Random Thoughts

SALT LAKE CITY -- Georgia, Handsome Dan, Curly and other pit bulls rescued from Michael Vick's dogfighting operation are getting a shot at fame as stars of a line of boutique red wines. The Vicktory Dogs Wine Collection features colourful portraits of 22 dogs confiscated from Vick's Bad Newz Kennels that now live at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in southern Utah. "As a signature collection, it's through the roof," said Matt Hahn, co-owner of Carivintas Winery, a Southern California company that combines wine selling and philanthropy. Each bottle includes a portrait of one of the dogs on the label. On the back, instead of a description of the wine, there's a brief story about each four-legged friend... Ten per cent of each sale goes to Best Friends. The money will be used to oppose dog fighting around the country and to fight laws that target specific dog breeds.

At first I wasn't sure if I liked the idea of this. You could make a case I suppose that the winery is just exploiting the dogs for profit. And it is sort of piling on Michael Vick who's wallowing in enough misery, though he's not exactly the most sympathetic figure around. And as much as I like dogs, you've to chuckle at how the labels make the dogs look like cuddly little stuffed animals, even though this particular bunch are born, raised and trained killers who leave pieces of guys like me in little brown piles in the backyard. Still, I've warmed up to the idea. It's a nice little reminder that these critters were victims of the worst sort of abuse. And I think this idea could catch on. We could make a wine varietal for everyone who's been wronged in the world of sports. "Kobe Bryant Rape Victim Red." "Marvin Harrison Shooting Victim Merlot." "Duke Lacrosse Team Witchhunt White." You've got to admit, it's a much better idea than that crap they were selling with Manny on the label.

I know this is old, but I'd never seen it before. This may have to go down as one of the greatest speeches of our generation. I mean this old bastard had me eating out of his hand the entire time.   I couldn’t tell whether he was ready to die (1:04 mark) or getting ready to drop another Barbaric on my ass.   Regardless, I’m totally going to start dropping random Barbaric bombs in the middle of my everyday speech from now on.   That will keep people guessing.  You don’t want to sign that advertising contract? BARBARIC!

- Thanks to Jay for the video

DALLAS—The pastor of a mega-church says he will challenge married congregants during his sermon Sunday to have sex for seven straight days -- and he plans to practice what he preaches.  "We're going to give it a try," said the Rev. Ed Young, who has four children with his wife of 26 years.  Young, 47, said he believes society promotes promiscuity and he wants to reclaim sex for married couples. "God says sex should be between a married man and a woman," Young said. "I think it's one of the greatest things you can do for your kids because so goes the marriage, so goes the family."  Young said he will deliver his seven-day sex challenge while sitting on a bed in front of his Dallas-area church campus.

As somebody once said, “Bahahaha!”   7 days in a row for a married couple to have sex?  What is this a Mormon Church?   If not than this guy is fucking nuts.  I mean am I reading this wrong?   It says “married couples" right?  Come on dude, Jordan's Furniture wouldn't issue a challenge this impossible. Forget 7 days in a row, how about we just start with 7 days in a month. That sounds a little more reasonable.. although it's still probably a stretch especially if the guy is a degenerate and Youporn still works on his laptop.

The below video one pupeteer 's response to being called out by another puppeteer on his puppeteer blog.

First of all somebody just won a ton of cash betting yes on the "Would the Stool talk about Puppeteering on the Blog this week" prop bet. Anyway if I’ve said it once I’ve said it a million times.   Puppeteering isn’t for the faint of heart.  Sure it would be nice to live in a fantasy world where puppeteers don’t criticize fellow puppeteers, but this is the real world.  Bottom line is that with so much fame and fortune on the line there is bound to be jealousy.  Mix in the 24/7 media coverage and it’s just a wonder this doesn’t happen more often.

PS - Was I the only one waiting for something really bad to happen when he showed the 9 dollar puppet for the first time? I'm not even sure what I thought was going to go down, but it seemed like all puppet hell was about to break loose.

