Who Knew Tools Could Scab Over?

"Hi, I'm Carson Daly and I'm still a huge tool"


yes, I know he's not a member of the Guild but still. Solidarity, yo.



(and on the polar opposite of cool, on Kid Nation I really love Sophia- I feel like she is much more of an adult than I am. And I wanna be in the Green District. Guess what I'm watching right now.)

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Regarding the Events of Today

So today somehow I've had just around 7,000 new hits and I have no idea why at the moment. I thought maybe that it was my Chris Crocker Backlash post and maybe I was at the vanguard of a movement then I guessed maybe the one regarding The Mystery of Steve Fossett may have begun an urban legend (my ego is huuge)
And though a part of me wants to sing this


(p.s. does anyone know where I can get the book, Penny's Guide to Teen-Age Charm and Popularity, that the dialogue of this song, Popular came from?
my incredible insecurity makes me think that (for some reason) it's a joke and the sudden uptick is a result of a mocking laugh (the fact that I mi spelled the word "here" as "hear" still haunts me) that of course this can't last and that "They're All Going to Laugh At You" and really this is the plan, except for the telekinetic fiery holocaust part


Oh well qué será, será. I am pretty excited, though, about studying google analytics tomorrow and discovering whatever desire it is that drove this traffic; I'm more than open to pandering.

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Happy 80th Birthday Tommy

Today is Tommy Lasorda's 80th Birthday and I would not be a Dodger fan if I didn't spread the gospel of this man and how much I live him and wish he was my grampa. He coached the Dodgers for twenty years (and it's quite obvious the downhill slope of our team since then) won 2 titles and, to cement his place as the best manager ever he led the United States to a win in the 2000 Olympics when no one expected him too. And so to the greatest Dodger alive I wish him an amazing birthday.

Some quotes

• About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.
• All last year we tried to teach him Fernando Valenzuela English, and the only word he learned was million.
• Always give an autograph when somebody asks you.
• Baseball is like driving, it's the one who gets home safely that counts.
• Guys ask me, don't I get burned out? How can you get burned out doing something you love? I ask you, have you ever got tired of kissing a pretty girl?
• I believe managing is like holding a dove in your hand. If you hold it too tightly you kill it, but if you hold it too loosely, you lose it.
• I bleed Dodger blue and when I die, I'm going to the big Dodger in the sky.
• I love doubleheaders. That way I get to keep my uniform on longer.
• Listen, if you start worrying about the people in the stands, before too long you're up in the stands with them.
• Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and it flies away.
• My theory of hitting was just to watch the ball as it came in and hit it.
• No, we don't cheat. And even if we did, I'd never tell you.
• People say you can't go out and eat with your players. I say why not.
• Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure.
• The difference between the possible and the impossible lies in a person's determination.
• The only way I'd worry about the weather is if it snows on our side of the field and not theirs.
• There are three types of baseball players: those who make it happen, those who watch it happen, and those who wonder what happens.
• When we win, I'm so happy I eat a lot. When we lose, I'm so depressed, I eat a lot. When we're rained out, I'm so disappointed I eat a lot.

seriously you have to love a man who speaks truth /suffers fools lightly (like this) or has such wisdom such as this


or this


and any man that causes such a reaction from the Giants is obviously a Great and Just man

The following is from Tommy's Blog:

You know, when I was a kid we didn't have fancy birthday parties with lots of presents. Every Christmas my four brothers and I would get the same thing every year; a scarf and gloves. As I look back on my life I am still in awe. I still can't believe how it turned out. Who ever could have dreamed that the son of an Italian immigrant from Norristown, Pennsylvania, who was the third-string pitcher on the high school baseball team, would end up managing the Dodgers for 20 years?

Who ever could have dreamed that a guy like me who has never stepped foot in college would give six commencement addresses and have six honorary doctorate degrees?

Who ever could have dreamed that I would shake hands with Presidents Nixon and Ford? Hug President Carter? Befriend Presidents Reagan and Bush? Meet President Clinton and George W. Bush?

Who ever could have dreamed I would hang out with the great Frank Sinatra and Don Rickles and travel the world with them?

Who ever could have dreamed that I would join a fraternity of only 15 managers to make it to the Hall of Fame? As I stood at the podium in Cooperstown making my induction speech I told the story of when I was 14 years old. I would actually dream that I was playing for the Yankees and pitching at Yankee Stadium. I would look around the diamond and see Bill Dickey, Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth. Than I would feel my mother shaking me, saying, "Wake up Tommy. It's time to go to school."

Why didn't she leave me alone? Why couldn't I stay in the dream? It was so real!

Standing on that stage in Cooperstown with all the greatest baseball players in the world behind me, I said, "I thank God for all of this, and it won't be too long before I feel my mother shaking me, telling me to wake up because it's time to go to school."

I have lived a dream. Thank you.

No thank you Tommy and may the Great Dodger in the sky watch over you and may you live another 80 years!

(and this was the main reason i decided to post today.)

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You're (truly) The Man Now Dog

I can't decide which one of these ytmnds I like more all including "great" icons and leaders

this one with Bob Barker pushing someone out of the closet
a lowly Nazi getting owned by Hitlersomeone getting smacked down for Jesus
or this one that will probably cause protests with the prophet Muhammed throwing it down (big fella)

Yup, I'm going to hell.

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