Brief Interviews With Hideous Men – David Foster Wallace Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again – David Foster Wallace Native Son – Richard Wright The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck All The King’s Men – Robert Penn Warren Thomas Jefferson: Author of America – Christopher [...]
Archive for 2011
Pepper Power ~ Week 13 ~ Wee Bey Blows Edition
Posted 27 June 2011 by Pony BoyTagged As: | Categories: Rebecca Black is a musical prodigy, Sex with vegetables. | Leave a Comment
The Yankees have been at this for years. A big bat comes on the free-agent market. They throw gobs of money at the batter. Then they sign another guy and another guy who will hit .280 with 30 home runs. Meanwhile, the Yankees starting rotation hobbles along with rent-a-wrecks. Sometimes those aging veterans have a [...]
One Sentence, Part V
Posted 22 June 2011 by Wee BeyTagged As: Bastards | Categories: 16 In The Clip And One In The Hole, One Sentence | Leave a Comment
But mostly we do it because we feel it’s important, and because we will never concede defeat to those rat bastards at corporate headquarters. – Bobby King, President Indianapolis Newspaper Guild, CWA Local 34070, after Gannett laid off 700 people yesterday
Questioning The Powers That Be
Posted 21 June 2011 by Pony BoyTagged As: | Categories: Deconstructing The Random, Moneyball | Leave a Comment
The Athletics. The Orioles. The Nationals. The Rockies. The Blue Jays. These are a few of the teams ranked ahead of the Minnesota Twins by a pair of MLB writers in their power rankings, which moved on the wires Saturday. This is the last time we’ll chat about this. Promise. Let’s get the knocks against [...]
Try To Make An Honest Stand
Posted 20 June 2011 by Wee BeyTagged As: | Categories: Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
Life’s hard out there for pimps, cable salesmen and beat writers. So we really hate to slag someone for the seemingly minor journalistic offense of self-plagiarism. But this was too good — and by good, we mean bad — to pass up. In case you missed it, the Boston Bruins restored order to the hockey [...]
Pepper Power ~ Week 12
Posted 20 June 2011 by Pony BoyTagged As: Balderdash, Pat Morita | Categories: Rebecca Black is a musical prodigy, Sex with vegetables. | Leave a Comment
Slop. That’s how I would characterize the MLB standings and these rankings. Only one team, Philadelphia, has better than a two-game lead in its division. Boston leads New York by two in the American League East. Nobody else leads by more than a game. The Brewers, Braves and Cardinals all have 40 wins. All of [...]
It’s ‘Patriotic’ That Makes It Art
Posted 18 June 2011 by Wee BeyTagged As: Crunk, Golf, The Man | Categories: Off-topic, Oklahoma | Leave a Comment
In a nod to what we’re sure will be Rory McIlroy’s Sunday evening, we’re going to take this opportunity to reproduce the greatest list of all time. Dan Jenkins’ 10 Stages of Drunkenness Witty and Charming Rich and Powerful Benevolent Clairvoyant Fuck Dinner Patriotic Crank up the Enola Gay Witty and Charming, Part II Invisible [...]
One Sentence, Pt. IV
Posted 17 June 2011 by Wee BeyTagged As: Facepalm, Pseudonyms | Categories: Can't Write Now, Holy crap | Leave a Comment
“In its simplest form, bilateral leg weakness means he had weakness in both legs.” – Twins GM Bill Smith, if that is in fact his real name, in the Strib, on Mauer’s stint on the DL. Thanks for clearing that up, Bill. [H/T to loyal reader Martin]
Good Friday
Posted 16 June 2011 by Wee BeyTagged As: Bilateral Fucking Leg Weakness, Good Friday | Categories: Can't Write Now, Joe's Sitting | Leave a Comment
The Big Baby Jesus has risen, and will catch Friday against, who else, the Padres. Minnesota was 4-6 when Mauer went on the DL. They proceeded to drop nearly 20 games under before rallying lately to close within a double in the gap of a respectable record. And, of course, we finally got around to [...]
A Hockey Joke
Posted 15 June 2011 by Wee BeyTagged As: Hockey, Travashamockery | Categories: Katskillz Komic, True Stories | Leave a Comment
We sat in a narrow concrete block room telling jokes. Wooden benches lined the walls save for a gap in the center the long way for a square black 50 gallon industrial garbage can. Wooden pegs were nailed into a wooden strip four feet above the benches and letter jackets and baggy jeans were hung [...]