The Severed Cortex

I love to play GM and I can't get over the fact that this is a fantastic deal for the Cardinals. Not only did the Cardinals sign what will amount to be the best #4 OF in MLB for a (relatively) paltry sum of money, they signed a guy who wanted to play he… more »

Two thousand seven hundred fifty dollars for eighteen months in Club Fed. That's $152.78/month. Hardly worth it. For the love of god kiddies, do the math. You can get better returns on your criminal investment by simply robbing a liquor store. more »

Old people should not be allowed to play the lottery. The crotchety old coot will probably spend it all on penny whistles and moon pies. more »

I'm glad I didn't pay for these tickets. Nancy Schultz had a couple free tickets and since she couldn't find anyone else willing to subject themselves to some geezer rock in the soulless confines of St. Charles County, I agreed to go. We skipped the op… more »

There were probably a dozen times or more that this almost happened to me. Once on the Tennessee River pushing Crounce coal barges above Kentucky Lock, a deckhand and I were jerking a double-up wire on the very head of the tow. The deckhand ran the rat… more »

Thanks to co-worker Lynne Burnett for this gem. Wal-Mart announced that, on January 1, 2007, it will begin offering customers a new discount item Wal-Mart's own brand of wine. The world's largest retail chain is teaming up with Ernest & Julio Gal… more »

Joe McEwing has 563 less HR's and gets the same deal. more »

I'll believe it when I see it. When I saw them last year in Columbia, Frank, David, and Joey played on one side of the stage and Kim played on the other by herself. There's still a lot of dysfunction going on here. more »

by Keith Olbermann I like Keith Olbermann and I really should watch his show Countdown more often. I've caught it on occasion and every time I tell myself to make sure to tune in tomorrow. I seldom do which is sad because I've seen a couple of his r… more »

I'm 40 and I don't have the stones to pull this off. This kid should get a medal for showing some initiative not probation. more »

Who is most disappointed by the fact that there are 70 'urban' definitions for this? Al Gore for inventing the internet and seeing it used for this, or Ted Stevens for knowing all this is winding its way through the series of tubes that make up the int… more »

The Bears Fan: Couldn't help but notice that Peyton Manning is a Tennesse grad. Doesn't this cause you a moment's pause? The Colts Fan: You spelled Tennessee like someone who barely graduated from a sub-standard Kentucky college. You do realize that… more »

I've decided to post stuff about gambling in general, but I'm sure most of these posts will be about poker since that's really all I ever play. Saturday night I played in a no limit tournament that benefitted the Troy (IL) Thunder youth baseball team.… more »

by Robert Sullivan I picked this book out a couple of weeks ago and used a Borders gift card I received for Christmas from one of my staff to pay for it. (thank you Robin). I have no real affinity or hatred for rats. I know they gross most people o… more »

I'm actually posting on the day we hung out with Robert. Yes, I know. It's a first. It's been a couple of weeks since our last night together ended on a sour note after the Harlem Globetrotters game. Robert seemed to have forgotten all that as he was… more »

I know, it's Missouri State now. It's still SMS to me. more »

He was kind of a funny old coot. I read some of his books when I was in high school and I'm sure I didn't really appreciate them like I should have. more »

I get a lot of my music from KEXP, a community station in Seattle that has become the standard for internet radio. The guy who is the driving force behind it, morning DJ and record producer extraordinaire John Richards, sends out a newsletter that I sub… more »

Where do I get tickets! Who cares what they cost! more »

I could care less about a train derailment in Kentucky, but the line about Butyl Acetate being used as a solvent or a fruit flavoring made me think of the old Saturday Night Live skit about Shimmer Floor Wax. more »

My friend Jeff Stone's band. You should check them out. Good times. more »

This happened on Saturday apparently. My friend Jeff Stone called to tell me today. Jeff said he was driving to band practice today and decided to listen to a CD with Mike Stern and Michael Brecker because he hadn't listened to any jazz in a long time.… more »

I hope someone picks up the slack. St. Louis already misses out on a lot of good bands and this only makes it worse more »

As usual I'm behind on posts about Robert because we hung out way back on January 5th. I think I'm behind this time mostly because the evening did not end all that great. Normally I'd never consider going to see the Harlem Globetrotters, but Magellan f… more »

by Ken Schultz I actually finished this over a week ago and I'm just getting around to writing about it. Nancy has an amazing knack for finding books that she thinks will appeal to me and this is another example of that. Of course, it's not like she… more »

Compliments of my redneck texas hold 'em pal Tony Vickers. He still looks like Chris Moneymaker sitting at a no-limit table. more »

My goal was to try to post something to my blog every day this year. Obviously I've blown that. In fact, it only took me a couple days to blow that. My excuse for not posting from the 8th through the 10th was because I was in a training class near our… more »

Nancy and I decided to try the new 54th Street Bar & Grill which opened up on Monday the 8th. Let's just say it was a hell of a lot better than Red Robin, which by the way we still haven't been back to. There's nothing real fancy about this place a… more »

I'd see these two walking in University City all the time when I used to live there, although I never saw them together at the same time. Nancy said she saw them on the Wash U. campus when she went to law school. Obviously I'm in tune to the plight of t… more »

There are a lot of records that I don't necessarily like on the first listen. Generally, that's why I never give my stamp of approval (not that it means anything) until I've given an album a half-dozen auditions. Listening to a record a couple of times… more »

Pat Robertson spouts this nonsense out and he gets thousands of followers, yet I'm relatively sane and I can't get 10 people at work to follow my directions. Are you sure there's a god, because I'm pretty sure if God had his pick of whoever he wanted to… more »

Seriously. The guy is 24-72. And you thought Dubya is the only one spouting stay the course. more »

At least Pete will have plenty to write about it. Any bets on which one dies first? more »

I first heard of this CD from Bob Boilen's NPR All Songs Considered Year in Review Show. NPR listeners ranked it in a tie for tenth with Beck and Regina Spektor. I have to wholeheartedly disagree with the whole Regina Spektor thing, but seeing how it… more »

by Allen Barra I actually received this book as a Christmas gift in 2005. Given the latest upheaval in Alabama football, I'm glad I waited until now to read it. It seems more apropos. Last year's 10-2 record by coach Mike Shula's team is a bit of a… more »