Tuesday, November 27, 2007

The Moore the Merrier For those of you who couldn't watch UConn win the Paradise Jam championship let me just say UConn is very, very good. Also fun to watch. They dismantled then #4 Stanford and #9 Duke (74-48!) and neither game was really that close. UConn ran them right off the court and freshman Maya Moore, named tournament MVP, appears to be everything advertised. Watching her in just four games, I'm already trying to calibrate where she'll land in the pantheon of UConn greats. Catch 'em if your TV or court gets 'em.

Labels: anti-Duke, sports, uconn

23:08 bone daddy

Ask a simple question Chris Dodd submits a YouTube question for the citizen's questions GOP debate. This is actually quite funny and a clever idea, whether or not the question itself helps terrorists.

Labels: 2008, Bush, youtube goodness

22:56 bone daddy

Wednesday, November 21, 2007

When we think of "survival of the fittest" we always think of biggest, meanest, strongest, etc., but it occurs to me when I read this article about giant, 8 feet long sea scorpions that the giant creature with the three foot claws is gone, but the horseshoe crab is still around in all its ugly, harmless glory. One scientist is quoted as saying he'd rather be in the water with a shark than a "eurypterid." Since it's not clear if the sea scorpions could swim or just crawl on the bottom like lobsters, I'd say that depends on 1) what kind of shark and 2) how deep the water is. (Link via Mrs. BoneDaddy)

Labels: cryptozoology, science, sharks

15:51 bone daddy

Fiery Phoenix Forming Again?
So there's going to be a G-Force movie, but no Mark, Jason, Princess, Tiny, or Keyop?! And what's with the Mole, Hamster, and Guinea Pig? Is this a Battle of the Planets/G-Force/Gatchaman remake or The Wonder Pets ("This is sewious!")?

Speaking of kids' TV, we watch the Backyardigans now. My babies love to dance, so it's a whirly, twirly, circly 20 minutes when they're dancing around. Mrs. C-Dog seems to think we watch it because I like it, but just because I often find myself humming the decidedly Morphine-ish "Riding the Range" song doesn't mean it's my show. It's for the kids.

Labels: baby boy dance, baby girl dance, cryptozoology, movies, TV

08:32 c-dog

Saturday, November 17, 2007

Waiting for a Chance to Drop in Conversation

The Hound of the Baskervilles: Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle

Testing the clip feature in Google Books. And, I like the line.

Labels: Books, google, shadowboner

20:51 c-dog

Davison and Tennant
Brilliant short from the annual Children in Need Special last night. Check it out before Youtube realizes it's there.

Labels: doctor who, sci-fi, TV, youtube goodness

09:23 c-dog

Friday, November 16, 2007

Bonds
I guess it was only a matter of time before the indictment came down. Now it has. I don't like Bonds. Don't know if anyone outside of his immediate family and San Francisco does? But is it really the result of a "witch hunt" as Sir Charles claims? I don't know. I hope that he wasn't the "big fish" the government has been after, as has been discussed by guys like Stephen A. Smith on ESPN. A user, no matter how prominent, shouldn't be the big fish. The suppliers, the doctors who write bogus scripts so guys can get them -- these are the guys that should be the big fish. I'm hoping that the roll of Bond's personal trainer (as it appears) turns into Bonds rolling over on someone else, someone up the supply chain.

You know it's sad, I don't even know what the number is. In my mind it's still 755. (And 61 for that matter.)

Labels: baseball, crime

12:31 c-dog

Google Reader
Have I mentioned I've got a Shared Items list? There's a feed as well. I hardly ever surf around blogs anymore, just collect feeds, and it's so much easier to share a link by clicking 'share' than it is to blog it.

Does anybody else have one? Or know of any good ones?

Labels: google

12:14 c-dog

Love them Lists More music lists ... Blender picks the top 100 indie albums of all time. I always think 100 is something of a cop out. You can probably correctly guess about 60 of them. Not that it's a horrible list, just that this has been done before and, as always, I think New Day Rising and Zen Arcade should switch places. Same with Daydream Nation and the unlisted Sister. Most egregious ommission: Psychocandy. Seems like they feared being called too old. Is Arcade Fire that good?

The A.V. Club goes a little more original with a 21 item lists of good albums that would have been great E.P.s. Right off the top of my head I'd say Dinosaur Jr's Bug. I haven't listened to the whole album in about ten years. E.P. version: Freak Scene/No Bones/They Always Come/Yeah We Know/ The Post. And you could switch pretty much any of the other noise-fest songs for "Yeah We Know" if you wanted.

Labels: Lists, music

08:17 bone daddy

Saturday, November 10, 2007

You know the movie song
Here's a fun exercise: think of four songs you'd like to see made into movies.

Labels: Lists, movies, music

14:49 c-dog

Thursday, November 08, 2007

They Eat Their Own Regnery, for those who don't know, is a conservative book publisher. I use the term "publisher" loosely. Essentially it's a propaganda mill, churning out swift-boat type books that are too kooky to be published by Harper-Collins. See, Rupert Murdoch's Harper-Collins wants to churn out right-wing garbage, but it also wants to make money. Regnery is a private welfare system for liars. The various arms of Richard Mellon Sciafe's empire buy up Regnery books in bulk to land them on the New York Times bestseller list, which then gets the authors on TV and radio and convinces some in the public that the books are actually books. Regnery is the reason the Times started using a symbol to denote bulk-purchased "bestsellers."

Now these authors - remember they're conservatives so they've been trained to drink the Kool-Aid - start to believe they're actually best selling authors and wonder how come they haven't made much money. After failing in the free market, these free market conservatives do what you'd expect lawsuit-hating conservatives to do. Sue. This would make a great Pinter play.

"I'm a bestselling author!"

"You're called a bestselling author because it's a good thing to be called, not because your books have sold best."

"But my books have sold!"

"Only because we're the ones who bought them."

"So pay me!"

"We didn't really pay full price ... What was that book about?"

"How welfare creates dependency and an entitlement mentality. Give me my money!"

Labels: Books, Conservative Goons, rich people

14:47 bone daddy

Wednesday, November 07, 2007

Ah, Turkey ready to invade Iraq, Pakistan breaking out the whoop-ass on secular powers and the Get out of Jail free cards on the Taliban types ... how's that "stability to the region" coming? My favorite bit in this article about Musharraf's ham-fisted repression comes in here ...

The general's suspension of the constitution has given Pakistani authorities sweeping powers to detain without charge. Opposition groups reported at least 3,500 arrests over the preceding three days, many of them attorneys.

Pakistan's top human rights defender, Asma Jehangir, was watching Musharraf on television Saturday night explain his declaration of emergency rule as a necessary step in combating extremism. As he spoke, police knocked at her door and announced she was under house arrest.

Notice anything? When Musharraf gave himself the power to detain without charge, he at least announced it.

Labels: Bush, Conservative Goons, Iraq

22:50 bone daddy

Oh no you didn't! Don Shula, coach of NFL's only unbeaten team (so far), talks a little smack about the Patriots and spygate. If every three weeks or so, some large media or NFL figure could make these sorts of comments, this Patriots fan would really appreciate it. Please everyone, make them mad.

Labels: games, sports

14:43 bone daddy

Carrie Brownstein of the great, now-defunct Sleater-Kinney has started a music oriented blog, Monitor Mix on NPR's site.

Labels: music

14:38 bone daddy