Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

Have a new Quotes for Today up on my Substack. As I've mentioned doing this as a way to thank those who have Subscribed. If you are a Subscriber - you should have received an email. Thanks!

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

Have a new Quotes for Today up on my Substack. As I've mentioned doing this as a way to thank those who have Subscribed. If you are a Subscriber - you should have received an email. Thanks!

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Three steps to fix the FBI. Start by moving the FBI HQ to Salt Lake City,

- When Norm Macdonald met Bob Dylan

- The suicide of the main stream media. There's a reason trust in the media is at its lowest point in my lifetime. (HT Execupundit)

- Biden Administration quietly revokes veteran's hiring preference for civil service jobs. There's a reason many are considering Joe Biden as the worst President in history.

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

Have a new Quotes for Today up on my Substack. As I've mentioned doing this as a way to thank those who have Subscribed. If you are a Subscriber - you should have received an email. Thanks!

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

Have a new Quotes for Today up on my Substack. As I've mentioned doing this as a way to thank those who have Subscribed. If you are a Subscriber - you should have received an email. Thanks!

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

Have a new Quotes for Today up on my Substack. As I've mentioned doing this as a way to thank those who have Subscribed. If you are a Subscriber - you should have received an email. Thanks!

Linky Links

Stuff I've found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

-Tim Ferriss: An urgent plea to users of psychedelics - let's consider a more ethical menu of plants and compounds.  

- Cool - Jethro Tull's guide to Indian food

- Heh Heh (Never noticed this before)

- Matt Taibbi on SPAC's (Special Purpose Acquisition Companies) 

- VDH: Is the Biden Administration stumbling into war? 

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- SpaceX awarded close to $900 million in federal RDOF auction 

- The Textron Systems BattleHawk looks pretty cool. Although my opinion would change greatly if it were used by US police forces to break up peaceful anti-lockdown demonstrations (I kid)

- Steven Pressfield: Practice = Professional

- The San Francisco real estate market is in trouble 

- Interesting - did Bob Dylan sell his copyrights in order to avoid higher taxes in a Biden Administration?

- Another example of why Chuck Yeager was THE MANLIEST MAN

Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

If you combine the 1918 and 1919 seasons Walter Johnson pitched an amazing 616.1 innings with a 1.37 ERA, allowing just 2 home runs. Equally amazing - both those home runs were hit by Babe Ruth... Bob Dylan is an inspiration to artists for both his creativity and longevity but it should also be pointed out that his first album only sold 5,000 copies. So he's also an inspiration for struggling artists too... Tom Brady's high school went 5-5 his senior year even though they had him as their starting QB. Goes to show you can never tell... Masturbatory Rampage would be a good name for a band or fantasy football team name... Is there anything funnier than sending a friend into Dunkin Donuts for a large "Blumpkin Spice?" Sorry Mark (he thought it was half blueberry and half pumpkin)... 

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- This is a REAL scandal. Why isn't the ACLU involved yet? Why isn't the MSM covering this? Maybe it's time to get rid of the FISA Court all together.

- Wow - never noticed this before but just move the part in the hair to the other side. Maybe Mitt Romney is secretly the Highlander?

- This is taking Olympic sponsorship to a whole other level.

- I agree - this is the coolest photo I'll see this week

- Heh heh

- Once a Marine always a Marine. Very touching.

- The Ecstasy of Saint Lindsay?

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- FREE BIRD! Bob Dylan with the awesome response.

- This is incredibly touching.

- Japanese Robot Sumo! JAPANESE ROBOT SUMO!! Hai!

- Heh heh - I have the sense of humor of a prepubescent boy

- Oh shit! Drunk farmer starts fight with pig gets - jeez I can't even say it

- Heh heh - it's funny because it's true

Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

I was at the game in Miami this weekend where Tom Brady passed Dolphins legend Dan Marino on the all-time passing yards list. No public announcement was made. I thought that was very disrespectful to both players... Heh heh... With Bob Dylan being named a Nobel Prize winner in 2016 - can Alice Cooper being named US Poet Laureate in 2017 be far behind?... Size matters... When people ask me if I've seen Rogue One I always respond, "No - how does it compare to the original Spy Kids?" just to confuse people... Speaking of Tom Brady - good take on how Roger Goodell actually helped the Patriots by being such a jackhole... I would love if MLB would start referring to left-handed pitchers as "Left-wingers" and right-handed pitchers as "Right-wingers" just to mess with people...  How about "NO THANK YOU!"... I think the owl on Hooter's logo - one eye should be colored pink and the other brown. Who's with me?... Ummm...

Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observation.

