Analysis of "best" lesbian sex scenes in the movies

SEATTLE, Washington - I've been running low of things to rent on Netflix, so I decided to work through about.com's list of the Best Lesbian Sex Scenes in the Movies. Here is my analysis:

Tipping the Velvet: Disappointing

Better than Chocolate: Hot lesbian action

When Night is Falling: Disappointing

If These Walls Could Talk 2: Didn't see it

If These Walls Could Talk: Disappointing

Head in the Clouds: Did I rent the Utah cut of this film? Since when does dancing count as lesbian sex??? FAIL

Lost and Delirious: Disappointing

Wild Side: Disappointing

The Hunger: Disappointing

Bound: Hot lesbian action

Don't believe that a WA income tax will only tax the "rich"

SEATTLE, Washington - The politicians are scraping around for new revenue sources in Olympia, but at least for the moment they have shelved the idea of creating a state income tax on people earning above $250,000 per year.

Now, you're welcome to think that the state should have an income tax (although it would probably drive people like me from the state). There are legitimate pros and cons. But you're a straight-up sucker if you think such a tax would continue to only be levied on the "rich" going forward.

Look at the history of the federal income tax for guidance on this. The first federal income tax created after the passage of the 16th Amendment in 1913 only applied to income above $3,000 (which if you do the math is almost $65,000 in 2008 dollars). The bottom rate was 1% (ONE Percent!), going up to 7% for income above $10,000,000 in 2008 dollars. Given the $3,000 threshold, less than two percent of American households paid any income tax at all at that time.

This tax was pitched as just grabbing a bit from the very very rich, those who could afford it, just as the proposed Washington income tax has been pitched.

Interestingly, when the 16th Amendment was being debated, there was talk of putting a 10% hard cap in the amendment. This was rejected, because it was considered absurd, a total howler, that the income tax rate could ever rise that high. (See here). In fact, by 1918 (under wartime conditions) the top rate had blown right through the inconceivable 10% barrier all the way to 77%.

State governments can't wage war as a justification for raising taxes, so they just institutionalize big spending increases and new programs in good times and then start cooking up ideas for ways to take more money to pay for these things when things sour. This phenomenon is discussed in detail in the excellent cover story from this month's Reason magazine.

Of course, every last penny of the government spending (in programs that sometimes did not even exist a few short years ago) is alleged to be indispensable, crucial to the functioning of a civilized society, kids will be starving in the gutters if anything is cut, etc etc.

Smartphone Hubris

WHITEFISH, Montana - I'm on my first vacation since getting an internet-enabled phone. I figured it would be sweet... no messy paper maps, no getting lost, find a restaurant with a few clicks.

One problem - T-Mobile doesn't serve Montana. Not just the podunk part I'm in... the whole damn massive state. So I'm scrounging for wifi, just like the not-so-old days.

The time is right for Terminator to end

POST FALLS, Idaho - All of the buzz indicates that Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles is going to be canceled after one-and-a-half seasons. Now, who will be the hottest chick on television once Summer Glau is off the air? I won't know because I'll probably again retire from watching TV for 5-10 years.

SPOILER ALERT

Still - if you saw the last episode, you know that this is the time to end the series. Based on how it ended, if they did do another season it's possible that Glau would have to play a human instead of a cyborg. And if that happens, I think dear Ms Glau would end up getting exposed. Let's be honest - we're not talking about acting talent on the level of a Faye Dunaway or Kate Winslet here.

Update: a re-assessment of Summer Glau here.

News Flash! - some politicians made intelligent, prescient comments six months ago

SEATTLE, Washington - It's looking more and more likely that GM will fire for bankruptcy, in spite of the fact that they've gotten tens of billions of dollars in aid and have been essentially taken over by the allegedly brilliant inner circle of the Obama administration. I was beating the drum for bankruptcy back in November. In fact, it was so obvious back then that a bankruptcy filing with no taxpayer aid was the correct path, even some politicians knew it.

A couple senators mentioned in November that a government cash infusion to GM would just put off the inevitable. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) knew the truth:

Mr. Kyl, the Senate's second-ranking Republican, added, "Just giving them $25 billion doesn't change anything. It just puts off for six months or so the day of reckoning."

Those were tepid comments compared to Richard Shelby (R-AL):

"Companies fail every day and others take their place. I think this is a road we should not go down," said Mr. Shelby, the senior Republican on the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee.

