How could I not? Kerry Freaking Woods, pitcher for the Chicago Cubs, is one of the reasons NL baseball will always be better than AL ball. He’s hanging in trying to eke out another two outs at the bottom of the 8^th^, after he hit the two-out double in the top of the sixth to put the Cubbies up 4-1 over the Braves.

Granted, I’ve just jinxed the Cubs, but darn it I’m pumped …

OK, waited until the game was over – beautiful. Cubs Win.

I’m cashing in my bandwagon ticket for the Cubbies. But in general, this post-season is looking great. The Giants won, the Cubs won, and the Braves and the Yankees both lost. To hell with the rest of the world – it’s fall, it’s cool weather again, and America’s Pastime is back with a fury.

Cubs and the Sox in the series, Cubs in six.

Went to catch Once Upon A Time in Mexico this evening. I loved it, but I’m not completely sure if I can recommend it to ‘normal’ folks. If you strongly preferred Desparado to El Mariachi then OUATIM is going to disappoint you. Likewise, if you loved the intimacy of “El Mariachi”, then OUATIM will probably leave you cold.

But I liked it. A lot.

This quiz pegged me pretty well.

with politics. Why not take up another political topic? To pay or not to pay? Thoughts?

In honor of Universal doing the smart thing and enticing more new CD purchases by announcing a price drop for retail purchases, I propose that we all buy a CD on October 1st from UMG to show our support.

G@#d*%^ Regional Coverage.
I have to watch the Horns in a bar this weekend. Who the hell wants to see Clemson v Maryland? I can tell you right now how that game will come out – it’ll suck, compared to UT v KState.

Fried Oreos. Fried Snickers. Fried Cheesecake. Welcome to the State Fair of Texas! …and a large Diet Coke.

I was really nice yesterday — avoiding politics and such — but Tom Toles was just too funny today.

This is a transcript of a Q&A with Walter Pincus of the Washington Post about the leak naming Joseph Wilson’s wife as a CIA operative, the resulting stories and now possible Justice Department investigation into the matter.

I love Pincus because a)I’ve met him and he’s a wonderful, kind, intelligent man, and b)he’s been doing the most consistent reporting about the intelligence behind the administration’s arguments for attacking Iraq. He’s been on the “inflating the evidence” story all along, but for most of the summer the Post had him buried. Only lately have his stories been on the front page where they belong.

Isn’t it exciting how presidential scandals happen? You just never know where they’re going to come from and every administration tries to do something a little different than those before.

And every once in a while you get a real whopper. I guess we’re pretty lucky to have had a resignation and an impeachment in our lifetimes. But who knows, we might get a 10 year prison sentence for somebody before this one is out.

I hope I don’t jinx it!