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God's least favorite podcast returns after only a ten-day layoff! Join our hosts as they traverse a tricky technological trapeze to bring you their thoughts on "The Wrestler," Mickey Rourke's performance, other films on the horizon, and more! PLUS: Mixed Martial Malarkey at the end of the show with a new segment called "Yo MoMMA" that's a lot funnier than you'd think, a preview of St. Pierre/Penn 2, our picks for Saturday, and Helio Gracie delivering the greatest last words of all time. Johnny Cash and Big Bird sing us out.

PS - Listeners, stay tuned for more information on the multi-media campaign to cast Brian P. Dermody as Robocop!

Unemployed MMA fighter blames "an Obama" for his lot in life
Have fun with the secret service, you twit. You're lucky he's a man of reason and also that he suspended that Guantanamo nightmare.

But like I said at the time that it happened,



Palin to media: "Leave my kids alone"
Media to Palin: "We've been in D.C. all this time. New president, you know. Big parties, speeches, parade... the whole deal. I'm sure you would have had a great time. What was your name again? Governor? You... uh... you know you were invited right?"

I will now spend a significant amount of my work week listening to the drivetime antics of one Todd Pettengill.

Best songs with parentheses in the title, as in

Phil Collins "Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)"
Simple Minds "Don't You (Forget About Me)"


GO!

I hate hate hate this call. Mr. President-Elect, you're better than this.

Props to pcash for the link.

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No repeats. No kidding.

Two things you probably didn't know about the Billy Joel song "My Life"

- Peter Cetera sang backing vocals.

- The old friend he sings about in the first verse is a real person. If he continued his train of thought, he would have said his friend "closed the shop, sold the house, bought a ticket to the west coast, now he gives them a stand up routine in L.A. Soon he'll star on a dramedy with Jamie Lee Curtis and do ads for fruit juice before banging around some more and eventually ending up with a recurring role on a critically acclaimed cable series."

AGP wishes Jason Giambi the best in all his future endeavors.

Twitter name: doingbetter

Also: what's with these Russians friending me for a few months at a time and then leaving?

Your Nostalgia Chick is at it again.

"It" being "casting me". But it's all in the holiday spirit and in a broader sense the spirit of awesome. Enjoy.

Manny?

You guys run Torre out of town on a rail a year ago and now you want to bring in Manny? Manny. You're going to pay him $146 bajillion dollars to sit on a bench for three days and play for one, repeat until we all give up?

Manny doesn't run out a grounder, Girardi benches him. That's how the man does things. So you're either going to overpay for a guy who will simply not fit in, or you let him run wild and undercut the skipper. And if Manny can do things his way, what kind of an example is that for the young guys? Ian Kennedy will have a tattoo of a vagina on his face by the All Star break.

I'm just saying, my fanhood is a serious matter to me. I'm sure the Mets would love to have me.

Sometimes it's 4 am in early December and you're out because you couldn't have slept anyway. And you've been at the holiday party all night telling the same old stories to Dawkins knows who.

And you're staggering off a beer buzz on the half mile home from the subway and it's pissing down rain and not quite 40 degrees. Windy. The weather nobody likes but you. And your iPod sees fit to give you "Blue Valentines". Tom Waits. As if it could have been anyone else.

You get to feel your heart break the right way. A little drunk, cold and wet, a song that gets you between the eyes every time. Every damn time.

Yeah, work's going to be awful in the morning. Everyone will be hungover and wishing they didn't say or do what everyone saw. Life's tough. Life's almost always tough.

Sometimes life is perfect for six minutes.

The real question: How do we parse this?

Plausible Options:
- The killers are both vampires and lesbians
- The lesbians kill only vampires
- The killers kill only lesbian vampires

Screenwriter Eric Roth, as reported on imdb.

"I turned in my version of the Forrest Gump sequel, or Part II, whatever you call it. It's a continuation really - I want to start the movie literally two minutes after the end of the last one, with him on the bus bench waiting for his son to get home from school.

"But I turned in the script the night before 9/11. And we sat down, Tom (Hanks) and Bob (Zemeckis) and I, looked at each other and said, we don't think this is relevant anymore. The world had changed. Now time has obviously passed, but maybe some things should just be one thing and left as they are."


So Osama bin Laden, evil to the core as he may be, at least spared us that.

Cause it's gettin' around.

Put your mp3 player thingy on shuffle, and write down the first line of the first twenty songs. Post the poem that results.

With any luck, we can get sirenofaverne to do a dramatic reading of this one too.

ETA: Done and done.

Friday night, I just got back
Gave to the gorilla girl gobs and gobs of love
Wild precious teardrops fall

All my days I had moldy bread
Oh what the heck, let's get married have a son called Erick
I'm quite contented to take my chances

Rosanna's daddy had a car she loved to drive
Starin' blindly into space
Sometimes in my bed at night
You can walk away

It's important to practice good hygiene
My whole family loves "Three's Company"
Dream on, dream on, teenage queen

Those happy hours that we once knew
Doin' it in the park, doin' it after dark
Leave me alone, leave me alone

You're shootin' glances and they're so hard to read
Can you hear me? The helicopters
Okay, so your heart is broken
You told me goodbye, I believed you

They made me watch "According to Jim".

I forgot to shut off the thing that re-ups my subscription. So you clowns are stuck with me for another year or until I get a real web presence up and running. Settle in. Another year of this crap.

ETA: Now you can add existing tags to my entries if you're on my friends list. I'm INTERACTIVE!

This week at St. Cecilia's around the corner from my apartment.

1. I voted.

2. A big important TV shoot. This happens pretty regularly. "Lipstick Jungle", "30 Rock" and "Rescue Me" have all been around in the past year. But the sign outside said something like...


Tonight
Benefit for
Pet Epilepsy Foundation
and
Flight of the Conchords