"They're not building the right products," he said. "They've got good workers, but I don't believe they've got good management. They don't innovate. They're a dinosaur in a sense."
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"It's not the General Motors we grew up with. It's a General Motors that is headed down this road to oblivion," said Mr. Shelby. "Should we intervene to slow it down, knowing it's going to happen? I say no, not for the American taxpayer."

Normally every word out of the mouths of politicians is nonsense, but note that the Times article is dated November 17, right after the election; you have a window of a couple weeks there where the politicians of the losing party will make sense, before the whole bullshit cycle revs up for the upcoming (i.e. two years in the future) election.

RIP - Harry Kalas (1936 - 2009)

SEATTLE, Washington - If I think back and try to re-create in my mind a hot, sticky summer night in South Jersey as a kid, Kalas's voice calling a Phillies game is a required element.

RIP

The end of intellectual isolation a.k.a. when I was your age...

SEATTLE, Washington - I've given a bit of thought here and there in the last few months to what my life would be like if I was just coming into adulthood today, instead of almost 20 years ago. One of the impetuses for this was a blog post from Neil Best last fall, where he mentioned that his employer asked if he had a business need for the pager that he was issued years ago. Not only did he not know the whereabouts of the pager, but he wondered if young adults reading his post even know what a pager is.

(I rolled with a pager in the mid-1990s).

The internet, of course, is the big deal of my lifetime. I first started accessing the internet in 1994 or so, via dialup, as a 22 year old. I recently chatted up some younger folks at the coffee shop, who have had full-blast internet access since they were 9 or 10 years old; they barely remember a world without it.

Of course the mid-1990s internet was a different place, with primitive web sites (go look at copies of your old favorites) and email lists ruling the day. Today we have blogging and RSS, and you can read from and interact with a large number of people from every nook and cranny of the human spectrum.

Intellectual isolation is a thing of the past. This was brought up recently in a post by Dr Joseph Salerno, discussing how students interested in out-of-the-mainstream Austrian economics no longer have to seek out the tiny number of graduate programs that have an Austrian concentration; they can apply to the best schools possible and still stay in the dialogue on Austrian thought:

When I went to lunch after the panel with four Rothbardian TES members I was not asked once to recommend an "Austrian" graduate program--much to my surprise and delight. Rather the discussion revolved around the pros and cons of the grad programs they themselves had researched and applied to. None of them fretted that he would be "intellectually isolated"--a ridiculous complaint in this age of the Internet , Facebook networking, Mises.org, etc.

This strikes a chord with me. Even as a young, moronic 1st year college student in 1990, I had a budding interest in economics. I took courses from econ professors in my first two semesters, and was then soured on the whole topic for years.

What happened? I ended up with two semesters of indoctrination from unreconstructed Marxist professors^* which, even as a young moron, was out of line with my budding intellectual inclinations. The Macro class textbook was a long paean to wise government planning and Keynesian ditch-digging written by Robert Heilbroner and James K. Galbraith. Heilbroner was a socialist for most of his adult life before throwing in the towel and declaring capitalism to be superior; I doubt Galbraith will ever throw in the towel.

My personality seems better suited to being an eccentric small-college professor than my current corporate drone status, and pursuing economics in college to the bitter end might have landed me in such a career. In 1990, I simply assumed that the nature of economics was what was presented to me in my early classes and texts; today, given sufficient interest, I would have balanced the stuff in class with supplementary learning more in line with my expectations and seen that I was not getting exposed to the whole soup and nuts in college.

I've had various chances to correct my trajectory in life (including nearly changing my major in graduate school in 1997), and fumbled the ball every time.

My interest in econ has been recently rejuvenated by reading best-of-breed blogs. There isn't a whole lot stopping me from just throwing it all away and going back to school to do a PhD today, except inertia, my belief that people's mathematical ability erodes over time, and my own trait of not being very adept at long-term, open-ended tasks.

Sound like whining? Yes, I'm whining. I ultimately have no one to blame but myself. My excuses are weak. But my When I Was Your Age lesson is: you can now cook up all sorts of excuses for how your life goes, but having a lack of information, or being exposed to an inadequate spectrum of information or opinions, is no longer an excuse.

* I want to note, these were two of the nicer guys you could possibly meet; in fact one helped me get into the class of the other when it was overbooked. This does not validate the bad economics.

