tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-140318672011-07-28T05:56:45.894-05:00The Big Yellow Nasty is an antique Coleman cooler that still chills despite decades of travel and abuse. In the spirit of the Nasty, Big Yellow Nasty Wire Services is dedicated to providing a small selection of pop-news that is slightly fresh and more-or-less fit for human consumption.Timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10496865549578815419noreply@blogger.comBlogger681100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14031867.post-58720534646230026672007-08-05T16:20:00.000-05:002007-08-05T17:42:27.120-05:00

BYN ridiculous products wireHere's the claim on "5", the newest gum from Wrigley:The Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company (NYSE: WWY) will introduce to U.S. consumers this summer, 5, a groundbreaking, new sugar-free stick gum with mouth-freshening, long-lasting flavors combined with invigorating sensations "you can feel as you chew."This is a bunch of crap, but that doesn't mean the gum isn't interesting. In

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Ah, the dog days of summer. There's nothing better on a muggy Midwest afternoon than kicking back in your plastic Adirondack chair with a frosty bottle of fresh wheat beer, maybe with a subtle hint of citrus mixed in.We've been a fan of Sam Adams Summer Ale for a long time, but this year we thought we'd mix things up and grab a sixer of Leinenkugel's Sunset Wheat.And sure enough, we've still got

Timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10496865549578815419noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14031867.post-1158797132034837772006-09-20T18:33:00.000-05:002006-09-20T19:09:46.456-05:00

Here at the Big Yell Nast, we're committed to providing edgy commentary on random snippets of popular culture. Sometimes, however, other news services beat us to the punch.Take this article on Modern Drunkard Magazine's third annual convention (Thanks for the heads up, Woot WWWoundup!). We don't even know if it's all for real, but we sure as heck know that the process of writing the article

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BYN fashion extraThe Big Yellow Nasty - under normal circumstances - hates Talbots. We're using the word 'hate' here. About a clothing store.Why? BYN has confirmed through independent studies that their clothing can make women look up to 50 percent older and 25 percent less attractive. It's that bad.In the kids' department, however, Talbots has thrown us a curveball. Inspired by more than 65

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Today's the day - time to get out and buy your DVD copy of Serenity.The consensus seems to be that you should buy it on Amazon through fireflyfans.net, but however you get it, the important thing is you're sending the signal to the studios that you demand more quality sci-fi and, specifically, more Serenity.And if you haven't seen the movie or the TV series "Firefly," now's the perfect time to

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There's something you should know about the Big Yellow Nasty. And I'm talking about the original one, the old cooler.See, coolers can often go long periods of time without use. Weeks. Months. Winters. Sometimes there just isn't much going on that requires chilling or keeping cool.Other times, the owners of those coolers just don't have the time or the energy or perhaps the inspiration to ice down

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BYN distractions wireGoofing off at work, I often pop by Busted Tees to check out the funniest T-shirts I can almost afford. Lucky for me, my mom was cool enough to buy me the Speaker City polo for Christmas.Show us a competitors price and we'll beat it. If we can't beat it, I will give you the keys to the store. Literally.Today I saw this new shirt, a picture of a Brontosaurus with the words "

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"Ask the Nerd Squad," special for Big Yellow NastyIt's pretty much official - Star Wars will debut as a television series in 2008. BBC News confirmed today that producers are planning at least 100 episodes.Much like any other Star Wars announcement, we here at "Ask the Nerd Squad" are treating the news with guarded enthusiasm.One Nerd Squad consultant went as far as to say, "One hundred episodes

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BYN oops wireGreat Googley-moogily! Check out this headline from Google News:From the article:U.S. military spokesman Capt. Steve Stover said the Holy Shiite tomb was undamaged and there were no casualties."We've got our Shiite together," he said. "We were worried the Shiite may have hit the fan back there, but now weve got the Shiites."He said the military is currently investigating the attacks.

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BYN Spam wiresHere at BYN, our commitment to saving you time and money while lining the pockets of our shareholders has resulted in a number of corporate budget cuts.Most recently, we fired our holiday special staff. The staff consisted of 12 middle-aged men and women - severely underpaid writers, online editors and photographers - all of whom had mortgages on new homes and childern in college.

