5/27/05: Dead Soldiers

Thanks for the kind words about yesterday's pathetic tale of adolescent woe. I had a moment of panic on the way to work today when I became so embarrassed about posting it that I wished I could delete it, but your nice comments soothed me immensely.

What's a lamer, hokier move:

-when you keep missing someone on the phone and leaving messages, and in one of the messages the person says, "Looks like we're playing phone tag...and you're it"?

or

-when you are trying to walk by someone going the opposite direction as you in the hall or on the street and you both keep sliding in the same direction in your attempts to get out of each other's way, prompting the other lame-o to say, "Shall we dance?"

I'm pretty sure I've done both at one time or another.

We are going to give out a few wild card genius points today. Our judges have that discretion, and they are going to employ it. We'll give Big Jim Lang 3 points for his fake "whodat" answer, which was creative and funny. And we'll give Deion 3 points as well, for finishing off Jim's fake "whodat" answer. Deion has become quite fond of scavenging the boards late in the day, attempting to scrounge up a genius point here or there when he can get 'em. So we will reward him for his efforts. However, he will not receive any points for correctly identifying the inside of the old Stuyvesant building in the picture that accompanied that post. I will say that I was surprised by how little the lobby had changed over the years when I walked by on the way back from Shades of Green the other night.

I think someone, maybe Jay-Z, should do a rap version of "It's Hard to Be a Saint in the City." Just make a few tweaks to the lyrics to remove some of the corny 70's slang, and it's a natural fit. A million-seller.

Update on B. New:

"Starting this Tuesday I will be back on the air in prime time on a regular basis. I'll be on WRUV-FM in Burlington, VT every other Tuesday from 6-8 p.m. The show will be streamed live at www.wruv.org and archived shows will be available for download soon after being aired.

If you happen to lose track of whether it's a Sex Fly Tuesday, tune in anyway. I'm sharing the slot with a kid named Brian who also throws down some funky shit."

You heard the man, tune the hell in.

I hope everybody has an excellent Memorial Day weekend. It's interesting how weekends mean such vastly different things to different people. For some people, it's a chance to rest. Others are hoping for a chance to slip a hand down a stranger's pants. Some people make big plans with the family after a hard week on the job. Others plan on getting annihilated at the bar, and succeed in this endeavor. Fat guys sit on couches slurping beer and eating fritos. Joggers go jogging. Some poor saps have to work. Some people go on three day crystal meth binges (myself generally included here). Some of us play sports, some of us go see bands and some of us play in bands. Whatever the case, this particular three day weekend is coming at a most welcome time and I am looking forward to it. In addition to playing ball and seeing my pops and renting a car to go shopping for household items in New Jersey, I also plan on giving you the first installment of "Kingdoms without Balls," our exciting short story offering for the Spring.  Preorder now, and set aside three to five minutes of your weekend to read it.

I think I am also going to actually spend a moment this weekend raising a glass to all the soldiers who've died in wars just and unjust over the years, including the ones who haven't yet died in Iraq. Soldiers from all countries. I know this is exactly what the Bush administration wants me to do, but so be it. Fighting in wars is one shitty job and we really do take those dudes (and ladies) for granted most of the time.  Verbungle.com says Thank You.

I don't watch much auto racing, but I think the whole story about Danica Patrick is pretty exciting. It would be absolutely awesomeriffic if she won.  I don't know how it took me until today to hear of her.

Whodat? (#10, 14 points) and whodat? (#11, 25 points). And what the hell, if you can give me a city name and street name for the picture above, that'll garner you 8 points. No points for the city alone. You can answer all this crap immediately.