jazzypaul

The dishes and I have a very odd relationship. And it's one that is shared by many of my friends as well. I HATE doing them. Absolutely despise it. Don't mind practically any other chore around the house. Except for the dishes. But, once I do them, I am always amazed at how quickly I was done with them. And I do them everyday that I'm actually anywhere near my apartment (these days, only once or twice per week). But I'd still rather have a dishwasher. At least then, I could rinse everything load it in the dishwasher and split.

Well, then y'all are just about due for another one, doncha think? That said, I'm far from counting y'all out either. Boston's a proven post season contender, and I'm sure that you guys are all drooling over the idea of a rematch of last year's ALCS. So, I have to hope that Freddy works his magic on the road again today. Either Dan or I will be talking shit in about 2.5 hours or so, methinks... ← Well, start talking!!! Congratulations. I thoroughly enjoyed watching this last game once El Duque came in. If the Yanks get past the Angels, it definitely will be tough getting past the team with the best record in the AL. (To think that El Duque and especially Contreras might do us in, ugh!) ← Dude, that game totally messed with my head. Garcia pitched well, and then we brought in Marte(?!?!?!?), and when the bases were loaded, I was shittin' my pants. El Duque is my new hero. It sucked though that I couldn't watch the game from the 6th on, and the AM radio in my car doesn't work, so I was tuning up and down the dial for any news on the way home, and sure enough, I heard the final score, drove to the closest bar and got a beer down with all of the south side houligans. I'll be the first to admit that I'm worried about us going up against either the Angels or the Yanks. We've got better pitching than the Yanks, I think, but the Angels are truly a rock solid team, and we didn't do well against the west coast at all this year. At least we split 6 with NY. I do like the fact that whoever we face in the first game of the series is going to be totally drained for the game Tuesday. That should bode well for us. Time will tell!

Well, then y'all are just about due for another one, doncha think? That said, I'm far from counting y'all out either. Boston's a proven post season contender, and I'm sure that you guys are all drooling over the idea of a rematch of last year's ALCS. So, I have to hope that Freddy works his magic on the road again today. Either Dan or I will be talking shit in about 2.5 hours or so, methinks...

I liked the first two albums by the Bad Plus. Give and Suspicious Activity have seemed like ass on a stick, however. That said, Happy Apple is a motherfucker of a band. I've dug everything they've done. Of course, I liked Night of the Cookers, too.

Aren't your picks in sports always wrong? If you're picking LA and Boston, that means that we'll trounce the pantyhose and slap the yanquis around, all so we can lose to St. Louis.

One game doesn't send you to the ALCS. Lose 3-2 or 14-2 we're still down 1-0. And in 2003 we were down 2-0 to the A's and swept three straight. So, no, you don't get any respect for one win. Win two more, and my hats off. Win 6 more and I say, nice job. Win 10 more and I'll say "congratulations, clearly the Baseball Gods are working their way backwards: The Sox win it all, then the White Sox, clearly next year it will be the Cubs to end the misery." ← Fair enough. But a win like that certainly gives me more hope than I had going into yesterday at 3pm, that's for sure.

Spoken like someone who has never seen the White Sox play. The Sox don't suffer from bad play, they simply suffer from the worst ownership on the planet. The year of the strike, we were the best team in baseball, and Reinsdorf was practically begging for a strike. Then we see the fire sale that wipes us out when we're only 3 games out. Then this year, we're standing on top of all of baseball, and Williams and Reinsdorf refuse to look for any big bats whatsoever. I would assume that a 14-2 blow-out would demand a little respect, and for any other team in the majors, it would. But for the Sox, even if we win the whole thing, everyone will still blow it off.

Personally, I can only assume that the trash talk between now and Sunday will be legendary. I don't doubt, at this point, that y'all will kick our asses, but you never know, and I'd be happy as hell to be wrong. I'd like to see our winning streak to continue here. five in a row is sweet, but we've done 8 in a row on a couple of occasions this season. Here's to hoping for another one.

