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Elevator Gambling at the Excalibur It's been so bad for us that we are betting on which elevator comes first in our hotel! There are three on our floor, and we stand there, and bet on which one will arrive first and take us downstairs (or upstairs!) Senor is whoooping me. He is 3-1-1. We're betting $20 an elevator. Ouch! "We're addcited," said Senor. "I don't think we are coming back. We're staying here. If you wish to contact me, please call the La Hacienda and ask for Senor!!!" A Las Vegas Blog... from McGrupp | Permalink | Poker? Senor and I sat in at the poker room here at Excalibur, and we played for 3 1/2 hours straight!! It was crazy. I was up $40 right away after I nailed a $50 hand drawing a pair of 10s off the flop. (If you don't know what I'm talking about, e-mail me, and I'll explain to you Texas Hold 'em vocabulary). I had a few sweet winning hands... I didn't win too many, but the ones I did win were some of the bigger ones. I was up $50 most of the night, but then dropped $100 in the last hour to go down $50. I was pissed that some redneck tourist from Bumblefuck, West Virginia bluffed me when I could have easily beat his pathetic pair of 7s. I had a pair of Kings. D'oh! A Las Vegas Blog... from McGrupp | Permalink | Fuck Syracuse, man! We went to watch the games at one of my favorite places on Earth... the Mirage. The cocktail waitresses are not as hot as the ones at the Mandalay Bay, but they are nicer. OK, first of all, I placed almost $2000 (in 4 days) in wagers on NBA and March Madness games... and t's been a tough week for sure. Yesterday's Syracuse upset killed any hopes of walking away a big winner. Senor and myself dropped at least $220 each on that game. Fuck! I was wicked pissed. But Texas pulled out a victory, so my loses weren't too bad. I'll do the update later. A Las Vegas Blog... from McGrupp | Permalink | Sunday, March 30, 2003
Pauly & Senor's Big Bet of the Day Oklahoma -3 over Syracuse A Las Vegas Blog... from McGrupp | Permalink | Sweet 16 Afterthoughts... A couple of upsets for sure. I started out well, breaking even at one point after being down $300. But ended up not so good. I went 5-3 but that was not good enough. With Spreads: 29-26-1 (-$190 to date) Big Bets: 3-7 A Las Vegas Blog... from McGrupp | Permalink | Saturday, March 29, 2003
I won a few dollars playing blackjack last night. I made friends with a couple of hilarious, Canadian minor league hockey players. They loved me... I'm now a hit in another country! I think I found my next Truckin' story! A Las Vegas Blog... from McGrupp | Permalink | March Madness Pools Update - Sweet 16 EditionThru 3.29.03 @ 8:45 am PCT Welcome to the Vegas edition of the Sweet 16 update! It's been a crazy couple of days... no sleep, lots of gambling, Senor dropping his pants and taking pictures with tourists from Kansas. You can say, it's Sheer March Madness! It is insane here watching the games at the Mandalay Bay Casino, where millions of dollars ar e being wagered on these meaningless games. It's truly decadent. You wouldn't even know there is a war going on, aside from the ocassional update from DAN RATHER. OK, how about Maryland getting upset? All the games were nail biters. I literally saw my brother chomping on his nails at one point, during some of the more gut wrenching parts of yesterday's game. He dropped $500 already. OUCH. and he's ready to make it back... he told me he wanted to bet $300 on ARIZONA today! Yikes! How am I doing? I had a good Thursday and a bad Friday. I pulled even at one point, but now I'm down $200. OK who's winning... Derek is winning the CASH POOL, with Cali Jen close by. In the FREE POOL, Spider is in first place with Molly and Derek in 2nd place. CASH POOL - Tao of Pauly Standings 1 The NCAA Violator$ (Derek McGuire) 710 2 ILL-Legally Blonde (Jen Biaggi) 670 3 Team Singer (brad singer) 650 4 Snoochie Boochies (Pauly 1) 630 5 Team Girtz (Eial Girtz) 620 6 Phat Chicks (Senor 2) 610 7 TakinUR $$$ Anwomen (Spider McNamara) 600 7 Nietzsche's Bikini Babes (Pauly 2)) 600 7 The Slack Jaw'd Yokel (Team Ephedra) 600 10 Brooklyn Boogiedowns (Lori Blandford) 440 11 Bagin' Elephants (Senor) 380 FREE POOL - Pauly's Pub Standings 1 Marge's Fake Rack (Spider McNamara) 670 2 Cryin'babies SlappinWomen (Molly Daugherty) 660 2 Rod & Todd's Hard Wood (Derek McGuire) 660 4 Kickiraki Ass (Gil Shapir) 640 5 NedFlanders' FunkyBitches (Heather Adams) 630 6 The Straight Seeds 600 7 Dickey V's PTPers (Joseph Moore) 580 8 Big Sal (Salvatore Biaggi) 530 9 The Milhouse Incident (Armen Tanzairian) 510 10 The D'oh! of Homer (Katarina Biaggi) 470 10 Ralph Wiggum Ate MyMonkey (Pauly) 470 12 Rev Lovejoys Sinners (Princess Jessica) 390 13 Grateful Jenny (Jennifer Biaggi) 380 A Las Vegas Blog... from McGrupp | Permalink | Friday, March 28, 2003
Derek's Big Bet of the Day Derek told me he's betting heavily on Maryland. Wow! I'm taking his advice. A Las Vegas Blog... from McGrupp | Permalink | Bowling for Dollars $1 a game! Can you beat that shit?? We bowled 4 games for $4... I’m still in shock. Best deal in Vegas, at the Orleans Casino, where they have a bowling alley (and movie theatre). The cab driver on our way to the Orleans made a comment about our tipping. The fare was $9.90. I handed him $15 and asked for $3 back (a $2.10 tip). He looked at me and said, "Excuse me?" And I thought he was offended by my not so good tipping. So I told him to give me $2 back (a $3.10 tip). And that’s when he said, "You guys are from New York." Senor said, "He thought we were great tippers, not bad ones. I betcha most people only give him a $1. You tipped him 30%!" A Las Vegas Blog... from McGrupp | Permalink | Senor in Vegas? It’s true!It’s official, Senor is back… in America!! In fact he’s here right now with me!! Live in Las Vegas. What’s March Madness in Vegas without Senor and Pauly? Two weeks ago I told him I was going to Vegas. He said he’d meet me there. I’d said, "I’ll believe it (and blog it) when I see you." And sure enough, here he is!! He got in today, and of course he’s wicked jet lagged, but he’s ready to rumble and win big betting on college hoops! More hijinks to come for sure… P.S. I asked Senor if he had a messgae for the tao readers and he said, "Nope. No comment. No wait... tell them, chicks are sooooo dramatic!" A Las Vegas Blog... from McGrupp | Permalink | Even! It’s true, after a long day of hanging out watching the March Madness games at the sports book in the Mandalay Bay Casino I found myself breaking even for the NCAA tournament, getting out of the $300 hole I found myself in last Sunday night. I won three out of my four bets, and most importantly, my big bet Kansas beat Duke by 4 points (the spread was 3, yikes!) in a nail biter. It was closer than close, and I was shitting bricks for most of the game, but that win hooked me up big time. I needed a huge win to make my comeback, so now, less than a day in Vegas, I started out well netting $300. Three more days of hoops games left for this week, and I hope I don’t find myself down $2000! At any rate, I’m up but there’s plenty of time for me to win big or lose big!! A Las Vegas Blog... from McGrupp | Permalink | I'm back!! I figured out my internet access problems and I'm ready to blog... A Las Vegas Blog... from McGrupp | Permalink | Thursday, March 27, 2003
Pauly's Big Bet of the Day Kansas -3 over Duke Time to win big today!!! A Las Vegas Blog... from McGrupp | Permalink | Armando sent me this e-mail: "Glad you're living it up in Vegas. That place is out of control fucked up. Be sure to win shitloads of cash and treat yourself to a naked pillow fight and more with four buxom hookers on the king sized bed in the suite they're bound to comp you!" A Las Vegas Blog... from McGrupp | Permalink | Greetings from Las Vegas! After a long ass plane ride, I made it! I got to sit next to a really nice woman named Joy from Buffalo, who was six months pregnant. She chatted my ear off, but it was pleasant small talk. She reminded me of a cross between Boogie and Reese Witherspoon. Anyhoo, I met up with my brother and we went gambling at our hotel, The Excalibur. The sun is slowly rising and I walked away from a blackjack table up $100! There was a rowdy table across from us, and all these guys were drinking and hootin' & hollerin'... man I miss fuckin' VEGAS! OK there were plenty of rumors about my special guest, and everyone wondered if it was Senor. And despite an unconfirmed Senor sighting on a NYC subway earlier this week... which to my knowledge was not him... there is absolutely no proof that he is in America. It's all hearsay and conjecture. To burst everyone's bubble... my special guest is... Cali Jen!!! I know everyone hoped it would be the Samui Pants Dropper, but alas... it's a six foot Califronia blonde. OK it's time for me to write, before I crash... SWEET 16 games start in about 11 hours... time to get rest! A Las Vegas Blog... from McGrupp | Permalink | Wednesday, March 26, 2003
Christmas Eve The anticipation I get moments before the plane lands in Las Vegas is similar to the felings a young child gets the night beofre Christmas. I'm salivating, I can't sleep, I'm anxious, and beaming with curiosity. So, it's now Vegas time! I'm off for a few days of March Madness and poker in Sin City before I jaunt off to California for a couple of days of sunshine, including a visit to Hollyweird for a "lunch" meeting in a quest to find an agent. I have copies of an updated version of Charlie's Goldfish ready to hand out to anyone with cash and connections. I hope luck finds my way somewhere on this journey. Be sweet! Oh, and not to worry, I did not take the Tao of Pauly March Madness Cash Pool pot with me to gamble. I left it in NYC. But since I'm going to win it anyway, it doesn't matter right? | Permalink | Special Vegas Guest! I have been getting a lot of e-mails asking me about the identity of my surprise guest in Las Vegas... but if I told you now, or gave you a hint, then it wouldn't be a surprise, right? So stay tuned to the TAO, I'll be blogging the news and updates for sure. | Permalink | Since no one is talking about this, I decided to blog it: Troops in Streets as Delta Crisis Hits Nigerian Oil Exports Here's a bit: "Nigerian troops were out in force in the oil city of Warri after violent unrest in the nearby Niger Delta swamps crippled the region's oil industry and cut exports by a third." | Permalink | Boycott of American Products Overseas Over Iraq War Here's a bit: "No more Coca-Cola or Budweiser, no Marlboro, no American whiskey or even American Express cards -- a growing number of restaurants in Germany are taking everything American off their menus to protest the war in Iraq. Although the protests are mainly symbolic, waiters in dozens of bars and restaurants in Hamburg, Berlin, Munich, Bonn and other German cities are telling patrons, "Sorry, Coca-Cola is not available any more due to the current political situation." The boycotts appear to be part of a nascent worldwide movement. One Web site, www.consumers-against-war.de, calls for boycotts of 27 top American firms from Microsoft to Kodak while another, www.adbusters.org, urges the "millions of people against the war" to "Boycott Brand America." Consumer fury seems to be on the rise. Demonstrators in Paris smashed the windows of a McDonald's restaurant last week, forcing police in riot gear to move in to protect staff and customers of the American fast-food outlet. The attackers sprayed obscenities and "boycott" on the windows." | Permalink | Tuesday, March 25, 2003
