Tuesday, October 11, 2005
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Thanks to the internet, at least Mathew Gross, busily keeping up with odd, vanilla, snarky comments made between Amanda Congdon and Atrios, I came across Amanda’s videoblog called Rocketboom. Wow. It’s sad that such decent production value is wasted on such bad talent. Amanda’s interpretation of Tina Fey without the talent or anything else that makes Tina Fey enjoyable to watch is spot on. She sort of reminds you of that girl in high school that no one really liked but who came from the rich family and so always had an elevated self-image of herself.
Sadly, the production of the blog is fairly good, and would love to see someone with talent attempt it, in the meantime, if someone could gag the vapid Congdon and cast her in some soft core porn on Cinemax, that might be a little more up her alley. This woman makes Carrot Top look like the funniest motherfucker alive.
If by chance you’re watching Rocketboom in the midst of a fiery plane crash, death would come as a blessed release.
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Tuesday, October 11, 2005
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Has anyone else noticed that the Daily News online has been impossible to get to the past few days? Even when you get there, nothing loads, the links are all broken. What’s the deal? Come on Daily News, I’m actually being forced to check out the Post for updates. You’re killing me here.
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Tuesday, October 11, 2005
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In case you were curious, Forgotten-NY has done a photographic retrospective of 5th ave in Brooklyn, the street where I live.
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After having their turn at the plate in the top of the ninth, Jeter and A-Rod look on as Hideki Matsui grounds out for the final out of the Yanks final game of the season.
The Yanks had their chances, but could never seem to capitalize. You knew things weren’t going the Yanks way when Cano was caught stealing early on with no outs and Bernie Williams at the plate. After that, it was all downhill.
Bubba Crosby and Sheffield collided in the outfield going for a routine fly ball that would have been the third out and instead allowed the Angels to score two runs and take the lead.
Even the officiating seemed to be working against the Bombers last night, with Cano being called out on a questionable call in the fifth inning. Cano was called for interference after taking first base on a strike three passed ball. A call that everyone can agree, even the announcers, was questionable, one has to wonder how the ump could make a questionable, close call like that in the deciding game of a division series.
Still, you can’t blame it all on the officiating or even the outfield collision. Alex Rodriguez, fell far short of his MVP candidate status in the post season batting an embarrassing .133 in the Division series. Mussina gave up 5 runs in three innings, although two of those runs came from what should have been the third out after the outfield collision.
All in all, you just got the feeling last night while watching the game that it wasn’t the Yankees night. Even after the Angel’s ace Colon left in the second inning with lower back pain and was replaced by a 22 year old rookie thanks Bombers still couldn’t capitalize. Santana made the Yanks line up look like rookies themselves, forcing pop-fly after pop-fly. The bottom line is when the Yankees needed their big money players to step up to the plate and save their season, they just couldn’t get it done.
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I don’t think NYC has been quite like a deer in the headlights over the heightened security levels thanks to recent intel… (If you’ve not been paying attention, the subways have been on heightened security due to some specific hints about terrorist attacks on our subways. The intel has made specific references, but some in the intelligence community have said the source was unreliable.) Anyway, the end day for this specific threat was supposedly yesterday. A little odd planning, that, since ridership is higher during the week, but there you go. Anyway, today the Mayor supposedly lowered the security with yesterday past. Seems reasonable; yet I will tell you that when I exited my subway station tonight (7th Avenue on the Q line, Brooklyn) there were police on the platform, police upstairs, and a cruiser idling on Flatbush Avenue with its lights doing hat-tips to all who went by.
(Crossposted at Really Not Worth Archiving. Really.)
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I’m not sure who or what department is in charge of enforcing NYC’s don’t honk law, but whoever they are, they should be fired. Immediately. This has to be the worst case of job ineffectiveness I have ever witnessed in my life. Has anyone ever gotten, or known anyone who has gotten a ticket for honking their horn?
They should give me the job of writing people tickets for honking. New York would be the richest city on the planet. I’d be a ticket writing motherfucker. I’d have to learn how to write left handed just for when my right hand got too tired to handle the immense amount of tickets I’d spend my day writing. I’d work overtime for free.
I live near a fairly busy intersection and it drives me mad to hear the honking that goes on. And the worst part is, I would say at least 99% of the time there is absolutely nowhere the cars in front of the honker can go. They’re blasting innocent honkees. It’s not like people are sitting in their cars reading the paper with a free and clear road ahead of them. What the fuck do you want them to do people? Do you think your horn holds some mysterious, magical power that makes things in front of you disappear?
Please shut the fuck up and stop polluting my environment with your horn. I truly hope there is a special place in hell reserved for people that abuse their horn priveleges. Just so you know, Jesus hates horn abusers. I have a gut feeling that most of you horn honkers are God-fearing people, hear me when I say, God hates you.
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Bloomberg says the existent/non-existent threat that may or may not have threatened or not threatened the city is all but over. City plans to return to normal heightened post 9/11 security but scale back from soda bottle filled with green liquid in Penn Station security.
Interesting though, an anonymous counter-terrorism official still says, "there was no threat there". I wonder how long it will be before Bush is mentioning in one of his speeches to justify the war in Iraq the "October terror plot that was averted in NYC"?
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Thanks to the internet, at least Mathew Gross, busily keeping up with odd, vanilla, snarky comments made between Amanda Congdon and Atrios, I came across Amanda’s videoblog called Rocketboom. Wow. It’s sad that such decent production value is wasted on such bad talent. Amanda’s interpretation of Tina Fey without the talent or anything else that makes Tina Fey enjoyable to watch is spot on. She sort of reminds you of that girl in high school that no one really liked but who came from the rich family and so always had an elevated self-image of herself. 
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