ESPN cross-promotional juggernaut comes to Seattle

SEATTLE, Washington - ESPN has drawn quite a bit of ire from some sports fans and sports media pundits about their relentless cross-promotion - it often seems like an ESPN property can't even give you the weather forecast without pitching something coming up soon on a Disney-owned property (Disney being the corporate parent of ESPN). It often goes beyond the boundaries of sports (e.g. all the stars of upcoming Disney movies who mysteriously keep showing up in the Monday Night Football booth).

Today, 710 KIRO officially flipped over to the all-sports "710 ESPN" format, and host Kevin Calabro had to jump in the tank right away. Calabro interviewed John Clayton in the first half hour of his new 3pm talk show, and at the end of the interview he noted that Clayton had to run because he had a segment to do on ESPN television.

By the way, Clayton's popular Saturday morning local show is moving to the new station. The writeup notes that Clayton "is seen, heard and read across nearly all of the company's multimedia platforms", but no mention that he's been hosting a popular and respected local Saturday show on competitor 950 KJR for more than 15 years.

I don't expect 710 ESPN to mention 950 KJR by name, but they should at least acknowledge in the writeup that Clayton is a local - he got his break at ESPN after working for years at the Tacoma News-Tribune.

Intelligence vs. Wisdom

SEATTLE, Washington - My current man-crush, Don Boudreaux (sorry, Daniel Craig, times are a-changing), recently made some interesting comments about intelligence, wisdom, and economics.

Dr Boudreax got on the topic as a result of a Newsweek article about Paul Krugman where Krugman notes that part of his original attraction to economics was that it seemed to reveal "the beauty of pushing a button to solve problems." Boudreax noted the hubris of proposing button-pushing "solutions" to address issues in complex market economies - what Hayek called "the fatal conceit".

In response to comments that Krugman is "no dunce" and that he probably has a appreciation of complex markets comparable to his own, Boudreax noted:

A believer in the existence of buttons to push is either overly impressed with his or her own intelligence or simply unaware of the true complexity of any market economy (or both).

It's true that Krugman is no dunce. I have absolutely no doubt that his I.Q. is significantly higher than my own -- and, more relevantly and much more impressively, that it is significantly higher than that of 95 percent of all other economists. But intelligence is not the same thing as wisdom. In fact, I suspect that, after I.Q. reaches a certain (above-average) level, I.Q. and wisdom are negatively correlated with each other. Cleverness becomes mistaken for insight. The two are not at all the same.

This ties back a bit to at least half of my old quip that the smartest and dumbest 25% of the population gravitate to leftist politics - the really smart ones think that they're not only smart enough to run their own life, but to run everyone else's life as well.

Note the end of this post by Judith Warner, where she says that we are now governed by "this book-writing president and his coterie of brilliant advisers." Well, now we're set - the guys in charge should feel free to fire the CEO of General Motors, shake up the board, funnel the production of the company into unwanted "green" technologies, pour billions of taxpayer dollars down the funnel, etc... after all, they're brilliant.*

Dennis Prager has touched on the topic of wisdom over the years - in particular how young people going to college are immersed in the ideology of the people who tend to populate college campuses (definitely of a certain political stripe, and intelligent - college professors are really smart, right?) and assume this is the Correct Way of Looking At The World, without realizing that there are other factors (e.g. wisdom) that come into play when shaping a world-view and values system.

Codicil: Hopefully this Dr Boudreaux is not the same as the one Tom Tolbert discussed on The Jim Rome Show.

* Warner did not endorse those specific policies, she was just swooning over the brainpower of the guys in charge now.

I live downtown now!?

SEATTLE, Washington - Downtown West Seattle? Oh really. I've talked at times about moving downtown, I guess the downtown has moved to me.

Getting a bit big for our britches here. Downtown Ravenna thinks this is presumptuous.

Remember, West Seattle - most of the rest of the city thinks West Seattle is somewhere in Kitsap County.

Did N.W.A. lift lyrics from Vladimir Nabokov?

SEATTLE, Washington -

From Nabokov's Bend Sinister, 1947:

She sat with parted lips, slightly moving her tightly crossed thighs, producing a tiny sound, soft, labiate, with an alternate crepitation as if she were rubbing the palms of her hands which, however, lay idle.

'Chirruping like a poor lone cricket,' she said.

