Defying Deaths
Peace The Forks Out
to
The Other Dick Van
&
Jerry’s Wife/Ben’s Mom/Anne Meara
 Â
&
THE John Steed
+
his mind was beautifulÂ
Manson Family divorcer
little James Horner
oh no Yes
Fred Flinstone’s boss + other Hanna BarberiansÂ
plastic pink flamingo dude
last original NBA employee
Ornette Coleman
Mother Theresa II
the voice of the Chiquita Banana
THAT GUY
that other that guy
that other that that guy
a true dingbat of fonts
realllllly old movie gangster
Nature Boy
the first student-athleteÂ
he hearted heart-shaped bathtubs
Tariq Aziz, who made berets & mustaches & giant glasses look awesome
she made costumes for the Beatles & Bond
F Scott Fitzgerald’s final secretary
King of Easy Listening
Picasso’s right arm
not Ringo’s sister
little boy who got to look at MM
Mr Comcast
El Kickador/Univision-er
a Weaver
Woody Allen’s Jack Rollins
Texas A&M’s first Heisman winner
some surfer pioneer guy
some country singer
boxing movie producer dude
U2’s manager
this spicy Italian chick
Queen of Versailles’s princess
Joe Biden’s son
Charles Barkley’s mom
Penelope Cruz’s padre
Jason Voorhees’ mom
he once owned the Mets (not the Nats do:)
some comedy writer
some British actor who turned down the role of James Bond
some Russian guy
some chess guy
some Scottish actor
some fat British bloke
the guy who gave us this
a King of media
a White House Chef
MGM Resorter
what a drag
zilla was his god
Stand By Me‘s Milo Pressman
he printed LA stories
a trotter of globes
some old actor
she shot this and that and those other things
Mr Superdawg
150 year old Galápagos tortoise
world’s tallest cow
&
the guy who made headlines
Crown Royals
when baseball was about to return to Kansas City, the Royals turned to their new neighbors – Hallmark Cards – to come up with their logo. 21 Hallmark employees took a stab at it, but Shannon Manning’s design won, and is still (pretty much) with us today
mo fun – The Hidden History of This Year’s MLB Playoff Team Logos
Go Royals!
Go Nats!
Dome Alone
brand new Astrodome in 1965 – the only year it had grass / didn’t have AstroTurf
more at the Chron
[via the great MLBcathedrals]
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Documents detail $66M plan to demolish Astrodome
Brewster McCloud‘s limit is the Astrodome’s celling
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perv-iously
Dome Piece of Work
Dome Is Where The Heart Is
David Justice Is Served
Moneyball
Straight A’s
Official Website |Â Trailers & Mo
PG-13 | 133 min
Moneyball does cinematic poetry to statistical baseball analysis and management like The Social Network did with internets social networking empire building. The recipe – take a best selling book with a subject matter that might not lend itself to being a compelling thing to watch, throw in some punchy Aaron Sorkin (+ Steven Zaillian) words, a great cast & score, and let the good times roll.  And roll, they do!!!
Moneyball will make you believe that David still has a chance against Goliath.  It will make want to buy an Oakland A’s hat.  It will make you rethink Brad Pitt.  We were pretty much done with star, but for the first time in awhile, he’s acting as someone else (Billy Beane), and not juss being Brad Pitt the movie star in a movie.  It will make you yearn for endless Jonah Hill dramatic work (see Cyrus.  seriously, see that movie.  he was fantastic in it) or for him to have stayed fat forever (he just looks wrong, but good for him).  It will make you want to have a daughter that plays guitar.  It will make you wish that Philip Seymour Hoffman was hatcually a baseball manager.  It will make you swear that Chris Pratt isn’t really a prat.  It will make you aware that Bennett Miller (Capote) might really be quite good as this directing thing
But there’s gotta be some bad, right? OF COURSE! Â WE CAN EVEN FIND BAD IN POPEYES FRIED CHICKEN (their lack of biscuit sangwiches). Â Here’s the ‘bad’ – no AC/DC’s ‘Moneytalks’, the A’s don’t win the World Series (no spoiler there kids), and it’s kinda long. Â Well, so is baseball, so maybe they got it right (they did)
BALK THIS WAY, TALK THIS WAY!!!
Hammer Time: always found this tibit so fascinating…
MC Hammer got his nickname from his childhood job with the Oakland Athletics.  Eccentric longtime A’s owner Charlie O Finley loved Stanley Kirk Burrell, the talented kid who danced in the team’s parking lot and eventually became a batboy and an errand boy for the club, and the benevolent owner called him ‘Little Hammer’ because he thought Burrell looked like ‘Hammerin’ Hank Aaron. When the Little Hammer picked up the mic, he became M.C. Hammer [via MFloss]
Verdictgo: Breast In Show
Moneyball is atop the standings today at a theater near jews
and until next thyme the balcony is clothed…