“That’s right baby. Eat it up. Eat it all up.”
The quote does not come from this episode, but since I found that you can emed hulu. This may just become “quote the episode that you’re watching month.” Enjoy. (This is my favorite episode.)
“How was I supposed to know that there was an actual person out there called Joe Vigilante?!”
Link of the Day [9.01.11]
I’ve been doing this since 2004. I only do it one month a year. I’ve got about 200 entries. I can’t believe I’m doing it again!
Here we are the start of NewsRadio Quote Month, and I’d like to share the Link of the Day with you of a blog purported to have NewsRadio quotes. It’s got ’em, but only a months worth. For one year. Back in 2008. They did a flurry of posts, but afterwards, nada. If they had continued it, they would have surely surpassed my output by 2009.
A for effort. F for execution.
This Picture From a Game We Won
I’m gonna recant what I said about going to see bad baseball teams play bad, bad, bad baseball. It hurts, and I’m not hardcore enough. Yet, I was there for the 13-0 beatdown tonight. Every pitcher giving up a home run, even if they didn’t give up a home run. It was a painful 9 innings and 3 hours. At least, I caught the beginnings of the Grand Prix of Baltimore.
The Hardcore is composed of the people I saw at the Yard tonight.
There’s the gentleman who has season tickets a row behind me. He’s been rotating his companions between his children and his friends. He jinxes us as he’s always there for the beatdown.
There’s the lady and the gentleman who have the two season ticket seats on my right. He’s old and she’s younger. I can’t guess their relationship. Father-daughter? Husband-wife? Gentleman-escort? I can’t tell. I’m afraid to ask. I’m hoping its husband-‘trophy’ wife. They are an interesting couple. She’s also pretty.
There’s the kids from Hopkins, the freshman from LA and NJ. They’ve come to catch a game at the Yard. Wish they got to see a better game. Although, I did tell them to go sneak into the seats behind home plate. Hopefully, you got to see them on television.
There’s the group of high school kids. They came down from the upper level to catch the final innings. They had seen last night’s game, too. It’s great to egg these kids on in their taunting. We’re getting on the Jumbo-tron!
There’s the dude from work. He’s still at the game in the ninth. What are we doing and why do we subject ourselves to this junk? WHY!
There’s the guy who’s vacation is watching some ball games. He wore an Orioles shirt tonight, but wore a Blue Jays shirt last night. He’s on his way to Boston for three games, Yankees then Rangers. I thought he was here for the Grand Prix. He hates motorsports.
There’s the kids who sat in the seats for the first two innings. They were very loud and I kept looking at the dad a few rows back. I couldn’t help it. Maybe, subconsciously, I wanted him to get his kids out of there. They did clear out, but they cheered loudly for the Orioles even though we wer down 7 by the third.
In there place came the mother and her 2 children. They were shooed away by the husband-wife couple.
I didn’t talk up the ball girl. It wasn’t Kirsten.
Orioles play a day game tomorrow and I doubt they’ll get 5000 fans. I don’t think they got 10000 tonight. We’re number 32!
Faster Than My Bullet
Goodbye, August! Hello, September or as we call it around here News Radio Quote Month. I can’t believe I’m still doing it after all these years. I’m wondering if I have exhausted all the great quotes from the show leaving me with the “Matthew this” or “Lisa that” quotes. Plus, I can’t believe I am still into that show. You would think I would forget it like I’ve done with Northern Exposure or The X-Files, but it hangs around here like a Month of Quotes.
I see that CapitolSwell is taking up the challenge. Bring it!
1000 Yard Stare
Though this team really sucks and cannot play sound fundamental baseball, it’s still fun to go down to the Yard and catch a game. Although, at times, it is very trying, but still, it beats cancer. Following the team will kill you (RIP Flanny), so only the hardcore can get through a season. I’ve been through 4 and now I have the thousand yard stare.
“Hey Joker, we ought to put you up for the congressional medal of… ugly!”
“The Horror… The Horror…”
Better Run Better Run
End of summer? What better way to end it with the song of summer? You don’t think this was it? Perhaps you can clue me in to the one that you thought was summertime 2011. Use the comments.
Link of the Day [8.30.11]
In my Google Reader (the only google app I truly use day-to-day), I’ve got the political feeds set up to be the first thing launched. Basically, I use Reader to read political blogs. I get most of my political information from blogs, because our news industry is broken. They are not newsmen but entertainers. There is no more reporting but entertainment. You wonder why we’re stupid. It starts with our press. We’ve given up on informing. We’d rather entertain. It’s become trivial and this makes the world susceptible to assfucks such as Palin, Bachman, the GOP and the Tea Party. It leads us to fucktard presidents. When we are uninformed, we make these bad decisions. Of course, sometimes people are just plain stupid.
http://pressthink.org/2011/08/why-political-coverage-is-broken/
Link of the Day [8.30.11]
Aw, geez. As if my wallet needed to be sucked clean some more, I’ve found me a nendoroid blog. Keep up with the latest nendo or so what’s coming in the future with today’s Link of the Day. They even show you ones that you couldn’t get. It’s like Pokemon — gotta catch ’em all!
With The Pumped Up Kicks
We’re taking this to the end of the month. You’ve got to love this song. And better yet learn it on your guitar. Let’s begin.
The Good Yankee
The Yankees are in town hopefully getting a beatdown. Last week, I spent the weekend with a yankee, Shinagawa-kun, the eponymous antagonist in Yankee-kun To Megane-chan. I watched all ten episodes of last year’s j-drama. My MacBook Pro was hot with all the torrenting and watching of mkv files on VLC. I had a blast.
Yankee-kun To Megane-chan actually was one of the first manga I read in scanlation. It was around the time I learned to love School Rumble. It too has a yankee, the lovelorn Harima Kenji, and I thought he was hilarious, so I went looking for other manga of that ilk. It needs a delinquent and a silly love interest when you plug those into a reference you get Shinagawa Daichi in Yankee-kun To Megane Chan. It also had the funniest girl in manga, Adachi Hana, the megane. I only read a few chapters before I got sick of the scanlation so I never finished it, but it premised has me hooked. I keep hoping for the manga to be brought to the US, but I doubt it. Twenty-three chapter manga about school days don’t stand a chance of being accepted in the US. Just ask School Rumble (O, Kodansha, will you give us the final 4 chapters!)
I really like to know what happens because what I read had me hooked. The premise of the manga is that the delinquent, Shinagawa-kun, the yankee, is dragged into a happy school life by Adachi Hana, the class representative, the worst student, and eventual the student council president. She drags him kicking and screaming into school life. The kicker here is that she too was a yankee the most toughest one in junior high, Hurricane Ada! She’s hellbent on changing her past and she sees Shinagawa as a project to mold into a passable member of school society. The manga was filled with hilarity as she forced him to do good. I wish I could complete it as the story, from reading wikipedia, sounds even more fun. With a cover like this, I couldn’t pass up this manga.
So last week, I found out that they did a J-Drama of the manga last year. I don’t think they did an anime, but a live action show would be the next best thing to getting close to completing the story. I’ll tell you right now that I am a sucker for girls in glasses. That’s why I found Riisa Naka as Adachi Hana so adorable. She nails the part and I was hooked. I immediately started downloading all ten episodes and watched them back-to-back-to-back over several nights. I had fun.
So expect me to rehash this short series here on this blog. I know no one reads anything I recommend, but you have got to watch this show.