I was prepared to be magnanimous and congratulatory til I saw this, and now all I can say is FUCK YOU and btw, PAPI homered in the eighth to tie and singled in the winning run in the 9th to preserve the World Champion's hopes for another couple of days at least. ← somebody needs a hug.

Let's see here... The White Sox just clinched the central division. Let's face facts, Cleveland will eat us alive on this last series. The red sox will fall to the yankees, freezing the red sox out of the playoffs completely. Oh, how it must suck to be a red sox fan today.

Re: Robert Johnson...Muddy Waters was right. The Blues had a baby and they named it rock and roll. All of the Blues greats should get a nod by the R&R HOF because no blues = no rock and roll. And considering the number of rock icons who would agree with that statement, EC, Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones, well, they're only the biggest names in Rock and Roll ever. Re: Miles Davis...Bitches Brew and especially Jack Johnson are rock if I ever heard it. Re: Minutemen, King Crimson and The Sex Pistols not getting in: the people at the R&R HOF have got to be kidding me. Each one of those bands re-invented rock and roll on THEIR terms. Not nominating or inducting them is like making indian food without curry.

Well, the other thing is, we've dominated our division when playing against other AL Central teams. We'll take two of three from the indians, probably sweep the Twins, (both at home) and then deal with Detroit and the Indians again. I think we might very well clinch this thing in the next week, especially with each of these next three games counting as two for the magic number. These next 12-13 games, I think, will energize us. Boston would be a bitch. However, we've been so-so against the L.A./Anaheim/California/Left Coast/San Andreas/Can I get sprouts on that please? Angels, and a well energized team could take them on, I think. On the off chance that the Indians would take out the Red Sox, I think we could actually make it to the World Series. Where we'd get dominated by the Cardinals and swept in record time.

Considering the damage that wild card teams have done in the past few seasons, yes.

ba-dum-bump

tell that to Scott Henderson and Tribal Tech. No, please, really, tell the guys in Tribal Tech. They get on my nerves. If their music is dead, they might stop.

after hearing this, I was reminded of a movie quote...

wow! I like the ticker! Congratulations to you, too!

It's funny...that was my dad's first question to her!

What fucking commitment does a firefighter have to FEMA? What the hell is this bullshit? People come ready to help and you're going to make them hand out fliers? I'm moving to India. Fuck this noise.

And now that one can be had off the side of the road for $35 and a bag of beef jerky, that might be the way to go!

Well, yeah. I've seen enough marriages around me both survive and fail to know that things are different when the ring turns from engagement ring to wedding band. However, I also know that if two people are well matched, they will be able to stare down adversity as a team. People change. Sometimes they change on their own, and sometimes they are forced to change. But I also know that the human will is strong enough that if two people want something to work, that it will, changes and warts and all.

No but she's got two brothers...one of which is a really great shot with a shotgun, which I admit, scares me a little, but, ummm, hey, feel free, dude!

She's fantastic. You know, I had kinda just said "to hell with it all" before I met her. I turned down dates, I just wasn't at all interested in meeting or hanging with anyone. I wrote a lot more and practiced a lot more, but outside of a few friends, I had no interest in being linked with anyone romantically. And then, all of the sudden, out of nowhere comes this woman who loves many of the same things that I do, that thinks that Vandermark is boring because he isn't willing to take enough chances musically (I busted out some Anthony Braxton, she dug that...), digs all of my friends, actually finds my quirks either amusing and/or adorable, is smart, thinks about religion the same way I do, reads the newspaper with fervor, and is just awesome in every way, and yet, in the ways in which it would be adventageous for her to be different, she is. So, yeah, I have found the woman that I do believe is absolutely perfect for me. Thanks for all of the kind words, folks!!!

Not much else to say...I'm a happy, happy guy right now. I will post pictures of happy girl with sparkly ring when I get a chance!!! Wedding hopefully happening in June of '06!!! Woo Hoo!!!!