Scorecard for the War is an article written by Thomas Friedman and appears in the NY Times. Here's a bit: How will we know if we are winning in Iraq? Here are six things I am watching for: (1) Have we occupied Baghdad - without leveling the whole city? (2) Have we killed, captured or expelled Saddam? (3) Have we been able to explain why some Iraqi forces are putting up such a fierce fight? (4) Have we won this war and preserved the territorial integrity of Iraq? (5) Has an authentic Iraqi liberal nationalist emerged from the U.S. occupation to lead the country? (6) Is the Iraqi state that emerges from this war accepted as legitimate by Iraq's Arab and Muslim neighbors? | Permalink | Bruce Cohen Wins Oscar Pool! Congrats to Bruce Cohen, who won the Oscar Pool with 6 correct picks! He wins an autographed copy of my screenplay Charlie's Goldfish. And a free movie ticket. Thanks to everyone who participated. See ya next year. | Permalink | First Annual Paulywood AwardsThanks for your votes in the Oscar Pool. Your votes were also used to select the winners of the First Annual Paulywood Awards from the original list of Oscar Nominees. Consider yourself the first Academy Members! The winners will recieve a minature naked copper coated statue of me, holding my nuts and covering my genitalia in an uncomfortbale and awkward position. Senor will personally deliver them to the proper winner. You voted AND now the Paulywood Award Winners... And the Pauly goes to... (please no crying or anti-war speeches or rants...) CHICAGO wins Best Picture Martin Scorcese (Gangs of New York) for Best Director Daniel Day Lewis (Gangs of New York) for Best Actor Nicole Kidman (The Hours) for Best Actress Chris Cooper (Adaptation) for Best Supporting Actor Meryl Streep (The Hours) for Best Supporting Actor Adaptation written by Charlie Kaufman for Best Adapted Screenplay Charlie's Goldfish written by Paul McGuire for Best Original Screenplay Bowling for Columbine(Michael Moore) for Best Documentary Gangs of New York (Michael Balhaus) for Best Cinematography Hero (China) for Foreign Film Lilo & Stitch for Animated Film Thanks again, my first award! And for everyone who voted for me, I'm truly touched. Winning bullshit awards is really why I always wanted to be a writer and work in Hollyweird. The money, drugs, and hookers, were a close third besides getting a nice tan. Thanks. | Permalink | The Last 5 Books I Saw People Reading on the Subway... 1. A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy 2. The Holy Bible 3. The Alienist by Caleb Carr 4. The Book of Cain by Herb Chapman 5. Prey by Michael Crichton | Permalink | Pauly's Pub Baseball Pool Sign-up! The season starts in a week. Have you set up your team already? It's free to play. Visit: Baseball Challenge 2003 to set up your team today. Current Teams Furcal's Phisheads Rib Boy's Latrells Buttamaker's Boilermakers Holla Atmeyoes2 Subway Rats Big Sal's Goodfellas Group name: Pauly's Pub Password: pauly | Permalink | Happy Birthday Spider!Today Brian enters his third decade of mayhem! Congrats and Happy B-day! Send Spider, Cowboy, Richard and Brian b-day greetings: Here! | Permalink | Phish Announces Summer Tour! July 7 Cricket Pavilion, Phoenix, AZ July 8 Coors Amphitheatre, Chula Vista, CA July 9 Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA July 10 Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA July 12 The Gorge, George, WA July 13 The Gorge, George, WA July 15 West Valley Amphitheatre, West Valley, UT July 17 Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre, Bonner Springs, KS July 18 Alpine Valley, East Troy, WI July 19 Alpine Valley, East Troy, WI July 21 Verizon Wireless Music Center, Noblesville, IN July 22 Verizon Wireless Music Center, Noblesville, IN July 23 Verizon Wireless Music Center, Noblesville, IN July 25 Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre, Charlotte, NC July 26 HiFi Buys Amphitheatre, Atlanta, GA July 27 ALLTEL Pavilion at Walnut Creek, Raleigh, NC July 29 Post Gazette Pavilion, Burgettstown, PA July 30 Tweeter Center at the Waterfront, Camden, NJ July 31 Tweeter Center at the Waterfront, Camden, NJ August 2 Loring Air Force Base, Limestone, ME August 3 Loring Air Force Base, Limestone, ME | Permalink | The New Novel I had a nice writing binge for about 7 or 8 hours from before midnight to about seven this morning, working on my new novel which has been officially called: Untitled 2003 Novel. It was the first time since Cali Jen left yesterday that I had a chance to work for an extended amount of time on the novel. And no, I am not writing a sequel to Jack Tripper Stole My Dog, it's a different novel, but I have at least, a 35,000 word manuscript, and it's not even 1/3 way done!! The thought of a 100,000 word epic scares and excites me. I am on a mission to write as much as I can before Vegas. I would like to write in Vegas, but honestly, I don't know if that's possible. I will try for sure. | Permalink | Check this out: Al-Jazeera Launches English Website. Now you can read what they are are reporting. | Permalink | Monday, March 24, 2003
Check out this link: Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War | Permalink | March Madness Day 4 Afterthoughts Too many upsets that I didn't call... that made for a hurtful day of betting. My Big Bets floundered and although I won half my bets yesterday, it still wasn't enough to make up lost ground. Wake Forest and Xavier both lost which messed up my pool and my Big Bets. I pray that my luck changes when I get to Las Vegas. With Spreads: 24-23-1 (-$290 to date) Big Bets: 2-5 How did my other teams end of Day 4? Snoochie Boochies: 34-14 Nietzsche's Bikini Babes: 33-15 Ralph Wiggum Ate My Monkey (Free Pool): 28-20 | Permalink | Check out: Good News Staff Bio Page... Sigge created this page and added it to the Good News site. You can see a picture of me, and read my mini bio. Also, please visit: Good News We need twenty more hits this month to keep it a free site! So please visit it, and if you have seen it already, visit it again, and tell all your friends about the link. Thanks!! | Permalink | Pauly's Pub Oscar Pool Winner? The un-offical winner is.... Bruce Cohen! I haven't slept so, I will do the offical update later today for sure... but congrats to Bruce! Thanks to everyone who participated! | Permalink | The Oscar Party... Jen Flowers threw her annual Oscar's Party last night, and she decided to have it slightly more low key than in previous years. There was no red carpet this year at her party, and only a handful of paparazzi snapping photos and harassing the somehwat famous crowd. I went with Cali Jen and we had a good time, despite me losing Best Original Screenplay once again, but I drank a lot and ate more food that I should have. I figured out that every third woman at the party was named "Jen". I was shocked that Martin Scorcese got shut out for Best Director (although Roman Polanski is equalling deserving for his lifetime work). Some of the more anxious moments came when Michael Moore won for Best Documentary Film and challenged President Bush and the Iraq War. When that happened, I could see the tension on the Oscar Party guests' faces. I couldn't help but think just how much the Democratic Party in America are a bunch of whiny losers with no balls, and very little vision. Maybe Michael Moore should run for President in 2004? The retarded leadership at the Democratic Party are the same group of people who scolded and chided Green Party members for voting for Ralph Nader in 2000 (which I proudly did) and to this date blame the Greens for ruining the election for Al Gore. Instead of passing the blame to the Green Party, they should take a good look at themselves, and their own outdated party leadership, especially after Al Gore bailed on them. This was the guy who was almost our President, and who would rather hang out with Phish, than run for President. That tells you something, folks, especially all you whining, hopeless Democratic leaders... I don't think any serious politicans voiced a sincere opposition to George Bush on this war. When you need celebrities to push forth your opinions, and you act like that, you shouldn't point fingers and pass the blame. That's why I'm not a member of the Democratic Party. OK, I went off on a political rant there and I lost my train of thought... J. Lo! I could forget about her! Man, did you see her nipping out when she presented an award for ???. Of course I can't rememeber what Jennifer Lopez was talking about because I was fixated on her curves... but she looked hot! | Permalink | Michael Moore Booed As He Slams Bush and Iraq War at Oscars... When he won for Best Documentary Film, Moore lashed out at Bush, and courted a shower of "Booos!" from the majority of the audience, although a few celebrities did applause. Moore was quoted as saying: "We live in fictitious times... We live in a time with fictitious election results that elect fictitious presidents. We live in a time when we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons....We are against this war Mr Bush. Shame on you. Shame on you!" | Permalink | March Madness Pools Day 4 UpdateThru 3.24.03 @ 5:53 AM ROUND 2 is complete... HAPPY MONDAY!!! The SWEET 16 teams are set, and there are several surprises: Auburn and Butler. Butler? Where the fuck is Butler? I betcha Rick Pitino knows... now. Do you know where that school is? Are the boys from Butler the Cinderella team this year trying to go to the big dance? Time will tell. A couple of UPSETS happened yesterday... two #2 seeds fell, Wake Forest and Florida were FINAL 4 favorites for a lot of pools. I know what your thinking... "How has your betting gone, Pauly?" Absolutely horrible. My betting woes continue. I couldn't win a Big Bet to save my life. I'm down nearly $300 so far. I need to find someplace nice and quiet to hang out for a week, where I won't be able to think about gambling, money or why teams can't hit their free throws late in these games. Good thing I'm going to Las Vegas in 2 days. OK, now the juicy stuff... who's winning? Here's something shocking... Cali Jen's team is winning the CASH POOL. Wow, what a shocker, eh? ILL-Legally Blonde is actually tied with Derek's team the NCAA Violator$... with a couple of teams still lurking in second place. For the Free Pool, Gil and the coalition forces are Kickiraki Ass, sitting in first place with Spider's team in second place with Marge's Fake Rack making a nice run. OH, and Boogie (who'll be super happy when she reads this...) is not in last place in the CASH POOL anymore!! We reserved that spot for our favorite Samui Pants Dropper. :) OK that's it... the next update will be LIVE from LAS VEGAS.... and yes, the rumors are true. There will be a special guest tagging along with me for my trip (besides my brother). An appearance from..... ?????? I guess you'll have to tune in to find out. And in the immortal words of Ralph Wiggum: "My cat's breath smells like cat food!" Be sweet, McG CASH POOL - Tao of Pauly Standings: 1 ILL-Legally Blonde (Jen Biaggi) 470 1 The NCAA Violator$ (Derek McGuire) 470 3 The Slack Jaw'd Yokel (Team Ephedra) 440 3 Nietzsche's Bikini Babes (Pauly 2) 440 3 TakinUR $$$ Anwomen (Brian McNamara) 440 6 Snoochie Boochies (Pauly 1) 430 7 Team Girtz (Eial Girtz) 420 8 Team Singer (Brad Singer) 410 8 Phat Chicks (Senor 2) 410 10 Brooklyn Boogiedowns (Lori Blandford) 360 11 Bagin' Elephants (Senor 1) 340 Free Pool - Pauly's Pub Standings: 1 Kickiraki Ass (Gil Shapir) 480 2 Marge's Fake Rack (Spider McNamara) 470 3 Cryin'babies SlappinWomen (Molly Daugherty) 460 4 The Milhouse Incident (Armen Tanzairian) 430 4 NedFlanders' FunkyBitches (Heather Adams) 430 6 Rod & Todd's Hard Wood (Derek McGuire) 420 7 Big Sal (Sal Biaggi) 410 8 The Straight Seeds 400 9 The D'oh! of Homer (Katarina Biaggi) 390 10 Dickey V's PTPers (Joseph Moore) 380 11 Ralph Wiggum Ate MyMonkey (Pauly) 350 11 Rev Lovejoys Sinners (Jessica Lapidus) 350 13 Grateful Jenny (Jen Biaggi) 340 Sweet 16 games begin Thursday and finish Friday. Elite 8 games begin Saturday and finish Sunday. | Permalink | Sunday, March 23, 2003
Baseball Pool Time!! Come join the 2nd Annual Pauly's Pub Baseball Pool! The season starts soon, so hurry up and make your teams! It's also time for the return of Furcal's Phisheads... one of my teams from last year's pool. Group Name: Pauly's Pub Password: pauly | Permalink | Pauly's Big Bets of the Day Wake Forest -5 over Auburn Xavier +2 over Maryland Syracuse -2 1/2 over Oklahoma State Time to make a run before I go to Vegas! Let's quote one of my fraternity brothers... Teddy Buchan on gambling: "In order to win big... you gotta lose big!" Record to date: 1 win, 3 losses | Permalink | March Madness Day 3 Afterthoughts It's been a rollercoatser the first three days betting wise. I'm having huge swings, back and forth... up $300, then down $300, then back even, then up $200, and now... I'm down $160. Only one of my Big Bets hit to date... and it took Marquette to make it into overtime in order for them to cover. At one point I won nine bets out of ten. But last night's games hurt me. Damn. Today I need to make up crucial ground before I go to Las Vegas on Wednesday. With Spreads: 20-19-1 (-$160) Big Bets: 1-3 How did my other teams end of Day 3? Snoochie Boochies: 30-10 Nietzsche's Bikini Babes: 29-11 Ralph Wiggum Ate My Monkey (Free Pool): 27-13 | Permalink | Breaking News... Arab TV Shows Allegedly Captured U.S. Troops Here's a bit: "The Arab satellite station Al-Jazeera aired footage from Iraqi television Sunday of interviews with what the station identified as captured American prisoners, and also showed bodies in uniform in an Iraqi morgue that it said were Americans." | Permalink | March Madness Pools Update 3Thru 3.23.03 @ 7:43 am DAY 3 UPDATE... wow, some crazy games yesterday... a double OT affair as #1 seed Arizona almost lost! Marquette also had to survive OT to win their game, and the Wisconsin game came down to a buzzer beater! This year's tournamnet is full of excitement and it's only the end of DAY 3!!! How am I doing? Gambling wise... awful!! Me... shit, I'm getting pushed around, beat up, and stomped on like a narc at a biker rally... I'm getting tooled on like a Bible-beating, Young Republican at an anti-war rally... you get the jist. ILL-Legally Blonde and the NCAA Violator$ are tied for first place in the CASH POOL! First place has been changing everyday! Spider's team got knocked out after Illinois lost to Notre Dame. But my team Nietschze's Bikini Babes are in striking distance, exactly 100 miles outside of Baghdad. Who said existentialists don't adore scantly clad, surgically enhanced women? Kickiraki Ass is leading