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Well, folks, Barry has left town for Vegas with his girlfriend to celebrate his birthday, leaving me here to update the blog. Jerk. So since he’s skipped town, I was going to try to write something that he’d never let me post about while he was here, but I couldn’t think of anything, so I [...]

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Comcast! OK, OK, I’ll admit it: writing about how much Comcast sucks is a played-out, hackneyed theme, and using a lolcats meme to usher it in is really fucking dumb, but it’s my soapbox.
About a month ago, the fiancee and I decided to upgrade our teev. We used to have two big 36-inch CRT lobstrosities [...]

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Last month, the UK publication, The Guardian, published their list of “1000 Novels Everyone Must Read”, a what’s-what and who’s-who list compiled by their staff in collaboration with a panel of “expert judges”, who we can only assume had very important-sounding names. Anyway, this list is allegedly the definitive fiction roll call for all those [...]

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AFC Championship games tend to bring out the best situations. Last year’s Pats v. Charger’s game saw me and Barry out in the -20 degree weather suffering for our teams, watching a big win.
This year of course, we’re watching other teams romp through the playoffs, Arizona being such a surprise team full of Larry Fitzgerald [...]

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The 2009 New England Patriots. R.I.P. The eagle will rise again.
How can I say that on the heels of an impassioned victory that the boys, depleted and understaffed as they were, pulled out of their nether regions at the last second? After a game that could have been a movie made in the 1980s, about [...]

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to all Customer Service and Account Reps out there; stop trying to sell shit to me when all I called for was to pay a bill, get my oil changed, resolve a problem, or post a job for my company!! Christ on a cracker, I can’t tell you how frustrating this garbage is. [...]

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I’ve been a bum lately in that I haven’t updated this blog since April 25th, prior to going to Montreal for a week. Of course, while I was there, I had my trusty XM portable radio, so I was able to listen to O&A while I was in the hotel room.
Well, it looks like [...]

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Well folks, it’s official. Roth is gone, and O&A are coming to CBS.
They will begin broadcasting on CBS and XM simultaneously starting on Wednesday, April 26th.
This morning, I turned on WBCN to see what they were broadcasting. What I heard was something very, very strange: it sounded like a 13-minute intro to the Opie and [...]

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Wow!
It appears that one of my predictions is actually coming true. After speculating that Opie and Anthony were going to replace David Lee Roth one way or another, it seems that the best case scenario is coming true.
Rather than leaving XM satellite radio, the show will be rebroadcast on CBS stations in Roth’s markets.
I [...]

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Yesterday was Patriot’s Day here in Massachusetts, so Kristina and I had the day off. Opie and Anthony were broadcasting from Bill’s Bar, so we got up early and went to see the live broadcast.
Live broadcasts can be very difficult. Especially when it is an 8:00 am broadcast from a small bar filled with drunks. [...]

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