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Out at 3-1 against the best team in the league. It’s disappointing, but I can live with that.

Even with the early playoff exit, this has been the most fun I’ve had following the Dodgers since the championship season in 1988, the season that basically made me a baseball fan. It didn’t end up with a World Series win, but this team had that same kind of magic.

It was really the first Dodger squad in a long time that actually had players that seemed to enjoy the game. Los Angeles has been saddled with a series of surly superstars, including Piazza, Sheffield and Brown. Shawn Green is still in that mold, but now he’s surrounded by guys like Lima and Werth who actually show emotion and give fans something human to hang on to.

Attitude aside, this was a team that got it done, including the best closer in the MLB, the best defensive Dodger team I’ve ever seen and a guy that put up an MVP caliber season while hobbling on a bad ankle for 162 games. 53 comeback wins. 26 in the last at-bat. It’s a team you couldn’t help but love if you followed them on an everyday basis. I’m always a Dodger fan, but they earned that loyalty this year.

… and now I get to put on my Red Sox hat and watch the rest of the playoffs.

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Now that the Dodgers vs. Cardinals is a reality, it’s only natural that Axel (Cards fan) and I have a friendly wager on the results. At first it was going to be money, but we decided that betting baseball caps was bit more apropos. So if I win he has to buy a Dodgers hat for me. If the Cards win, I’m going to get him this hat:

If the Dodgers win, he will probably exact revenge by trying to get me this hat:

(ok, the prizes are just going to be the official hats, but I really felt the need to expose how bad baseball merch is getting these days)

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Overheard today during lunch:

Woman A: Girl, that happened to my cousin!
Woman B: What do you mean?
A: Her OVARIES, they was knocked LOOSE.
B: WHAT? That doesn’t sound right. What the?!?!
A: He knocked ‘em loose while they was doin’ it! Went to the doctor and everything.
B: How the…
A: They was young, they must not have been doin’ it right.

Remember kids, if you’re doing it right, your ovaries should remain intact and in place. There were about two seconds that I thought about googling “OVARY INJURY” but decided against it.

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For my birthday a bunch of us went and ate.

Afterwards, a smaller cluster of us went to karaoke at Ding Dong Dang. The books there are impossible to negotiate, doubly so when the disco lights are flashing directly into your eyes. It wasn’t really until the 2nd hour that things really got going and by that time there was only four of us. But OH that 2nd hour. Being able to butcher Leonard Cohen’s “I’m Your Man,” the Boxtops’ (yay Alex Chilton) “The Letter” was strangely satisfying, and finding “Ice Ice Baby” as well as “It’s The End of the World As We Know It (and I Feel Fine)” felt like winning the lottery. Songs I couldn’t find? Glenn Campbell’s “Galveston” and The Outfield’s “Your Love.”

I also gave half a thought to doing “The Real Slim Shady,” but I didn’t think I could do it better than Cat Power’s karaoke version. Man, I would kill to go karaoke with Cat Power. Someone work on that for my birthday next year, OK?

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tilting at windmills <– clicky for more pictures

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If you cut yourself with a Mach3 razor just right, you will cut yourself in three places at once. Three parallel lines right on my chin. That should make for an interesting looking scab.

I feel retarded. Right now, that’s an insult to retarded people.

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Let’s put it to bed now. It’s been a full three weeks since ComicCon, most everyone’s got their reports and pics up.

McCubbin‘s got hers, which includes good pics of me with Mini-Han as well as one with Sam and me.

Jon‘s got this massive huge writeup that also includes a pic of me with my fly open (YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO CLICK).

Megan’s got one here, to go along with the photo collection I linked up earlier. It’s pretty good but I’m docking points because I’m not mentioned in it.

Matt Fraction teamed up with Joe Casey to bring us a report from seedy underbelly of ComicCon, which includes superhero mash-up porn and cockfighting. Dude, Matt. I’m bringing a fighting cock named Clucky Jones and he will make everyone look like hens.

Dan Evans never wrote one, but he did send me this pic, which everyone’s been telling me is adorable, even though I look pissed as hell. In a similar vein, Kelly Sue tells me this picture by Andi Szilagyi is heeeeeeeeeee-larious, although I think it’s possibly the worst picture of me ever.

There are others of course, but I’m not in any of them and I’m trying to keep the SDCC recaps as self-centered as humanly possible.

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It’s been brought to my attention that those kids that use Livejournal can read this blog via a Livejournal feed located at hanhatesyou. Now, I didn’t set this up and I’m not sure who did. So that sort of creeps me out.

I went ahead and turned a full feed on it too, so you’ll be able to read the full entry instead of just the excerpt. I actually have RSS2.0 and Atom feeds as well, but I keep forgetting to link them on le sidebar.

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Bear with me here. I’m watching “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire,” and the very first question is about Snow White being helped by seven dwarfs. I’m looking at the answers and seeing dwarfs and thinking… that’s not right is it? It’s dwarves.

So I check imdb, and lo and behold, it’s Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs. So I do a lookup “dwarfs dwarves” and find this:

Traditionally, the plural of dwarf was “dwarfs”, but ever since J. R. R. Tolkien used dwarves in his fantasy-epic The Lord of the Rings, the plural forms “dwarfs” and “dwarves” have been used interchangeably. (When discussing Tolkien’s universe, though, only the latter should be used.)

Go fucking figure! Basically if you spell it with a “v” you play too much D&D or other related nonsense. How have I gone this long without realizing this?

Random note: Tonight I made pasta with ground turkey and I dedicated it to former roomie Axel Schwarz. Maybe tomorrow I’ll do his other patented recipe of Beans and Rice With Tons of Crap On It.

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