Monthly Archive for October, 2007

Wow Sox

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Jake
8 months, 4 weeks ago
in Yankees Suck
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I am gobsmacked the Red Sox got the sweep. Bless ‘em.

I’m sure people who care will spend days debating why the Rockies didn’t manage to snatch as much as a game in the World Series (my fave is still the 8 day layoff and the snow angels). I feel bad for the Rockies - after all, I’ve actually been to Coors Field whereas I never ventured into Fenway while I lived in Boston - but I can’t help but root for (and be psyched for) the BoSox.

Mike “Eyebrows of Love” Lowell is my hero. (I even called him for MVP when he homered tonight. Yay me and my total lack of baseball knowledge!)

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Retroactive Track o’ the Post: Sweet Caroline from Neil Diamond’s 12 Greatest Hits, because Red Sox Nation is crazy about that song.

OMG Two-Four, WTF?

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Jake
9 months ago
in Televisio
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I think 24 may finally be dead to me… At least it will be if the show is half as shitty as this trailer thingy makes it look.

Rod’s on Crack(ed.com)

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Jake
9 months ago
in Cinerama, Folx and Linkage
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Check out the big funny on Rod!

My favorite part is the little bio line: “Rod Hilton is a writer and, in his spare time, he enjoys tearing Hollywood a new asshole over at The Editing Room.” What’s the matter Rod? Don’t want the masses to know you’re a computer programmer for a living? I see how it is… ;)

Oh, Internets, how I love thee!

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Jake
9 months ago
in Curiosities, People Are Dumb and The Intarweb
. 1 Comment

Some tidbits that make me happy:

  • Have you found He-Man? I’m not really sure why they’ve labeled this guy He-Man. He’s much more like a Chippendales dancer with his Swayze mullet, velvet choker, and perv ’stache.
  • You know who makes me happier than He-Man? German Techno Viking, that’s who! He makes me giggle with the boundless joy of a little girl.
  • Then there’s Tiffany Sutton (no known relation, thanks). Brozo pointed her out to me a while ago when her story first broke. Now she’s been to court and “attempted to show her remorse“. (I’m guessing she didn’t do so well, if that’s how they wrote it up in the paper…) I’ve bolded some awesomeness for you:
    • In one incident, she and the victim, 46-year-old Robert McDaniel, were high on drugs and drunk when he agreed to be tied up during sex, a police report states.

      McDaniel told police he became scared and asked Sutton to untie him when she attacked him with a knife. Instead, she sliced his leg, punctured his arm, shoulder and back, and cut his neck and stomach, court records show. When he escaped, she chased him with a pickax.

    • So you’re telling me there were multiple incidents? Did the others involve excavation tools?

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Track o’ the Post: Moaner from Boucoup Fish by my favorite techno wizards, Underworld
(FYI: This is the first time Amazon didn’t have the MP3 download for the track I originally wanted to use: “I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor” by the Arctic Monkeys, which I still think is the more appropriate/amusing choice.)

No Tix for Rox & Sox

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Jake
9 months ago
in Yankees Suck
. 2 Comments

Totally awesome.

Say your team is in the World Series for the first time ever. Say the World effin’ Series is coming to your town for the first time ever. What the one thing you can’t do?

That’s right, fuck it up.

And that is just what happened, boys & girls. I suppose you could say the Rockies were trying to fight the power by not going with TicketMaster to distribute their tickets.

Locally, the Rockies are the only pro team that isn’t a Ticketmaster client. It picked Paciolan in 1998, primarily because the team wanted control over its own inventory, said Kevin Fenton, the team’s senior director of ticket operations.

The Rockies’ previous provider, Destinet, went bankrupt and left the Rockies in the dark for six months.

(Or maybe that’s a history of bad decision-making?)

I suppose you could say they were trying to make the ticket sale more “fair” by doing online sales only. (Or at least they did.)

All I can say is that the end result of Paciolan’s entire evenue.net service crashing utterly under the strain of 8.5 million hits in 90 minutes is nothing if not completely obvious.

You see, online-only sales are “fair” to everyone, so anyone who saw that it snowed in Denver yesterday is thinking “Sweet! World Series + ski trip!!” and trying to log on to get some seats. If you are a team like the Rockies, who have been in the dumps for so long nobody knows WTF is happening right now, you need to sell some season tickets with this miracle run. You NEED to get some local fans in those seats for a World Series game. Next in line, you should get some Red Sox fans on board, because they are everywhere and love them some baseball. After that comes the tourists.

Screw being fair! You need to take care of that guy (I personally know a few) that comes to as many Rockies games as he can and always has a hell of a time. The people that showed up at Coors Field today, with a vague threat of riot int he air? Those are your people. Take care of your people and they might forget that the team is winning in spite of a front office that could seemingly care less.

Update: As of about 7pm Mountain, they still have no answer. Also this here site comes up #1 for “fuck Paciolan“. How cool is that? Granted, it’s pure coincidence, since I never typed that phrase until now, but whatever. If the shoe fits…
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Track o’ the post: All The Old Showstoppers from The New Pornographers‘ latest, Challengers for this lyric:

When we hit the numbers we broke
Broken and changed ‘em
Changed as we spoke

Greenman: Half way there

Published
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Jake
9 months ago
in Tattoos
. 0 Comments

Saturday afternoon was again spent in Fish’s chair at Th’Ink Tank.

He came at me with a much more sensible approach of shading and coloring chunks instead of shading the whole thing and coloring it all the next time. (He did all the shading on Ed’s at once because he had to let Ed walk out with a tattoo that looked complete.) As per usual the color work is astonishing:

Green Beard
Originally uploaded by Jake Sutton.

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Track o’ the post: Ullyses from A Passage In Time by Dead Can Dance, because the greenman is so Goth. ;)