the Free Pool, with CryinBabies & SlappinWomen not too far behind. Round 2 offically ends today. Ralph Wiggum Ate My Monkey is still doing awful. But here's a little Wiggum-philosophy... "I got moon rocks up my nose." CASH POOL (Tao of Pauly) Overall Results: 1 ILL-Legally Blonde (Jen Biaggi) 370 1 The NCAA Violator$ (Derek McGuire) 370 3 TakinUR $$$ Anwomen (Brian McNamara) 360 3 The Slack Jaw'd Yokel (Team Ephedra) 360 3 Nietzsche's Bikini Babes (Pauly 2) 360 6 Snoochie Boochies (Pauly 1) 350 7 Team Girtz (Eial Girtz) 340 8 Team SInger (Brad SInger) 330 8 Phat Chicks (Senor 2) 330 10 Bagin' Elephants (Senor 1) 300 11 Brooklyn Boogiedowns (Lori Blandford) 280 FREE POOL (Pauly's Pub) Overall Results: 1 Kickiraki Ass (Gil Shapir) 380 2 Cryin'babies SlappinWomen (Molly Daugherty) 360 3 Marge's Fake Rack (Spider McNamara) 350 3 NedFlanders' FunkyBitches (Heather Adams) 350 5 Rod & Todd's Hard Wood (Derek McGuire) 340 5 The Straight Seeds 340 7 The Milhouse Incident (Armen Tanzairian) 330 8 The D'oh! of Homer (Katarina Biaggi) 310 8 Ralph Wiggum Ate MyMonkey (Pauly) 310 8 Rev Lovejoys Sinners (Jessica Lapidus) 310 8 Big Sal (Sal Biaggi) 310 12 Dickey V's PTPers (Joseph Moore 300 12 Grateful Jenny (Jen Biaggi) 300 | Permalink | Sigge sent me this link: Crescent Pre-sessions. You can listen to a preview of some songs from his band: Crescent. Check 'em out. Here's a mini bio about Sigge: "As the drummer, Sigbjorn stands out from the crowd by his way to make his thing sound different than all the rest. This may also be characterized as his lifephilosophy, since he is kind of a freak :) He's been playing the drums for 5 years, and has a musical history to look back at (played the accordion :)... He's addicted to good music, nicotine and his friends, and he is (self-appointed) the boss of the band! Have received countless complaints concerning his stripping... " | Permalink | The Western Front is written by Thomas Friedman and appears in today's NY Times. Here's a bit: PARIS - There are three fronts in this Iraq war: one in Iraq, one between America and its Western allies, and one between America and the Arab world. They are all being affected by this unilateral exercise of U.S. power. For now, I've embedded myself on the Western front, where, I can report, all is quiet. France is shocked and awed. No, there is no massive retreat here from the position staked out by the French government and public opinion against the war in Iraq. But the angry chasm this has opened between Paris and both London and Washington has shocked many people here and prompted some to ask whether France went too far. The title of the latest cover story in the French newsmagazine Le Point said it all: "Have They Gone Overboard?" The "they" are President Jacques Chirac and his foreign minister, Dominique de Villepin. | Permalink | My Oscar Picks These are my picks in the Pauly's Pub Oscar Pool: Best Actor: Michael Caine Best Supporting Actor: Chris Cooper Best Actress: Diane Lane Best Supporting Actress: Meryl Streep Best Director: Martin Scorcese Best Picture: Gangs of New York Best Adapted Acreenplay: Adaptation Best Original Screenplay: Talk to Her Best Cinematography: Conrad L. Hall (Road to Perdition) Best Documentray Film: Bowling for Columbine Best Foreign Film: Zus & Zo Best Animated Film: Lilo & Stitch | Permalink | Three Journalists Are Casualties in Southern Iraq... no word whether or not they are dead, or just wounded. | Permalink | Saturday, March 22, 2003
Check it out: New Yorkers Speak Out Against War... Dozens Arrested, 14 Officers Injured In Largest Anti-War Rally Yet | Permalink | What are you talking about? A newbie to the gambling world asked me about some of the lingo I have been using in my most recent blogs. Here's a quick vocabulary lesson... Big Bet = the game that I wager the most money on that day Spread = Bookmakers in Las Vegas determine how much the favorite team will win by (e.g. Wisconsin -3 means that Wisconsin must win by four or more point in order for me to win that bet, if I were to take Missouri +3, then Missouri gets an additional three points added to it's final score. They can lose the game and I can still win the bet, as long as it's not by more than 2 points) "Cover the Spread" = if the team you picked won by the amount the bookmakers said they would... I need Marquette to win by four points! Push = when the outcome of the game, with the spread, results in a tie Juice = when you lose a wager, you must pay an additional 10% of your orginal bet (e.g. if you make a $200 bet and you lose, you owe $220) | Permalink | Pauly's Big Bets of the Day Marquette -3 1/2 over Missouri Wisconsin -3 over Tulsa No more fucking around... time to make up some ground! Here are the rest of my picks for today's games with the SPREAD: Notre Dame + 51/2 Cal + 7 1/2 Kansas -7 1/2 Arizona -10 Central Michigan +9 1/2 Stanford +2 1/2 | Permalink | March Madness Day 2 Afterthoughts OK, I am not doing too good, betting wise. Again, I lost MY BIG BET of the DAY! I dunno what happened to fuckin' LSU! In the morning I was not doing so hot, after losing 6 out of my first 8 bets of the day. At mid-day on Friday, I was down $325... only to rally in the later games, something I desperately needed, and I finished the day winning 7 out of 8 bets!! The late day rally helped me and I made up the money I lost earlier in the day. I ended Day 2 winning 9 bets and losing 7. With Spreads: 17-14-1 (-$30) Big Bets: 0-2 How did my other teams end Round 1? Snoochie Boochies: 25-7 Nietzsche's Bikini Babes: 22-10 Ralph Wiggum Ate My Monkey (Free Pool): 21-11 March Madness Pools Update 2Thru 3.22.03 @ 9:18 am ROUND 1 is complete! DAY 2 UPDATE... quite a few upsets out there! A couple of buzzer beaters. WOW. Best of luck, Round 2 begins today and ends on Sunday!! SPIDER's team (Takin' UR $$$ Anwomen) is winning the Cash Pool. GIL's team (Kickiraki Ass) is winning the Free Pool. But random Biaggi's are in second place in each pool, looking to take over first place!! And my team in the free pool, Ralph Wiggum Ate My Monkey is more likely to eat monkeys than actually pick winners! Alas, in the immortal words of Ralph Wiggum, "And, when the doctor said I didn't have worms any more, that was the happiest day of my life!!!" TAO of PAULY (CASH POOL) Standings: 1 TakinUR $$$ Anwomen (Spider McNamara) 260 2 ILL-Legally Blonde (Jen Biaggi) 250 2 The NCAA Violator$ (Derek McGuire) 250 2 Snoochie Boochies (Pauly 1) 250 5 Team Girtz (Eial Girtz) 240 5 The Slack Jaw Yokel (Team Ephedra) 240 5 Bagin' Elephants (Senor 1) 240 8 Phat Chicks (Senor 2) 230 8 Team Singer (Brad Singer) 230 10 Nietzsche's Bikini Babes (Pauly 2) 220 11 Brooklyn Boogiedowns (Lori Blandford) 200 Pauly's Pub (FREE POOL) Standings: 1 Kickiraki Ass (Gil Shapir) 250 2 Big Sal (Sal Biaggi) 240 2 The D'oh! of Homer (Katarina Biaggi) 240 2 Marge's Fake Rack (Spider McNamara) 240 5 Cryin'babies SlappinWomen (Molly Daugherty) 230 5 Rod & Todd's Hard Wood (Derek McGuire) 230 5 The Straight Seeds 230 8 The Milhouse Incident (Armen Tanzairian) 220 8 Rev Lovejoys Sinners (Jessica Lapidus) 220 8 NedFlanders' FunkyBitches (Heather Adams) 220 11 Dickey V's PTPers (Joseph Moore) 210 11 Grateful Jenny (Jennifer Biaggi) 210 13 Ralph Wiggum Ate MyMonkey (Pauly) 200 | Permalink | Friday, March 21, 2003
Not doing so good betting wise... so far I lost 3 out of the 4 games with the spreads today! Yikes!! Plus, St. Joe's got upset by Auburn, which messed up my pool. I still have faith in my Big Bet... LSU! | Permalink | Dave Simanoff wrote a good article in today's Tampa Tribune called Pundits Predict Florida Tourism Will Become A War Casualty. Check it out. | Permalink | Pauly's Money Bet of the Day LSU -5 over Purdue. You heard it here first. That is my Big Bet for today. | Permalink | Derek sent me this e-mail about the March Madness Pool: "We must ban all Biaggi's from playing in your pools. Last night, at one point, they were 1-2-3. Cali Jen's got weird Final 4 picks though... she won't win. She has like 3 Cali teams in the Final 4." | Permalink | March Madness Day 1 Afterthoughts... I got my ass handed to me. I lost all my major bets, including the Lock of the Day: Dayton which got upended last night against Tulsa. Overall, I am down $40 for the tourney. With the SPREADS... yesterday I went 8-7-1. But that was after I started my day with a 7-1 start! I was up $295 at that point. And it was downhill ever since then, after the afternoon and evening games, I got schooled with a 1-6-1 record. Ouch! With Spreads: 8-7-1 (minus $40) Big Bets: 0-1 How did my other teams do for Day 1? Snoochie Boochies: 12-4 Nietzsche's Bikini Babes: 11-5 Ralph Wiggum Ate My Monkey (Free Pool): 10-6 March Madness PoolsDay 1 Update thru 3.20.03 @ 12:59 am WOW, what a day! A couple of upsets! A lot of close games! Spider's team: TakinUR $$$ Anwomen, called the Tulsa and Central Michigan upset victories and that's why he's leading the CASH POOL! And how the hell did the Biaggi sisters predict the Arizona State upset of Memphis? With that win, Cali Kat and her team: The D'oh! of Homer leads the FREE POOL!! I got my asss handed to me today, fuckin' aaaaaaa! CASH POOL Day 1 Standings: 1 TakinUR $$$ Anwomen (Spider McNamara) 140 2 ILL-Legally Blonde (Jen Biaggi) 130 3 The Slack Jaw Yokel (Team Ephedra) 120 3 Team Girtz (Eial Girtz) 120 3 The NCAA Violator$ (Derek McGuire) 120 3 Snoochie Boochies (Pauly 1) 120 7 Team Singer (Brad Singer) 110 7 Nietzsche's Bikini Babes, (Pauly 2) 110 7 Bagin' Elephants (Senor 1) 110 7 Phat Chicks (Senor 2) 110 11 Brooklyn Boogiedowns (Lori Blandford) 70 FREE POOL Day 1 Standings: 1 The D'oh! of Homer (Katarina Biaggi) 140 2 Big Sal (Salvatore Biaggi) 130 2 Rev Lovejoys Sinners (Princess Jessica) 130 2 Grateful Jenny (Jennifer Biaggi) 130 5 The Straight Seeds 120 5 Cryin'babies SlappinWomen (Molly Daugherty) 120 5 Rod & Todd's Hard Wood (Derek McGuire) 120 5 Kickiraki Ass (Gil Shapir) 120 5 Marge's Fake Rack (Brian McNamara) 120 10 Ralph Wiggum Ate MyMonkey (Pauly) 100 10 The Milhouse Incident (Armen Tanzairian) 100 10 NedFlanders' FunkyBitches (Heather Adams) 100 13 Dickey V's PTPers (Joseph Moore) 80 | Permalink | Thursday, March 20, 2003
Interesting newsbit: Senate Rejects Arctic Oil Drilling Plan... Alaskan oil has been an important part of Bush Inc.'s energy plan but the US Senate narrowly rejected a plan to allow oil drilling in an Alaskan wildlife refuge. | Permalink | Final Four Teams What are my Final Four teams? Well, I'll list them for you, but I do have three teams in two different pools! Ralph Wiggum Ate My Monkey is my Pauly's Pub Free Pool entry, and Snoochie Boochies and Nietzsche's Bikini Babes are my teams in the Tao of Pauly Cash Pool. The top team that I list in bold is my winner. The second team is the other team that makes the finals. Ralph Wiggum Ate My Monkey 1. Kentucky 2. Louisville 3. Kansas 4. Xavier Snoochie Boochies 1. Kentucky 2. Wake Forest 3. Arizona 4. Texas Nietzsche's Bikini Babes 1. Texas 2. Kansas 3. Louisville 4. Pittsburgh | Permalink | Rainy Day Thursday It's been pouring out for several hours. Wicked storm, eh? My day was long as fuck, considering I didn't get much sleep last night after I foolishly stayed up all night to try to write while I watched the coverage of the Bush Inc.'s War, or as CNN is telling us... the Liberation of Iraq. I had breakfast with Cali Jen and I stumbled upon the realization, halfway between eating my well-done bacon and slurping up my French Toast smothered in gobs of diner butter and maple syrup, that the one French product that I will have trouble boycotting is: French Toast. I will now refer to my favorite breakfast as Freedom Toast. Oui? Anyway, I hung out with Gil in the Slope. We amused ourselves with more war coverage and watched the first couple of games of March Madness, while we also tried not so successfully to write a song. Anyway, The first day of March Madness isn't over and I'm already pissed! The fuckin' Salukis of Southern Illinois lost by one friggin point to Missouri, on a bullshit call. I was pissed all right. I started the day off well... nailing 7 out of the first 8 games (with the spreads). But since then, my betting record hasn't been good. Too many upsets that I didn't call. Central Michigan and Arizona State both won... which fucked my shit up, all right. The night is not over yet. But it's not looking too good. I need Dayton to win tonight to make up for my losses for the early evening games! | Permalink | Pauly's Money Bet of the Day I like Dayton -2. They play Tulsa and I cannot believe the spread is only -2! I think they'll win by at least six points. This is my Big Bet of the day. | Permalink | March Madenss Pools OK the teams have been announced, the games begin soon, so without further ado... Tao of Pauly (Cash Pool) Players (11) Bagin' Elephants (Senor Sheer 1) ILL-Legally Blonde (Jen Biaggi) Brooklyn Boogiedowns (Lori Blandford) The NCAA Violator$ (Derek McGuire) Snoochie Boochies (Tenzin McGrupp) TakinUR $$$ Anwomen (Spider McNamara) Girtz Entry (Eail Girtz) Singer Entry (Brad Singer) Nietzsche's Bikini Babes (Tenzin McGrupp 2) The Slack Jaw Yokel (Team Ephedra) Phat Chicks (Senor 2) Pauly's Pub (Free Pool) Players (13) Cryin'babies SlappinWomen (Molly Daugherty) Rod & Todd's Hard Wood (Derek McGuire) The D'oh! of Homer (Katarina Biaggi) Marge's Fake Rack (Spider McNamara) Ralph Wiggum Ate MyMonkey (Pauly) Rev Lovejoys Sinners (Jessica Lapidus) The Milhouse Incident (Armen Tanzairian) Grateful Jenny (Jen Biaggi) Dickey V's PTPers (Joe Moore) London Calling (Gil Shapir) Big Sal (Sal Biaggi)Copyr NedFlanders' FunkyBitches (Heather Adams)ight ©2 The Straight Seeds Prizes Pauly's Pub (Free Pool) Winner gets a Pauly Painting or a Bootleg CD Tao of Pauly (Cash Pool) Winner gets $82.50, 2nd Place $27.50 Who picked who to win? (According to ESPN.com) 1. Kentucky (51% of all pools have Kentucky winning) 2. Arizona (14.23 %) 3. Texas (5.26 %) 4. Oklahoma (5.24 %) 5. Kansas (4.58%) | Permalink | I decided to keep the War coverage to a minimun, just because every major news site and television stations are covering it, so I won't bombard you with heavy war blogging, but if there are items of interest, I will post them, but for the most part, I'll try to keep the TAO moving forward with a nice balance of old hijinks and current events. | Permalink | Wednesday, March 19, 2003
