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My wife was watching the Olympics when I got home tonight, and even though she went to bed an hour ago, the channel hasn't changed, which means I've been watching the Women's Beach Volleyball gold medal match for the past twenty minutes or so. Words can't express my disappointment that the Chinese team of Xue Chen and Zhang Xi didn't make the final - I was looking forward to watching them ...
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Thirteen months ago, I wrote about the seven
major league teams that had gone the greatest length
of time without a forty homerun hitter. The information presented was good for about two months, at which time Tampa Bay's Carlos Pena went deep for the ...
My older sister, Jennifer, often gives me a hard time about this blog - specifically, the fact that she doesn't get mentioned as much as she would like. (Or ever.) And she's right: most of my family stuff here revolves around my wife and son, and I did once hammer out a lengthy ode to my father and a more off-the-cuff post about my brother, but nothing about my sisters or my mother. (Or my ...
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You know, I don't normally post pictures of pretty ladies just for the sake of posting pictures of pretty ladies, but I'm watching Women's Beach Volleyball on NBC right now and I have to say: Kerri Walsh is Hott. That's right - capital H, two Ts. And tall. Also, she is very good at volleyball.
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I was never a huge Nirvana fan growing up, but I bought a Greatest Hits CD a few months ago. This is my favorite song from that collection: When I'm in the car, I like to crank the volume around the thirty second mark. Great opening sequence.
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Nicolas Cage has long fascinated me as an actor. Even when he's bad, he's still kinda good and fun to watch - his 1996-97 trifecta of The Rock/Con Air/Face-Off ranks among the most watchable in my entire DVD library. Raising Arizona (1987) Ed McDonnough : [sobbing] Turn to the right. H.I. : What's the matter, Ed? Ed McDonnough : My "fy-ance" left me. H.I. : [narrating] She said her fiancé ...
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Road House was on AMC tonight, and I got to thinking about Sam Elliott. It was the first movie I ever saw him in; fifteen or so years later, he's one of my favorite actors. Road House (1989) - Wade Garrett Doc : Is this the part where you tell me what a great guy your friend is? Wade Garrett : Not hardly. This is the part where I tell you I want you for myself. Doc : [laughs] Dalton : Oh, ...
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Thanks to a school field trip to my hometown, I had the opportunity to make a rare visit to see my parents this afternoon. My mother's first words to me after I walked in the door: "Where's my grandson?" My father's first words to me after I walked in the door: "Where's Manny?" Thirty hours later, give or take, and yep, Manny Ramirez is still gone, leaving on a jet plane to the Left Coast. Say ...
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A new feature popped up in my Google Reader today: Blogs I'm Following, which is supposedly some sort of feature that incorporates stuff I look at in Blogger - I'm assuming my blogroll is involved - into my feed reader. I don't totally understand it, and my BIF tab currently shows 294 Unread Items while telling me that I have no Unread Items, so I decided to seek some help. Poked around a ...
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I read a story in the Union Leader today about a Goffstown man named Kirk Lang who died in a rollover accident on I-93 yesterday afternoon. Lang was towing a 28-foot trailer behind his 2006 Ford Expedition when a crosswind hit, caught the trailer, and sent the vehicle out of control. He was ejected when the SUV flipped and later pronounced dead at a hospital in Plymouth. Lang's parents took ...
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The Usual Suspects (1995) This is far from my favorite quote from this movie, but I was just watching it on AMC and I had to chuckle. You know how sometimes the bad words in movies are dubbed over with more "acceptable" language? (My all-time favorite example of this? When Die Hard is shown on TV, "Yippee kai ai, motherfucker" becomes "Yippee kai ai, Mister Falcon".) Well, in the scene below, ...
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Forty Is The New Thirty: 2008 Update