Doug Stanhope: Drugs didn’t ruin Ricky Williams’ career. Drug testing ruined Ricky Williams’ career. The NFL is so concerned about drug abuse that they randomly test Ricky Williams nine times every month to make sure that he isn’t smoking marijuana. Of course, looking the other way as players load up on steroids and shooting players …
God, I hate to say this because I think Chris Rock is as good of a stand up comedian as there is today. His new special is unwatchable, and that has nothing to do with the material. The HBO special is the amalgamation of three performances – one each in New York, London, and South …
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This is one of the last complete masterworks that Ray Davies wrote for the Kinks (the above cartoon – I have no idea what it means, which is I think why I like it). Anyway, it’s typical hang dog Ray Davies fodder. He’s not talking about Princess Diana – he’s talking about Diana Dors, the …
This is dangerous territory and I can’t even hope to understand it from a Black point of view. I will say that I’ve been a huge Spike Lee fan forever and the minstrel montage at the end of Bamboozled was devastating, so I hope I can understand the passions behind this. Anyway, in the last …
I love that show, but as always happens they run out of good material and don’t have the guts to just end with dignity. It’s about two weeks before they do the above album.
I watched A Few Good Men again the other day. Tom Cruise has made a ton of money with huge blockbusters where his only job was to be pretty and he’s likely about as sane as Sarah Palin, but when given the chance he’s done some amazing things. He was better than Paul Newman in the Color …
Back in 1988, I went to see the Last Temptation of Christ at the Biograph Theater in Chicago. There were lots of angry protesters and I was lucky enough to get a “Go directly to Hell card” from one of them. The movie was actually sold out and I still haven’t seen it, so the …
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After Saturday’s 3-for-4 performance, Ramirez is now hitting .404 with 16 homers, 13 doubles and 49 RBIs in just 47 games since being traded to Los Angeles. In that time he leads the Majors in batting average, on-base percentage (.490) and slugging percentage (.760) and ranks among the leaders in homers. Never before has a …
I’ve talked about this before – I watch award shows – I despise award shows – etc etc but finally the Emmy’s have come up with the ultimate puff category: Outstanding Host For AÂ Reality Competition Program And the nominees are: Ryan Seacrest – American Idol Tom Bergeron – Dancing With The Stars Howie Mandel -Deal …
That’s Nick Leeson the patron saint of idiot traders, who kept gambling until he bankrupted one of Europe’s oldest banking institutions, basically just to cover his constant and increasing incompetence. He makes the leaders of the subprime meltdown look like geniuses. But here’s the real issue you have to ask yourself, when you think of …
Curt Shilling just trashed him, but the Manny train continues to keep a rolling. No one understands him, no one deny’s that he is a hitting savant. Here’s an entertaining article called the Genius of Manny Ramirez and he’s not really being very ironic. Good quotes from Bill James and a variety of pitchers on the …
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As a point of honesty, I had never read a single word written by David Foster Wallace before he killed himself, I just have a thing for talented, successful people with issues. Especially, given that I’m definitely not successful, probably not that talented (if I could sleep one night out of three and had any interest in editing …
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When the 9-11 anniversary passed, I was going to write something to the effect of get over it, but I was too cowardly, because much like when Gilbert Gottfried got shot down with a “too soon” back at a roast of Hugh Hefner, people still go insane over this topic as if they’re entire family …
Back during the internet bubble I’d enjoy watching these old men on TV. They were old school economists and they’d be saying stuff like,”This doesn’t make sense. Stocks are supposed to trade for a multiple of their earnings — not their losses.”
You know the formula – Boy meets girl, Boy loses girl, Boy gets girl back. The third act usually only happens in the movies. Holly: I mean, you know why she’s marrying him, don’t you? Robbie: The money thing? Security? A nice house? I guess that’s important to some people. Holly: No, it’s not important …