The Return of Phish I just posted an article that I wrote to The Good News called: The Return of Phish. Check it out! | Permalink | 11 More Questions: The March Madness EditionHere we go again! 11 More Questions: The March Madness Edition... thanks for everyone who submitted questions. I'm working on a new batch as we speak! 1. Ben or Matt? - Derek, NYC 2. Who is the best author you have read work by? - Stephen Adkins, Seattle, WA 3. If you were gay, how would you break the news to your parents and friends? (I ask this because this is something that straight people never have to think about. It's an important rite of passage for some of us.) - Skippy, Tampa, FL 4. What would you do if u found a packed bowl at a Phish show, and it didn’t belong to anybody? - KK, NYC 5. Why are all of your Truckin’ stories about hookers, drug dealers, addicts, or all of the above? - Cali Jen, San Francisco, CA 6. Do you think this fucking war will disturb the NCAA March Madness tourney at all? - Senor 7. How much of the Truckin’ stories are true - or are they "based on true story" - i.e. Senor's Sisters story and the funny Amsterdam story with the French chicks and pools of urine bar? - Jerry, Miami, FL 8. What daily newspapers do you read? - Edgar, Thunder Bay, Canada 9. What was the best Phish show you ever saw? - Cali Kat, San Diego, CA 10. Who is going to win the major Oscar’s this weekend? - Jen Flowers, NYC 11. Who did you pick to win the March Madness Pool? - Sal, San Francisco, CA And now my answers... 1. Ben or Matt? - Derek, NYC Matt on weekdays and Ben on weekends. 2. Who is the best author you have read work by? - Stephen Adkins, Seattle, WA There are so many books! Top 5 most influential books in my life (alphabetically): American Pastoral by Philip Roth Diary of a Madman by Nikolai Gogol Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson Tropic of Capricorn by Henry Miller On the Road by Jack Kerouac 3. If you were gay, how would you break the news to your parents and friends? (I ask this because this is something that straight people never have to think about. It's an important rite of passage for us 'mos though.) - Dave, Tampa, FL I have found great resistance to my decision to be a writer from my family. That has caused major problems for me in the last several years, so I assume whatever I said about my sexual orientation would be met with the same amount of hostility because I failed to live up to their standards and expectations. Somedays I wonder if my family would still treat me the same if I were homosexual, but they’d most likely overlook that as long as I held “a real job”. 4. What would you do if u found a packed bowl at a Phish show, and it didn’t belong to anybody? - KK, NYC Probably smoke the fucker! After I wipe off the mouthpiece first… 5. Why are all of your Truckin’ stories about hookers, drug dealers, addicts, or all of the above? - Cali Jen, San Francisco, CA OK not all of the Truckin’ stories are about hookers and drug dealers. I wrote about subways too! Here’s the deal, I could just say that I write about a subjects that I have a fair amount of knowledge in, but the deeper answer is this: everyone in this world falls into three categories; prostitutes, dealers, and addicts. Which one are you? My stories focus on essentially the human condition and how each character deals with the perceived world that they find themselves in, whether it’s an angelic Thai hooker, or a burly once-famous, now has-been junkie, or a caustic smack pusher. 6. Do you think this fucking war will disturb the NCAA March Madness tourney at all? - Senor I hope not because I’m going to Las Vegas to gamble on the games!!! 7. How much of the Truckin’ stories are true - or are they "based on true story" - i.e. Senor's Sisters story and the funny Amsterdam story with the French chicks and pools of urine bar? - Jerry, Miami You have to read the quote at the top right hand side of the Truckin’ homepage. It’s a quote from William Faulkner: "The best fiction is far more true than any kind of journalism." 8. What newspapers do you read? - Edgar, Thunder Bay, Canada NY Times, NY Daily News, Thunder Bay Bugle, Wall Street Journal and the Guardian Unlimited (UK) are my daily readings. I read the Village Voice and the Seattle Weekly once a week, and I’ll check out individual news article on various sites like the Washington Post, or the Detroit Free Press or Le Monde. 9. What was the best Phish show you ever saw? - Cali Kat, San Diego, CA The Japan shows all stand out, perhaps the Fukuoka show or the Osaka Zepp show are the two best from that run. Las Vegas Halloween in 1998 when the boys covered Velvet Underground’s Loaded was pretty epic. The Fox Theatre in Atlanta, GA show in April of 1994 was always a favorite of mine. The December 29, 1998 show at Madison Square Garden was kick ass (Divided Sky encore!). The second set at the Gorge in July 1998 was once of the best sets of Phish I ever heard (23 minute Mike’s Song), and so was the second set at Chula Vista in September 1999 (22 minute Boogie On Reggae Woman to open the set). 10. Who is going to win the major Oscar’s this weekend? - Jen Flowers, NYC Chicago for Best Picture Martin Scorcese for Best Director Michael Caine for Best Actor Nicole Kidman for Best Actress Jack Nicholson for Best Supporting Actor Merly Streep for Best Supporting Actress These are who I’d bet on, not necessarily who I’d vote for. I’ll blog my picks later this week. 11. Who did you pick to win the March Madness Pool? - Sal, San Francisco, CA In homage to Hunter S. Thompson, who picked Kentucky in his last ESPN article, I too shall jump on the bluegrass bandwagon. Kentucky all the way baby! | Permalink | Boogie sent me this link: Defend America "Hello All, Please take 10 seconds to thank all of those serving in the U.S Armed Forces in this time of crisis in the Middle East. These men & woman are risking their lives to defend the great nation that we are. Click on the link below to submit your name. So far 6.4 million people have signed!" | Permalink | Re: March Truckin' Here are some comments about this month's issue of March Truckin': Skippy comments: "The stories this month are great!" Jerry Engel writes: "Diggin' the new Truckin'... good stories. It's interesting reading a few of them together by different writers. I can tell the difference in quality (of writing, not necessarily entertainment). I think I enjoy your subway stories the best - but I think you HAVE TO have ridden the subways in NYC to appreciate (them) to the fullest." Armando writes: "Good stuff man! Good stuff. Cracked up in a couple of places. (The Girl Next Door: Episode 2 was Especially Funny) Good work!" Sigge posted a link for Shooting Pool on his blog site and writes: "Check it out... t's really good reading, folks." Cali Jen said: "This part made me laugh hysterically!!!!!" Jen was talking about this passage that I wrote from Mollydelphia: << We were amused by the conversation from three kids in our section that happened to be talking about Avril LaVigne. Amazing. Two Avril LaVigne references in less than 24 hours at two different Phish shows. Stuff like that makes me scratch my balls twice as fast. >> | Permalink | I am re-blogging the results from two different Tao of Pauly Polls! Enjoy... Originally blogged 9.17.02 Iraq Poll Updates: 68% of Tao Readers say: "Attack!"Question: Attack Iraq or no attack? E-mail me your opinion! NO: 32% Results thru 9.17.02 @ 7:01 am Here are some comments: Pro-Attack on Iraq "As a Buddhist, I say no war is good. As an imperfect human, I say nuke 'em till they glow and shoot 'em in the dark." - Stephen Adkins, Seattle, WA "Yes. We should go to war. But we need to be more mindful of other worldy issues as well, such as the environment and AIDS in Africa and Asia. We need to give back as much as we destroy." - Jenna Sims Hall, Austin, TX "Definitely. War has been proven to be great for the economy, and with the advent of CNN, 24 hour quality TV. I also prefer not be attacked by nuclear and biochemical weapons." - Steve Ader, Long Island, NY "I think we should wage war on Iraq. When we do attack I think we should take note of what he's wearing. I've read that he's much happier (and thus more vulnerable) when he's wearing Valentino as oppossed to Couture d'Iraq. I think America's best should first sneak in and shave his moustache only to return weeks later to finally take him out." - Spydur, New York City Against Attacking Iraq "Hell no! I think we should invade Canada instead. It's just sitting there, taunting us. 'The World Next Door' my ass. Let's make them the 51st!" - Armando Huerta, Athens, Greece "Not right now. I think the real reason we want to attack is to get oil. America should be looking for renewable sources of energy (like solar or wind) INSTEAD of killing innocent people and taking their oil." - Jen Biaggi, San Francisco, CA "No. We need more information before we go." - Jerry Engel, Miami, FL Originally blogged 12.10.02 Tao Poll 4 Results: Readers say J. Lo & Ben to end before Iraq War!It's true the results do not lie... 67% of you say that the nuptials for Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez will end BEFORE the completion of the Iraq War. Question: What will end first? J. Lo & Ben or the U.S.-Iraq War Part 2? Results: J. Lo & Ben: 51 votes (67%) Iraq War: 25 votes (23%) Total sample: 76 votes Thanks to Orit for inquiring about the results... and here are some comments: "Kid Rock and Pam Anderson's relationship will end before both." - Derek, NYC "I think the J. Lo is hotter than the Bush twins, for sure. Her booty will get my vote." - Phil, Houston, TX "I do think the war will end first ... but the military occupation of Iraq will far outlast Ben & J. Lo." - Dave Simanoff, Tampa, FL "Quite frankly I hope J. Lo and Ben rot. I do not give a rats ass about either of them. I'm more interested in whethter or not World War 111 can be averted and how the world can stop the death in the Mid East." - Stephen Adkins, Seattle, WA "Ben and JLo will end first. She'll divorce him in a few months, but keep him as a close friend, shake that enormous cola of hers and find some other poor innocent dork to be her 4th husband, and she'll make sure that he's in her next video." - Molly, El Paso, TX "Don't be fooled by her rocks... she's still Jenny from the block. Jenny dumps Ben before Saddam gives up to Bush Jr.!" - Edgar, Thunder Bay, Canada "After seeing J-Lo's new video "Jenny from the block" or "Jenny on the block" - I'm not sure what it's called... you know... the one with Ben Aph leck... I'm convinced that they're marriage is a stable one and it will endure. Seeing Aph leck rub her behind the way he did made me sure of that. With regards to the war - come'on....we'll be fighting Iraqis ....more than half of them just gave up as soon as the war started in 91. The tough part I guess will be Bahgdad. Street Fighting is no good.... remember Black Hawk Down?" - Gil, Brooklyn, NY | Permalink | I saw Robert Hunter last night at Town Hall. I can't recall the setlist, but it was a good mellow show! | Permalink | Re: The Good News Kristen sent me this e-mail about my recent publication on Sigge's new site The Good News: "COOL!!! Congrats!!! Already penetrating the international circuit, eh? Oh wait, I forgot you already have a presence in Japan and all over Southeast Asia!" | Permalink | I saw this quote and I thought it was fitting: "Before the Gulf War started, the Iraqi Army was the the fourth largest in the world. Now, its the second largest army in Iraq." - Wall Street Journal, March 15, 1991 | Permalink | Tuesday, March 18, 2003
