The Severed Cortex

That includes the Ford G. Frick winner Denny Matthews and J.G. Taylor Spink winner Rick Hummel. For those on the left side of Missouri, Denny Matthews is pretty much all you've ever heard when you listened to Royals radio broadcasts. Over here on the r… more »

He defined professional football in the 1980's and his 'invention' of the West Coast offense still defines professional football today. more »

Apparently there are others who are interested in the fate of the Belle Of The Night. One such person is Jennifer B., who stumbled across my blog looking for information on the old tub and posted a comment some months ago asking what I knew about it. A… more »

Hey, I guess if you have a theme, stick with it. Here's a pic of the ketchup bottle ... errr I mean catsup bottle. more »

It sounds like this guy wasn't too far from actually being able to carry something like this out. What a mess it would be for Edwardsville if something like this really did happen. Suddenly I have a whole different perspective on the Virginia Tech shoo… more »

My grass is starting to turn brown. The last thing it needs is to be cut. Last night I turned the sprinkler system on for the first time in several weeks. I'm sure my neighbor has been running his sprinklers too, but even with the extra water his yard… more »

You think Mark Sweeney would like to punch Barry Bonds in the chops just once? Not only did Bonds throw Sweeney under the bus earlier this year by saying the amphetamines found in his bloodstream in a MLB test came from Mark Sweeney's locker, he oversha… more »

I hate these guys. No one should be able to pick up instruments, bang out some tunes, and suddenly become the fastest selling group in England since the Beatles. Yes, that's right. They outsold the Beatles. In England. Is that even fair? So how… more »

Makes me laugh. more »

OK, honestly I wanted to see Transformers. But, unfortunately for me, Robert's mom had taken them out of town to stay with friends and they had already seen it. They said it was pretty cool. Actually, I wasn't sure I was going to be able to pick Rober… more »

The Earaches sound exactly as their name would imply. Which is precisely what rock and roll should be; loud, in your face, and poorly played. The Ramones mastered this type of music and many, many bands have followed suit. Lets face it. It isn't exac… more »

... we would have athletes who truly are role models. more »

It had been two weeks since I cut my grass, so I mowed it yesterday. It didn't really look that bad, just a little shaggy, but there was some grass that had gone to seed. After cutting it I strolled around the grounds, because it looked nice. I notic… more »

They also do covers of Deep Purple and Pink Floyd. It makes me laugh. more »

Perhaps E.J. Jones can learn a lesson from this. Minnesota officially kicked him off the team. more »

No attorney and nobody posting bond for her. Sad. more »

Everyone knows programmers are slightly off kilter. At our work there are a couple of dinner rolls (individually wrapped in cellophane) that have been passed from cube to cube. Steve went on vacation for a week and the rolls ended up sitting on his mon… more »

Tales Of The Forgotten Melodies - Wax Tailor Turntable Wizardry. That's what I'd basically call this. When Portishead released Dummy back in 1994, trip hop became a somewhat mainstream genre. And then the genre promptly went back underground. Whil… more »

A couple months ago I went ape-crap over the Belle of the Night about to break loose from its moorings. Turns out it didn't. Well, sort of. The truth is that it did break one of its lines, but they were able to secure it again. And so, the yellow bea… more »

... gallivanting in rural Pope county, my neighbor mowed his grass. No status on whether he was shirtless or not. I looked back to see that this gag is averaging about six posts a month. I envisioned somewhere around double that given his past year… more »

I haven't been reading much lately. For the most part what this book did was confirm one of my biggest fears. No, not the one where it turns out Meg Ryan is really a man. Instead it's the fear that the Christian right is much more organized than mos… more »

Interesting. The movers and shakers of Saint Louis. more »

Why do they insist on running Tim McCarver out to broadcast MLB games? It irritates the hell out of me that I have to watch a broadcast with the sound turned off. Just once I wish Joe Buck would say, "Shut the fuck up Tim. You're a moron". more »

I've really moved away from jazz in the last couple of years. I've never been a gigantic jazz nut, but I probably have more jazz in my collection than the average suburbanite. I lean towards guitarists first, then probably the funk/jazz thing, then any… more »

How much longer until movie theaters go away? Anyone can make a movie these days and now that YouTube can be viewed as a viable distribution method, you don't have to go to a movie theater at all to see a first run movie. It's not too much longer befor… more »

N: Did he just say Girl you're a beautiful lemon mall? D: No. He said animal. N: Oh my god. Beatle Bob is up there. D: Yeah, I know. I was hoping you wouldn't notice. Johnny Hickman plays guitar so well that just listening to him might break y… more »

Late Friday evening he's out there again mowing his grass. This time without a shirt again. more »

Ha, ha, ha!!! I can't wait for the episode where Blair buys everyone crack pipes. more »

... that we don't even pay attention when someone stops to point out with big simple circles that that we're surrounded by morons. more »

Robert wanted to play video games at Dave and Busters for his birthday so that's what we decided to do. Originally we were supposed to do this on his birthday, July 1st, but his mother called the Friday night before and asked if we could switch to Satur… more »

For the most part my blog is self-indulgent; probably around 99% or so. Occasionally I like to be informative too. Nancy cooks all sorts of things that are delicious, but in the summer time one of my all time favorites is berry cobbler. Actually I wou… more »

... to my sister Jennifer. I won't say how many years old she is but Happy 38th birthday. Doh! I said it didn't I. ... and to Robert, who turns double-digits today. Happy 10th birthday Robert! more »

I didn't cut my grass last week because I'm lazy and it rained a little too much. It didn't stop my neighbor from cutting and bagging his yard last Sunday. Since it rained every day this week, sometimes extremely hard, I haven't had a chance to cut min… more »

Frank Thomas hit his 500th HR and on the same day Craig Biggio collected his 3000th hit. Unbelievable that both could happen on the same day. I choose to recognize Biggio's record. While Frank Thomas' 500 HR is legit, (he hasn't been linked to steroid… more »