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01/30/2006
Team FP/g Through Week 13
1. Toronto All-SARS 45.72 (-0.23)
2. big d's Monsters 44.73 (+0.01)
3. Chalkdust Torturers 44.46 (+0.16)
4. Hogscraper 44.11 (-0.18)
5. Arnies Army 44.05 (-0.03)
6. Ram Tough 42.31 (+0.55)
7. Ballfan1 40.37 (+0.15)
8. BIG AND OLD AND HURT 40.23 (-0.12)
9. Lynx 38.35 (-0.23)
10. Peoria Opies 33.45 (-0.15)
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01/28/2006
The aftermath of learning
Much has transpired since our last visit to Logtown. Richie was suspended from teaching until this week, and relieved of his cafeteria duties. Fletcher also recently completed a suspension for discrepancies concerning expense reports, though not fired. Finding a replacement for the Logtown beat is not an easy task - there's a longer line of applicants to be Pigpen's personal groomer. Simon, happily, did not get suspended. But he's been receiving very guarded reactions from everyone since he came out as a vegisexual, and students have taken to leaving various vegetable products on his desk as jokes. You shouldn't need a narrator to figure out he's not reacting well to this...
Richie was alone in the trailer, enjoying his 'Chaotic' DVDs, when Simon burst in with a corncob in his hand. He looked only slightly crazed, but highly annoyed.
"I laughed when I got the cantelope," Simon said, brandishing the shucked ear of corn, "but this isn't right. I'm not gay! What do they think I'm going to do with this?"
Richie had taken advantage of Simon's focused rant to flip the TV back to the cable. Simon hadn't noticed, but now it was on Oprah. You win some, you don't lose others as badly as you could have...
"I don't want to think about it," Richie commented, flipping open his silver Zippo to light the cigarette that had been hanging from his lip since Simon entered, and now it has stuck there. "Maybe they meant for you to do whatever it is you do to make creamed corn out of that."
Simon's face relaxed to ponder that thought, but only for a moment. "That's crap." He pitched the ear of corn towards the kitchen and deposited himself next to Richie on the sofa. "Oprah?"
Richie had gotten too involved unsticking the cigarette from his lip to change the channel. This one wasn't too painful. "Hey, I drove past your apartment today, and that Halloween pumpkin is still on your porch. You plan on getting rid of that?"
Simon's look told Richie that nobody had been thinking about that pumpkin in months. But what Simon had been thinking about that pumpkin made Simon's eyes glaze in a way that gave Richie delayed goose bumps.
"That pumpkin only had one hole in it, didn't it?"
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01/25/2006
How many blades does your razor have?
I remember back when Saturday Night Live and MAD Magazine lampooned the introduction of the 2-blade razor.
Do you remember who was laughing when the razor companies introduced three- and four-blade razors?
Well, one of the commercials you'll see during this year's Super Bowl is gonna blow your mind. The Gillette FUSION skipped the oh-so-unnecessary five-blade design (sort of) and skipped ahead to SIX blades! There's five on the face, and a sixth on the flip side. And there's also the version that's powered by a AA battery.
How much are these refills gonna cost? Can they just slice off a fingertip with my FUSION instead?
I'm only writing about this because my wife received a sample razor free in the mail today, and it's boggled my mind.
I hate to see what's next.....
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01/23/2006
Team FP/G Through Week 12
1. Toronto All-SARS 45.95 (+0.75) Thanks, Kobe!
2. big d's Monsters 44.72 (+0.02)
3. Chalkdust Torturers 44.30 (+0.46)
4. hogscraper 44.29 (-0.20)
5. Arnie's Army 44.08 (+0.42)
6. Ram Tough 41.76 (-0.21)
7. BIG AND OLD AND HURT 40.35 (-0.37)
8. Ballfan1 40.22 (+0.09)
9. Lynx 38.58 (+0.08)
10. Peoria Opies 33.60 (-0.19)
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01/22/2006
Laughing at the Cards (Or, an uglier train wreck than the Cats)
Gotta hand it to Louisville, who has made a huge splash in the Big East with Rick Pitino at the helm. I wonder how often the Cards started Conference USA play 1-4.
What's scarier is that they've played like crap since getting their butts kicked by Kentucky, who's also having a nasty time of it in the SEC, pulling out a last-second win to avoid an 0-3 home conference record for the first time in history...
I wonder what it will take before Cardinal fans start grumbling about Pitino....
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01/16/2006
Team FP/G Through Week 11
1. Toronto All-SARS 45.20 (+0.30)
2. big d's monsters 44.70 (-0.01)
3. hogscraper 44.49 (+0.52)
4. Chalkdust Torturers 43.84 (-0.43)
5. Arnies Army 43.66 (-0.12)
6. Ram Tough 41.97 (+0.02)
7. BIG AND OLD AND HURT 40.72 (-0.01)
8. Ballfan1 40.13 (-0.37)
9. Lynx 38.50 (+0.53)
10. Peoria Opies 33.79 (+0.74)
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01/09/2006
Team FP/G through Week 10
1. Toronto All-SARS 44.90 (+0.58)
2. big d's monsters 44.71 (-0.55)
3. Chalkdust Torturers 44.27 (-0.07)
4. Hogscraper 43.97 (+0.09)
5. Arnies Army 43.78 (+0.32)
6. Ram Tough 41.95 (-0.31)
7. BIG AND OLD AND HURT 49.73 (-0.43)
8. Ballfan1 40.50 (+0.52)
9. Lynx 37.97 (+0.32)
10. Peoria Opies 33.05 (+0.11)
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01/04/2006
My Mother-in-law's an author!
Congrats to my mother-in-law, Patricia West for getting her first book published!
Unexplained Mountain Tales is a collection of really strange experiences from the mountains of Eastern Kentucky, some of them are legends and some of them happened to her and her family.
The tales are short and to the point; each one is only a few pages, but they really leave you wondering, "Wha..?"
I hope anyone who is intrigued gives it a chance. I don't think they'll be disappointed.
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01/02/2006
Team FP/g Through Week 9
1. big d's monsters 45.26 (-0.19)
2. Chalkdust Torturers 44.34 (-0.35)
3. Toronto All-SARS 44.32 (+0.40)
4. hogscraper 43.88 (+0.40)
5. Arnies Army 43.46 (-0.02)
6. Ram Tough 42.26 (+0.56)
7 .BIG AND OLD AND HURT 41.16 (+0.52)
8. ballfan1 39.98 (N/C)
9. Lynx 37.65 (+0.73)
10. Peoria Opies 32.94 (+0.12)
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