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HDYN tech wiresIn the not-so-distant future, glasses won't be just for nerds, dorks, dweebs, geeks, weirdos, goobers, superheroes protecting their secret identities and crappy emo kids who wear girls' jeans and don't really need glasses but think it's fashionable to accessorize in a way that mocks others' handicaps ("Yeah, I can walk. I just think the wheelchair looks cool. I guess I don't really

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BYN sweet fancy medicine wireWe at the Big Yellow Nasty very often sit around complaining about the media. Usually it's, "What have those losers done for us lately?"Well, this time the media has come through with a photo of the world's first face transplant recipient. The photo was taken as 38-year-old French woman Isabelle Dinoire appeared in public for the first time to talk about the surgery

Timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10496865549578815419noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14031867.post-1137798889337218552006-01-20T18:08:00.000-05:002006-01-20T18:14:49.416-05:00

BYN shameless self-promotion wireIt's this summer's hottest Arizona rap anthem, covering everything from urban sprawl to the photic sneeze. It's Southeast Valley Friday, and you can only find it on My Mesa.

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BYN oldschool rap wireFor all y'all suckas just now gettin literateI laid this s#!t out, now click just a little bitOn this badass motherf@$&in' linksetAnd read the best posts you ain't even seen yetIt's over there, right nav, top shelfYou'll laugh as hard as Jimmy Fallon at himselfOffice fridges, dead ringers, what the hellI keep this s#!t cool in the name of Big YellAnd you know I'm talkin '

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It's twofer Tuesday at the seldom-updated Big Yellow Nasty.We've also got the award for best bumper sticker-type thing of the year thus far. I saw it on a car first. Behold:This comes to us courtesy of goats.com, a cool online comic that is only kind of for geeks.

Timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10496865549578815419noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14031867.post-1136919503782853432006-01-10T13:46:00.000-05:002006-01-10T14:09:16.086-05:00

Worst bumper sticker or bumper sticker type thing of the year thus far goes to this gem of a slogan some clown put across the back windshield of his or her Scion XB:It's hip to be square.Huey Lewis would be rolling in his grave if he were dead.Hey, I'm a fan of Wendy's burgers, Starburst, and Imo's St. Louis-style Pizza ('the square beyond compare'), but if it were ever hip to be square, this

Timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10496865549578815419noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14031867.post-1136750774903031452006-01-08T14:27:00.000-05:002006-01-08T17:39:35.973-05:00

Paol MaseratiBYN celebrity gossip columnistPeople magazine is bringing us a juicy preview of Nick Lachey's tell-all interview in an upcoming Elle:Nick Lachey reveals in an interview that he used to put on Jessica Simpson's shoes and walk around in them – "It was sort of a kinky thing we liked to get into," he tells Elle magazine. My sweet holy effing God. Those boots really were made for

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Big Yellow Nasty celebrity news wireABC's Lost may very well be the best show on television today, and the new season's been solid. But some critics are saying that the newest cast additions, a group of survivors from the tail of the plane who wound up on the other side of the island and were systematically picked off by the "Others" until they were all bitter and paranoid, are bringing the show

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Big Yellow Nasty medicine wiresRemember the movie Face/Off? The badass action flick whose intense action is overshadowed by amazing acting from Nicholas Cage and John Travolta who alternately play the good guy and the bad guy when their faces are surgically switched? John Woo's best American movie? With lines such as, "It's like looking in a mirror. Only... not."? Remember that?Well, the medical

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Take in the audio spectacle that is a bunch of still-drunk fans counting to 23 (twice!) as ASU wins the game with a last-second field goal. Spectacular! Ear candy!This concludes our 2005 regular season Sun Devil football audioblogging. Will Big Yellow Nasty follow the Sun Devils to the Insight Bowl? Probably not, but you never know.