Portion of "Parental Discretion Iz Advised", from N.W.A's Straight Outta Compton, 1988:

Fuck the regular, yo as I get better the
bitches wanna trick and go stupid up on the dick
So I get 'em hot, thinkin' they're gonna get it
As they sit, rubbin' their legs like a cricket

Even Par - the only noble score in golf

SEATTLE, Washington - When I'm watching professional golf on television, and a player's score is shown as he's walking off the 18th green, the world only seems quite right if the player has shot even par.

If a player is a few strokes over par, then it seems the player did not have his A-game. If he's a few shots under, then you begin to think that perhaps the course was playing too easy.

But even par: a battle to a dead standstill between one of the very best players in the world and an incredibly challenging golf course. There's a certain elegance to the scene, a kind of nobility.

Congrats, Harrison Ford and Calista Flockhart!

SEATTLE, Washington - Harrison Ford, 66, and Calista Flockhart, 44, have gotten engaged after seven years of romance.

But, Mr Ford, don't think this eliminates the doubts about your sexual orientation - I can tell from all the Google searches bringing people to my posts on the topic that there is still significant speculation on the issue.

Unsolicited financial advice from New York burger joint

SEATTLE, Washington - I was at Island Burgers & Shakes in Hell's Kitchen last week. If I am not mistaken, they did not used to take credit cards. In a menu insert, they noted that they were now accepting credit card payments, albeit with a transaction fee added to the bill (a perfectly reasonable thing to do).

However, the insert then goes on to tell you that you should not pay with a credit card, even if you don't mind the transaction fee, because "financial experts" advise you not to do so, and better not to add to the "fortunes" of the credit card companies.

I'll make my own decisions on these things, thanks. And Stand has better milkshakes, but I do appreciate the burger variety at Island Burgers & Shakes.

"The World Loves Obama" Watch

SEATTLE, Washington - For anyone who's had their head sufficiently far up their ass to think that all the enmity directed at the USA from other countries was because of the previous occupant of the White House, and that all will be roses because of the current occupant of the White House - some reality checks are coming in.

Venezuela's Chavez calls Obama "ignoramus"

"He goes and accuses me of exporting terrorism: the least I can say is that he's a poor ignoramus; he should read and study a little to understand reality," said Chavez, who heads a group of left-wing Latin American leaders opposed to the U.S. influence in the region.

Report: Iran Dismisses U.S. Outreach as a 'Slogan'

President Obama intends to press ahead with efforts to open a dialogue with Iran despite an apparent setback yesterday when Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the country’s supreme religious leader, dismissed U.S. overtures as a “slogan” offering no real change
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He added: “If you are right that change has come, where is that change? Make it clear for us what has changed.”

Simplified cuisine for a change

ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey - After another year of small-plates dining and cutting edge ingredients in Seattle, it's good to get back for a few days of the simple, homespun fare of South Jersey Italian restaurants.

No pomegranate aioli here. The menus feature simply prepared seafood and basic red sauces - the peasant cuisine of southern Italy. Most places have at least one dish that is known as "Joe's Favorite" or similar.

Hopefully not the first Seattle beer appearance in NYC

NEW YORK, New York - I smuggled some beers from Seattle's Baron Brewing to the East Coast to give away as gifts.

I better give them as gifts, because I suspect it'd be illegal to drink them in Mike Bloomberg's NYC - there's no calorie count on the label. Mayor Mike would probably make these beers illegal because there's no warning about the dangers of smoking on them.

I'm developing a Howard Hughes eccentricity

NEW YORK, New York - Howard Hughes had many quirks and eccentricities (I should know), and I may to some extent be picking up a quirk similar to one of his.

In 1973 Hughes, who had lived almost completely insulated from the outside world since the late 1950s, decided to personally test-fly some airplanes that he was considering for purchase. When he got in the cockpit, the first thing he did was remove his shirt and drop his pants. Why? He simply had fallen out of the habit of wearing clothes. In fact, his aides had to go to the store to buy the billionaire the pants and slacks that he shed in the cockpit - Hughes literally did not own any clothes besides a couple bathrobes.

Hughes made several flights over the next two months and seemed to be coming out of his long isolation, but unfortunately the Mormon Mafia broke his hip he fell and broke his hip in the bathroom and he never flew an airplane (or even walked) for the rest of his life.

How do I figure into this? My telecommuting job is also getting me out of the habit of wearing clothes. I work most of the day in some boxer briefs and a t-shirt or undershirt, throwing on some sweatpants or jogging pants if I go out for espresso or groceries or even to a restaurant. I can easily go a week or two without putting on real pants. When I do show up at the office (like this week), I have to wear jeans and sneakers and by the end of each day my legs are sore and/or puffy and my feet hurt.

