Last Call: We’re Not Dead Yet!
Much like Mark Twain and the above peasant, rumours of this blog’s demise have been greatly exaggerated. Thanks for putting up with us during all of our server issues. Your regularly scheduled Last Call begins now in the comments section. Here’s some music and reading material to kick things off, after the jump:
Song of the night: Rush – The Spirit of Radio
A Canadian classic. Yes, that’s right; when you get a northerner to write the Last Call post, you get exposed to Canadian content! It’s mandated by the CRTC and everything! In fact, that leads nicely into the next segment;
Comedy Sketch of the Night: Bob and Doug McKenzie on North American geography. If you don’t appreciate Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis, take off, hosers!
Reading Material:
- Clinton Portishead’s thoughts on the Nationals firing manager Manny Acta [Style Points]
- Weed Against Speed is shocked! shocked! by the Tony Romo – Jessica Simpson breakup [Sportress of Blogitude]
- Magnakai Haaskivi has all your summer soccer news [Avoiding the Drop]
- In the wake of UFC 100, First Derivative weighs in on the greatest heel turns in history [The Phoenix Pub]
- Rockabye deconstructs Shaq’s “tribute” to Michael Jackson [this site]
Obligatory Chick Pic:
Enjoy!
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Rush on the video screen, SCTV clips on the 2nd TV… I smell Canadians in the midst.
In honor of you, you crazy canuck bastard, I was playing Vapor Trails on the drive downtown.
Nice! I was listening to Vapor Trails on the road yesterday. Solid album.
I didn’t like Vapor Trails at all. I did like their show when they toured in support of it, as they played maybe 4 songs from the CD.
On the other hand, Snakes and Arrows is an album that has really grown on me over time… sort of like ringworm.
Beer Hunter is still one of my all time favorite TV sketches.
No Saga? I’m disappointed.
Saga of? The whole thing? If that’s what you’re waiting on, it’s coming, at some point.
Sorry, should have specified that I meant awesome Canadian slightly-heavy-metalers Saga.
Oh, by the way TYER? Your quip this afternoon at TPP just about killed me. Fucking brilliant (even if it was easy and low-hanging!).
Eh, it was just sitting there. If it hadn’t been me, someone else would have teed it up.
Um, so I look like I missed a lot in the last month. But, for the record, I am not dead yet.
You did. But you’re to be excused. Congratulations and how was the honeymoon?
Everything was great. Rehearsal dinner was great, ceremony was great, post-wedding present opening party was great, honeymoon was awesome (as some of you may have seen, I achieved one of my life long dreams, I got to ride on a Zamboni), so yeah, all is well, everything is just fantastic.
Oh and to noob this up, how to I get my logo rocking on here?
Sign in to wordpress, and look to the right – you’ll see a deal for Gravatar. You can upload an image through that.
Ahh, that makes sense. Thanks much. I may not be around a lot tonight, we’re babysitting our niece and nephew and taking them to the drive-in movie, but it’s just nice to be back.
Well you made my night. I missed ya, pal!
YAY! You’re back! Congrats again, and welcome back to the crowd!
Hope I can catch the HR derby in its entirety. That means I gotta figure out a way to get the kiddos of to bed before 8. There’s not booze in the house AT ALL, so no I can’t use that.
Benadryl. 12mgs should knock out a 5 y/o.
Has the opposite effect on my kids. They get wired. BTW, I’m heading off to Sonoma this Thursday for my cousin’s wedding at a winery. Gonna suck when I can’t drink, but can I get you a bottle of something?
I’m highly allergic to wine, so no. But thanks for the offer.
If Benadryl wires them, does Sudafed knock them out?
*off. douchebag
Not to underscore the return of Yostal, but AJ just killed off DUAN. We got links, most of us.
Welcome back, Yostal. Hope the wedding/honeymoon went well.
It was dead already. Today’s announcement was just a formality.
All five of us got links. Which was nice considering DS lifted something from TPP today and we didn’t get credit.
OMG, I am so tired! I’m going to punch my sister once that kid gets out of her!
You could punch her now and hasten the process…
Dude, she had false labor at 3:30 IN THE FUCKING MORNING
Okay, so kick her then. As long as she has insurance, the preemie can survive…
Manny Acta! Read my blog! Cock!
Any early bets on Derby winners? Put me down for a pack of smokes on the Darkhorse, Nelson Cruz.
Ryan Howard. He’s in his home town, where he does nothing but hit homers. Wouldn’t be at all shocked if Inge wins though.
