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[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]Joey Ramone - Christmas (Baby Please come Home)
I’m convinced I can post nothing but punk christmas music from now until Christmas.
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How rare is snow in Dallas? Enough for it to trend in 3 places on twitter.
Dallas > Christmas
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The Phelps clan and the rest of the real life trolls at the Westboro Baptist Church are a point of conversation today because of World AIDS Day and their planned “God Hates F*gs” protest outside the AIDS convention at UMass Boston. Even Michael Ian Black has donated some lolz against them today.
Recently, they have spread their anti-gay movement to protesting the funerals of dead soldiers. I don’t know how they’ve remained alive after doing that, but they still travel the country and do so (in a perfect world, they would decide to protest the funeral of a Chicano gangster). In the WBC’s home state of Kansas, some bikers heard that they were going to protest the funeral of a local soldier in Liberal, KS and the bikers decided to act.
They formed the Patriot Guard Riders. The Riders circle the funeral to make sure that they form a nonviolent barrier of big, scary bikers in front of the protestors. At recent funerals that the church protested, they even revved their bikes everytime the church tried to yell or sing something; drowning them out completely. Since 2005, they’ve grown exponentially as a group to uncourage respect for the fallen. They don’t attack the church. They just protect the sanctity of soldiers’ funerals.
Basically, these guys are some of the biggest badasses in the country. Hopefully some Boston bikers show up when the WBC breaks out their “Soldiers Die, God Laughs” signs later today.
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As much as I dislike TCU (as an SMU alum, I have to dislike them), this is wonderful for both Texas college football and college football as a whole.
I assume that this long term deal was both as a reward for the first 12-0 start since the Sammy Baugh days and as an insurance policy against him being stolen by a much more prestigious program like Notre Dame or Michigan (though anyone in Northeast Texas would tell you that Patterson wouldn’t even consider those jobs). Still, it’s nice to have a tenured coach in a state where they are few and far between (SMU is on its 5th coach since the death penalty).
Seeing a small school like TCU be able to compete for top recruits in one of the best states for high school football is encouraging for a similar school finally turning the corner on to more winning seasons.
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[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]The Vandals - Oi! to the World
Expect much more Christmas music from me.
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Since I found out this week that lifting weights with two cracked/broken ribs is damn near impossible, I decided to hop on the bandwagon as the sole male participant (it’s Race for the Cure all over again!) in the Tumblr December 100 challenge. So, to start off the contest right, I woke up extra extra early and jogged 3 miles on a treadmill and biked for 7 miles at levels 5-7 while watching ESPN. It still hurts to breathe, but knowing that Charlie Weis is out of South Bend makes me euphoric.
10 down. 90 to go.
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Bad - I just basically said goodbye to my paycheck by paying rent, utilities, car payment, student loan payment, and my credit card payment.
Good - I just got an evite to a Holiday martini party at my friend’s condo.
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Charlie Weis, you’re fuckin’ out!
Let’s buy the bar and get shitfaced. Get me paid, bitch!
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