It may be time to upgrade to total seclusion.

Sirius XM having ABBA novena for the holidays

SEATTLE, Washington - If you're getting someone a Sirius XM radio for the holidays, you may want to give it to them RIGHT NOW, because they're reprising their ABBA channel for a nine-day run concluding December 20.

Who doesn't think of ABBA at holiday time? God Helg!

Zombie-company welfare machines

SEATTLE, Washington - Many people seem to be forgetting (or never got around to learning, or refuse to accept) the purpose of a business - it is to provide goods or services to consumers or other businesses. The fact that many businesses employ people is merely incidental - it is not the reason for the existence of any business.

But tell that to the bailout cheerleaders. It's not helping matters that everyone's personal savior was just elected President. One group of eagerly expectant beneficiaries of the Messianic Powers is the employees of Republic Windows and Doors, an Ohio manufacturer that's been in the news because the workers occupied the plant after the company ceased operations. The workers want accumulated pay and benefits that they say they've been stiffed on.

RW&D is selling the line that they closed quickly because Bank of America pulled their line of credit, making a Big Bad Bank the bogeyman:

The BofA said that the cancellation was routine business practice, caused by Republic's cash flow problem in the wake of declining sales in the nation's housing construction downturn.

"When a company faces such a dire situation, its lender is not empowered to direct the company's management how to manage its affairs and what obligations should be paid," declared the North Carolina-based BofA in a statement. "Such decisions belong to the management and owners of the company."

The BofA's antiseptic statement reflected the kind of cold-blooded market fundamentalism that has led a growing number of Americans to demand more government regulation of big business.

Amazing. By most accounts we have a glut of housing in this country right now (brought on by one bad government policy after another, a topic for another time). There damn fucking well better be housing-related companies like RW&D scaling back or going out of business. BofA is doing the right thing, noting this trend and not supplying credit to ready-to-fail companies like RW&D.

But to the author of the story above, not throwing credit at failing companies is "cold-blooded market fundamentalism".

So, assuming BofA kept this failing company afloat even though there's not enough demand for their product - who would buy the product? Why, Barack Obama himself, more or less:

"The workers want Bank of America to keep the plant open and the workers employed," said UE President Carl Rosen. "There is always a demand for windows and doors. But with Barack Obama's stimulus proposal, there will be even greater demand for the products made by Republic's workers. It doesn't make sense to close this plant when the need is so obvious."

Amazing. The government should just keep artificially stimulating housing demand, because dammit, we have some people here making windows. We'd be better off paying these people to dig useless holes in the ground, as that would at least free up the raw materials of windows and doors to be put to better use.

Alternatively, we should just order every company in America to make windows and doors - after all, according to Mr Rosen there is "always a demand for windows and doors."

At least Barney Frank is shameless enough to openly and explicitly admit that companies should be turned into taxpayer-funded zombie-company welfare dispensers even if they don't provide a competitive product. As far as I can recall, Frank is the only politician I've ever praised by name (for his work on marijuana and online gambling), but even then I noted that I'd find his overall record and worldview distasteful if I looked into it. Frank appeared on 60 Minutes and cheerily discussed his zombie-company theories:

"No. We’re not propping up companies. That’s your mistake," [Frank] tells Stahl, who had asked him about taxpayer money going to prop up companies that had made bad decisions. "We’re propping up individuals. The world doesn't consist of companies. The world is people. The country is people."

When Stahl points out that Frank is then talking about welfare, he responds, "Yeah, I’m for welfare. You’re not? Are you for letting people starve?"

Some argued that bankruptcy was the way for Detroit to work out its troubles and reformulate their businesses. Frank is against that as well because it also hurts the individual. "There's only one thing you can do in bankruptcy: break your word, break your deals," says Frank. "It allows you to say to the small businesses who have been catering lunches for you...the workers, 'Sorry, we’re not paying you,'" he tells Stahl.

And lest someone think that I'm snugly insulated from the problems of the auto companies and thus can heartlessly advocate bankruptcy for the Big 3: I happen to work at a company that is very sensitive to the fortunes of the auto industry, a company that many analysts think will go bankrupt if the auto industry continues to struggle. I'm still 100% against any bailout. The auto industry does not exist to provide a job for me.

(links from Drudge Report and Reason Hit & Run)

Being dead, living in Brooklyn - what's the difference?