Goddamnit, Children’s Jeopardy! week. Worst five days of the year. I’m SMARTER AND LARGER THAN YOU, YOU SOCIALLY MALADJUSTED POINDEXTERS!
Nice discussion going on in the Cromartie post today. Or is Socks just channeling Real_Ron’s_Mom?
No that’s legit, I tweeted the link to the Artest masses. Honestly I’m surprised there haven’t been more comments.
Its a credit to you guys and a sad truth of our society that its nearly impossible to tell the difference between parody and actuality regarding anything to do with Real_Ron’s Twitter. His Tweets, his followers, the responses SP gets… it makes me laugh ’til I cry, then cry ’til I have to start laughing again.
That’s one comment is right up there with the one on my post as the angriest on style points.
And I thought I was the only one who HATED Children’s/Teen Jeopardy…
Hey all… been a few.
James Brown, I assume you are familiar with Gary Hoey? Dude can make a guitar cry from the way he bends those strings.
I assume this because it seems I was the last man on earth not to know who he is.
Correction, 2nd last man. Who the hell is Gary Hoey?
webbernet him if you dig the geeetar. His cover of Vince Girauldi’s “Linus and Lucy” (Charlie Brown song) is off the chain… in the parlance of our time
Question: Is there a PFT like site out there, that isn’t PFT? I like the underground info and tidbits, but cannot fucking stand Florio. Open to suggestions.
Sadly nothing as good as PFT. Florio’s a douche, but he does good work.
There’s an aggregator site called The Red Zone. It’s not a blog, but you get most of what they use for their content.
backbackbackbackbackbackback *kills self*
This one’s going to … up Bob Odenkirk’s mom’s ass!
I’m going to send you a PM from another site…soon!
Received. And agreed upon. :)
You are a braver person than I.
Anyone playing the home run derby drinking game
1) Every time Berman says “back” you drink
2) Any time Morgan says something retarded you drink
3) Die.
I don’t think I have enough alcohol in the house for that.
I’m picking Mauer – I think Poo Holes will crap out.
Hubby’s picking Howard – he’s against picking a home favorite.
We’re both hoping Berman and Morgan get nailed by foul balls.
Ryan Howard is the home favorite. He’s from St. Louis. He also has 7 homers in 17 games in St. Louis.
I think he meant home team favorite – as in Poo Holes plays for STL.
Yeah i just think Howard is just as at home as Albert is.
I don’t doubt that. Hubby just doesn’t like the whole ‘pick the host team dude’ kind of crap.
Home Run Derby vs The Closer. Tough call.
Okay, how the fuck do they mow the grass like that? Or is it paint?
In case anyone was still doubting Twitter, if you look up Chris Berman over 90 percent of the comments are about how much people hate him. If only ESPN didn’t love him so.
I picked Mauer earlier today based on absolutely no data.
I had no idea the rules for this contest were so complicated, and this isn’t the first time I’ve watched it. Maybe I just wasn’t paying attention before.
“Much like Mark Twain and the above peasant, rumours of this blog’s demise have been greatly exaggerated.” DUAN, on the other hand,…
YO. HR Derby live blog up now, go back to the main page of this humble site y’all.
You know who else isn’t dead yet? Me.
So here’s a big fuck you to all the haters out there. I’m back, bitches.
What’s up, fuckswings?
YAY! How have you been?
Same ol’ shit.
Working for the man. Trying to stay out of trouble, but that never works out.
Wow. And YAY! I’m glad to see ya!
Yeah, I’m tired of, well, doing nothing on the internet.
I need some sort of social interaction, you know? Nothing like a little Last Call to get the old juices flowing.
YAY! I’m glad to see you back, but please some day say hello to all the fuckhammocks out there.
One of my Artest rap tweets got picked up for this hack comedian’s tweet review online clips
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1EKPJWEDzY
Should I be proud, or extremely proud?
Extremely proud! Congrats!
Wow, that was really not funny at all. The video obviously, and you should be extremely proud, every time you guys dupe some retard into thinking its the real ron an angel gets its wings.
Roo-kies…?
Sorry, just joshing. You know we missed you mutthumpers.
Now somebody convince me why I should go to the gym to get my ass handed to me in basketball.
Guess who’s got a pilot up tonight? We do!
http://www.talkshoe.com/tc/57250
Sounds great. That’s awesome!
Rush is an especially good choice with Bastille Day coming up tomorrow…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7yxA9vt2-c
OH GOD IS CHRIS BERMAN ANNOYING (also the sky is blue)
Ok, so I’ve been told to multitask and hang here to. So here I am. And Im gonna be even more productive and pass on my thanks for all the nice facebook congrats from you folks while Im here.