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We asked for it, we got it. In an old, dirty football rivalry, it doesn't get much sweeter than sweet, sweet revenge. And at this point, we had injured true freshman quarterback Willie Tiutama and senior running back Mike Bell.That means we got even on the whole 'late hit on the quarterback that results in injury' thing as well as the 'messing up your best senior and jeopardizing his NFL draft

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Here's the pregame in all its hiccuping, cursing, bloodthirsty glory.Did we have a keg at the tailgate? Yes.Did we finish more than half of it despite the fact that only about five dudes were getting serious? Yes.Did I get obliterated while playing a version of a washer-throwing game called bongos with stiff drinking rules? Yes.Did I get kneed in the balls after stealing a UA fan's hat and

Timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10496865549578815419noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14031867.post-1131855632335122942005-11-12T23:07:00.000-05:002005-11-12T23:20:32.413-05:00

Okay, so I haven't been the best about updating the ol' blog the last couple of weeks. So I hope this makes it up to you.No, it's not a stunning new blog post (although I've got a review of MDX energy soda coming soon, and it's being written by a world-famous big ramp skater). But this is still pretty cool.If you've ever bought a DVD online, you probably know a site called Deep Discount DVD. They

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by Danialla Turbovafearless fashionistaBYN sexy fashions wireBy now you know Von Dutch Originals.You've seen the name scrawled across hip people from Queer Eye's Carson to Ashton Kutcher to the sultry sorostitutes at your local state university.And you've read about how the fashion industry co-opted the name and art of Kenneth Howard (aka Von Dutch), an underground car striper and notorious

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BYN office humor wireHere at Big Yellow Nasty, we take our jobs very seriously. So seriously, in fact, that there is nothing even remotely funny about the Big Yellow Nasty office culture or the behavior of Big Yellow Nasty employees, all of whom receive adequate pay and excellent benefits.In our newsgathering, however, we often encounter reports of comical happenstance and funny ritual at other

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And now the postgame report ... only five days late!Here's my excuse:I called Audioblogger three times during the game, but only the first one posted. For those of you who don't know, all this magnificent audio is done using my cell phone.It's a damn shame, too. Those two posts that didn't take (for whatever reason) were two of the best yet. Here's a recap of what we're all missing:End of first

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Behold, a pregame audio that's almost coherent!Hear the sweetly retarded hope in my voice? That's the result of a good tailgate.We picked up three pounds of chorizo and two dozen 13-inch flour tortillas from the Mexican deli at La Canasta in downtown Phoenix, makers of the Valley's best tortillas. The result was some sublime breakfast burritos, cooked up on Cowboy Jack's camping stove.We had a

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BYN updateTo celebrate Banned Books Week, I added a graphic in the right rail with a link to the American Library Association's Banned Books Week page.It's interesting stuff, and evidence to support Harry Potter critics - the ones who say the Harry Potter series is losing its touch. Poor Harry didn't make the top-10 list for most challenged books for 2004, ending the subversive and satanic

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BYN sports wireBad news for mullet fans everywhere, notoriously long-haired hockey player Mike Ricci is sporting a new 'do.According to the Arizona Republic: Ricci's once famous shoulder-length hair is now ear-length. He altered his locks for the aforementioned film[an upcoming movie about the life of hockey legend Maurice "Rocket" Richard], but don't worry, that semi-toothless face hockey

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While I'll refrain from making too many jokes about it (despite the fact that it's one of the funniest news items I've ever read), you have to check out this juicy story from America's heartland.I've linked it, but I'm also including the text of the story, just in case Kansas.com plans on taking it down one day. But since I really have no right to republish the story, I'd like you to please read

Timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10496865549578815419noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14031867.post-1127116422973772082005-09-19T02:28:00.000-05:002005-09-19T13:04:04.613-05:00

And now, only 26 hours late, the Big Yellow Nasty postgame wrap-up!Not a lot of complaints about ASU's performance. Offense and defense were both solid, despite the fact that the secondary looked shaky early on, and special teams managed not to blow it. Sparky did a lot of pushups, but I'm getting ahead of myself.Let's go to the student section.Big time boos this game. First and foremost, a giant

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Timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10496865549578815419noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14031867.post-1127008887381866122005-09-17T21:01:00.000-05:002005-09-18T21:48:32.773-05:00

Timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10496865549578815419noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14031867.post-1126806203316132012005-09-15T12:43:00.000-05:002005-09-15T12:44:25.026-05:00

Dear reader,I want to let you know that everyone at turbizzi.blogspot.com shares your frustration with the early season technical problems with our college football content. I appreciate very much that you have chosen to read us and we value our relationship with you - fan to fan.I want to apologize to you for the problems we've had and assure you that we are doing everything in our power to

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My phone died during the game, so I couldn't get the post game audio up. I was going to do it later, but that would take away from the spirit of the almost-live almost-podcast.But what happened the rest of the game?Things got a little hairy at the start of the fourth quarter. Up to that point, ASU had played some solid ball, but then the Devils' special teams turned into special ed.LSU's Claude

Timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10496865549578815419noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14031867.post-1126407871759615632005-09-10T22:04:00.000-05:002005-09-12T15:23:32.443-05:00

Emotions were running high at halftime, and things looked pretty good for a Sun Devils upset.I had just gotten back from using the excellent row of troughs Sun Devil Stadium calls a restroom, and I had hit up the concession stand, where I waited a really long time to get $5 bottles of water for my entourage. They were liters, at least, and one wet my whistle well enough to keep me yelling

Timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10496865549578815419noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14031867.post-1126401104960193282005-09-10T20:11:00.000-05:002005-09-11T13:17:24.233-05:00

Welcome back to pre-game audio! Get pumped up with this latest post!

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It's football season, and that means lots of not-quite-legal gambling around the office and not leaving the house on Sundays, unless it's to go to a bar with projection TVs and Sunday Ticket, or, in my case, to go to work and wish you were at a bar with projection TVs and Sunday Ticket.And beer specials and wings and nachos and oh, God, I'm gonna cry.But, while I trade fun and chicken wings for

Timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10496865549578815419noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14031867.post-1125625763933884322005-09-01T20:49:00.000-05:002005-09-02T14:18:08.636-05:00

WARNING: Audio posts are live and uncensored. May not be suitable for small children or hypersensitive oldsters.Here's my first audioblog post from the ASU student Section at Sun Devil Stadium. I thought I made more, but I really don't know where they went. If those posts fail to show up, I'll just have to type in my Sun Devil Fan Experience summary somewhere else.

Timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10496865549578815419noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14031867.post-1125522970381481472005-08-31T16:14:00.000-05:002005-08-31T16:19:24.300-05:00

It's been a while since I've made a post. This isn't because of laziness or a lack of good things to blog about (which are my typical excuses). I attribute it instead to four factors:1) My state-of-the-art 1999 eMachines eTower 400i is busted and, therefore, I have no home computer.2) I've been busy at work.3) I spent most of the weekend in the woods, getting exercise, being rugged and eating

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The BYN Tech wire has been buzzing lately with news about the dismal future of high-definition video disc formats, terabyte DVR/DVD recorders in Japan, major delays for the new Zelda game (thus resting all the hopes for a good Christmas games on Prince of Persia and XBOX 360), Apple's plans to release an antibacterial iPod in Q2 2006, and Johnny Depp looking all surly on the cover of the 21 Jump

Timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10496865549578815419noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14031867.post-1124902069550491442005-08-24T11:38:00.000-05:002005-08-24T11:48:56.150-05:00

You know that annoying window that pops up when you log onto AIM? The one that, if you're not too lazy, you can just disable somewhere in your preferences?Well, mine still pops up. And I got a good laugh out of it today.You see, online dating is kind of a big deal. Single folks out here on this great big Internet are like lost pieces of a two-piece puzzle. The goal of looking for someone online

Timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10496865549578815419noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14031867.post-1124828318748317982005-08-23T14:48:00.000-05:002005-08-23T17:35:43.676-05:00

It's the biggest thing to hit Kuwait since Desert Storm, and Big Yellow Nasty Magazine has the exclusive interview.In a time of international crisis, the fate of two nations hinges on a top-secret mission in the Kuwaiti desert.While freedom and Democracy hang in the balance, a ragtag band of misfits must band together to recover a mystical artifact and stop an evil cult from enslaving the

Timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10496865549578815419noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14031867.post-1124758693910506222005-08-22T19:43:00.000-05:002005-08-22T19:58:13.926-05:00

Urgent breaking news update from BYN.Readers who disregarded the advice in my previous post, Uplifting news from the restroom floor, should be advised that they may now purchase a t-shirt to show off what they're doing with their mp3 players.Take a stand! Buy this shirt today, wear it to work tomorrow, and show those squares at the office that "Generation Why" never stops rocking, not even on the

Timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10496865549578815419noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14031867.post-1124395119919341972005-08-18T14:50:00.000-05:002005-08-18T15:02:56.293-05:00

Alternate post title: Turbizzi misses the short bus to the blogger bandwagonI got an interesting e-mail today.On 8/18/05, Rood, Rundles* wrote: Tim, can you do some sleuthing around and find out if this is for real or if it is just a hoax? http://walken2008.com I know we have had actors involved in politics, but Christopher Walken? It makes me go hmmmmm….

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For one week last year, I was a self-employed New Yorker. I busted my hump over a 60-hour New York-style workweek, selling flip flops to Republican National Convention delegates.I didn't really "make it" there (and, for a long time, I couldn't make it anywhere), but I went to there work. As a result, I never really got to be a tourist in the Big Apple.Sure I saw Times Square, but I had to sell

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Aah, the newspaper on the restroom floor at work. The perfect read for the one time a day where my attention span functions properly.And here's what I found today.It's an uplifting look at how "Generation Why" is changing office culture, from beer shirts to iPods at work. Print it out and head to the can to enjoy it as much as I did. But leave your iPod at your desk.

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I think it was Brian Pulido who said it.It also could have been Todd McFarlane, but I'm pretty sure it was Pulido at this year's Phoenix Film Festival. Hang around these comic book guys enough, and you start to lose track.He said that it wouldn't be long before we see high school kids making movies that look like Sin City in their basements.I've seen these kids. They shop at Best Buy. And if they

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More news on the nostalgia front: the Bloodhound Gang is back.Back in 1999, I heard a song called 3.14 playing on a hip St. Louis radio station on my way home from school. The album, entitled Hooray for Boobies, was supposed to come out November 9, if I remember correctly.But it didn't. The album was changed. Then changed again, I hear, and the release date was delayed for months. This seems to

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I've been mpoing around the last couple days about the fact that there's nothing to blog about. Peter Jennings dies. Space shuttle lands safely. It's raining in Phoenix. The best news item since Sunday was Wayne Gretzky's official announcement that he will coach the Phoenix Coyotes.And while I probably shouldn't talk about work in the personal blog, I can't resist bragging about this. I had the

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By Hopscotch Mooney Big Yellow Nasty wire servicesJessica Simpson may look slim as Daisy Duke on the big screen, but the widescreen stretch turns sexy stems into tree trunks.HOLLYWOOD (BYN) - While the camera was once said to add 10 pounds, the widescreen TV may be adding 37 pounds or more.An AOL Time-Warner spokesman blamed dismal box office returns for the company's remake of the 1979 TV series

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First you endear yourself to America as a baseball star and Viagra spokesman. Then you waggle your finger in front of Congress, vehemently denying the allegations some douchebag made in his book about you using steroids. Then you collect your 3,000th hit. Everybody likes you. You are now a shoe-in for the MLB hall of fame, unlike Bernie Mac.Then you test positive for steroids. You're still more

Timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10496865549578815419noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14031867.post-1123088363234552192005-08-03T11:36:00.000-05:002005-08-03T11:59:23.240-05:00

It's official: God hates the PT Cruiser.Here's a picture that was main art on azcentral this morning:Photo by Heather Reich/The Arizona Republic.Yea, and the Lord said, "Thou shalt drive thine clown car into the watery abyss." And it was good.There are other good pix in a slideshow on the site.More stuff later.

