free cell minutes + sports broadcast = business?

I’ve often wanted to listen to my beloved Red Sox on the radio but I’m some place odd and can’t find a station that’s broadcasting them. After 9pm (damn you Verizon), I’d love to call a phone number and listen to the game over the phone. Perhaps it would be free, perhaps not. Either way I think a lot of people would love this.

Folk Babe Award

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My early winner for the 2007 Folk Babe award is Colleen Sexton. Wow. She’s terribly attractive and what a great performer! She did a great acoustic of “I Will Survive” at her most recent performance at Club Passim (previous folk babe winner Meg Hutchinson was also in attendance). The qualities a folk babe have to have, cuteness, great voice, great hair (I swear I was a hair stylist in a previous life), funny, great covers and original songs Ms. Sexton has in spades. She Rocks.

Previous winners were the aforementioned Meg Hutchinson. Also on the list are Edie Carey and Deb Talan (damn you Steve Tannen–I had a chance, I swear!). Sam Shaber was close to winning a folk babe as she is quite cute and funny but her music, well, just doesn’t strike a chord with me. She was terribly nice during one a music workshop where she taught her songs. Maybe I need to revisit her music.

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The two females I know who read this blog, please post your folk stud winners!

tried-out

What’s the use in trying if you always succeed? That’s what I keep telling myself after not being called back for a second round of tryouts at Improv Boston. While clearly not the end of the world it is a downer, I felt I could be good at that stuff. Heck, I am. Just not good enough, yet. Chin up! Back straight! Keep trying!

Instead of those silly recalls on Saturday, I’ll go camping with my buddies.

new abbreviation

I introduce for your email writing pleasure a new abbreviation:

NNTR = No Need To Respond

I tack it onto the end of some emails when I don’t need a response from the receiver. I’ve used it and I feel it simplifies communication for both parties–they don’t need to send a response, e.g. Thank you, nor do I need to waste some of my life reading their perfectly reasonable yet oh-so terse response which makes it unworthy of an email.

I’m not going to patent it so feel free to use it!

Taken from Steve Bzomowski’s recap of my basketball league game:

G2) The Dayton Flyers, who last week easily dispatched the undermanned Charlotte 49ers, stood on the sideline of this game watching the 49ers, and, to a “man” remarked, “that does not look like the team we played last week”. Meaning with Scott Galloway and Matt Middleton and Bruce Garr in attendance they seemed more formidable. And they were. The 9ers scraped and dug their way to a close game behind the undeniable all-around skill of David Duane, the ballhawking of Scott Galloway (he’s just got a nose for the ball), and the basketball intelligence of one Jim Duane. Not enough of all that though, and too much of Jamal “Dr J” Halawa. (When will he thrill the PFL crowd with a right baseline, ball palm, impossible reverse?) With Craig “The General” Smith directing traffic and Jason Mazaik gobbling up rebounds, the Spiders had ‘em where they wanted ‘em and wouldn’t let ‘em go.

BTW, I’m “The General”. Now you know my name my horde of adoring readers. Anyway, Steve was generous but I’ll take it. Check out my stat line:


TOT-FG 3-PT REBOUNDS

## Player Name FG-FGA FG-FGA FT-FTA OF DE TOT PF TP A TO BLK S MIN
10 Craig Smith……… * 1-3 0-0 0-1 1 7 8 4 2 2 2 0 0 31

Damn it, I can’t get this editor to *NOT* compress whitespace. Hey, Liam, any ideas how to properly handle this? Anyway, I had 2 points on 1-3 shooting. 0-1 free throws. 8 rebounds (1 offensive). I am proud of my rebounding for 5′9″ guy. Four personal fouls. Two assists and two turnovers in 31 minutes of playing (we play two 20 minute halves).