Highway to Halloween

These are the very stupid jerseys that Virginia Tech and other Nike owned schools are wearing.

Vh-1's "I Like the 80's As A Friend: Part 7" had a segment on Punch-Out. You'll be happy to learn that b-list celebrities (including AC Slater) could not beat Tyson either, you'll be unhappy to learn that none of them admitted that they are still trying to do so.

I'm gonna start planning next year's pumpkin. We could have done a lil brudder pumpkin.

Deep Thoughts.

I'm loving every minute with this crew.

Went to Bluestone with Courtney and her pops last night. She got him Royal Tenenbaums for his birfday. If I were to dress up for hallowe'en, I'd prolly go as Richie, though I own young Chazzy's costume and wear it in earnest. Of course, this is the pinnacle of been done, to the point where if you search for "richie tenenbaum," you mostly get people in costume. Good grief.

On the same note, saw another trailer for The Squid and the Whale, and it does indeed look damn good. Also, it looks like whatever baldwin that is is in costume as Richie too. Looks less quirky than the Anderson movies, but that's good, since Life Aquatic kind of drowned in quirk.

Azlo, blah, I dunno, news...

Reluctant Acceptance

I reluctantly accept the responsibility of the first post of the day....

Some background for you on Balt.'s new lunchtime DJ.

Report is that Stuart Ransom Miller "Serial Lady Killer" has a new Mitch Al-bomb coming out soon called "The Believer." He doesn't seem to be stoppin round here soon, but give him time. Also, he looks like a real dandy in that picture.

Speaking of Al-bombs, this is PF's lead review today. C'mon.

How's this guy feeling right now?

Yay Sports!

So some baseball jerks played (what I'm sure was a rousing) five-plus hour game last night. It's now the longest world series game, longer than the game I went to that used to hold that title (4hr15min, Game 4, '93) and longer than whatever Yankee game subsequently broke the Philly/Toronto record. Seriously though, it's not just that they went into extra innings, the game started at 8, I checked the score at 8:45 and they were just finishing the top of the first. C'mon. Maybe baseball should get rid of the blue line? Icing? Outlaw Pinetar....er Pinetar? What's the answer? (it probably doesn't matter because nothing short of Frank Thomas bringing me free pizza would have made me want to watch that game.)

One of the Giants owners died, he was very very old. Special effects are never as scary as the real ravages of age. I don't want to get old.

Doesn't this look like Steve Holt with a moustache?

I'm thirsty.

Screen Debut

Went here for dinner last night, I think it was called mad rock river colorado canyon grille kitchen.

Today marks the beginning of a new error. Er, era. No, error, becuase I sent the wrong version of that review. Enjoy the typos and condescension, which I toned down in what I thought was my final draft.

Azlo, the Post evaluates the Beard.

Also, Jaclyn has made it clear that he's in the blogience.

Teef

Stereogum has one of the Kozelek Modest Mouse covers. I enjoy it. They also have another new strokes song that isn't as bad as "15 minutes of pain," but still far from great.

Creepy: ESPN points out this morning that Jeff Bagwell and Frank Thomas have the same exact birthday, were both drafted in '89, were both MVPs in '94, and both talked about last night on the way to the Winchester...er...Quarry House. I'm scared, and sorry Shawn.

A very unfortunate name (who are the adwizards...etc), but the peanut version of these granola bars are my new favorite food. Man it would suck to be allergic to peanuts.

Jesus that's toothy.

It's the time of the season for jackets...

The Members Only Jackets have returned to the streets after a summer of hibernation in a moth-ball ridden closet. I can just imagine the joy that the moustachioed gentleman felt this morning after he ironed his jeans (with crease), then removed the dry cleaners plastic from his favorite clothes item, pressed it up to his face and deeply inhaled. "Ahhhhh, cigarettes, BO, and Drakkar Noir, all blended into perfect harmony! Oh shit, look at the time, I gots ta get to work."

What exactly do Mike Epps and Charlie Murphy do for $46.50? It probably won't be as good as when the other Murphy played DAR(if you look closely you can see the lil stars on the curtain).

This has a certain "kneel before Zod" quality.

Sports and Music have the day off.

It's a Bird! It Walked on my Pillow!

Way to go USPS, all you can tell me about my package was that it left Cincinnati last Thursday. What a great service! What? It's free? I'm being obsessive about my Arrested Development DVD? You're right Post Office, I'm sorry.

Okkervil Bissellman show is up on Iota's website (Nov. 14th), for $10 I guess there's no excuse.

I think I hate these people more than the cell phone on the belt people. Why? Because they leave it on their heads all the friggin time. It looks about as chic as this. Little do they know the cool people don't even have cell phones, or cable, or radio, or homes.

Does one guy from the Fall (center) look very hooliganish to you? Maybe he's just acting "hard" (or "ard") as the Brits say, then again, maybe he's just there to protect this guy.

In case one day, someone comes searching...

...my iPod is in your car.

