Ramblings
September 30, 2005
Sweet Caroline Redux
As I mentioned before, Lou Piniella and I are sick of hearing "Sweet Caroline" at Fenway. But more than that, I wondered how that tradition even got started in the first place. Today, my sister-in-law pointed me to the origin:NPR Morning Edition: The Mystery of 'Sweet Caroline' and the Red Sox
(As annoying as it is, though, I'll take Neil Diamond over "Cotton Eyed Joe" at Yankee Stadium!)
September 29, 2005
World's Favorite Song
'We Are The Champions' voted world's fave song
A million flies can't be wrong — eat at Joe's
A million flies can't be wrong — eat at Joe's
Anyone who believes that increasing cultural globalisation will inevitably lead to a dumbing down of consumers' critical faculties has been proved right on the button by a Sony Ericsson poll of 700,000 "music lovers" in 66 countries which has voted Queen's "We Are The Champions" the world's favourite song.
Britney's "Toxic" crooned into second spot, beating child-friendly Jacko into third place with "Billie Jean." Next up comes the timelessly abominable "Hotel California"...
Labels: music
September 27, 2005
Let the torture begin!
Surviving Grady writes God on behalf of all Sox fans...
Dear God:
[T]his week is already the single most important week of the 2005 Red Sox season. The week that will more or less define my mental and physical well-being for the next half-year. And you pick the day of the first game of this particular week to kick it Noah style? Not cool.
September 16, 2005
Legos
For those of you that don't know me, I'm a by-the-rules kind of guy -- almost to a fault -- and pretty much always have been. So when I was a kid playing with Lego and read the small print on the instructions (I can hear you now: "What kid actually reads the small print on their toys?") that said that "Legos" was incorrect usage of the brand, you can be sure I never used the word "Legos" again. I always played with my Lego.
So who cares if someone says "Legos"? Just me (it's still a pet peeve of mine) and the lawyers at Lego. So I was amused to find out that if you go to legos.com, you actually get a note asking you not to use that term. Not that it's going to change anything:
So who cares if someone says "Legos"? Just me (it's still a pet peeve of mine) and the lawyers at Lego. So I was amused to find out that if you go to legos.com, you actually get a note asking you not to use that term. Not that it's going to change anything:
Real people in the real world call the toys Legos. Real customers. People don't rearrange their idiom to suit trademark lawyers. Deal. [via Boing Boing]
September 2, 2005
Bush always has weapons on the brain
Bush Tours Katrina Damage Amid Criticism
"I'm not looking forward to this trip," Bush said as he toured Alabama and Mississippi and headed for Louisiana. "It's as if the entire Gulf Coast were obliterated by the worst kind of weapon you can imagine," he said.Why does everything have to be weapon-related with this guy?
Labels: politics
Sweet Caroline
After witnessing Boston's four-game sweep, Tampa Bay manager Lou Piniella said, "Thank God we don't come in here anymore. I've heard enough 'Sweet Caroline.'"Gotta agree with Lou on that one: I don't know how "Sweet Caroline" became a Fenway staple, but I could really do without it...
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