Fighting Hunger With a Bowl

AT&T Park for UCLA v. Illinois (Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl). Hot day, small crowd, better game than predicted.

'Cause There Was No One Around

Black Francis, 1991: "Hey everyone, I've got this new song; it's about an alien that gets into rock music after hearing distant radio frequencies in space. He goes looking for Earth, accidentally lands on Mars, and is told, no, keep going, this ain't the planet of sound. What do you think?"

Kim, Joey, and Dave (in unison): "Yeah, ok. Let's play it loud."

No Longer Looking at Things

Kim Jong-Il: this was your life. (See also this.)

Hitch

"Unlike other countries, [America] was founded on written proclamations. America is an ideal as well as a republic. Its documents are open to revisions. They're works in progress. There's an invitation to participate." - Christopher Hitchens, RIP.

Bad Jokes #3

Someone at my local Peet's: "Didn't you used to be the Foursquare mayor here?"
Me: "That was a tough recall election."

Terry Bradshaw - "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" (1976)

It's actually pretty good! Incidentally, I wonder if a young Hank Jr. saw this, and decided he too was ready for some football.

Ships Without Captains (or Infielders)

Wait, you mean to tell us Miami didn't get Hanley Ramirez on board before signing Jose Reyes? Teams that want to contend talk about managers and players buying into a "system." This is the opposite of that. Between this and the SEC investigation of the new stadium's funding, it seems like no one's got their hands on the wheel at Marlins HQ. If this is an indication of things to come, Pujols and Buehrle should run for the hills.

Bad Jokes #2

On return flights from Vegas, is Virgin legally obligated to change their name to Not Anymore?

Cut It Out!

Eddie Money: the Dave Coulier of rock.

(Also, that's Apollonia at 0:43 in the video. Also also, this is a great song.)

According to My Parents...

...my 91-year-old grandfather drank a sake bomb last night. #myhero

Bad Jokes #1

Just saw a woman drive by in an Audi while eating a bowl of cereal. Must be one of those crash diets.