- thanks to Seve for the tip I guess?

Craigslist

two coeds/erotic dancers...need furniture!

Reply to: sale-918764469@craigslist.org ^[?]
Date: 2008-11-14, 11:12AM EST

PostingID: 918764469

Two coeds, 21 and 22 yrs old, pic inserted, we do erotic dance/girl/girl shows (bisexual), massages...we need furniture, TVs...pretty much everything...so if you have something to trade, let us know. OH, private shows only, we don't do parties.

• it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests

Craigslist may have outlawed Prostitution, but there is no rule outlawing trading lap dances for furniture and nor should there be. I mean this is as American as trading baseball cards. Regardless before you run out and swap your couch for a 2 for 1 dance special let me just give a quick word of warning. Not that I want to be the Grinch here, but something just doesn't feel right. Seriously if you have bodies like these two coeds and you're in the erotic dance business, shouldn't you be able to afford your own furniture without too much problem? I mean this would kind of be like Tom Brady posting an ad on Craigslist offering to play catch with you in exchange for a coffee table. It probably isn't really Tom Brady. So I guess what I'm saying is just make sure you get the lap dance before you load the furniture onto a truck. Just trying to look out for my people, that's all.

- Thanks to Mike for the tip

You know what my new biggest pet peeve is?   Listening to every announcer in the country talk about Randy Moss and his bad attitude every week.   I swear that ever since Brady went down, all we hear about is how frustrated he must be and how it’s only a matter of time before he quits on the team.   The only problem is that it’s total and complete fiction.  But that doesn’t stop Chris Collinsworth and the rest of the Anti Patriot media from bashing him every chance they get.  It’s almost like they are watching a different guy.  Because all I’ve seen for the past two years is somebody who plays hard and will do whatever he is asked to do to help the team.  A guy who gets the crowd going on the sidelines when the Pats are on defense.  A guy who is the first to celebrate when his teammates score a TD.       A guy who is blocking 40 yards down fucking field on a screen pass in a game where he has zero catches and the Pats are losing 24-6 .    Does that seem like a guy who is taking plays off or ready to quit on his team?  Give me a fucking break already!  So my question is when is enough enough?   I feel like Moss could be the perfect teammate here for the next decade and the media will still treat him like he plays for the Raiders.    Give it a fucking rest already.  He is not T.O.    Yeah he had problems in Oakland but who doesn’t?   I mean even Troy Brown would be selfish as a Raider.

(A young Big Daddy Smooth in line for tickets to the 1986 NBA Finals. Love the hat) 

Reader Email

To Whom It May Concern:

I AM Big Daddy Smooth and I am enclosing some pictures for you. I appreciate the attention, but all I am is a sports fan. I live and die with the teams and go to as many games as I possibly can.

The first picture is an old newspaper clipping. I waited in line 2 days for the Celtics 1986 Championship game. My greatest claim to fame is the Celtics let me be the last fan to leave the Boston Garden prior to its closing.

The second and third pictures are from Green Bay when the Pats played there a couple of years ago. Green Bay has the friendliest fans, with Pittsburg running a close second. The only fans that I ever came across that were truly assholes were in Indy.

Look at the picture with Dr. J and Daryl Dawkins.

The last picture is in Tampa at a Bucs game with Billy G and Jimmy G.

To let you know, my real nickname is Doc and if anyone ever wants to take me to a game and has great seats, you can reach me at doclively@msn.com.

Sincerely,

Doc

aka Big Daddy Smooth

I knew it was only a matter of time until Big Daddy Smooth would reveal himself!  I kind of liked it when he was shrouded in mystery, but you knew that couldn't go on forever. But what I didn’t know is that he’d drop the bombshell that he was the last fan to leave the Garden before it closed.  Somehow that makes perfect sense.  He must have been crying like a baby when he was finally asked to leave.   Anyway if anybody has great seats and wants to take Big Daddy Smooth to a game drop him a line and he’ll be on your front doorstep before you can bat an eyelash.  But remember only contact him if you have great seats.  None of this upper deck bullshit.   