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It's Silly Picture Monday! Here at The BYN, we're giving you the two-for-one special on silly pictures.First off, a family classic. At the Aeropostale in St. Louis Mills, my cousin, my brother and I waited for nearly an hour last winter as my cousin Andy tried on jeans. The jeans were way too long for him, and the sales girl (whom he was way-too-obviously trying to flirt with) kept reassuring him

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In another attempt to make this site look less like a half-hearted cookie-cutter Blogger theme, I created this cooler-shaped bullet to replace the silly arrows. You won't miss those arrows.

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I sent an e-mail to Clay Thompson today. He writes a Valley 101 column for The Republic, which I tried for a while to emulate at the State Press. (The login thing on the State press site is retarded, so hit up bugmenot.com for a login name.)Needless to say, I'm kind of a fan of Clay's column. And lately, he wrote a column about the origin of the phrase "dead ringer." He mentioned today that he's

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Hey, fans. You're probably wondering what's up with the influx of random pictures that relate to The Nasty in some way. This one, for example, is an Easter egg of (from left) Josh, Derek, Adam and me on the beach at South Padre Island for Spring Break 2003. You'll see the Big Yellow Nasty front and center, keeping our Bud Lights so cold we can hardly shotgun them. As for the other pix, one is

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Nastiest!

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The Big Yellow Nasty

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Updated! New nicknames added!Aah, the Internet.With almost no effort, you have access to myriad distractions that enable all manner of quasi-constructive slacking.Today, for example, I stumbled upon a Harry Potter Nickname Generator, which is of great interest to me as a full-grown man who is halfway through Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. And as one of the foremost nickname authorities of

Timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10496865549578815419noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14031867.post-1122398310099107012005-07-26T11:35:00.000-05:002005-07-26T12:18:30.120-05:00

I just got back from Vegas, where the Blackjack tables treated me real nice, but meandering around town in a group of seven was prohibitive to one Las Vegas necissity - buying sunglasses. Also, it wasn't sunny.But now, back in the Valley of the Sun (it's not just a clever name), I'm tormented by the harsh reality that my sweet Blueblockers are busted.Fortunately for me, I now have the opportunity

Timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10496865549578815419noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14031867.post-1121988785355810432005-07-21T18:30:00.000-05:002005-07-21T18:33:05.360-05:00

In retrospect, I think I was tooting my horn a little prematurely when I blogged two days in a row. Nowadays, it seems my loyal fanbase of three people is lucky if I bother blogging two weeks in a row.If I really had the discipline to make a commitment to the Internet, I'd be doing something like this. That link will take you to the new Web page of my good buddy Geoff, whom I still insist on

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One of the downsides of adult ADHD* is that if you sit me in front of an Internet machine long enough, I'll start wandering around the Web until I can snap myself back onto task.But sometimes that wandering can have good results.Today, for example, I stumbled upon a well-organized effort to save HBO's Carnivale. I now have a cool link to it at the bottom of this page. If you're too lazy to scroll

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It's tough for the barbecue-loving businessman. Sure, you can enjoy some pretty good barbecue during a lunch at Big City BBQ in Mesa, Ariz., but you inevitably get some of that delicious hot barbecue sauce on your businessman's work shirt.My businessman clients are always on the go, and I know that the only thing more important than their barbecue is their time. But what busy businessman has the

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That's right, folks. Blogged two days in a row.But apparently I'm not blog-core yet. See, I jumped on this message board about the Google homepage, where I chimed in about adding some Blogger functionality to the homepage options.Of course, Hidden Nook had to go shutting me down. Apparently my blog pales in comparison to those who administer many blogs or have a bunch of blogs (not like I'm a

Timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10496865549578815419noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14031867.post-1119990815128339602005-06-28T15:00:00.000-05:002005-08-09T15:49:07.990-05:00

Welcome to my first-ever blog.I'm the guy who should have been doing the blog thing since day one. As a college newspaper columnist, an editor, an aspiring fiction writer and a word-of-mouth movie critic, I really missed the bus to the bolgosphere.The blog would have been a great outlet when I put in six months as a college graduate working at Best Buy. I could have shocked the Internet with

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