FREE KRAUT!

The Baseball Project (Steve Wynn, Pete Buck, et al) has a very Web 2.0 running-dog corporate-lackey new project: they’re rolling out approximately an album’s worth of new songs (Broadside Ballads) across various one-time interactive/online events (all the events and songs will be at ESPN). The first one is an ESPN chat with Steve Wynn at 11 this morning. There’s a free download attached to the article. (News gleaned via here. FYI, REM has a *great* iPhone app.)

I think I need to take this as a F(il)King challenge.

Hello everyone. I have survived my blistering work schedule and bring you a dump of my over-900 google reader, fresh with depressing sports news, depressing other news, and jokes about Godzilla.
But first, the Oscar was really for uncovering the xbox of the future.
Depressing sports news:

My other favorite team signed Coco Crisp too.
Oakland’s best feature [...]

Youths on the mound, youths on the mound
Wait, what?
DH Jack Cust started 50 games in right field last year, but Geren said left field is the position of choice in 2010.

Aren’t you a little short for a stormtrooper baseball player?
An additional 3.1 million people lack coverage. PASS. THE. DAMN. B- … Uh, never mind.
RALLY PIMPERNEL [...]

What John Cole said 1:
I just watched this segment and it left me physically aroused
The whole “The Family” thing is waaaaaaaaaaaaaay kreepy.

What John Cole said 2:
I know the current HCR bill is flawed, but for christ sakes, pass the God Damned bill already.

People like a Congressman with guts
Christ, what a Cliff Stoll
Episcopalians?!?
“congeal around” is a [...]

I feel bad that I made a grill that was all about me when today is actually all about LB.
How’s this for an annoying image:

Two things happened on March 4, 1970:
1. A French submarine exploded.
2. Leopold Bloom was born, the offspring of a vicious but sensitive grizzly bear and charming woodland elf.
Flash-forward forty years and [...]

This reminds me of a funny story.
Around Christmastime, we took a walk to the mall. salb918 jr2 was about a month old. I put him in the sling, and then I put a big down coat over the salb918/baby assembly.
When we got to the mall, I still had the coat on. A [...]

The Kraut Recession? Or merely anti-Upstate Western NY chauvinisme?
Le chauvinisme
The Chauvinismus, the
Doesn’t this seem rather … circular?
My favorite home remedy is sauerkraut for canker sores. … Trauma to the mouth from sharp food can trigger a sore.

Le Couer de Chou. Company website here. LB, I’ll need a box of FK business cards, with my title [...]

FWIW
10. Chapman
11. Carter
17. Smoak
20. Taylor
44. Wallace
66. Inoa
86. Grant Green

The A’s play their first intrasquad game today at “12:30 p.m. or so” (can’t you just taste the languorous pace of spring?). I can’t imagine there’s any online play-by-play, but it’s guys we know wearing green and gold playing baseball. So nice.
Lineups:

Davis lf
Pennington ss
Chavez 1b
Fox 3b
Cust dh
Gross cf
Buck rf
Powell c
Cardenas 2b

P: Anderson

Crisp [...]

I got nothin to say, really, but we need a new Grill and this seemed right up our, um, alley:
50-year-old Roy Messenger was not seriously hurt after he collided with a power pole Friday and called a relative to pull his car from a ditch.
However, family members found Messenger electrocuted when they arrived.
(Grey’s Harbor County [...]