PS - Big Daddy Smooth sent me a 2nd email in which he said he wants to get into movies and asked if I had any connections. Unfortunately I don't, but can somebody help a brother out? I mean breaking into Hollywood doesn't seem like a tough request for somebody of his stature.

Click Here for the Answer

(Editors Note: - El Pres now taking ideas for a Milan Lucic shirt. Fucking love this guy. I'm officially on the B's bandwagon)

What more do you want? The local team plays a heated rival. It's a battle for first place. And the locals kick their ass. The squad's tough guy even crushes the rival's bad guy. Sorry Pats fans, not tonight.

The Bs continued their "kick ass" tour, by racking up three straight victories in the last week, leading the NE Division after whacking the Sabres, Hawks, and Habs, while giving up a mere three goals in the process.
Not to mention, they just might just be sporting the elusive "two-headed goalie monster" in the process. Beware, NHL. Beware.

The bottom line is that you gotta earn your respect back...and the Bruins are doing that. In the shadows of the Celts, Sox, and Pats, the Bs got a ways to go. Yet, to anyone paying attention, they're doing just that.

Winners of 7 of their last 8, the Bs put a numerical and physical beatdown on the Habs last night, snagging a 6-1 thrashing. The game not only excised some regular season demons, but also gave a clean flushing to the team as a whole. It also comes on the heels of Saturday's extinguishing of the Sabres and Wednesday's P.J. Axelssson-infused SO flushing of the Hawks.

One game does not a season make. But one game can certainly transform a season. And last night's game just may have done that. Rather than look at the Habs as the bully older brother, the Bruins now envision them as just six other guys, exemplified by the Serbian Nightmare's much-delayed pummelling of Montreal D-man Mike Komisarek in the 3rd period. But the message is clear---the division is up for grabs and the Bs are for real.

In the pipes, Manny Fernandez, after Saturday's shutdown versus Buffalo and last night's sharp effort against his hometown team, is rounding into form as the fort-holder he was a few years back; a resurgence that can only be seen as a plus with this roster, particularly given the play of Tank Thomas.

The team is rolling four steady lines (see last night's scoring line) and firing on all cylinders. It's also playing .750 hockey. Bottom line: Pay fucking attention to this team. They're the real deal right now.

- Rear Admiral

CANBERRA (Reuters) - An Australian holiday resort will hold a month-long, nude "anything goes" party to combat an expected economic downturn, media reports said on Thursday.  "Tough economic times call for stiff measures," Tony Fox (above), the owner of the White Cockatoo resort in Mossman, in tropical Queensland state, told the Courier-Mail newspaper.  "It will be a hedonism resort, where anything goes for a month. It doesn't take rocket science to work out what it means," Fox said, naming March as the risque party month. Australia's tourism industry is being hit hard by global economic turmoil with official figures showing a 7.6 percent decline in overseas visitors in September.

Hey, I always thought the only way out of a recession was tax cuts for the rich?  But Not-so-fast!  It seems the Aussie’s approach is simply to bang their way out of a recession. Interesting theory. I mean if I’m reading this right, they’re basically taking Rodney’s advice from the end of Caddyshack (“Hey, everybody, we’re all gonna get laid!”) and applying it to real life.  Yes I know it’s “anything goes”, but look at this place (see above). Is that Hedonism or the North End Pool? Nobody's going to sign up for this shit, not even me. The bottom line is sure, all month-long sexual-free-for-alls sound good on paper, but rarely do they play out in reality.

