Giambi
 

So, it is amebiasis, as the Yankees are publicly claiming, or is it fallout from going off the juice?

spree: ESPN

Ricky Williams
 

Shall we take a road trip?

Giambi
 

Isn't amebiasis best transmitted through an activity that MR gets his nickname from?

Giambi and [Unrelated...] Six Feet Under
 

Don't know -- but they had it in the papers here that he was afraid it was cancer (or at least, that they hadn't ruled cancer out, and it was one of the things they were attempting to rule out with the latest battery of tests.) I know everyone says it's because he's going off the 'roids (I can't get away with that, can I?), but he's been out for too long for that to be the [only] cause, I would think.


So now, about Six Feet Under. Unlike most people, I didn't hate last week's episode. It was disturbingly violent, but I didn't think it was as bad as TWOP (for example) would have people think. The end was startling and really left an impression.

As for this week's episode, before going into particulars (why waste all that typing if no one is going to respond?), did anyone else see/like it? I did both. I liked it very much. The Brenda story line is pretty boring, but I really like the rest of it -- even the Rico bits.

Ricky Williams
 

Let's please do. And we can race trains for kicks. But don't go all Thelma on my ass, 'kay?

Washers
 

"An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original. "

-- Jean Cocteau

Giambi
 

As I understand it, the theory is that he and Kevin Brown may have ingested a parasite when they ate at a sushi restaurant in Japan during the season opening series againts the Devil Rays.

Giambi
 

Two baseball players ass-licking in a sushi restaurant in Japan is so hot.

Ricky Williams
 

Ooooooooh, sounds like things are heating up! Permanently press that gas pedal to the metal!!

Ricky Williams
 

Does this mean that nobody gets to have sex with Brad Pitt?

Giambi
 

When I first read this, I thought it said Kevin Bacon and I could not for the life of me figure out what Jason Giambi and Kevin Bacon would be doing together in Japan.

Giambi and [Unrelated...] Six Feet Under
 

SPOILER


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I was not enamored of last week's episode, because I was afraid it was just another senseless subplot that would go unresolved and remain unaddressed. After last night's episode, I no longer think that is the case.

If the family continues on the course of drawing back together, then last week's episode will have reversed a dangerous entropy that was threatening to pull the whole thing apart. Bringing Nate back into the business, and bringing David closer with Clare were both good steps.

The Brenda business has to be resolved in more dramatic a fashion thatn simply she and he break up. Theirs was the encounter that drew us in in the first place.

And I hated George from the beginning. Anything that hastens his departure is a good thing in my book.

The only wasted scene in the whole episode was Clare and Mena Suvari rolling around on the grass together. Why did they leave their shirts on? Why, Bilmore, why?

Has everybody already seen this?
 

Song by Bush and Kerry. I put it on FB because I am lazy and have no interest in entertaining the Politics Board today. All partisan replies should be posted over there though. Cause I don't give a fuck about your political views. Or because they could dilute the thrilling discussion here today.* Or something.


*Go with the front-loading washer, sunny!!!

Ricky Williams
 

Even now I am completing my email to the head of my department, justifying funds from the client development budget for a trip to Austin sometime mid-September-ish.

It will take some creative writing, but fortunately motivation is not an issue.

Gattigap

Ricky Williams
 

I think that the co-eds e/o was talking about reserve their favors for those who rush for over 1,000 yards a season for the Longhorns.

But, all is not lost. At the football factory land grant college I attended, a few lines of blow and late-model BMW worked almost as well with attractive co-eds from certain sororities.

Ricky Williams
 

Wow. With Ricky and Gatti in town, I'll have to keep my crim lawyers with me all weekend for "unexpected" jail runs.

Perhaps we'll need to compile the FB "do not arrest" list prior to ACL and distribute it among the local constabulary.

Ricky Williams
 

I would just as soon not attract any undue attention. Unlike last year . . .

Giambi and [Unrelated...] Six Feet Under
 

I think there will be more with Mena and Claire (at least that's what I heard.)

I read a while ago that David's experience in the 5th episode was to be completely transforming. Sheesh. How could something like that not be? One thing that bothered me about it was that it seemed as though there were ample opportunities for David to escape. However, I don't suppose one in the middle of such a nightmare sees those opportunities as starkly as an outside observer.

The scene with David and Claire was so good.

The other good thing about last night's episode was that they have finally let Nate look hot again.

Giambi and [Unrelated...] Six Feet Under
 

Oh, thank God. No, really. Thank God. Please tell me he smiles too...

Ricky Williams
 

You have to pick your battles -- public sex or public drug use. Not both. Sheesh.

Ricky Williams
 

Hey, I'm a busy guy. I have to multitask.

Six Feet Under (Spoiler Alert)
 

Yea!!!

