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throughadoor

and you know, the wretch was there, because she always is.

Jan 13, 2009 07:38

Conflict of wills for the ages last night: one of the only things that helps my stupidly epic insomnia is to fall asleep listening to the soothing monotony of Sports Center. Last night, though, all Sports Center wanted to do was ball wash the retirement of St. Tony Dungy. And I HATE Tony Dungy. Because, I'm sorry, being very publicly devoted to ( Read more... )

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callmesandy January 13 2009, 13:19:53 UTC

I was absolutely astonished to see someone on AOL Fanhouse saying the exact same thing - Tony Dungy, not perfect. Because of the homophobic stuff! It won't keep him out of the Hall, but at least we are not alone.

throughadoor January 13 2009, 15:28:35 UTC

Yeah, it came up on one of the messageboards that I read and I was, like, shocked and overjoyed that Masshole commenters were like, "Wow, I didn't know that, that's not cool." Too bad there is no room for this information in the midst of Sports Center's week-long tribute!

callmesandy January 13 2009, 16:49:23 UTC

I really liked the way the guy on AOL said it, that Dungy's carrying his faith into that kind of action, that kind of advocacy was the problem, not that he is Christian and thinks that means he needs to hate gays ... clearly, I am not the person for writing the balanced piece on this. :)

moireach January 13 2009, 16:18:37 UTC

This will probably be the winter I go Britney-with-umbrella on someone's house because they haven't shoveled their fucking sidewalk all winter and now it's a solid stretch of ice and I almost died.

throughadoor January 13 2009, 16:54:03 UTC

When I lived in Brookline, I used to leave people nasty notes, because they were ALL HOMEOWNERS and they had NO EXCUSE.

... that's like the least surprising piece of information ever, isn't it?

sparkymonster January 14 2009, 14:50:35 UTC

You know, there are online thingies for some cities where you can basically request people get tickets for not removing snow.

Somerville
http://citizen.somervillema.intelligovsoftware.com/Default.aspx?reason=1&ReturnUrl=%2fnewRequest_1.aspx

Boston (call Mayor's hotline)
http://www.cityofboston.gov/mayor/24/

Brookline
http://www.brooklinema.gov/index.php?option=com_wrapper&view=wrapper&Itemid=908

Cambridge
http://www.cambridgema.gov/TheWorks/services/snow/complaint.aspx

SADLY doesn't exist for Medford.

agate January 13 2009, 21:33:44 UTC

AUGH, UNSHOVELED SIDEWALKS, THE BANE OF MY WINTER EXISTENCE. Especially when you're profoundly overworked and so you have to maneuver rolling file carts packed with files over unshoveled sidewalks on your way home Friday evening. Thank god that's over.

throughadoor January 13 2009, 22:07:52 UTC

OH MY GOD A FILE CART?

You know, I spend a lot more time with a permanent black marker than I would like, but apparently there are some benefits to working with a population that has super-mega huge disclosure concerns -- I can't ever bring files home from the office.

imogenics January 14 2009, 00:07:59 UTC

I vowed to myself that if I could watch the trailer for the Wrestler ONCE without getting all verklempt, I would not go see it. I've seen almost all the big awardsy holiday movies this year, and EVERY TIME they show the Wrestler trailer, and this is how shit usually goes down:

[blah blah wrestling, Mickey Rourke's pulverized ham-face]

ME: eh.

[BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN: didya ever see a one trick pony mumble mumble and you see meeeeeee darlin mumble mumble]

ME: CAN'T BREATHE. THIS SHIT IS SADDER THAN THE HOLOCAUST.

throughadoor January 14 2009, 03:04:16 UTC

YEAH. WELL. YES.

I don't think it's a spoiler to tell you that the Springsteen song starts playing as soon as the movie ends. But! The song plays for what seems like a good thirty seconds BEFORE the credits start rolling. So we were sitting there, like, "Are we just gonna watch a blank screen and listen to the song?" I might have been okay with that.