Whaddya think of NikeID.com? Weren't you thinking of getting custom Vans? How about these? Made 'em myself. In a sweatshop. Too close to the original ShaqAttack?

Thay are playing hockey, I believe. These look like great games, eh? I did not know Dave Thomas was... ugh.

You've Been Crossed

You may remember this guys suing David Cross as the guy who wouldn't take the tables out of his club because it would "cut down on his food levels," Cross then makes fun of him on stage with jokes about cottage fries, club owner gets angry that Cross "used the stage as a forum." The guy also came up with the brilliant line, "Nashville is a whole different animal, only thing I can compare it to is New York and LA."

He looks dead.

Really who didn't already know. The funniest part is that he says that he only used it starting in 2001. By far one of the scariest human beings on the planet. I do like how the sides of his head/neck are two parallel lines.

I think I wanna see that George Clooney movie at some point.

Don't call it a comeback...

LL Cool P is hard as hell. Anyway. I was interested in buying this Pinter play earlier this week, but then the jerk had to go and win the Nobel prize. Thanks, pal.

R5 is putting on an Atmosphere show, and his review of the new CD reminds me why Dirda doesn't read other people's reviews. Because they're better. Starts with: "New LP You Can’t Imagine finds Atmosphere at their most polished. A lazy mastery of the mic has settled on Slug’s world-weary quips and the bar bouncer forcefulness of Ant’s turntable karate." Ends with: "It’s a summer season with dead puppies, no smiles, and ice cream that melts before it hits your tongue." I suck.

Makes No Sense At All

Reunited Promise Ring? Is that not a news story of it's own? They'll probably only play Wood/Water stuff. And it appears that they haven't given up on Maritime.

There also appears to be something called "baseball" happening, I would hesitate to comment on it as I have little knowledge of the current goings-on, I'm sure that rapscallion Shoeless Joe is involved somehow.

Bill Simmons has a column about a movie that I'm not interested in.

When I was thinking of the "Super Dave" cartoon show the other day, I began thinking of other cartoons I enjoyed that will never be resurrected for DVD release. First I thought of Denver the Last Dinosaur which included a diverse cast of a cool dude, a nerd, a black guy, a chick and a little kid. I also remember that the theme song ended with "Denver, the last dinosaur, he's our friend and a whole lot more." It also included a lot of dressing Denver up in a trench coat and sunglasses to disguise the fact that he's a friggin' dinosaur. But, by far my favorite Dinosaur related cartoon was Dinosaucers where a bunch of dinosaurs had spaceships(saucers) and fought against other evil dinosaurs (there are good and bad dinosaurs, of course). The good dinosaurs also had some kids on their side that you could identify with, they worse varsity style jackets and had cool glowing rings, but probably had to shovel up a lot of dinosaur crap. Hopefully I'll be able to push this garbage out of my brain soon to make way for more random Foreigner and Eddie Money songs. Also the lead good dinosaur was an Allosaurus and they called him Al. The END

Life is All Flowers and Sausages

Really good shoe last night. 930 dj says that My Morning Jacket picked the songs between sets. They must like the remix edition and Cee-Lo when they're partyin' haaaaaard.

Can you review this? I actually enjoy them and they seem to be developing a wrens-style label shuffling story, in a mainstream rap sort of way. Grindiiiiiing!

This is coming this week. Depp, Crispin Glover and the guy from Butthole Surfers, what could go wrong? Also a bunch of randoms semi-famous folk including Iggy Pop, Gabriel Byrne, William Robert Thorton, the intense guy from Alien, and the guy who got shot in "I Shot Andy Warhol."

The Orioles and Phillies have started to let the heads roll, firing GM/GM equivalents. I'll just continue enjoying the '89 Orioles highlight tape.

Horrible

I just wanted to warn you that the end of the world is nigh. Goddamn it. That just ruined my day.

Pitchfork favorably reveiwed MMJ's "Z" today, generally favorable. They also had their staff teen girl write a newspiece on them.

Oh yeah, and hockey's back.

Goddamn Rachael Ray.

File Under....Darts

Well the baseball playoffs are starting, the Red Sox are playing, I think we both know what that means. Time for some hot darts action. The Washington Football Club is 3-0 leading Kornheiser to write a bandwagonesque column. Is it wrong to have hoped that the 49ers and Cardinals showed up in Mexico City last night only to walk out on a field set up for futbol, with a poor groundperson saying "Ahhhhh, si you meant futbol americano!" Then the NFL decided that the 2 teams are so bad that they should play each other in soccer anyway.

Woot. Hopefully, things will go well for this guy, since we all know what happened to the last guy who played that role.

Bob Mooold has some good reviews up on his blog, apparently he plays quite a bit of Copper Blue and some of the best Du tunes. (Chicagoist and the Minn. reviews are the ones you can get to without registering). Did the Decemberists play "Mr. Blue Sky" when you saw them? Someone says they did last night at 930, which I cite as further support for my "Orchest-rock" term.

Scott Baio is set to show up on Arrested Development tonight as Bob Loblaw, there will probably also be more Non-British foreigners playing British people.