800-FLOWERS
 

Possibly; it was potted freesia, if that helps. They packed it in that weird straw/mossy stuff - chock-full of little flying things.

Matt Hasselbeck Blows Giant Chunks
 

As you have seen, Matt is the other shitty quarterback in the family. It must be genetic - not unlike the Huard family.
If only they could be more like the Mannings...this just in - Kurt Warner on the bench again. Woo Hoo!

... He's Back!
 

If only the FDA could require all annoying ads to be pulled. Someone show them the Herbal Essences line. http://money.cnn.com/2004/11/15/news...ex.htm?cnn=yes

DBT
 

So I heard the Drive By Truckers at ACL, and I liked what I heard. Shortly afterwards, I picked up Decoration Day and Alabama Ass Whuppin', both of which confirmed that I really like this band.

Saturday, I picked up The Dirty South, and on first hearing, I enjoyed it so much I went to the website to see when they'd be next through Houston. Imagine my delight to find that they were going to be at the Meridian on Sunday. Having already seen the Incredibles and cried about football, I decided to blow off my second movie of the weekend and head over to hear the new Southern Rock.

This time I didn't have GAs pestering my sister about her sex life to distract me from really listening to the set, and the boys (and girl) from 'bama were amazing. There were maybe 250 people there, and the sound was MUCH better than at ACL. They switched off between the three leads from song to song, like at ACL, and the set lasted about two hours non-stop. The crowd was energized, as was I (read: I had a few beers and made a fool of myself by dancing a lot, not actually that dissimilar from ACL). It was one of the better small-venue shows I'd been to in a long time, and I was glad to have fortuitously checked out their website.

In related news, the oldest rock station in Houston died on Friday. It got bought out by Clear Channel about 5 years ago, and they slowly killed it until there was nothing but a rotting carcass left. RIP KLOL. You deserved better.

... He's Back!
 

I think some of the women in the Herbal Essences ads have been cast as the happy wives in the Cialis/Levitra ads.

... He's Back!
 

Yeah. I hate that ad. Wild thing is a bald guy with no "urge."
creepy. Speaking of creepy - whatever happened to Joe Isuzu? I thought he was coming back?

... He's Back!
 

I am not too impressed by Wild Thing either. I would not want to spend my entire honeymoon inside with him like apparently he did with his foxy wife. I don't find that idea very appealling.

DBT
 

This is rapidly becoming the GA must-see tour of 2004

Matt Hassleback still sucks
 

Exactly. These ads should be selling something to help the wife get the urge to screw creepy bald guy with a 4 hour erection. Like maybe a bag.

DBT
 

Perhaps I should have been more direct, but it is difficult to try to subtly draw the pee guy into conversation. With my next bite at the apple, I might mention this:


Ward, It's About Beaver

It had the potential to be on the great legal footnotes of all time.

Attorneys Brian Wice and Stanley Schneider are appealing the conviction of Susan Wright, the Houston woman who stabbed her husband 200 times and buried him in her backyard, by which time he was her ex-husband. Wright's trial featured prosecutor Kelly Siegler dragging into the courtroom the bed where the stabbing took place, hog-tying a colleague to it and reenacting the supposed events in front of the jury.

The bizarre performance fell under the somewhat obscure legal umbrella of "Only in Texas, Man," and it's a key part of Wright's appeal.

That appeal originally included the following footnote (legal citations omitted): "Not surprisingly, the State sought to paint Ms. Wright's marriage as 'perfect,' a latter-day version of Ozzie and Harriet and Leave It To Beaver. But Ozzie Nelson and Ward Cleaver never snorted cocaine…[or] smoked crack, smoked marijuana, cultivated marijuana, attempted to buy Ecstasy from teenagers, frequented topless bars, assaulted a topless dancer, had a menage a trois with two topless dancers…beat his dog…had a master-slave relationship with Ms. Wright…and urinated on Ms. Wright and their small daughter."

Well, we're pretty sure Ward never pissed on Ms. Wright, at any rate.

While the lawyers kept the list of husbandly misdeeds in, they didn't set it up by saying Ozzie and Ward would never, ever do such things. Extensive legal research revealed, unfortunately, that the two TV dads actually were quite the swingers.

Not really. "I was just concerned," Wice says, "that I had a generation of jurists who remember Ozzie and Ward, and I didn't want them having the image of Ozzie and Ward committing these unconscionable, despicable acts."

Come on, that's a great mental image -- Ward in bondage gear with two strippers, peeing on June?

Lawyers. No fun at all.

http://www.houstonpress.com/issues/2...hairballs.html



So who was the "colleague" who agreed to be hog-tied at a trial? Anyone we know?

Matt Hassleback still sucks
 

You miss the subtext. He's shopping with her, in what looks like a tony shopping district. So he has money, and she is a whore, I mean, finds him more attractive than his physical qualities might suggest, because he is generous.

Matt Hassleback still sucks
 

And, as Mrs. Not Bob noted, at least he doesn't appear to have a foot/shoe fetish. He yawns and sighs theatrically when she stops at the shoe stores, yet perks up (so to speak) in front of the lingerie shop.

(She also noted that he looks a little like one of the real estate partners in my old firm -- a guy known for slobbering on redheads at the firm's Generic Winter Gift-Giving Holiday party.)

DBT
 

In case you didn't notice, "subtle" isn't something she gets very well.


Wasn't me, if that's what you're asking.

Matt Hassleback still sucks
 

Well, my man takes care of me, and there's nothing wrong with that.

ETA: Wait, is it "my guy"? Who here is a Levitra expert?

Matt Hassleback still sucks
 

W won. You can go back to calling it the Happy Birthday, Jesus! party.