2006 June

The Live 8 and Post Katrina phenomenons were wonderful displays of Hollywoodism. Take Brad Pitt, for example. This ageless wonder stands on a stage and tells us why it would be a good idea to donate our money to a cause. Why don’t he and his Beverly Hills pals donate their next movie paycheck entirely […]

Every damned gym class circa 6th grade played kickball at some point. And every damned gym class had the kid who refused to give the ball a real kick and instead half stepped up to the ball and bunted.
The bunt was really a tap with the side of the foot and the ball would […]

We’re sure each and every one of you have their own list of musicians who would qualify for this list. Here’s our list of two top offenders to date:
Ashlee Simpson - The crazy ho “cries” after the Super Bowl booing, and is relegated to blaming her band and formulating some preposterous reasons why she […]

This column is dedicated to those thuggish gangstas who relocate from inner city schools to “country” schools much like mine in years past. “What up, yo!” Okay, some of these kids have roots in the city. But, we’re not going to go as far as to grant them total street cred since many are from […]

Those taking the “hold” approach with respect to their baseball card collections are simply kidding themselves. Think of it in this perspective. The cards that you have from the 1980s and 1990s were once considered valuable… well, according to prices that you paid for the cards and quoted prices in publications like Beckett, they were. […]

Every year, I still buy two or three packs just for the heck of it, just to see who I get,” says Dave Kelly, 51, a Library of Congress reference librarian who specializes in sports and recreation.”
“I still collect them like I did when I was 10,” says Baltimore Orioles pitcher Alan Mills, 34. […]

Any male that grew up in the late 1980s - early 1990s knows all about the phenomenon known as “Baseball Card Death.” The problem is, he doesn’t know that he knows this. And who can blame one’s selective memory loss here? Think of the large percentage of your disposable income that you blew on baseball […]