Author Hunter S. Thompson Commits Suicide (washingtonpost.com)

he shot himself in the head.

what a jerk.

i thought he'd have the cajones to take whatever fear he faced like a man, to just deal with things getting weird or hard.

I guess he didn't.

what a jerk.

he talked such a big game......

Nationals Inquirer

lots of nats blogging a gwan. word.

Major League III: A New Beginning

Everything I've been reading about the Nats, by which I mean everything I can find, reminds me of the movie Major League. A franchise that has been disrespected moving to a city that has been disrespected. A team that's actually a team, even though, or because, they've been written off and f'd with and told they don't even deserve to exist. And a city that is the seat of representative government that is unrepresented in that government. Even Larkin moving to the front office smacks of Tom Berenger managing the Indians in the embarrassing Major League II.

And even though Major League II sucked, I've got a feeling that this season, which I'll refer to from here on out as Major League III, will be awesome.

word

if we make it past 2012 then we've got somthing to look forward to.

A good five minutes

I use a band-aid
as a bookmark
for the bukowski poetry
i read on the can.

it seems appropriate.

Radio Free St. Louis Super Bowl Preview

There was yet another great Super Bowl on Sunday. But on Saturday, there was a great Radio Free St. Louis, a super bowl preview. Click the link above for an mp3. guests:

New England Bureau Chief: Mike Abbott
Philidelphia Bureau Chief: Joshua Lipes
Prime Minister of Fairy Tales: Selena Nelson
Senior Arlington, Mass. Correspondent: Matthew Rebholz
Chicago Bureau Chief: Adrian Trela

My highlight is the last 15 minutes, where Trela takes a look back at the 85 bears on this, the 19th anniversary of their super bowl run. He called this year's game for the Pats because they have more Italians on the squad, and named all 22 starters on the 85 bears, drunkenly, from a sidewalk outside some bar on Lincoln. Classic. More shows from last year will be put up in due time. Go Nats.

Monkeys Pay to See Female Monkey Bottoms

word. i guess this is about as conclusive proof of evolution as you can get......

Another definition

comicide [cohm*ih*side] (v.): 1) slaying the vibe; 2) buzzkilling.

really, I'm making up new words like ghostface over here.

Talking Points Memo: GOP Social Security playbook

You may have already seen this, but if you haven't, TPM has posted a copy of the Republican "playbook" for selling their plan to take the "security" out of social security. An excerpt:

Keep the numbers small: Your audience doesn’t know how trillions and billions differ. They know these numbers are large, but not how large nor how many billions make a trillion. Boil numbers down to “your family’s share.” Also avoid percentages; your audience will try to calculate them in their head—no easy task while listening to a speech—and many will do it incorrectly.

(from p.6 -- but I thought the president was already on board with this....)

From page 35-40 almost every single word is capitalized. It's almost unreadable. Whoa. It stay like that till page 45.

There are two canned speeches at the end of the document. If you like, you can put on a nice suit and pretend that you, too, are a mouthpiece of the Bush administration. I'd recomment going out to a nearby public park and convincing the squirrels that we are facing a crisis.

The NFL Stadium Guide - Future NFL Stadiums

Dream of the future of football. Vikings stadium, when built, will be off the hook. It is a little thugly, though (see below).

A Definition, and other hot new slang for oh-cinco

You might have heard about the hot new words for '05 from who let the blogs out, who introduced about a month or two ago the concept of getting "iced."

Here's another one:

thugly (adj.) [thuhg*lee] - 1) characterizing attire or attitude that, in trying too hard to be "down" with the "street," ends up just looking really silly or stupid; 2) of or relating to preposterous gangster rap fashion.

also, "thuggs" are dumb looking furred boots work by rappers.

we make money not art

a quick and dirty link. everything there is "holy smokes" level cool and fascinating....

MSNBC - Jan. 24 called worst day of the year

good morning. it's all downhill from here.

also, I am the guacamole king of university city, mo. pics later.

and misadventures of

Look: Are you paying attention to this? Click above, because in the years ahead it will be either a book or a legend and, well, these sorts of things don't happen in law school.

I am planning something new, which will be both amazing and funny and famous and will more or less run itself. But that is for the future.

Tonight I make sure that all facts which I reference in analysis paragraphs are introduced in precedent case discussion paragraphs.

And that is why, for now, my stories aren't quite as interesting.

This friday, I will compete in an Iron Chef guacamole battle. That's about as good as it gets for a while.

Wait for me then, with a touch of cilantro on your breath, and read well what I linked above.

pre-sale tickets for the NYE party are available here.

save $10, get free shrimp, and party....information 2 posts ago.

aight later....