Truckin' March 2003 (Vol.2, Issue 3)Welcome to Truckin' my monthly E-Zine. This month's issue includes... 7 (that's right seven!) McG stories: another Subway Story, a classic McGrupp & Señor story called Shooting Pool, a three part series called Phishin' Tales, my monthly indie film review, and The Girl Next Door: Epsiode 2. Also in this issue is current Cambodia love triangle by Señor entitled Sisters. And Armando Huerta returns with a hilarious bit on cheap souvenirs. So sit back, relax, enjoy, and spread the word! Thanks for all your support! Be Sweet, McG • Subway Story: Ides of March by Tenzin McGrupp As the train raced downtown I noticed that Molly was staring at the other passengers that sat on the semi-crowded subway. “You know, it’s not even a politeness thing, it’s just a New York thing. You don’t look at other people in NYC, especially on the subways. That’s how’ll you’ll get shot,” I warned... More • Sisters by Señor Chetra is pure innocence. She is a sweet, loving, caring, 18 year old virgin, and having a tight little body is a great added bonus... Soghin is a seductress. She has supermodel looks and a great personality to boot! Not only do I like her as a person but I also lust after her like I've never lusted before... Chetra and Soghin are SISTERS! ... More • Shooting Pool by Tenzin McGrupp I was kicked out of the Holland Casino for a dress code violation... and there I stood at the entrance trying to get in, decked out in Birkenstocks, ripped jeans, and a NY Knicks T-shirt. It didn’t help that I had been tripping on mushrooms for most of the night... More • Kitty Kat Crap by Armando Huerta Every city that has even an inkling of tourism inevitably has a section of town that houses nothing but store after store pandering this godforsaken crap on pea brained tourists walking around with Bermuda shorts and sunburned knees... More • New Jersey Blues: Phishin' Tales Part 1 by Tenzin McGrupp He dug into the inside pocket of his jacket and pulled out a joint. He handed it to me. “I wanted to give it to someone who had a smiling face. And you seem to be that guy.” ... More • Mollydelphia: Phishin' Tales Part 2 by Tenzin McGrupp I was running late and the last thing I needed was to get into a fender bender in the parking lot of the liquor store. For a few minutes, I really felt the sharp pains of having to come to grips with the worst-case scenario: I am not going to see Phish in Philadelphia... More • Strong Island Unbound: Phishin' Tales Part 3 by Tenzin McGrupp We met up with Spider and Gil at Penn Station and took the LIRR to the Island. Molly was shocked to see people drinking single cans of beer in brown paper bags on the commuter train. “It’s routine, in many ways ritualistic for the male suburban commuter,” I explained, “in the morning it’s coffee, in the evening it’s a Bud tallboy.” ... More • Indie Film Review: March by Tenzin McGrupp Reviews of the films: American Movie: The Making of Northwestern, Interiors, Gray's Anatomy, Chelsea Walls, and Storytelling... More • The Girl Next Door: Epsiode 2 by Tenzin McGrupp I sat on the edge of my couch and turned on the TV, as she paced back and forth shouting obscenities and holding back tears, trying her hardest not to cry, while I tired my best efforts to pretend not to be listening in on her drama. In the middle of her Sunday morning tirade she managed to help herself to a beer in my fridge and lit of a cigarette.... More | Permalink | Señor Update... Despite what you have read in the this issue of Truckin'... but Señor has offically left Cambodia and is now living in Bangkok, Thailand. He called to tell me that he bought a copy of USA Today so he can do his picks for the March Madness Pool. More to updates to come for sure! | Permalink | Jon Schanzer wrote an article called Survival of the Skittish... Is the Arab world on board? and it appears in the National Review. Here's a bit: "So much for Arab unity. Despite the repeated and emphatic declarations of unity with Iraq, the recent televised brawl between Arab leaders at the Organization of the Islamic Conference in Qatar showed that the Arab world is actually anything but unified. As it turns out, much of the Arab world will now back the imminent U.S. invasion." | Permalink | Monday, March 17, 2003
Señor Update!Señor sent me an e-mail from Thailand! Here's what he wrote: Subj: editor in chief! Date: 3/15/2003 3:20:26 AM Eastern Standard Time From: Señor To: McGrupp Thanks for the editing job on Sisters, it looks good!!!!!!! Señor is talking about his last story that he submitted to Truckin' called: Sisters. Check it out! | Permalink | Re: March Truckin's Subway Story: Ides of March Molly sent me this in an e-mail: "HEY!!! I KNEW you were going to write about those Germans!! That was great!! I loved it. I just had my mom read it and she enjoyed it too, especially the rotting flesh part. Very well written. loved the thing about the scarf. And I have to admit that it makes me extra happy that a Molly story made it into Truckin. I feel special :). Also, I liked the Amsterdam one, did that really happen? The part about the strung out bartender made me laugh. I also read Armando's story and enjoyed that as well." | Permalink | Gil sent me this link: Besides Bumble Bumble, what do people read? I'm a nerd, I read no less than 25 of the books mentioned on that site. | Permalink | Spider sent me this link: What Men Really Want which was written by Stacey Pressman. Here's a bit: "Let's face it -- men really don't like women who know sports. In fact, when a man realizes that a woman does know sports -- especially football -- she has somehow encroached on his masculinity. She has entered the neutral zone and made illegal contact with his manhood." | Permalink | The Good News needs hits! Sigge wrote me this: "The Good News site needs 90+ hits in this first month to keep the free domain..." So to all you readers out there, start checking out the site, so it will stay free! Thanks! | Permalink | Happy St. Patrick's Day!Kristen Myers sent me a e-greeting! Check out KK's: Dancing Shamrock e-greeting. | Permalink | Sunday, March 16, 2003
The weather was sensational today, one fof the warmest and nicest days in 2003. I was digging it, being able to walk around in the mid-60s tempatures, especially after the long, cold, bitter, wintry winter. Cali Jen is in town, it's her Spring Break, and we wandered around Central Park today, and instead of bird watching... we were people watching, as many New Yorkers fled to the park, to take in the first Spring-like day this year. Of course some guy wearing a Kobe Bryant jersey asked me if I was Dave Grohl and I told him, "If I was I wouldn't be talking to your dumbass? Would I?" I had to set the dude straight, so I told him my name was Lenny and I was a bowling pin setter at an alley outside of Dearborn, Michigan. And most importantly, that the Lakers sucked moose cock. Afterwards, we went to the Guggenheim Museum. Cali Jen was talking shit about how she could get us in for free (she used to be a former employee). Normally, I would refuse to pay the admission fee of $15!!! Of course she couldn't sweet talk her way in and get two free passes. Unwillingly, she paid for the both of us, and of course, I gave her a hard time for the entire duration that we were there (aside from the few minutes we followed a couple of France and listened to them complain about every artist they saw... fucking ingrates!) The special exhibit that was showing was an installation from Matthew Barney. It's difficult to explain what exactly was going on there. He's a multi-media type artist, and uses all forms of expression: films, sculptures, drawings, photogprahs, etc... but for now, no real comments. But his work is thought provoking. Here's something from the show's website: "Matthew Barney's epic Cremaster cycle (1994–2002) is a self-enclosed aesthetic system consisting of five feature-length films that explore processes of creation. The cycle unfolds not just cinematically, but also through the photographs, drawings, sculptures, and installations the artist produces in conjunction with each episode. Its conceptual departure point is the male cremaster muscle, which controls testicular contractions in response to external stimuli. The project is rife with anatomical allusions to the position of the reproductive organs during the embryonic process of sexual differentiation: Cremaster 1 represents the most "ascended" or undifferentiated state, Cremaster 5 the most "descended" or differentiated. The cycle repeatedly returns to those moments during early sexual development in which the outcome of the process is still unknown—in Barney's metaphoric universe, these moments represent a condition of pure potentiality. As the cycle evolved over eight years, Barney looked beyond biology as a way to explore the creation of form, employing narrative models from other realms, such as biography, mythology, and geology." | Permalink | March Madness Brackets Announced! Time to do your picks before Thursday morning. And if you haven't signed up yet, here's your chance! The winner of the Pauly's Pub March Madness Pool gets a bootleg or a Pauly painting. Group name: Pauly's Pub Password: pauly If you prefer to play the Cash Pool (prize is up to $60) you can sign up today... Group name: Tao of Pauly Password: pauly Best of luck! | Permalink | Repairing the World is written by Thomas Friedman and appears in today's NY Times. Here's a bit: "Yes, some people and nations are just jealous of America's power and that's why they oppose us on Iraq. But there is something more to the opposition. I deeply identify with the president's vision of ending Saddam Hussein's tyranny and building a more decent, progressive Iraq. If done right, it could be so important to the future of the Arab-Muslim world, which is why I won't give up on this war. " | Permalink | Kentucky Uber Alles is an article written by Hunter S. Thompson... where he picks Kentucky to win the NCAA March Madness Tournament. Here's a bit: "And now, back to the cruel realities. Indeed, I am stuck with Kentucky again, and this time around I feel pretty good about it. You bet, let us rumble. I have already bet heavily on Kentucky against the field -- at odds I see no need to disclose, at this moment, except to say that if my Bluegrass people do win the national title this year, I will be flying into Las Vegas on my own jet plane for the next heavyweight fight, or maybe just for a spectacular orgy at the Palms. We will see. Let me assure you, once again, that I am not a bookie, a cop or a shill for anything except my own whims, wisdom and sometimes even visions that I have never denied or repudiated. So it's Caveat Emptor, around here, and always in flux. Salud." | Permalink | Jerry Engel writes: "The Tao was strong - although I would love to have more info on the people splashed throughout and their connection to McGrupp. Maybe a bio section on these contributors and personalities." Funny that Jerry should say that. If you want to read more about some fof the people mentioned on the Tao, please visit the Ramblers & Pranksters part of the Tao of Pauly: Page 2 which also lists my bio and the Mission Statement for the Tao. | Permalink | Re: Strong Island Unbound: Phishin' Tales Part 3 Zobo sent me this e-mail after he read Strong Island Unbound... which appears in this month's issue of Truckin'. "I love it! I think my best asshole comment was"Hey man, Trey is a much better singer than you" to some American guy who was singing very loud during Reba at Zepp Osaka. I always feel bad when I say something, but there are times when it needs to be done!" Zobo was comemnting on this line from my short story: << "Steve Edlestien? Good, Steve, cause when I write up the review of this show and post it on the net, I want to make sure I spell your name right, since you're the ass face who talked about your boring personal life during the entire first set and ruined my show." >> | Permalink | Good News! I wrote my first story called: NYC Stuff for | Permalink | Saturday, March 15, 2003
My new writing gig: Good News Sigge Amdal sent me this e-mail: "Hi there, Pauly! Me and a friend, Kornelius, have begun a project called "Good News" (not bible-related in any way!) where we'll strive to deliver exclusively GOOD NEWS to the folks of the 'net. Funny, optimistic and so on, stories from all over the world. I just wanted to ask you to join us, as we need more people to find the good news. It would have been nice! Talk to you later! Sigge p.s. The blog is published at: http://gtaamdal.home.online.no/" Thanks Sigge! I am excited and humbled that you invited me to particapte in your new web project! I'm currently working on my first entry/piece/submission! | Permalink | Boogie saw Tori Amos at Radio City Music Hall last week and this is what she wrote me: "Tori was enchanting. She seemed blissful and comfortable. Her music deserves Radio City. If every person in this world loved someone as much as she loves her Bosendorfer (sp) piano, the world would be a better place. I enjoyed it to immensely. and she played Tear in Your Hand, My Personal Jesus." And Boogie also commented on my last short film called: Smooth: "That movie's pretty cool for a free camera. I actually like the shots of you walking best!" | Permalink | Friday, March 14, 2003
