Aargh! I hate these freakin’ things. I’ve been messing around with PHP-Nuke off and on over the past several weeks. Like Linux and British sports cars, it’s pretty cool when it works but it doesn’t work often enough to be of actual use. So much promise. User comments. Polls specific to a particular entry. Threaded [...]

Watched "A Mighty Wind" the other night. Entertaining flick. Parker Posey is hot, the Spinal Tap guys are great, Eugene Levy is disturbing, and the songs are hilarious (and well done). I love the fact that everyone plays their instruments (Catherine O’Hara plays a wicked autoharp). On the DVD, they have full versions of the [...]

Padres in market for first-rate catcher to call signals in new ballpark (U-T). The usual suspects. The Tigers picked up lefty Cliff Bartosh off waivers from the Pads; Bartosh had been ranked the Padres’ #23 prospect by BA coming into 2003 Baseball Reliquary. Self-described as "a nonprofit, educational institution dedicated to fostering an appreciation of [...]

One of my favorite things to do at a record store is rummage through the world music section. You can usually find something for under eight bucks. Sometimes it doesn’t work out, but more often than not I’ve ended up with some pretty cool stuff. Right now I’m listening to Maori music. It’s got Western [...]

History is easy to forget, even when it’s just two years old. But it needs to be remembered. I took a moment to re-read my own words from that day, and they still resonate for me. Please take some time today to remember those who were lost in (and those who survived) the events of [...]

First off, I’d like to thank one of my faithful readers for pointing out an error I made in yesterday’s entry. Derrek Lee did, in fact, play at Rancho Cucamonga during his Cal League tenure, not at Elsinore as I stated. I was working from two different sources, one of which didn’t have the team [...]

Hope you had a safe and enjoyable Labor Day Weekend! I spent mine working on the yard, cleaning up around the house, and doing some recording. Not a lot to report at the moment. Figured I’d throw some more Brian Giles stories at you while we’re still in the infatuation phase: Stats Geek says Brian [...]

Great win Sunday, after a heartbreaker Saturday night. Tough to see the Pads give the game away Saturday after scrapping back from down six. The silver lining is that the Astros burned up their bullpen in trying to preserve the win, which led to Jimy Williams having to stick with the erratic Ron Villone maybe [...]