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Millions expected at BoSox victory parade
The millions who've waited, and waited, and waited are now reveling in that winning feeling! YES!!!
Saturday, October 30, 2004
Millions expected at BoSox victory parade
The millions who've waited, and waited, and waited are now reveling in that winning feeling! YES!!!
Friday, October 29, 2004
NPR : Slate's Chatterbox: The Myth of 'Taxachusetts'
Listen to this NPR piece, which helps debunk the myth.
Bad News Dogs Bush as Election Nears
More like, bad news dogs the American public for 4 years of Bush's presidency.
Hasselhoff Ordered To Alcohol Rehab
After his rehab stay, his new TV show, "Bay Rum Watch" will begin shooting....
Thursday, October 28, 2004
Rewind to 1986.......
My husband, young son, and I had just moved to MA from Ohio, and we were staying at my mother-in-law's apartment for a few weeks while we waited to close on our new house in New Hampshire. Kathy, my mother-in-law, was a huge fan of the Boston Red Sox. She religiously listened to games on her little transistor radio, through those lo-fi,old-fashioned ear plugs, when the games weren't broadcast on TV. I can still hear her swearing at the radio when some player bumbled or the opponent made a particularly good play.
Now, I spent my formative years living in central Indiana and Ohio: National league territory, Cincinnati Reds territory to be exact. Grew up rooting for them, but moved away in 1969 to PA. We had moved, but kept our Reds allegiance, even though our friends were either Phillies fans or Orioles fans. The 1975 series brought us great joy when The Big Red Machine, (Johnny Bench, Pete Rose, Joe Morgan, Tony Perez, Dave Concepcion, George Foster, Ken Griffey, and Cesar Geronimo) rolled over the Red Sox! I went to some Padres-Reds games in San Diego's Jack Murphy stadium when I was stationed in San Diego in 1976 and 77 (cheered for the Reds, and got hassled for it by Padres fans.) During that 1986 Boston-NY Mets series, I felt I had to root for the Mets, since they were the National League team. Uh huh; while living at my die-hard Sox-fan in-law's apartment. I can still remember the cold, stabbing stare I got from my husband and his mother when I laughed at the Buckner incident. Hubby was so pissed he had to leave the room and go outside the apartment! I don't think my mother-in-law ever really forgave that, except that I rooted for the Celtics to make up for it (and that was easy during the Bird/Parish/McHale years!)
We moved from New England, spent 9 years in the hot-hell of FL (rooting for the Braves,) then moved back to New England 4 years ago. And I became, at last, a Red Sox fan. When our older son became a Sox fan, I tried to prepare him for the heartache and pain that was ahead of him. "Look at Nana. She spent her entire lifetime hoping for the Sox to win the World Series. She died without seeing that happen." Didn't sway him. He got the shirts, hat, and dug in for a lifetime of pain.
But, hey, surprises happen. We were surprised with the Ohio State national championship in 2002, the Patriots Super Bowl victories, and now this: the Sox make the greatest run of their history, and succeed in smacking down both the Yankees and the Cards.
I promised my husband that I'd make some sort of sign for my mother-in-law's grave, apologizing for the error in my ways 18 years ago. I think I owe her that. Won't even mention Buckner.
Tuesday, October 26, 2004
retroCRUSH: the world's finest pop culture and Leo Sayer website
The link is for the 100 scariest movie scenes of all time. I enjoy the comments, too. For example:
"Jack goes inside and sees a gorgeous beauty naked in the bathtub. She comes out and embraces him, and Jack really digs it.Until he looks at the reflection in the mirror and notices that the woman is now a reanimated rotting old lady!He breaks away as she chases him out of the room, and subsequently keeps him from ever getting an erection again."
Dumbass of the Day
What I really want to know is, why is New ENgland Gas storing mercury in a storage shed? What kind of shed is it, anyway?
Saturday, October 23, 2004
James Taylor to Release Christmas Album via Hallmark Stores
For years, I purchased the cheesy Hallmark Christmas albums, merely out of habit. I finally quit when I realized that I listened once, then filed them away. I think I'm willing to give it another chance this year!
Nervous Cops Kill Red Sox Fan
In advance of the final game with the Yankees, the mayor and the police leaders beefed up security, had things like newspaper boxes removed, and warned people about intolerance for criminal acts in the event the Red Sox actually won the pennant. Do the college-aged kids LISTEN to this? No! They think they can gather in the streets, jump on cars, knock over trees, and do whatever they please.
I don't know what Menino expects from the colleges. What are they supposed to do, lock up the young people in their rooms?
My son told me there was a riot on his campus in western MA. What the hell? WHY do they need to do this?
Thursday, October 21, 2004
I've spent the last two days hanging around New England Baptist Hospital. The first day was the waiting day, since my husband's surgery (cervical spine fusion) was being performed that day. I spent the 7 1/2 hours of waiting doing pretty much what everyone else does: reading, listening to music on headphones, roaming the hallways, fumbling in my purse, and deciding just which crappy thing I wanted to pick over another crappy thing in the cafeteria. (I picked the dry, tasteless burger because it looked more appetizing than the brown, chunky gravy-covered mystery meat.) All in all, it wasn't bad. At least the chairs in the waiting room were comfy. By the end of the evening, the crowd had thinned to just me and some other guy, who continued to read even after I commandeered the TV and switched from CNN to "the game." Some people!!
