Overheard in a Secretarial Bay

"You know what, I don't conjugate."

Getting It Right

From The Department of Corrections

In our Saturday post about the California Democratic Party’s ad attacking Meg Whitman but masquerading as an “issues ad,” we described the abrupt ending to our conversation with CDP Chairman John Burton. Through his spokesman, Burton on Monday complained that he had been misquoted. Burton says he didn’t say “Fuck you.” His actual words were, “Go fuck yourself.” Calbuzz regrets the error.



http://www.calbuzz.com/2010/05/7819/

Remington Shadow

Favorite Baseball Story in Awhile

http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/05/lastings-milledge-got-deked-by-fireworks.html.php

Can't say I've ever seen this one before. In the fourth inning of last night's Pirates-Cubs game, Lastings Milledge launched a ball towards left field. The fireworks fired! The music played! Lastings began to circle the bases and . . . got tagged out between second and third. Wha?

Seems that the ball merely bounced off the wall. You can watch it here. Obviously whoever is in charge of the music and pyrotechnics jumped the gun a little. After the game Milledge admitted that he was watching the sky and not the umpires' signal, saying "I never thought that it didn't go out because the music was playing and the fireworks."

By Craig Calcaterra

Text message on the phone of the woman in front of me

Thank you for being sweet. I'm glad I don't make your ears itchy.

In the hall

Woman of perhaps thirty, to a man of maybe 60, who she obviously has never met:

Woman: You are really good at that.

Man: Oh, thanks.

Woman: I could hear you through the wall. You sounded just like a cartoon.

Man: I'll take that as a compliment.

Prudential wisdom

-- And if it were true also that she had fought a duel with one husband, that also ought to be a reason why a gentleman should object to become her second husband.

"The Way We Live Now" -- Trollope

Giving Cover

Awesome site of awesomely bad sci-fi covers. Sci-fi.

http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/

(from Andrew Sullivan)

Late Breaking News From the 2010 Pulitizer Prize jury

Special citation:

Hank Williams for his craftsmanship as a songwriter who expressed universal feelings with poignant simplicity and played a pivotal role in transforming country music into a major musical and cultural force in American life.

Truth in Advertising

A Southern California pastor has been charged with bigamy after one wife learned about his new marriage on the internet. He is the pastor of the Church of the Great I Am in Bellflower, California.

Sage words

Not everything can be about everything -- Gertrude Stein

Selections from "The Southpaw" by Mark Harris

"It will do them much good," said Krazy. "It will buck up their spirits and give them the idea that folks back home are thinking about them. There is nothing like the sight of baseball to make them think they are home."

"I see baseball every day," I said, "And never get the idea I am home."

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I thought to myself that what was wrong with the club was they was thinking too much.

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I must say that you have got to admire anybody like Sid that is willing to give up his milk for his religion.

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I guess all I was saying was they could go their way and I would go mine, and some folks is born to play ball and the rest is born to watch, some folks born to clap and shriek and holler and some folks born to do the doing.

This week's band

The Low Anthem -- e.g., "To Ohio"

Annals of Hollywood crime

Those who play prosecutors must watch how they play.


The alibi: "We just stopped into a friend's house for a drink -- and suddenly we find ourselves in the middle of a rumble."

2010 Tournament of Books

http://www.themorningnews.org/tob/let-the-great-world-spin-v-miles-from-nowhere.php

R.I.P. Sparklehorse

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2010/03/mark-linkous-aka-sparklehorse-takes-own-life.html