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Tank Johnson wants me to think that recent media scrutiny over his arrests is founded on a racist bias.
WHAT?!?!?! Ohh geeze, here we go again. You have been arrested 3 times in 18 months!! You could be freakin’ purple!! You are not a menace to the Chicago Bears, the NFL, and society at […]

Best sign (actually, three crudely made signs side-by-side) I’ve seen this season, held by a trio of Arizona students at the McKale Center on Saturday:
Step 1:
Cut a hole in a box
Step 2:
Put your junk in that box
Step 3:
Make Hansbrough open the box
The original here.

All I gotta say for this one is: “Damn…I wish I thought […]

Today is definitely a Sedona Red letter day in my life as I am sure it is in thousands of other baseball fans’ lives. Not because it would have been Jackie Robinson’s 88th birthday or that it is Nolan Ryan’s 60th birthday. No, today is special because it is the day where final payment is due on season tickets for the Arizona Diamondbacks. Sure there are always two sides to every story. Some of you may be thinking, “How can this be such a great day, after all you have to send hundreds or thousands of dollars to a faceless corporate entity who has no feelings for the every day fan.” To you I would say, stop channeling my wife. No I am kidding; Trina is as excited as I am about today. Well maybe not as excited but she is at least putting up with it. After all, can you possibly imagine what life in our house would be like if I didn’t get season tickets? That would mean I would be around all the time and she would lose 83 nights where she can do whatever she wants knowing I will never find out about her trips to the craft store or the scrapbooking store. And even if I did find out she knows that if I have season tickets then she can justify her purchases by stating, “Well it is cheaper than your baseball tickets.” There really is no comeback for that so she has an upper hand in our marriage from April through September. I’m ok with that as long as I have season tickets.

Did you see this? It made my day. Not only does Radiohead’s frontman have Madvillain and Quasimoto on there, he calls Spank Rock’s YoYoYoYoYo one of his favorite records from last year (along with Liars’ Drum’s Not Dead).
Here’s what he had to say about the Spank Rock track What it Look Like:
“when this record […]

Steve Nash has been compared to a lot of people.  But so far this is the first time I’ve heard him compared to a baseball player.
Check out this article on 3manlift.com by Jack Cobra.
The basic premise of the article is that Steve Nash has mastered the game like Greg Maddux did during his […]

Because I’m not a devoted reader of Pitchfork (sorry, I while away my time at other, more sophisticated sites), I sometimes miss cool stuff, like Earlimart releasing three new MP3s through Pitchfork … LAST FALL. Yeah, so I’m really behind. (Go here, here and then here.)
Nevertheless, I’m caught up enough to know Earlimart has named […]

I thought the first Cusano 18 Paired Maduro “Toro” I tried was good enough to try a second one.

We were done. We were done with the churches, the memorials, the places that we visited that were supposed to make us feel spiritual or sad or remorseful or reflective, the places that had bombarded us with the guilt and burden that modern religion had felt the need to impose, in the name of the […]

If there were ever two teams heading in different directions it would be the Phoenix Suns and the University of Arizona mens basketball team. After a 1 and 5 start the Suns find themselves owners of the second best 35 game stretch in NBA history at 33 and 2. The Wildcats however had a […]

New products and services seem to come along constantly but very few make a dent in my life. I find I am just too busy with the day-to-day chaos of activity that I just don’t have time to devote to trying out all the new toys and gadgets. This is really a depressing fact for me as I just love new technology and trying new things. But even though I seem to be overwhelmed with my normal life flow there are times that a new product or technology just bowls me over and changes my life. I have divided my mortal existence into two phase, pre-Diamondbacks and post-Diamondbacks. In my pre-Diamondbacks state I was much like an unborn child. I was growing and developing but I wasn’t really aware of my surroundings. That all changed on March 9, 1995 when Major League Baseball awarded a franchise to Arizona. From that point on I began to have real experiences that I could remember. So in my post-Diamondbacks life phase I have had three major technology advancements that I would call life-changing.