SEATTLE, Washington - A correction that ran in Newsday:

In an article published yesterday about autism, some editions reported incorrectly that Vito "Billy" Albanese Jr. died at an out-of-state residential facility. Albanese is living in Brooklyn with his father.

found at Regret the Error

Atlantic City political circus getting national attention

SEATTLE, Washington - The most recent Atlantic City corruption sentences are so noteworthy, they got front-page treatment on the Drudge Report and a mention on KJR's Groz with Gas earlier this week.

A hooker and a Baptist minister having sex in a seedy motel room, where a camera was hidden in a clock radio. A videotape delivered to a radio talk show host by someone wearing oversized glasses, a fake beard and surgical gloves.

Even by the flamboyant corruption standards set by Atlantic City's government over the decades, this was one for the books.

Former City Council President Craig Callaway was sentenced Thursday to three years in prison for his role in setting up council rival Eugene Robinson with a prostitute in a motel room and secretly videotaping the encounter.

Some of the details of Callaway's nefarious plot:

In 2006, [Callaway] rented two rooms at the Bayview Motel, a nondescript lodging outside Atlantic City.

According to an FBI agent's court testimony in June, co-defendant Floyd Tally placed a camera hidden in a clock radio inside one of the rooms. A video recorder was set up in the adjacent room.

The agent said Callaway and his brothers, Ronald and David, paid a prostitute between $150 and $200 to lure Robinson to the motel and perform a sex act on him.

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Prosecutors say Callaway and the others confronted Robinson with the tape and told him it would be released to the media if he didn't resign.

The article mentioned some of the spectacular recent history of Atlantic City politicians:

As recently as 2006, one third of the nine council members were either in prison or on their way. One incumbent councilman is awaiting trial next year for his role in the Callaway sex video case.

In 1989 and 1990, four council members and the mayor were indicted in a bribery case. Only one councilman and the mayor, James Usry, were convicted.

The mayor before Usry, Michael Matthews, was a good childhood friend of my father before growing up, becoming mayor, and being sent to the federal hoosegow for 15 years after pleading guilty to extortion.

Craig Callaway also made headlines in 2002 when, at a city Democratic Committee meeting, his brother Jihad (yes, Jihad Callaway) pulled a knife on a supporter of one of Mr Callaway's opponents.

Minnesota Vikings coach meatgazing in the locker room

SEATTLE, Washington - Ah, the sanctity of the locker room - cameras aren't supposed to be there to capture a coach checking out his players' cranks. Fox's post-game show, after nearly 15 years, finally became interesting as they *accidentally* broadcast some frontal nudity of tight end Visanthe Shiancoe. You would think that coach Brad Childress (the bald guy) has been in enough locker rooms that he would not be caught blatantly meatgazing like this.

The guy that looks like Dennis Farina is Vikings owner Zygi Wilf.

You can click through to Deadspin for uncensored pics and analysis.

UPDATE: Dan Patrick interviewed Shiancoe about the "exposure". There's an audio link on that page. Shiancoe, of course, has a relaxed attitude about the whole incident.

Jim Rome Audio Soundbites

SEATTLE, Washington - Assorted mp3 files (don't get scared clicking through to box.net, it's fine)

Donald Trump destroys Rosie O'Donnell

Bill Parcells "Jap Plays"

Larry Robinson prima donnas "whining little babies"

Larry Brown's crank "right in my face"

Tony Gwynn discussing Ricky Henderson's cleats

Tom Tolbert's "Dr Boudreau" story (or is it Boudreaux?)

Tonya Harding 911 Call

Jim in Fall River on Andy Pettitte - the "eyes of a goat"

Vinnie Mac

Steve Elkington on the Whizzinator - the "rubber donger"

Steve Elkington on Tommy Smothers

Steve Elkington on Colin Montgomerie

Steve Elkington shoots deer through door

Steve Elkington's John Daly story

Steve Elkington's Vegas story - "we see cat"

Prost! West Seattle

SEATTLE, Washington - No need to go to shit neighborhoods like the Herpes Triangle to get some German bierhaus satisfaction. Seattle's teutonic overlords have opened Prost! on California Ave.

I wandered on in and got myself an Erdinger Dunkel Weisse and a bockwurst and it was just like I was transported to Germany. Or at least, transported to Phinney Ridge, where I wanted to buy a house a few years back but I couldn't afford any of them.