It's been three days since the Patriots were destroyed on Monday Night. I think I'm mostly over the loss... Every time I find a fruit fly floating dead in the head of my draft beer at a bar, I think "That's the way he wanted to die"... Farrah Fawcett... Olive Oil Dysentery would be a good name for a band or a fantasy football team... Holy shit!.... "With Great Pumpkin comes great responsibility" - Linus... Two girls one brat... Most Patriots are consoling themselves with the fact that it is now less than a week before the Bruins open their NHL season... Heh heh - scientists sneak Bob Dylan lyrics and references into scientific papers and articles as part of a long standing bet... So many fond memories of Saturday morning cartoons growing up but no more - tradition of Saturday morning cartoons is now over... I hope the people in the Bay area treated Joe Montana better when his career was winding down than the Boston sports radio callers are treating Tom Brady. Oh wait... You cannot lose weight by wearing caffeinated underpants....  Just a reminder - according to ABC News Barack Obama's parents were a Black man from Kenya and a white man from Kansas...

Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

Really happy about Bruins going to the Stanley Cup but I am a little bit worried that the rest of the sports world will start to hate Boston for our embarrassment of riches this past decade.... The Red Sox brought up outfielder Josh Reddick which makes me wonder if Reddick on display for trade potential? Maybe Mike Cameron is on the block? It would not be unlike the Red Sox to trade a veteran to a place where he could get more playing time... Hah hah - this has to be a metaphor of sorts regarding the state of Unions in the USA. The manufacturer of the union's "Scabby the Rat" balloon is non-union... Omar Vizquel is just 181 hits from 3,000 for his career. I really hope he gets there. Guy is a Hall of Famer... Josh Reddick is wearing number 16 for the Red Sox. That brings to mind another outfielder for the Sox who wore 16 - Rick Miller. It reminds me that Angels owner Gene Autry once told his GM to get him "that outfielder from the Red Sox." The GM thought he meant Rick Miller who was a free agent but Autry actually meant Dwight Evans... Take a few minutes to listen to a really thought provoking talk... Is this the definition of awful? Adam Dunn is ZERO for 33 vs LHP this season with 15 strikeouts... Just a reminder - Bob Dylan's 1st album sold just 5,000 copies. So not only is he a paragon of success - so he's also an inspiration for struggling artists... Deal of the century? According to this article - David Einhorn will get 33% of the Mets for $200 million but he also gets the option to up his stake to 60% for majority ownership of the team. To buy-out that option the Mets would have to give Einhorn back his $200 million but let him keep his 33% ownership stake. Wow - just wow!... Some of these are more than genius. I would seriously think about buying that convertible couch... What would I do for a Klondike Bar? I guess go to a store and pay a buck and a half. That's what I'd do for a Klondike Bar.

Top 5 Songs About Boxing

This post over at the Straight White Guy got me thinking. The Zevon song Boom Boom Mancini has always been mesmerizing to me but where does it stand in relation to the other songs about boxing? Here's my attempt at listing the top 5.

1. Hurricane by Bob Dylan
2. Boom Boom Mancini by Warren Zevon
3. Song for Sonny Liston by Mark Knopfler
4. The Boxer by Simon and Garfunkel (ummm... maybe a bit of a stretch despite the title of the song)
5. Black Superman - Muhammad Ali by Johnny Wakelin & The Kinshasa Band

Geez - there's not a whole lot of quality songs about boxing. Maybe I'm missing some songs but I struggled to fill out the list. I almost had to go with Eye of the Tiger by Survivor to fill out the list.

Ryan Zimmerman vs. Bob Zimmerman (aka Bob Dylan)

Yesterday was Washington Nationals 3rd baseman Ryan Zimmerman's 23rd birthday. Zimmerman was last year's NL Rookie of the Year runner up. Combine those two facts and I started to wonder how Zimmerman did in the supposed sophomore slump second year. Give me another second to think about it and I start to wonder how Ryan Zimmerman's second season compared against Bob Zimmerman's (aka Bob Dylan) second season.

This year Ryan Zimmerman's numbers are pretty much down across the board with the exceptions of scoring more runs and hitting 4 more home runs than last year. If Ryan Zimmerman was a recording star - the name of his second album (season) probably would be Down Twenty as he has 20 fewer RBI and his batting average and OBP are also down 20 points.

Even with being slightly down this year vs last - Ryan Zimmerman is still the biggest star on the Nationals and is easily one of the top 10 3rd basemen in all of baseball.

Bob Zimmerman's (aka Bob Dylan) first album Bob Dylan was not memorable at all. If there was new folk singer of the year voting - then Dylan would have been lucky to fall into the "also receiving votes" category. The album only sold 5,000 copies. Bob Dylan's breakthrough came with his second album (season) The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan. This album included all-time classics such as Blowing in the Wind, A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall and Masters of War.

Ryan Zimmerman may have had the advantage with his rookie season but Bob Dylan clearly took the lead with his sophomore effort.

If a Ryan Zimmerman / Bob Zimmerman parallel career comes to fruition then that's great news for Nationals fans. It means that Ryan Zimmerman will have a long career with at least his three best seasons yet to come (I'd rank Highway 61 Revisited, Blonde on Blonde and Blood on the Tracks as superior to The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan).

It's not all rosy though. If the comparison holds up then that means that Ryan Zimmerman may do something to infuriate his early fans the way Bob Dylan did by going to electric guitars. Maybe leaving Washington as a free agent would do it. Late in his career Ryan Zimmerman may also convert to Judaism.