Hey Rookies –welcome back to the rotation and what not.
I’m so glad you guys are back!
as a State Farm policy holder, I want my portion of that “donation” returned to me. They’ve obviously overcharged me.
Sigh, me too.
Someone was commenting on the Cromartie post earlier (too lazy to scroll). Yes, the Artest fanbase has added a new level of funny to the comments. I appreciate all the regulars seizing the opportunity to rile them.
Also, if you didn’t hover your cursor over the Cromartie picture, you should.
I hadn’t. I just did. And now you get a +1. I was convinced he was birthing a ghost baby, but yours is better.
What up Fuck Knobs? Somebody should sign that Pujols fella to a big league contract.
Everyone said you were dead.
Tonight is Zombie night.
Brains! Must eat Brains!
I was hoping you’d suggest something more, uh, exotic.
Natalie Portman! Must eat Natalie Portman!
That’s better…
I think you’ve come to the wrong place, then.
Correction: Everybody HOPED you were dead. (I kid, please don’t kill me)
You son of a bitch…
Anyone out there still watch Weeds on Showtime?
Man, I’m really disappointed by this season. I thought they were gonna go on the run again, but now it looks like it’s headed on a dead-end path with the show ending after this year. Just a hunch.
(PS: Please don’t spoil tonight’s ep for me if you do watch – I watch it the next day)
I’ve been waiting for the season to end so I can watch them all around the same time. It doesn’t have the must watch feel to it anymore.
FYI, an SI article from Bill James and Joe Posnanski about Pujols’ place in history. The best little tidbit: “Starting in his second season, Henry Aaron had 17 consecutive outstanding years (1955–71).”
http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1157659/1/index.htm
Hey Sculptor! This article explains how they do the fancy stuff with the grass. Basically when you mow the grass you have a rolling weight attached to the mower. The grass that is facing one direction will look different than the grass facing the other direction.
http://www.usaweekend.com/03_issues/030406/030406lawncare.html
Yeah, but that doesn’t explain how they get stuff like the capitol building, the arch, Red Sox logo et al into the grass…
In the middle of this article they explain that it is done by mapping it out with strings and what not. I’ve always wondered about this and have been searching the ol interwebs since you brought it up. Who would have thought I’d ever be this interested in grass that I didn’t smoke?
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/09/16/blades_of_glory/
Gotta run fucksticks. See ya around.
later Fucko!
Hey folks, just woke up from my nap, what’s shaking?
Not much. Just fighting my urge to kill Berman and Morgan.
My favorite JoMo thing tonight was his thinking that Pujols could possibly get to round 2 with 11 homers (meaning Prince and Cruz would hit 0 and Howard wouldn’t hit more than 4).
Ah, I’m watching Raw
Did they channel 2003 with this music?
I remember when this place was a hole in the wall with enough glitterfire to go around…
As do I, my man. As do I.
It seems a little much to buy Seth Green as a pro wrestler
You know, it says something about our society that Andrew W.K. is one of the preeminent philosophers of our time. It says that our society FUCKING KICKS ASS!!!!!!
http://www.avclub.com/content/node/22653
http://www.avclub.com/articles/andrew-wk,14072/
/partypartypartypartypartypartypartypartypartyparty
//seriously, he’s pretty eloquent and erudite for a guy who once said that he “knows a guy named Party” in a song
I thought watching Natural Born Killers for the first time would be better than the
Chris Berman Geography BeeState Farm Century21 Home Run Derby.I think it was about even. Oliver Stone and movies shouldn’t be allowed within 500 feet of each other, by court order.
How does one wrestle in Jenkos?
I thought Ashanti died?
Am I the only one watching and actually being entertained by this stupid softball game?
I’m watching. Knight seems to be a little touchy with Shawn Johnson and EA.
CPH, or any SPer: You guys need a Real_Ron page somewhere on SP for his greatest hits and celeb reactions like that dumb comic.
They couldn’t get more of a celebrity than a backstreet boy that hasn’t been famous for 7 years? Where’s my boy Zach Gilford at? He should be in this.
I wanna know why they have pro softball players in the game too. Are there really no celebrities that would be willing to play?
Nelly is the real deal
Well they are in St. Louis…I guess none of the Rams are any bigger celebs than these guys.
A little slow in here tonight, I guess it’s late for some of ya
Some. And there was a wearying live blog earlier.