This probably could have been worse if everyone had really tried harder. I didn’t see most of it as I was too busy shaking my head in disgusted anger. However, the face melting scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark remains the most terrifying movie scene of my childhood and no embarrassing threequel can change that.

Recently, Rickey Henderson was on ESPN radio. As part of the show, the announcers had a list of The 25 Best Rickey Henderson Stories Of All Time and asked him to true or false some of them. As I mentioned in my Appreciation of Rickey Henderson – Stories, Thoughts, and Links post from a couple months ago, that list is plagiarized from this 2003 Sports Illustrated article (which is why I didn’t link to it originally.

The 6 anecdotes clarified by Rickey below the jump…
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Murray Chass is all in a dither because MLB is not going to providing printed version of its league reference guides. Instead, the books will be published online as PDFs. If you’re not afraid of computers, and if you own a printer, this is not a big deal.

He summons some of the old curmudgeon to close out his piece, but it’s kind of stupid:

Younger writers, more attuned to the use of the Internet than their older colleagues, may not have a problem with the disappearance of the books. But in past years they didn’t have the Internet as an alternative reference site. They apparently just didn’t feel the need for any information the books provided.

That says more about them than it does about baseball’s decision.

Yes. It says that they, unlike Murray Chass, realized that the information in the books was available elsewhere. On the Internet.

You often hear people talking about a speech as being nothing more than a “laundry list” of proposals or some such thing, and it occurs to me to wonder: who the hell needs to make a list to do their laundry? Anyone have any idea where the expression comes from?

So posting for the next couple days will either be light or unintelligible (or possibly just pre-written movie reviews). I doubt my experience will be very novel, but I’m looking forward to a weekend of movies and chocolate vanilla cherry milkshakes (vanilla ice cream, milk, chocolate syrup, cherries, blend, repeat).

I’m going to try to document the experience somehow, though, and I’ll let you know if my drugged out ramblings are noteworthy in any way.

Michael Cera is now in the fold, hopefully ending, once and for all, this crazy seesaw.

I never knew remuneration was a word. And remuneration means what I had thought renumeration meant. Renumeration? It means to recount something.

YellowPageGoesGreen.org: because you’re not your parents and you don’t know how to use a phone book that isn’t Google.

One smile at a time.

In an interview iFMagazine.com, Jericho creator tells us his production company is working on a movie version of the show and I say hell yeah!

He also lets us know that reruns of the first season on CW have more viewers than Mad Men. Can you believe this motherfuckin’ shit? It’s on Sunday nights. Who doesn’t have cable? Just watch the show.

When I think about the fact, a repeat of JERICHO on CW actually has more viewers than an episode of MAD MEN, you realize the difference between cable and broadcast, you realize the difference between what the press is watching vs. what America is watching. And I bring up MAD MEN, because it’s a brilliant show. But it’s still fun to see the show won’t die.