ba-ba bada ba-ba goes the backing vocal

[throughadoor]

onthecontrary, imogenics and i kipped on the sidewalk in front of fenway for three and a half hours yesterday afternoon to get day-of release tickets to last night's sox game. the day-of release ticket set-up is actually pretty cool: you can start lining up five hours before the game, and then two hours before the game starts, they'll sell you any extra tickets they

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[moireach]

Ohmigod, thank you for linking to that article -- a year or two back NPR did a spot on the same thing, featuring similar yet SEPARATE bizarre conspiracy theories about Sweet Caroline. My favorite was the one involving Caroline Kennedy.

the organization has spoken to red sox nation about the process, and the nation has stated

<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

lie low with lupin, please.

[throughadoor]

i think it's just a psychological experiment to see just how crazy red sox fans are. i'm pretty sure that the organization could tell us that "nothing's gonna stop us now" by starship was the new team theme song and at least 85% of the fan base would non-ironically get on board. i know i would. i don't need any excuse to love that song, because it is awesome.

also! "lie low with lupin" refers to the part at the end of goblet of fire when dumbledore tells sirius to lie low at lupin's and have lots of angsty tea and sex wait for his instructions. because, you know, i'm predictable. sadly, we know this. but hey, at least this took a lot less time to explain than amazement.

and for you: visual allusions to the graduate

[moireach]

Yeah, Sweet Caroline is another song I react to in mortifying ways when drunk -- which I feel pretty well approximates default Red Sox Nation mental state.

Aw! That is a cute interest. True love in a shack indeed.

visual allusions to the graduate

Oh, the grandaddy of directionless ennui flicks. I like when movies or tv play around with the underwater scene -- there's the straight derivative like Orange County, but also Bill Murray in Lost in Translation watching Japanese aerobics underwater and in last season's Gilmore Girls, Rory, dropped out of school, slumped in a chair in her bathing suit watching diving shows on tv. I like the idea that pop culture knowledge gets rewarded with references like that. And of course its fingerprints are all over Wes Anderson and a billion other things I like despite myself.

[mrshellion]

I think it is amusing and INSANE that you have a whole blog dedicated to Jonathan Papelbon. God damn it, I love ya. We NEED to hang the next time I'm in town.

Tell me about "you're with me leather."

[throughadoor]

we're trying to expand the papelblog to be just another one of those occasionally funny, completely over-the-top deadpan red sox blogs that rule the internets, but i won't lie, we could probably write an entry just about papelbon for every day of the season. and that's ... special. and as you pointed out, insane.

i could not dream of trying to explain "you're with me, leather" and also do it justice, so instead i will just link you here. and also here. oh, and, here.

for you: dubplate pressure

[mrshellion]

Dubplate pressure is actually the name of a drum n bass tune by DJ Sniper that starts out pretty calm and gets so intense, it gives me whiplash just listening to it. It rocks my balls.

I'll have to check those links out at home, since apparently they'd be better stressed if there was audio present, and I can't really do that here.

[callmesandy]

"tits" please. :)

[throughadoor]

they say a picture is worth a thousand words.

also, kick it old school: aaron sorkin's mushroom lasagna

[callmesandy]

Girls are pretty.

Really, it's John Wells. He started making it when he was on ER and thus, you know, they let George Clooney off and now we get shows where people shoot at Maura Tierney. Then he made some for Aaron on TWW and Toby had twin babies. Aaron, bitter in his exile, started sending it to showrunners who were enjoying critical and sometimes ratings success. Josh Schwarz of the OC got his towards the end of season one, Greg Berlanti of Everwood around the end of season two, Amy Sherman-Palladino resisted opening hers until this past November but I'm fairly sure Joss Whedon ate a whole plate before writing the Angel series finale.

Who knows where Aaron might strike next?

[babyofthegroup]

Oooh. I'd like an explanation of "converted makeup buses".

...and if that's a peter_and_fran reference, I'm totally putting my foot in my mouth. For the, like, eighty-seventh time this week.

[throughadoor]

hahah -- it's actually a lord of the rings reference -- in one of the DVD extras somewhere, they talk about how one of the make-up trailers was actually an old bus? and at one point bernard and viggo decide to drive it, and it's hilarious and alarming. it's the sort of sentiment that made us want to write peter+fran, and we probably intended to write the converted make-up bus into peter+fran at one point, but alas, i don't think we ever did.

also, hit me with maryland crab soup. having grown up on the west coast, maryland crabs confuse me.

[babyofthegroup]

Ahahaha, that's awesome.

So, okay, I miss crab soup like some people miss their parents. You just can't get decent crabs out here -- there's king crabs and dungeness crabs, but not blue crabs, which are what crab soup is made from. What you do is this: you get half a bushel of crabs (still alive, naturally) and stick them in a big pot with some vinegar, beer, lots of different kinds of pepper, Old Bay, and salt, and steam them. Then you pick and eat them and they're delicious. With the leftover meat, you make soup -- it's tomato-based, with carrots, celery, corn, lima beans, string beans, tomatoes, potatoes, and, of course, crabmeat. You spice the soup much as you spice the crabs when steaming them -- Old Bay is critical, and a little chili powder never hurt. I make [ an approximation] with chicken instead of crab, but it's not the same.

...and now I'm hungry.

[throughadoor]

see, i grew up on dungeness crabs (mmm, i'm going to visit my parents next week, must go to lunch place in bodega that makes amazing open-face crab sandwich), so when i see blue crabs in a bucket at the haymarket on saturdays, i'm like, "what's the point?" but this is intriguing, maybe i should try them some time.

and now i'm going away, i swear.

[kickthebeat]

i have less than zero desire to watch sga tonight. umm. however, i feel the masses need to know why all the cool kids are down with hating mompants and, perhaps, what's up with manny being manny.

Re: and now i'm going away, i swear.

[throughadoor]

in order to explain hating mompants, i feel like i might have to resort to pictoral evidence once again.

exhibit a

so high-waisted. so unflattering. so purchased at an REI outlet seconds sale. so ... mompants.

and now: joe flannigan's horse posters. feel free to provide pictures of your own horse posters to illustrate.