In case you were wondering, the rest of the money from the March Madness Pool get's divided up this way: $10 to the person in LAST PLACE and the remainder goes to the 2nd Place entry. | Permalink | $45.00... So far that's the winning pot for the Tao of Pauly March Madness Cash Pool... (Pauly's Pub is the free pool)... the more people that join, the bigger the pot. I know a couple of people have not done thier entries so the pot should rise over the weekend. Please create your entry today! Visit: ESPN's NCAA March Madness Pool and sign up for the cash pool if you are interested. Entries are $10. Winner gets 75% of the pool money. Here are the bold folks who are putting their money where their mouth is: Brooklyn Boogiedowns (Lori Blandford) Bagin' Elephants (Senor) ILL-Legally Blonde (Jen Biaggi) Snoochie Boochies (Tenzin McGrupp) TakinUR $$$ Anwomen (Spider McNamara) Untitled Entry (Derek McGuire) The cash group name is: Tao of Pauly The password is: pauly If you want to play the free game... visit this link: March Madness Free Pool. The free group name is: Pauly's Pub The password is: pauly Best of luck! | Permalink | My 3:00 AM thoughts.... The weak knees of the man in the white labcoat shook and vibrated like a startled rattlesnake, ready to fight any trespasser to death in the fierce Texas heat. The self-loathing scumbag, who neatly put those butterflies into glass containers for retarded tourist from Botswana, fell down off his steel stool as he nibbled on his lunch: a soggy tuna salad sandwich on stale wheat bread with the crusts cut off, which he would collect and save all week, each day, scooping up the bits of unwanted bread, and placing them in a brown paper bag. He would then feed to the birds that lived in the large poplar trees that populated his rectangular backyard, each Sunday morning, like clockwork, minutes before he'd drive his twin daughters to church. The oldest one, by a mere three minutes, was singing in the choir, and he dared not miss a single note of his little sugar bear belt out the latest hymns in the oldest Baptist church in that county. The younger one would sit in a disturbing eerie silence, rarely blinking, or moving at all until the service was over. Then she would recite, verbatim, the homily from the Pastor. She had her own weekly blogspot, which she would blog honest, ripping, and cold commentary on the Pastor's out dated and anti-Semitic rants. | Permalink | Senor called me several times today, and I kept missing his calls, or we kept getting disconnected when we finally did make contact. He's well, back in Thailand, and it was great to hear his voice. | Permalink | Spider sent me this link: City to Eradicate Dangling Shoes as Gang Threat. Skippy sent me this link: Legislator Sticks by Denial of Nazi Persecution and this summary: "A legislator who claimed the Nazis never persecuted gays has refused to apologize and has now been accused of racism." | Permalink | Thursday, March 13, 2003
The Last 5 Books I Saw People Reading on the Subway... 1. Ironweed by William J. Kennedy 2. The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics by Gary Zukav 3. The Holy Bible 4. The Last Smythe by Barbara Sharp 5. Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain | Permalink | Is it true? I will now have the YES network. I guess all my whining, angry letters to Cablevision paid off. They still suck donkey cock. Man, and they found that missing Utah girl Elizabeth Smart, only because that whacked out Jesus Freak that snatched her up compeletly fucked up by returning to Utah. With a few minutes still left in Bong Day I want end with a rant against those religious fanatics... but I won't because I'm too tired, been writing most of the day, and I used up too many words as is. But I will say this, a pothead would have never snatched that girl from gunpoint from her bedroom and then drag her around the country and make her smoke pot all day. She doesn't have to get kidnapped to wander around in a heady daze, when she could just follow Phish. Maybe Jesus Freaks should be thrown into jail instead of potheads? | Permalink | I was just asked what Phish song best described my mood... and Gumbo came to mind. There's a mouse starin' out of the window His car is trapped in the snow He's planning a family vacation But he just can't go Around the next corner's a red bird His feathers are trapped in a sling He's passed by some gunslinging parrot Who's jealous he ain't got no grin There ain't no time to stash the gumbo Or rattle around in a cage The sacrificed child's made bubbles And spittle is everywhere enraged In a hot sand or in a my feet They're blistered and caked with debris Chez rolez is guarding the tote board While Angry piddles with glee | Permalink | Bad Phish Joke from the Greg Kilborn Show... Q. If Phish added Erik Estrada and Larry Wilcox to the band, what would they be called? A. Phish and Chips. | Permalink | Necessary Stoner Bio-Chem Weapon Device... this really made me laugh! With this item, I can survive any terror attack! | Permalink | Some Bong related sites: 1. Kingbong.com... features a cool movie into. 2. Bong Museum... nice pics. 3. Bong Designs 4. Big Bong Peace Project... trying to build a 240 foot high binger! 5. Bong Town!... it exists in Liberia. 6. Zen Master Ji Bong | Permalink | Today is Bong Thursday on the Tao... so check out this article: Fight al-Qaeda Bombs, Not Bongs which was written by Deroy Murdock. Here's a bit: "Last Monday, with America tensely poised at Orange Alert against new terrorist attacks, vigilant, machine-gun-toting National Guardsmen were becoming common in New York's subway stations. So, Attorney General John Ashcroft targeted a fearsome threat: marijuana pipes. Operation Pipe Dreams and Operation Headhunter encompassed raids on drug paraphernalia manufacturers, distributors and their homes. At least 60 people have been arrested for supplying pipes, bongs and roach clips. They face up to three years in prison and/or $250,000 fines. "This illegal billion-dollar industry will no longer be ignored by law enforcement," Ashcroft roared on Feb. 24." | Permalink | Heather sent me this article: Mike Gordon Accepts Stony Award... at the 4th-Annual High Times Stony Awards for Best Music DVD. Here's a picture of Mike with the award/bong. | Permalink | Wednesday, March 12, 2003
Bruce Cohen had a couple of cool things to say about Jack Tripper Stole My Dog: "I just started reading your book... MAN... YOU ARE GOOD!!!!!! I am on the edge of (being an) ILLITERATE BUM... hardly having read a novel in weeks... months... years... but, I started getting into your book... the storyline is engaging. Perhaps, when you get some published pieces, I can start doing some illustrations for the covers... and inserts... THIS IS THE TYPE OF REAL WORLD MOTIVATION I DESIRE... funny how when you are in school... inspired and motivated. These things seem so natural. But, in the day-to-day.... SCORN WORLD...... You kinda have to PROD yourself to find those motivators.... Especially in this COMPETITIVE TRENDY CITY WE LIVE IN...........!" | Permalink | Freedom Fries Debate I wrote this in an e-mail to the "gang"... Dude, don't get me started about the freakin' frogs now! Je pense que les Francais sont un paquet de cochons de facist!!!! Je veux a pisser dans leurs eaux etincelantes!! I was planning a trip to Paris for the summer, but now I'm thinking... fuck it! Why give my "blood money" to the frogs? I'd rather blow the money at the Paris casino in Vegas... when McD's starts changin their menu, then you gotta worry... "You want Freedom Fries or Foul Smellin, Sore Losin', Monkey Ball Licking, Let Your Wife and Daughter Fuck the Guy Next Door, Facist French fries with that Happy Meal?" Time for my afternoon dose of Prozac and TRL.... Bon Soir, McFrenchie Sometimes I make myself laugh. But wait there's more! Gil wrote a funny follow-up to my e-mail rant: This is what you wrote... "I think that the French are a package of pigs of facist!!!! I want has to piss in their water etincelantes!!" Where'd you learn your French? And of course, I quickly responded with: I took four years of Latin and French at Regis and one year of (ancient) Greek and one year of Russian at Emory. But the real answer to your question is that I learned mon francais from an eleven-fingered French-Canadian hooker from Montreal named Bubbles Deveaux. She wasn't much to look at, but she could open beer bottles with her false teeth, and conjegated verbs like no one I ever seen... before, and since. I wrote: "The French are a bunch of facist pigs... I want to piss in their sparlking waters." Touche petite minoux....! And that was the last of it... | Permalink | Re: The Orgasm Crank Call? From Senor: I confess I had the two Cambodian sisters (please see Truckin' for details) call you so you could experience what I live everyday!!!!! Hope you enjoyed... Senor :) Wow... I'm not buying it, but I appreciate the "cheap plug" for Truckin'! The new issue due out tomorrow! | Permalink | The Orgasm Crank Call?Someone cranked called my studio yesterday afternoon. It was a female, and she was moaning into the phone for several seconds before she eventually peaked into a semi-fake orgasm. Will anyone fess up to this call? I'm trying to figure out whodunit? Any suggestions? Any suspects? Any ideas on how I should get to the bottom of this? I wish I could upload it to the internet so I could play it for everyone! | Permalink | Check out Ursula's site: Hey, Smart Ass! Ursula was my old roommate in Park Slope, Brooklyn, and she just relocated to Arizona. She sent me an e-mail recently and really made me laugh, which made me realize that I miss her, and her sense of humor! Here's a blogworthy comment from Ursula on "dating": "Dating is an evil artificial construction designed to sell cosmetics and overpriced clothing." | Permalink | I sent out a preview of my Phishin' Tales Saga (soon to be published in the March issue of Truckin')... and I got a couple of responses: Zobo wrote: "I love reading reviews that mention my name. When they mention my name twice, I run four laps around my backyard wearing only a pair of sweatpants. Neither of us want to know what happens when I am mentioned three times!" Molly says: "Loved it!! It was pretty funny too, I like the part about the guy who gave you the joint, the bathroom part of course, and the jalapeno referrence! And good review of the music, I think you got that right on. Thanks for the peek!" Heather wrote: "Yes! Good job, great stories, funny times! Thanks for the warm memories and the random mentioning (That 4th of July show rocked!). Keep up the good work." Cali Kat wrote: "I loved the Avril LaVigne references! Did she really play with Phish?" | Permalink | Tuesday, March 11, 2003
Tuesday Poem: Somedays Somedays I get so sad, I could punch large holes into concrete walls. Other days I get so mad, I could tears phone books into itty bitty pieces. Most days I'm so glad, That I get to dodge the waves of fear and madness, And body surf their tubes of despair all the way to shore, Where I smile, and take deep breaths, And shoot rubber bands at the sky. But somedays I loose my balance, I get sucked under the mighty tidal waves, And find myself drowning in the quicksand. Where thousands of somber souls Discover their courage to return to the surface. Only to be wisked away by the lunar tide. | Permalink | Dr. Cannabis Jailed! Thanks to Skippy, Girtz, and Cali Jen for sending me related articles on his jailing. | Permalink | Monday, March 10, 2003
31 Truckin' StoriesBefore the new March issue of Truckin' comes out this week, I am posting the links to 31 flavorful stories that I published via Truckin' in the last nine months. So here's your opportunity to catch up on some short stories that I wrote, or you have a chance to re-read your favorites. Spread the word... and enjoy! 31 Truckin' Stories written by Tenzin McGrupp © 2002, 2003 Subway Quotes (June 2002) Fukuoka, Phishy City (June 2002) The Catch Up Conversation (June 2002) The Worst Subway Ride (July 2002) La Bakeri (July 2002) Nagoya (August 2002) Jerry Day (August 2002) A Caged Bird Sings on the Subway (September 2002) The Cookie Junkie (September 2002) Jake's Beer (October 2002) Monday Morning, Montego Bay (October 2002) Goodbye Pussycats (October 2002) Tela & Cheese Sandwich (October 2002) November Subway Stories (November 2002) Jack Tripper Stole My Dog (November 2002)... NaNoWriMo novel excerpt #1 Flutterbys (November 2002) S.P.U.D. (November 2002) Labor Day (November 2002) December Subway Story: Part 1 (December 2002) Phishy Proposal (December 2002) Jack Tripper Stole My Dog (December 2002)... NaNoWriMo novel excerpt #2 Pedro's Window (December 2002) Her Last Christmas Present (December 2002) The Man in the Clown Suit: Part 1 (January 2003) Phish Reunion Concert: A NYE Review (January 2003) Indie Film Reviews (January 2003) Dream Bubbles (January 2003) Feb Subway Story: Fallen Angel (February 2003) The Girl Next Door (February 2003) Indie Film Review (February 2003) Growers (February 2003) Coming soon... 4 brand new stories in the upcoming issue of Truckin'. | Permalink | Molly Blogs!! Here are two different Molly related blogs, but none related to Molly from El Paso! 1. Smart Blonde: Molly's Musings 2. Molly's Music | Permalink | Sunday, March 09, 2003
