where's mine? huh? where's mine? where's mine???

And now upon I am back, for all no people who have come to greet me I say:

It has been two years and more. Now, the Chicago Blackhawks are exciting to me!

So many good players, you know what I mean? Like, they're not bad players. It's a strategy unfamiliar to the organization, but my hunch is this: not bad players will win more games than the old ones.

Really, though, it's not that they're NBPs, it's that the Hawks have soooo many players with exciting upsides. Kyle Beach? He might be a dick, and he hasn't shown us shit yet. But he's huge and could be a kickass powerforward! Awesome! You could sort of call Beach Akim Aliu 2.0: White Guy edition. Akim Aliu is also exciting to me.

And jesus, look how young everyone is! I'd be flipping out if the roster started and ended with kane and toews. and Brian Campbell. But it doesn't! That's what's so kickass. Dustin Byfuglien is a dynamite scoring forward, all of a sudden. Patrick Sharp is awesome, apparently? David Koci sucks, yeah, but he's a beast and a half who loves to fight. That's gotta be exciting, at least, right?

2007-2008 was a pretty kickass year to follow the Hawks. Sports are at their most exciting when you can just taaaaste your team getting good, but it's not quite there yet. Once they get really good, you start to get complacent. That hasn't happened yet for the Blackhawks fan version of me, and man, I am wicked ripped for this season. Boston sucks Detroit sucks.

New blog posts are gonna be a comin, at www.howthemoonworks.com. You butter believe it. I'll post a note here for all no people who have come to greet me soon, to whom I say:

Eat will, young ones, for times are harsh where the road bends... -Robert Frost

i had to pay for musicmatch for my class. it's like 10 bucks, it sucks, that rhymes, but i figure, if i have to pay for it, i might as well use the damn thing.

i should explain. musicmatch is this shitty music player that, for 10 bucks a month, let's you listen to (but not save) any of their songs indefinitely! that's sort of cool.

or, it would be, if they had a decent selecti0n of songs. they don't. so i've been spending time listening to songs i haven't heard in eons. songs that, to be honest, i don't need to hear ever again. but i'm doing it to remind myself of my roots, you know?

new found glory sounds really...shiney.

REVIEW
Pizza Cake
2 Stars (Out of 5)

lucy brought me dinner at the radio station during my office hours, and i was tickled to see that she brought me pizza and boston cream cake, precisely the items i requested. then she left, and i realized that the crazy lady had left it so that the frosting of the cake would melt onto the pizza. it was so gross i wanted to barf, i couldn't even look at the monstrocity on my plate. the smell made my stomach well up in my throat. after i was done i decided that it tasted sort of sweet.

Chad (New York, NY): Chad, I read an article where a lot of GMs said they still would have traded NY's top pick in the draft for Eddy Curry, because of his enormous upside. Do you agree with this?

Chad Ford: (12:30 PM ET ) I think Isiah Thomas must have authored it. Sure, I'd trade Eddy Curry for a No. 1 pick in theory. However, your question is leaving out two big things. One, the Knicks actually gave away 2 first round picks for Curry (the Bulls have the right to swap picks with the Knicks next year and given the direction the Knicks and Bulls are going, it's going to be swapping a potential No. 1 and maybe a shot at Greg Oden for a pick in the late teens or early 20s). Two, they gave Curry $56 million after he spent the end of last season sitting out with heart problems. Is there really another GM in the league that would've done that? Not one that would want a job next year. That was one of the worst trades ever.

• All the Team USA pitchers -- and pitching coach Marcel Lachemann -- were in awe of Roger Clemens. But one thing they weren't ready for was Clemens taking that Icy Hot that pitchers rub on their shoulders and arms and spreading it over his upper thighs and private parts. "He doesn't want to get comfortable on the mound," says Jake Peavy, who tried the same trick Friday night in Phoenix.

hahahahahahahahahahahahahaa

i can say with little doubt that this is the single best blurb peter gammons has ever posted on espn.com

my chemical romance has released a sort of retrospective of their career. they've been around for what, 3, 4 years? thank God we finally have a way to look back and remember what they were like before they were shitty. although, i guess thats not that much of a departure from what they are now. jesus, who cares?

guess what? the COMMIES at myspace deleted my awesome posts about elizabeth's cat. they couldn't silence the masses, though.

Troy Rifkin

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Posted: Feb 27, 2006 7:35 PM

ElizabethWrote:
hey man, who said you wanted to have at it with my cat? who suggested that? who said anything at all about my cat? hmm? YOU DID! so back off

Can you blame him? Cats are sexy as hell. I'm constantly tempted by them. The key is I don't ACT on those urges. Also, your cat is not sexy. That helps a lot. Well, your cat isn't THAT sexy.

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Posted: Feb 27, 2006 7:41 PM

Troy RifkinWrote:

ElizabethWrote:
hey man, who said you wanted to have at it with my cat? who suggested that? who said anything at all about my cat? hmm? YOU DID! so back off

Can you blame him? Cats are sexy as hell. I'm constantly tempted by them. The key is I don't ACT on those urges. Also, your cat is not sexy. That helps a lot. Well, your cat isn't THAT sexy.

I don't know what cat you're talking about, but the cat I see is pretty fine.

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