not some commercialized, contrived holiday. It's a day to remember all those who paid the ultimate price so that slapdicks like me get to blog and write nonsense and whatnot. Please take
I leave you with this YouTube offering: Black Gallagher.
It has nothing to do with anything, except being Chappelle and being funny.
BLACK GALLAGHER, BITCH! (I got warrants!)
And I would be remiss not to mention the 90k mark. It never ceases to amaze me. Thank you all very much for reading. 100k is close!
To the next step, I am forever humbled.
One.