SAG AWARDS... Prelude to the Oscars Tonight's winners... Best Actor & Actress Daniel Day Lewis & Renee Zellweger... Best Supporting Actor & Actress: Christopher Walken & Catherine Zeta-Jones. William H. Macy won an award for Best Performance in a TV Movie or Mini-series, playing Bill Porter a salesman with CP. Will tonight's results affect your Pauly's Pub Oscar Pool picks? | Permalink | Fire, Ready, Aim is an article written by Thomas Friedman and appeared in the Sunday edition of the New York Times. Here's a bit: "But for a war of choice in Iraq, we need the world's permission — because of what it would take to rebuild Iraq. Mr. Bush talks only about why it's right to dismantle the bad Iraq, not what it will take to rebuild a decent Iraq — a distant land, the size of California, divided like Yugoslavia. I believe we can help build a decent Iraq, but not alone. If we're alone, it will turn into a U.S. occupation and make us the target for everyone's frustration. And alone, Americans will not have the patience, manpower and energy for nation-building, which is not a sprint but a marathon." | Permalink | Simpsons March Madness Theme? Here are the seven teams so far in the Pauly's Pub March Madness Pool... Rod & Todd's Hard Wood Ralph Wiggum Ate My Monkey Grateful Jenny NedFlanders' FunkyBitches Dickey V's PTPers Shapir Entry Big Sal The brackets are announced next Sunday night and the first games begin the middle of next week! | Permalink | Oscar Picks? I have a SAG Awards party to attend tonight... the Screen Actors Guild Awards will be televised on TNT (I think... the Awards show will be on TV, not my attendance at the party)... so if you didn't know who you wanted to pick for the Pauly's Pub Oscar Pool, here's your chance to see what the actors think who did a good job this past year. | Permalink | Yesterday was a productive day for me... I wrote two stories for the next issue of Truckin' and I am almost done with a new short film called: Smooth, which I showed my brother a mini preview of and he commented that it was my best work to date. So we shall see.... | Permalink | I got e-mailed two different lists of possible Phish summer tour dates... all rumors. But both include The GORGE as a possible venue around or after July 4th. Hmmmm..... I could make my return to the Pacific Northwest! | Permalink | Saturday, March 08, 2003
Stephen Adkins sent me this e-mail: Had a real nice time at the Tibetan new year celebration on Sunday. Saw Leon and Alan, they send you "Happy Shiva Ratra and Losar greetings!" I liked the short film, the digital age is really somthing amazing to behold. I hope you and your co-star are warm, well fed, and happy! The artist is the light of the world, and here is hoping our lights will never leave us! Again thank you for the many kind words about my photographs! peahes and creme, Nooonan | Permalink | Tampa's favorite business writer... Dave Simanoff wrote this article: Oil Boycott E-Mail Just Web Sludge which appeared in yesterday's Tampa Tribune. | Permalink | Iraq Strengthens Air Force with FRENCH Parts is an article written by Bill Gertz. Here's a bit: "A French company has been selling spare parts to Iraq for its fighter jets and military helicopters during the past several months, according to U.S. intelligence officials..." | Permalink | Friday, March 07, 2003
Oscar Madness is also on Alternet.org, written by Andrea Clark and discusses how the Academy favors films about mental illness and disability. Here's a bit: "The 17th century European enterprise of selling and buying tickets to gawk at those confined to psychiatric institutions established there was money to be made from Schadenfreude. Psychiatric misery as public spectacle continues today. Since the early 20th century, we've been observing depressed, manic, and schizophrenic characters – from more of a distance – through motion pictures: the Cineplex is our present-day analog to the coliseum of psychiatry." | Permalink | Thursday, March 06, 2003
Cali Jen sent me these two links: 1. Being John Cusack 2.The Temptation of Dr. Weed Being John Cusack is written by Sarah Hepola from the Austin Chronicle. Here's a bit: "John Cusack may not be the greatest actor of his generation, but he is probably its most likable. Fifty films in two decades, not an Oscar nod between them, but people don't just like John Cusack, they want to be his best friend." The Temptation of Dr. Weed is written by Jed Gottlieb from the Missoula Independent and appears on Alternet.org. Here's a bit: "(Dr.) Sands was one of the world’s few experts on mycoherbicides — fungi that kill other living plants. Sands’ specialty was a fungus meant to replace toxic chemicals as the weapon of choice in a drug war battle plan designed to decimate crops of coca and cannabis in the jungles of Colombia. The press wasn’t kind to Sands, or to his work. Mother Jones portrayed him as a reckless scientist unconcerned about the potential health risks posed by mycoherbicides to the Colombian people.... As recently as last month, an article in Counterpunch, which dubbed Sands’ coca-killing fungus “agent green,” drew a parallel between Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele’s merciless human experiments and a U.S. government proposal to spray Sands’ fungal agent over Colombia." | Permalink | Thursday Poem: Ode to Roy Hobbs Robert Redford walked into my dream Last night. He calmly sat down Across from me, and Cursed at the adjacent table, Pointing and snarling at the Three people, whom sat baffled. I never met them before. But I took pictures of them, With a disposable camera That I stole from 7-11. He ordered a Scotch and soda, Then he smoked my last cigarette, taking it out of my pocket, without Asking. Which was odd Because I don't smoke. He spoke soft words And I laughed when the sluggish waiter Slipped on a mango skin and fell, Dropping a dozen empty Plates and pieces of saliva soaked silverware. | Permalink | Re: comments on the Molly in NYC movie we shot last week.... Derek wrote me this: "The beginning and end is funny with you walking. I showed it to some girl and she liked it. She laughed pretty hard when the monkey thing came up." Cali Jen said: "Funny and well edited. Your film editing software doesn't have spell check does it? Just kidding. A side from the mis-spells it's entertaining. Molly was billed as the star, but you stole the show. Purposely designed?" My Mom quipped: "What's the plot?" | Permalink | Pauly's Pub Oscar PoolOscar's site: http://www.oscars.com/ You're invited to play! I'd figure it'll make the Oscars more interesting if YOU have something to win as well. It's FREE to play. Prizes to given to the best entry. The 75th Academy Awards are on Sunday March 23. Your OSCAR entries are due at Midnight Saturday, March 22, Pacific Coast Time. No exceptions. This pool is free to enter (Donations are appreciated...!) and the Winner gets a Free Movie Ticket to any flick of their choice AND an autographed copy of Charlie's Goldfish!!! That's a sweet deal. So make your picks today! I'll be blogging my picks soon! Best of luck! Updates to be post on the TAO. Feel free to invite your friends to join. :) Enjoy, McG The Rules: Pick the winners in 12 main categories that I list. E-mail me your answers. You can cut and paste your picks if you like. But make sure you have 12 winners. If you want an attached WORD doc with the list of nominees for you to download, so you can print out the list and keep score at home, then I'll send you one!! DEADLINE: Midnight, March 22, 2003 PCT 12 Categories 1. BEST ACTOR 2. BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR 3. BEST ACTRESS 4. BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS 5. BEST DIRECTOR 6. BEST PICTURE 7. Adapted Screenplay 8. Original Screenplay 9. BEST Cinematography 10. BEST Documentary feature 11. BEST Foreign Film of the year 12. BEST ANIMATED FILM Pauly's Pub Oscar Pool: Nominees Oscars... March 23, 8:30/5:30p on ABC 1. BEST ACTOR Adrien Brody in THE PIANIST Nicolas Cage in ADAPTATION Michael Caine in THE QUIET AMERICAN Daniel Day-Lewis in GANGS OF NEW YORK Jack Nicholson in ABOUT SCHMIDT 2. BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Chris Cooper in ADAPTATION Ed Harris in THE HOURS Paul Newman in ROAD TO PERDITION John C. Reilly in CHICAGO Christopher Walken in CATCH ME IF YOU CAN 3. BEST ACTRESS Salma Hayek in FRIDA Nicole Kidman in THE HOURS Diane Lane in UNFAITHFUL Julianne Moore in FAR FROM HEAVEN Renée Zellweger in CHICAGO 4. BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Kathy Bates in ABOUT SCHMIDT Julianne Moore in THE HOURS Queen Latifah in CHICAGO Meryl Streep in ADAPTATION Catherine Zeta-Jones in CHICAGO 5. BEST DIRECTOR CHICAGO Rob Marshall GANGS OF NEW YORK Martin Scorsese THE HOURS Stephen Daldry THE PIANIST Roman Polanski TALK TO HER Pedro Almodóvar 6. BEST PICTURE CHICAGO (Miramax) GANGS OF NEW YORK (Miramax) THE HOURS (Paramount and Miramax) THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS (New Line) THE PIANIST (Focus Features) 7. Adapted Screenplay ABOUT A BOY by Peter Hedges and Chris Weitz & Paul Weitz ADAPTATION by Charlie Kaufman and Donald Kaufman CHICAGO by Bill Condon THE HOURS by David Hare THE PIANIST by Ronald Harwood 8. Original Screenplay FAR FROM HEAVEN by Todd Haynes GANGS OF NEW YORK Screenplay by Jay Cocks and Steve Zaillian and Kenneth Lonergan, Story by Jay Cocks CHARLIE'S GOLDFISH by Paul McGuire MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING by Nia Vardalos TALK TO HER by Pedro Almodóvar Y TU MAMÁ TAMBIÉN by Carlos Cuarón and Alfonso Cuarón 9. BEST Cinematography CHICAGO Dion Beebe FAR FROM HEAVEN Edward Lachman GANGS OF NEW YORK Michael Ballhaus THE PIANIST Pawel Edelman ROAD TO PERDITION Conrad L. Hall 10. BEST Documentary feature BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE Michael Moore and Michael Donovan DAUGHTER FROM DANANG Gail Dolgin and Vincente Franco PRISONER OF PARADISE Malcolm Clarke and Stuart Sender SPELLBOUND Jeffrey Blitz and Sean Welch WINGED MIGRATION Jacques Perrin 11. BEST Foreign Film of the year EL CRIMEN DEL PADRE AMARO (Mexico) HERO (China) THE MAN WITHOUT A PAST (Finland) NOWHERE IN AFRICA (Germany) ZUS & ZO (The Netherlands) 12. BEST ANIMATED FILM ICE AGE LILO & STITCH SPIRIT: STALLION OF THE CIMARRON SPIRITED AWAY TREASURE PLANET E-mail me your picks today!! | Permalink | Sleepy Pauly I slept for almost 11 hours last night. This is blogworthy info because I rarely sleep more than 5 hours at one time. If I get five straight hours of sleep without waking up, I often consider that a successful night of slumber. The insomnia overtakes my sleeping hours. But I cannot figure out why I slept double as much as I do. Plus, when I woke up it was snowing. When I went to bed it was almost 50 degrees. I guess I'm tired. But I don't feel sick, and I'm not as depressed as I had been. Maybe it's just simple: I am afraid to work on my novel, so my body tricked me into sleeping twice as long. Oh well. | Permalink | Wednesday, March 05, 2003
Get a jump on the Pauly's Pub March Madness Pool... create your entry today for the upcoming College Hoops Tournament. This is the FREE game. Group name: Pauly's Pub Password: pauly | Permalink | 11 Questions: Batch 2The people of Norway have spoken, and I have answered! Here's the next batch of 11 Questions sent to me from Sigge. 1. What are your thoughts on Ally McBeal? 2. In what way do you reflect upon yourself, if set in a Star Trek environment? Take the Next Generation for example: are you Number 1, Kirk or Data?? What are your tasks? How do you succeed? 3. Why did you have this dream of yours? 4. Have you ever been to Texas? 5. Why haven't you read any Confucianistic philosophy yet? 6. What do you like to drink with burgers? 7. How do you prefer your coffee? 8. If you were a car, which one? 9. Do you ever get spam-mail, like: "I'm not perfect, but I suck c0ck"? 10. Why do you live in NY? 11. Have you heard Roger Whittaker's "Why"? And now.... my answers: 1. What are your thoughts on Ally McBeal? I think she should stop whining and complaining, eat a hearty meal (soup, salad, main course and dessert) and explain to me how the hell she is dating Indiana Jones? Seriously, I think she gives a terrible image to young women over America and in the world. Her waif thin message of immediate romantic love is the driving force in every plot and that focus far out weighs her intelligence and competitive drive to succeed as an attorney, in a male dominated industry, which is overlooked completely by her bumbling hijinks. 2. In what way do you reflect upon yourself, if set in a Star Trek environment? Take the Next Generation for example: are you Number 1, Kirk or Data?? What are your tasks? How do you succeed? Star Date 23.5678.02. Captain's Log, James T. Kirk reporting that I have successfully squashed whatever possible mutiny was going to erupt after my decision to ban all smoking from the Enterprise. Needless to say, their fearless leader, I, fighting off a nasty head cold, and infection from the fatal Menuvian Flu, I courageously stood down the evil, malicious, drooling stares from the ciggie junkies, that spread rapidly through the lower ranks. Their vile smoke will not infest our hallways and corridors any more, and congest my damaged lungs from the pints of Romulan ale I have been consuming every other hour. For this day, of all days, the Enterprise is forever smoke free, as I stumble off to fall asleep in my own urine. 