Illinoir

when the wind blows right,
from the fan,
i can still smell her.
12 hours later and the taste
and the memory lingers

Are they giving Sammy Sosa more shit for the corked bat?

Yes.

Let it go. Everyone needs to let it go. Even those of us who are saying, “Let it go” need to let it go. It’s done. He served his time. The White Sox fans who are giving him shit are most likely ex-cons who got a second chance anyway. They’re all criminals.

One moron is holding a sign that reads, “Apologi[sic] not accepted.”

Well done.

…and rather than just catch you up on everything that’s been happening (languishing at home, travelling to Galesburg, meeting some great folks in Iowa City, rocky relationship, realization of the value of some good friends, etc. etc. etc.) I’ll just say this:

I was walking home from Downtown Evanston, listening to the Cubs game on my radio when I heard some asshole behind me shout “Get out the brooms!” This, after the White Sox scored their only run in today’s game. I went home and watched the Cubs to go on to win 2-1 and wanted to find this guy to say, “Put your fuckin’ broom away, ya jerko.” Or something to that effect, anyhow.

What is it about Sox fans? And Sox announcers? And even the Sox players — a couple of whom were imitating Sammy Sosa’s post-home-run chest pound dealie. Why are they so seemingly constantly negative? Is it cuz they’re from the south side of Chicago, and thus automatically assholes? I don’t know what it is. Could be a total personal bias, of course, and I’m willing to admit that, but look at this:

Chip Caray and Steve Stone, even on their worst days, seem to care more about the game and other people than Hawk Harrelson and D.J. Hawk’s home run call is terrible (“You can put it on the board….Yes!” with the “Yes” coming in unison with DJ. It’s so contrived….) and when a Sox pitcher strikes out an opposing batter, he bleats, “He’s gone!” It sounds just like a frickin donkey.

Let’s turn to radio: Pat and Ron are brilliant. Ed and John are not. Pat and Ron make me laugh, make me enjoy listening to baseball, make me respect the game and actually make my days brighter. Ed and John? Ugh. They’re condescending and uninformative…. And terrible.

And White Sox fans are fat and ugly too, by the way. Oh, and the average IQ of White Sox fans is lower than the average IQ of Cubs fans. I read it in Newsweek.

(c’mon people, take a joke.)

I know it’s been a long time since I rapped at ya’….

so i won’t overwhelm you with any detail. suffice it to say that i just can’t stop eating this waffle crisp.

How come the White Sox fans can’t keep their hands to themselves or theirselves off the field when the Royals come into town? This is ridiculous stuff. And now, some moron decides to attack the 1st base umpire? Unsurprisingly, he got quite a beating as the ENTIRE Royals bench cleared to take the guy down, as if he was going after one of their own, probably remembering the LAST time they had the misfortune of travelling to the south side of Chicago when the white-trashiest white trash in town went after their 1st base coach.

This guy tonight got some serious cleats in the legs (and I’m sure in other places.)

Now, let’s talk about Hawk Harrelson, that mumbly piece of… You can put this on the baord, you bastard.

• ever since the you know what with the you know who, I’ve been totally paranoid about posting anything about anything just about anywhere. i suppose that’s cryptic. well, damn right it is. should have been all a-freaking long…. but since i’m a big dummy head… well, you know where that’s going.
• and i’m just not much psyched anymore and i don’t know what that means. shouldn’t dread, shouldn’t not-look-forward….ahhh fuuuuck.
• it’s 2 AM and it’s SEVENTY degrees out. that’s just ridiculous. but i’m going to go outside without a jacket on in the middle of the night. you heard me right. yes you did.
• i wonder if there are any cockneys living in Giza right now and if everyone gets confused when they say “geezer”
• since the us decided their war was pretty much done with, CNN has pretty much sucked up their late night coverage and kicked it to CNN international. let’s talk about the most annoying anchorman in the history of televised news: whoever that british dude is. holy crap, this guy is just terrible. smirking, mugging for the camera, yelling… he seems like a comedy routine. i just don’t know how to take anything he says….
• okay, it must be the coolest feeling in the world, if you’re a POW, to all of a sudden see US marines busting into where ever you’re being held. i just can’t imagine how much that must kick ass.

My DSL connection has been up for 1106 hours. Thats 46 days!

I think this says it all.

We all laugh at the idea of the Iraqi minister of information convincing his people that American troops weren’t at the airport, weren’t rolling down the streets of Baghdad, and yet we’re fed the same bullshit all the time here, albeit not about such obvious things…. Well, not such concrete things as tanks in our streets, anyway.

So I’m lying on the couch, watching CNN, dozing off…. And I swear I hear a report on CNN saying that the Iraqi Minister of Information was being replaced with Howard Stern…. And then Wolf Blitzer cut off the report saying that obviously some lines had been crossed, or they had the wrong connection or something. And then later, someone mentioned something about CNN receiving a prank phone call.

I could have been asleep and dreaming, or it all could have happened. Maybe I watched too much Crank Yankers last night?

…watching a live shot of the Presidential Palace in Baghdad, a US tank and several troops visible, the camera just sitting there, focused upon them. A US troop walks towards the camera and seconds later, the screen goes black. Me thinky they no likey being on filmy!