Wednesday, March 31, 2004

New Baseball Haiku

Okay, I suppose the Tokyo NY-TB series deserves a haiku or two.

Baseball starts again
Game begins at 5 a.m.?
No Cincinnati?

Boss issues statement
This is only the first game
A long season starts

Yes, I'm Back

After a length off-season, I've decided to resume blogging. Why? Who knows, but while I may have gotten bored with the blog over the winter, I now find I'm bored enough in general to want to spew observations out onto the web again. Yesterday I posted a comedy list, the sort of thing I did back in my Backslap.com days. Ahhh, those were fun. In fact, the list was really an updated, edited version of something written back then, in 2000. I found my old archive of material and realized that a good chunk of it was pretty funny, so I'll be revisiting some of that stuff. The trick is to find what's not terribly dated, or an idea that's not dated, but with dated topical references that need to be brought up to 2004. People seem to be chuckling though, so I'll keep posting it. It should be noted that a lot of the older stuff was written with Dan Kline and I wouldn't want to take ALL the credit. However, Dan, it sure isn't making me any money, so don't worry.

In other news, BASEBALL is back. Whew, that was a close one. It always seems to come back JUST in time. Playing in Japan for whatever reason, the Yanks split a 2 game series with the Devil Rays by pounding them 12-1 this morning/last night/tonight/yesterday/Easter Sunday/whatever time & day it was over there. Surly new Yank Kevin Brown looked damned good, as did the great Jorge Posada. Welcome back, baseball. You're a mess these days, but damned if you don't look good to me.

Yahoo! Sports - MLB - Yankees 12, Devil Rays 1

Tuesday, March 30, 2004

Things You Didn't Know About…

...Vice President Dick Cheney

Spent three years as a gag writer on "Hee Haw"

Reluctantly accepted Secretary of Defense slot after losing the lead role in Ghost

On a drunken bender in 1991, ordered invasion of Hawaii

Spent the years between Bush administrations as associate dean at a clown college in Kansas

Served as Congressman from Wyoming without having actually visited the state

Was principal architect behind President Ford's "Fall Down A Lot" policy

Sponsored legislation forcing NBC to keep "My Two Dads" on the air

Spent a night in jail after misinterpreting what it meant to be the House whip