Yesterday I spent most of the time just sitting in the room with my husband, talking to him, and watching tv. Why the hell did that exhaust me? I could barely stay up and watch the entire Sox game last night (BUT I DID!!)
Does anyone really like being in a hospital? Even the patients don't like being there. No matter how nice the nurses and other health care workers are to you, no matter how much you're waited on, it's still an unfriendly-looking place. You just want to go in there, get it over with, and come home.
Today's the coming home part for my husband. I promised our 7-year-old that he could go along, so I am being a bad mom and keeping him home from school today. (don't yell at me for that..he's ahead of most of his class academically, so I think he can miss one stinkin' day of second grade.) I know hospitals are germ-factories and not really the place for children, but we are supposed to do a fairly quick in-and-out, so I think it'll be ok. He's curious about the hospital, anyway, so I hope to do a little outside-of-school teaching. ("That's an orderly." "No, that's to pee in, not to drink from." Stuff like that.)
Boy babies less likely for single mothers
This is fascinating. I always blame the males for shooting out the X or Y chromosome, but it seems there may be more to it than that.
Unseen comets may raise impact risk for Earth
I think it's safe to blame this on the Bush Administration. Why not?
Tuesday, October 19, 2004
Critic's Choice: From a Basement on the Hill, by Elliott Smith
New York Times review of Elliott's final album.
Can't Sleep...Must Watch....
I didn't stay up to watch the entire Red Sox game last night, so I guess I'm not a true fan, eh? I hate extra innings. This one went to the bottom of the 12th and ended well after 1 a.m. What good did it do me to try to sleep? Freakin' insomnia had me lying there awake in bed until after 1:32. I should have just watched the rest of the game. *sigh*
GO SOX!!!!!!!!
Frankenfish rears its ugly head in Lake Michigan
The fish have earned the nickname "Frankenfish" because of their ability to survive, even after extreme measures are taken to eradicate them.
Hmmm, "Frankenbush," anyone?
Sunday, October 17, 2004
This Is One Way the Rich Get Richer
Star, an attorney and star of ABC's The View, and her Wall Street banker fiance are seeking sponsors for their wedding. The New York Post also reports that she's been hawking her sponsors on the air in exchange for their goods and services. What a money grubber! ABC has put a halt to it, though, thankfully. This kind of display makes me want to hurl!
Friday, October 15, 2004
Body talk was louder during debates than rivals' words
I can't stand the smirks and the eye rolling Bush does when he is "listening" to his opponents. It reminds me of that pain-in-the-ass kid who sat next to me in fifth grade and copied my answers on spelling tests. (Oh yeah, once I tricked the kid by misspelling most of the words. He, of course, copied what I'd written. After he turned in his paper, I erased my words and rewrote them correctly. Dan Lukens, 0; Me, 100!) Anyway, I would like nothing better than to bitch-slap Bush when he does such things.
I've been spotting a lot of these magnets on cars lately. So what's the deal? Does the company (probably foreign) who makes these things support our troops? The stores who sell them? Just how do they support our soldiers, sailors, and airmen? Is this just a way to make us believe we're actually supporting the troops? I don't get it. Unless a portion of the proceeds goes to flak jackets, care packages, and the like, this magnet really DOES NOT SUPPORT our troops!
Thursday, October 14, 2004
Cheneys Don't Like Kerry's Lesbian Remark
I just cringed when Kerry said that last night. It was in poor taste to bring it up. Still, both candidates have been slobbering over the opponent's families, so maybe Kerry was just trying to show he's understanding. Cheney really didn't need to comment further, though, unless he wanted to make the whole thing political. And he surely didn't disappoint.
Wednesday, October 13, 2004
Good Luck to Lisa in the San Francisco Breast Cancer 3 Day!!!
Click the above if you would like to donate to the cause.
Police aid Elvis,chase 'Blues Brothers' look-a-like
The men had been drinking together at the VFW before police arrived. Blood tests will show how much, but Oyaas said, "I would venture to say quite a bit."Booze at a VFW hall? Naaaaahhhhhhhhhh!
Tuesday, October 12, 2004
Monday, October 11, 2004
Darth Vader Mugs Pizza Man
The Emperor ordered the Supreme Pan Pizza with double cheese, hold the onions. Give me your money. The force is not with you.
CNN.com - Bush, Kerry bare knuckles in second debate
I wasn't happy when we found out there wasn't weapons, Bush said.
Well, Mr. Prez, when was you happy?
I must admit that I only saw about 1/3 of the debate, but every time the President countered something Kerry said, he reminded me of a chihuahua jumping against your leg. Kerry was more like an Irish Setter.
Big Brother in Your Car
Eventually, this could become buried in the Patriot Act and become sanctioned as a way to track terrorists. The rest of us can just rot.
Friday, October 08, 2004
Billy Bob Lives Up to Redneck Moniker
Hey, if I want high-falutin' opinions about acting as art, I'll quiz James Lipton.