nice job there in the 7th, neal cotts! nice to see you haven’t lost your amazing ability to give up runs just by moving to the north side! at least it worked in our favor for once…hahahahahahahahaha!
also, you know, i’ve been meaning to say this for a while, but i just love a.j. i just ordered a t-shirt with his name and number on it. so now i can wear paulie’s number when i feel angelic, and a.j.’s when i feel like stirring up some shit. teehee.
so several weeks ago a friend told me, “oh, you’ve got to watch this show on NBC, it’s called ‘Thank God You’re Here,’ it’s improv with Dave Foley.” dutifully, i tuned in, and found it to be pretty good. i happily added it to the tivo’s season passes and went along with my life. tonight i watched the most recent episode, which happened to be the season finale, and i was sad because it meant that it would be a while before there were new episodes.
then i popped over to wikipedia to read up and discovered that it has already been cancelled. along with the other new shoes on NBC’s lineup that i liked — studio 60 (which i knew already) and Raines.
but oh well. at least this leaves more room on the schedule for two nights of howie mandel and Deal or No Deal, because that shit is worth watching.
i already got to the point, many years ago, where i refused to watch anything on FOX until it’s made it through its first season, since FOX seem to have a supernatural ability to sense out the shows that don’t suck and cancel them after 6 episodes or so, and i got really, really tired of watching something, enjoying it, and and then see it get summarily crushed in order to make room for something wretched like American Idol. this year i broke the rule, since a couple of shows looked interesting — Vanished (disappeared after 6 episodes, never to return), and Standoff (disappeared after about 8 or so, was promised to return in May, did not; is now promised to return in June, to which i say: suuuuu-uuuuuure it will.). i watch House — but i didn’t tune in until season 2. do i have to extend this rule to cover NBC now too?
seriously, what the hell does a halfway decent series have to do to make it past 12 episodes with you people? maybe if you wouldn’t cancel all the television shows that require you to have a brain in addition to a pulse in before they even make it to half a season, you’d have better viewing numbers! idiots!
niqui stomp. niqui like Dave Foley!
i think it’s quite fair to say that arcade fire rocked the everlasting shit out of the chicago theatre this evening. two hours! exuberance! clapping! shouting into megaphones! it was the very best kind of madness.
also: the performance really served to underline, boldface, add exclamation points to what an excellent album Funeral is.
man oh man, that was a good show.
mmm. CTA chief warns of fare hikes, service cuts: must be summertime!
“I can say that shortfall will cause us to raise fares. It will cause us to cut back significantly on service,” Huberman said. “There is no other way to get around $110 million.” … No frontline jobs like those held by bus drivers, train operators, janitors and maintenance workers were slashed [in the cuts two weeks ago]. But Huberman warned at the time that the cuts were just the beginning, and service reductions were possible if the state legislature did not approve additional transit funding.
yes, yes, it’s always dire news for us “if the state legislature does not approve additional funding.” well, you know what, guys, every time i’m in peoria and i get into a discussion as to why their taxes should subsidize my commute (yeah, i discuss politics with my family – it’s clearly a mistake but once in a while i just can’t seem to stop myself), sometimes i have a little bit of a hard time of it. if you guys did a little outreach and described how chicago benefits the rest of the state financially, instead of just blowing them off as irrelevant, maybe the rest of the state wouldn’t always be so resistant to handing out massive piles of cash. i’m just sayin.
seriously, it seems to me that part of the problem is that the rest of the state has no reason to be proud of having a city like chicago in illinois. on the whole, we’re pushy, we disagree politically with the rest of them a LOT which is interesting since we’re also completely politically corrupt and everyone openly acknowledges it, we’re “rich” and they’re “poor,” we think they’re hicks, et cetera. we have fine sports teams but it’s too expensive to come up from bloomington to watch a bears game, and it’s too scary to drive up and watch a cubs game (what the hell with the parking?!). we’re sort of a pain in their ass, actually. what has chicago done recently to make illinois proud of us, proud enough to want to help keep us that way? we may think we’re a world-class city, but i can guarantee you that plenty of people in sullivan, illinois think we’re damnfool idiots.
because high school isn’t hard enough as it is, students in Crystal Lake are here to help:
McHenry County State’s Attorney Lou Bianchi said the students clearly broke the law when they printed and distributed fliers that showed a male student and another boy kissing, along with inflammatory statements about homosexuality.
Police charged two 16-year-old Crystal Lake girls last week with committing a hate crime, disorderly conduct, and obstructing justice.
i’m sure you’ve made fred phelps a very happy man, as well.