3. Why did you have this dream of yours? I cannot explain why. All I know is I try to answer my dreams by creating. Either using them as inspiration for poems or short stories, or other wild projects like this one. 4. Have you ever been to Texas? Yes. I've hung out in (alphabetically) Austin, College Station, Dallas, El Paso, Houston, San Antonio, and South Padre Island. My brother once told me, "Dude, Texas is a whole other country." I have discovered this: that every other Texan has either been drinking or carrying a gun. Some do both. A friend of mine once said, "Pauly, there's a right way. There's the wrong way. And then there's the Texas way." How's that for Texan philosophy? 5. Why haven't you read any Confucianistic philosophy yet? Who's to say I haven't? I'm past that phase of my readings. I've been focusing on Scandinavian philosophers recently. But my favorite Confucius quote is: "Go to bed with itchy butt… wake up with smelly finger." 6. What do you like to drink with burgers? Either water or an iced-tea with lemon. I like to eat my burgers cooked well done, with mayo and ketchup. No pickles, lettuce or tomato. None of that crap! If I want that shit, I'll get a salad. I just want beef and cheese and grease, and sometimes bacon. Mmmmmmm. Bacon Cheese Burgers. 7. How do you prefer your coffee?? I don't drink coffee. I prefer tea. But when I do, I usually get milk and two sugars. I like my coffee like my ladies… hot and steamy, yet sugary and milky. 8. If you were a car, which one? The bus that the Merry Pranksters toured America in back in the 1960s, and followed the Grateful Dead in, during Ken Kesey and his acid tests. That's when his Merry Pranksters were turning random people, shackled to the pristine American psyche, onto hard core drugs, music, sex, revolution, life, enlightenment, and mayhem. Sounds like my kind of ride. 9. Do you ever get spam-mail, like: "I'm not perfect, but I suck c0ck"? All the time. I usually get teen-age girls asking me to ejaculate on their faces, or most of the time, I get hardcore tranny-granny sites. It's horrible. AOL has been doing a better job recently. I used to get tons more. 10. Why do you live in NY? The food, the women, the excitement, the subways, the literature, the music, the friends, the hustle, the way I can walk down a street and be invisible and stare at a hundred people without them knowing it. I don't like sticking out too much in a crowd, so Middle America freaks me out. I'd like to live in San Francisco, Vancouver, Paris and Iceland someday. We'll see. 11. Have you heard Roger Whittaker's "Why"? No. Why should I? Is it good? | Permalink | Good Read... What the War Means... for the Middle East is written by Jonathan Schanzer and appears in DOUBLETHINK - WINTER 2003 issue. Here's a bit: "By showing the Muslim world that America will not be deterred and that it can handily defeat its foes, radicalism in the Muslim world is likely to lose momentum while moderation could be given a chance to flourish. Accordingly, removing Saddam is an opportunity for a new beginning, characterized by stability, growth, and political reform." | Permalink | Talkin' Trash Wins Pauly's Pub College Hoops Poll!Pauly's Pub College Hoops Pool FINAL UPDATE as of 3.4.03 @ 4:02 pm CONGRATS TO GIL SHAPIR and Talkin Trash, the winner of the First Annual Pauly's Pub College Hoops Pool. He gets a Phish bootleg!! :) Congrats again! The MARCH MADNESS POOL is coming soon. I'll have 2 different pools. A FREE ONE and a pay one for $$$$ prizes. Thanks for playing! Salukis, McG Pauly's Pub Scoresheet - Week 11 1 BENNY from the Block 9 1 Cali Jen's Sunflowers 9 1 Talkin Trash 9 4 StrongIsland ShutEmDowns 8 4 MarvAlbert's Hairpiece 8 4 The Mighty Wankstas! 8 OVERALL FINAL STANDINGS 1 Talkin Trash (Gil Shapir) 76 2 The Mighty Wankstas! (D. McGuire) 72 2 StrongIsland ShutEmDowns (B. McNamara) 72 4 MarvAlbert's Hairpiece (J. Moore) 71 5 Cali Jen's Sunflowers (Jen Biaggi) 70 6 BENNY from the Block (Pauly) 66 Pauly's Pub Fishing Pool Update* * * DO YOUR PICKS BY 9 AM tonmorrow!!! New Match is at Lake Eufaula March 06-09, 2003 Eufaula, AL Fishing Pool Update 4 Results thru 3.4.03 @ 12:45 pm Phishead of the Week: Sex with Sharks 290 points atToledo Bend TOURNEY 4 (Toledo Bend) Results: 1 Sexwith Sharks, Brian McNamara 290 2 Boo's Ganja Goo Balls, Heather Adams 252 3 Dank Nugs 4 Your Extra, Pauly McGuire 236 4 I'maGetme SomePhish, Gil Shapir 218 5 Cali Fried Phishychicks, Jennifer Biaggi 200 6 Big Sal's Bay Brawlers, Salvatore Biaggi 133 7 Salmon Rushweed, Derek McGuire 90 8 Laugh&Laughn Fall Apart, Senor Sheer 60 9 Llamas With Snorkels, Dave Simanoff 44 10 What's That Smell?, Joseph Moore 30 11 Mo Lewis's Anglers, Princess Jessica 17 12 Texas Phishfry, Christine Daugherty 0 Overall Results 1 Big Sal's Bay Brawlers, Salvatore Biaggi 755 2 Sexwith Sharks, Brian McNamara 727 3 Boo's Ganja Goo Balls, Heather Adams 659 4 I'maGetme SomePhish, Gil Shapir 533 5 Salmon Rushweed, Derek McGuire 494 6 Dank Nugs 4 Your Extra, Pauly McGuire 485 7 Cali Fried Phishychicks, Jennifer Biaggi 438 8 Laugh&Laughn Fall Apart, Senor Sheer310 9 Llamas With Snorkels, Dave Simanoff 297 10 Mo Lewis's Anglers, Princess Jessica 294 11 What's That Smell?, Joseph Moore 230 12 Texas Phishfry, Christine Daugherty 0 | Permalink | Breaking News... Bomb Rips Apart Israeli Bus in Haifa... At Least 10 Dead This is the first bombing in over two months. | Permalink | Tuesday, March 04, 2003
I'm OK! Just needed a break... Thanks to the e-mails from everyone wondering where I am! I'm perfectly OK, and I took some time to relax, catch up on sleep, and work on my latest novel. It's great to know that I have people reading the TAO everyday, and that if I miss one day of blogging the tedious, sometimes humorous inklings of my stellar life... that my readers will take it upon themselves to figure out what's up with the silence. Thanks for the love, and I am glowing with the grandiose thoughts that the TAO is like blogger crack for all your cyber crackheads. DO any of you have lives? Just kidding. So where to begin? Molly left on Sunday to go home to Texas after a full week of fun, Phish, and other sorts of mayhem. I was elated to have her here, and devestatingly sad to see her go. Since we both live 2000 plus miles away, it's difficult for us to see each other regularly. I made a mini-short-film (49 seconds long) which I shot over last week. If you would like to my Molly in NYC film e-mail me! And I'll send you the file. (Note: it's about 1.2 MB, and you need Window Media Player to view it). I blogged the Phish setlists from last week. Some good shows. I've been a lazy ass in writing up the reviews, and decided to save it for a new article in the next issue of Truckin'. But the shows were great. Philly and Nassau stand out as some of the better shows I've seen since Vegas and Albany in 2000. Gil and Spider had a balls out time at Nassau, as did Dead Guru Bruce Cohen and Molly. They all seemed to think it was one of the better shows they had ever experienced. I have been to every Phish show that Molly had been to (she's seen them 5 times) and without a doubt, Philly & Nassau were the best Molly shows to date. Mexican Cousin is now one of my new favorite Phish songs. At first I thought it was a joke, throw away song, but after hearing it performed live... I realized... it's a sick song. A kick ass song. And I'm a little sad that Molly didn't like it at all! But in some fucked up, weird, eerie coincidence, she kept singing Mexican Cousin all weekend... so I guess it's either growing on her, or she's just got it stuck in her head because I sing it all the time.... Mexican Cousin again... I wanna wanna kiss your... oooooooooooooh! Now I'll blog the lyrics for everyone to sing along... feel free to let loose on the subway, at traffic lights, going to the bathroom, in between phone calls at work, or while you are finishing up yout 250 hours of community service for soliciting a hand job from an uncover police officer, dressed up like a transvestite. Mexican Cousin Oh Tequila, I turn to you like a long lost friend I want to kiss my Mexican Cousin once again We'll cover every emotion from happiness to sorrow, And the conversations I forget, you'll tell me about tomorrow When the phone calls start, am I in bed or in a hearse? The things you tell me about myself can't make me feel any worse Well I'm awful sorry you got pissed Just have to cross you off the list Of my true friends... And Tequila's where that starts and where it ends I think Trey wrote the lyrics, I'm not 100% sure. Heather went to the North Carolina show and she loved it. Beano and Zobo called me on their way from Atlanta to Greensboro, and it was great to talk to both of them, especially Beano! Since we hadn't seen each other or spoke to one another since September of 2000, it was a pleasure to hear his voice. Anyway, the rest of this past weekend was spent taking pictures, and doing a little shopping with Molly in the East Village. We also went to the NoHo Star restaurant in NoHo, as suggested to her by her step-father, who saw something about the place on the Food Network. They had very good, tasty burgers. Later that night we met up at Pianos on the Lower East Side for Brad's b-day, he's one of Spider's twin brothers, and I got shitfaced drunk. Boogie showed up in her brand new coat, and she looked fabulous! It was another late night for us, and we didn't get home to nearly 5 AM. I was hungover all Sunday, and that's part of the reason I've been sleeping a lot the last 48 hours, when I haven't been writing. My week was amazing. Now my life is a little off kilter, but Phish & Molly were well welcomed distractions! Some of the crazier moments involved a 36 hour stretch when I saw 2 Phish shows, heard my favorite Phish song, drove to and from Philly, got into an accident, was shit on by a pigeon, and given a joint filled with hash by a stranger. Wow. Just an average day and half in the life of me. Is that it? How about one more bit of info. My breakfast today was a kinish and an "everything" bagel with extra butter. I read some of Hunter Thompson's book Kingdom of Fear this morning, and I'm going to write some more before my writer's group tonight. So don't excpect any more blogs today. On Wednesday, I promise to catch up with all the e-mails, links, articles, etc... that y'all sent me the last 10 or so days! Plus I have to do Sigge's 11 Norwegian Questions, ESPN Pauly's Pub pool updates for College Hoops (Gil won!) and Fishing. In addition to getting the new pools ready for March Madness, Basbeall 2003, and the Oscar's pool. Oh... I almost forgot. Senor finally e-mailed me. He moved to Cambodia. But I lost contact with him since his move. I'm starting to get a little worried. Maybe I'll have to go look for him? But I have to finish my novel first.... More to come. Be sweet, McG | Permalink | Sunday, March 02, 2003
Last night's setlist! I promise I'll write reviews soon! Phish 3.1.03 ~ Greensboro, NC Set 1: Chalk Dust Torture, Moma Dance, Foam, Lawn Boy, Character Zero, Divided Sky, Mist, Waves, Sample in a Jar Set 2: Rock and Roll, Wilson, Piper, 2001, Wolfman's Brother, Boogie on Reggae Woman, Velvet Sea, Antelope, Carolina Encore: First Tube, You Enjoy Myself | Permalink | Saturday, March 01, 2003
A couple of afterthoughts... about the Nassau Phish show. First of all, I keep wavering back and forth between what was a better show... Philly or Nassau. I'll write a review after I think about this some more. But the highlights last night were Destiny Unbound, played after an 11 plus year hiatus. Bathtub Gin jam was stellar, and the best jam/song of the night was Back on the Train. The repeat songs: Walls of the Cave & Harry Hood were much better than the other versions we saw this past week. Tweezer opener was fat! Soul Shakedown was unexpected, and BOWIE was pure smoke. I love Mexican Cousin and I know Molly doesn't like it all that much. And Tweezer Reprise got the entire corwd on its feet dancing and grooving. Random moments fo rme include: getting handed an un-opned bottle of vodka and being called "Dave Ghrol". More to come.... | Permalink | JUst got back... great show!!! Phish 2.28.03 Nassau Coliseum ~ Uniondale, NY Set 1: Birds of a Feather, Destiny Unbound *, Horn, Bathtub Gin, Sleep, Back on the Train, Bouncin', Walls of the Cave Set 2: Tweezer, Soul Shakedown Party **, David Bowie, Round Room, Harry Hood E: Contact, Mexican Cousin, Tweezer Reprise Notes from Phish.net: Destiny Unbound* - has not been played in the 788 shows since 11/15/91!!; Soul Shakedown Pary** - not played since 2/20/97, and only the third time ever performed | Permalink | HOME
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