Friday!

Have a good weekend, Bastards!  I'm in Little Rock all next week!  Kill me!

Enhancing Your Performance

A Bastardo on a questionable substance? Whoever heard of such a thing?!

Hmmm

This World Cup adidas commercial is either really, really cool or completely repulsive, I can't decide. Is it harmlessly celebrating a collective childhood memory or pissing on it? Head ... hurting ...

I spotted Daft Punk, Snoop Dogg, David Beckham, Noel Gallagher and Ian Brown. The other guys, not so much.

Tough

This is what Jay's daughter is going to be like when she grows up. I just know it.

What Are You Listening To?

Lord, I'm musically constipated. I could probably find some undigested hunk of something in my musical intestines, but in my laziness, I've been falling back on comfort food: The Hold Steady, Green Day, Nirvana. Anyone listening to anything bristling with fresh life these days? I went back to Guided by Voices for a bit, but it didn't last. All suggestions welcomed.

Maybe the musical malaise goes with the time of year: gray, cold, wet, and uninspiring. Great time for Mardi Gras, to rouse you out of it. Why are all the best excuses for public drunkenness related to religious holidays?

Absenteeism

As you may not have noticed, I have not been much of a bastard lately, due to far too much working like the wrong kind of bastard, and far too little time perusing the old internet tubes. Indeed, I just found out today that NFL apparently has merged with the USFL.

But this weekend I finally got to get away with two chums for a breakneck trip out west to see the San Francisco Giants on Saturday, and the Dodgers on Sunday, flying home tired, sun-burned, and grumpy on Monday. Above is the charming fake deer that graces the bullpen at otherwise charmless Dodger stadium.

I've been to what is now known as AT&T Park in SF before, and it is a really terrific stadium. The fans in the bleachers are friendly and knowledgeable about the game, the beer is good, and, of course, it is always a treat to have a night our in SF. Neither decrepit, hard to get to, Dodger Stadium, nor its moronic, uninterested fans, fare well in comparison, but hey: it was a nice day, and there are worse things to do than catch a game in a new (to us) stadium.