I Don't Hold With Heroin.

However, were I a junky, I would never listen to anything but "As You Fall" by Bent.

Where's Goyo?

Good (not great) night at the ball park.



Cook looked a little unsteady on the mound, but didn't allow many base runners and only gave up a few solo shots before the fielding started falling apart; blown DP (everybody safe), three (count 'em) come-backers bobbled (everybody safe) -- then the Giants muffed a few late and the winning run was at the plate in the bottom of the ninth with two outs but...

No repeat of last night when they laid four on 'em in the ninth to win. Oh, well. Bonds got booed and every at-bat was exponentially louder. I kept turning around expecting to see Dima.

Throw Dmitri Karamazov Out of Baseball Untill He Gets A Football Team

We Got Flange!

After twenty years I finally got tired of the evil ways of the basement crapper and took it down.

The swine who installed (or possibly reinstalled) it had chiseled off the old flange and set the wax ring on naked concrete. The effluent almost always went down the soil pipe, but in high summer (especially when the attic fan was on) there would be a vague and taunting memory of barnyards past.

Not exactly the von of lime-flower tea.

Anyway, I installed a nifty PVC replacement flange with expanding seal and used a horrific and highly effective two-part water-resistant putty (it smells like a burning chemical factory for the half-hour it takes to cure) to try to level the floor. Of the old hi-flo Borg/Warner, I threw away everything that wasn't porcelain, scrubbed the remains with a brass brush and when it was all back together, well, if I'd have been able to find a freebie mp3 host you'd hear what's-his-name from Full Metal Jacket exclaiming that some sainted figure would be proud to use it.

THROW BARRY BONDS OUT OF BASEBALL

It's time to throw Barry Bonds out of baseball, and to expunge from the books the "records" that he and steroid-addled McGuire supposedly "broke". Maybe then baseball will return to the concept of fair play. Is there, finally, no decency in baseball?

I'm Back...

...and I'm Beautiful!

I've been offline for about four weeks. Won't bore you with the details, but with one thing or another I just got out of the habit. We were also out of town for a coupla days and were able to do some plinking. Pup, Spud and their cousin went thru ~900 rds of 22LR and Pup was introduced to revolver shooting. Being that she's still kinda tiny she has trouble with double-action and has to thumb the hammer back for every shot, but she enjoyed it immensely.

When I get done mail-sorting, I shall return.

BREAKING NEWS (2)

A veritable, virtual whirlwind of activity in the "Sewing Circle".......

• RED-HAIRED DOSTOEVSKY FOUND LIVING IN INTERNET (see above)

BREAKING NEWS

Breaking news supplied to you from the blog read by no one.

• Rare photo of John Lennon and Joan Baez found (see above)!
• Tom DeLay says: "I'm not a crook!"
• Las Vegas man claims to have found "lost" virginity!
• Xeiner/McGowan nuptials announced!!
• New "Weiner Wagon" franchise to issue IPO!
• Fossilized remains of Roy the Dog to be displayed at 7-11!