The Chronic Curmudgeon: Blog Stew: Bouillabaisse

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May 21, 2005

Blog Stew: Bouillabaisse

bouil·la·baisse (bool-yuh-bez) n.

1. A highly seasoned stew made of several kinds of fish and shellfish.
2. A combination of various different, often incongruous elements: a bouillabaisse of special interests.

Here are your various different, often incongruous elements for the weekend:

1) President "very concerned" about cloning. "I'm very concerned about cloning," the president said. Yeah, me too. Glad to see that W doesn't want any more Bushes running around either.

2. Vice City Vulgarity. The 2004 fantasy baseball champions, your Vice City Vultures... well, they are well on the way to achieving an historic, if dubious, feat: they may be the first fantasy baseball team in history to pull off the dreaded "first-to-worst" reversal of fortune.

Last year, everything went right for the Flying Harbingers of Death. This year, karma is paying me back in spades. On a roster of 25 players, on Thursday I had 8 -- a full third of my roster -- missing time due to injury. Jim Thome sucked even before he went on the DL, Mike Lowell is suffering the worst season of his career, Coco Crisp is out until September, and not one of my players is batting over .300 for the year. And frankly, the Vultures suck.

We added a 15th franchise this season, so now my fall can be even more ignominious, as I will be the first owner in league history to finish in 15th place. Out of a maximum 180 points possible, the Vultures begin May 21 with 58.5 points -- and have pretty much maxed out their potential right now. The crowds have gone silent at Impending Doom Stadium; they may even stop coming altogether. And if you look up in the sky, you can see some big birds circling over the carcass of this once proud franchise.

3) On Star Wars: Do the Sith have a lisp?

4) Toto, I Think We're Not In Japan Anymore. Man, the things we miss by not living in Japan! Not sure exactly which toilet product this commercial is advertising, but I wish we had more bizarre commercials like this one here in the States. (Couresy of Boing Boing)

5) Today's a big day for someone in my little corner of the world. I'm proud of you, shorty. Congratulations.

6) Search topics: I noticed that during my hiatus, I still got an average of about 50 hits per day. While a few of those were friends of this blog who were checking to see if I was back yet, most were accidental hits from people who were Googling something. Honestly, at least 4 out of 10 were looking for "Ineta Radevica nude."

Ms. Radevica is a Latvian long jumper who was among the eight Olympic athletes who posed for Playboy last summer before Athens. I merely wrote about her back then, but after seeing so many searchers trying to learn what only her hairdresser had known before, I decided -- in the interest of serving my blog community, of course! -- to perform a similar search, just to see what the fuss was about. And while I will not post any of those photographs, here is the young lady who has caused such a stir and who single-handedly kept my traffic patterns up through my hiatus.

7) I'm a Post-Modernist. Woo-hoo! (Thanks to McRob over at The Bothy for the quiz.)

You scored as Postmodernist. Postmodernism is the belief in complete open interpretation. You see the universe as a collection of information with varying ways of putting it together. There is no absolute truth for you; even the most hardened facts are open to interpretation. Meaning relies on context and even the language you use to describe things should be subject to analysis.

What is Your World View? (corrected...again)
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