Bostonherald.com - Boston College’s merchandising deal with racy lingerie peddler Victoria’s Secret is raising ire on campus and among the conservative, Catholic school’s alumni. “It’s disgraceful and appalling,” said Boston College graduate C.J. Doyle, who runs the Catholic Action League of Massachusetts. “This is just one more example of the university’s callous contempt for Catholic sensibilities and its complete indifference to what remains of its Catholic identity.” Since July, Victoria’s Secret stores have been selling university-themed clothing from 33 schools with strong name recognition. The Collegiate Licensing Co. is a partner and has arranged for some of the revenue to get passed on to the schools. The universities of Minnesota and North Carolina have already pulled out of the deal, in part because they did not want their brand associated with the retailer.“There is no way that we want that (BC) logo to be interpreted as ‘We OK the sexualization of women,’ ” said Sharlene Hesse-Biber, director of the Women’s Studies Center at Boston College, about the products. BC spokesman Jack Dunn said the school was “very selective” when it agreed to let Victoria’s Secret sell BC sweatshirts, sweatpants, T-shirts and flip-flops as part of the racy chain’s youth-oriented Pink line.

See this is why I love the Superfans. And by love I mean hate.  They always try to act so fucking high and mighty.   Like their shit doesn’t stink.  But you take your eyes off them for a second and they're signing deals with Victoria Secret, backstabbing the Big East, running gambling rings on campus, and being voted the school with the most STD’s by Trojan Condoms.   Yet they still act like they operate on a higher moral standard than other colleges.   It makes me want to puke.   Seriously give the superiority complex a rest already.    You’re just like every other college with an average football team and students who were too dumb to get into an Ivy League college.  Now do me a favor and send me some Superfan sluts dressed in Victoria Secret lingerie for smokeshow of the day to redeem yourselves.

(Is this the worst play in the history of the NFL?)

I’m not going to lie.  Last night was fucking heart breaking.   Just heart breaking.  It was like being on a great rollercoaster ride except instead of it gliding to a halt it spiraled out of control and smashed into a brick wall.  In fact I can’t think of a more painful regular season loss for the Pats in my lifetime.   Maybe that’s because we haven’t played in too many regular season games that have mattered lately, but whatever the case may be this one hurt bad.  I mean I was so drained by the time it ended that I felt like I played in it. It was just such a struggle the entire night.  And even though we fell behind big, you never got the impression we were out of the game.   But that 3^rd quarter was as frustrating as it gets.    You can’t dominate a team more than we did with nothing to show for it.   Every time it looked like we were ready to finally take control of things, we’d do something stupid.   You could tell the Jets defense didn’t have a prayer of stopping us but we just kept shooting ourselves in the foot.   I mean how does Ben Watson fumble when he gets hit in the ankles?  It makes no sense!  At that point I was thinking maybe it’s just wasn’t meant to be.   But then we finally get the TD to end the quarter and within a blink of an eye we tie the game at 24-24.  Game over.   That’s what everybody in the universe had to be thinking right then.  I was already writing my next blog in my head and getting excited to read all the NY newspapers bitch and moan.   

However a funny thing happened on the way to victory.  The Jets embarked on a 2 hour drive to score the go ahead TD helped by a bullshit holding penalty.    We get the ball back and promptly go 3 and out.   What had seemed like certain victory just minutes ago now seemed like certain defeat.   That emotional swing was bad enough.  Little did I know that was amateur hour compared to what was about to happen.    Against all odds we score an impossible TD with 1 second left on a perfect drive by Matt Cassel.  We immediately force the Jets into 3^rd and 15 in OT and then boom;  A total blown coverage and the game is over just like that.   Unreal.   Simply unreal.   Earlier in the night I was getting ready to blame this game 100% on Ben Watson but with the way it turned out I don’t think you can really blame anybody in particular.  Yes we made a ton of mistakes and had some bullshit calls go against us.  But the bottom line is that the Jets drove the ball right down our throat the last two times they had it and when they needed it most.   If you can’t stop a team in that situation two times in a row you can’t say you deserved to win.   On the bright side this game proved once and for all that Matt Cassel and this offense are good enough to win the Superbowl.   But whether the injuries have finally caught up the defense is a different story.

Click for more of Emmanuelle Chriqui