That's a large part of what angered me so much about the episode. He could have just left the gas station. He didn't need to get out of the van at the liquor store. He could have driven off when the guy got out to dump the body. Etc.

I mean, hell! What was he thinking? It's almost like he was relishing his role as victim.

Giambi and [Unrelated...] Six Feet Under
 

He does smile, but his hair is still awful.

Six Feet Under (Spoiler Alert)
 

Well, before the liquor store, he didn't realize he was the target of a crime. However, when the dude got out to take out the body, he totally could have driven away! And why not dial 911? And why not just keep running when he'd knocked the guy off balance with the back door?

Why?!?!?

Too Funny
 

Don Asmussen is a twisted genius.

Apropos of the Big Dig joke, if they'd wanted a cheaper way to depress the Central Artery, they could have just had Mike Dukakis talk to it.

Good to see the name "Mike Dukakis" still gets people all fired up. Way to kill the board, Ty. I hope it doesn't take 4 years to get it going again.

Did anyone see Catwoman? Was it as god-awful as the reviews? The Bourne Supremacy wasn't bad at all, probably better than the first one, though I missed the first few minutes due to a mis-timing of the previews. I, Robot was OK. Not terrible, but nothing I'd see again. Spider-Man 2 was much better than I anticipated, probably because I thought it was over-hyped. It's still over-hyped, but go see it anyways.

Before Sunset is next on my list, though I'm waiting for Netflix to send me Before Sunrise first so I have proper context.

I hope you were sneaking from theater to theater.

BB5
 

BB5 Spoilers....


















I am a few episodes behind on the Tivo, but I think that this season is going to get pretty boring pretty soon. The "four horsemen," if they can keep it together, can clearly get to the end. I don't think that the cowboy guy has an independent thinking brain cell in his body, and I think that Drew will not betray his meathead buddies, so they might be able to just pick off the women and the rest of them for the entire time.

Maybe we can just hope for some crazy hijinks to keep us interested, but I imagine that Drew will stay with the assholes until the end, because he could win against either one of them.

The twins don't seem like they'll make it until the five weeks, but who knows...

BB5
 

More - Reading the live feeds updates, there are some good fights/moronic moments to show, like last night's drunk fest. As for the twins coming into the house together, I think it is going to be close. The so-called Four Horsemen definitely have her on their radar now. Nokomis is going to use the Veto on herself, and Drew will likely put up Diane, although Adria/Natalie is a possibility, but Holly is probably gone either way. The key, then, becomes whether the Four Horsemen (plus Marvin) can keep HOH and keep picking away at the others.If someone else wins HOH, Jase and Scott will likely be nominated.

Given that the coda of Ebert's review is "The director, whose name is Pitof, was probably issued with two names at birth and would be wise to use the other one on his next project," I'd have to say there's a decent chance the movie really is as bad as he's saying.

Also, the Examiner liked it, which means it has to be a piece of shit.

Of course. I can't remember the last time I didn't see more than one movie on a single ticket.

Un-tattoo you.
 

A Michigan newspaper columnist is hosting a competition: Whomever can tell the saddest tale about getting a tattoo they now regret can get it removed for free by a local doctor. Stern's marking his calendar so he can claim in ten years that he thought of this first.

I gave my vote to Sandy Lopez, the young woman who got a clover on her ankle to express her pride in her Irish heritage. Except it turns out she's not Irish. She thought she was Sandy O'Pez?

Runner up: "I am now 31, and an intelligent, classy, Christian woman, except for my tattoo."

Before anyone jumps my ass and says I posted this because I'm judgmental about people who have tattoos, know this: I am judging you. You are bad and wrong. I will be laughing at you and your flabby tattooed ass 30 years in the future, except for Taxwonk, at whom I'm laughing now.

uh...
 

I wonder if you get reamed for stealing movie signals.

TM

When your dentist pulls a syringe out of his lab coat and begins to inject a substance into your mouth that "smells like sperm," it's definitely time to worry. {Spree: clicking link may lead to a lifetime of very, very bad oral hygiene.}

And to think you could have saved this until folks were eating lunch on the East Coast tomorrow.

Un-tattoo you.
 

I dunno. I kinda like the guy whose alternative is to chop off his finger.

Un-tattoo you.
 

I like this one.....

• From Nic Spoors of East Lansing:
  
  "It's been my dream since childhood to travel the world and be part of the U.S. Navy.
  
  "Earlier this year I went through the enlistment process and even though I scored well on the test and was in excellent physical condition I was rejected because of two tattoos on my forearm.
  
  "Soon afterward, I began the expensive process of tattoo removal. It cost me so much that I had to move into a cheaper apartment. In spite of my efforts I have seen no evidence of the ink fading.
  
  "Please help me; I would give anything to serve."

... but am wondering how this squares with the other article you posted about free plastic surgery.

(BTW, can this really be a disqualifying condition in Bush's Navy?)