Ohhh, it had better rain soon, cause I am gonna burn. I just found out that I am going to the 6th level of hell, that which is reserved for heretics. (Via Melissa (whom I just found out is Pre-law) who is on level 7, which is reserved for the violent [note: my score was extreme, hers was just very high yet she goes to a higher level].)

Moving to Portland soon. Figures that a job just opened up in Salem with the Appeals Court.

So, went to Portland to find a place to live. Found a great place on the corner of NW 23rd and Hoyt. Cost 975 which is out of our price range. I still want to go for it, but my cousin isn't so sure. I need to check my finances and get a loan, but I really want it. Multi-story, large place with new kitchen and right next to the Gypsy and in the coolest part of Portland. How can we pass this up?

I am sort of depressed that my cousin (my future roomie) isn't down.

I don't think I'll be eating at McDonalds anytime soon.

" As a child I had a dog that could do two tricks. He could play dead, and he could stand on his hind legs. Congressional Democrats have mastered the first but are unable to cope with the second."

I LOVE THE PICTURE ASSOCIATED WITH THIS POST. (excuse the all caps, but I really Love the pic.)

It's a picture day... Check this out. Some strange universe is giving us the finger. (via memepool.)

Oh, what the hell, and since its a theme, check out this post for a picture of two of the most attractive bloggers I have ever seen. I don't care how old they are, but they are still attractive. Oh, and the young one reminds me of the girl I went to prom with.

So, last week as I was driving back down from Seattle after that failed Vermont interview, I heard the Blazers new President, Mr. Patterson, talk on the FAN about Damon's arrest and he expressed a desire to get Damon into a drug rehab clinic and it sounded like Damon's Agent was in agreement. It appears that Damon is going to do just that. UPDATE: I just noticed that the background to Damon there is a Blazer symbol with a pot leaf superimposed over it. I LOVE it.

Gotta get me a fax machine and watch the money roll in or things an unemployed lawyer can do to make ends meet.

See, you are not the only one who is blogging while afraid of the big bad bar.

Oh, and I submitted some Op-Eds today for the New York Times and the LA Times. You'll be sure to hear about it if they get published.

Garbage Pail Kids Remember those? The cards that made it so many pro-baseball players stop signing Topps baseball cards are making a comeback. Speaking of baseball cards, I saw that the All Star Games was being sponsored by Topps, Fleer, Donruss and Upper Deck. (though only Topps is advertised on the website) I was watching Secrets of the Super Heroes Unmasked (or something to the effect) on TLC the other night and it mentioned how the comic book industry had a huge boon when collectors started to collect for investment purposes. Investors started buying multiple copies and the companies just kept pumping out more and more. Now, the market is suffering a glut and the industry is having troubles. This is similar to what happened to baseball cards. Back in the early 90's, baseball card companies started making "premiere" cards of much higher quality and flooded the market with all sorts of new series. Investors started collecting for investment, which drove up prices and also drove up the quantity that the companies produced. Upper Deck, ironically, was the signal of the doom of the market. Despite its first run having a few valuable cards, like the Griffey rookie, its deck was more expensive and the card quality was a leap forward. Card quality is just another way to bump up costs for the manufacturer, which jumped the cost for us "fans" (ie collectors more than investors, though we envisioned ourselves as investors) who were taking our pennies and quarters to Pegasus to buy a few packs or maybe a few error cards. Perhaps that was the beginning of the end. The whole series of Billy Ripken errors (For those who don't remember, the 1989 Fleer set had a card of Billy Ripken, Cal's brother, with the word "Fuck Face" on the end of the bat. Fleer put out about 5 different "corrections", such as white out, black out, scribble, etc. Each of these variations had some worth.) brought about the suspiction that card companies started putting out intentional errors to raise the price of the cards and increase early sales of packs, thereby appealing to Investors. So maybe, the card industry has itself to blame for its own collapse. And since the comic book world watched this happen to baseball cards, they had reason to know that it would happen to them. Anyway, back to where I began... Garbage Pail Kids are coming back August 15th.

Don't be so quick to RUN away. My friends and I have talked about it for a while, but now Len Pasquerelli, of ESPN fame reports that Onterrio Smith has a chance to steal the starting job out in Minnesota. Of course, all the Vikings are saying is that "everyone has a chance", but they always say that. I was really surprised that he fell so far in the Draft. Gah, class is getting going... on a last note, the DUCK made the list of oddest mascot mishaps. (note they also call Bennie the Beaver Oregon's mascot, but he's not, dammit.)