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I forgot to add that there were a bunch of gorgeous advertising agency women running around telling the roadie looking dudes what to do. I’m not used to being around attractive women at work. My favorite quote from one of the roadies was, “Look out, a platypus is flying in behind you.”

It seems like event planning and advertising/marketing attracts a lot of attractive women to those professions.

I’m getting my morning coffee at the diner on 44th and Lexington (across from Grand Central, sorta near the UN) and the nice little Hondurans are running around bussing tables and such and this tall guy in a suit walks in front of my and spills a few bills and a bunch of pennies out on the counter.
The counter kid says it adds up to $4.67 (sans tip).
The waitress tells the guy it’s $5.67.
the guy says, no, it’s $4.67. he’s been coming here for two months and it’s always $4.67, and he says it with real derision, like, how dare you question me you little twit.
so the little waitress says: “OK, fine. have a nice day.”
Well, I can’t keep my mouth shut: “Yer gonna stiff ’em a dollar?” I say.
“Excuse me,” he says and leans in close. He’s taller than me, but I’ve got real indignation on my side. Also, I’m reading this detective novel, so I’m in the mood to push around people who puff themselves up.
“Yer gonna stiff ’em a dollar?” I say again turning up my lip and daring him to say something.
He walked off.
I apologized to the cafe’ staff; they said none was needed.
I’m not a violent dude, but I kinda wanted to see the guy make an issue of it, you know. Maybe I need to take leaping lessens from Troutlaw and become a superhero. Then again, it was a well lit diner at 8 am, not a dingy bar on the lower east side at 3 am.
(thanks for listening)

It was really funny. I didn’t want to comment in there because the last two guys who commented seemed a little angry. That post is going to turn into an open thread on politics. I hope it keeps this junk drawer free of all that jazz. November cannot get here soon enough.

But I’ve been on tv a couple of times.

When I was in eighth grade one of my teachers volunteered me to attend some meeting at the capitol. I figured that it had to be better than school so I agreed. The meeting was about trying to not cut the number of aides in the school district and was pretty boring. What made it more boring was that the only people from Corvallis that made the trip was one of the aides from school and the girl whose locker was covered in pictures of Bill Clinton and John Kitzhaber, which made for some rough conversation. During lunch a crew from some tv station walked in and during the evening news you could see me sitting in a chair looking pretty bored.

Ben – PBR, because he’s a contrasting counterpoint of sharp texture and flowing sweetness.

Dave – Miller High Life, because he’s the champagne of bloggers.

I was in some sort of pie eating or watermelon eating contest and made the evening news. It wasn’t very flattering. I ended up looking like a 14 year old kid at the state fair in a pie eating contest. No makeup, roadies or hot women. But hey, no man boobs either.

Tonight the mighty #1 USC Trojans roll into Cornvalley to exact their revenge on the OSU Beavers of Football. Last time the Trojans made the trip they were #3 and got dumped and the time before that they escaped by the skin of their teeth, as I recall… So this time there is some serious payback in the offing…

The Beavers are 1-2 and probably a bottom-tier team in the Pac-10 this year… USC’s national championship hopes are hindered by the fact that they’ve got a bunch of blucky Pac-10 teams and the non-awesome Notre Dame on the schedule — whereas the champs of tough conferences will be slaying greater foes.

So how brutal will it be?

NAME THAT SCORE…

My call: USC 45, OSU 13.

Ellis was injured in moped accident, not playing hoop

about the convicted rapist that moved in three block from our school.

Sophia

for the low. low sum of $19.95, you can own one of my kitty-porn tapes and have me on your TV.

I read on TrueHoop that he’s a pretty good player.
In the mean time, read this article by Jason Quick.

but I don’t know if that little vignette ever made it to actual tv. I said something about taking a staycation this year because I couldn’t afford to drive. (Actually no one can afford to drive anymore, if we factor in all the non-economic costs.)

That day at the gas station I was the average random motorist and they were doing a story about the skyrocketing price of gasoline.

Gas was $1.50 per gallon just a couple three years ago. Goodness. But I never made it on tv so far as I know.

I hope they catch the person who stole TiH’s slippers from his front porch. Were they slippers or flip flops? I don’t remember which. But I hope they catch him and put him on tv. They can show his mugshot in the background while running a short interview with the victim. Then TiH can be on tv and we can all see him.

My high school was next to KGW, channel 8 in Portland, and I did a lot of sports back in my day and the camera men would shoot us sometimes for some filler footage.

They had a shot of me pitching in practice that they showed over and over and over, whenever they were talking about high school athletics. It seemed like it played countless times, which was cool but the shot made me look bad— it started as a close up profile shot, then zooms out as I windup and pitch the ball. I had a huge zit on my cheek, and the pitch wasn’t even a good pitch.

In HS football highlights, I was on the local news scoring a touchdown, and they re-used that footage for anything about HS football also. I’m pretty sure that was KGW as well; maybe an editor there had a crush on me.

I was at the taping of Louis CK’s last HBO special (“Shameless”, I think it was called?), and you can see me in the audience.

I forget the company, but if you find a pamphlet advertising pitching machines from the late 90’s, you can see me hitting the ball and get a load of my cute butt. I can say I was a model now, and just explain away my current appearance by saying I fell on hard times.

I hate seeing myself on TV.

