Nova Carmina

Nice.

Beating up on the minnows, eh?

Luck and timing, as with most things . . . I loved "White Coats" back in the day!

Good work! Do the Oilers tie the record on the other side of the All-Star break? How real is momentum in sports?

Don't say her name!

That took me a minute, I'll confess.

DEVO has one of those legacies that makes a mockery of success. Have they been all that influential? (That's a question, not a claim disguised as a question). I'd wager several members are better regarded for the later TV and movie music, but everyone knows "Whip It"!

Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all who are treacherous thrive?

Kind of surprised no points in the second half held up; this looked for a minute like those games when they'd go up big and fritter most of it away -- but not today! Good work, KC.

What a game plan -- everybody did their job

Oh no, Jurgen! Say it ain't so! (Please not Stevie G . . . )

Won't it just be that assistant coach who filled in when Harbaugh was suspended and beat an Ohio State University? Blanked on the name and can't be arsed to look it up, but it's gotta be that guy, right?

I suspect this is a change synchronous with being able to click on links on newspaper websites. You hardly need to do that when the story is right there, but if the writer/editor/paper needs to drive traffic with clicks, then it becomes necessary to induce them. This is a classic "be afraid of what you don't know" psychology. As such, it's reptile-brain laziness-driven. Part of the Great National Dumbing Down.

You're even down on Beltre? 3000 hits? Nearly 500 HRs? Five Gold Gloves? I'm guessing you're a "Small Hall" kind of a guy.

At our age, I hope you stretched properly before making that reach . . .

That's an interesting pairing . . .

KC averaged 7.7 yards per play, with 24 first downs and 5 third downs! That's pushing the football, homes. But next time, just give Pacheco the effin ball inside the five, would you, Andy? This cute end around shit to Mecole "Recycled" Hardman is just too much.

Oh my god -- what a blast of nostalgia! I can hear all those songs again, coming through the radio in my boom box. Thanks, man. In January 1985 I was 14. Would I go back and do it again? Hell no, but the music, the music . . .

Blues keep Ovi from getting any closer to The Great One; nicely done, Benni! And a short-hander for good measure!

I wish the Blues were bad enough to dream of a #1 pick!

The potential of skin cancer. Pale guy here, blond hair, blue eyes, long history of sun burns, and this month the pre-nomas came for me. The good news is it's very early so my treatment was the chemo cream treatment over my whole face (not the eyelids) for a week. Anybody else have to do that? My god, it was awful. The treatment was over last Sunday, and I still look like I'm badly sunburned -- yesterday at work a colleague asked me from about thirty feet away if I'd been skiing! I look like a beet! At least things are feeling better; for about five days there, it hurt to smile, sneeze, sleep, or open my mouth wide enough to eat; it had to be pizza instead of burgers. I realize these are good problems to have and I'm lucky to have medical care, and it didn't exactly piss me off, but it has been massively unpleasant. I did learn the wonders of liberal vaseline application, though. For the last several years, I've been good about sunscreen and hats with wide brims, but I can't change my history. I do plan on buying a sombrero, though, so I already feel bad for the guy sitting behind me on Opening Day. My dermo says I shouldn't have to do it again for 1-3 years.

Dak's not the problem and McCarthy's chance decline significantly without him. Unless there's some draft haul to be had, like Walker to the Vikings or Williams to the Saints, which seems very unlikely. The problem is Jerry Jones. "Jerry Jones Wants to Win a Super Bowl. He Just Doesn't Know How."

It's been a zombie publication for years. It may just be time to put it down. Damn shame.

Happy Birthday!