Spinsterblog

Even though about five people read my blog, I wanted to post this here anyway (I have also submitted it directly to Cox). Perhaps somebody will do a web search on “should I use Cox Communications for my TV/internet/phone provider?” and they will get some helpful information and learn to go with someone else who might actually be responsive to their needs as a customer.

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Memo to the TBS announcers:

I know that David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez are awesome with the way they hit their home runs, but when you keep doing Retrospectives of the Papi and Manny Home Runs, you are forgetting that the first Red Sox player to hit a home run in this series was Kevin Youkilis. If you could maybe mention it maybe every third or fourth time you gush about Ortiz and Ramirez, that would make me happy. K? Thanks.

It’s the annual WEEI/NESN Jimmy Fund Radio Telethon today! Proceeds from this telethon will go to the Jimmy Fund at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. You can get more information and donate here.

Jason Varitek

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Yes, I’m trying to make up for the fact that I update this thing like every six weeks (I blame my annoyance at my FAVORITE player, Julio Lugo.)

I took a bunch of pictures at the San Diego series, and you can browse through them all at flickr.

“David Wells returned from an African safari hoping to bag a bigger prize: a World Series ring with San Diego.” I feel like this should be the first line of a joke: David Wells went on an African safari, and…

Yeah, I know I haven’t posted in months and months. Sara nagged me just the other day. And I don’t really have much to say right now, other than to mention my seething anger that the Red Sox gave up on Alex Gonzalez and signed Julio Lugo. Hey, Theo? When we lose yet another game because Lugo’s such a crappy shortstop, don’t come crying to me. Also, clearly Lugo has been chosen as my new Favorite Player (to jinx).

Tomorrow I leave for Florida, where there will be sunshine, happiness, and spring training. When I return I will be sure to actually log in and post some pictures and regale you with stories.

Okay, who knew that Brad Pitt was filming The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which is based on an F. Scott Fitzgerald short story, and neglected to tell me?

Obviously I gave up on that whole posting-every-day thing.  I blame being sick, although that’s really just a handy crutch in this case.

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I know I look frightened in this picture, but what the hell. This is me, Sherrie, and Scott McCaughey, who is awesome and cool and a gret musician.

Also, I am far too old to stay out late on a schoolnight and then go to work the next day.

I was looking for my digital cooking thermometer earlier and I can’t find it. Now I’m looking for my oral thermometer so I can take my own temperature, but I can’t find that either. Both of these are missing, in spite of the fact that I’ve used them in the past two weeks.

What do we think the likelihood is that I have thermometer gremlins?

Am I the only one who thinks that paying $51 million just to have the right to *talk* to a player is an absolutely disgustingly obscene amount? Not to go all bleeding heart liberal, but think of all the starving children that would feed.

I’m watching one of those countdown shows on VH-1 that does so well. Give me a marathon or a countdown and I’ll sit in front of my TV for hours and hours on end–a truth that Bravo and VH-1 seem to take advantage of all the damn time. This is something like 100 Most I Love the 80s Strikes Back Songs of All Time. Y’all, Kajagoogoo didn’t get this much press when they had a hit song!

Anyway, they just featured A-Ha’s “Take on Me.” I would like to go on record as saying that this is the best music video ever. No, really. Ever.

Dude, how is The Cure’s “Just Like Heaven” so far up on this list?  No way is that better than “Love is a Battlefield.”