Mortimer

I was at tapings for The Daily show and Letterman this year, but not on screen either time.
Daily show was much funnier and more fun, in truth.
My wife has seen Cobert taped twice in person.

here

I really just posted it cause of one quote.

Blazers President Larry Miller said season ticket sales have increased a "very significant" amount, although he said he did not know the exact numbers or percentages. He added that the Blazers now rank among the NBA’s top four teams in season ticket sales, and the franchise expects to sell out all 41 regular-season home games after drawing standing-room-only crowds for its final 27 dates last season.

Top 4 fan bases in the NBA? Try numero uno.

Nice work Blazers fans!!!!!!

Agree, EXCEPT that Livingston has the potential to be better than Brandon Roy.

I really think Brandon Roy will be in the Paul/Williams echelon of upcoming stars/future faces of the league.

RESIST. URGE. TO… That’s why I was ecstatic when I heard David Stern say that the Wolves selected Roy… DAMN… I tried, I really did.

About 3 seconds of it made the 11 o’clock news.

He seemed like a nice guy and he agreed that Lamarcus is the real deal.

I had my two year old son Zach with me and Joe thought he was pretty funny when he asked me if I named him after Z-BO

What I said: No, he is named after a close friend.

What I Should Have Said: No, it’s just a coincidence. Is it true that you and Tim Becker from Channel 6 sports are domestic partners?

Well at least it isn’t a motorcycle or something, sorry if this has already been posted???

and Gdub is #1. (Note: Big Mr. Oden’s middle name is Wayne, so I’ve gone ahead and given him a new nickname, GDub… though I contemplated big wayne)

Link.

Thorpe had him at #2 back in June, so the buzz surrounding Oden’s workouts may be having an impact.

Also, Rudy slid from #3 to #5… maybe Thorpe missed that Gold Medal Game.

let’s talk about celebrities we’ve met.

A couple weeks ago we went to the grand opening of this new club downtown, there were quite a few famous people there. The only one we really talked to was Darryl from The Office (also of Pineapple Express fame as the effeminate hitman character).

Anyway, my friend was under the influence of some intoxicants and went and rambled to Darryl for a good 5 minutes, calling him Darryl multiple times during the conversation. All in all though, he was a really down to earth guy who was actually willing to talk to us, even if my friend was being a bit of a drunken windbag.

Then, a week later, this happened to him.

Poor guy.

Anyway, who was the coolest/most famous/biggest jerk/strangest celebrity you’ve ever met? Stories?

One time at the airport right after the X games I ran into Andy MacDonald, i was like Andy!

One time at a Pre-Season Blazer’s game I sat next to and talk to KP, then he smelt my breath and ran for the hills.

Sorry three Mavericks defenders.

Kimbo Slice was just on PTI and I laughed all the way through the interview. Mostly because of all his cussing that was bleeped out. I hope it goes on YouTube soon.

That I got drunk and woke up in bed with Lizzy Lowblow?

Why yes, I have been on TV.

1. As a kid I proudly was on camera talking to Ramblin’ Rod on his show.
2.. Took a broadcasting class in college, was on local cable access TV as a reporter for my college station. Woo hoo.
3. While I was in China studying in the mid-90s, I was in several English instructional TV skits broadcast on Beijing, and Chinese national tv. I also hosted a few episodes of a show called “Weekend English”..which I helped produce, before I had to return to the States. (I was also called “Dr Joe” in a regular segment. They had me dress up like a doctor to fix mistakes Chinese folks make when speaking English.)

Good idea, it’s strange that he is still one the market since he is one of the best wing defenders and dirt cheap because he is so underrated. If he had any offense to speak of, he would have also been a nice pick up for the Blazers.

He will stay with the Rockets, though reportedly for almost twice as much as they originally wanted to pay him due to concerns about his right knee ($9 million over three years).

       I was on the Captain Kangaroo show, from Jack
London Square. Circa 1968. I got a question correct
and won a prize.
     Front page of the Sports section as well. Walkoff in
championship game !

Marbury, who is reported to have spent $45 million on a private jet recently, was quoted in Wednesday’s New York Post saying, “There won’t be no negotiation . . . They’re going to give me all my money.” Once that was understood, the Knicks’ initial plans to waive Marbury by the end of the week, which Newsday reported Tuesday, were squelched by Dolan.

It is believed Dolan was vehemently against giving Marbury all of his money and then having the two-time All-Star go to another team for a bargain price — the $1.3 million veteran’s minimum — and potentially have success at the Knicks’ expense. – Newsday

Is a high bar but Starbury deserves a shot at the title.

Those Rodgers kid are something else. 21/0 Beavers.

……………………… He’s not just a hero, he’s a SUPERHERO!!!

27-14!!!

IN CONSECUTIVE YEARS!!

OOOOOOOOSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

http://www.goldenstateofmind.com/2008/9/18/617266/marbury-going-to-be-waived
On Golden State of Mind, the topic was “Stephon Marbury going to be waived…”, and after about 25 comments discussing if a team should sign him and the post up for 5 hours somebody had this to say:

ahahaha.
lmaooooooooooo. Anyone who thinks this is a good idea needs to just go home. It’s like voting for McCain.

by Amoc on Sep 18, 2008 8:29 PM PDT

And then it went all downhill from there ;-)
Now they have about 400 comments with 99% bashing each others political opponent for a week.
It’s pretty bad when the funniest opinion buried in the thread is this: “When in doubt… VOTE KOBE! – Tony.psd”