TEDDY ALERT

My brother-in-law Eric alerted me to this fantastic blog about Teddy's plight and I guess just recently Teddy actually WON! But not in a real race against the President's but rather against the Orioles' bird. Still. Babysteps, Teddy.

For those of you not in the know, or don't remember when I blogged about this before, the Nationals have a race during the game much like the sausage race in Milwaukee. Only instead of sausages, it's presidents. But there is an on running gag where Teddy never wins. (It's George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Lincoln, and Teddy I believe.)

Anyway, EXCITING!

The Dublin Commercial

Here is what I went to Dublin for...

TWIB Notes

--Today was my birthday.

--Yesterday, there was another important birthday; I became an uncle again. A little girl named Lillian Gween Yeo was born on Saturday night. She is my niece!

This is her. She might not look happy about it. But I am.

27 Kidneys TONIGHT!

Hello everyone! Come and check out 27 Kidneys tonight @ Maude Night. 8 pm with Mix Tape '98! $5 bucks. Good fun.

You Know What I Like?

I like that Microsoft Word after 20 some years, has finally shaken up the world with a new default font. It's no longer that workhorse, Times New Roman. And no, before you mention it, it is no longer the scrappy but seasoned number 2, Arial. No folks, welcome to a new century. It's CAMBRIA!

Change is good.

Kenny Comes To UCB!

Hello faithful readers...

Kenny Mayne is coming to UCB finally. He'll be there this Wednesday @ 9:30 pm. It's $5 par usual and he'll be opening for the show Hot Lather and I Eat Pandas. All of those shows are fabulous. So why wouldn't you come to this? Kenny will be reading from his new book: An Incomplete And Inaccurate History Of Sport.

I guess that's it. Kenny, I have successfully plugged your show. Exciting, right?

Cap In Hand

I went home for Memorial Day Weekend. To see the fam, and also to see Kayla play softball and to go to see the Nat's new stadium. It's beautiful. Check it. Supposedly, it's the largest scoreboard in all of MLB.
Here's Kayla getting ready to take the field. You'll note there is a lot of pink going on with these kids outfits. There's pink helmets, pink mitts, pink batting gloves, pink bats, pink shoes. Surprisingly, the balls are not pink. But yellow. So it's easier to pick them up in the batter's box.
Her team name was the Red Cherries They faced a team called the Vicious Puppies. The Vicious Puppies were just as their name advertised. Some good hitters on the Puppies. And the dads were just as vicious. In this league, kids are just supposed to take one base on a hit. And you bat all the way through. You can record outs but it doesn't matter if you get nobody out or everybody out. But these dads were having their kids go for extra bases if it got past the infielders or if the infielders bobbled the ball. Not cool.
Then on Sunday, we went to see the new Nats' stadium. Here's all three generations of Nat's fans in the Shelkey family. We had a lot of different food at the ballpark including some half smokes with chili, cheese, and onions on them, some boardwalk frieds, cotton candy, regular hot dogs, and of course--dots! I was a little disappointed the dots didn't come in the plastic baseball hat. But I guess you can't get EVERYTHING right in the first year right?
And finally, a style debate. I got a blue Nats' cap b/c my red one which Purnell awesomely procured for me before is a little too small. But now I think I got one too big. So I need that goldilocks one in between. Note: It is really hot in my apt, and I have my shirt off. So that's why you get to see the sexy shirtless hat pics. I feel like it's too early to turn on the air conditioning. So I am surviving on shirtlessness and a fan.

Jinglewriter

Siobhan and I are submitting to be part of this tv show where you write jingles. Here is our submission for the fictional product, Fruit It Up.